Ah, But your land is beautiful - Alan Paton
R450,00
For millions of readers worldwide, Alan Paton's books have described life in contemporary South Africa. Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful revolves around the everyday experiences of a group of men and women whose lives reflect the human costs of maintaining a racially divided society. Writing at the peak of his powers, Paton delivers again a masterpiece.
Product code: 0908396481
South Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs - compiled by Moky Makura
R260,00
What questions would you ask if you had a chance to meet Raymond Ackerman, Donald Gordon, Adrian Gore, Koos Bekker, Herman Mashaba or Pam Golding? What would you want to know about how they started out; how the spark of an idea kindled into an empire? What drove them to become the success they are today?Written by some of South Africa's leading journalists, writers and academics, and edited by Moky Makura, whose 2008 book Africa's Greatest Entrepreneurs shed much-welcomed light on entrepreneurs on the continent, these are the stories of how the country's top businesses were created, as told by the people who created them.
Product code: 9780620456876
Crossing the Borders of Power - The Memoirs of Colin Eglin
R160,00
Colin Eglin was at the front-line of the making of South African history for the second half of the 20th Century. He served in parliament through the terms of seven successive prime ministers and presidents. This title recalls an active life well lived, from childhood in South Africa in the 1920s and 1930s to fighting his way through Italy.
Product code: 9781868422531
Pik Botha and his times - Theresa Papenfus
R260,00
A biography of Pik Botha, one of South Africa’s most colourful public figures, and at a stage the longest serving Foreign Minister in the world.This biography reads like a novel: exciting, moving and humorous.
Product code: 9781920188344
Methods of Barbarism? - S B Spies
R400,00
Roberts and Kitchener and Civilians in the Boer Republics, January 1900-May 1902
Product code: 9781868421039
The Long March - Ian Liebenberg, Fiona Lortan, Bobby Nel, Gert van der Westhuizen
R250,00
The story of the struggle for liberation in south Africa
Product code: 9780798632379
Cyclone Blues - Chris Cocks
R160,00
Mike and Phoebe, the die hard Rhodie and the hard-nosed hooker, meet in the squalor of Beira. They know instinctively that they are right for one another, but with so many outside forces playing on their lives, will their love ever be requited? Cyclone Blues - set in present-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique, both still suffering from the aftermath of civil war - is the story of love across the color bar, murder, vengeance and forgiveness. The plot whirls with surprises and revelations and is used as a means of investigating the more profound matters of interracial relations and attitudes and the problems of a troubled southern Africa. A beautiful love story and an historical tour de force.
Product code: 9780620254380
No Place to rest: Forced removals and the Law in South Africa - ed Christina Murray & Catherine O'Regan
R1090,00
The South African government's policy and practice of forcing communities to move from one area to another--in some cases, hundreds of kilometers apart--has resulted in untold misery for thousands of people over the years. This collection of essays by a distinguished group of contributors examines the government's past and present policies and practice of forced removal. Contributors include Colin Bundy, Aninka Claasens, Geoff Budlender, Michael Robertson, Alan Dodson, Catherine O'Regan, and Dave Unterhalter.
Product code: 9780195705805
Stones against the mirror - Hugh Lewin
R150,00
A brave and moving memoir which is both a family history and a story of friendship and betrayal between people caught up in the wrenching forces of the South African Struggle. It is framed as a journey between two railway stations. The departure is from Park station Johannesburg and the destination is York station in Britain. It is an actual journey and the arrival at York is a real event, but it is also a symbolic journey in which Lewin describes his progress towards a meeting with Adrian Leftwich, the man who betrayed him to the Security Police in 1964. Park station is the point of departure because it was the site in 1964 of the station bomb planted by John Harris who was associated with the cell in which Lewin operated. The book therefore has a quest structure. After 40 years, Lewin is determined to meet with his long-term friend Leftwich both to find out what happened at his trial and to deal with the emotions of anger and bitterness that have assailed him ever since. Lewin’s subject is the culpability of betrayal.
Product code: 9781415201480
R150,00
A Diplomat's Story: Apartheid and Beyond 1969-1998 - Pieter Wolvaardt
R200,00
Essential reading for every South African
Product code: 9781919854151
Battle Cries - James Inglis
R150,00
The most stirring speeches from history's greatest warriors, activists, and revolutionaries.
Product code: 9781435110908
Armed and Dangerous: From undercover struggle to freedom - Ronnie Kasrils
R250,00
During the years of apartheid rule in South Africa, the auhtor was actively involved with the banned ANC, its military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe and the South African Communist Party. Hunted by the security police, he was described by them as "Armed and dangerous." This is his account of the tense and dramatic years of the liberation struggle followed by his role in the first ten years of a democratic South Africa in which he first served as Deputy Defence Minister (1994-1999) and then as Minister of Water Affairs and Forestry (1999-2004).Originally published in 1993, Kasrils has added eight new chapters and many new photographs for this updated edition.
Product code: 9781868420636
The Indian South Africans - Arkin AJ, Magyar KP, Pillay GJ
R250,00
Owen Burgess Publishers, Pinetown, South Africa, 1989. Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. boards are slightlyshelf rubbed and a bit edge worn. mild tanning. light marks. well bound. good copy
Product code: 9780947446116
Vereeniging: Die onvoltooide vrede - Leon Wessels
R160,00
In die boek Some Afrikaners Revisited van David Goldblatt, is daar 'n foto van 'n berede jong Afrikaner, geneem by 'n Nasionale Party-viering in 1964. Daardie jong man was in 1990 die eerste lid van die NP-regering wat verskoning vir apartheid gevra het, en in November 2009 het hy uitgetree as Menseregtekommissaris. Watter pad het hom tot hier gelei? En watter pad het Suid-Afrika in dieselfde tyd geloop? Wessels vertel pakkend van die groot politieke veranderings wat hy beleef het, as minister in die laaste apartheidskabinet, as grondwetonderhandelaar en menseregte-kommissaris. Maar dis 'n groter verhaal wat hy vertel. "Dit maak my vies wanneer apartheid die skuld kry vir alles wat skeef loop," se hy. "Dit maak my net so vies wanneer mense maak asof apartheid geen impak het op hedendaagse vraagstukke nie." Met sy vertrekpunt dat die nuwe Suid-Afrika se grondwet op die aandrang van Nelson Mandela by Vereeninging onderteken is, waar ook die Vrede onderteken is wat die Unie tot stand gebring het, vra hy die vraag hoe ver ons op die weg van vereniging gevorder het. Hy beantwoord dit aan die hand van vyf groot temas: die regstaat, menseregte, rassisme, versoening, en armoede. Wessels, wat 'n ver pad gekom het sedert sy berede dae, praat oorredend en met ontwapenende eerlikheid oor nasionale en eie dwalings.
Product code: 9781415201213
Die Lang Generaal - Die Duisterste Politieke Sluipmoorde Van Die Ou Suid-Afrika (Afrikaans, Paperback)
R350,00
Die mees gevreesde sekuriteitspolisieman in die laaste drie dekades van apartheid was ongetwyfeld generaal "Lang Hendrik" van den Bergh, die hoof van die Buro van Staatsveiligheid. Hierdie titel deur 'n voormalige veiligheidspolisieman gebruik feite om die verhaal van die sluipmoordenaar se bewind te rekonstrueer, 'n drama van politieke moorde in sy fanatieke ywer om kommunisme te stuit. Van den Bergh was verantwoordelik vir die inhegtenisname van Nelson Mandela en het 'n indrukwekkende intelligensienetwerk opgebou met organisasies soos MI5, die CIA, Mossad, en ook Franse en Duitse agentskappe, met wie se hulp hy operasies uitgevoer het wat hom ’n gedugte figuur gemaak het in die skaduwereld van Koue-oorlogspioenasie. In Suid-Afrika is daar volgens die titel aanduidings dat hy betrokke kon wees by die sluipmoord op Eerste Minister HF Verwoerd, asook by die Johannesburge stasiebom-aanval, en die moord op dr Robert Smit en sy vrou, op wie se kombuismuur die geheimsinnige woorde "RAU TEM" geverf was. Volgens die titel mag hy selfs betrokke gewees het by die dood van die voormalige staatspresident Nico Diederichs en die NG teoloog professor Johan Heyns. Die meeste van hierdie moored is nooit opgelos nie. 'n Groot gedeelte van die intrige gaan oor die finansiele skandaal wat binne die Departement van Inligting afgespeel het rondom die ontwykende dr Eschel Rhoodie. Die titel ontbloot met 'n gevoel van dringendheid die vreesaanjaende ideolgie wat 'n hele samelewing tot ’n morele vryval gedryf het.
Product code: 9781415200926
My Own Liberator - Dikgang Moseneke
R295,00
In this memoir, the first of two, Dikgang Moseneke pays homage to the many people and places that have helped to define and shape him. These influences include his ancestry; his parents; his immediate and extended family; and his education both in school and on Robben Island as a 15-year-old prisoner. These people and places played a significant role in forming his principled stance in life and his proud defiance of all forms of injustice. Robben Island became a school not only in politics but an opportunity for dedicated studies towards a law degree that would provide the bedrock for a long and fruitful career. The book charts Moseneke’ s rise as one of the country’s top legal minds, who not only helped to draft the Constitution, but for 15 years acted as a guardian of it for all South Africans. Not only did Moseneke assist in shaping our new Constitution, he has helped to make it a living document for many South Africans over the past 15 years.
Product code: 9781770105089
Red Notice : How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy -Bill Browder
R195,00
November 2009. An emaciated young lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, is led to a freezing isolation cell in a Moscow prison, handcuffed to a bed rail, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials who were involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes paid to the state by one of the world's most successful hedge funds. Magnitsky's brutal killing has remained uninvestigated and unpunished to this day. His farcical posthumous show-trial brought Putin's regime to a new low in the eyes of the international community. Red Notice is a searing expose of the wholesale whitewash by Russian authorities of Magnitsky's imprisonment and murder, slicing deep into the shadowy heart of the Kremlin to uncover its sordid truths. Bill Browder - the hedge fund manager who employed Magnitsky - takes us on his explosive journey from the heady world of finance in New York and London in the 1990s, through his battles with ruthless oligarchs in the turbulent landscape of post-Soviet Union Moscow, to his expulsion from Russia on Putin's orders. Browder's graphic portrait of the Russian government as a criminal enterprise wielding all the power of a sovereign state illuminates his personal transformation from financier to human rights activist, campaigning for justice for his late lawyer and friend.
Product code: 9780552170321
The New Confessions of an Economic Hitman - John Perkins
R320,00
False economics. Threats, bribes, extortion. Debt, deception, coups, assassinations and unbridled military power. These are the tools used by the 'corporatocracy' - a vast network of corporations, banks, colluding governments and rich and powerful individuals - to ensure that they retain and expand their wealth and influence, growing richer and richer as the poor become poorer. In his original, post 9/11 book, John Perkins revealed how he was recruited as an economic hit man in the 1970s, and exposed the corrupt methods American corporations use to spread their influence in the developing world, cheating countries out of trillions of dollars. In this new, extensively updated edition he lays bare the latest, terrifying evolution of the economic hit man, and how the system has become even more entrenched and powerful than ever before. In New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, John Perkins provides fresh and chilling evidence of how the corporatocracy has grown its influence to every corner of the globe, making us all unwitting slaves to their regime. But he also provides advice on how we can end our unconscious support of the system and its self-serving, lethal economy
Product code: 9781785033841
I Write What I Like - Steve Biko
R195,00
This is a collection of the writing of the famous activist and black consciousness leaders Steve Biko, prefaced by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
Product code: 9781770100060
Blood on their hands - General Johan Booysen
R285,00
When Johan Booysen hears that the new Provincial Police Chief
takes backhanders from a Durban businessman, he decides to give her the benefit of the doubt. But the evidence becomes impossible to ignore and he soon gets dragged down the corridors of power and politics into a web of intrigue, deceit and betrayal that, at times, he has trouble making sense of. Only when he is arrested, handcuffed and tossed into a cell does Booysen realise just how ruthless those opposed to him are – an opposition he comes to call the ‘cabal’ – and whom he believes have more blood on their hands than the so-called Cato Manor Death Squad with which he is closely associated.
Product code: 9781770104778
When Zuma goes - Ralph Mathekga
R250,00
When Jacob Zuma retires to Nkandla, what will be left behind?South Africa has been in the grip of the “Zunami” since May 2009: Scandal, corruption and allegations of state capture have become synonymous with the Zuma era, leaving the country and its people disheartened.But Jacob Zuma’s time is running out. Whether he leaves the presidency after the ANC’s national conference in 2017, stays on until 2019, or is forced to retire much sooner, the question is: what impact will his departure have on South Africa, its people and on the ruling party? Can we fix the damage, and how?Ralph Mathekga answers these questions and more as he puts Zumaʼs leadership, and what will come after, in the spotlight.
Product code: 9780624080671