Eklips - Breyten Breytenbach
R120,00
die derde bundel van die ongedanste dans
Product code: 0620065915
('YK') - Breyten Breytenbach
R125,00
die vierde bundel van die ongedanste dans
Product code: 0620068590
oorblyfsel/voice over - Breyten Breytenbach
R95,00
Op reis in gesprek met Magmoed Darwiesj/the nomadic conversation with Mahmoud Darwish
Product code: 9780798150712
Abdoltjie - Alba Bouwer
R110,00
Ses Verhaaltjies: Abdoltjie soek die Wit Bok; Die Prentjiespaleis; Die See-oupa; Die Wolke-doekoen; Die Danepitjies; Die Vuurvliegies en die Maanblom.
Product code: 9780624023661
Bome van kennis en ander Verhale - MC Botha
R65,00
'n Stewige bundel wat tref deur sy menslikheid en fyn waarneming.
Product code: 0798119268
M.E.R Van Naby gesien - Elize Botha
R95,00
'n Keur uit die kortkuns van M.E.R.
Product code: 0624007081
Party van Ons - Samesteller: Danie Botha
R250,00
Die Homeros Leesboek 2001: 'n Leesboek vol vakkundige artikels, spitsvondige essays en 'n wye verskeidenheid kortverhale en poësie. 32 skrywers.
Product code: 9780624040064
4 Uitgesoekte eenbedrywe - Dr FCL Bosman
R150,00
Bo die Kranse - H A Fagan; Alle paaie lei na Rome - Uys Krige; Waai Westewind - W A de Klerk;Die Byl - C Louis Leipoldt.
Product code: LIT0093
Ghaap en Kambro - Boerneef
R90,00
Ook van Boerneef beskikbaar: Teen die Helling R75
Product code: LIT0091
War in Peace: An Analysis of Warfare since 1945 - Ed Robert Thompson
R200,00Product code: 0856133418
Modern Military Weapons - Robin Cross
R100,00
A guide to modern military weapons, includes sections on tanks, artillery, missiles, fighter aircraft, bombers, helicopters, battleships, submarines and amphibious craft
Product code: 9780749607241
Small arms of World War II - Chris Chant
R150,00
Detailing the design and development of each weapon, this book covers the most important infantry weapons used by both Allied and Axis soldiers between 1939 &1945
Product code: 9781840134438
The Elite: The Story of the Rhodesian Special Air Service - Barbara Cole
R250,00
The Rhodesian Special Air Service, one of the most formidable fighting forces in the world, operated almost exclusively across the borders during the long bitter bush war,undertaking deep-penetration missions against insurgents being harbored inside neighboring Mozambique and Zambia
Product code: 0620074213
Cry Zimbabwe - Peter Stiff
R350,00
Essential reading for every South African.
Product code: 9789198540208
Leathernecks: Elite Forces - The US Marines
R200,00
This book tells the story of the modern US Marine Corps, concentrating on its combat record since 1945.
Product code: 9781851550043
R200,00
Continent Ablaze: The Insurgency Wars in Africa 1960 to present - John W Turner
R250,00
The Rhodesian Counter-Insurgency War 1962-1980; The Counter-Insurgency War in Southwest Africa 1966-1989; The First Angolan Civil War 1975-1991; The Mozambican Insurgency 1975-1992; The Second Angolan Civil War 1992-1995, etc
Product code: 9781868420469
Dingo Firestorm - Ian Pringle
R350,00
The Greatest Battle of the Rhodesian Bush War
Product code: 9781770224285
Die Penkopkommando - Fritz Steyn
R750,00
Usual acid offsetting from endpapers, else a clean tight fine copy in a good condition, lightly chipped and torn. A scarce Boer War novelGeskenk inskripsie voorin gedateer 1952
Product code: pen001
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
The History of Christian Europe - G R Evans
Spanning more than a millennium, this unique study follows the development, expansion, and impact of the world's largest religion on the European continent Beginning with the initial transmission of Jesus's teaching throughout the Roman world, this expansive history follows the astounding development of Christianity within Europe. From the religion's earliest days through the Reformation and Counter-Reformation, its development in the scientific age of the 17th and 18th centuries on, and its place in the modern world, Christianity's role in transforming and shaping the cultural, social, political, and intellectual progress of the continent is traced. The accessible and informative narrative is complemented by boxed texts highlighting key events and concepts, such as monastic life, the development of icons, the impact of Darwin's "The Origin of Species," the rise of prophecy, and the influence of psychology.
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
The Lost World of the Kalahari - Laurens van der Post
R350,00
Howard spring: 'One of the noblest books of travel written in our time, and one destined, I imagine, to have a permanent place in English Literature.'
Product code: lit0352
Somer - C M van den Heever
R150,00
Eerste liefde, jaloesie, hebsug en die mens se stryd teen die elemente om sy voortbestaan, word in hierdie novelle van C.M. van den Heever tot 'n spannende klimaks gedryf. Dit is hoogsomer en tyd om die koring te oes op Oom Tom se plaas voor die hael dit afslaan. Die plaas het eers aan sy voorsate behoort, maar nou besit hy 'n deel, sy broer Frans 'n deel en 'n buitestaander, Faan, 'n ander deel. Faan het die stuk grond gekoop van Tom se ander broer wat uitgeboer het. Faan se seun, Hannes, het 'n ogie op Tom se pragtige sewentienjariger dogter, Linda. Maar toe kom die swerwer-koringsnyer, Wynand, op die plaas aan en Tom huur hom summier om met die koring-oes te help. Linda raak verlief op hierdie stil, hardwerkende swerwer met die onbekende verlede en dit dryf Hannes tot raserny. Intussen probeer Tom sy broer, Frans, uit 'n finansiele verknorsing help, terwyl Faan sy oog op Frans se grond het, indien Frans nie sy skuld kan delg nie.
Product code: 0627000398
The Fox and the flies: The world of Joseph Silver Racketeer & Psychopath - Charles van Onselen
R365,00
At the end of the nineteenth century European pimps and 'white slavers' established a hugely successful global market for commercial sex. Criminal syndicates from Buenos Aires to London and from Cape Town to New York were able to organise the seduction or rape of women in under-developed parts of Europe and their 'export' as prostitutes to meet an insatiable demand for sexual services. For three turbulent decades before the First World War, Joseph Silver - brothel-owner, pimp and trafficker in women on four continents - was central to this hidden world of betrayal, intrigue, lust and sexual slavery. Burglar, gun-runner, jewel-thief, rapist, safe-cracker and sodomist, Silver's notoriety was captured in the most confidential correspondence of a dozen countries in the western world. What those in charge of law-enforcement agencies kept to themselves, however, was how their officers had attempted to use Silver as an informer to infiltrate syndicates built on 'vice', only to have him outwit them as he moved in the dangerous space between police and prostitutes. A disturbed adolescent, youthful predator and adult misogynist driven by dark biblical and medieval obsessions, Silver's mental universe remained largely hidden from his family, other gangsters and police handlers. In this first reconstruction of the life of a dangerous psychopath, Charles van Onselen situates the private life of one man amidst the demi-monde of the Atlantic world to identify the most infamous serial killer of all time - for Joseph Silver's darkest secret of all lay in London, in Whitechapel, in the autumn of 1888.
Product code: 9780224079297
Worst Journeys: An Anthology of South African travel disasters -Pat Hopkins & Bridget Hilton-Barber
R150,00
Worst journeys is an anthology of travel disasters that have befallen some of the world's best-known writers, from the past to the present. The anthology will feature, among others, authors as diverse as Sol Plaatje, Rudyard Kipling, Herman Charles Bosman, Tim Couzens, John Matshikiza, Denise Slabbert, Don Mattera, and even Mahatma Gandhi. From the hilarious accounts of Trinity Crimp's mampoer-tasting exploits, to the tragedy of the Birkenhead and flight SA295, to the holidays that turned into nightmares, these stories are uniquely South African in flavour. Each and every one will grip and enthral the reader.
Product code: 9781770071018
Shadows of forgotten Ancestors: A search for who we are - Carl Sagan Ann Druyan
R250,00
The complete history of the origins of man from the cosmic conditions necessary for the creation of the planet and for life itself through the hundreds and thousands of generations of microbes, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals and primates.
Product code: 9780712698245
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 Burning Boys - John Fuller
R130,00
When David's mother is killed in the Blitz he moves to a new life in Lancashire with his young aunt Jean. As he watches the adult world around him, a fighter pilot wakes to discover his brutal disfigurement in a world he neither recognises nor remembers. The fragile link between the man and the boy as each experiences his own painful rite of passage is movely described in this powerful and evocative novel
Product code: 9780099748502
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
Stiffed - Susan Faludi
R200,00
With the publication of BACKLASH, Susan Faludi became a world-renowned authority on the gender war, and 'backlash' in the gender sense became a household word. STIFFED picks up where BACKLASH left off. It seeks to understand male behavior in order to close the chasm between the sexes, and asks the all-important question - why? Why are men so fear ful of women's independence? Why is a little liberation seen as too mu ch? What is it that men really fear, and why? The author shows that we should really focus on The Man Question; at the end of the millennium, it is men who are in crisis. She argues that we are all at the mercy of social forces distorting our lives. She takes us from the shuttered shipyards to the mass lay-offs of the defence industries, from Hollywood action heroes to gang-torn streets, from militia men to Promise Keepe rs, praying husbands to male porn actors. Faludi explores the economic , cultural and political roots of the crisis, unpacks the media messag es sent to men in the last twenty-five years, and charts new territory for male-female relations in the twenty-first century.
Product code: 9780099304913
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
Humphrey Gibbs Beleaguered Governor Southern Rhodesia, 1929-69 - Alan Megahey
Humphrey Gibbs was born into an Edwardian upper-class family in 1902. After Eton and Cambridge he emigrated in 1928 to Southern Africa, eventually deciding to farm in Southern Rhodesia. He was a prominent churchman, and was active in organizing the country's farmers. He promoted conservation before it was fashionable to do so. A reluctant MP, he welcomed the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and supported the cause of multiracialism. Gibbs became Governor of Southern Rhodesia in 1959, and six years later was faced with the problem of UDI. He remained at Government House and was a conduit between the British government and the rebel regime, stepping down only after the country declared itself a republic. In retirement he watched civil war ravage the country he loved and he welcomed its evolution into Zimbabwe. He left his farm only when the dissident troubles in Matabeleland became too severe. His funeral took place in Harare Catherdral in November 1990.
Product code: 9780333721582
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
Multistan: A Way out of the South African Dilemma - Malherbe Paul N
R200,00
David Phillip. Condition: Very Good. 1974. Hardcover. Clean copy in original cloth with dustwrapper. . . . . Books ship from South Africa
Product code: 0949968315
R200,00
Taken at the Flood: The story of Harry Struben - Roy Struben
R150,00
 Longmans, Cape Town, 1968. Hard Cover. First Edition, First printing. NEAR-FINE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION.
Product code: long61647
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
Bidsprinkaan - 'n ware storie - Andre P Brink
R150,00
Afrika se eeue oue magiesheid en hartstog vorm die agtergrond van die intiem verweefde komedie en tragedie in hierdie roman. Dit is gebaseer op die historiese figuur Kupido Kakkerlak (c. 1760 – c. 1825) se lewe. Maar die raaisel van 'n mens se lewe word ten beste met die verbeelding benader. Kupido is nie gebore nie, 'n arend het hom gebring. In daardie tyd het ook 'n bidsprinkaan verskyn - 'n teken van die gode. Wonderwerke het soos optelgoed op die aarde rondgele. Nadat Heitsi-Eibib in die veld aan Kupido verskyn het, raak hy as baasjagter bekend tot ver buite die grense van die boereplaas waar hy grootword. Hy is ook die drinker, leuenaar, minnaar en bakleier van die kontrei. Onder die sendeling dr. Van der Kemp se invloed word hy egter die eerste Khoi wat as sendeling aan die Kaap die Goeie Hoop georden is.
Product code: 9780798146517
Inboekeling - Hans du Plessis
R120,00
He was dragged onto the yard by a thong. A boy. A stranger. Off balance on his clumsy feet, the floppy hat pulled down low over his jug ears, red in the face because of the thong around his neck. The people gawking at him were not used to strangers. Here where they stay no-one has lived before. Their leader led their trek here more or less six years ago, dug the heel of his velskoen into the ground, made a possessive sweep with his big hand and declared the area his property. Here his word was law. The pastor confirmed his authority through the Bible. Also over the indentured, those children brought back to the laager after punitive raids against the indigenous people. The fathers and mothers were shot –stock thieves surely, all of them – and the children were carried away to be reared as slaves.The indentured.The boy on the rope sees a black girl staring at him from under the peak of a bonnet. Only later, locked up in a smithy, will he discover who and what she is. And when he is taken along on an expedition to recapture stolen stock, he is confronted with the horrid reality of her life: a child who was snatched from between the corpses of her parents and carried away on the saddle of a horseman.And it will be this simple boy, dragged onto that trekkers’ yard by a thong, who will bring it home in that godforsaken hinterland that there is no bond as durable, no rope as strong, as the commitment a heart makes.
Product code: 9780624069355
Emma en Nella (Roman) - Ekm Dido
R95,00
Emma maak 'n lewe vir haar en haar optelkind Nella in Blackheath. Lank gelede sou sy met Gert trou, maar sy pa laat hom uit die kerk storm en die mislukte troudag maak haar hard en onverskrokke. Daar is nie keer aan haar toe sy besluit om later vir Nella aan te neem nie – 'n baba met Fetale Alkoholsindroom wat sy langs 'n snelweg kry. Nou is Nella twaalf en met tik deurmekaar. Maar tussen Nella en die afgrond staan Emma. Na 'n hellevaart waarin die kind vir sewe dae spoorloos verdwyn het, neem Emma en Gert haar na 'n reabilitasiesentrum in Port Elisabeth. Op pad terug kom Gert se verlede aan die lig en slaan Emma se verhaal 'n heel nuwe koers in.
Product code: 9781415201206
Karretjiemense - Carol Campbell
R120,00
Vyftien jaar lank kruip Muis al weg. En noudat die Karoo so droog is, wil haar man Kapok hul donkiekarretjie in Leeu-Gamka se rigting draai – die een plek wat Muis nooit weer wil sien nie, want dit is hier waar die wrede Miskiet vir haar wag om haar terug te kry. Klein Witpop is opgewonde. Dalk kan sy nou televisie kyk en skool toe gaan. Haar broer Fansie hoop daar sal meer kos vir hom en hul babasussie Sponsie wees. Maar die duiwel is los in Leeu-Gamka en hulle moet desperaat vlug op hul karretjie. Sonder dokumente wat wys jy bestaan, kan die polisie jou nie veel help nie. In Carol Campbell se senutergende roman word die onsigbare en nomadiese karretjiemense van die Groot-Karoo op spanningsvolle wyse op die voorgrond geplaas.
Product code: 9781415201855
Spud: Learning to Fly - John van de Ruit
R100,00
As Spud Milton continues his diabolical stagger through adolescence, he learns one of life's most important lessons: when dealing with women and cretins, nothing is ever quite as it seems. 'I'm practically a man in most areas', writes Spud confidently on his sixteenth birthday. The year is 1992 and, as always in South Africa, radical change is in the air. The country may be on the bumpy road to an uncomfortable redemption, but Spud Milton is hoping for a smooth ride as he returns to boarding school as a senior. Instead, he discovers that his vindictive arch enemy is back to taunt him and that a garrulous Malawian has taken residence in his dormitory, along with the regular inmates and misfits he calls friends. Spud's world has never seemed less certain; he attempts to master Shakespeare, wrestles constantly with God and the power of negative thinking, and develops an aversion to fried fish after a shocking discovery about his grandmother, Wombat.
Product code: 9780143025955
The Harrogate Secret - Catherine Cookson
R45,00
I've been reading Catherine Cookson's novels for several years. This is one of my favorite ones. She is not a romance writer but a true realist, dealing with harsh realities of every day life.
Product code: 978-0552169066
The Turk who loved Apples - Matt Gross
R100,00
While writing his celebrated "Frugal Traveler" column for the New York Times, Matt Gross began to feel hemmed in by the focus on what he thought of as "traveling on the cheap at all costs." When his editor offered him the opportunity to do something less structured, the "Getting Lost" series was born—a more immersive form of travel that allowed Gross to "lose his way all over the globe," from developing-world megalopolises to venerable European capitals, from American sprawl to Asian archipelagos.
Product code: 978006821158
The General's Daughter - Nelson Demille
R45,00
Her murder was just the beginning. She was an army captain and the daughter of legendary General 'Fighting Joe' Campbell, when her body was found - naked and bound - on the firing range of Fort Hadley. This political powder keg of a case goes directly to elite army investigator Paul Brenner and rape specialist Cynthia Sunhill - and explodes. Behind the military code of honour, Brenner and Sunhill uncover trails of corruption - all leading to the golden girl's shocking secret life.
Product code: 9780751541762
