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.'
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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
Duisend Beste Boeke Vol 1-4 - Red Frank N Magill
R800,00
Meer as duisend van die beroemdste en mees beminde geskrifte uit alle eeue en lande.
Product code: 0620061642
Black Sash: The beginning of a Bridge in South Africa - Kathryn Spink
R190,00
Since its formation in 1955, the Black Sash has been a constant source of irritation to upholders of apartheid in South Africa. Founded on a sense of injustice - the outrage felt by a group of middle-aged, middle-class, liberal-minded, white, English-speaking women at the Senate Bill devised to prohibit black votes - its membership rapidly grew from six women at a tea party to a league of 10,000 who held marches, convoys, demonstrations and all-night vigils. In their struggle against violence, harassment and injustice, many members have lost relatives, been imprisoned or been the subjects of restriction orders (in some cases breaking these to talk to the author). The author has interviewed many members of the Black Sash as well as the Nationalist government and the security forces and such public figures as Archbishop Desmond Tutu. She has spent time in their advice offices, visited black townships and the families of prisoners on Robben Island, and talked to black South Africans both sympathetic and unsympathetic to Black Sash activities.
Product code: 9780413623805
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
The Boer War - Thomas Pakenham
R200,00
The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, ‘no end of a lesson’. It proved to be the longest, the costliest, the bloodiest and the most humiliating campaign that Britain fought between 1815 and 1914.Thomas Pakenham has written the first full-scale history of the war since 1910. His narrative is based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides. Out of this historical gold-mine, the author has constructed a narrative as vivid and fast-moving as a novel, and a history that in scholarship, breadth and impact will endure for many years.
Product code: 9780349104669
Ali: The Life of Ali Bacher - Rodney Hartman
R150,00
Ali Bacher has been described at the best-known cricket official in the world and, as such, has attracted as much admiration as opprobrium. He is considered to be the most influential personality in the history of South African cricket. It is a story that is told with pace and is not short on colour. It includes the views of people most relevant to the issues being covered, by way of example: those ANC officials who viewed Ali Bacher as an enemy, agreed to engage him in clandestine meetings and then embraced him as a comrade; insiders in and around SA cricket who have dealt with him on subjects ranging from the masterminding of Rebel cricket tours in the 1980s to dealing with the Match Fixing scandal of the 1990s; and what went into organising the biggest Cricket World Cup of all in South Africa in Feb-March 2003. It is a story that covers his more than four decades in the forefront of SA cricket, including the most remarkable years in the history of South Africa. It will draw on this historical detail but will strongly project as a story of modern-day cricket challenges.
Product code: 9780670047963
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
Wilson: The Authorised Life of Lord Wilson of Rievaulx - Philip Ziegler
Biografie/Biographies/ Memoirs, History/Geskiedenis, Politics & Current Affairs, Used & Affordable Books
R260,00
Harold Wilson was Prime Minister for almost eight years - the longest period spent in office this century until Mrs Thatcher. He fought five general elections and won four. While he was at Number Ten, Wilson held together the unruly elements of Left and Right in a Parliamentary party often at odds with itself, challenged the power of the trade unions, faced repeated economic crises and a devaluation, was abandoned by his own Cabinet and had to concede defeat. His period in office was one of the most momentous and controversial of the country's post-war history. His resignation took almost everyone by surprise and rumours still circulate about its cause. Philip Ziegler is the first historian to have access to Harold Wilson's personal archive, including much official documentation that will not become available for a decade or more. Although he has the blessing of his subject,
Product code: 9780297812760
Orient Express: - E H Cookridge
R120,00
The Life and times of the World's Most famous Train
Product code: 0713912715
The Struggle: A History of the African National Congress - Heidi Holland
R60,00
South Africa - The fight for freedom
Product code: 9780586206133
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
Insurgent Diplomat: Civil Talks or Civil War - Aziz Pahad
R200,00
Long before the official negotiations to end apartheid, there were secret discussions that paved the way for dialogue between the African National Congress and the South African government. Aziz Pahad played a key role in these discussions, and in this book he provides the first account of them from the ANC’s perspective.Pahad recounts his early years in South Africa, which informed his political ideology, as well as his time in exile in London. He gives insights into the leadership of 00inspirational figures, such as Yusuf Dadoo, Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki, and describes the central role played by the ANC in rescuing the country from the brink of disaster. There are also important lessons for governments still resorting to military aggression to resolve conflicts by showing that honesty, mutual understanding and compromise are essential to bringing an end to instability.
Product code: 9780143538851
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
Sunset at midday - Govan Mbeki
R350,00
"This book compels us to revisit our history and critically assess the role of the ANC in the liberation of our country."Â Cyril Ramaphosa
Product code: 9781875048403
Commando: Of Horses and Men - Deneys Reitz
R350,00
A Boer Journal of the Boer War & The Aftermath of War
Product code: 9780956774552
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
Black and White - Blagden Chambers
R350,00
The story of a massacre and its aftermath.
Product code: 9780947319014
Sam Jonah and the Remaking of Ashanti - A A Taylor
R250,00
Sam Jonah and the remaking of Ashanti recounts the inspirational life of one of Africa's most prominent black businessmen. From working underground as a shovel boy to his appointment as the CEO of the trailblazing African gold mining company, Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, Sam Jonah's determination to surmount every obstacle in a career strewn with hurdles makes for compelling reading. Frenzied deals, boardroom cliffhangers, political scandal and private battles punctuate this unique account of the challenges of conducting 'First World' business in the 'Third World'. Through Jonah's corporate leadership we explore the paradox that a continent so richly endowed with gold and other minerals should find itself in such dire poverty. It is a hopeful story about breaking the confines of one's circumstances, not just for Africans but for individuals the world over.
Product code: 9781770100244
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
Bram Fischer: Afrikaner Revolutionary - Stephen Clingman
R260,00
Born into an eminent Afrikaner family, Bram Fischer defended Mandela and Sisulu at the Rivonia trial and was imprisoned himself for his membership of the Communist Party. "It is an outstanding contribution to our understanding of modern South African History." Thomas G Karis
Product code: 9780864863188
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 Corner House: The Early History of Johannesburg - A P Cartwright
R400,00
Purnell & Sons (SA) (Pty) Ltd., Cape Town, Johannesburg, 1965. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Signed copy. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. 293 pages (complete). A very smart copy. The dustjacket is slightly worn and scuffed. It is intact and sure. The boards are very handsome and smart. The contents are as new throughout.
Product code: PS001
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: dp001
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