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  • The Final and Ultimate Holocaust: the Coming Massacre of the Twenty First Century

    Taking a look at history and our current political climate by examining a combination of ideological undercurrrents, historical occurences such as the Holocausts during the first half of the Twentieth Century (and also afterward) and the sudden assassinations in Vietnam during the second half of the Twentieth Century, the author Erik MacRae became alarmed and so sought to inform the public of what ... Read more

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  • Southern Africa's Responses to International HIV/AIDS Norms (1990-2005)

    The Politics os Assimilation

    The southern African region has the worst HIV/AIDS epidemic in the world. In some countries, HIV infection affects nearly 40% of the adult population. This work shows that, despite the formal commitment of the governments of the region to follow international guidelines to combat the epidemic and the technical and financial support of powerful donors, three countries - Botswana,Mozambique and ... Read more

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  • Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa

    1930s–1990s

    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
    This book showcases new research by emerging and established scholars on white workers and the white poor in Southern Africa.Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa challenges the geographical and chronological limitations of existing scholarship by presenting case studies from Angola, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe that track the fortunes of nonhegemonic whites during the era ... Read more

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  • Nelson Mandela: A Life From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    A brief biography of an icon like Nelson Mandela is a difficult undertaking. This offering is ideal for someone, not from Africa, who would like to know what motivated a man to give his life to a cause that would see him spend the most productive years of his life in jail.Inside you will read about...✓ A boy in rural South Africa✓ Egoli...place of gold✓ The African National Congress and the birth ... Read more

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  • Letters from Lonehill

    by James Forson ...
    In this entertaining collection of short stories, James Forson light-heartedly explores some of his memories of the Western Cape Province in South Africa and confronts some of the challenges and ironies of the world of business. Sometimes humorous, sometimes pithy, the stories strike a responsive chord with our own life experiences. A pleasant read to while away the weekend. ... Read more

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  • Hartbeespoortdam

    by B.K. de Beer ...
    Hierdie is die volledige teks van Hoofstuk 18, uit B. K. de Beer se boek: Agter die Magalies. Die eerste aantal hoofstukke is reeds beskikbaar en soos ons die proeflees en voorbereiding afhandel sal die ander stelselmatig bygevoeg word. Bertus de Beer was 'n boer langs die Krokodilrivier net 'n paar kilometer aan die onderkant van die Hartbeespoortdam. Daarom bied hy aan ons 'n unieke perspektief ... Read more

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  • Media Landscape 2014: Celebrating 20 Years of South Africa's Media

    by GCIS ...
    Globally media is in a state of flux with digital technologies disrupting traditional ways of doing business, current ownership patterns being challenged, and questions being raised about the degree of diversity within media industries.Media Landscape 2014: Celebrating 20 Years of South Africa’s Media is the second in a series that tackles how the media environment in the country has evolved since ... Read more

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  • Boer Wars: A History From Beginning to End

    by Henry Freeman ...
    As General Patton once said, "The Boers? Those sons of bitches fight for the hell of it."The reputation of the Boer is not entirely unearned. At a time when South Africa was a place inhabited by the toughest of men, only those who lived in the saddle with a gun in their hands could possibly survive.Inside you will read about...✓ The Creation of the Boer✓ Growing Tensions✓ Colley Steps In✓ The End ... Read more

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  • Sandsteenkasteel

    “My planne is reeds agtermekaar. Ek gaan van Kingsberg ’n onvervreembare erfenis maak tot ná die vierde geslag. So sal ek sorg dat niemand hier afbreek wat ek opgebou het nie. Niemand sal hier iets kan doen wat die volgende geslagte benadeel nie.”Voordat John Adams hierdie uitspraak maak, is Suid-Afrika die droomland met onbeperkte geleenthede. Hy emigreer van Engeland hierheen, word ’n skatryk ... Read more

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  • Spikkels en Spatsels uit Bloemfontein se Verlede

    "Soos sy voorganger Splinters en dorings uit die Rosestad se verlede (SUN MeDIA, 2015), neem hierdie historiese bundel die leser op 'n reis deur die spikkels en spatsels van pyn en vreugde uit Bloemfontein se verlede. Bloemfontein se eerste inwoners het hul reeds in 1846 hier gevestig, maar die stad het eers in 1945 stadstatus gekry. Die stad – wat aanvanklik grootliks 'n Engelse eiland in die ... Read more

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  • The Simple Guide To Nelson Mandela

    by Chris Scott ...
    Series series The Simple Guide To
    Although a simple guide this book tries to share with you the struggles and triumphs of this great man. It covers the life of Nelson Mandela starting with an explanation of The Apartheid and National Party. A short look at his family is followed by his education and early years with the ANC. We take a look at how Mandela showed his leadership qualities and his imprisonment. Violence and the threat ... Read more

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  • The Glory of African Kings and Queens

    by Pusch Commey ...
    The Glory of African Kings and Queens is adapted from Volume 1 of 100 Great African Kings and Queens ( First Edition). This amazing journey through the sands of time opens a rich African world to a quick read and a younger age group, celebrating a shared humanity without borders. These magnificent and historic monarchs range from Khufu, the builder of the pyramid of Giza, to Makeda, the Ethiopian ... Read more

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  • The Battle at Mamusa: The Western Transvaal border culture and the ethno-dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity

    by Piet Erasmus ...
    The Battle of Mamusa reflects the grievous event in the Western Transvaal border culture context that contributed profoundly to the dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity. The narrative presented in this work is exceptional for at least two reasons: Firstly, for the thoughtful manner in which the intriguing concept of metaphors is applied in this study of historical ethnography cum ... Read more

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  • Affective Images

    Post-apartheid Documentary Perspectives

    Series series SUNY Press Open Access
    Affective Images examines both canonical and lesser-known photographs and films that address the struggle against apartheid and the new struggles that came into being in post-apartheid times. Marietta Kesting argues for a way of embodied seeing and complements this with feminist and queer film studies, history of photography, media theory, and cultural studies. Featuring in-depth discussions of ... Read more

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  • Cold War Liberation

    The Soviet Union and the Collapse of the Portuguese Empire in Africa, 1961–1975

    Series series New Cold War History
    Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies—Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau—and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story that focuses on both the impact of the Soviet Union on the end of the Portuguese Empire in Africa and the effect of the anticolonial struggles on ... Read more

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  • Women’s Lived Landscapes of War and Liberation in Mozambique

    Bodily Memory and the Gendered Aesthetics of Belonging

    by Jonna Katto ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Africa
    This book tells the history of the changing gendered landscapes of northern Mozambique from the perspective of women who fought in the armed struggle for national independence, diverting from the often-told narrative of women in nationalist wars that emphasizes a linear plot of liberation.Taking a novel approach in focusing on the body, senses, and landscape, Jonna Katto, through a study of the ... Read more

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  • High Stakes, High Hopes

    Urban Theorizing in Partnership

    Series Book 60 - Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation Ser.
    High Stakes, High Hopes tracks the building of urban theorizing in a decade-long urban research and teaching partnership in Cape Town, South Africa. An argument for collaborative urbanism, this book reflects on what was at stake in the partnership and its creative, and at times, conflictive, evolution. High Stakes, High Hopes explores what changed in learning when teaching and assessment occurred ... Read more

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  • White Afrikaner Mischief

    by Coen van Wyk ...
    This is an account of the political shenanigans of the National Party in South Africa during the 1950s in their endeavours to deprive coloureds of their rights in terms of the constitution. ... Read more

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  • The Black Man’s Place in South Africa

    by Peter Nielsen ...
    The "race" question has been raging all over the world since the early days of the human, but nowhere else has the debate taken dramatic proportions as in South Africa in the 20th century. A cooking pot of peoples, ethnic groups, languages, tribes and cultures, South Africa was a perfect test bed for the 'race' question, fired up by the ambers of colonialism.How could the issue be resolved? A ... Read more

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  • Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer

    William Charles Scully is one of South Africa's best-known authors, although little known outside South Africa. In addition to his work as an author, his paid work was principally as a magistrate in Springfontein, South Africa, as well as in Namaqualand and the Transkei.First published in 1913, "Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer" is a brilliant account of his life in that country. An ... Read more

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  • The Great Boer War

    "The Great Boer War" is a book written by Arthur Conan Doyle first published on 23 october 1900.Arthur Conan Doyle made his reputation as a novelist, but far stranger than fiction is the creator of Sherlock Holmes' tale of the Boer War in South Africa. The then 40-year-old novelist wanted to see the war first hand as a soldier, but the Victorian army balked at having a popular author wielding a ... Read more

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  • The History of Second Boer War: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria & Ian Hamilton's March

    This eBook edition of "The History of Second Boer War: London to Ladysmith via Pretoria & Ian Hamilton's March" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria" is a personal record of Winston Churchill's impressions during the first five months of the Second Boer War. It includes an account of the Relief of ... Read more

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  • Scouting on Two Continents

    by F.R. Burnham ...
    Frederick Russell Burnham: Explorer, discoverer, cowboy, and Scout.Native American, he served as chief of scouts in the Boer War, an intimate friend of Lord Baden-Powell.As an honorary Scout of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA), he has served as an inspiration to the youth of the Nation and is the embodiment of the qualities of the ideal Scout.The BSA made Burnham an Honorary Scout in 1927, and for ... Read more

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  • Three Years with Lobengula: And Experiences in South Africa

    "Cooper-Chadwick...in Bulawayo...became a successful trader and well liked by Lobengula, who called him Charlie...one of the best accounts of Lobengula's court." - The Mashonaland Irish Association (2019)"We learn from Western observers like Cooper-Chadwick... it was a general practice among the Ndebele for the raiders to come in after a raid with children and women...cruel, degrading treatment.. ... Read more

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