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  • A Handful of Hard Men: The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia (Trade Paperback)

    Hannes Wessels
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    During the West’s great transition into the post-Colonial age, the country of Rhodesia refused to succumb quietly, and throughout the 1970s fought ...

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    All Rise: A Judicial Memoir (Paperback)

    Dikgang Moseneke
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    Law as a profession was not Dikgang Moseneke’s first choice. As a small boy he told his aunt that he wanted to be a traffic officer, but life had o...

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  • A Stranger At Home (Paperback)

    Noni Jabavu
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    Noni Jabavu was a South African writer and journalist, one of the first African women to pursue a successful literary career and the first black So...

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  • An African History of Africa: From the Dawn of Humanity to Independence (Trade Paperback)

    Zeinab Badawi
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    Everyone is originally from Africa, and this book is therefore for everyone. For too long, Africa's history has been dominated by western narrative...

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  • The Art of War (Paperback)

    Sun Tzu
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    The most prestigious and influential book on strategy and dealing with conflict, beautifully translated for clear, accessible reading. In the wo...

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    Kruger se Goud

    John Buchan
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    'n Geheime poging om Kruger se goud te vind, is propvol intrige, misleiding en oneerlikheid. 'n Boeiende verhaal! In Januarie 1903 word John Buc...

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  • We Who Wrestle With God: Perceptions of the Divine (Trade Paperback)

    Jordan B. Peterson
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    The revolutionary new offering from Jordan B. Peterson, renowned psychologist and author of the global bestseller 12 Rules for Life In We Who Wrest...

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  • Humankind: A Hopeful History (Paperback)

    Rutger Bregman
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    It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and ...

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  • Die Anglo-Boereoorlog in Kleur: Konvensionele Oorlog, 1899-1901 (Trade Paperback)

    Tinus Le Roux
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    Tonele en rolspelers uit die Anglo-Boereoorlog kry nuwe lewe in hierdie unieke versameling foto’s wat lewensgetrou ingekleur is. Dit bring vars per...

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  • A Century of South African Naval History: The South African Navy and its Predecessors

    Naledi
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    “The author builds on an impressive body of work that has spanned decades of research on the topic. This is now brought together in a seminal compe...

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  • Forgotten Cape Town - A Visual History 1850-1950 (Paperback)

    Don Nelson Publishers
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    This book is a wonderful review of images which are intended to capture the changing face of Cape Town from 1850 to 1950. Selected from thousands, ...

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  • The Wager (Trade Paperback)

    Simon & Schuster Ltd
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    From the international bestselling author of KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON and THE LOST CITY OF Z, a mesmerising story of shipwreck, mutiny and murder...

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  • History: The Definitive Visual Guide

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    This lavishly illustrated visual encyclopedia tells the story of our world in depth and detail from the dawn of civilization to the present day.Cha...

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  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think (Paperback)

    Hans Rosling
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    'One of the most important books I've ever read - an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world' BILL GATES 'A hopeful book about t...

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  • Mafia Land (Trade Paperback)

    Kyle Cowan
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    Behind the façade of South Africa lies a brutal shadow-world ruled by mafias, cartels, and crime syndicates locked in a ruthless war over South Afr...

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  • Saving South Africa: Lessons from the uMngeni Municipality Success Story (Trade Paperback)

    Chris Pappas, Sandile Mnikathi
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    The Democratic Alliance won control of the uMngeni Municipality in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands after the local government elections in 2021. As the ...

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  • A Country of Two Agricultures: The Disparities, the Challenges, the Solutions (Paperback)

    Wandile Sihlobo
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    ​Nearly three decades after the dawn of democracy, South Africa has remained a country of 'two agricultures'. On the one hand we have a subsistence...

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  • The Presidents: From Mandela to Ramaphosa, Leadership in an Age of Crisis (Trade Paperback)

    Richard Calland, Mabel Sithole
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    Since 1994, South Africa has had five presidents who have varied greatly in style and character, despite all coming from the same political party. ...

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  • My Traitor's Heart: Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself (Paperback)

    Rian Malan
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    WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR In '70s' South Africa, Rian Malan - descendant of the architects of apartheid, middle-class white boy, fri...

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  • The Super Cadres: ANC Misrule in the Age of Deployment (Trade Paperback)

    Pieter du Toit
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    The ANC has ruled South Africa for three decades during which time the country has  gone from the promise of the Rainbow Nation to disfunction and ...

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  • Mein Kampf (Paperback)

    Adolf Hitler
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    Mein Kampf was first published in two volumes in 1925-6 and sold between eight and nine million copies during Hitler's lifetime, as well as being w...

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  • Good Jew, Bad Jew

    Steven Friedman
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    Shows how anti-Semitism has been distorted to serve the Israeli stateGood Jew, Bad Jew is a critique by one of South Africa’s foremost political th...

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  • Black Racist Bitch: How Social Media Reveals South Africa's Unfinished Work on Race (Paperback)

    Thandiwe Ntshinga
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    Critical whiteness studies is an offshoot of critical race theory that Thandiwe Ntshinga believes is desperately needed in South Africa.She pokes h...

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  • Not Without My Dogs: A South African's Tale of Fleeing Ukraine (English Edition) (Paperback)

    Kobus Olivier, Hilda Van Dyk
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    When the first missiles rattled Kyiv in February 2021, Kobus Olivier was ready for it. Or so the South African thought. Four years earlier he moved...

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  • The New Apartheid (Paperback)

    Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh
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    South Africa’s story is often presented as a triumph of new over old, but while formal apartheid was abolished decades ago, stark and distressing s...

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  • Moord op Stellenbosch: Twee Dekades se Skokverhale

    Tafelberg Publishers Ltd
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    Stellenbosch staan internasionaal bekend as 'n dorp van weelde en wyn, 'n plek van pragtige natuurskoon en mooi mense. Dit is die tuiste van Suid-A...

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  • In the Heart of the Whore: The Story of Apartheid's Death Squads (Trade Paperback)

    Jacques Pauw
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    The ongoing assassinations of anti-apartheid activists led to rumours that some kind of third force must be responsible. The South African governme...

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  • Freedom: Memories 1954 - 2021 (Paperback)

    Angela Merkel
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    For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and international politics...

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  • Guilty and Proud: An MK Soldier's Memoir of Exile, Prison and Freedom (Paperback)

    Marion Sparg
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    In this riveting memoir Sparg traces not only her experience in MK – often as the only woman in training camps in Angola – and her friendship with ...

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  • Bwana, There's A Body In The Bath!

    Peter Whitehead
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    Born in Shanghai and shipped to England as a child, Peter Whitehead then made his way to Australia, solo, at the age of 13 in 1938, in order to sav...

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  • I Am Ella (Paperback)

    Joanne Jowell
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    Ella Blumenthal’s story of surviving the Holocaust and building a new life in South Africa is a lesson in resilience, attitude and joy. From the dy...

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  • The Boer Invasion of the Zulu Kingdom 1837-1840 (Paperback)

    John Laband
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    The battle of Blood River, or Ncome, on 16 December 1838 has long been regarded as a critical moment in the history of South Africa. It is the culm...

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  • Jan Smuts 1870-1950: A Photobiography (Paperback)

    Anton Joubert
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    It has been said that the best-known South Africans outside South Africa is Nelson Mandela and Jan Smuts. Smuts is regarded as the most prominent A...

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  • The Mandela Brief: Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid

    John Murray Press
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    Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emerge...

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  • The Happiest Man on Earth: The Beautiful Life of an Auschwitz Survivor (Paperback)

    Eddie Jaku
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    Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and now believes he is the ‘happiest man on earth’. In his inspirational memoir, he pay...

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  • Into the Heart of Darkness: Confessions Of Apartheid's Assassins (Paperback)

    Jacques Pauw
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    For years the rumours persisted: the apartheid state was responsible for the continual disappearance and assassination of anti-apartheid activists....

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