South African History
South African history is shaped by the fight against apartheid. On 16 June 1976, students protested against unfair education and the use of Afrikaans in schools. Many were killed, including Hector Pieterson.
This day is now commemorated as Youth Day, and June is Youth Month, honouring the courage of the 1976 youth and their role in the struggle for freedom.
Read these books to see how South African history was shaped:
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Conversations With Myself (Paperback)
Nelson MandelaOriginal price R 280.00 - Original price R 280.00Original price R 280.00R 280.00R 280.00 - R 280.00Current price R 280.00Nelson Mandela is still widely considered to be one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Here, after a lifetime of putting pen to p...
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Rogues' Gallery: An Irreverent History Of Corruption In South Africa, From The VOC To The ANC (Paperback)
Matthew Blackman; Nick DallOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00If you reckon corruption in South Africa began with Zuma or even with apartheid, it’s time to catch a wake-up call. Rogues’ Gallery tells the story...
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Blood River 1838 (Paperback)
Ian KnightOriginal price R 350.00 - Original price R 350.00Original priceR 350.00R 350.00 - R 350.00Current price R 350.00A myth-shattering study of the first clash between the Zulu kingdom and European interlopers and its dramatic effects on Boer and Zulu alike. By th...
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Shades of Difference: Mac Maharaj and the Struggle for South Africa (Trade Paperback)
Padraig O’MalleyOriginal price R 380.00 - Original price R 380.00Original price R 380.00R 380.00R 380.00 - R 380.00Current price R 380.00Mac Maharaj played a pivotal role in the liberation movement for nearly four decades, suffering brutal tortures and twelve years’ imprisonment on R...
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A Brief History of South Africa: From Earliest Times to the Mandela Presidency (Paperback)
John PampallisOriginal price R 280.00 - Original price R 280.00Original price R 280.00R 280.00R 280.00 - R 280.00Current price R 280.00A Brief History of South Africa is an introduction to South African history from the earliest times to the Mandela Presidency. Using both a narrati...
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Diamonds, Gold And War (Paperback)
Martin MeredithOriginal price R 380.00 - Original price R 380.00Original price R 380.00R 380.00R 380.00 - R 380.00Current price R 380.00The prize was great -- not just land, but the riches it held, in the form of diamonds and gold. What became a country called South Africa was, unti...
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Dare Not Linger: The Presidential Years (Paperback)
Nelson MandelaOriginal price R 270.00 - Original price R 270.00Original price R 270.00R 270.00R 270.00 - R 270.00Current price R 270.00Drawing on Nelson Mandela's own unfinished memoir, Dare Not Linger is the remarkable story of his presidency told in his own words and those of dis...
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A Military History Of Modern South Africa (Paperback)
Ian van der WaagOriginal price R 350.00 - Original price R 350.00Original price R 350.00R 350.00R 350.00 - R 350.00Current price R 350.00The 20th Century has been one of enduring, rapid and fundamental social and political change. In Southern Africa, innumerable wars, rebellions, upr...
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A Short History of South Africa (Paperback)
Gail NattrassOriginal price R 295.00 - Original price R 295.00Original price R 295.00R 295.00R 295.00 - R 295.00Current price R 295.00In A Short History of South Africa, Gail Nattrass, historian and educator, presents the reader with a brief, general account of South Africa’s hist...
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History Of South Africa: 1902 To The Present (Trade Paperback)
Thula SimpsonOriginal price R 450.00 - Original price R 450.00Original price R 450.00R 450.00R 450.00 - R 450.00Current price R 450.00‘Narrative history at its best. With prodigious detail and eloquent prose Simpson places Black South Africans at the centre of the country’s histor...
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ANC Today Letters: The Ideas and Thoughts of President Thabo Mbeki, Volume 1, 2001-2004
Sifiso Mxolisi NdlovuOriginal price R 435.00 - Original price R 435.00Original price R 435.00R 435.00R 435.00 - R 435.00Current price R 435.00A collection of then President Thabo Mbeki's weekly ANC Today Letters, in which he expressed his opinions on current South African political and so...
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A Seed of a Dream: Morris Isaacson High School and the Struggle for Education in Soweto, 1956-2012
Clive GlaserOriginal price R 265.00 - Original price R 265.00Original price R 265.00R 265.00R 265.00 - R 265.00Current price R 265.00Morris Isaacson High School (MIHS) in Jabavu is widely known as the epicentre of the 1976 Soweto uprising. However, its legacy extends far beyond t...
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Apartheid: An Illustrated History 3rd Edition (Hardcover)
Michael MorrisOriginal price R 350.00 - Original price R 350.00Original priceR 350.00R 350.00 - R 350.00Current price R 350.00The thing that looms largest in South Africa's future is South Africa's past - most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at ...
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Botha, Smuts and the First World War (Trade Paperback)
Antonio Garcia, Ian van der WaagOriginal price R 340.00 - Original price R 340.00Original price R 340.00R 340.00R 340.00 - R 340.00Current price R 340.00Facing internal rebellion and the threat posed by German troops on South Africa’s borders, Prime Minister Louis Botha and his deputy, Jan Smuts, le...
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32 Battalion: The Inside Story of South Africa's Elite Fighting Unit (Paperback)
Piet NortjeOriginal price R 370.00 - Original price R 370.00Original price R 370.00R 370.00R 370.00 - R 370.00Current price R 370.0032 Battalion is the gripping inside story of South Africa's most controversial fighting unit of the 1970s and 1980s. Originally formed in order to ...
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Moederland: Nine Daughters of South Africa (Trade Paperback)
Cato PedderOriginal price R 470.00 - Original price R 470.00Original price R 470.00R 470.00R 470.00 - R 470.00Current price R 470.00Moederland is a courageous and modern appraisal of what it means to be descended from the people who created the ultraracist apartheid system in So...
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Die Anglo-Boereoorlog in Kleur: Konvensionele Oorlog, 1899-1901 (Trade Paperback)
Tinus Le RouxOriginal price R 430.00 - Original price R 430.00Original price R 430.00R 430.00R 430.00 - R 430.00Current price R 430.00Tonele 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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The Boer War in Colour: Conventional War, 1899-1900 (Paperback)
Tinus Le RouxOriginal price R 430.00 - Original price R 430.00Original price R 430.00R 430.00R 430.00 - R 430.00Current price R 430.00Infused with colour, scenes from the Anglo-Boer War suddenly come to life in this striking collection of colourised photos from one of the biggest ...
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Commando (New Expanded Edition) (Trade Paperback)
Deneys ReitzOriginal price R 360.00 - Original price R 360.00Original price R 360.00R 360.00R 360.00 - R 360.00Current price R 360.00The definitive account of Commando: A Boer Journal of the Anglo-Boer War, published word-for-word as Reitz first wrote it; edited and annotated by ...
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Sehlukene Sindawonye (Paperback)
Athambile Masola, Xolisa GuzulaOriginal price R 295.00 - Original price R 295.00Original priceR 295.00R 295.00 - R 295.00Current price R 295.00Together Apart isizulu Text in isiZulu. Also available in English, isiXhosa, Sepedi and Afrikaans. A history of the struggle against apartheid in S...
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Mmogo Re Arogane (Paperback)
Athambile Masola, Xolisa GuzulaOriginal price R 240.00 - Original price R 240.00Original priceR 240.00R 240.00 - R 240.00Current price R 240.00Together Apart Sepedi Text in Sepedi. Also available in English, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Afrikaans. A history of the struggle against apartheid in S...
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Saam Maar Apart: Die Lewe Tydens Apartheid (Paperback)
Athambile Masola, Xolisa GuzulaOriginal price R 295.00 - Original price R 295.00Original price R 295.00R 295.00R 295.00 - R 295.00Current price R 295.00Discover the gripping tale of Together Apart: The Story of Living in Apartheid, that explores South Africa’s struggle against one of history’s most...
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