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  • Women in Solitary

    Inside the female resistance to apartheid

    by Shanthini Naidoo ...
    ‘The freezing loneliness made one wish for death,’ journalist Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin said of solitary confinement. With seven other women, including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, she was held for more than a year. This is the story of these heroic women, their refusal to testify in the ‘Trial of 22’ in 1969, their brutal detention and how they picked up their lives afterwards. ... Read more

    $14.69 CAD

  • Women Surviving Apartheid's Prisons

    by Shanthini Naidoo ...
    In 1969, South Africa's apartheid government arrested anti-apartheid leaders and activists nationwide for a key planned show trial. Among them were seven women, three of whom (including Winnie Madikizela-Mandela) have since died. This book by South African journalist Shanthini Naidoo uses rich interview material to share the previously unknown stories of the four imprisoned women who are still ... Read more

    $9.09 CAD

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  • Mandela

    The Authorised Biography

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    Widely considered to be the most important biography of Nelson Mandela, Antony Sampson’s remarkable book has been updated with an afterword by acclaimed South African journalist, John Battersby.Long after his presidency of South Africa, Nelson Mandela remained an inspirational figure to millions – both in his homeland and far beyond. He has been, without doubt, one of the most important figures in ... Read more

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  • It’s Our Turn to Eat

    by Michela Wrong ...
    A gripping account of both an individual caught on the horns of an excruciating moral dilemma and a continent at a turning point.When Michela Wrong's Kenyan friend John Githongo appeared one cold February morning on the doorstep of her London flat, carrying a small mountain of luggage and four trilling mobile phones he seemed determined to ignore, it was clear something had gone very wrong in a ... Read more

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  • Pale Native

    Memories of a Renegade Reporter

    by Max du Preez ...
    Max du Preez has one hell of a story to tell. In his career as a renegade reporter, he’s survived three dismissals, seven libel suits, thirteen criminal cases, four aeroplane crashes, a bombing, two assassination attempts and was a regular on right-wing hit lists. He was in Soweto on 16 June 1976, witnessed the debauched parties of apartheid cabinet ministers, and stepped over dead bodies in a ... Read more

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  • Country Of My Skull

    by Antjie Krog ...
    The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993. It was to seek the truth and make it known to the public and to prevent these brutal events ever happening again. From 1996 and over the following two ... Read more

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  • Winnie Mandela: A Life

    by Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob ...
    Few people have courted as much controversy or evoked such strong and divergent emotions as Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. Adored by some, abhorred by others, she bears a name famous throughout the world, yet not many people know the woman behind the headlines, myths and controversies, or the details of the fascinating story that is her life. This intimate, in-depth and unbiased biography reveals the ... Read more

    $18.69 CAD

  • Country of My Skull

    Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa

    by Antjie Krog ...
    Ever since Nelson Mandela dramatically walked out of prison in 1990 after twenty-seven years behind bars, South Africa has been undergoing a radical transformation. In one of the most miraculous events of the century, the oppressive system of apartheid was dismantled. Repressive laws mandating separation of the races were thrown out. The country, which had been carved into a crazy quilt that ... Read more

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  • In the Words of Nelson Mandela

    by Jennifer Crwys-Williams ...
    "I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against blackdomination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free societyin which all persons live together in harmony and with equalopportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve.But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die." NelsonMandela spoke these words from the dock at the Rivonia ... Read more

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  • A Rumour of Spring

    South Africa after 20 Years of Democracy

    by Max du Preez ...
    Democracy in South Africa turns twenty on 27 April 2014. In A Rumour of Spring, Max du Preez investigates and analyses the progress and lack of progress the country has made during these twenty years. A Rumour of Spring looks at the legacies of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in an attempt to understand how we got here, and examines Jacob Zuma’s presidency to better understand where we are.In the ... Read more

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  • Khwezi

    The remarkable story of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo

    by Redi Tlhabi ...
    In May 2006 Jacob Zuma was found not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo – better known as Khwezi – in the Johannesburg High Court. Another nail was driven into the coffin of South Africa's fight against sexual violence. Vilified by Zuma's many supporters, Khwezi was forced to flee South Africa and make a life in the shadows, first in Europe and then back on the African continent.A ... Read more

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