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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 14 books in this booklist
£19.99 paperback (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780745342009 | ISBN 10: 0745342000
Can people who live in shantytowns, shacks and favelas teach us anything about democracy? About how to govern society in a way that is inclusive, participatory and addresses popular needs? This book argues that they can. In a study conducte ... more
View book details£25.00 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9780500292839 | ISBN 10: 0500292833
South African archaeology preserves some of the earliest evidence of artistic thought and production anywhere in the world. Today, South Africa has an established and vibrant contemporary art scene that is often in dialogue with the deep and recent p ... more
View book details£14.95 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781431423170 | ISBN 10: 1431423173
Richard Pithouse, an activist intellectual who has been an important contributor to the South African public sphere for twenty years, offers a penetrating and beautifully written exploration of the escalating crisis in South Africa in the Zuma era. & ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781784530426 | ISBN 10: 1784530425
Mamphela Ramphele is a figurehead of modern South Africa. The partner of Steve Biko, until his death in 1977, she has demonstrated extraordinary political leadership and statesmanship, most recently as the leader of the Agang SA party. In t ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780241950722 | ISBN 10: 0241950724
Under South Africa's brutal apartheid regime, black activist Steve Biko has been working tirelessly for years to undermine the system when he meets white journalist Donald Woods. Initially suspicious of Biko and his motives, Woods finds himself unite ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099527039 | ISBN 10: 0099527030
The memoir of one of South Africa's best-loved novelists. André Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780099534020 | ISBN 10: 0099534029
When Nelson Mandela and the African National Congress declared victory over the bitter injustice of apartheid, some thought South Africa's future was assured. But despite Mandela’s mission of reconciliation, rampant inequality remains; race relations ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9781920196196 | ISBN 10: 1920196196
Survivors of violence are often forced to flee – emotionally and geographically – from sites of violence. Women cross vast emotional and geographical borders in order to flee from violence to find a place of safety. This year, POWA called for entries ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780007302994 | ISBN 10: 0007302991
"It is amazing to think that a game that people take for granted all around the world, was the very same game that gave a group of prisoners sanity - and in a way, gave us the resolve to carry on the struggle"(Anthony Suze, Robben Island Prisoner) ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2009) - ISBN 13: 9780099524199 | ISBN 10: 0099524198
At the end of a steep gravel road in one of the remotest corners of South Africa's Eastern Cape lies the village of Ithanga. Home to a few hundred villagers, the majority of them unemployed, it is inconceivably poor. It is to here that award-winning ... more
View book details£26.50 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9781919855387 | ISBN 10: 1919855386
Images of Defiance is a visual record of grassroots mobilisation and resistance, of the struggle to shatter the silence imposed by massive state repression. This book of posters celebrates the Congress movement and the principles it has fought so lon ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2004) - ISBN 13: 9780349117768 | ISBN 10: 0349117764
Nelson Mandela's speeches have moved, challenged and inspired many generations across the world. This selection of Mandela's speeches provides a lively, memorable profile of his lifelong commitment to the flourishing of the people of South Africa, Af ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141439303 | ISBN 10: 0141439300
'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires.' After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally walked ... more
View book details£13.95 paperback (2001) - ISBN 13: 9780795701320 | ISBN 10: 0795701322
Published to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the June 16 uprising, in this book thirty individuals share their memories of the day as well as the days, weeks & months that followed. They tell their own story in their own words, many of them for t ... more
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