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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

  • Cover image of book Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements by Trevor Ngwane
    Amakomiti: Grassroots Democracy in South African Shack Settlements - by Trevor Ngwane

    £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

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  • Cover image of book South Africa: The Art of a Nation by John Giblin and Christopher Spring
    South Africa: The Art of a Nation - by John Giblin and Christopher Spring

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Writing the Decline: On the Struggle for South Africa
    Writing the Decline: On the Struggle for South Africa's Democracy - by Richard Pithouse

    £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

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  • Cover image of book A Passion for Freedom: My Life by Mamphela Ramphele
    A Passion for Freedom: My Life - by Mamphela Ramphele

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Cry Freedom: The Legendary True Story of Steve Biko and the Friendship That Defied Apartheid by John Briley
    Cry Freedom: The Legendary True Story of Steve Biko and the Friendship That Defied Apartheid - by John Briley

    £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

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  • Cover image of book A Fork in the Road by André Brink
    A Fork in the Road - by André Brink

    £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

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  • Cover image of book After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa by Alec Russell
    After Mandela: The Battle for the Soul of South Africa - by Alec Russell

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women
    Breaking the Silence: Journeys to Recovery - POWA Women's Writing Competition 2008 - by Various authors

    £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

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  • Cover image of book More Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid - The Most Important Football Story Ever Told by Chuck Korr and Marvin Close
    More Than Just a Game: Football v Apartheid - The Most Important Football Story Ever Told - by Chuck Korr and Marvin Close

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Three Letter Plague: A Young Man
    Three Letter Plague: A Young Man's Journey Through a Great Epidemic - by Jonny Steinberg

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s by The Posterbook Collective
    Images of Defiance: South African Resistance Posters of the 1980s - by The Posterbook Collective

    £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

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  • Cover image of book In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future by Nelson Mandela
    In His Own Words: From Freedom to the Future - by Nelson Mandela

    £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

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  • Cover image of book No Easy Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela
    No Easy Walk to Freedom - by Nelson Mandela

    £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

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  • Cover image of book Soweto: 16 June 1976 by Elsabe Brink et al
    Soweto: 16 June 1976 - by Elsabe Brink et al

    £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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