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  • The Art of Life in South Africa

    R530
    Daniel Magaziner is associate professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of The Law and the Prophets: Black Consciousness in South Africa, 1968–1977.

    ‘A richly suggestive and moving contribution to South African intellectual history.’ Achille Mbembe, author of Critique of Black Reason

    ‘This book is as important for students of global modernism as it is for scholars of South African art, history, and politics.’ Tamar Garb, author of Figures and Fictions: Contemporary South African Photography

     

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  • The Bethal Trial Story – Where do we begin

    R200

    June 16, 1976 remains the decisive moment that brought a new impetus to the struggle for
    liberation in South Africa. Little of this uprising is contained in a published book written by the student leaders themselves.

    This book is the first and does just that. The authors relate individual and collective accounts of their role as SRC leaders of Mosupatsela High School from March 1976 in the lead up to the June 16, 1976 uprising. This is the story of the uprising in Kagiso, Krugersdorp and the resulting detention of the authors in September of 1976.

    The Bethal trial, two years later in 1978, was to divide the students of Mosupatsela High.
    This book analyses that trial and details the role of the security police in formenting this division. The late Bonaventure Malaza, President of the subsequent SRC, was to be a casualty of this division and his fellow SRC members were to turn state witnesses.
    Read how Judge Curlewis conducted that trial, with fitting comparisons to Tokyo Sexwale’s
    “Bordergate case”, Pennuel Maduna’s “Ongoye student protest case” and the seminal Harry
    Gwala, “Pietermaritzburg case”.

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  • The Embarrassment of Riches

    R350

    Schama explores the mysterious contradictions of the Dutch nation that invented itself from the ground up, attained an unprecedented level of affluence, and lived in constant dread of being corrupted by happiness. Drawing on a vast array of period documents and sumptuously reproduced art, Schama re-creates in precise detail a nation’s mental state. He tells…

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  • The French Century :An Illustrated History of Modern France

    R300

    Sixteen chapters cover the history of France from the end of the 19th century to the present day, encapsulating everything from political events and scientific discoveries to cultural achievements and sporting triumphs.

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  • The Genius – Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism

    R360

    Elijah ben Solomon, the “Genius of Vilna” was perhaps the best-known and most understudied figure in modern Jewish history. This book offers a new narrative of Jewish modernity based on Elijah’s life and influence.

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  • The Herd Boy

    R120

    This beautiful picture book is about a boy who dares to dream of a big future. It is a story of empowerment, self-belief and leadership, and is inspired by the life of former president Nelson Mandela.

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  • The Human Past: World Prehistory & the Development of Human Societies

    R360

    Truly global coverage spanning the past three million years, from human origins in Africa and the spread of modern humans around the world to the great civilizations of Egypt and Africa, the Mediterranean, Europe, South and East Asia, and the Americas.

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    The Kasrils Affair

    R195

    In 2007, Minister Ronnie Kasrils, the highest-ranking Jew in South Africa’s post-apartheid government, launched a campaign against Israeli policy in the occupied territories.

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  • The Neanderthals Rediscovered

    R400

    The Neanderthals’ story has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals behaviour was surprisingly modern. They buried the dead, cared for the sick, hunted large animals, harvested seafood, used red paint and spoke.

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  • The New Black Middle Class in South Africa

    R280

    The “”rise of the black middle class”” is one of the most visible aspects of post-apartheid society in South Africa. Yet while it has been a major actor in the country’s democratic reshaping, analysis of its role has been all but lacking.

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  • The Promise of Justice : Book One History

    R340

    King Justice Mpondombini Sigcau’s Struggle to Save the Kingdom of the Mpondo from Unjust Developments.

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    The Rand at War 1899-1902:The Witwatersrand and the Anglo -Boer War

    R150

    The wealth and power of Johannesburg and the Witwatersrand were a focal point of the tension which led to the Anglo-Boer war. This is a social history of the community; here are the ‘randlords’, the British rulers and the Boer generals,

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    The SADF in the Border War 1966-1989

    R350

    What led to the Border War, how did it develop – and who won?

    Scholtz offers a fresh take on long-standing and contentious questions, such as what really happened at Cuito Cuanavale. By exploring the objectives of each of the parties and the extent to which it was achieved, he offers a unique answer to the question: Who won the war?

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  • The Story of the Jews: Finding the Words

    R450

    It is a story like no other: an epic of endurance against destruction, of creativity in oppression, joy amidst grief, the affirmation of life against the steepest of odds. It spans the millennia and the continents – from India to Andalusia and from the bazaars of Cairo to the streets of Oxford. It

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  • The Vikings: Lords of the Sea

    R120

    In their lifetime these lords of the seas terrified the world, causing 8th-century Europe to pray for deliverance.

     

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  • Through the Darkness: A Life in Zimbabwe

    R150

    Through the Darkness: A Life In Zimbabwe is a book long anticipated. Judith Todd’s chronicle of Mugabe’s crimes against his people appals, yet the life of the subtitle has been a high-spirited crusade for justice, democracy and freedom of the press.

    Firmly attached to the progressive values of her parents Grace and Garfield Todd erstwhile prime minister of colonial Southern Rhodesia benevolent paternalists engaged in ranching, healing, teaching and politicking in south-west Zimbabwe since 1934, their daughter has proven to be cut from the same cloth.

    She was exiled in 1972 by the late Ian Smith, Zimbabwe’s last white prime minister, and stripped of her citizenship by the Mugabe government in 2003. Todd now holds New Zealand citizenship and lives in Cape Town, South Africa.

    When Todd returned to Zimbabwe from exile in Britain shortly before independence in 1980, and soon realised that, far from being the solution to Zimbabwe’s ills, Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu (PF) party were increasingly becoming the problem. She says when asked what she thinks went wrong in the country that “it’s almost as if Mugabe is angry he is mortal and wants everyone else to die before he does.”

    As the country slid into economic and social decline, Todd had a front-row view from her position as director of a local development agency. Over the first 25 years of Mugabe’s rule, she kept journals, notes and copies of letters and documents from which she has compiled an intensely personal account of life in Zimbabwe. These make up Through the Darkness: A Life in Zimbabwe.

    Todd’s narrative allows her to record slowly, becoming aware of how ruthlessly the party will enforce its authority and how totally it will contain and then eliminate everything that it regards as dissidence. Only by using the narrative method that she has used is Todd able to convey not only her slow disillusionment but to speak with authority about what is happening. Her authority derives from her presence, from the fact that she records nothing that she has not directly experienced.

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