This is the illustrated history of the 1879 Zulu War from the Isandlwana disaster to the famous defence of Rorke's Drift, the battle of Gingindhlovu and the ultimate defeat of the Zulu army at Ulundi. Michael Barthorp's vivid account of this famous campaign is supported by a superb collection of early war photographs and includes orders of battle for both the British and Zulu armies.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Barthorp has also written Blood-red Desert Sand: The British In Invasions of Egypt and the Sudan 1882-1898, Afghan Wars: and the North-West Frontier 1839-1947 and Slogging Over Africa: The Boer Wars 1815-1902.

ABOUT THE BOOK
A leading scholar in southern African history and politics, Leonard Thompson, provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of the country’s history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present, focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants.

For this third edition of the work, two new chapters have been added that describe the transfer of power and the new South Africa under the presidencies of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki.

Leonard Thompson was the Charles J Stillé Professor of History Emeritus at Yale University, USA, and director of the former Yale Southern African Research Program. Born in England in 1916, Thompson was educated there and in South Africa and completed his university studies at Rhodes University in Grahamstown. He was a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University from 1937 to 1939. At the start of the Second World War, he volunteered for the Royal Navy, was commissioned as a lieutenant and won several medals for distinguished service. After the war, Thompson taught at the University of Cape Town where he became King George V Professor of History.

A lifelong opponent of racial discrimination and apartheid, he was a member of the Liberal Party in the 1950s and left South Africa for the United States in the wake of the Sharpeville massacre.

A prolific author and scholar, Leonard Thompson died in May 2005. A prize in his name is being established at Yale which will recognise outstanding doctoral dissertations in African history.

A History of South Africa
Leonard Thompson
ISBN: 1868422364
Barcode: 9781868422364
Trade Paperback
Jonathan Ball Publishers
R169.95
June 2006

A Mouthful of Glass recreates the sad and desperate life of a man who was never sure what he was and where he stood.
One day, in 1966, in the chamber of the South African Parliament where he has recently been employed as a messenger, he walked up to Hendrik Verwoed, the Prime Minister, and stabbed him to death. Verwoed was the father of apartheid; his was among the most dramatic political assassinations in modern history.

Demitrios Tsafendas was born half-Greek, half-African, in colonial Mozambique, a world defined by racial prejudice. Van Woerden describes the man’s flight from country to country – Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Portugal, Germany, Britain and the USA – and his failure to fit in anywhere. He was Christian, communist, Coloured, black, white; he was, sometimes, the prophet of a multi-racial future.

Rejection and disintegration went together; by the end he was taking orders from creatures dwelling in his body. This is a fine piece of narrative writing, pared down to essentials, balancing fact and imaginative recreation with great care and integrity. It has the power of a fable.

General Jannie Geldenhuys is widely regarded as one of the leading military commanders South Africa has ever produced. As Chief of the South African Defence Force from 1985 to 1990 he brought his experience to bear on the South African Border War, and was part of the negotiating team which brought an end to the conflict in 1989.

In this completely revised and updated edition, Geldenhuys reflects on a life defined as much by a military career spanning more than four decades as it was by politics and indeed the need for peace on the African sub-continent.

At the Front covers the years before and during the protracted Border War. But rather than a blow-by-blow official history, it consists of Geldenhuys’ personal experiences and insights. These include facts unknown to civilians and even to some high-ranking military officials. In particular, Geldenhuys sheds light on the final years of the conflict and the negotiated settlement.

Geldenhuys also writes of his early years, as he evolved from a rugby-mad young subaltern officer to a deep-thinking, reflective man with ever-sharpening insights into, war, peace, politics and, most of all, himself.

R180.00 <b/r> ISBN: 978-1-86842-331-6
February 2009
Trade PB 232x150mm

The time has come to delve into the story of South Africa’s turbulent history – a story of exploration and conquest, rampant growth and war, oppression and ultimately, liberation.   Captured in Time tells that story in a collection of extracts from the most illuminating, entertaining and significant works written about the country and its diverse people over almost five centuries.

The writers are settlers, explorers, administrators, missionaries, hunters, travellers, novelists, playwrights, poets and politicians. They include Jan van Riebeeck, the first Dutch governor of the Cape, whose journal is the most detailed account in history of a colony's founding; Mazisi Kunene, the Xhosa poet, who chronicled the rise of Shaka, the Zulu empire builder, in epic verse; W C Scully, who took part in the diamond rush at Kimberley that set South Africa on the path to unimaginable wealth; Jan Smuts, the Boer War general who, with Cecil Rhodes, the arch Imperialist, was one of the architects of apartheid; and Nelson Mandela, apartheid's most famous victim, who became its nemesis. The novelists include two Nobel prizewinners, Nadine Gordimer and John Maxwell Coetzee.

All have been eye-witnesses to South Africa's long journey from subjugation to freedom.

John Clare went to school and university in Cape Town and first worked as a journalist on Drum magazine and its sister weekly, Post. He was forced to leave South Africa in 1965 and not allowed back for 25 years. In Britain, he worked for The Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, ITN and the BBC and has won awards for his newspaper, radio and television journalism. He lives in London but his heart is in Cape Town.

ISBN: 978-1-86842-378-1 ¨ TPB ¨ May 2010 ¨ 234x153mm ¨ 600 pages ¨ R250.00