Jan Smuts’s abilities as a general have been much denigrated by modern historians. David Brock Katz makes use of multiple archival sources and many of the official accounts of the participants to provide a long-overdue reassessment of Smuts’s generalship and his role in furthering the strategic aims of South Africa and the British Empire in Africa during the First World War.
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Great Johannesburg: What happened? How to save an African city is an urban planning and social analysis book examining Johannesburg’s challenges and potential solutions.
In the first, full-scale biography of Harry Oppenheimer, based on unrestricted access to his subject’s private papers and extensive interviews with family members and close associates, Michael Cardo eschews both the corporate hype and the political propaganda to produce a vivid, fully rounded portrait. He tackles thorny questions of legacy and Oppenheimer’s complicity with the oppressive racial order of the past.
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Hitler’s Spies presents an unrivalled account of German intelligence networks that operated in wartime South Africa. It also details the hunt in post war Europe for witnesses to help the government bring charges of high treason against key Ossewabrandwag members.
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In 1913, a secretive American millionaire, who lived on the top floor of the famous Carlton Hotel, had a crazy idea: to make movies in Johannesburg. Hollywood on the Veld is the never-been-told-before story of the rise and fall of the strangest and most unique movie empire ever.
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In 1986, seven young men were shot and killed by police in Gugulethu in Cape Town. In Hunting the Seven, Beverley Roos-Muller reveals her own decades-long connection to the case and her search for the truth of their deaths, which has been shrouded in lies and mystery.
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South Africa’s prisoners of war during World War II, their experiences and recollections, are largely forgotten. That is until now. Historian Karen Horn painstakingly tracked down a number of former POWs. Together with written memoirs and archival documents, their interviews reveal rich narratives of hardship, endurance, humour, longing and self-discovery.
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In 1856, a teenage girl led 40000 to their deaths in the Eastern Cape. When Treive Nicholas arrived in the 1980s to teach, he was captivated by the Wild Coast. Researching its history, he explores the Cattle Killing of 1856-1857. Was Nongqawuse a deceiver or a liberation leader? Treive’s quest spans continents, from South Africa to England, ending
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In the Heart of the Whore introduces the reader to the secret underworld of the Apartheid death squads. It explains when and why they were created, who ran them, what methods they employed, who the victims and perpetrators were.
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