The Race to be Myself tells the coming-of-age story of an iconic athlete – of Caster’s dramatic journey from a gifted and self-trained novice to the pinnacle of her sport – and takes readers behind the scenes of her inspiring battle to run in the ‘body that God gave me’.
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The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela is an astute examination of one of South Africa’s most controversial political figures, of the rise and fall – and rise, again, – of a woman who not only battled the apartheid regime, but the patriarchal character of the struggle itself.
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Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying gloomy predictions of race war in which the white minority went into a laager and fought to the last drop of blood. Why did it happen? Professor Welsh views the topic against the backdrop of a long history of conflict spanning apartheid’s rise and demise, and the liberation movement’s suppression and subsequent resurrection.
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Two sets of cousins, Boer and Brit, find their destinies inexorably intertwined in the politics and mayhem that led up to and encompassed the Anglo Boer War of 1899 – 1902. From Transvaal to Victorian England, the cousins form strong bonds that are tested on the battlefields of South Africa.
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The SADF and Cuito Cuanavale by Leopold Scholtz is an incisive analysis that untangles what happens when war, politics and propaganda become entwined.
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Reprinted here with a fresh, new cover, The Seed is Mine was the winner of the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 1997 and was voted as one Africa’s 100 Best Books of the 20th Century by the Zimbabwe International Book Fair, in collaboration with the African Publishers Network (APNET) and the Pan-African Booksellers Association (PABA).
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On 23 August 2021, a quiet, hardworking single mom was shot down in a hail of bullets as she drove home. Her name was Babita Deokaran, chief accountant at Tembisa Hospital. The izinkabi paid to kill her were caught, but the question remained: who ordered her murder, and why? Crime reporter Jeff Wicks set out to find the answer.
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