South Africa Books

Aquí tenemos una colección importante de declaraciones por Nelson Mandela, dirigente de la lucha en contra el sistema racista del apartheid en Sudáfrica. Incluye los textos de sus intervenciones antes tribunales del estado del apartheid, cuando el fue enjuiciado y encarcelado con cadena perpetua por su participación en la lucha.

Mandela habla de la historia de opresión y explotación en Sudáfrica y de las protestas de las masas revindicando sus derechos. Presenta la perspectiva del Congreso Nacional Africano de una nación democrático y no racial. Mandela también denuncia la violencia desatada por el gobierno apartheid, y detalla las masivas Campañas de Desafío contra las leyes apartheid, los paros nacionales y la decisión de lanzar una lucha armada.

¡Un libro de inspiración e educación política para todos nosotros hoy en día!

One of the best Madge Swindells' books!!! It's been exciting trying to solve the book's mistery and then discovering where I was wrong and where I was right... while reading the book!! The charachters are wonderful... even the bad ones!!! The book it's also interesting because it makes you understand, through a novel, what are the problems in the New post apartheid South Africa. It made me want to look for more information about this very troubled country.

As a South African living in Europe with a similar and yet in many ways different background, I am able to identify with Mr Jacobson's sensitive account of his search for his family roots in Lithuania. The construction of the work itself is a masterpiece: first his perception of Lithuania from South Africa, then his childhood in South Africa and then the encounter with Lithuania, where he finds nothing concrete and yet conveys the atmosphere of what he finds so movingly. The touching letter to his grandfather and his dream at the end are full of feeling and yet not in the least sentimental. This book has deeply impressed me and given me a wonderfully tragic picture of Lithuania.

This book has managed to portray the most accurate review of South African High Schools. The pictures displayed throughout this informative book are the best to describe and show the spendour of fantastic South African Schools.

"If asked to imagine Africa, most Americans will conjure images of "National Geographic"-style wildlife and rural exotica, or the horrific scenes of violence and despair that seem the extent of the press coverage. Few will think of Africa's thriving cities, and fewer still of how long some have existed. Distinguished social historian Coquery-Vidrovitch offers a broad, accessible overview of African urban history to rectify such neglect, taking the pulse of ancient and more recent cities from Awdaghust to Great Zimbabwe. Readers are introducted to fabled centers of Islamic learning like Timbuktu in Mali, holy Christian cities like Axum in Ethiopia, storied royal capitals like Mbanza-Kongo in Angola, and dynamic ports like Kilwa in Tanzania that encouraged trade for millennia. The great cities of Ghana and Nigeria are presented in all their complexity, as are early European enclaves like Saint Louis and Gor'D'ee in Senegal. Architecture and built environments are considered, as are the impacts on African urbanism of trans-Atlantic and Indian Ocean slavery, Islam and trans-Saharan trade, European capitalism, and the rise of cultural synthesis. THIS EXCELLENT BOOK BELONGS IN EVERY PUBLIC, HIGH SCHOOL, AND UNIVERSITY LIBRARY. Summing up: Essential. All levels."
-A.F. Roberts, UCLA, for Choice Magazine

This is, without a doubt, the most painstakingly researched book on this topic I have ever read. The author obviously knows this subject inside and out, and has invested a tremendous amount of time checking and cross-referencing his facts. Considering certain details that this book uncovers and makes public for the first time, it is no wonder that it created such an uproar in South Africa among Nelson Mandela's followers. For anyone who desires an honest look into the truth about communism in South Africa, you need not look any further than this book. It is a factual treasure chest.

Having spent 3 1/2 years living and working in an African village and trying to understand the S.A. government's rationale for its indifference to the plight of the 70% of its population living in rural villages, Professor Terreblanche offers a clear understanding of the history of the nation which has led it to where it is today. His book will certainly not please everyone, but he provides copious evidence to support his position. I have read 5 different histories of South Africa, Terreblanche's book is by far the best.

I found this book to be a marvelous read. It teaches so much not only about life in Africa but about life in general. A beautiful cross-racial love story is interwoven with a true story about life in turmultuous South Africa during the transition to democracy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Highly recommended.

After spending three weeks in South Africa this summer, I realized the real effects Apartheid had on the country. After reading this book, I could envision the entire process of the rise & fall of their government as it happened, and the events that occurred in between. This book is a denfinite good read for anyone learning about or knowledgeable of South African history. Like all political cartoons, it puts current events in a language we can all understand, and helps us realize what's really going on. (Clifford Galiher, 13)

Kohler's writing uncovers the darkest aspects of human nature through precise language and carefully placed detail. It's a shame reviewers for publications such as Kirkus don't have the patience to discover her. But if you are serious about writing and about literature, hunt down Kohler's work where-ever you can find it. Her first novel, The Perfect Place, is a stunning example of an unreliable narrator. And in The House On R. Street, she shows again that beneath the flawless manners of the upperclass there is an unfathomable capacity for corruption.