History of South Africa

The Making of Apartheid, 1948-1961: Conflict and Compromise

By Deborah Posel (Research Fellow in African Studies, Research Fellow in African Studies, University of the Witwatersrand)

Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa

By David Goodman, Paul Weinberg

Race, Nation, Translation: South African Essays, 1990-2013

By Zoe Wicomb, Andrew van der Vlies

From Protest to Challenge, Volume 5: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882-1990: Nadir and Resurgence, 1964-1979

By Thomas G. Karis, Gail M. Gerhart

Poverty, War, and Violence in South Africa

By Clifton Crais (Professor and Director, Institute of African Studies, Emory University, Atlanta)

South Africa in World History

By Iris Berger

Southern Africa in World Politics: Local Aspirations and Global Entanglements

By Janice Love

The Mbeki legacy

By Brian Pottinger

Voices from the Rocks: Nature, Culture, and History in the Matopos Hills of Zimbabwe

By Terence O. Ranger (Oxford University)

South Africa: A Modern History

By T. Davenport, C. Saunders

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By R. W. Johnson

The Afrikaners, The: Biography of a People

By Hermann Giliomee

Breaking the Chains: Slavery and Its Legacy in the Nineteenth-century Cape Colony

By Nigel Worden, Clifton C. Crais

Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa

By Patrick Bond

An Economic History of South Africa: Conquest, Discrimination, and Development

By Charles H. Feinstein (University of Oxford)

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

By Nelson Mandela

Long Walk to Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

Zulu: The Heroism and Tragedy of the Zulu War of 1879

By Saul David

A Concise History of South Africa

By Robert Ross (Universiteit Leiden)

Virtual History

White Boy Running

By Christopher Hope

Whirlwind Before the Storm: Origins and Development of the Uprising in Soweto and the Rest of South Africa, June-Dec., 1976

By Alan Brooks, Jeremy Brickhill

The Official Field Guide to the Cradle of Humankind: Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and Environs World Heritage Site

By Brett Hilton-Barber, Lee Berger

Beyond Belief

By S. Hall, R. Marsh

From Jo'Burg to Jozi: Stories

By Heidi & Roberts Adam Holland

The High Price of Principles: Kaunda And the White South

By Richard Hall

Southern Africa After Soweto

By Alex Callinicos, John Rogers

I Write What I Like: A Selection of Writings (African Writers Series)

By Biko, Steve, Stubbs, Aelred

White Man, We Want to Talk to You

By Denis Herbstein