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Liberals, Marxists, and Nationalists: Competing Interpretations of South African History

By M. Lipton

Copper Empire: Mining and the Colonial State in Northern Rhodesia, c.1930-64

By Larry Butler

Why the Boers Lost the War

By L. Scholtz

White Man, We Want to Talk to You

By Denis Herbstein

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

By Biko, Steve, Stubbs, Aelred

Southern Africa After Soweto

By Alex Callinicos, John Rogers

The High Price of Principles: Kaunda And the White South

By Richard Hall

From Jo'Burg to Jozi: Stories

By Heidi & Roberts Adam Holland

Beyond Belief

By S. Hall, R. Marsh

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

By Brett Hilton-Barber, Lee Berger

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

White Boy Running

By Christopher Hope

Virtual History

A Concise History of South Africa

By Robert Ross (Universiteit Leiden)

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

By Saul David

Long Walk to Freedom

By Nelson Mandela

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

By Nelson Mandela

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

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

By Charles H. Feinstein (University of Oxford)

Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa

By Patrick Bond

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

By Nigel Worden, Clifton C. Crais

The Afrikaners, The: Biography of a People

By Hermann Giliomee

South Africa: The First Man, the Last Nation

By R. W. Johnson

How Long Will South Africa Survive?

By Richard William Johnson

Cuba and Angola: The War for Freedom

By Harry Villegas

Five hundred years

Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850

By James L.A. Webb, Jr

Bring Me My Machine Gun

By Alec Russell

The unlikely secret agent

By Ronnie Kasrils

Mugabe and the White African

By Ben Freeth