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African Laughter: Four Visits to Zimbabwe

By Lessing, Doris

A Concise History of South Africa

By Robert Ross (Universiteit Leiden)

A History of South Africa

By Leonard Monteath Thompson

Speeches that Shaped South Africa

By Martha Evans

The Cambridge History of South Africa

By Carolyn Hamilton (University of Cape Town), Bernard K. Mbenga (North-West University, South Africa), Robert Ross (Universiteit Leiden)

The Cambridge History of South Africa

By Robert Ross (Universiteit Leiden), Anne Kelk Mager (University of Cape Town), Bill Nasson (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

The Last Train to Zona Verde: Overland from Cape Town to Angola

By Paul Theroux

Hidden Lives, Hidden Deaths: South Africa's Crippling of a Continent

By Victoria Brittain

When Zuma goes

By Ralph Mathekga

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

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

White Liberals, Moderates and Radicals in Rhodesia

By Hancock, Ian

South Africa in World History

By Iris Berger

The Mbeki legacy

By Brian Pottinger

Dinner with Mugabe: The Untold Story of a Freedom Fighter Who Became a Tyrant

By Holland, Heidi

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

Rebel Englishwoman: The Remarkable Life of Emily Hobhouse

By Elsabe Brits

Long Walk To Freedom: 'Essential reading' Barack Obama

By Nelson Mandela

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

By Saul David

South Africa Weird and Wonderful

By Rob Marsh

A Thousand Hills: Rwanda's Rebirth and the Man Who Dreamed It

By Stephen Kinzer

The Zulu War

By David Clammer

Colour Bar: The Triumph of Seretse Khama and His Nation

By Susan Williams

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

By M. Lipton

Why the Boers Lost the War

By L. Scholtz