Biography (SA)
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Zuma Exposed - Adriaan BassonZuma Exposed by Adriaan Basson is the book President Jacob Zuma does not want you to read. From Shaik to ‘The Spear’, award-winning investigative journalist Adriaan Basson reveals the truth behind Jacob Zuma’s presidency of the ANC and South Africa. From one bad decision to another, this explosive, roller-coaster account traces the unravelling of a likeable but deeply flawed leader who came to power as victim, not visionary. |
ZAR 125.00 |
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Rule of Fear - Peter BeckerRule of Fear: The Life and Times of Dingane King of the Zulu by Peter Becker is a fine biography and is the first detailed study of Dingane, the most controversial and least understood of all Zulu kings. Dingane - the Needy One - rose to fame in 1828 after assassinating Shaka Zulu and usurping the Zulu throne, and in this exciting and often horrifying life-story, the author presents an objective and accurate assessment of Dingane's true character, and of the motives which gave rise to the treacheries and brutalities that have made his name notorious. |
ZAR 225.00 |
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Odyssey to Freedom - George BizosOdyssey to Freedom by George Bizos is a spell-binding autobiography by one of the world's most admired human rights advocates. This story, told on a grand scale, unfolds from Bizos' daring rescue of 6 NZ soldiers from the Nazis as a boy in Greece. He arrives in Johannesburg together with his father, penniless and unable to speak English. He studies law at Wits and becomes an advocate, building a career on defending the downtrodden against apartheid abuses in a hostile justice system. |
ZAR 250.00 |
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Reminiscences - Charles BrownleeReminiscences of Kaffir Life and History and Other Papers by Charles Brownlee, is a sketch of Brownlee's life, with a memoir by his widow. Brownlee was a Gaika commissioner |
ZAR 700.00 |
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Old Dusty of the Low Veld - George CampbellOld Dusty of the Low Veld by George Campbell is based on the life of an old Prospecter who spent nearly fifty years in the Low Veld propspecting for gold. This book has an appeal all of its own, for here is a day that has gone and in the telling of "Old Dusty's" story, the author has, to quote Eldred Green, "himself panned some nuggets of pure gold" |
ZAR 300.00 |
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A Merchant Family in Early Natal - Daphne ChildA Merchant Family in Early Natal: Diaries and Letters of Joseph & Marianne Churchill, 1850-1880, With a Narrative of Pioneering Travels to Potchefstroom & the Soutpansberg edited by Daphne Child examines the diaries and letters of Joseph and Marianne Churchill. Includes contemporary sketches by M. Churchill. |
ZAR 400.00 |
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The Life of Bishop Colenso: Volumes I & II - G. W. CoxThe Life of Bishop Colenso: Volumes I & II by G. W. Cox presents a biography on a significant figure in the history of the published word in nineteenth century South Africa. Cox's work is of major importance, containing many of Bishop Colenso's letters. This is a 1st edition ex libris copy. |
ZAR 1,500.00 |
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Three Foot Tiger - Derek DaveyThree Foot Tiger: A musical memoir by Derek Davey is an autobiography and an account of a life of sex, drugs and rock 'n roll in South Africa during during the country's transition from Apartheid and beyond |
ZAR 300.00 |
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Die Dagboek Van H.A.L. Hamelberg 1855-1871 - FJ Du T. SpiesDie Dagboek Van H.A.L. Hamelberg: 1855- 871 by FJ Du T. Spies is a retelling of the original diary by the consul-general of the Orange Freestate. Volume 33 in the first series of VRS Publications. There is an English summary, translated by NG Sabbagha. Illustrated with b&w photos. |
ZAR 180.00 |
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Interfering in Politics - Andrew Duminy and Bill GuestInterfering in Politics by Andrew Duminy and Bill Guest is a penetrating biography of Sir Percy FitzPatrick that looks at some of the issues normally sidestepped in earlier biographies especially his involvement in the Jameson Raid and the South African war. His position as an advocate for mining interests during the Milner administration is also examined. |
ZAR 250.00 |
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The Records of a Pioneer Family - Essex; William & Harriet with Arthur RaboneThe Records of a Pioneer Family by Alfred Essex, William Rabone and Harriet Rabone is a collection of letters and diaries of the Essex/Rabone family, giving an account of the pioneer life more than a century ago. |
ZAR 250.00 |
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All That Glittered - Maryna Fraser and Alan JeevesAll That Glittered by Maryna Fraser and Alan Jeeves presents, through a selection of the correspondence of Lionel Phillips, a complete picture of the career of one of the leading figures in the development of the South African gold mining industry. |
ZAR 180.00 |
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A Nature Conservationist Looks Back - Douglas HeyA Nature Conservationist Looks Back by Douglas Hey endeavours to provide a popular yet factual account of the origins and development of nature conservation in the Cape Province. Illustrated with b&w photos. |
ZAR 200.00 |
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The First Son of South Africa to be Premier - Basil T. HoneThe First Son of South Africa to be Premier by Basil T. Hone tells the story of Thomas Scanlen, who served as the Cape Colony's Prime Minister for three years. The story of this man and the politics of a century ago will help readers understand the reasons why the problems southern Africa faces today are difficult, complex and delicate. This copy has been signed by the author. |
ZAR 150.00 |
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Tomorrow's Sun - Helen JosephTomorrow's Sun: The Smuggled Journal from South Africa by Helen Joseph presents the true story of her fight for equality for black Africans - and the humiliations and harassments she has been forced to suffer as a result. It is Helen Joseph's own story of how she became involved in the struggle against the apartheid system. 1st US edition copy. |
ZAR 180.00 |
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Mandela - Alf Kumalo and Es'kia MphahleleMandela by Alf Kumalo and Es'kia Mphahlele is the story of Nelson Mandela's life intertwined with an account of 41 years of the African National Congress Party. Text by Mphahlele and b&w photos by Kumalo. |
ZAR 150.00 |
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On Circuit in Kafirland - Perceval M LaurenceOn Circuit in Kafirland by Perceval M Laurence collects this colonial judge's writings in one volume. They represent some of the recreations, legal and literary of a colonial judge. Laurence says in his preface that the press received his previous literary endeavour kindly and "..with such complete indifference by the book buying public - if such an entity still exists - that I understand some 'remainders' are still procurable on very reasonable terms." This just goes to show that nothing has changed 100 years later. |
ZAR 1,250.00 |
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The Kitchingman Papers - Basil le Cordeur & Christopher SaundersThe Kitchingman Papers, Missionary letters and jounals, 1817 to 1848 from the Brenthurst Collection Johannesburg by Basil le Cordeur & Christopher Saunders. Printing limited to a thousand copies. |
ZAR 450.00 |
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Camp Life and Sport in South Africa - T J LucasCamp Life and Sport in South Africa by T J Lucas is a first rate account of life and warfare in the Cape during the 1850s, written by one who experienced the events described within these pages at first hand. The author of this book was a trooper in the Cape Mounted Rifles serving in South Africa-or the Cape Colony-in the middle years of the nineteenth century. The Cape Mounted Rifles were engaged in a succession of small but savage wars-known broadly as the Kaffir Wars-with the indigenous tribes of the region. |
ZAR 350.00 |
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The Truth in Masquerade - Jane MeiringThe Truth in Masquerade by Jane Meiring is the story of Francois le Valliant as he emerges from his own recounting of his adventures. |
ZAR 250.00 |
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Zululand Wilderness - Ian PlayerZululand Wilderness by Ian Player tells the story of a profound friendship between Ian Player and Qumbu Magqubu Ntombela that took them along rhino, elephant and hippo paths, across the Black and White Umfolozi rivers, and into the domain of ancient Zulu kings |
ZAR 75.00 |
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Sarah Gertrude Millin - Martin RubinSarah Gertrude Millin by Martin Rubin thoroughly explores the life of this vivid, vocifrous and controversial person. Through her novels and non fiction works she became a major interpreter of South Africa and its peoples and problems. |
ZAR 120.00 |
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The Strange Alchemy of Life and Law - Albie SachsThe Strange Alchemy of Life and Law by Albie Sachs is an autobiography of Albie Sachs, who played a prominent part in the struggle for justice in South Africa. The book provides unique access to an insider's perspective on modern South Africa, and a rare glimpse into the working of a judicial mind. By juxtaposing life experiences and extracts from judgments, Sachs enables the reader to see the complex and surprising ways in which legal culture transforms subjective experience into objectively reasoned decisions. |
ZAR 350.00 |
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In Liefde en Trou - Karel SchoemanIn Liefde en Trou: die lewe van pres. en mev. M.T. Steyn by Karel Schoeman is a biography of (South African) President Steyn and his wife Tibbie Steyn. Steyn is described by Schoeman as a unique person, and the first modern Afrikaner. Afrikaans text. |
ZAR 350.00 |
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Kitty and the Prince - Ben ShephardKitty and the Prince by Ben Shephard is the story of the doomed love affair between Kitty Jewell, the white daughter of a Cornish mining engineer and Prince Lobengula, a black man. He was a member of a travelling show called Savage South Africa comprising African natives and wild animals brought from South Africa for the entertainment of the British public in 1899. The affair was a heart-breaking love story which at the time caused a scandal and filled the newspapers with disgust. |
ZAR 75.00 |