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1	The Full Cupboard of Life more books like this by Alexander McCall Smith add to wishlist Mma Precious Ramotswe of the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency in Botswana is hired to determine which of Mma Holonga's prospective husbands is truly interested in her, and not her money. Meanwhile, Mma Ramotswe wonders when her own wedding to Mr J.L.B. Maketoni will take place. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela more books like this by Nelson Mandela add to wishlist Since his release from prison in 1990, Nelson Mandela has emerged as the world's most potent moral leader since Gandhi. As president of the ANC and head of the anti-apartheid movement, he has been instrumental in moving South Africa toward black-majority rule. Throughout the world he is revered as a vital force in the fight for human rights and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	Cry the Beloved Country more books like this by Alan Paton add to wishlist Often called the most important South African novel, this is the story of love and courage in the face of injustice. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	When the Lion Feeds more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist 'Francois, how many men up at the face?' 'Cave-in.' Francois's voice was now hysterically shrill. 'Cave-in.' He broke Sean's grip and raced away towards the lift station, the mud flying from his gumboots. His terror infected Sean and he ran a dozen paces after Francois before he stopped himself. For precious seconds he wavered with fear ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.35! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Power of One more books like this by Bryce Courtenay add to wishlist No stranger to the injustice of racial hatred, five-year-old Peekay learns the hard way the first secret of survival and self-preservation - the power of one. An encounter with amateur boxer Hoppie Groenewald inspires in Peekay a fiery ambition - to be welterweight champion of the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Disgrace more books like this by J M Coetzee add to wishlist In South Africa after apartheid, a middle-aged professor of Romantic poetry sees his career crumble as the world turns more to technology than to literature. After a series of ever more degrading misadventures, including a charge of sexual harassment, he ends up on his daughter's farm. There, after further disgraces--his daughter is raped and he ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The White Giraffe more books like this by Lauren St John add to wishlist A first-time children's author takes readers deep into the African world, where myth becomes reality and a young girl with a healing gift has the power to save her home and her one true friend. Illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	God Has a Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Time more books like this by Professor Desmond Tutu add to wishlist Nobel Prize winner Tutu has long been admired throughout the world for the heroism and grace he presented while encouraging countless South Africans in their struggle for human rights. In his most soul-searching book, he shares the spiritual message that guided him through those troubled times. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.18! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa more books like this by Antjie Krog, Charlayne Hunter-Gault (Foreword by) add to wishlist This study of South Africa's Truth & Reconciliation Commission is by an Afrikaans poet. It examines the unique effort to deal with the horrors of apartheid through a process of public truth telling and national healing. The TRC is being looked at as an option that other nations can follow in assigning responsibility for crimes against humanity. see all copies from $3.76! new only from $9.59! \| SVS
10	Blue Horizon more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist Sequel to MONSOON, this installment in Wilbur Smith's saga continues the story of white men in Africa in the 17th century. Here Jim Courtney falls in love with a feisty young Dutchwoman named Louisa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.62! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	A History of South Africa: Third Edition more books like this by Leonard L Thompson add to wishlist A leading scholar of South Africa provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of that country's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present, focusing primarily on the experiences of its black inhabitants. For this third edition, Leonard Thompson adds two new chapters that describe the transfer of power and the ... see all copies from $5.24! new only from $10.35! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Master Harold&the Boys more books like this by Athol Fugard add to wishlist Part of The Wadsworth Casebooks for Reading, Research, and Writing Series, this new title provides all the materials a student needs to complete a literary research assignment in one convenient location. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.76! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation more books like this by John Carlin add to wishlist Carlin pens this thrilling, inspiring account of one of the greatest charm offensives in history--Nelson Mandela's decade-long campaign to unite his country, beginning in his jail cell and ending with a rugby tournament. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $4.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Diamonds, Gold, and War: The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa more books like this by Martin Meredith add to wishlist Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world. But then prospectors chanced first upon the worlds richest deposits of diamonds, and then upon its richest deposits of gold. What followed was a titanic struggle between ... see all copies from $2.58! new only from $7.95! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Spud more books like this by John Van De Ruit add to wishlist It's South Africa, 1990. The country still squirms under the iron fist of apartheid. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela, and more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. Cursed with parents from well beyond the lunatic fringe, a senile granny, and a dormitory full ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa more books like this by Peter Godwin add to wishlist In 1964, when Peter Godwin was five, he experienced the end of white rule in Africa through the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerillas. This is the story of his growing-up years in chaotic Zimbabwe. The son of a country doctor and an engineer, he became a soldier fighting in a civil war, then a journalist who returned home to cover the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid more books like this by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela add to wishlist A Human Being Died That Night recounts an extraordinary dialogue. Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a psychologist who grew up in a black South African township, reflects on her interviews with Eugene de Kock, the commanding officer of state-sanctioned death squads under apartheid. Gobodo-Madikizela met with de Kock in Pretoria's maximum-security prison, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| SVS
18 view cover	Nomad's Hotel: Travels in Time and Space more books like this by Cees Nooteboom, Ann Kelland (Translator), Alberto Manguel (Introduction by) add to wishlist Since his first voyage, as a sailor earning his passage from his native Holland to South America, Cees Nooteboom has never stopped traveling.Now his best travel pieces are gathered in this collection of immense range and depth, informed throughout by the author's humanity and gentle humor. From exotic places such as Isfahan, Gambia, and Mali to ... see all copies from $5.14! new only from $6.97! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Cowboy and His Elephant: The Story of a Remarkable Friendship more books like this by Malcolm MacPherson add to wishlist Ex-Marlboro Man Bob Norris was beginning to find life on the ranch a mite ordinary until he offered stable space to six African baby elephants en route to the circus. During his tenure as caretaker, he fell for Amy, a particularly sickly baby elephant, and a unique friendship blossomed. Instead of handing her over to clowns, Norris paid $18,000 to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.46! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Boer War more books like this by Thomas Pakenham add to wishlist The war declared by the Boers on 11 October 1899 gave the British, as Kipling said, no end of a lesson'. The public expected it to be over by Christmas, but it proved to be the longest (two and three-quarter years), the costliest (over 200 million), the bloodiest (at least 22,000 British, 25,000 Boer and 12,000 African lives) and the most ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.32! \| first editions
21 view cover	The Old Way: A Story of the First People more books like this by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas add to wishlist One of the world's most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots--and the roots of life as revealed in human evolution. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Eagle in the sky more books like this by Wilbur Smith add to wishlist 'With a dull but awful roar, the Mirage bloomed with dark crimson flame and sooty black smoke, the wind ripped flames outwards in great streamers and pennants that engulfed all around them, and David staggered onwards in the midst of the roaring furnace that seemed to consume the very air.' Drawn to the sky as though to his natural element, young ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Today's Embrace more books like this by Linda Lee Chaikin add to wishlist Fearing that her husband won't allow her to travel while she is expecting, new bride Evy plots to keep her pregnancy secret in order to accompany him to South Africa. There, matters only worsen, where malaria, murder, and an African uprising all take their toll. see all copies from $3.69! new only from $6.73!
24 view cover	Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life more books like this by J M Coetzee add to wishlist A memoir of growing up in South Africa during the 1940s and 1950s, written by the Nobel Prize-winning author of THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MICHAEL K. and DISGRACE. Coetzee examines his early impressions of his family, his unhappy years at school, and his slowly developing awareness of the political strife that hangs over his country. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $7.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Grass Is Singing more books like this by Doris May Lessing add to wishlist Mary Turner, a white woman married to a white farmer in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), is both afraid of and attracted to Moses, a black farmhand. Issues of prejudice, and what was known as "the colour bar", provide the backdrop for this novel of a woman's gradual disintegration and violent death. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS

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