1986 was a pivotal year in South African history. It was the year of the vigilante, the year of the necklace - but also the year the talking began.
Drawing on newspaper articles, memoirs, and little-known histories, William Dicey presents a compelling diary of a very bad year.
He focuses on ordinary people, showing what life was actually like under an authoritarian regime - from the six hours a day that black workers in KwaNdebele spent on buses to the rebel sporting tours that provided a distraction for white South Africans.
Some stories foreshadow the miracle of 1990 - for instance, the deputy commander of Pollsmoor Prison takes Nelson Mandela on a scenic drive around Cape Town, years before his eventual release. Other stories shine a light on our current conflicts.
Written in crisp prose, 1986 is a model of historical excavation, deftly evoking the spirit of the times.

'This book is filled with the beautifully told life stories of young adults born in 1994. Their courage, humour and determination give a remarkable insight into South Africa 21 years after democracy. It will leave no one untouched.'Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
It has been 21 years since the dawn of democracy in South Africa. To mark the 'coming of age' of the nation, Melanie Verwoerd and Sonwabiso Ngcowa travelled across South Africa collecting the life stories of young people born in 1994. These 'born frees' relate their personal journeys, dreams and hopes for the future of the country. The brutally honest voices of these 21-year-olds, challenging and disturbing, as well as funny and hopeful, give an invaluable insight into modern day South Africa.

Melanie Verwoerd, political commentator and writer. When she married into the Verwoerd family, Nelson Mandela encouraged her to 'use her surname and voice for the greater good'. She joined the ANC and in 1994 was elected as a Member of Parliament. In 2001 she was appointed as South African ambassador to Ireland. Other published works: The Verwoerd who toyi-toyied and Our Madiba: Stories and reflections of those who met Nelson Mandela.
Sonwabiso Ngcowa, a writer and poet. Born in the Eastern Cape, his works were among the most popular of the Mobi-Books. His short stories are published in English and Xhosa. Ngcowa acts as a mentor in writing workshops, helping youths to develop their own texts. Other published works: In Search of Happiness (also translated into German

A Brief History of South Africa is an introduction to South African history from the earliest times to the Mandela Presidency.
Using both a narrative chronology and thematic chapters, the book encourages critical thinking about how history shaped South Africa. While presenting an account of colonisation and the policies of successive governments, A Brief History portrays the resistance to colonisation, segregation and apartheid, including the role of political, social and trade union movements.

A Brief History does not aim to be comprehensive, but rather provides the basic facts for the general reader. The book can also act as a study guide for both formal and non-formal adult education. Equally important, A Brief History can be used to strengthen history teaching in schools.

The book provides history teachers with the opportunity to expand their own knowledge, especially if they do not have a history qualification. Each chapter points readers to a range of further readings with a variety of historical interpretations, and provides questions for group discussion.

A Cameo from the past gives an in-depth look into the prehistory and history of the lowveld, aswell as the events that led to the establishment and proclamation of the Sabie Reserve in 1898 - one of the first conservation areas in the old Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek.

A magisterial history of South Africa, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present. Leonard Thompson, a leading scholar in southern African history and politics, provides a fresh and penetrating exploration of the countryÂ's history, from the earliest known human inhabitation of the region to the present, focusing primarily on experiences of its black inhabitants.

This extensive history of South Africa was written by some of the country's most prominent historians such as Hermann Giliomee, Jan Visagie, David Scher and Fransjohan Pretorius. Its broad scope includes South Africa's pre-colonial history, slavery, Afrikaner nationalism, environmental history and an analysis of a post-apartheid South Africa.
In the updated 2021 reprint, a new chapter by Jan-Jan Joubert has been added - From state capture to Covid: the decline of the ANC, 2014-2020.
Other chapters included are:
The Anglo-Boer War - Fransjohan Pretorius
The establishment of apartheid, 1948-1966 - David Scher
Apartheid: A different view- Hermann Giliomee
The democratic puberty, 2004-2011 - Jan-Jan Joubert

Contents
List of maps
Introduction

1. South Africa's primeval past Andrie Meyer
2. The Dutch era at the Cape, 1652-1806 Johan de Villiers
3. People of bondage Robert Shell
4. Cape colonial society under British rule, 1806-1834 Johan de Villiers
5. Migration and the societies north of the Gariep River Jan Visagie
6. The emigration of the Voortrekkers into the interior Jan Visagie
7. State formation and strife, 1850-1900 Jackie Grobler
8. The mineral revolution Wessel Visser
9. An economic history of the nineteenth century Grietjie Verhoef
10. Afrikaner nationalism, 1875-1899 Hermann Giliomee
11. Everyone's war: the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) Fransjohan Pretorius
12. Post-war race relations, 1902-1948 David M. Scher
13. Afrikaner nationalism, 1902-1948 Hermann Giliomee
14. Black political awakening, 1875-1949 Jackie Grobler
15. The consolidation of the apartheid state, 1948-1966 David M. Scher
16. B.J. Vorster and separate development Kobus du Pisani
17. Black resistance against apartheid, 1950s-1980s Jackie Grobler
18. “Adapt or die”, 1978-1984 Hermann Giliomee
19. Uprising, war and transition, 1984-1994 Hermann Giliomee
20. Apartheid: a different angle Hermann Giliomee
21. The South African economy in the twentieth century Grietjie Verhoef
22. The development of trade unions and organised labour Wessel Visser
23. South Africa after apartheid, 1994-2004 Japie Brits
24. The troubled teens: South African democracy, 2004-2013 Jan-Jan Joubert
25. Coloureds: a complex history Cornelius Thomas
26. The Indians in South Africa Goolam Vahed
27. English-speaking South Africans: uncertain of their identity John Lambert
28. The South African churches and apartheid J.W. (Hoffie) Hofmeyr and J.A. (Joan) Millard
29. An environmental history of South Africa Elize S. van Eeden
30. From state capture to Covid: the decline of the ANC, 2014-2020
Bibliography
Authors' biographies
Index
List of maps
1. Southern Africa: from 3600 million years ago to current
2. The Cape Peninsula in 1795
3. The Cape Colony in 1835
4. Voortrekker routes, 1835-1838
5. The Boer Republics
6. The Boer Republics during the Anglo-Boer War
7. Black homelands
8. South Africa's provinces after 1994

Gail Nattrass, historian and educator, presents the reader with a brief, general account of South Africa‟s history, from the very beginning to the present day, from the first evidence of hominid existence, early settlement pre- and post-European arrival and the warfare through the 18th and 19th centuries that lead to the eventual establishment of modern South Africa. This readable and thorough account, illustrated with maps and photographs, is a culmination of a lifetime of researching and teaching the broad spectrum of South African history, collecting stories, taking students on tours around the country, and working with distinguished historians. A must for all those interested in South Africa, within the country and abroad.

This is a trilogy of Deneys Reitz's three compelling works: Commando, Trekking On and No Outspan. Since publication in 1999, it has become an outstanding seller in its own right.
It provides the reader with a lively, personal account of South African affairs from the Jameson Raid in 1895 to the start of World War II, when the author was Deputy Prime Minister of South Africa. It is also the story of a compulsive adventurer, nature lover and, of course, celebrated daredevil during the Anglo-Boer War who, in the words of Thomas Packenham, 'had the uncanny knack of living through war as though leafing through pages of an adventure story'.

Truly, this knack persisted for the rest of the author's life; and Adrift On The Open Veld gives the reader a gripping insight into southern African affairs through the eyes of a remarkable man who ended his career as South African High Commissioner in London.

Al Venter regards himself an African a white African, but as much a part of the fascinating and often troubled continent on which he was born as his Zulu and Swahili speaking contemporaries. There is no country in Africa that he has not visited. During his half-century career as a foreign correspondent, working for media outlets on four continents, he has given his version of unfolding events from many of them, for, inter alia, Britain s Jane s Information Group, the 'Daily Express' and 'Daily Mail' of London, United Press International, Geneva s 'Interavia,' the BBC, SABC, NBC (radio), as well as scores of magazines.His love for Africa stems in part from his childhood. At the age of 14 - while on vacation in what was then still Northern Rhodesia - he hitched-hiked back to boarding school in Johannesburg in a race with his schoolmates who travelled by train. And he won. Seven years later, after completing three-years in the navy, he explored East Africa and ended up in Mombasa in Kenya and cadged a lift on a freighter to Canada. Then, after qualifying professionally in London, he travelled overland through West Africa all the way to London. Along the way he met many notables including Ghana s Kwame Nkrumah and the man who hosted Graham Greene at his derelict hotel in Liberia then all but an American colony, where the greenback was the official currency as well as the great Dr Albert Schweitzer. The author spent a week at his jungle clinic at Lambarane in Gabon.Venter includes many of these adventures in this new book. He also delves into some of his military adventures and has invited several of his old colleagues to add some of their thoughts to this bundle of travel, adventure and excitement to create a remarkable insight to a continent that that, though briefly tamed by Europe, was never really subjugated. In that anomaly too, there lies many a stirring yarn.

Stassen wy o.a. 'n volle hoofstuk aan die aangrypende verhaal van die Dorslandtrekkers en hulle lotgevalle. Tydens hierdie Angola-Boere se verblyf in Angola was daar van boerdery min sprake en probleme was velerlei: 'n problematiese verhouding met die Portugese owerheid, terwyl gebrekkige ekonomiese en opvoedkundige geleenthede, en gevolglike armoede, soms tot ontstellende verval gelei het.

Bailie's Party: The Old World, 1757 to 1819 (Book 1 of 3)

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family, led a large party of British immigrants to South Africa as part of a group later to be known as the 1820 Settlers.
The present volume, the first of three based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the Settlers, attempts to trace the European background of both Bailie and the members of the settler groups, and to understand the cultural heritage they brought with them to South Africa.

Bailie's Party: The New Land, 1820 to 1834 (Book 2 of 3)

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family and former lieutenant in the Royal Navy, led a large party of British immigrants to South Africa as part of a group later to be known as the 1820 Settlers. His party soon dissolved, but Bailie became extensively involved not only in the affairs of the Eastern Cape, but also those of the Transorange in the early stages of European settlement, and the colony of Natal.
This biography of John Bailie and his family, based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the British Settlers, tells the story of an adventurous life inextricably linked with the colonial history of South Africa during the first half of the nineteenth century. The present volume, the second of three, deals more specifically with the manner in which the settlers adjusted to their new environment.

Bailie's Party: The frontiers, 1834 to 1852 (Book 3 of 3)

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family and former lieutenant in the Royal Navy, led a large party of British immigrants to South Africa as part of a group later to be known as the 1820 Settlers. His party soon dissolved, but Bailie became extensively involved not only in the affairs of the Eastern Cape, but also those of the Transorange in the early stages of European settlement, and the colony of Natal.
This biography of John Bailie and his family, based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the British Settlers, tells the story of an adventurous life inextricably linked with the colonial history of South Africa during the first half of the nineteenth century. The present volume, the last of three, deals more specifically with the contribution the settlers made to the development of colonial South Africa.

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family and former lieutenant in the Royal Navy, led a large party of British immigrants to South Africa as part of a group later to be known as the 1820 Settlers. His party soon dissolved, but Bailie became extensively involved not only in the affairs of the Eastern Cape, but also those of the Transorange in the early stages of European settlement, and the colony of Natal.
This biography of John Bailie and his family, based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the British Settlers, tells the story of an adventurous life inextricably linked with the colonial history of South Africa during the first half of the nineteenth century. The present volume, the last of three, deals more specifically with the contribution the settlers made to the development of colonial South Africa.

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family and former lieutenant in the Royal Navy, led a large party of British immigrants to South Africa as part of a group later to be known as the 1820 Settlers. His party soon dissolved, but Bailie became extensively involved not only in the affairs of the Eastern Cape, but also those of the Transorange in the early stages of European settlement, and the colony of Natal.
This biography of John Bailie and his family, based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the British Settlers, tells the story of an adventurous life inextricably linked with the colonial history of South Africa during the first half of the nineteenth century. The present volume, the second of three, deals more specifically with the manner in which the settlers adjusted to their new environment.

In 1820 John Bailie, a member of an Anglo-Irish landowning family, led a large party of British immigrants to South Africa as part of a group later to be known as the 1820 Settlers.
The present volume, the first of three based on the extensive research of Mrs M.D. Nash, an authority on the Settlers, attempts to trace the European background of both Bailie and the members of the settler groups, and to understand the cultural heritage they brought with them to South Africa.

This book takes you into the centre of Cyril Ramaphosa's rise to the ANC presidency, and later as president of the country. It gives insight into Jacob Zuma's removal as president and the devastation his presidency caused on the state. It is a combination of new information and comprehensive analysis of the state of South Africa today.