Author: Violet Rosa MarkhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
The South African Scene
Author: Violet Rosa MarkhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : South Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
A Pretoria Boy
Author: Peter HainPublisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN: 1776191234
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
'A tour de force of an extraordinary half-century of campaigning for justice' – Helen Clark, former New Zealand Prime Minister and United Nations Development Chief Peter Hain – famous for his commitment to the anti-apartheid struggle – has had a dramatic 50-year political career, both in Britain and in his childhood home of South Africa, in an extraordinary journey from Pretoria to the House of Lords. Hain vividly describes the arrest and harassment of his activist parents and their friends in the early 1960s, the hanging of a close family friend, and the Hains' enforced London exile in 1966. After organising militant campaigns in the UK against touring South African rugby and cricket sides, he was dubbed 'Public Enemy Number One' by the South African media. Narrowly escaping jail for disrupting all-white South African sports tours, he was maliciously framed for bank robbery and nearly assassinated by a letter bomb. In 2017–2018 he used British parliamentary privilege to expose looting and money laundering in then President Jacob Zuma's administration, informed by a 'Deep Throat' source. While acknowledging that the ANC government has lost its way, Hain exhorts South Africans to re-embrace Nelson Mandela's vision.
Scenes and Services in South Africa
Author: Robert MoffatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Congregational churches
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Scenes and Services in South Africa. The Story of Robert Moffat's Half-century of Missionary Labours. With Numerous Illustrations
Author: Robert MOFFAT (Missionary)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa
Author: Robert MoffatPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, Southern
Languages : en
Pages : 432
Book Description
The South African Magazine
Author: Beyond Memory
Author: Max MojapeloPublisher: African Minds
ISBN: 1920299289
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
South Africa possesses one of the richest popular music traditions in the world - from marabi to mbaqanga, from boeremusiek to bubblegum, from kwela to kwaito. Yet the risk that future generations of South Africans will not know their musical roots is very real. Of all the recordings made here since the 1930s, thousands have been lost for ever, for the powers-that-be never deemed them worthy of preservation. And if one peruses the books that exist on South African popular music, one still fi nds that their authors have on occasion jumped to conclusions that were not as foregone as they had assumed. Yet the fault lies not with them, rather in the fact that there has been precious little documentation in South Africa of who played what, or who recorded what, with whom, and when. This is true of all music-making in this country, though it is most striking in the musics of the black communities. Beyond Memory: Recording the History, Moments and Memories of South African Music is an invaluable publication because it offers a first-hand account of the South African music scene of the past decades from the pen of a man, Max Thamagana Mojapelo, who was situated in the very thick of things, thanks to his job as a deejay at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. This book - astonishing for the breadth of its coverage - is based on his diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, and we find in it not only the well-known names of recent South African music but a countless host of others whose contribution must be recorded if we and future generations are to gain an accurate picture of South African music history of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa. With Engravings
Author: Robert MoffatYoung Blood
Author: Sifiso MzobePublisher: Catalyst Press
ISBN: 9781946395481
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In the Umlazi Township in Durban, South Africa, seventeen-year-old Sipho discovers the thrills and consequences of a car theft life. Winner of the 2011 Herman Charles Bosman Award, the Sunday Times Fiction Prize, and the Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa.
Sacrificed (VSA Uitgawe)
Author: Chanette PaulPublisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN: 1946395021
Category : Fiction
Languages : af
Pages : 601
Book Description
Caz Colijn receives a phone call from Belgium that tears her out of her reclusive life. In Belgium, where she tries to trace her and her daughter’s family origins, it becomes clear that that country’s colonial past has had as much impact on her life as the Apartheid years in South Africa did.