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Spud

2007
In 1990, thirteen-year-old John "Spud" Milton, a prepubescent choirboy, keeps a diary of his first year at an elite, boys-only boarding school in South Africa, as he deals with bizarre housemates, wild crushes, embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, and much more.

The transported of Kwandebele

a South African odyssey
1989
Text and photographs tell the story of apartheid in South Africa.

Cry, the beloved country

1948
Accused of murdering a white man, a young black man in South Africa is helped by his minister father and by a white attorney, but racism prevents justice from being done.

Nelson and Winnie Mandela

1989
Records the couple's struggles against South Africa's racial policies which led to Nelson's imprisonment and Winnie's banishment to a remote part of the Orange Free State.

Blood runner

the long race to freedom
2012
Samuel is orphaned by a bloody massacre and he decides to join the anti-Apartheid movement, but instead of picking up a gun he chooses to race for freedom.

Nelson Mandela

hero for democracy/
1990
The story of the life and dreams of the black man who dedicated his life to fighting for racial equality in South Africa.

Nelson Mandela

2006
Presents a brief biography of Nelson Mandela, civil rights leader and first African-American president of South Africa, describing his childhood, his education, and the legacy of his accomplishments. Includes photographs.

The October killings

2011
Lawyer Abby Bukula, the grown daughter of parents killed during an anti-apartheid protest, repays the man who saved her life by teaming up with an eccentric psychologist to investigate attacks on the massacre's soldiers.

South Africa

the rise and fall of apartheid
2011

No bread for Mandela

memoirs of Ahmed Kathrada, prisoner no. 468/64
2011
Ahmed Kathrada has been a modest hero of the South African resistance against apartheid. As one of Nelson Mandela's closest friends, he shared his prison term with him for a quarter-century and his ordeals afterwards. For fifty years he has worked side-by-side with Mandela to bring an end to apartheid and achieve reconciliation between old enemies.

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