Describes the country of South Africa, covering the land and climate, plants and animals, natural resources, goods and services, indigenous peoples, cultural groups, arts and entertainment, sports, politics and government, and more.
Provides an introduction to understanding South Africa, covering the history of the country, major themes of the colonial conquests of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, racism, segregation and apartheid, forms of repression and resistance, the collapse of apartheid and problems facing the new democratic nation.
Provides an updated look at the history of South Africa including the British rule, apartheid, the Mandela government, and life after the Mandela presidency.
Ten major South African writers, representing all races and including Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, and Mark Mathabane, explore the political, social, and emotional impact of apartheid.
Nelson Mandela spent his life winning the battle of apartheid in his homeland of South Africa and the twenty-seven years he spent in prison as punishment for his activism only served to deepen his commitment to that cause.
Nelson Mandela is well-known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman, the gray-haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in this book, the author takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait of the Mandela that many have forgotten: the committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state. This work lifts the curtain on an icon's first steps to greatness.
