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Book Synopsis Chronicles of South Africa by : Moikwatlhai Benjamin Seitisho
Download or read book Chronicles of South Africa written by Moikwatlhai Benjamin Seitisho and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-07-31 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the struggle for political freedom in South Africa over the years as having disintegrated into a struggle against corruption. Solomon Mahlangu, Chris Hani and many others gave their lives only to water the tree of corruption that has destroyed the core South African economy and has set in a new struggle for economic freedom. It chronicles the history of a nation torn asunder by a political theory (apartheid) that diversified an otherwise unitary state. Unlike other Southern African countries namely Lesotho, Swaziland and Botswana, South Africa is a multi-racial-cultural state that needs an honest and truthful forgiveness and reconciliation to take its people forward into an economic freedom enjoyed by all and sundry. The book’s focus is a vision aimed at seeing corruption, which agreeably steals from the poor, disintegrating; and a journey beginning to unite the people of South Africa to together build a corruption free society and an economy addressing fundamentals. Papering over the cracks will not help nip our many challenges in the bud. The nature of the problem necessitates a hard hitting nail biting analysis of the truth. Interrogate your thoughts - together let’s build a new South African rainbow nation...
Book Synopsis Vanishing Cultures of South Africa by : Peter Magubane
Download or read book Vanishing Cultures of South Africa written by Peter Magubane and published by Rizzoli International Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten major ethnic groups are featured - including the San, Zulu, Ndebele, Basotho, and Venda - as well as several smaller sub-groups. This book describes the individual personality and history of each, their education, laws, languages, medicine and magic, and their religion. Over 200 photographs capture the vibrant color of ceremonial and everyday dress and ornamentation, musical instruments, dances and rites of passage, art, homes, and work. The remarkable metal neck rings and the geometrically beaded wire hoops worn by Ndebele and Ntwana women, the sacrificial ceremonies of the Zulu, the long pipes smoked by the Xhosa, and the traditional hunter-gatherer weapons of the San, deep in the Kalahari Desert - the details of today's way of life are recorded here in evocative pictures, while former traditions, now lost, fill the text with the intriguing, vital history of each group.
Book Synopsis South Africa in the 20th Century by : Peter Joyce
Download or read book South Africa in the 20th Century written by Peter Joyce and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this commemorative profile of South Africa in the 20th century, each decade is explored in its own chapter. All of the major newsworthy events are covered, such as the rise and fall of apartheid, great disasters natural and man-made, celebrated crimes and sporting achievements.
Book Synopsis Storm over South Africa by : Michael G. Bergen
Download or read book Storm over South Africa written by Michael G. Bergen and published by Partridge Africa. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storm over South Africa follows the lives and tribulations of a diverse group of characters through the Second Anglo-Boer War from 1899 to 1902 in South Africa. They belonged to different levels of the opposing societies, and the story follows their actual life-and-death experiences in this conflict. The characters include the seventeen-year-old son of a Boer president, a young shipbuilding dock worker and his military nurse girlfriend from the industrial northeast of England, and a young Canadian soldier who volunteered for Canadas first campaign outside its borders. Involved too are such illustrious British participants as Winston Churchill, Field Marshal Frederick Roberts, and the generals Kitchener, Ian Hamilton, and Robert Baden-Powell, among others. Boer leaders involved include the generals Christiaan de Wet, Louis Botha, Koos de la Rey, and Jan Smuts. The reader is guided through the various twists and turns of the first major British conflict of the twentieth century from its beginning through to its end. The naivety and excitement of combatants in the lead-up to and beginning of the Second Anglo-Boer War was contagious. It pulled many naive young men into the maelstrom of combat. The failures, frustrations, disappointments, disillusionments, and suffering soon emerged. It is a tale of imperial arrogance, determination, stubbornness, innocence, love, and loss experienced in a rugged and alluring land far from the heart of the British Empire.
Download or read book Fault Lines written by David Goodman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a searingly honest book by someone who really knows his subject. Goodman is sympathetic to the attempts at transformation in my beloved motherland. The message of this book applies just as easily to the United States, where the fault lines run very deep, too. And the U.S. has been trying to solve these problems a great deal longer than the new South Africa."—Archbishop Desmond Tutu "David Goodman's vivid, intensely personal, and unobtrusively erudite book is irresistible reading for anyone who cares about South Africa."—Adam Hochshild, author of King Leopold's Ghost "A gem of a book. An excellent introduction to the intricacies of South African politics and society."—Gail M. Gerhart, Foreign Affairs "A sequence of truths shown through the lives of eight contrasted citizens, this book reveals our new South Africa with the startling accuracy of flashes of lightning on a stormy night—and with the apartheid storm over, a remarkable rainbow of hope can be seen."—Donald Woods, author of Biko
Book Synopsis The Somme Chronicles by : Chris Schoeman
Download or read book The Somme Chronicles written by Chris Schoeman and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2014-06-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The heavy smell of blood filled the air, and every moment you had this intense fear that the next bullet was meant for you. So remembered William Thorne, a South African volunteer soldier who fought in the muddy trenches along the River Somme in France on Europe’s Western Front. A boy of nineteen at the time, he was one of thousands of South Africans who took part in the 1916 Somme Offensive between the Allied forces and the Germans. It was one of the bloodiest and costliest conflicts of the First World War, resulting in over a million deaths. The men of the 1st South African Infantry Brigade were involved on a large scale and distinguished themselves in all major engagements during the campaign. But their bravery came at a price. In the first month alone, after six days of fighting to recapture the village of Longueval and clear Delville Wood of enemy soldiers, of the brigade’s 3 433 soldiers, only 750 were left standing. The rest were dead or wounded. By the armistice, the South Africans had suffered some 15 000 casualties in France, of which one third had died.
Book Synopsis From Apartheid to Democracy by : Katherine Elizabeth Mack
Download or read book From Apartheid to Democracy written by Katherine Elizabeth Mack and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of South Africa’s new democracy. Other books on the TRC and deliberative rhetoric in contemporary South Africa emphasize the achievement of reconciliation during and in the immediate aftermath of the transition from apartheid. From Apartheid to Democracy, in contrast, considers the varied, complex, and enduring effects of the Commission’s rhetorical wager. It is the first book-length study to analyze the TRC through such a lens. Katherine Elizabeth Mack focuses on the dissension and negotiations over difference provoked by the Commission’s process, especially its public airing of victims’ and perpetrators’ truths. She tracks agonistic deliberation (evidenced in the TRC’s public hearings) into works of fiction and photography that extend and challenge the Commission’s assumptions about truth, healing, and reconciliation. Ultimately, Mack demonstrates that while the TRC may not have achieved all of its political goals, its very existence generated valuable deliberation within and beyond its official process.
Book Synopsis Chronicles of Cape Commanders by : George McCall Theal
Download or read book Chronicles of Cape Commanders written by George McCall Theal and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delve into the fascinating history of South Africa with this meticulously researched volume. Based on original manuscripts in the archives of the Cape Colony, this book chronicles the lives of the early Dutch and British commanders who played a key role in shaping the region. Their triumphs and failures, battles and alliances, are vividly brought to life in this engaging and informative work. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The African Past by : Basil Davidson
Download or read book The African Past written by Basil Davidson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chronicles of Cape Commanders by : George McCall Theal
Download or read book Chronicles of Cape Commanders written by George McCall Theal and published by Cape Town, South Africa : W.A. Richards. This book was released on 1882 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Chronicles of Cape Commanders by : George McCall Theal
Download or read book Chronicles of Cape Commanders written by George McCall Theal and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Waiting for the Rain by : Sheila Gordon
Download or read book Waiting for the Rain written by Sheila Gordon and published by Laurel Leaf. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel shows the bonds of friendship under the strain of apartheid as two lifelong friends, Tengo and Frikkie, come of age amidst the tragedy of South Africa.
Book Synopsis The Blessed Girl by : Angela Makholwa
Download or read book The Blessed Girl written by Angela Makholwa and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'I really, really loved it' - Marian Keyes 'Absolute heaven - I am cackling out loud!' - Nina Stibbe 'The most exciting new heroine I've read in a very long time' - Katie Fforde 'Blows apart the South African society with one of fiction's most dynamic heroines' - Stylist Shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Prize ___________________________ Blessed [pronounced bles-id] The state of being blessed, often referring to a person, usually female, who lives a luxurious lifestyle funded by an older, often married partner Young, beautiful and ambitious, Bontle Tau has Johannesburg wrapped around her finger. Her admirers are falling over themselves to pay for her Mercedes, her penthouse, and her Instagrammable holidays. She's come a long way, and it's been far from easy. Yes, Bontle gets the blues from time to time. The shrink keeps wanting to talk about a past she's put behind her. But what she doesn't think about can't hurt her, can it? Darkly comic and razor-sharp, The Blessed Girl is an international bestseller about men, mental health, and getting rich by any means necessary...
Book Synopsis Brief Chronicles by : Kenneth Parker
Download or read book Brief Chronicles written by Kenneth Parker and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '... let them be well used, for they are the abstract and brief chronicles of the time'. (William Shakespeare, Hamlet,I.ii) This is a finely-woven set of essays on South African literatures addressing a kaleidoscopic range of disciples spanning literature, history, cultural criticism and journalism. '...some of the most relevant and re-visionary literary criticism of South African writing I have encountered...The author's intimate knowledge of the socio-historical and political contexts in which the texts under review came into being transcends that of documented history. His personal involvement in precisely that socio-historical moment as a so-called black South African and de facto thus a member of the 'disadvantaged' community, which so many of the authors (whether black or white) under review were at pains to represent, and later as an intellectual in exile, makes him singular well positioned to interrogate and to reinterpret earlier criticism of several texts. His project is to explore the critical ideological assumptions embedded not only in a large number of South African novels but also in the criticism thereof.' - Prof Rosemary Gray 'Writing about the country of my birth not only from places far distant from places for distant from it and to which at those times I was convinced I was would never be allowed to return, perhaps affected the matter as profoundly as did the new ways of seeing critical and cultural theories,' says the author. The collection covers five key themes, each of which engages with the theme of global interest in and eradication of not only the political but also the cultural distortions of the apartheid regime.
Download or read book Elusive Equity written by Edward B. Fiske and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Elusive Equity" chronicles South Africas efforts to fashion a racially equitable state education system from the ashes of apartheid. Edward Fiske and Helen Ladd draw on previously unpublished data, interviews with key officials, and visits to dozens of schools to describe the changes made in school finance, teacher assignment policies, governance, curriculum, higher education, and other areas.
Book Synopsis The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company by : Glen Cook
Download or read book The Books of the South: Tales of the Black Company written by Glen Cook and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-06-10 with total page 673 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marching south after the ghastly battle at the Tower of Charm, the Black Company is hounded by shadowy figures every inch of the way. The game is on: the Company versus the Shadowmasters, deadly creatures that deal in darkness and sorrow. When hope dies, there's still survival. And there's still the Black Company. The Book of the South is the second omnibus of novels from one of the greatest fantasy epics of our age, Glen Cook's Black Company series—collecting Shadow Games, Dreams of Steel, and The Silver Spike. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Book Synopsis The Dressing Station by : Jonathan Kaplan
Download or read book The Dressing Station written by Jonathan Kaplan and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “vividly compelling” New York Times Notable Book, a surgeon recounts his experiences in war zones (The Washington Post). From treating the casualties of apartheid in Cape Town to operating on Kurdish guerrillas in Northern Iraq at the end of the Gulf War, Jonathan Kaplan has saved (and lost) lives in the remotest corners of the world in the most extreme conditions. He has been a hospital surgeon, a ship’s physician, an air-ambulance doctor, and a trauma surgeon. He has worked in locations as diverse as England, Burma, Eritrea, the Amazon, Mozambique, and the United States. In his “eloquent . . . beautifully written” memoir of unforgettable adventure and tragedy, Dr. Kaplan explores the great challenge of his career—to maintain his humanity in the face of incredible pain and suffering (The New York Times Book Review). “Packed with moments of searing intensity,” The Dressing Station is an “extraordinary” look into the nature of human violence, the shattering contradictions of war, and the complicated role of medicine in the modern world (The Washington Post). “In this refreshingly unsentimental memoir, [Kaplan] offers a vivid look at what it’s like to practice medicine in places where there are always too many casualties and not enough resources. His descriptions of surgery are unflinching . . . Kaplan gives us a remarkable self-portrait of the war junkie.” —The New Yorker
