In South Africa, there are times when nothing is more important than soccer (football). "Laduma!", is an immensely informative and vital account of the history of the game in South Africa. In explaining how soccer - a sport imported with colonialism - came to be a mainstay of black sporting experience, it explores the Africanisation of the game with the introduction of rituals and magic, and the emergence of distinctive playing styles. Using archival research, interviews, newspaper, and magazine...
Making of Zimbabwe, The: Decolonization in Regional and International Politics
by M Tamarkin
Diamonds, Dispossession and Democracy in Botswana (African Issues)
by Kenneth Good
Is Botswana still 'an African miracle'? Thanks to diamonds the country's growth rate was the highest in the world in the thirty years into the 1990s. Since the eve of independence in 1965 it has held regular parliamentary elections which were judged free on polling day. However a duopoly of presidentialism and ruling party preponderance has stimulated complacency among the country's rulers. What is 'perpetual democracy'? There is no hope of change of government as the first-past-the-post syste...
Southern Africa in a Global Context (Occasional Paper, v. 6)
by Sam C. Nolutshungu
The Zulu War 1879 (Osprey Campaign S., #14) (Essential Histories, #56)
by Ian Knight
Osprey's Campaign title for the Zulu War (1879). In the late 1870s the British Imperial administration in the Cape colony in southern Africa began to view the Zulu kingdom as a challenge to their authority.To contain this perceived threat, they engineered a war. The early campaigns went terribly wrong, with the decisive Zulu victory at Isandlwana. Ultimately however, the British won the war. The Zulus, primarily reliant on their skill with the stabbing spear, had no real defence or retaliation a...
Violence in a Time of Liberation
by Professor Donald L Donham and Santu Mofokeng
This turn-of-the century conflict pitched the might of the British Empire against 80,000 Boers. It is one of the most significant wars in military history bringing to the fore many household names such as Lord Kitchner, Robert Baden-Powell and even Winston Churchill. An in-depth study of the Boer War's strategies, politics and social implication, this text features eye-witness accounts that describe the brutality of the conflict from both British and Boer viewpoints.
The Founder: Cecil Rhodes and the Pursuit of Power
by Acade Oc Voce-President for Arts Sciences and Technology Robert I Rotberg
50 Flippen Brilliant South Africans
by Alexander Parker and Tim Richman
Xolela Mangcu is well known for the incisive social commentary that characterises his regular newspaper columns. In ""To the Brink"", Mangcu turns his focus to the state of South Africa's evolving democracy. From policy controversies surrounding HIV/AIDS, Zimbabwe, corruption and the constant labelling of black critics as 'foot lickers' of the white man, no relevant issues escape his analysis of the racial insider/outsider dynamic that has evolved under Thabo Mbeki's rule.Drawing on the intellec...
The Boer War (1899-1902) was one of the last of the romantic wars, pitting a sturdy, stubborn pioneer people, fighting to establish the independence of their tiny nation, against the might of the British Empire at its peak. Farwell captures the incredible feats, the personal heroism, the unbelievable folly, and the many incidents of humor as well as tragedy.
Southern Africa in the 1980's
