School curriculum textbook centred on eight significant events in the struggle for freedom in South Africa: the Bhambatha rebellion; the adoption of the South African Constitution in 1996; the Soweto Youth Uprising; the Women's March to the Union Buildings in 1956; the Mineworkers' Strike of 1946; Gandhi's Satyagraga passive resistance campaign; the death of Samore Machel in 1986; the arrest of 156 anti-Apartheid activists that led to the Rivonia Trial. Highly illustrated, 91pp, SOUTH AFRICA. REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA.

A critique of the ANC, arguing that it failed to stay in touch with the South African masses and made fundamental compromises to gain political power that have ensured the survival of the ruling elites. Notes, refs, index, 160pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS.

This is the first full length history of the Anti Apartheid Movement in the UK, drawing on AAM archives. The author assesses AAM's achievements and evaluates its impact and effectiveness. Index, bib, notes, xiv, 546pp, UK. MERLIN PRESS.

Looking at anti-apartheid as part of the history of present global politics, this book provides the first comparative analysis of different sections of the transnational anti-apartheid movement. It emphasizes the importance of a historical perspective on political cultures, social movements, and global civil society. Index, bib, notes, 251pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Using vivid photographs and primary sources, the author brings to life the apartheid era describing how people lived, the protests that took place and the sacrifices made before the system was abolished. Index, gloss, 56pp, UK. HARCOURT EDUCATION [HEINEMANN].

Revealing picture of South African Secret Intelligence Services, gathering evidence of state-sponsored murder not only to intimidate the ANC but also to allow hard men within the police and the armed forces to let off steam. He reveals that Republican political candidates in the US were assisted in elections against anti-Apartheid Democrats. He shows that South Africa supplied Argentina with weapons during the Falklands War and that Harold Wilson's surprising outbursts, when he claimed that South African intelligence agents were trying to bring down his government, were based on hard evidence. Index, bib, 539pp, UK. JOHN MURRAY.

An historical and artistic account of the rise of apartheid in South Africa, using source documents and original photographs of the South Africa landscape. BNS, 48 b/w illus, 242pp, USA. BOYDELL & BREWER LTD, 1580460801

Now in paperback. The acclaimed 'memoir' of two press photographers who covered the township war in South Africa in the early 1990s, and who lost colleagues and friends in this period. Includes a foreword from Archbishop Tutu. B/w illus, index, 320pp, UK. HEINEMANN PUBLISHERS (UK) ARROW 009938149X

A comprehensive analysis of the apartheid war machine, its deployment in Namibia and independent Africa and its role inside South Africa, from the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 to the State of Emergency in 1985 86. Index, refs, bib, tables, b/w illus, 319pp, UK. MAYIBUYE CENTRE, 0904759717

1986 Paperback

The author is a colonel who founded the one of the most controversial infantry units in South Africa's military. He tells the story of warring in Southern Angola and Namibia, insurgency and counter insurgency and the extension of the Cold War to Southern Africa. Illustrated with colour photographs. Index, 360pp, SOUTH AFRICA. GALAGO BOOKS, 1919854118

In 1976 a charismatic high school student Tsietsi Masinini led the demonstration in Soweto against new education policies. The demonstration quickly turned into a riot and she and her family were thrust into the maelstrom of the anti apartheid struggle. Their story is the story of black South Africa in microcosm, embracing every facet of the liberation struggle. The author describes the imprisonment, torture, separation and loss as each member of the Masinini family takes on a role in the struggle. Illustrated with b/w photographs. Index, notes, bib, sources, maps, 451pp, UK. JONATHAN CAPE, 0224041681

A study of the South African intellectuals which posits that even in taking a stand against the political ideologies of apartheid, a degree of complicity cannot be avoided. Drawing on the theories of Derrida, Sartre and Fanon, the author analyses the poet N.P. van Wyk Louw, journalist Bloke Modisane, novelist A.C. Jordan, Breyten Breytenbach, Steve Biko, Olive Schreiner and Sol T. Plaatje. Index, bib, notes, 273pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

A sociological analysis of contending visions - including the far-right, Inkatha, the new National Party and the ANC - for the future of South Africa, investigating the prospects for the elaboration of non-racialism in the country's politics. UK. VERSO.

Anthology of some of the best writing from DRUM, stories of 1950s South Africa, in which black writers (among them Henry Nxumalo, Can Themba, Bloke Modisane, Ezekiel Mphahlele and Nat Nakasa) pitted an urbane, ironic, tough city style - that of the jazz musician, the journalist, the tsotsi - against the obsessions of apartheid. Bib, notes, b/w photos, 241pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

Drawing on a wide range of sources, this volume traces the origins of resistance and the idealism that ultimately assured South Africans their freedom. The author raises provocative questions about the role of individuals in directing history and contrasts speeches and statements of the famous with the memories of ordinary South Africans. Well illustrated with b/w photographs, drawings and newspaper clippings. Index, x, 333pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL, 0796920613

Second Edition. Tells the story of how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy, and then collapsed and reveals the secret meetings between Africans and Afrikaners in Britain. The narrative helps to illuminate not just South African problems but also more general issues of conflict and problem solving. Index, bib, xv, 256pp, UK. PALGRAVE/MACMILLAN, 1403915741

A revised and expanded edition of an earlier book, 30 Years of the Freedom Charter, which was banned under apartheid. It could no longer be sold and even possessing it could lead to prosecution. The book tells the story of the creation of the Freedom Charter, an unprecedented democratic process in which volunteers travelled throughout the country to hear what ordinary people wanted in their lives and their vision of an alternative, free South Africa. These demands were brought together into the Charter, which was adopted at the Congress of the People in Kliptown on June 26, 1955. This new edition contains the original text of 30 Years and a substantial new introduction dealing with the contemporary significance of the Charter in democratic South Africa. Index, many b/w photos, 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA PRESS.

The author accounts for South Africa's transition from apartheid to democracy from a rhetorical perspective. Based on an exhaustive analysis of hundreds of public statements made by South Africa's leaders from 1985 to the present. BNS, UK. PRAEGER, 1567506682

Limited Stock available again of this classic study of the apartheid era focusing on the functioning of the economy, the political role of big business and foreign governments. Examines military strategy of the Apartheid state, the evolution of Afrikaans literature and the National Party's changing relationship with the Afrikaner Broederbond. Contains insights into the conflicts within the National Party itself. Index, bib, notes, app, 579pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS, 0869754599

Jan Heunis, son of Constitutional Development minister Chris Heunis, was born into the National Party. As a law graduate from the University of Stellenbosch, where he served on the Student Representative Council for the NP, he joined the Department of Foreign Affairs as a legal adviser. He swiftly moved up the ranks and subsequently became Chief State Law Adviser in the State President's Office. This account reveals the inside story of some of the most dramatic historic moments during the final years of white rule, including the signing of the Nkomati Accord with Mozambique, PW Botha's Rubicon speech and his later resignation, and how the National Party were outwitted during negotiations with the ANC. Heunis describes the actions of such figures as PW Botha, Pik Botha, FW de Klerk, Kobie Coetsee, Denis Worrall, Hernus Kriel, Roelf Meyer and of course his father Chris Heunis. SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

Exposes the social context of knowledge production under apartheid. Essays cover education, history, archaeology, anthropology, gender, language, and nursing. Bib, 226pp, SOUTH AFRICA. CENT.ADVANCED STUDIES AFRN SOCIETY, 191979901X

Written by a team of analysts associated with the Centre for Policy Studies, Johannesburg, this book seeks to penetrate the fog surrounding the CODESA negotiations and draws out the implications for the political future of South Africa. Notes, 206pp, SOUTH AFRICA. RAVAN PRESS, 0869754440

Records and interprets the memories of some of the Capetonians who were subjected to forced removals under apartheid. B/w ill, boxes, 142pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP, 086486499X

An analysis of South Africa's political life from 1990 to 1999, during which time the state achieved a political revolution by negotiation. Divided into two parts, 1990 to 1994 and 1994 to 1999, the author discusses how democracy was achieved and the commitments made for economic and political revival. Also highlighted, are the mistakes and miscalculations made during those years and the cost of gearing the economy for globalisation and Western restructuring. Index, refs, ix, 214pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852558767

Paperback edition. Investigates the central problem of the relations between revolutionary theory and praxis and the aims, policies and practices of the UDF and its affiliates. Index, bib, notes, abbrevs and glos, xi, 299pp, UK. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL.

A modest house in a suburb of Manzini, Swaziland, was for many years a vital base of operations for the ANC. The house was known as KwaMagogo (place of the grandmother), after Rebecca Makgomo Masilela - the author's mother - who provided sustenance and support to the cadres who operated from Swaziland during the liberation struggle. This book tells the stories of the ANC and PAC cadres who passed through Number 43, revealing their hopes and fears, and highlighting the high price that was paid for liberation. Index, b/w illus, 227pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Set against the southern African canvas of war and upheaval is the story of the famous San soldiers who fought first for the Portuguese in Angola, then for South Africa from bases in northern Namibia. When South Africa withdrew to make way for Namibian independence, many of these soldiers and their dependents came to South Africa where, after 13 years in tents, they moved into small houses on the outskirts of Kimberley. B/w plates, 229pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

Operation Vula was the last and largest ANC operation against the apartheid regime. The author, the former head of the Dutch Anti Apartheid Movement, describes her role in the plan to overthrow the regime and in recruiting and disguising undercover agents in The Netherlands. 271pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA, 1919931708

On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on members of the Pan Africanist Congress protesting in the township of Sharpeville against apartheid pass laws. 69 people died. The shots fired that day reverberated around the world and Sharpeville became the symbol of the evil system. This seminal event has never been systemati-cally documented. Drawing on a wide range of sources - from policemen to survivors and families of victims - he tells the exciting and hitherto invisible story of this watershed moment. App, bib, index, 264pp, 12 illus, USA. YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0300091788

Springbok was a term used to describe the 200 000 white South African men who volunteered to serve during the Second World War. Neil Roos provides a fresh approach in considering comradeship and social justice ethnographically, as a way of focusing on ordinary Springboks' expectations and experiences during and after the war. BNS, 180pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

Twenty years after it was first published, Harry Mashabela's updated work is being reissued to coincide with the 30th anniversary of the political uprising on June 16 1976. Includes a new chapter and new photographs is an account by a black newspaper journalist's reflections of the tumultuous events of 1976 which started in his own backyard. B/w photos, bib, 202pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

A study tracing the evolution of the American anti apartheid movement from its origins in the 1940s through the civil rights and black power eras to its maturation in the 1980s as a force that transformed US foreign policy. BNS, 240pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0253342325

First in a planned five-volume series aiming to redress the lack of historical material on the events that led to democracy in South Africa over a period of four decades. This volume covers the years 1960 to 1970, focusing specifically on: the Sharpeville and Langa massacres as a turning point in the struggle; the banning of liberation movements and imprisonment of struggle activists; measures taken by the apartheid state to suppress resistance; underground activities of, among others, the ANC and PAC and their decisions to resort to armed resistance; life in exile for political activists; and the activities of mainly white activists in above-ground organisations. Provides new insight into how anti-apartheid movements operated in the 1960s - a decade generally known as the golden age of apartheid - drawing on previously unexploited documentary sources, such as trial records and state archives, as well as the archives of the liberation movements. Includes the voices and experiences of liberation veterans recorded during hundreds of interviews. Index, bib, apps, b/w photos, 756pp, SOUTH AFRICA. ZEBRA PRESS.

Second in a planned five-volume series aiming to redress the lack of historical material on the events that led to democracy in South Africa over a period of four decades. This volume covers the years 1970 to 1980, focusing specifically on: the growing influence of Black Consciousness ideology on the minds of the oppressed; the widespread workers' strikes in Durban in 1973; the horror of Soweto in 1976; the intensification of the armed struggle and strengthening of underground structures. Drawing on previously unexploited documentary sources, such as trial records and state archives, as well as the archives of the liberation movements. Index, bib, apps, b/w photos, 970pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA PRESS. DELAY

A study discussing the resistance strategies of political prisoners in Robben Island, looking at how they created a political and social order and continued to challenge apartheid behind bars. Index, bib, notes, xviii, 340pp, UK. CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, 0521007828

Originally written by a former inmate as a report to various international organisations to highlight the harsh conditions in the apartheid regime's most notorious prison. Notes, 113pp, SOUTH AFRICA. CAPE TOWN PRESS, UNIVERSITY OF.

This collection of poetry and prose, written by young, white South African conscripts deployed during the so-called 'Border War' in Angola and Namibia, provides an intimate, sometimes shocking, glimpse into the horrors experienced by the young conscripts, or of the physical and emotional scars many of these 'walking wounded' still carry. 133pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

An objective history of the SADF Special Forces Unit, the Reconnaissance Commandos, uncovering information about multiple covert operations and South Africa's military involvement in Mozambique, Angola, Zambia and Rhodesia. Also includes a first hand account of the work of Koevoet, the police counter insurgency unit in Namibia. The first volume of the South African Secret Warfare trilogy. BNS, 608pp, UK. GALAGO BOOKS, 1919854045

A reconstruction of the period of exile of the South African Communist Party, from 1963 to 1990. Considers its role whilst in exile abroad and underground in South Africa, and its relationship with other political parties. Notes, refs, 81pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICA INSTITUTE OF SOUTH AFRICA, 0798301554

Highlights the main phases in South Africa's racial order, explores the forces that brought about discriminatory policies, practices, structures, laws and attitudes, and draws out the ideological agendas behind various writers' attempts to explain the racial order. BNS, 270pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS, 0754617882

Tells the story of South Africa's largest city through the voices of Sowetans them-selves. The story is a microcosm of the history of South Africa as a whole, from early developments, through resistance to Apartheid and in to the present.The book complements a six-part television doumentary screened in Britain, Australia and South Africa. Richly illustrated in black and white. Bib, 162pp, SOUTH AFRICA. MASKEW MILLER LONGMAN.

1998 0636030334 Paperback

New edition of this book, originally published as SOWETO, 16 JUNE 1976: It All Started With A Dog. From interviews with 26 people who were enrolled at schools across Soweto in 1976, interspersed with extracts from the report of the Cillie Commission, the events are recon-structed, giving a nuanced and revealing picture of the time. For some of the interviewees, participating in this book was the first opportunity they ever had of talking about what happened and how it has affected their lives. 25 photos, 208pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Stories of the "lost generation" of youths who organized underground cells to sabotage apartheid state structures in the 1980s. 78pp, SOUTH AFRICA. TIMBILA PUBLISHING.

On 11 July 1963, police raided Lilisleaf farm at Rivonia near Johannesburg, arresting alleged members of the high command of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). Together with the already imprisoned Nelson Mandela, they were put on trial, charged with conspiring to overthrow the apartheid government by violent revolution. Their expected punishment was death. In The State vs. Nelson Mandela, Joel Joffe, their Defence Attorney, gives a blow-by-blow account of the most important trial in South Africa's history, vividly portraying the characters of those involved, and exposing the astonishing bigotry and rampant discrimination faced by the accused, as well as showing their courage under fire. 304pp, UK. ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS.

A critical analysis of the role played by Sweden in the defeat of Apartheid. The author explores Sweden's neutrality policy which embraced the idea of international solidarity with weaker states and groups and examines the adoption of an active anti-apartheid stance in the context of Western politics. Includes a postscript on the murder of Anna Lindh. Index, bib, x, 157pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

An account of the final, dramatic events that lead to the downfall of apartheid, elucidating the Sharpeville Six Trial, the Delmas Treason Trial, the 1984 uprising and the army invasions of townships. The author also looks at the often overlooked role of the church in the struggle against apartheid. Map, apps, 285pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA EDUCATION, 1919931465

A classic account of early struggles in the labour and African nationalist movements in South Africa. This edition, published in 1964 has been corrected and eight new chapters added to extend the narrative until 1963. Index, xviii, 469pp, notes, USA. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS, 0299032043

As the apartheid regime was negotiating with the ANC, 14 activists in Cape Town were held in solitary confinement and later brought to court in one of the last political trials of the era, known as the Rainbow Trial. This account, based on notes and letters, describes their detention and the impact on friends and family. 256pp, SOUTH AFRICA. ROBBEN ISLAND MUSEUM.

First memoir written by men who fought as guerrillas with any of the liberation forces of countries in southern Africa. The authors joined the liberation struggle as young men in the early 1960s when they left South Africa to join the ranks of MK in Tanzania. Index, col & b/w photos, 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. GALAGO BOOKS.

In the seventies, eighties and nineties, conscription had a profound effect on hundreds of thousands of young men, particularly those who had to serve the South African Defence Forces in the Angolan war. This title is a collection of reflections and memories of that time, collected by JH Thompson, who interviewed men who did National Service. Contributors include ordinary soldiers, Special Forces members, helicopter pilots, chefs and religious objectors. The title captures the spirit and atmosphere, the daily duties, the boredom, fear and other intense experiences of an SADF soldier. Gloss, 238pp, SOUTH AFRICA. ZEBRA PRESS.

A wide ranging and explosive book exploring South Africa's covert military operations during the final years of apartheid. The author describes assassinations, de-struction and mayhem committed both at home and abroad, the infiltration of opposition movements, the cultivation of right wing churches and the attempts to start a civil war before the 1994 elections. BNS, 600p, UK. GALAGO BOOKS, 1919584010

A detailed study of the nature, techniques, and changing role of story telling in Valtyn, a chiefdom in the Transvaal close to Potgietesrus. Index, bib, notes, apps, xvi, 328pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 085255611X

The story of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) and its founder John Collins who ran a creative campaign in the UK over decades providing material support for those struggling against apartheid in South Africa. The author describes how the IDAF and Collins worked with a network of volunteers across the world, supporting the families of exiled and imprisoned people, and resisting infiltration by South African Intelligence agents. Index, refs, notes, xxi, 386pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS, 0852558856