This selection of essays comes from 'Africa South', a remarkable magazine which, for five years in the early days of apartheid, presented a principled but non-partisan opposition to the National Party governments policies and practices. Africa South was unique in coupling its reportage of South Africa with attention to the rest of Africa at a time when many colonies were attaining independence from colonial rule. The essays speak to contemporary readers interested in issues beyond nationalism, in transnationalism and in globalisation, and to those interested in the historical trade and other networks which crossed both the Atlantic and the Indian oceans, holding Africa at their centre. 431pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

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 series of books sets out to provide short but informative introductions to ANC history, politics and policy written by leading thinkers within the ANC. Based on a series of lectures given at Parliament to ANC members, the series is intended to provide the wider public with assessments of ANC thinking on policy and politics and to stimulate wider debate and discus-sion on leading issues of the day. This volume was first published in 1969 at a time when the ANC was forced by events to confront major ideological and policy issues. Many of these debates are still not resolved and many have great relevance for the present. The issues are: What was distinctive about the armed struggle? Why was a transfer of state power necessary? Why is African nationalist sentiment important? What is the relation between revolution and democracy? What are the prospects for socialism in South Africa? A leading thinker in the ANC discusses these questions and presents ways of approaching them. 132pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

According to conventional wisdom, the ANC after its banning in 1960 by the apartheid government and the imprisonment of its leaders largely disappeared from the country until public support revived in the wake of the Soweto Uprising of 1976. This book takes issue with that view. Drawing on substantial oral testimony, Raymond Suttner, an academic and former ANC underground worker, develops a convincing case that internally based activists, working independently of the exile organisation, were able to reconstitute networks within South Africa after the ANC had been declared illegal. He discusses the salient characteristics of their underground work and presents a fascinating investigation of the various kinds of 'heroic masculinity' that helped invigorate the ANC's clandestine life. In a final chapter, he explores the content of the hegemony that the ANC had established by the late 1970s, which enabled it to become the prime political beneficiary of the Soweto Uprising of black students. Index, notes, 198pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Reprint of this classic study. The apartheid government chose to interpret Soviet support for the ANC as part of a Kremlin conspiracy to take over South Africa. Oliver Tambo, on the other hand, described the Soviets as a 'genuine ally in our struggle ...acting neither out of consideration of selfish interest nor with a desire to establish a so-called sphere of influence.' Here told for the first time is the detailed, often dramatic story of the relationship between the USSR and the ANC. 440pp. SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

New in paperback. 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. 272pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

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.

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.

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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.

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. ARROW.

Had its origins in an academic study of black tertiary student politics under apartheid. Commissioned by the Biko Foundation, the original text has been extensively revised to make the emergence, ideas and activities of the Back Consciousness movement, and specifically the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), available to a wider audience. B/w photos, 168pp, SOUTH AFRICA. STE PUBLISHERS.

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,

1986 0904759717 Paperback

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.

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.

This series of books sets out to provide short but informative introductions to ANC history, politics and policy written by leading thinkers within the ANC. Based on a series of lectures given at Parliament to ANC members, the series is intended to provide the wider public with assessments of ANC thinking on policy and politics and to stimulate wider debate and discus-sion on leading issues of the day. This volume looks at the present structure of the South African economy and asks what needs to be done to meet the challenges of deep poverty, high unemployment and growing inequality that still mark the country after 15 years of democracy. 198pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

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.

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This series of books sets out to provide short but informative introductions to ANC history, politics and policy written by leading thinkers within the ANC. Based on a series of lectures given at Parliament to ANC members, the series is intended to provide the wider public with assessments of ANC thinking on policy and politics and to stimulate wider debate and discus-sion on leading issues of the day. There is increasing recognition within the ANC that the achievement of political power has not brought with it change in the structure of the economy. More needs to be done on the economic front if South Africa is to generate sustainable economic growth and at the same time provide employment, eradicate poverty and reduce inequality. For this, new lines of thinking are required, which this book sets out to provide. In a clear and user-friendly way it looks at the challenges of development, analyses the current political economy of South, and considers the constraints of the global environment. 230pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

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.

Examines the most controversial issues associated with apartheid - the ambiguous figure of Nelson Mandela; the disastrous attempts at democracy in the 1990s and continuing persistent problems now; the issue of segregation itself versus apartheid; and the episodes thrown up by the commissions. A fascinating account of the final years of Apartheid, showing the violent conflict between black and white and the clashes of personality between Botha, de Klerk and Mandela. As well as a full treatment of all these issues, the book contains original interviews and first hand experiences. 248pp, UK. PEARSON EDUCATION.

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.

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. 160pp, USA. PRAEGER.

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.

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A detailed history of the emergence of anti-apartheid activism in Britain and the USA, tracing the network of individuals and groups who shaped the moral and political character of the movement. The book argues that the fundamental concept underpinning international solidarity with anti-apartheid movements in South Africa was a moral understanding of political rights that reveals the links between anti-apartheid and older forms of humanitarianism. The book also traces how the key strategies of transnational anti-apartheid movements campaigns for economic sanctions, organised boycotts, and fundraising in support of movements within South Africa were established, in principle and often in practice, by the early 1960s. 280pp, UK. PALGRAVE.

Part a multi-volume chronicle of the struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in South Africa. Beginning in 1882 during the heyday of European imperialism, these volumes document the history of race conflict, protest, and political mobilization by South Africa's black majority. Volume 6 takes up the story in 1980 and examines the crucial decade that preceded the collapse of the apartheid system. As with earlier volumes in the series, it combines narrative with a wealth of primary source materials that record the words of the men and women who shaped South Africa's complex history. 816pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

This series of books sets out to provide short but informative introductions to ANC history, politics and policy written by leading thinkers within the ANC. Based on a series of lectures given at Parliament to ANC members, the series is intended to provide the wider public with assessments of ANC thinking on policy and politics and to stimulate wider debate and discus-sion on leading issues of the day. This volume looks at the principles and processes that led to the founding of the ANC in 1912. It examines how they have influenced policy and practice in the ANC for the century since then. What is important is that the reader can appreciate the diversity of influences on the ANC, indicative of a living, breathing and growing movement that has been sensitive to both the national and international environment in which it has found itself. 132pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

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.

A history of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania (PAC) and the rise of the Panafricanist ideology in South Africa. Since its formation in 1959, the PAC underground inside South Africa and in exile shaped the dynamics of the anti-Apartheid movement and liberation struggle by framing alternative ideologies. 250pp, SWITZERLAND. BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN.

1987, Pretoria. Four young black men have just been arrested for a horrific string of political murders. There's no doubt that they're guilty of everything they're accused of - and more. But in a society riven by brutal repression and racial tensions, are they assassins or freedom fighters? Peter Harris is the lawyer called upon to defend them and, as he constructs his case to save them from the death penalty, he comes to understand the violence they encountered growing up in the townships and the chain of events that led them to join the ANC, undergo training at Zuma's camps in Angola, and return to their homeland to execute some of the apartheid regime's most notorious commanders and collaborators. In gripping prose, Harris intercuts the story of their trial with flashbacks to the squad's operations to reveal a campaign planned with cold-blooded brilliance and carried out with deadly efficiency. A Just Defiance is both a high-stakes courtroom drama and a fascinating a tale of men driven to extremes for an ideal. It paints a picture of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events. Of people with unwavering commitment to their cause; and of a mother who never loses hope. This is a story of the foot soldiers, and of the terrible price they paid. 320pp, UK. PORTOBELLO BOOKS.

Exposes the social context of knowledge production under apartheid. Essays cover education, history, archaeology, anthropology, gender, language, and nursing. Bib, 226pp, SOUTH AFRICA. CENTRE FOR THE ADVANCED STUDIES OF AFRICAN SOCIETY.

An intellectual history of the resistance movement between 1968 and 1977; it follows the formation, early trials, and ultimate dissolution of the Black Consciousness movement. It differs from previous anti-apartheid historiography, however, in that it focuses more on ideas than on people and organizations. Its singular contribution is an exploration of the theological turn that South African politics took during this time. Magaziner argues that only by understanding how ideas about race, faith, and selfhood developed and were transformed in this period might we begin to understand the dramatic changes that took place. 280pp, USA. OHIO U P.

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.

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.

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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.

An intimate history of the relationship between the ANC and the peoples of Mozambique, a reflection on the personal sacrifices that accompanied their support of South African freedom fighters and a profound gesture of respect to the country that understood that without the liberation of South Africa there would be no liberation of southern Africa. Based on interviews with more than forty people from the ANC community in Maputo in the 1970s and 1980s, the book is a vivid record of the period of the South African liberation struggle. 264pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

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. ASHGATE.

Soweto during the 1970s was riven with violence, the brunt of which was borne by the young people of that period, who took the lead in the struggle against apartheid. A product of era, Sol Rachilo spent 18 months researching the events which swirled around the Morris Isaacson High School, a magnet for the activists and intellectuals of the time. The book highlights the events of 1976 and 1977, two years of strife in this politically charged township which was the home of all the founding fathers of what Sol terms "our cherished freedom". 98pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICAN PERSPECTIVES.

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.

A recollection of the author's childhood in Soweto during the 1970s and her role in student's uprising of June 16 1976. Includes copies of letters smuggled out of prison and letters of solidarity. 130pp, SOUTH AFRICA. SKOTAVILLE.

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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.

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.

How did an African nationalist liberation movement resisting apartheid - a universally denounced violent expression of white supremacy - open its doors to other races, and whites, in particular? At what cost to itself? And what did non-racialism mean - why could whites, coloureds and Indians not join the African National Congress (ANC) until after 1990, when the ANC was unbanned, but had to remain racially discrete 'partners' - while fighting for a non-racial future? Why could members of all races join the Communist Party and the Liberal Party - but not the ANC? This book uncovers some of the stories and hidden histories that help explain South Africa's past. It focuses on a talented, brave, but tiny minority of whites - liberals, radicals, communists, Trotskyists, humanists, Christians, idealists - who rejected the growing racism of post-war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black and white. 240pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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.

Argues that fifteen years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political conflict; and the memory of the trauma has faded. Some 20 500 people were nevertheless killed between 1984 and 1994. The conventional wisdom is that they died at the hands of a state-backed Third Force, but the more accurate explanation is that they died as a result of the people's war the ANC unleashed. The people's war set in motion forces that cannot easily be reversed. For violence cannot be turned off like a tap, as the ANC suggested, and neither can anarchy easily be converted into order. Index, bib, notes, maps, 634pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

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.

This series of books sets out to provide short but informative introductions to ANC history, politics and policy written by leading thinkers within the ANC. Based on a series of lectures given at Parliament to ANC members, the series is intended to provide the wider public with assessments of ANC thinking on policy and politics and to stimulate wider debate and discus-sion on leading issues of the day. This volume, intended as a companion to 'The Historical Roots of the ANC' (book 1 of the series), provides a selection of important documents and extracts that have influenced the political and policy thinking of the ANC during the course of its history, from its founding in 1912 to the Polokwane national conference in 2007. These classic texts constitute the foundation of present thought and political culture in the ANC. 262pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

This series of books sets out to provide short but informative introductions to ANC history, politics and policy written by leading thinkers within the ANC. Based on a series of lectures given at Parliament to ANC members, the series is intended to provide the wider public with assessments of ANC thinking on policy and politics and to stimulate wider debate and discus-sion on leading issues of the day. This volume is a further companion to the first book in the series, 'The Historical Roots of the ANC'. It too provides a selection of important documents and extracts which have influenced the thinking of the ANC. Included in this book are classic texts by influential African and international thinkers and statesmen like Karl Marx, Kwame Nkrumah, Frantz Fanon and Julius Nyerere. 212pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

On his way into Parliament on 2 February 1990 FW de Klerk turned to his wife Marike and said, referring to his forthcoming speech: 'South Africa will never be the same again after this.' Did white South Africa crack, or did its leadership yield sufficiently and just in time to avert a revolution? The transformation has been called a miracle, belying gloomy predictions of race war in which the white minority went into a laager and fought to the last drop of blood. Why did it happen? Welsh views the topic against the backdrop of a long history of conflict spanning apartheid's rise and demise, and the liberation movement's suppression and subsequent resurrection. His view is that the movement away from apartheid to majority rule would have taken far longer and been much bloodier were it not for the changes undergone by Afrikaner nationalism itself. 600pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JONATHAN BALL.

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.

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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.

Third part 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 examines the role of anti-apartheid movements around the world and their success in both creating awareness of the liberation struggle in South Africa, and in contributing to the downfall of the apartheid government. Part One focuses on International Solidarity with the liberation struggle. It covers the contribution of various international organisations, governments and their peoples, and solidarity organisations, to the liberation struggle in South Africa. Part Two focuses on African solidarity, with an emphasis on the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its Liberation Committee; and the roles played by Tanzania and Zambia. Index, bib, apps, b/w photos, 1402pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA PRESS.

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.

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. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS.

On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black and white in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at the social and political background to the events of March 1960, as well as the sequence of events that prompted the shootings themselves. He then broadens his focus to explain the long-term consequences of Sharpeville, explaining how it affected South African politics over the following decades, both domestically and also in the country's relationship with the rest of the world. 256pp, UK. OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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.

In this thoroughly revised and expanded second edition, the book has been updated to include economic and political developments in South Africa right up to 2010, and examines the huge impact that apartheid has had on the history of South Africa since 1994. 232pp, UK. LONGMAN.

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. 270pp, UK. ASHGATE.

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.

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.

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New in paperback. A blow-by-blow account by the defence advocate 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. 312pp, 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.

New, expanded edition. 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. Also examines at the often overlooked role of the church in the struggle against apartheid. Map, apps, 331pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA.

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.

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Reveals the sensational details behind the apartheid government's clandestine funding of Buthelezis Inkatha Freedom Party and the events that led up to the so-called Inkathagate Scandal. The story is all the more remarkable as it identifies the entire exposé was the work of one man, a white conscript, who served in the South African Polices Security Branch. Brian provides graphic and often disturbing details of how the SAP embarked on a dirty tricks campaign with the aim of harassing antiapartheid activists. He spent his years in the Security Branch gathering fi les that conclusively proved that the government was funding Inkatha to fuel black-on-black political infighting. The man who may have changed the course of South African History is how the Weekly Mail headline described Brian Morrow in 1995 when he revealed his identity as the Inkathagate whistleblower. 200pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA PRESS.

One of the most shocking stories of the anti-apartheid era may have been uncovered by a Guardian Newspaper correspondent. It is the disclosure that former South African Prime Ministers, Hendrik Verwoed and John Vorster, and the former head of the security police, General Hendrik van den Berg, were co-conspirators in a crime which led to another man being sent to the gallows. The man who was hanged was John Harris, the so-called mad bomber executed for bombing Johannesburg's Park station in 1964. Harris was the only white man hanged for a political offence during National Party rule. It now appears that the three most powerful political figures in South Africa at the time - Verwoerd, Vorster and Van den Bergh - knew that the bomb had been planted and had plenty of time to stop it, but chose not do so. The reason was that they anticipated - and were proven right - that the bomb would deliver a hammer blow to the anti-apartheid movement. Harris was the chairman of Sanroc (the South African Non-racial Olympic Committee) which was leading the campaign against apartheid through sports boycotts. The bomb, which went off at 4.33 pm on Friday 24, 1964, also destroyed the Liberal Party. The allegations about Harris, Verwoerd, Vorster and Van den Bergh are made by David Beresford a Guardian foreign correspondent in Johannesburg, South Africa for 26 years. Beresford has spent more than 10 years on the book, while at the same time battling Parkinson's disease which he contracted while covering the first Gulf War. 24 col photos, 193pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA.

The history of MK is one of paradox and contradiction, of successes and failures. In this pocket guide, which draws widely on the personal experiences of MK soldiers Janet Cherry offers a new and nuanced account of Umkhonto. She presents in broad outline the various stages in MK's thirty-year history, considers the difficult strategic and moral problems the army faced, and argues that its operations are likely to be remembered as a just war conducted with considerable restraint. 160pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA.

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.

Prior to the Six-Day War, Israel was a darling of the international left, vocally opposed to apartheid and devoted to building alliances with black leaders in newly independent African nations. South Africa, for its part, was controlled by a regime of Afrikaner nationalists who had enthusiastically supported Hitler during World War II. But after Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territories in 1967, the country found itself estranged from former allies and threatened anew by old enemies. As both states became international pariahs, a covert, and lucrative, military relationship blossomed between these seemingly unlikely allies. 336pp, USA. VINTAGE.

A murderous split in the black workforce occurred at a South African gold mine on June 16, 1994, weeks after the elections ending apartheid. Two Zulus were killed and many others wounded in a conflict that nearly everyone at the mine, black and white, characterized as ethnic. This study shows that heightened ethnic identity among black workers was more an outcome of the conflict than a cause. It argues that the violence was not motivated by hatred of an ethnic Other but by tensions surrounding national liberation. Offering a critical methodology for assessing violence portrayed as ethnic or religious, Donham contends that it does not necessarily result from pre-existing hatred between social groups but rather from a widespread after-the-fact acceptance of ethnicity as an explanation. With photographs by Santu Mofokeng. 232pp, USA. DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS.

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.

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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.

A comparison of two ethnic-national states which have been in conflict apartheid South Africa and Zionist Israel and how internal dissent has developed. In particular it examines the evolution of effective white protest in South Africa and explores the reasons why comparably powerful movements have not emerged in Israel. Although the politics and roles of protest groups in both cases share some similarities, differences remain. Whilst white protest groups moved towards an inclusive peace agenda that adopts the ANC vision of a united non-racial democratic South Africa, the Jewish Israeli protest groups are still, by majority, entrenched in their support for an exclusive Jewish state. And as such, they support separation between the two peoples and a limited division of mandatory Palestine / Eretz Israel. This timely book sheds light on a controversial and explosive political issue: Israel being compared to apartheid South Africa. 272pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.