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Reducere. Description An award-winning play about the relationship between brothers. Nothing but the Truth is the story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, ...

A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society. The 2017 publication of Betrayal of the Promise, the report th...

DescriptionShortly after the giant bronze statue of Cecil John Rhodes came down at the University of Cape Town, student protestors called for the d...

DescriptionCivil society, NGOs, governments, and multilateral institutions all repeatedly call for improved or 'good' governance - yet they seem to...

Reducere. Building on the work of economic historian Douglass North and Ugandan political scholar Mahmood Mamdani, Friedman argues that the difficulties bese...

DescriptionSocial science researchers in the global South, and in South Africa particularly, utilise research methods in innovative ways in order t...

DescriptionSelection of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe's letters from prison in opposition to South African apartheid This book collates nearly 300 priso...

A history of Atlantic solidarity between Cuba and Africa, in struggle for African independence from colonial powers The Cuban people hold a special...

Reducere. A glimpse into the lives of LGBTQ migrants in Johannesburg, in their own words Seeking Sanctuary brings together poignant life stories from fourtee...

Reducere. This edited collection illustrates contestations over land and political authority in South Africa's rural areas, focusing on threats to popular ri...

Reducere. DescriptionThe sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvelous beast: the 6,...

DescriptionIn 1937 a group of young Capetonians, socialist intellectuals from the Workers' Party of South Africa, embarked on a project they called...

Reducere. This revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the 116 bat species then known to be found in Southern a...

An anthology dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist writing influential to today's scholars and radical thinkers Surfacing: On Bein...

Reducere. This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa's oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in wh...

In November 1949, Davidson Don Tengo (D.D.T.) Jabavu, the South African politician, Methodist lay preacher and retired professor of African languag...

Reducere. DescriptionThe cornerstone of current understanding of rock art of the San of Drakensberg First published in 1976, People of the Eland was the firs...