Some thirty-five years after its original publication, but never previously available in South Africa, Year of Fire, Year of Ash still stands as one of the leading accounts of the 1976-77 Soweto Revolt, one of the most significant acts of resistance...
Rugby was established at the Cape in 1879 in support of a political desire to promote Englishness, but the Afrikaner developed a special affinity for the game and it became a significant part of his culture. It also spread rapidly amongst...
The public intellectuals featured in The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa are distinguished by the differing contexts and issues that shaped their lives, and
the period during which they began to play prominent roles...
Since 2011 attacks that sow terror in the hearts of people all over the world have increased significantly, both in their frequency and intensity. Victims of these attacks have also increased, in the West and, more specifically, elsewhere. Is there...
The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in
South Africa is a pioneering volume,
representing a rich tapestry of South Africans
who were able to rise beyond narrow
formulations of identity into a larger sense of
what it means to be human.
The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa: I look back 30 Years by historian Sylvia Neame one of South Africa's 'magisterial historians', as Tom Lodge has described her in his recent book, Red Road to Freedom is a rare portrayal of the...