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Author
Publisher
Enslow Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Through an accessible narrative, a detailed chronology, and compelling photographs, readers will discover how Nelson Mandela's personal struggles and great courage spurred a South African revolution. He helped change the way the world looks at Africa..
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Rainbow in the Night" is Lapierre's epic account of South Africa's tragic history and the heroic men and women--famous and obscure, white and black--who have, with their blood and tears, brought to life the country that is today known as the Rainbow Nation.
Author
Publisher
Twenty-First Century Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
This riveting story of the long struggle against apartheid in South Africa explores the reasons why thousands were willing to die in the fighting for civil rights and how their courageous efforts led to the day in 1994 when Nelson Mandela stood before thousands of free South Africans as the nation's first black president.
Author
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Historian and journalist Jacob Dlamini investigates one of three surviving copies of the "terrorist album," a rogue's gallery of apartheid's political enemies collected over decades by South Africa's security police. From the photos emerges the afterlife of apartheid, as Dlamini tells the story of former insurgents, collaborators, and police"--
89) Wilby conspiracy
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A political activist and an Englishman on the wrong side of the law team up to escape the clutches of a prejudiced cop in apartheid Africa.
91) Evening primrose
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Compelling and heart-wrenching, Evening Primrose explores issues of race, poverty, and gender in post-apartheid South Africa through the eyes of a junior doctor ... When Masechaba finally achieves her childhood dream of becoming a doctor, her ambition is tested as she faces the stark reality of South Africa's public health care system. As she leaves her deeply religious mother and makes friends with the politically-minded Nyasha, Masechaba's eyes...
Author
Publisher
W. Sloane Associates
Pub. Date
[1950]
Language
English
Description
A play based on the novel "Cry, the Beloved Country." This is the most famous novel ever produced about Apartheid South Africa. "Cry, the Beloved Country" is the moving story of two families in South Africa, one black and one white who are brought into violent contact. From a remote valley in Natal, the Zula Reverend Stephen Kumalo sets off for the city of Johannesburg in search of his younger sister and his son, Absalom. Kumalo finds his son in jail...
93) Young Mandela
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Nelson Mandela is well known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman, the gray haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in this book, the author takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait...
94) Sarafina!
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005?]
Language
English
Description
A musical about a teenage girl living in Soweto, South Africa under apartheid. Inspired by their teacher, Sarafina and her schoolmates resist their oppressors and suffer brutal reprisals.
95) In my country
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A Washington Post journalist and an Afrikaans poet strike up a friendship, and become romantically involved as they try to come to terms with their feelings about what they've learned at the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On June 16, 1976, Hector Pieterson, an ordinary boy, lost his life after getting caught up in what was supposed to be a peaceful protest. Black South African students were marching against a new law requiring that they be taught half of their subjects in Afrikaans, the language of the White government. The story's events unfold from the perspectives of Hector, his sister, and the photographer who captured their photo in the chaos. This book can serve...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"A creative writing group unites and inspires girls of the first South African generation "born free." Born into post-apartheid South Africa, the young women of the townships around Cape Town still face daunting challenges. Their families and communities have been ravaged by poverty, violence, sexual abuse, and AIDS. Yet, as Kimberly Burge discovered when she set up a writing group in the township of Gugulethu, the spirit of these girls outshines...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
This book is as unconventional and wide-ranging as the author's remarkable career, in which he has chronicled the heroes and the characters of just about every sport in nearly every medium. He joined Sports Illustrated in 1962, fresh out of Princeton. They called him "the Kid," and he made his reputation with dumb luck discovering fellow Princetonian Bill Bradley and a Canadian teenager named Bobby Orr. These were the Mad Men-like 1960s, and he recounts...
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Nelson Mandela spent 27 years in prison for standing up for what he believed. Slowly, from the remote prison in South Africa's Robben Island, he galvanized the world around his struggle to end apartheid. When Mandela was released from prison he entered a world that had been profoundly shaped by his dream. His story is told through the eyes of ten people that were inspsired by that dream, people such as F.W. DeKlerk, former Prime Minister of South...