mobi |eng | 2011-08-14 | Author:Kwarteng, Kwasi [Kwarteng, Kwasi]

Yet more wonderful were the women . . . There were at least three of them to every man. Black women from Equatoria [the southern province of Sudan] and almost ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-14 | Author:Desmond Tutu [Tutu, Desmond]

That ought to leave people quite speechless with the wonder of it all and make you want to be still in the presence of something so sublime, filled to overflowing ...

epub |eng | 2014-06-11 | Author:Robin Renwick [Robin Renwick]

13 April 1989 I reported to the Prime Minister that I had received a letter on prison notepaper from Nelson Mandela. Mandela had told one of his lawyers, Hymie Bernardt, ...

epub |eng | 2015-01-19 | Author:Adam Cruise

8 Northern Force FROM THE START, Botha believed the shortest and most direct route to Windhoek was from Swakopmund, just north of Walvis Bay. Against the general consensus of both ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2000-09-15 | Author:Mandela, Nelson [Mandela, Nelson]

50 AT THE FORT I was being supervised by Colonel Minnaar, a courtly Afrikaner considered something of a liberal by his more verkrampte (hard-line) colleagues. He explained that he was ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2002-01-02 | Author:Laurens Van Der Post [Laurens van der Post]

epub |eng | 2006-12-31 | Author:Steven Otter

20 The Snort The routine I had developed in my new home was certainly not of my own design. In truth, however, it would have been quite contrary to my ...

epub |eng | 2011-01-09 | Author:Greg Marinovich

In New York, four years later, Nancy Lee, then The New York Times picture editor, bought me lunch and told me about how the vulture picture came to be published ...

epub |eng | 2014-10-15 | Author:Leonard Thompson

South Africa in the World The postwar world was quite a different place from the imperialist world of the 1930s. While apartheid was taking root in South Africa, political power ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Hugh Thomas

* * * IThe first naval vessel to be copper-sheathed was the frigate Alarm in 1761, and the second the discovery ship Dolphin. IISee page 162. IIIThe publication of these ...

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Invictus

Real life carried on regardless. Half a mile away from the World Trade Centre, people were working at offices and factories as usual. A mile farther away, passengers checked in ...

epub |eng | 2011-10-24 | Author:Ron Lock

Jubilant Boers wade the Tugela to carry off the abandoned British guns. (With the Flag to Pretoria) A Boer ‘Long Tom’, drawn by oxen, on the way to besiege Ladysmith. ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-07 | Author:Michael Morris

His stark metaphor, ‘adapt or die’ – satirised at the time as ‘adapt or dye’ – alarmed conservatives, and for good reason, since, as the writer André Brink noted just ...

epub, pdf |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Martin Meredith [Meredith, Martin]

The elimination of black spots began in earnest in the 1960s. Whole communities were uprooted and forced to leave their homes. Many were dumped in areas often unsuitable for cultivation, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-27 | Author:Nelson Mandela

12. CONVERSATION WITH RICHARD STENGEL STENGEL: … Mac Maharaj was talking about how you … in prison … used to represent other prisoners, and that was against regulations? MANDELA: Yes, ...