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Surviving in the Apartheid Prison: Robben Island

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Sedick Isaacs was a prisoner of conscience on Robben Island where Nelson Mandela spent m18 years. This is another perspective of another section of the prison through the eyes of a scientist. ... Read more

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From the Sunday Times bestselling authorWhich fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty.Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and stabs them where they deserve it, from TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, the dumbed-down buffoon who put the 'h' in Aspidistra, to the perpetrators of ... Read more

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From the Sunday Times bestselling authorWhich fifty people made Britain the wreck she is? From ludicrous propagandist Alastair Campbell to the Luftwaffe's allies, the modernist architects, it's time to name the guilty.Quentin Letts sharpens his nib and stabs them where they deserve it, from TV gardener Alan Titchmarsh, the dumbed-down buffoon who put the 'h' in Aspidistra, to the perpetrators of
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My Traitor's Heart

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An Afrikaner crime reporter returns home to face the evil and complex legacy of South African apartheid in " a witness-bearing act of the rarest courage" (Michael Kerr).Rian Malan's classic work of reportage, My Traitor's Heart is at once beautiful, horrifying, and profound in ways that earned him comparisons to Michael Herr and Ryszard Kapuściński, and inspired the London Times to call him "South ... Read more

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In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog’s stoep. In Begging to Be Black, Krog begins by exploring her position in this controversial case. From there the book ranges widely in scope, both in time - reaching back to the days of Basotho king Moshoeshoe - and in space - as we follow Krog’s experiences as a research fellow in ... Read more

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