History and Politics

50 Titles

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‘The Valiant Englishman’: Christopher Bethell, Montshiwa's Barolong and the Bechuanaland Wars, 1878-1886

Andrew Hayden Manson
January 1, 2022

50 years of The Freedom Charter

Raymond Suttner
March 2, 2023

Above the Skyline: Rev Tsietsie Thankdekiso and the founding of an African Gay Church

Graeme Reid
May 29, 2013

African Initiatives in Healing Ministry

Lilian Dube, Tabona Shoko, Stephen Hayes
June 30, 2011

Against the world: South Africa and Human Rights at the United Nations 1945-1961

Jeremy Shearer
November 12, 2011
Black lettering of author name at top with book title in middle on white block. Background photographic image of torso of male African figure, from 2 different angles (2 side views, one frontal), combined with horizontal white band and black line mediveal drawing of one-eyed cyclops figure

The Anatomy of Power: European Constructions of the African Body

Alexander Butchart
June 30, 1997

The ANC's Early Years

Peter Limb
June 30, 2010

And we forgave them: Stories from Struggle Against Apartheid in Venda, South Africa

Lilian T Moufhe, Ndangeni P Phaswana; Michael O'Loughlin
June 14, 2018

Because They Chose The Plan of God: The Bulhoek Massacre

Robert Edgar
February 22, 2012

Beyond the Mountain: Queer life in Africa's Gay Capital

B Caminga (ed)
December 21, 2020

BOTSWANA’S parliamentary democracy revisited

David Sebudubudu (ed), Bertha Z Osei Hwedie (ed), Balefe Tsie (ed)
October 18, 2017
Sepiatone historic illustration of a ship with British flag sailing on the sea against a horizon line of mountains and clouds, with green letters (in white outline) of the main book title at the top, and the author's name at the bottom

The Cape of Good Hope and foreign contacts 1735-1755

Maurice Boucher
December 30, 1985

Capricious Patronage and Captive Land: A Socio-political History of Resettlement and Change in South Africa's Eastern Cape, 1960 to 2005

Luvuyo Wotshela (ed)
November 14, 2018
Greyscale photo in background of a landscape with a bridge, with modern red lettering of the book title at the top against a white background. Th author's name is at the bottom in thin black lettering.

Ceres van gister en eergister

Francois Botma
June 30, 1997
cover with dotted yellow background, with abstract figurine in foreground, and circular uneven blob shapes in many colours surrounding the figure.

Critically diverse perspectives on Covid-19: Interviews with a varied range of South Africans

Sayan Dey (ed), Shankhadeep Chattopadhyay (ed)
June 21, 2023
Blue main title lettering at top right, beneath a blue photorealistic feather quill/imitating a pen/writing action on a blue triangular page-like watery surface, against a green background forming a horison line, on which white lettering of subtitle is placed.

Culture in retrospect: Essays in honour of ED Prinsloo

A.P.J. Roux, P.H. Coetzee; J Margolis , D.F.M. Strauss, A.M.T. Meyer , P Duvenage , P.H. Coetzee, P Higgs, W Kistner , W.J. Jordaan , J Heidema , W Labuschagne , A.J. Antonites , M Faure , F.C. de Beer , J Wilkinson, M Schoeman , J Hund, M Macnamara, Z Postma-de Beer, J Broodryk
June 30, 2001
Cover image: front: ``Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa

Defiant Images: Photography and Apartheid South Africa

Darren Newbury
April 26, 2009

Discordant Village Voices: A Zambian Community Based Wildlife Programme

Stuart Marx
February 12, 2014
Sepia photo in the veld of kneeling Albert Luthuli in a white shirt, hand on chin, with yellow capital letters for main book title, and white lettering above and below. The 2 editors' names are below in small yellow & outlined lettering.

The Faces and Phases of Inkosi Albert Luthuli: Reflections

Puleng Segalo, Tinyiko Chauke; Mfaniseni Wiseman Mbatha, Sibangilizwe Maphosa, Vitus Nanbigne, Rivonia Naidu, Akhona Ndzuta, Raymond Suttner, Keaobaka Tsholo, Siphamandla Zondi
June 14, 2024

The Haarlem Shipwreck (1647): The Origins of Cape Town

Bruno Werz
November 5, 2017

The housing question: Race, class and space in Johannesburg 1994-2017

Thozamile Botha
July 15, 2025

Khongolose: A Short History of the ANC in the North West Province from 1909

Andrew Manson (ed), Bernard Mbenga (ed), Arianna Lissoni (ed)
March 15, 2017

Making an African university in the service of humanity: Professor Mandla Makhanya’s speeches

Abbey Makoe (ed), Muxe Nkondo (ed)
March 19, 2021

Mandela & Mbeki: The Hero and the Outsider

Lucky Mathebe
June 30, 2012
front cover book photo with seascape with the Cape Drakensberg silhouette in the background, with lettering of title at top, and author and contributors listed below

The Moltenos of the Cape

Selina Molteno, Robert Molteno; Catherine Corder, Hugh Corder
June 30, 2025

Mothering African Women's Theologies: Pioneers of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians

September 10, 2025
Red main title lettering on right, with an airplane maked with the South African flag colours, is flying downwards towards another globe. Ths Author's name is in white at the bottom, right. The book subtitle is in blue lettering on the bottom right of the cover.globe

The New Great Trek: The story of South Africa's white exodus

Johann Van Rooyen
June 30, 2000

Our land, our life, our future

Harvey Feinberg
February 26, 2015

Philip Quaque’s Letters to London, 1763-1811

Adélékè Adeeko (ed)
October 15, 2017

Queer Kinship: South African perspectives on the sexual politics of family-making and belonging

Tracy Morison (ed), Ingrid Lynch (ed), Vasu Reddy (ed)
December 18, 2018

Religious Ideas and Institutions: Transitions to Democracy in Africa

E J Keller
May 30, 2011

Road to Democracy In South Africa Volume 8 Part 1

June 15, 2015

Robben Island To Wall Street

Gaby Magomola
June 12, 2009

Searching for South Africa: The new calculus of dignity

Shireen Essof (ed), Dan Moshenberg (ed)
June 30, 2011

The Secret thread: Personal journeys beyond Apartheid

Deborah Ewing
August 2, 2018

Social Memory as a force for Social and Economic Transformation

Muxe Nkondo (ed)
March 26, 2021

Spiritual Path, Spiritual Reality: Selected writings of Shaykh Yusuf of Macassar

Yousuf Dadoo (ed), Auwais Rafudeen (ed)
January 30, 2020

The State and the University Experience in East Africa: Colonial Foundations and Postcolonial Transformation in Kenya

Michael Mwenda Kithinji
July 5, 2018

Still at large: Dispatches from South Africa’s Frontiers of Politics and Art

Chris Thurman
October 15, 2017

Street Khoisan: On belonging, recognition and survival

Siv Overnes
December 19, 2019
Volume 2

The Road to Democracy : Volume 2 [1970 - 1980]

Sifiso Ndlovu
July 1, 2011

The Road to Democracy in South Africa : Volume 7 Soweto Uprisings: New Perspective, Commemorations and Memorialisation

Sifiso Ndlovu (ed)
May 5, 2017

Touched By Biko

Andile M-Afrika
June 30, 2017

Touched By Biko (part 2): The Interviews

Andile M-Afrika
June 30, 2018

Under Protest: The Rise of Student Resistance at the University of Fort Hare

Daniel Massey
April 5, 2010

UNISA 1873-2018: The making of a distance learning university

Andrew Manson
July 4, 2018

Unity & Struggle

Amilcar Cabral
June 30, 2004

Vuloyimuni: How research on hostels, housing and intergovernmental relations took me to my roots

September 10, 2024
wine red background with white and grey capital letters used on top for the main title, with below a silhouetted cut-out black-and-white photo of a poor white family standing in front of a smalll stone house. At the bottom of the book cover is a dark grey horizontal band with white lettering of the subtitle and the editor, Robert Morrell

White but poor: Essays on the History of Poor Whites in Southern Africa 1880-1940

Robert Morrell
June 30, 1996
Orange main title in capital letters at the top left of the cover, with a sepia brown collage in the background, showing a photo of a young white woman bottom left, and on the right, an artistic rendering of a African woman in traditional adornments.

Women, society and constraints: A collection of contemporary South African gender studies

Jeanette Malherbe, Marc Kleijwegt, Elize Koen
December 30, 2000