Heritage Collection

85 Titles

This is a free access collection of earliest publications by Unisa Press.

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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
Sepia brown lettering of main title in capital letters with brown line drawing of a map on the green background. The name of the author is in brown lettering at the bottom of the cover, and on the left-hand side is a brown line drawing of a large oxwagon wheel.

Die oorsprong van die Groot Trek

C F J Muller
June 30, 1987
White lowercase lettering of the main title and the author's name are placed left aligned at the top of the cover and against a plain bright blue background. At the lower part of the cover, a stylised silhouette of a child walking up stairs is shown, with one hand reaching to an adult fogure, leading the child up the staircase of ascending stairs and to the right of the cover. The figures are outlined in white and filled with plain bright pink , and the staircase is rendered in plain white with a bring blue outline around each ascending step.

Die opvoedeling en sy self-aktualisering

J D Vrey
December 31, 1979
Beige background, with brown outline drawing of a classical style building (with overlay in centre of oval cameo head-and-shoulders sepia-tone photo of central figure of the book, Cross) with brown lettering at top (title) and bottom (author name)

Ours is the frontier: A life of GW Cross, Baptist pioneer

K E Cross
January 1, 1986
Main book title in mustard brown script lettering on a blue-toned photo of a woman gazing downwards. The author's name is smaller and on the bottom left-hand side.

The Piety of Afrikaans Women

Christina Landman
June 30, 1994
Collage with black and wine red tonal photos with black lettering of main title at the top, andat the bottom right, the name of the author in white lettering. The photos depict 2 photos of congregation members in devotional practice (reading the bible and singin with closed eyes and raised hands) and the background photo shows the low-cost housing landscape.

Religion at the limits: Pentecostalism among Indian South Africans

Gerard Pillay
July 30, 1994
Brown lettering on yellow background, with book title at top, and graph line horizontally across, with a brown line drawing of the scales of justice and a line drawing of a scientist holding in one hand a test tube while peering directly into its contents. The author's name is placed at the bottom right.

The Right to Life: Issues in Bioethics

W S Vorster
June 30, 1988
Deep pink background with white lettering for title and author's name, with a stylised white outline image of an adult reaching down one hand to help a child to climb up a white staircase.

The Self-actualising Educand

J D Vrey
June 30, 1979
White lettering for main title at the top of the book cover, with the author's name in smaller white lettering at the bottom - all lettering is centred and placed a=on a plain dark brown cover. IN the centre of the cover is a historic pen sketch of a mountain range surrounding the town of Philippolis, with some primitive rural architectural structures and silhouettes of people visible.

Die sendingstasie Phillippolis 'n Histories-opvoedkundige studie

I S J Venter
December 15, 2025
White lettering with white horizontal lines at top and bottom on a plain navy background

Sessie in securitatem debitii? Quo Vadis?

Susan Scott
June 30, 1989
Colleage-style cover of historic newspaper in beige screens in the background, with dark brown title lettering at the top for the title, and the name of the author placed at the bottom right also in dark brown lettering.

South Africa's General Elections 1910-1981: Suid-Afrikaanse Algemene Verkiesingsmanifeste 1910-1981

W A Kleiynhans
June 30, 1987
White lettering for the English and Afrikaans titles of the book, with the number 1 in mustard yellow, all placed on a solid oliver green background, with a mustard yellow horizontal band at the top of the cover, and the names of the 2 editors in mustard yellow, printed at the bottom of the book cover. at the top

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 1: Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 1

CFA Borchardt; WS Vorster
December 31, 1980
Title in both English and Afrikaans in white lettering on a mustard yellow background with an olive green horizontal band across the top of the cover, and at the bottom, smaller olive green lettering is used for the names of the 2 editors.

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 2: Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 2

CFA Borchardt; W S Vorster
December 31, 1981
The book cover has a top wine red band with 2 white lines, followed by a lime green plain background, on which the English and Afrikaans titles are displayed in large white lettering , with the number 3 large and in wine red on green. The names of the two editors are printed in small wine red letters at the bottom part of the book cover.and volume

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 3 : Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 3

CFA Borchardt; W S Vorster
June 30, 1988
Main English and Afrikaans book titles are printed in navy blue on a plain turquoise blue background, with a vertical navy blue band on the left, next to the spine - and the 3 volume editors'names are printed in navy blue smaller lettering at the bottom of the cover.

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 5: Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 5

CFA Borchardt; WS Voster
June 30, 1990
Cover has a vertical band on the left, against a plain turqoise background. The main titles, in English and Afrikaans, are printed in navy blue. at the top part of the cover, while the 3 editors' names are placed at the bottom right, in smaller navy lettering.

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 6: Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 6

CFA Borchardt; WS Voster
June 30, 1991
navy blue lettering of main title (English and Afrikaans) on a tuquoise blue background, with a navy vertical band on the left next to the spine, and at the bottom right, the 3 editors names in navy blue smaller lettering.

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 7: Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 7

June 30, 1992
Main title in capital letters in wine red, with patterns of dates against a beige background.

Spes in arduis: 'n geskiedenis van die Universiteit van Suid-Afrika

Maurice Boucher
December 31, 1973
At the top of the cover, white outline lettering for the main title, with lowercase wine red subtitle lettering, and the author's name also in wine red lettering below subtitle, followed by a stippled-style line drawing in wine red of various religious symbols (from Hindu to Islam to a Christ figure on the cross), all on a background of plain muted musk pink

Studying Religion

J S Krüger
June 30, 1982
artwork of 3 dieties bowing in front of a priest at top, with an adult dressed in a classical Greek style wrapped cloth dress, with a child reading a tablet with scripture. The book title is in capital letters in the middle, with the author's name at the bottom in white capital letters.

Subject Didactics of Biblical Studies

C B Borst
June 30, 1991
Times Roman capital letters used for the main title, with lowercase text and University of South Africa logo lower, centre of the cover, on a plain white background

Summaries of theses accepted by the University of South Africa in 1965

P Haffter
December 30, 1965
Olive green background with black line drawing on left of a traditional indigenous hut made of reeds, with a palm tree, left and in front a topless indigenous woman wearing a grass skirt, and holding a naked baby on her hip. She is standing in front of a heap of large vegetables, and behnd her are 2 baskets. Part of the book title, `trobriand gardening'' is in white outlined capital letters. The author's name is at the bottom right, in black italics lettering.

The symbolic role of women in Trobriand gardening

Marianne Brindley
June 30, 1984
White capital and lowercase letters for main title at the top, and author's name at the bottom in white lowercase letters, with a colour photo of a ancient Greek open-air arena in the middle of the book cover

Syracuse in Antiquity

Richard J Evans
June 30, 2009
Main title in small capital letters at top, followed by lowercase small black lettering for author's itiials and surname, with a Unisa logo in black line in middle, and small black lettering at the bottom, on a plain cream colour background.

Three papers on Tragedy

F D Sinclair
May 30, 1960
The cover background is of a brick orange wall with a writing board, with a simplified silhouette of a male teacher pointing to the lettering on the writing board in dark brown. At the bottom of the cover, aligned left is the main book title in dark brown, and the author's name is placed at the bottom right of the cover.

Die toerusting van die voorligtingonderwyser as opvoeder

HC Petrick
December 31, 1985
Red lettering of main and subtitle at top, with author name at bottom also in red, against a faded cloud-like mottled blue background with top left a traffic directional arrow, and below right a sky blue thick , stylised outline of a stylised hand

Travelling the career highway

W A Van Schoor
June 30, 1997
Photo of white blossoms on a tree in the background, wih red lettering in the foreground: at the top is the main book title, bilingual and in caps, on left (English) and on right: Afrikaans, with the rest of the subtitle below: vn / of UNISARAND

Trees, birds and shrubs of Unisa: Bome,Struike en Voëls van Unisarand

B P Barkhuizen
June 30, 1984
Black-and-white sepia-style images of artwork arranged in postage stamp size, adjacent to each other, with large orange lettering at the bottom, saying Uitstalling

Uitstalling Unisa Versameling / Exhibition Unisa Collection

Karin Skawran
December 30, 1979
Green concentric circles in the background, alternating with light green bands, with the book main title in black capital latters spread across 3 rows at the top part of the cover. The name of the author is also in black lettering at the bottom right-hand side of the cover.

Unity and Mission

W A Saayman
June 30, 1984
Light blue abstract pattern in background with blue band, large capital letters VENDA in middle of cover, with bilingual subtitles added, and author names at bottom.

Venda Afrikaans English Improved Trilingual Dictionary: Venda Afrikaans Engels Verbeterde Drietalige Woordeboek

P J Wentzel, T W Muloiwa
June 30, 1982
White lettering on grey background with authorname at bottom. The centra image is of Christ sitting in an African chair, rendered in a medieval linear style, in black and white only.

What do you mean by this service?

Paul F Bradshaw
December 31, 1997
Decorative dark blue title lettering across top part of cover, with 2 authors names at bottom also in dark blue, on a light lavender plain colour background

What is distinctive about Pentecostal Theology?

Mathew S Clark
May 30, 1983
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
Plain black lettering of the main title at top, and authorname at bottom, on a plain light grey background

The writer in his time: Socio-economic influences in the literary work

P F D'Onofrio
October 30, 1984
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