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  • ONE BEAT OF A BUTTERFLY’S HEART
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    ONE BEAT OF A BUTTERFLY’S HEART
    RONALD CALLANDER
    In this book we are given a unique view of East Africa of the 1950s; not the stereotyped picture of wildlife safaris and leaping Masai, but the emerging independence struggle of a new African nation from the viewpoint of a white police office, in an exceptionally detailed, thoroughly readable, firsthand account of a rare period of recent history. It tells how an Australian vete...

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  • I WON'T BE HOME NEXT SUMMER
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    I WON'T BE HOME NEXT SUMMER
    KERRIN COCKS / RON SELLEY
    Ronnie Selley, a South African from rural Natal, joined the RAF on a short-service commission in 1937, considered the Golden Age of aviation. During these glory years of Howard Hughes and Amelia Earhart few guessed at the brewing storm and dark days to come. After completing his training on antiquated First World War aircraft, Selley was posted to 220 Squadron Coastal Command, ...

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  • LIFE, LOVE AND DEATH IN THE LOWVELD
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    LIFE, LOVE AND DEATH IN THE LOWVELD
    WILF NUSSEY
    This collection of stories, rooted in truth and legend, from a forgotten time in South Africa’s past, the Forties, and a little-known part, the Lowveld, is a window into a magical time when people were uncluttered by philosophical baggage and worked for one purpose: to make a living to enjoy life. “An enchanting collection of Lowveld tales, packed with eccentric characters, bus...

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  • MAMPARA
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    MAMPARA
    TOC WALSH
    Toc Walsh was conscripted into intake 138 Depot Rhodesia Regiment on 18 April 1974 and endured a year of what he deemed to be ‘military mayhem’. In July 1976, he was drafted again with the 10th Battalion Rhodesia Regiment to continue his wild ride into the maniacal world of combat. The country was in a state of national emergency and all available men were called up on continuo...

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  • TUCKER'S DEADLINE
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    TUCKER'S DEADLINE
    ROBIN BINCKES
    This is the true story of Irving Tucker, who married an English girl, Yvonne, and left South Africa in 1976 to farm sheep on the Welsh border, growing their own organic vegetables and living a healthy life style. They returned to South Africa every year on holiday. The couple was childless. The book deals with Irving’s complex personality and his love of practical jokes, and tr...

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  • KRUGER, KOMMANDOS & KAK
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    KRUGER, KOMMANDOS & KAK
    CHRIS ASH
    The second Boer War is the most important war in South African history; indeed, without it, South Africa would likely have not existed. But it’s also one of the least understood conflicts of the era. Over a century of Leftist bleating and insidious, self-serving revisionism, first by Afrikaner nationalists and then by the apartheid regime, has left the layman with a completely ...

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  • THE CHRONICLE OF JEREMIAH GOLDSWAIN
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    THE CHRONICLE OF JEREMIAH GOLDSWAIN
    RALPH GOLDSWAIN
    This is the story of the 1820 Settler, Jeremiah Goldswain, in his own words. After thirty-eight years on the eastern boundary of the Cape Colony, he sat down to write his memoirs. It is a close-up view of four decades during a period when the British Empire was expanding in southern Africa, with the borders being pushed ever farther into the hinterland by successive governors. ...

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  • TEDDY LUTHER'S WAR
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    TEDDY LUTHER'S WAR
    DONAL MCCRACKEN
    A German-American, in South Africa, fighting the British, in an Irish commando, in the Boer army Some years ago Donal McCracken was working on a book of Ireland and the Anglo–Boer War (1899–1902) when, in the British Ministry of Defence Library, the old War Office Library, off Whitehall, he came upon a slim volume. It was a war diary written by a young German from Halbertstad n...

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  • BUSHMAN ROCK ART
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    BUSHMAN ROCK ART
    TIM FORSSMAN / LEE GUTTERIDGE
    The prehistoric record of southern Africa extends back some 2 million years. The oldest cultural artefacts are stone tools such as handaxes, cleavers and choppers. In more recent centuries, archaeologists have found an extensive repertoire of artefacts including not only stone tools, but tools of bone, wood and shell as well as beads, jewellery, grinding stones, clothing, fishi...

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  • THE BUSHVELD 2ND ED.
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    THE BUSHVELD 2ND ED.
    LEE GUTTERIDGE
    This revised, updated and expanded second edition of Lee Gutteridge’s comprehensive field guide covers a broad cross section of the most prominent species of flora and fauna of the South African Bushveld, including large parts of the Kruger Lowveld; all combined into one user-friendly manual that can be used by tourists and professional field guides alike. With over 4,200 color...

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  • CANVAS UNDER THE SKY
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    CANVAS UNDER THE SKY
    ROBIN BINCKES
    “... enjoyable, convincing story wrapped in dramatic, well-researched history” — John Gordon Davis, bestselling author of Hold My Hand I’m Dying. It is 1834. The Eastern Cape frontier is burning. Rauch Beukes, a young Boer of 17, returns to the family homestead to find it razed, the livestock gone and his mother and sisters slaughtered by the marauding Xhosa from across the Gre...

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  • OKAVANGO
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    OKAVANGO
    LEE GUTTERIDGE / TONY REUMERMAN
    After The South African Bushveld—A Field Guide from the Waterberg, this is the second comprehensive field guide to be published in southern Africa that covers a detailed cross-section of the most prominent animals, plants, birds, fish, insects and tracks and signs of a particular region. It includes a detailed natural history section for a greater understanding of the geology, ...

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  • TALE GUNNER
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    TALE GUNNER
    AJ BROOKS
    Nothing quite beats that rawness of military humour. It’s the same the world over. This hilarious collection of South African military anecdotes will—for the less sensitive reader—have you doubled up with mirth. It is an ingrained tradition for South Africans to stand around a fire in the bright sunlight or on warm evenings of summer and barbeque or braai as we all say. Natural...

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  • ANGOLAN RENDEZVOUS
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    ANGOLAN RENDEZVOUS
    TAMAR GOLAN / TAMAR RON
    Ostensibly, this book is in two voices: Tamar Golan, Israel’s first Ambassador to Angola, deals with the political/diplomatic aspects, while the stories on gorillas, the Black giant sable and Nature are by zoologist/ecologist, Tamar Ron. But in reality, the book has one voice, one of love for Angola, its long-suffering people, vast landscapes and wild animals, and their ongoing...

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  • NOTES FROM HELL
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    NOTES FROM HELL
    VALYA CHERVENYASHKA / NIKOLAY YORDANOV
    “I have no expectations for the future. I am not afraid of death … I am a woman who has come back from hell” … then he slapped me. He barked something in Arabic and they all immediately surrounded me. They dragged me to the corridor again. The ropes tightened around my wrists. They tied them around my ankles and hung me with my head down. “Well, now you’re going to tell us ever...

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  • LESOTHO
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    LESOTHO
    DAVID FLEMINGER
    From the mists of Basotho legend—from the time of King Moshoeshoe. The tiny country of Lesotho is entirely surrounded by South Africa, yet it remains one of the most remote and unexplored areas in the region. The reason for this isolation is the mountains—row upon row of serrated peaks make this the country with the highest ‘low point’ in the world. But the mountains that give ...

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  • 19 WITH A BULLET
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    19 WITH A BULLET
    GRANGER KORFF
    A fast-moving, action-packed account of Granger Korff’s two years’ service during 1980/81 with 1 Parachute Battalion at the height of the South African ‘bush war’ in South West Africa (Namibia) and Angola. Apart from the ‘standard’ counterinsurgency activities of Fireforce operations, ambushing and patrols, to contact and destroy SWAPO guerrillas, he was involved in several mas...

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  • SWAZILAND
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    SWAZILAND
    DAVID FLEMINGER
    The kingdom of Swaziland is a friendly, compact and enchanting country to visit. Its landscapes range from dramatic mountain peaks to deep river valleys, from lush rolling hills to evocative bushveld plains. Add to this a thriving cultural heartbeat, a traditional monarchy going back hundreds of years and a proud national identity, and you have a really special vacation destina...

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  • THE KEVIN WOODS STORY
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    THE KEVIN WOODS STORY
    KEVIN WOODS
    Kevin Woods was sentenced to death in Zimbabwe and jailed for twenty years by Robert Mugabe. For more than five years of his detention he was held in the shadow of Mugabe’s gallows, cut off from the world, naked and in solitary confinement. He had been a senior member of Mugabe’s dreaded Central Intelligence Organization, the CIO, and was jailed for committing politically motiv...

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  • SHADOW TRACKER
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    SHADOW TRACKER
    KEITH NELSON
    Kurt Christianson is a natural military strategist and survivor. Independent, unorthodox, resilient and resolute, he displays skills which flout established procedures. His courage and insight whilst in Special Forces in ‘Nam’ unwittingly unravel a traitorous alliance, making him a threat to his superiors and placing his life in mortal danger. This threat, combined with his ina...

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  • HOME AFFAIRS
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    HOME AFFAIRS
    BREE O'MARA
    In the Underberg village of Hillman, population 237, something has disturbed the peace. Situated 199½km from Durban (the extra ½km being of critical importance when you wish to distance yourself from city folk), Hillman is having an identity crisis. A debate is raging about whether or not to change the name of the town in line with current political trends. The mayor, surmising...

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  • THE TRAIN OF SALT AND SUGAR
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    THE TRAIN OF SALT AND SUGAR
    LICÍNIO DE AZEVEDO
    Out of every conflict situation comes a myriad of stories, stories about people, set against the backdrop of war. During the bitter and protracted Mozambican civil war there are many such stories, but none so courageous nor so passionate and beautiful as that told in The Train of Salt and Sugar. Mozambique, after many years of war, first for their independence against the Portu...

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  • THE BORDER
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    THE BORDER
    A. J. BROOKS
    The Border is a racy drama set against the backdrop of southern Africa’s border wars in the 1980’s. This is a tale of intertwined lives; hatred, trauma and the horror of war forcing each to strangle some sense, some purity out of the world they now find themselves in while teetering on the border of their own sanity. An ordinary soldier fights for survival. A family torn apart ...

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  • MZEE ALI
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    MZEE ALI
    BROR MACDONELL
    ‘Mzee’ is the Swahili word for an ‘old timer’, a respected elder. Mzee Ali Kalikilima was born near the present-day town of Tabora in western Tanzania, probably in the 1870s (there is mention of ‘The Doctor’—Dr David Livingstone) to black Muslim parents of noble birth. Aged 14, Mzee Ali led his first slaving safari to the shores of Lake Tanganyika and thence, with his caravan o...

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  • RUGBY STORIES FROM THE PLATTELAND
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    RUGBY STORIES FROM THE PLATTELAND
    GRAHAM JOOSTE
    The heart and spirit of rugby described in Graham’s book is still evident today, but the way the game was played—on a Saturday afternoon, on a dusty field, after a long day ploughing—is not. Somehow all this became overshadowed by the glamour of large clubs and competitions, fuelled by modern technology and communication. In this book Graham tells the stories, some dating back ...

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