IT was in April of last year, 1877, that I first formed a plan of paying an immediate visit to South Africa. The idea that I would one day do so had long loomed in the distance before me. Except the South African group I had seen all our great groups of Colonies,—among which in my own mind I always include the United States, for to my thinking, our Colonies are the lands in which our cousins, the descendants of our forefathers, are living and still speaking our language. I had become more or less acquainted I may say with all these offshoots from Great Britain, and had written books about them all,—except South Africa.
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The ANC is hoping to claw back support lost to the opposition in the Zuma era. This book will shed light on voters' choices and analyze the election outcome as the results emerge.
... The Great Treks, Pearson, Cape Town, 2001, p299. See http://www.sahistory.org.za/article/zulu. This was a system whereby both young men and women were put into regiments according to age. Women performed labour tasks for the king ...
The Oxford History of South Africa
South Africa: The Solution
... on the period 1946–2005 [2006]), and the three-volume History of the Book in Canada, published by the University of Toronto Press under the general editorship of Patricia Lockhart Fleming and Yvan Lamonde (2004–07).
This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa.
Speaking together in Cuba in 1991, Mandela and Castro discuss the place in the history of Africa of Cuba and Angola's victory over the invading U.S.-backed South African army, and...
Flashpoint South Africa
In 1977, Johnson's best selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid.