All about South Africa
Author: Rob Marsh
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2016-03-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781431700967
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive reference book about South Africa for children (and their parents)
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All About South Africa
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Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Published: 2013-07-22
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 1432302728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All About South Africa is a comprehensive reference book for all South African children with enquiring minds and a lively interest in the world around them. Packed with colourful photographs and illustrations, the simple and thematically presented text is both easy to read and to understand. This fascinating introduction to our country looks at life in southern Africa long, long ago, and explores the culture of our land and the people who helped shape our unique South African community. It provides an intriguing insight into the ever-changing world of science and technology and our sometimes puzzling economy. This valuable reference work also introduces young readers to our equally important natural heritage: the coasts, mountains and climate of the land, and the country’s rich variety of wildlife. Now in it’s 7th print edition and fully updated, this well-researched and visually stimulating volume offers all this information and much, much more. Complemented by lists of recommended place to see, All About South Africa is an essential addition to the bookshelf of every South African child.
Understanding South Africa
Author: Martin Plaut
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 1787382044
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, the country sank into bitter recriminations and rampant corruption under Jacob Zuma. Why did this happen, and how was hope betrayed? President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is seeking to heal these wounds, is due to lead the African National Congress into an election by May 2019. 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. With chapters on all the major issues at stake--from education to land redistribution-- Understanding South Africa offers insights into Africa's largest and most diversified economy, closely tied to its neighbors' fortunes.
How South Africa Works
Author: Jeffrey Herbst
Publisher: Pan Macmillan South africa
Published: 2015-07-01
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1770104097
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The overwhelming challenge that South Africa faces, and has to date failed to address, is unemployment, which falls especially on African youths who were promised a better future after 1994. If the current unemployment challenge is not addressed, it will be impossible to sustainably lift many millions of people out of poverty. How South Africa Works reviews the country’s major economic achievements over the past two decades. Through numerous interviews with politicians, business leaders and analysts, it examines the challenges and opportunities across key productive sectors – including agriculture, manufacturing, services, and mining – illustrative of the policy challenges that leaders face. It scrutinises the social grant and education systems to understand if South Africa has established mechanisms for people not only to escape destitution but be ready to be employed, and identifies steps that some of South Africa’s most notable entrepreneurs have taken to build world-class enterprises. Recognising the essential challenge to cultivate more employers to employ people, How South Africa Works concludes by offering an agenda and active steps for greater competitiveness for government, business and labour.
All Rise: Resistance, Rebellion and Revolt in South Africa
Author: Rich Conyngham
Publisher: Catalyst Press
Published: 2022-04-05
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 9781946395634
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa revives six true stories of resistance by marginalized South Africans against the country's colonial government in the years leading up to Apartheid. In six parts--each of which is illustrated by a different South African artist--All Rise shares the long-forgotten struggles of ordinary, working-class women and men who defended the disempowered during a tumultuous period in South African history. From immigrants and miners to tram workers and washerwomen, the everyday people in these stories bore the brunt of oppression and in some cases risked their lives to bring about positive change for future generations. This graphic anthology breathes new life into a history dominated by icons, and promises to inspire all readers to become everyday activists and allies. The diverse creative team behind All Rise, from an array of races, genders, and backgrounds, is a testament to the multicultural South Africa dreamed of by the heroes in these stories--true stories of grit, compassion, and hope, now being told for the first time in print.
A Short History of South Africa
Author: Gail Nattrass
Publisher: Biteback Publishing
Published: 2017-11-16
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1785903683
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa – a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours' affairs. On the other hand, post-Apartheid dreams of progress and reform have, in part, collapsed into a morass of corruption, unemployment and criminal violence. A Short History of South Africa is a brief, general account of the history of this most complicated and fascinating country – from the first evidence of hominid existence to the wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries that led to the establishment of modern South Africa, the horrors of Apartheid and the optimism following its collapse, as well as the prospects and challenges for the future. This readable and thorough account, illustrated with maps and photographs, is the culmination of a lifetime of researching and teaching the broad spectrum of South African history. Nattrass's passion for her subject shines through, whether she is elucidating the reader on early humans in the cradle of humankind, or describing the tumultuous twentieth-century processes that shaped the democracy that is South Africa today.
The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures
Author: Archie L. Dick
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2013-06-17
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 1442695080
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners. Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.
Key Facts on South Africa
Author: Patrick W. Nee
Publisher: CreateSpace
Published: 2014-01-17
Total Pages: 38
ISBN-13: 9781495224577
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Learn everything you need to about the fascinating country of South Africa! The Key Facts on South Africa provides readers with essential statistical and business information on the African republic, including: -Background of South Africa -Geography of South Africa -People and Society of South Africa -Government and Key Leaders of South Africa -Economy of South Africa -Energy Resources of South Africa -Communications in South Africa -Transportation in South Africa -Military of South Africa -Transnational Issues of South Africa The Internationalist Business Guides provide crucial up-to-date facts on countries around the world. Visit us at www.internationalist.com
Apartheid
Author: Edgar H. Brookes
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-10-05
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1000624412
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which reflected reaction to these measures: Parliamentary debates, newspaper reports and policy statements by the leading political parties and religious denominations. The documents are headed by a full historical and analytical introduction.
All about South Africa: Everything You Need to Know about South Africa: Our Country, Its People, History, Culture, Economy and Wildlife
Author: Penguin Random House South Africa
Publisher:
Published: 2001-06
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9781868725816
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →South African children will constantly refer to this large-format, highly visual book of knowledge for school projects.
