History, Africa, South
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Apartheid
by Una D. Bruhns
On Challenging Journeys We Find Out Who We Are Apartheid is a powerful memoir of Una's Personal and political struggles growing up in the peaceful community of Vrededorp, Johannesburg, South Africa. By age nine, the political arena in South...
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If It Had Not Been So...
by Thabiso Songo-Ncube
IF IT HAD NOT BEEN SO, HOW WOULD IT HAVE BEEN? In this book I talk about the life and experiences that shaped my character from adolescent age to adulthood. There are tragedies that I faced and there were happy times too. The experiences I went...
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From The Frying Pan Into The Fire
Memoir of a Zimbabwean by Judith Mawoko
Told with clarity, humour and insight, From the Frying Pan into the Fire lets us look into the turbulent history of Zimbabwe through the eyes of a native Zimbabwean educator. Born in a rural village in 1965, in what was then Rhodesia, young...
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Better Than Some, Worse Than Others
The way it was: - Remembering the South African Border War in the 1980’s and 90’s. by Wayne Webster
Not yet seventeen, Wayne Webster, along with many young men around South Africa, abruptly leaves a life of relative peace and tranquility to fulfill his obligatory military service duties during the South African Border War. He has no idea what...
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