In this photobio, the life of Jan Smuts is captured chronologically in photographs, some never pu...

From 1874 to 1881 a number of organized treks left the Transvaal in search of political independe...

Inspired by the impact of Great Depression-era photographs in the United States, noted photograph...

At age 60 William Chapman began writing down his memoirs and this title contains his engaging and...

The Magaliesberg by Vincent Carruthers is a reprint of the highly successful book that first appe...

A highly accessible examination of an international phenomenon

When a young, naively confident Jurgen Schadeberg first arrived at The Star news offices in Johan...

Nicol Stassen devotes, among others, an entire chapter to the gripping story of the Dorsland (Thi...

In 1799 four missionaries - two English and two Dutch - arrived at the Cape, having been sent out...

Poignant, yet accessible poetry from the winner of the Ingrid Jonker Prize, one of South Africa's...

Francois Stephanus Malan (1871-1940), an Afrikaner newspaper editor and politician, is one of the...

Pieter Cilliers's autobiography, first published in South Africa in 1997, is a heartrending story...