Books like A history of South Africa by Leonard Thompson

Set in a South African village, Zakes Mda’s The Heart of Redness weaves past and present as a prophetess’s failed 19th‑century vision clashes with modern plans for a casino, drawing a returning exile into a fractured community and a love triangle.

Essays, fiction, and photographs address different aspects of apartheid.

"David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of the South African novelist J. M. Coetzee, arguing that he has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing his nation's ethical crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's novels are shown to reconstruct and critique some of the key discourses in the history of colonialism and apartheid from the eighteenth century to the present. While self-conscious about fiction-making, Coetzee's work takes seriously the condition of the society in which it is produced." "Attwell begins by describing the intellectual and political contexts of Coetzee's fiction. He proceeds with a developmental analysis of the corpus of six novels, drawing on Coetzee's other writings in stylistics, literary criticism, translation, political journalism, and popular culture. Attwell's elegantly written analysis deals both with Coetzee's subversion of the dominant culture around him and with his ability to grasp the complexities of giving voice to the anguish of South Africa."--BOOK JACKET.

History of South Africa. Includes information about Namibia and the native races.

"The complex history and politics of South Africa form the backdrop of this study of the factors that contributed to both the end of apartheid and the movement from government by racial division toward government through national unity. This study and resource examines the history, people, and politics of South Africa in the age of apartheid."--BOOK JACKET. "The analysis of how all these factors culminated in the collapse of apartheid is enhanced by lengthy biographical profiles of sixteen key personalities, including Stephen Biko, Willem deKlerk, Nelson Mandela, and Desmond Tutu."--BOOK JACKET.

Raymond Suttner’s memoir chronicles his 1975 arrest, the brutal torture and solitary confinement he endured, and the letters smuggled out of prison that illuminate the psychological toll of apartheid-era incarceration in South Africa.