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Month: June 2021

  • Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa, 1939–1945

    Evert Kleynhans, Hitler’s Spies: Secret Agents and the Intelligence War in South Africa,1939–1945 (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2021) MILITARY history does not have a fashionable profile and tends to be circumscribed, but Evert Kleynhans argues for […]

    June 28, 2021Book Reviews

     
  • Views on life in the continuing crisis: part three

    BORIS Johnson’s star has been, to some inexplicably, largely in the ascendant during the pandemic, most recently explained by the successful vaccine rollout, despite any visible connection between him and it. A for-once inspired appointment, […]

    June 27, 2021Miscellaneous

     
  • Pitch Battles: Sport, Racism and Resistance

    Peter Hain and André Odendaal, Pitch Battles: Sport, Racism and Resistance (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2021) THIS book marks the fiftieth anniversary of the exclusion of apartheid South Africa from world cricket. At first […]

    June 13, 2021Book Reviews

     
  • Abolish the Olympics

    IT seems that the delayed 2020 Olympic Games will go ahead in July in spite of the opposition of a large number of Japanese. Their medical infrastructure is under considerable strain, parts of their country […]

    June 8, 2021Sharp Thoughts

     
  • Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa

    Mxolisi R. Mchunu, Violence and Solace: The Natal Civil War in Late-Apartheid South Africa (Pietermaritzburg: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2020) TWO main narratives frame the civil war that engulfed the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands in the late […]

    June 1, 2021Book Reviews

     

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