there is the high veld, the middle veld, the low veld, the bush veld, and now thoughts from the thorn veld,
Bill Freund, An Historian’s Passage to Africa: An Autobiography (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021) WHAT were the chances of an economic historian from Chicago finding the happiest days of a somewhat unsettled life in Durban? […]
Richard Conyngham, All Rise: Resistance and Rebellion in South Africa, 1910‒1948: A Graphic History (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2021) THIS illustrated history is largely inspired by files found in the basement archives of the Supreme Court of […]
Ebbe Dommisse, Fortunes: The Rise and Rise of Afrikaner Tycoons (Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball, 2021) TWO dozen tycoons are the central characters of Ebbe Dommisse’s book; just one, unsurprisingly, a woman. Among these Afrikaans-speakers none is […]