Countdown to Freedom: Ten Days That Changed South Africa

This movie takes you inside Nelson Mandela’s campaign as it was never shown on television. Produced independently at President Mandela’s invitation, it represents an intimate and independent chronicle of ten days of change in an event of world historical importance, the end of hundreds of years of white rule in Africa.

Author: Video News Services/ANC, English, Multimedia.

Specifications: DVD
, ISBN: EF7/2004/0148 .

Price (ZA) R130.00

Filed in Bookstore, South African

Odyssey to Freedom

A remarkable, courageous and beneficial life spanning 80 eventful years: this is the long-awaited autobiography of one of the world’s most admired human rights advocates. George Bizos has been a friend and lawyer to Nelson Mandela, to several leading figures from South Africa’s liberation struggle and numerous other victims of apartheid.

Author: George Bizos, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Hard cover with dustjacket, 231 mm x 152 mm, 648 pages
, ISBN: 978-0-9584195-8-1 .

Price (ZA) R270.00

Filed in Bookstore, South African

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.

Author: Nelson Mandela, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft cover 12.6 x 19.7 cm, 768 pp, Hard cover, 13 x 20.5 cm, 768 pp.
, ISBN: Soft 978 0 349 106533, hard 978 0 316 855006 .

Price (ZA) R160 soft cover, R 260.00 hard cover

Filed in Bookstore, Culture, South African

O’Mandingo! Before Mandela was Mandela

O’Mandingo! Before Mandela was Mandela was written in the years prior to Mandela’s release from jail, the author has chosen these pieces to follow up on his previous title O’Mandingo! The only black at a dinner party. Read this and remember when, as the author says in his introduction, “..under apartheid one had to hide one’s meaning and hope that it will still be discovered.” Miyeni writes in fact and fiction of those years when our realities were skewed by apartheid, yet we knew one thing for certain, and it was that Mandela was Mandela.

Author: Eric Miyeni, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft cover, 230x150mm, 139 pp
, ISBN: 978 1770 093454 .

Price (ZA) R230.00

Filed in Bookstore, South African

Madiba Magic: Nelson Mandela’s Favorite Stories for Children

Madiba’s favourite stories for the children of Africa, brought together in a huge thick book full of beautiful pictures - a feast for the eyes!

Author: , English, NonArt.

Specifications: Hard cover, 267256mm, 140pp, colour illustrations
, ISBN: 978 0624 040736 .

Price (ZA) R195.00

Filed in Bookstore, South African

The Meaning of Mandela: A Literary and Intellectual Celebration

This lively, engaging and witty collection of lectures brings together the renowned African and African-American scholars - Cornel West, Henry Louis Gates Jr and Wole Soyinka - to reflect on the public meaning of the iconic Nelson Mandela.

Author: Xolela Mangcu, English, NonArt.

Specifications: Soft cover, 205x144mm, 40 pp
, ISBN: 978 0796 92164 2 .

Price (ZA) R85.00

Filed in Bookstore, South African

Memoirs

Ahmed Kathrada’s autobiography is a moving, touching and often amusing read about a man who not only observed, but also actively participated in the shaping of a country’s history.
Born a shopkeeper’s son in the rural town of Schweizer-Reneke, he became the trusted confidante of some of the most prominent political figures in South Africa’s struggle history, among them Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu. Politically active at the age of 10, and joining the Young Communists’ League at 14, Kathrada – or ‘Kathy’, as friends and family affectionately called him – devoted his life to the freedom struggle in South Africa.