South Africa Politics

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    • Unravelling Ace Magashule’s Web of Capture
    • By: Pieter-Louis Myburgh
    • Narrated by: Marcel van Heerden
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • In spite of Cyril Ramaphosa’s ‘new dawn’, there are powerful forces in the ruling party that risk losing everything if corruption and state capture finally do come to an end....

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    • How Jacob Zuma Stole South Africa and How the People Fought Back
    • By: Adriaan Basson, Pieter du Toit
    • Narrated by: Charl van Heyningen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-24
    • Language: English
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    • This is the first definitive account of Zuma’s catastrophic misrule, offering eyewitness descriptions and cogent analysis of how South Africa was brought to its knees–and how the people fought back.

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    • The SAS and the Battle for Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels
    • Narrated by: Jack Chekijian
    • Length: 12 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 863 ratings
    • It is difficult to find another soldier's story to equal Captain Darrell Watt's in terms of time spent on the field of battle and challenges faced....

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    • The "Invisible Institution" in the Antebellum South
    • By: Albert J. Raboteau
    • Narrated by: Rodney Louis Tompkins
    • Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Twenty-five years after its original publication, Slave Religion remains a classic in the study of African American history and religion. Using a variety of first and secondhand sources, Raboteau analyzes the transformation of the African religions into evangelical Christianity....

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    • An American City In Black And White
    • By: William Sturkey
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • If you really want to understand Jim Crow - what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it - you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown....

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    • The SAS in Rhodesia
    • By: Hannes Wessels, Andre Scheepers - with
    • Narrated by: Roger Clark
    • Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 03-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 319 ratings
    • In addition to Andre Scheepers' personal story, this book reveals more about some of the other men who were distinguished operators in SAS operations during the Rhodesian War....

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    • A Story of the First People
    • By: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
    • Narrated by: Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
    • Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 115 ratings
    • One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots and the roots of life as we know it....

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    • By: Gail Nattrass
    • Narrated by: Sarah Jane Woodward
    • Length: 8 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 07-16-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa - a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours’ affairs....

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    • Power and Politics in the Civil War South
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 12-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 47 ratings
    • The story of the Confederate States of America has been told many times in heroic narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a different tale. Confederate Reckoning is the story of this political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy....

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    • The Amazing Story of Robert Smalls' Escape from Slavery to Union Hero
    • By: Cate Lineberry
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 228 ratings
    • Facing death rather than enslavement - a story of one man's triumphant choice and ultimate rise to national hero....

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    • Slavery, Emancipation, and Citizenship in the Native American South
    • By: Barbara Krauthamer
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • From the late eighteenth century through the end of the Civil War, Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians bought, sold, and owned Africans and African Americans as slaves, a fact that persisted after the tribes' removal from the Deep South to Indian Territory....

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    • Racism and School Closings in Chicago’s South Side
    • By: Eve L. Ewing
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 149 ratings
    • Eve L. Ewing knows Chicago Public Schools from the inside: as a student, then a teacher, and now a scholar who studies them. And that perspective has shown her that public schools are not buildings full of failures - they're an integral part of their neighborhoods....

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    • By: James D. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 12 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • James Anderson critically reinterprets the history of southern Black education from Reconstruction to the Great Depression. By placing Black schooling within a political, cultural, and economic context, he offers fresh insights into Black commitment to education....

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    • A Memoir of Mischief and Mayhem on a Family Farm in Africa
    • By: Douglas Rogers
    • Narrated by: Kevin Hanssen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • When Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe launched his violent program to reclaim White-owned land and Rogers' parents were caught in the cross fire, everything changed....

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    • A White Boy in Africa
    • By: Peter Godwin
    • Narrated by: Peter Godwin
    • Length: 14 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 132 ratings
    • Rhodesia, 1964: a small boy witnesses the death of his neighbor, murdered by guerrillas - it is the beginning of the end of White rule in Africa. In Mukiwa, Peter Godwin, the witness to that murder, has written a vivid, moving account of growing up in a colony rapidly collapsing....

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    • The British, the Boers, and the Making of South Africa
    • By: Martin Meredith
    • Narrated by: Matthew Waterson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 240 ratings
    • Southern Africa was once regarded as a worthless jumble of British colonies, Boer republics, and African chiefdoms, a troublesome region of little interest to the outside world....

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    • Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement
    • By: Monica M. White, LaDonna Redmond - with
    • Narrated by: Monica M. White
    • Length: 5 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 03-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Freedom Farmers expands the historical narrative of the Black freedom struggle to embrace the work, roles, and contributions of Southern Black farmers and the organizations they formed....

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    • Jim Crow and Its Afterlives
    • By: Adolph L. Reed Jr., Barbara J. Fields - foreword
    • Narrated by: Langston Darby
    • Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • The last generation of Americans with a living memory of Jim Crow will soon disappear. They leave behind a collective memory of segregation shaped increasingly by its horrors and heroic defeat, but not a nuanced understanding of everyday life in Jim Crow America....

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    • By: Ramachandra Guha
    • Narrated by: Derek Perkins
    • Length: 23 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • Using a wealth of previously untapped documents, Ramachandra Guha takes us from Gandhi's birth in 1869 through his upbringing in Gujarat, his two years as a student in London, and his two decades as a lawyer and community organizer in South Africa...

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    • The First African American Explorer of the South
    • By: Robert Goodwin
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • An African slave named Esteban emerges as the nation's first great explorer and adventurer....

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