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20 books about Apartheid

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On 17th June 1991 South Africa ended apartheid. To under what is like under the apartheid with these books
 
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Mandela's  iconic autobiography detailing his youth,activism , 27 year in  prison, and rise to presidency
Long Walk To Freedom: Nelson Mandela Autobiography
 
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Candid, funny and painful stories from the comedian illegal existence as a mixed race child under apartheid
Born A Crime: Stories from South Africa
 
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A moving look at the truth and reconciliation commission from the Archibishop who lead it
No Future Without Forgiveness: South Africa's TRC
 
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Memoir of a anti-apartheid activist and judge who survived a car bombing
Soft Vengeance of a Freedom Fighter
 
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A white Afrikaner confront his family's racist past and his country's brutal reality
My Traitor's Heart: South African Exile Returns
 
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A psychologist who worked with apartheid torturers explores the meaning of forgiveness
A Human Being Died That Night: South African Apartheid
 
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Investgation into the TRC testimony reveals the complexity of language , memory and trauma
There Was This Goat: Truth Commission Testimony
 
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The life of ANC intelligance operative ,exile and later a senior government official
Songs and Secrets
 
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A complicated portrayal of Winnie Mandela life based interviews and documents
Truth, lies and alibis: A Winnie Mandela story
 
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A white women coming of age in apartheid South Africa and subsequent exile
If You Can Walk You Can Dance
 
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The first black women who published an autograph in south africia; activist,teacher and surviour
Call Me Woman (Picador Africa Heritage Series)
 
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Based on real events , a raw portrayal of black women's resistance and survival
And They Didn't Die: A Novel
 
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A Jewish South African and her husband (both activist) recount life under surveillance  and eventual escape
The World That Was Ours
 
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A searing account of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission by a journalist  who covered its proceeding
Country of my skull
 
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A comprehensive history that explains how apartheid come to power and how it collasped
The Rise And Fall Of Apartheid: Racial Domination To Majority Rule
 
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A detailed and accessible overview of apartheid roots,law and consequences
Apartheid: A History
 
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Explores how South Africans wrtier navigated the physical and political of landscape of apartheid and transition
Apartheid and Beyond: South African Writers
 
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An overview of South Africa's poltical evolution in 1980's and early 1990's
South Africa: The Struggle for a New Order
 
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Investigative jourlism exposing the state-sanctioned death squads and extrajudicial killings
In the Heart of the Whore: Apartheid Death Squads
 
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First hand interviews with former members of the aparthied  state's covert operations
Into the Heart of Darkness: Apartheid Assassins