Previously black

BLACK EAGLE: One of our government's finest secret agents is dispatched to the island of Malta to retrieve an American jet plane which crashed behind enemy lines. The plane was carrying a top secret laser guidance system, and our-man-in-Malta must locate it before it falls into the hands of the Russians. His task is made all the more difficult by the fact that he has his children on vacation with him on the (now quite dangerous) isle. Daddy must somehow manage to save the "free" world while at the same time keeping one anxious eye on his own vulnerable offspring. WAY OF THE DRAGON: At last - the complete uncut version. After 29 years of waiting, ‘Way of the Dragon' is now available to audiences as director Bruce Lee intended. Now re-instated are the 10 minutes of incredible high- impact fight footage previously prohibited. In this high-kicking martial arts thriller, a young man (Bruce Lee) is called to Rome to help a family friend whose restaurant is being targeted by local gangsters. Used to getting their own way, these ruthless men make the mistake of underestimating the young man's ingenuity. When they are unable to get rid of him, they call in an international martial arts champion (Chuck Norris), creating the ultimate clash of kung fu masters in the ancient city's majestic coliseum. KING OF ROBBERS: Get ready to get even. Leverage is a slick and crafty drama following a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford (Academy Award-winner Timothy Hutton) gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists. While working a con on a corrupt County judge in an outlying desert town,the team gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery... and Nate and Sophie are taken as hostages, along with their mark. Now, they must not only find a way to keep their own con going without being discovered,but must figure out how to help two very desperate – and very amateur – armed robbers. 13LV

ENGLAND, 1840.Black and red penny, both seems like plate 5???, Nice margins, Black penny cxd with Red maltese cross, close cuts on left and right margins, Red penny with black maltese cross, according to SG the Red penny CV alone is +-R3230.00. , used, previously  hinged. View scans for  condition as it form part of the description, CV +/-R 9500.00. Note, display card not in cluded, and,  t he horizontal lines across the images are due to   the display card that we use to scan items.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

My Reference: 1302809 Medium Item Shipping Condition: Please judge the condition from the scan Condition: CTO Catalogue: SG MS1068  Scott SC 1119 a-j SACC 555 - 564 (565) Tags: No. 1119: a, Gabar goshawk. b, Umbrella thorn tree. c, Red-billed queleas. d, Burchell’s zebras . e, Elephant. f, Blue wildebeest. g, Mustard tree . h, Black emperor dragonfly . i, Springbok. j, Ground agama  Postcard Rate  

Z.AFR.REPUBLIEK, 1893. ½ Pence   Surcharge in black. Single with variety, surcharge 1/2 Pence 2, used, previously hinged.  Not in greatest of condition.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description,  CV R ???.00.  Note, display card not  included, and,  t he horizontal line across the images are due to   the display card that we use to scan items.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

TRANSVAAL  1878. Victorian "EEN PENNY" in black. Used previously hinged with wing margin. View scans for condition as it form part of the description,  CV+- R150.00. Note, display card not included, water spot at back, either "offset" or another stamps "overprint" imprinted on back ?????.                                    

Z.AFR.REPUBLIEK, 1893. 1  Penny   Surcharge in black. Single with variety, broken bar and overprint shifted up, mint, previously hinged.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description,  CV R ???.00.  Note, display card not  included, and,  t he horizontal line across the images are due to   the display card that we use to scan items.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

The ideal rubber for attacking players who previously used soft rubbers with speed glue. ACUDA S2 is a fast rubber with a medium soft large pored sponge. This produces fast speeds and has a uniquely loud sound. ACUDA S2 is well suited both for close to the table and away from the table game. It will give an advantage in topspin/topspin duels. This rubber is particularly enjoyable to play with because of its precise feel.  Sponge hardness: medium- Playing characteristics: spin-optimized, soft and fast, with perfect control.  Recommended for: Power allrounders and attacking players. Speed  103  Spin  107  Control  85  Hardness  medium 

This is the story of the sinking of the SS Mendi during WW1, the bravery of the men on board and the ensuing inquiry conducted by the Board of Trade in London. The story follows the small band of survivors to France where they complete their tour of duty. The First World War rages in Europe, it is a white mans war, but when the British government calls for 10 000 black soldiers to be sent to France as a labour force, men from around South Africa volunteer for service. In the foothills of the Drakensberg, Kula Hlongwane, an amaNgwane prince steps forward, followed by a group of his tribesmen. Madondo is ordered to accompany them. For him it is a nightmare from which there is no escape. When crossing the English Channel on the troopship, the SS Mendi, lights loom out of the thick black fog, then a siren blasts. With no time to avoid the collision, the Mendi is struck a devastating blow on the starboard side where Kula and his men lie sleeping. Within minutes, the Mendi begins to sink. The book makes use of various historical documents and the transcripts from the inquiry held in London by the Board of Trade to establish causality for the large loss of life. On conclusion of the inquiry, these transcripts were declared secret and concealed from view for the next 50 years. Men of the Mendi gives an in depth account of the inquiry and the apparent reason for the cover-up.  At 5 am on 21 February 1917, in thick fog about 10 nautical miles (19 km) south of St. Catherine's Point on the Isle of Wight, the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company cargo ship Darro accidentally rammed Mendi's starboard quarter, breaching her forward hold. Darro was an 11,484 GRT ship, much larger than Mendi, sailing in ballast to Argentina to load meat. Darro survived the collision but Mendi sank, killing 616 South Africans (607 of them black troops) and 30 crew. Some men were killed outright in the collision; others were trapped below decks. Many others gathered on Mendi's deck as she listed and sank. Oral history records that the men met their fate with great dignity. An interpreter, Isaac Williams Wauchope, who had previously served as a Minister in the Congregational Native Church of Fort Beaufort and Blinkwater, is reported to have calmed the panicked men by raising his arms aloft and crying out in a loud voice: "Be quiet and calm, my countrymen. What is happening now is what you came to do...you are going to die, but that is what you came to do. Brothers, we are drilling the death drill. I, a Xhosa, say you are my brothers...Swazis, Pondos, Basotho...so let us die like brothers. We are the sons of Africa. Raise your war-cries, brothers, for though they made us leave our assegais in the kraal, our voices are left with our bodies." The damaged Darro did not stay to assist. But Brisk lowered her boats, whose crews then rescued survivors. The investigation into the accident led to a formal hearing in summer 1917, held in Caxton Hall, Westminster. It opened on 24 July, sat for five days spread over the next fortnight, and concluded on 8 August. The court found Darro's Master, Henry W Stump, guilty of "having travelled at a dangerously high speed in thick fog, and of having failed to ensure that his ship emitted the necessary fog sound signals." It suspended Stump's licence for a year. Stump's decision not to help Mendi's survivors has been a source of controversy. One source states that it was because of the risk of attack by enemy submarines. Certainly Darro was vulnerable, both as a large merchant ship and having sustained damage that put her out of action for up to three months. But some historians have suggested that racial prejudice influenced Stump's decision, and others hold that he merely lost his nerve. Softcover, 320 pages. First published: February 2017

MEN OF ACTION BOXSET Synopsis: BLACK EAGLE: One of our government's finest secret agents is dispatched to the island of Malta to retrieve an American jet plane which crashed behind enemy lines. The plane was carrying a top secret laser guidance system, and our-man-in-Malta must locate it before it falls into the hands of the Russians. His task is made all the more difficult by the fact that he has his children on vacation with him on the (now quite dangerous) isle. Daddy must somehow manage to save the "free" world while at the same time keeping one anxious eye on his own vulnerable offspring. WAY OF THE DRAGON: At last - the complete uncut version. After 29 years of waiting, ‘Way of the Dragon’ is now available to audiences as director Bruce Lee intended. Now re-instated are the 10 minutes of incredible high- impact fight footage previously prohibited. In this high-kicking martial arts thriller, a young man (Bruce Lee) is called to Rome to help a family friend whose restaurant is being targeted by local gangsters. Used to getting their own way, these ruthless men make the mistake of underestimating the young man's ingenuity. When they are unable to get rid of him, they call in an international martial arts champion (Chuck Norris), creating the ultimate clash of kung fu masters in the ancient city's majestic coliseum. KING OF ROBBERS: Get ready to get even. Leverage is a slick and crafty drama following a team of expert thieves that take down corrupt corporations in elaborate high-tech schemes. Insurance investigator Nate Ford (Academy Award-winner Timothy Hutton) gets even as the leader of a specialized team of thieves, computer experts and con artists. While working a con on a corrupt County judge in an outlying desert town,the team gets caught in the middle of a bank robbery... and Nate and Sophie are taken as hostages, along with their mark. Now, they must not only find a way to keep their own con going without being discovered,but must figure out how to help two very desperate – and very amateur – armed robbers.   Starring: Jean Calude Van Damme Bruce Lee   Category: Action   Age Restriction: 13 LV

Lee, Emanoel -  To The Bitter End: A Photographic History of the Boer War - Guild Publishing - pp, indexed, black and white photographs - Hardcover with dustcover: good - Internally: clean and tightly bound. Postage & packaging R This book is written around a unique collection of photographs taken during the Boer War, the majority previously unpublished.

Subtitle: Class and Community Struggles in South Africa Author: Baruch Hirson Publisher: Witwatersrand University Press () Edition: 2nd Impression ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good Binding: Softcover Pages: 230 Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.5 x 1.7 cm +++ by Baruch Hirson +++ A history of the making of the black working class in South Africa covering the period , when South Africa's rapid industrialization created a huge increase in the working class, and uncontrolled urbanization generated vast shanty towns around all the big industrial centres. Set in this environment - and illustrated with many previously unpublished photographs - this rich history of political conflict goes beyond the traditional focus of the mining and factory workplace to include the community struggles of the urban ghettos and rural reserves.   A passion for books and a passion for collecting fine editions was the recipe that created the successful group of bookshops in Johannesburg called Bookdealers. The group started thirty years ago with one store in the quirky suburb of Yeoville and has grown through the years to a total of five shops, plus our online sales. Bookdealers is well-known for its collectable and used books. We also have a large variety of remaindered books sourced from around the world.  If you collect from one of our five branches there is no delivery charge. We also offer postal delivery (when available) and courier delivery, subject to a quote.

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This is the story of Comrade September, a member of the ANC and its military wing, MK. He was abducted from his hideout in Swaziland by an apartheid death squad in August 1986 and taken across the border to South Africa, where his interrogation and torture began. It was not long before September began telling his captors about his comrades in the ANC. By talking under torture, September underwent changes that marked him for the rest of his life: from resister to collaborator, insurgent to counter-insurgent, revolutionary to counter-revolutionary and, to his former comrades, hero to traitor. This book is about these changes and about the larger, neglected story of betrayal and collaboration in the struggle against apartheid. It seeks to understand why September made the choices he didcollaborating with his captors, turning against the ANC, and then hunting down his comradeswithout excusing those choices. Looking beyond the black and white that still dominates South Africa’s political canvas, the book examines the grey zones in which South Africans, combatants and noncombatant, lived. It seeks to contribute to scholarly attempts to elaborate a denser, richer and more nuanced account of South Africa’s modern political history. It does so by examining the history of political violence in South Africa; by looking at the workings of an apartheid death squad in an attempt to understand how the apartheid bureaucracy worked; and, more importantly, by studying the social, moral and political universe in which apartheid collaborators like September lived and worked. Paperback, 320 pages About the Author Jacob Dlamini is at present a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Research Associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP), University of the Witwatersrand. He holds a PhD from Yale University. Previously he worked as a journalist and was at one time the political editor of Business Day. His book Native Nostalgia (Jacana, 2009), about growing up in the township of Katlehong on the Witwatersrand, has won great acclaim.

This is the story of Comrade September, a member of the ANC and its military wing, MK. He was abducted from his hideout in Swaziland by an apartheid death squad in August 1986 and taken across the border to South Africa, where his interrogation and torture began. It was not long before September began telling his captors about his comrades in the ANC. By talking under torture, September underwent changes that marked him for the rest of his life: from resister to collaborator, insurgent to counter-insurgent, revolutionary to counter-revolutionary and, to his former comrades, hero to traitor. This book is about these changes and about the larger, neglected story of betrayal and collaboration in the struggle against apartheid. It seeks to understand why September made the choices he didcollaborating with his captors, turning against the ANC, and then hunting down his comradeswithout excusing those choices. Looking beyond the black and white that still dominates South Africas political canvas, the book examines the grey zones in which South Africans, combatants and noncombatant, lived. It seeks to contribute to scholarly attempts to elaborate a denser, richer and more nuanced account of South Africas modern political history. It does so by examining the history of political violence in South Africa; by looking at the workings of an apartheid death squad in an attempt to understand how the apartheid bureaucracy worked; and, more importantly, by studying the social, moral and political universe in which apartheid collaborators like September lived and worked. Paperback, 320 pages About the Author Jacob Dlamini is at present a Visiting Fellow at Harvard University and a Research Associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP), University of the Witwatersrand. He holds a PhD from Yale University. Previously he worked as a journalist and was at one time the political editor of Business Day. His book Native Nostalgia (Jacana, 2009), about growing up in the township of Katlehong on the Witwatersrand, has won great acclaim.

ST VINCENT, 1946. End of World War II.      WM: 4    Perf: 13 ½. Full set, mint, previously hinged. Black mark on back of 1 ½ d.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description, CV +/-R 3.50. Note, display card not  included, and,  t he horizontal lines across the images are due to   the display card that we use to scan items.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

SOUTH SHETLANDS, 1944.   Falklands Islands Postage Stamps Overprinted "SOUTH SHETLANDS    DEPENDENCY OF".  WM: 1  Perf: 12.  Full set, m int, previously hinged. Black paper remains on back. View scans for  condition as it form part of the description,  CV +-R 288.00. Note, display card not  included.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

CYPRUS TURKISH, 1978. Europe.  WM: None  Perf: 13. Full  set, m int, previously hinged. Black mark and gum disturbance on back.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description,  CV +-R 45.00. Note, display card not  included.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

IRELAND, 1957.  The 100th Anniversary of the Birth of John Redmond.   WM: 2    Perf:  14 x  15.  Full set, used, previously hinged. Black marks on back of 3 P.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description, CV +/-R  245.00.  Note, display card not  included, and,  t he horizontal lines across the images are due to   the display card that we use to scan items.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

This all new work by accomplished military historian Alexandre Binda, former paymaster to the Greys Scouts, tables the remarkable story of Rhodesias mounted infantry, the Greys Scouts. Working closely with the last commanding officer, squadron commanders and a whole host of regimental personalities, all of whom have given The Equus Men their unequivocal support Binda has enjoyed unparalled access to thousands of pages of archival documents and many hundreds of previously unpublished photographs. Here, he has traced the Greys from their early origins in the Matabele Rebellion of 1896, where an unassuming Englishman, the Honourable George Grey, found himself originating a body of horseman named the Bulawayo Field Force, through to the formation of the Animal Transport Unit (ATU) which went on to become the Mounted Infantry Unit (MIU). With the skill of a practiced narrator, Binda takes the reader through these early days to the establishment of the Greys Scouts in the Rhodesian Army order of battle in 1976. Deployed to great effect during the bitter Rhodesian Bush War of the late 1960s 1970s, the mounted operations conducted by the Greys are succinctly and clearly detailed. Some of the contacts related make for astonishing reads and with the lively, vibrant, text one can almost feel the steaming sweat of rider and mount; sense the pounding adrenaline; hear the thundering hooves as a fearful enemy is pursued to battles inevitable conclusion. Suffice to say, The Equus Men makes for an engaging read. Trained and utilised as mounted infantry as opposed to cavalry, the Greys Scouts saw exceptional success in the field. Lightly equipped, they were able to cover great distances at speed, live off the veldt with minimal support and through shock action, quickly engage and destroy insurgent forces. Originally a regular formation, the Greys Scouts were augmented by Territorial and National Service soldiers as the conflict progressed and by 1980, when hostilities ceased, the Regiment numbered some 600 soldiers, both men and women, black and white. With its informative text and rich profusion of photographs, The Equus Men is a stunning tribute to the equestrian and fighting prowess of the Greys Scouts. It is a remarkable story and one that is ever more relevant, given recent mounted and pack horse operations conducted by British and US special forces in Afghanistan. Hardcover, 288 pages with  approx 300 colour & b/w photos, 4 maps. First published  1 February 2016.

S.W.A., 1963.  Red Cross Centenary.  WM: None   Perf:  14.    Full set, mint, previously hinged. Black/brown dot on back of 15c.  View scans  for  condition as it form part of the description,  CV R 135.00. Note, display card not  included.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

AUSTRALIA, 1990. Colonial Stamps of Australia - Goldrush  WM: None. Perf:  13.  Strip of 5,  mint, previously   hin ged. Black mark on back.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description, CV +/ R 48.00.  Note, display card not included, and,  t he horizontal line across the images are due to   the display card that we use to scan items.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             

CAYMAN ISLANDS, 1949. The 75th Anniversary of Universal Postal Union.   WM: 5   Perf: 11 x 11½.   Set of 4, mint, previously hinged. Cream gum and some black album remains on back.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description, CV +/- R 63.00.  Note, display card not included.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            

CYPRUS TURKISH, 1978. Europe.  WM: None  Perf: 13. Full  set, m int, previously hinged. Black mark and gum disturbance on back.  View scans for  condition as it form part of the description,  CV +/-R 45.00. Note, display card not  included  , and,  t he line across the images are due to   the display card that we use to scan items.