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Authors: David Lurie and Rian Malan Photographer: David Lurie Text: Rian Malan. Publisher: William Waterman Publications () Edition: First Edition Condition: Fine Binding: Softcover Pages: 83 Dimensions: 22.5 x 25 x 0.7 cm +++ by David Lurie & Rian Malan +++ Life in the Liberated Zone is a volume of photographs documenting the years spent by photographer David Lurie in the squatter camps in the area outside Cape Town known as the Cape Flats. It is intended as a testament to the victims of the poverty and social division caused by Apartheid.    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.

Magnus Malan - My life with the SA Defence Force - Protea - 2006 - Hard gloss in very good, clean and tight condition. As a schoolboy at the age of thirteen, Magnus Malan had already run away to join what was then the Union Defence Force. This was to no avail, of course, but ever since he was permitted to join the Physical Training Battalion in 1946, for a period of some 45 years, his career and life has been closely entwined with the South African Defence Force. Malan’s military career took him to many places in Southern Africa: Robben Island, the former South West Africa, where the Territorial Force was charged with protecting the South African Mandate territory, to the Military Academy in Saldanha and the Castle in Cape Town. As Chief of the Army and later Chief of the Defence Force he was closely involved in South Africa’s incursion into Angola in 1975 and 1976, and also in many cross-border operations in the years thereafter. Malan then entered politics, and will be particularly remembered as Minister of Defence during the troubled 1980s. Malan offers a brief account of the influence that political developments in Southern Africa since 1960 had on the structures and functions of the South African Defence Force; on the successes of Armscor, and on South Africa’s nuclear arms capability. He also provides valuable context for a period of many political and military events; a period of immense importance to the present generation and their descendants, but which has become almost forgotten. The book pays tribute to all those who contributed to the successes of the South African Defence Force and Armscor in a critical era of our history.  

As a schoolboy at the age of thirteen, Magnus Malan had already run away to join what was then the Union Defence Force. This was to no avail, of course, but ever since he was permitted to join the Physical Training Battalion in 1946, for a period of some 45 years, his career and life has been closely entwined with the South African Defence Force. Malan's military career took him to many places in Southern Africa: Robben Island, the former South West Africa, where the Territorial Force was charged with protecting the South African Mandate territory, to the Military Academy in Saldanha and the Castle in Cape Town. As Chief of the Army and later Chief of the Defence Force he was closely involved in South Africa's incursion into Angola in 1975 and 1976, and also in many cross-border operations in the years thereafter. Malan then entered politics, and will be particularly remembered as Minister of Defence during the troubled 1980s. Malan offers a brief account of the influence that political developments in Southern Africa since 1960 had on the structures and functions of the South African Defence Force; on the successes of Armscor, and on South Africa's nuclear arms capability. He also provides valuable context for a period of many political and military events; a period of immense importance to the present generation and their descendants, but which has become almost forgotten. The title pays tribute to all those who contributed to the successes of the South African Defence Force and Armscor in a critical era of our history. Hardcover, 509 pages.  Published 2006 General Magnus Andr de Merindol Malan SSA SD OMSG SM MP (30 January 1930 18 July 2011)  was the Minister of Defence in the cabinet of President P. W. Botha, Chief of the South African Defence Force (SADF) and Chief of the South African Army. He died peacefully at home on Monday 18 July 2011

My Life with the S. A. Defence Force By: Magnus Malan A first edition hardcover published by Protea BookHouse in  2006 Picture cover boards are clean & bright, binding is tight & strong, no marks or inscriptions, dustjacket is complete clean & bright a very nice copy Postage within South Africa R50.00 Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postal Quotation abe #  

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DF Malan and the Rise of Afrikaner Nationalism - Lindie Koorts - Tafelberg -pp, indexed, black and white photographs - Paperback. Postage & packaging R Yet, when Malan was asked on his deathbed about the most important service he had rendered during his political career, he answered, ‘that I could serve my nation; that I could unite my people’. This biography tries to understand this dichotomy: how a man who earnestly sought to unite and to protect a people could also contribute to a legacy that continues to scar a country. The book introduces the reader to Malan the man: the shy, bookish young boy, the distracted intellectual who once left home with his slippers on, the uncertain lover and the thinker who spent hours preparing his speeches, first for church sermons and then for parliamentary debates. The rise in Afrikaner nationalism in the years after the Anglo-Boer War offers the backdrop to Malan’s personal and political life. This growing movement spurs him on to leave the church to become editor of  Die Burger  and provincial leader of the National Party. This book therefore also offers a gripping behind-the-scenes account of Afrikaner nationalist politics. Not only for history buffs, this is a fresh account of an old history.

Jannie Momberg, The Memoirs of an Afrikaner with a conscience  - From Malan to Mbeki - Benedic Books - pp, indexed, photographs - Hard saof cover as new. Postage & packaging R “I worked for the NP and voted for it for 30 years of my life. However, I crossed my Rubicon. When I did so, it was with my heart as well as with my mind. I admitted my guilt and apologised for it.­” Jannie Momberg – .­Some people said he was a traitor of the Afrikaner politics. Others regarded him as a courageous senior politician who was willing to relinquish the National Party (NP), to embrace and help build the New South Africa.­In this book, Jannie Momberg takes the reader on a fascinating journey, filled with humorous anecdotes in his famous tell-­it-­like-­it-­is style. It tells of his early days as member of the NP when he was influenced by Afrikaner leaders like DF Malan, John Vorster and PW Botha and of his breakaway to the Independent Party and the subsequent forming of the Democratic Party in the late ’s when he fulfilled his life-­long ambition to become a Member of Parliament.­Jannie was not only a senior politician, he was also a legendary sport administrator and manager of the world famous barefoot athlete Zola Budd.­Soon after he wrote the last chapter for this book, Jannie Momberg passed away on 7 January .