Three years savage africa

THREE YEARS' WAR CHRISTIAAN RUDOLF DE WET ; Hardcover; Publisher; Scripta Africana A Facsilile Reproduction of the book originally published in the United States of America by Charles Scribner,s and Sons 1902 ; 448 pages; ISBN 94702501 4 Presented to Steve Watt by the Harrismith Historical Society in November 1989. Includes a fold out map " General Map of South Africa - 1902  plus a section showing a map of England and Wales " Condition; Very good; no damage  or browning of the paper ; Only writing as per presentation statement (see photograph) POSTAGE /Shipping  (within SA) ; Considering the value I  recommend Postnet to your closest Postnet branch at a cost of R100.00  (add this cost under Option 2) This R100.00  is for this book or a parcel of books up to 5kg. (  This book weighs 2kg.) so addit. books may be included - up to 5kg for this R100.00  shipping  cost or via a courier to be arranged by the Seller or the Buyer for the account  of the Buyer. Buyers from outside South Africa can contact me for a postal quote.

Portugal's three wars in Africa in Angola, Mozambique and Portuguese Guinea (Guin-Bissau today) lasted almost 13 years - longer than the United States Army fought in Vietnam. Yet they are among the most underreported conflicts of the modern era. Commonly referred to as Lisbon's Overseas War (Guerra do Ultramar) or in the former colonies, the War of Liberation (Guerra de Liberta£o), these struggles played a seminal role in ending white rule in Southern Africa. Though hardly on the scale of hostilities being fought in South East Asia, the casualty count by the time a military coup d'tat took place in Lisbon in April 1974 was significant. It was certainly enough to cause Portugal to call a halt to violence and pull all its troops back to the Metropolis. Ultimately, Lisbon was to move out of Africa altogether, when hundreds of thousands of Portuguese nationals returned to Europe, the majority having left everything they owned behind. Independence for all the former colonies, including the Atlantic islands, followed soon afterwards. Lisbon ruled its African territories for more than five centuries, not always undisputed by its black and mestizo subjects, but effectively enough to create a lasting Lusitanian tradition. That imprint is indelible and remains engraved in language, social mores and cultural traditions that sometimes have more in common with Europe than with Africa. Today, most of the newspapers in Luanda, Maputo - formerly Lourenco Marques - and Bissau are in Portuguese, as is the language taught in their schools and used by their respective representatives in international bodies to which they all subscribe. Indeed, on a recent visit to Central Mozambique in 2013, a youthful member of the American Peace Corps told this author that despite having been embroiled in conflict with the Portuguese for many years in the 1960s and 1970s, he found the local people with whom he came into contact inordinately fond of their erstwhile 'colonial overlords'. As a foreign correspondent, Al Venter covered all three wars over more than a decade, spending lengthy periods in the territories while going on operations with the Portuguese army, marines and air force. In the process he wrote several books on these conflicts, including a report on the conflict in Portuguese Guinea for the Munger Africana Library of the California Institute of Technology. Portugal's Guerrilla Wars in Africa  represents an amalgam of these efforts. At the same time, this book is not an official history, but rather a journalist's perspective of military events as viewed by somebody who has made a career of reporting on overseas wars, Africa's especially. Venter's camera was always at hand; most of the images used between these covers are his. His approach is both intrusive and personal and he would like to believe that he has managed to record for posterity a tiny but vital segment of African history. HARDBACK, 544 PAGES WITH PHOTOS & MAPS Published December 2013

Hardback with unclipped DJ. Queen Anne Press pages. In very good condition with no inscriptions. (see pics below)   "South Africa; The Years of Isolation tells the story of cricket in South Africa from the exile in to the retun to the world stage in and on through the next three years of international competition. Mike Procter records twenty years of cricket behind closed doors, as well as the occasional contact with the outside world provided by 'rebel' tourists. He profiles the star players during those years, many of whom were little known outside South Africa but who would have been internationally acclaimed had they played Test Cricket......."   Please look at my other book listings as I am happy to combine postage should you wish to purchase more than one item. 10% discount will be given for orders of 5 or more books packaged and posted together. Click the link below to see what other books I have for sale  

This is a soldier's story about South African soldiers in southern Angola and Namibia and the enemies they fought. It tells of insurgency and counter-insurgency, guerrilla warfare and counter-guerrilla warfare, almost conventional warfare and conventional warfare. It tells of a conflict which the world saw as unpopular and unjust, in which South Africa was perceived as the aggressor. The South African soldiers who fought in it, however, saw it as a conflict fought to stop what is now Namibia falling into the hands of the Soviet and Cuban-backed SWAPO black nationalist political organisation. After Namibia South Africa would be next. They saw the whole conflict as an extension of the Cold War, but while it was on the frontiers in Europe, in Angola they were fighting a very hot war in Angola. Eventually, after the fall of the Soviet Union, the war was resolved by the democratic solution of UN supervised free and fair elections in Namibia. Since then, regrettably, there has been interference by the ruling party with the democratic constitution put in place in Namibia which has eroded much of that hard won democracy. 32 Battalion, of which Colonel Jan Breytenbach was the founding commander, became the most controversial unit in the South African Army because of the secrecy surrounding it. Its story is virtually the story of the Angolan/Namibian war, because its involvement in it was greater than any other South African unit. The regiment primarily consisted of black troops and NCOs originating from virtually every tribe in Angola. They were led by white South African officers and NCOs. Neither apartheid nor any form of racial discrimination was ever practiced in the unit. There was always a sprinkling of whites originating from countries like Great Britain, the old Rhodesia, Portugal and the USA amongst its leadership cadre, although in the latter stages of its existence this shrank to only a few. Such a presence undoubtedly led to stories circulating that the unit was a led by foreign white mercenaries. While it was true that the black Angolan element could have fallen with the mercenary definition, the whites involved were attested soldiers in the South African Army. In any case, they formed a minority and the vast majority of white officers and NCOs were born South Africans. The unit's aggressiveness and the successes it achieved in the field of battle, often against incredible odds, lay in its spirit and its  espirit de corps. In this respect and in many other ways it compared favourably with the French Foreign Legion. Its story parallels with and reminds one of the British and British Commonwealth Chindits of World War-2, operating behind the Japanese lines in Burma in large formations, out-guerrillaing those who only three years earlier had been regarded in awe as the unbeatable jungle warfare experts. Likewise, 32-Battalion consistently outfought both FAPLA, SWAPO and the Cubans in the Angola bush throughout the war years. It created a problem to which neither they nor their Soviet and East German mentors ever found a solution to. After the 1989 Namibian settlement the unit was with withdrawn to South Africa where they were deployed to effectively deal with MK infiltrations into the north of South Africa. From there, after the unbanning of the ANC in 1990, they were redeployed to deal with political troubles, principally between armed ANC self defense units and armed units of the IFP. The intrusion of black foreigners into the townships who were prepared to deal with troubles robustly and without fear or favour, did not suit either the ANC or the IFP, as they could not be subverted to support local causes because they held no local tribal allegiances. In the end it seems they became something of a bargaining chip at the CODESA negotiations, designed to find a new political dispensation for South Africa. Despite it having borne the brunt of South Africa' war in Angola with the blood of its troops, the National Party Government disgracefully ordered its arbitrary disbandment in March 1993 and the unit ceased to exist. Paperback, 360 pages with photos & maps  

Jeremy Hall’s childhood in the white-ruled apartheid South Africa of the 1950's and ’60s was ostensibly idyllic: growing up in the farming areas of Natal, he had free rein to pander to his keen exploratory mind, yet niggling away was entrenched racism and interracial hatred. Closeted in the hallowed halls of an English-speaking high school, the revelation of the real world that followed — a world of township unrest, Afrikaner politicians issuing dire warnings of the red and black hordes massing on the borders — exploded into Hall’s psyche with his national-service call-up into the South African Defence Force (SADF), where he encountered the institutionalized hatred of the Afrikaner hierarchy for the English-speaking recruits, the  rowe, or ‘scabs’. Disillusioned and unsettled, following his SADF conscription, Hall found himself in 1976 signing on for three years with 2 Commando The Rhodesian Light Infantry as the bush war in that country erupted from a simmering, low-key insurgency into full-blown war. As a paratrooper with this crack airborne unit, he was to see continual combat on Fireforce operations and cross-border raids into Zambia and Mozambique, such as Operation Dingo, the 1977 Rhodesian attack on ZANLA’s Chimoio base.   PAPERBACK: 360 PAGES WITH PHOTOS & MAPS. Published March 2014

Jeremy Halls childhood in the white-ruled apartheid South Africa of the 1950's and 60s was ostensibly idyllic: growing up in the farming areas of Natal, he had free rein to pander to his keen exploratory mind, yet niggling away was entrenched racism and interracial hatred. Closeted in the hallowed halls of an English-speaking high school, the revelation of the real world that followed a world of township unrest, Afrikaner politicians issuing dire warnings of the red and black hordes massing on the borders exploded into Halls psyche with his national-service call-up into the South African Defence Force (SADF), where he encountered the institutionalized hatred of the Afrikaner hierarchy for the English-speaking recruits, the  rowe, or scabs. Disillusioned and unsettled, following his SADF conscription, Hall found himself in 1976 signing on for three years with 2 Commando The Rhodesian Light Infantry as the bush war in that country erupted from a simmering, low-key insurgency into full-blown war. As a paratrooper with this crack airborne unit, he was to see continual combat on Fireforce operations and cross-border raids into Zambia and Mozambique, such as Operation Dingo, the 1977 Rhodesian attack on ZANLAs Chimoio base.   PAPERBACK: 360 PAGES WITH PHOTOS & MAPS. Published March 2014

Author: Mike Procter with Patrick Murphy Publisher: Queen Anne Press () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good. DJ edges a little worn. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 239 Dimensions: 24 x 16 x 3 cm +++ by Mike Procter with Patrick Murphy +++ South Africa: The Years of Isolation and the Return to International Cricket tells the story of cricket in South Africa from the exile in to the return to the world stage in and on through the next three crowded years of international competition.   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.

Subtitle: 60 Years of Jedidiah Blumenthal's Writing Author: Jedidiah Blumenthal Editors: M.Sharon and C. J. Ginsberg Publisher: Maksim Publishers () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good. Corners and spine ends bumped, but the book is internally clean and well bound. General wear to DJ. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 224 Dimensions: 22.7 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm +++ by Jedidiah Blumenthal +++ This volume contains a selection of Jedidiah Blumenthal's prolific literary output. It is a personal account, an exciting documentary of the life of almost three generations as seen through the eyes of one person.   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.

 1893 Three Pence Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek         Features Country South Africa - Pre-Union   Type Common coin Years 1892-1897 Value 3 Pence (0.0125) Metal Silver (.925) Weight 1.41 g Diameter 16.3 mm Thickness 1.04 mm Shape Round Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑ Demonetized yes References KM # 3,  Hern # Z5-10 Obverse Bust of President Johannes Paulus Kruger left Engraver:  Otto Schultz Reverse The facial value surrounded with an olive leaves wreath, and the abbreviated name of the Republic (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek) Lettering:   Z.A.R 18 3 92 Engraver:  Otto Schultz Edge Smooth Comments Johannes Paulus Kruger (1825-1904), a prominent Boer leader against British rule and president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republic (1883 to 1902) later became the Transvaal Colony of the English and then the Transvaal Province of the Union of South Africa.

 1897 Three Pence Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek         Features Country South Africa - Pre-Union   Type Common coin Years 1892-1897 Value 3 Pence (0.0125) Metal Silver (.925) Weight 1.41 g Diameter 16.3 mm Thickness 1.04 mm Shape Round Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑ Demonetized yes References KM # 3,  Hern # Z5-10 Obverse Bust of President Johannes Paulus Kruger left Engraver:  Otto Schultz Reverse The facial value surrounded with an olive leaves wreath, and the abbreviated name of the Republic (Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek) Lettering:   Z.A.R 18 3 92 Engraver:  Otto Schultz Edge Smooth Comments Johannes Paulus Kruger (1825-1904), a prominent Boer leader against British rule and president of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republic (1883 to 1902) later became the Transvaal Colony of the English and then the Transvaal Province of the Union of South Africa.  

Authors: Randall Jay Moore with Christopher Munnion Inscribed by both authors on the ffep with a whimsical flower in an elephant's foot drawn by Randall Moore. Publisher: Southern Book Publishers () ISBN-10: ISBN-13: Condition: Very Good. Boards a little shelf worn. Booksellers label on the paste-down. DJ has light wear at top of spine, some scratching and wrinkling of laminate at rear. Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket Pages: 155 Dimensions: 25 x 17 x 1.8 cm +++ by Randall Jay Moore with Christopher Munnion (With Authors' Inscription) +++ Back to Africa is the story of Ray Moore's quest to return three circus trained African elephants to the land of their birth in the Pilansberg Nature reserve. It began at Elephant Mountain, a farmyard of exotic animals in a snow-bound wildlife park in Washinton State, belonging to circus trainer Morgan Berry. On Morgan's death, with the fate of the African trio uncertain, Randall decides to take the elephants back to Africa. Inscribed by both authors on the ffep with a whimsical flower in an elephant's foot drawn by Randall Moore.   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.

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

 SOUTH·AFRICA· 1926 ·ZUID·AFRIKA 1 Penny - as per scan       Features Country South Africa   Type Common coin Years 1926-1930 Value 1 Penny (1/240) Metal Bronze Weight 9.45 g Diameter 31 mm Thickness 2.04 mm Shape Round Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑ Demonetized yes References KM # 14.2,  Hern # S85-90       Obverse King George V crowned bust left Lettering:  GEORGIVS V REX IMPERATOR Translation:  George the Fifth King Emperor Engraver:   Edgar Bertram MacKennal     Reverse A ship, 'Dromedaris', sailing to right, legend in English and Afrikaans either side, with date above and denomination below Lettering:   SOUTH·AFRICA· 1926 ·ZUID·AFRIKA * PENNY * Engraver:   George Edward Kruger Gray     Edge Plain Comments The Dromedaris is one of the three vessels which brought Jan van Riebeeck and his small group of settlers to South Africa from Holland in 1652 in order to establish a refreshment station on behalf of the Dutch East India Company    

 SOUTH·AFRICA· 1927 ·ZUID·AFRIKA 1 Penny - as per scan       Features Country South Africa   Type Common coin Years 1926-1930 Value 1 Penny (1/240) Metal Bronze Weight 9.45 g Diameter 31 mm Thickness 2.04 mm Shape Round Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑ Demonetized yes References KM # 14.2,  Hern # S85-90           Obverse King George V crowned bust left Lettering:  GEORGIVS V REX IMPERATOR Translation:  George the Fifth King Emperor Engraver:   Edgar Bertram MacKennal     Reverse A ship, 'Dromedaris', sailing to right, legend in English and Afrikaans either side, with date above and denomination below Lettering:   SOUTH·AFRICA· 1927 ·ZUID·AFRIKA * PENNY * Engraver:   George Edward Kruger Gray     Edge Plain Comments The Dromedaris is one of the three vessels which brought Jan van Riebeeck and his small group of settlers to South Africa from Holland in 1652 in order to establish a refreshment station on behalf of the Dutch East India Company      

 SOUTH·AFRICA· 1931·ZUID·AFRIKA   ½ Penny - George V  ½D   Features Country South Africa   Type Common coin Years 1931-1936 Value 1/2 Penny (1/480) Metal Bronze Weight 5.67 g Diameter 25.6 mm Thickness 1.76 mm Shape Round Orientation Medal alignment ↑↑ Demonetized yes References KM # 13.3,  Hern # S52-57 Obverse King George V crowned bust left Lettering:  GEORGIVS V REX IMPERATOR Translation:  George V King Emperor Engraver:   Edgar Bertram MacKennal     Reverse A ship, 'Dromedaris', sailing to right, legend in English and Afrikaans either side, with date above and denomination below Lettering:   SOUTH·AFRICA · /date/ · SUID·AFRIKA KG * ½ D * Engraver:   George Edward Kruger Gray     Edge Plain Comments   The Dromedaris is one of the three vessels which brought Jan van Riebeeck and his small group of people to South Africa from Holland in 1652 in order to establish a refreshment station on behalf of the Dutch East India Company.