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Waiting - The Whites of South Africa By: Vincent Crapanzano A first edition hardcover published by Granada in Black cover boards with silver writing to the spine, binding is tight & strong, tape residue marks on front & rear flyleaves, dustjacket is complete, clean & bright. Postage within South Africa R Overseas Customers can contact us for a Postage Quote

 Lot: The Whites of South Africa (1985),  Afrikaner Volkseenheid (1959) & Louis Leipoldt Booklet (1980).   All items are in EXCELLENT CONDITION.   FOREIGN BIDDERS TO PAY USING BOB BUCKS - SHIPPING WILL BE DISCUSSED NO PERSONAL COLLECTION OF ITEMS PAYMENT TO BE MADE IN 7 DAYS OR AN SNC WILL BE FILED SEE SHIPPING.  

 WAITING: THE WHITES OF SOUTH AFRICA. (1985) by Vincent Crapanzano. The book explores the process of decolonisation throughout the southern african region with respect to Rhodesia, Angola and Mozambique as experienced by the individual. At the time of writing, South Africa's white population were coming to terms with the notion of political change and eventual majority rule which seemed inevitable. The personal narratives presented, express the emotions and views held by many white South Africans in response to the winds of change that were sweeping across the continent.  The hardcover book is in good condition and has no foxing or stains. Spine is intact and all pages are present.

 Waiting: The Whites of South Africa (1985) FIRST EDITION - Vincent Crapanzano 350 PAGES ALL PAGES ARE PRESENT, SPINE IS PERFECT.   AN ACCOUNT OF DIFFERENT SOUTH AFRICANS EXPRESSING THEIR ACCOUNTS OF HAVING LIVED IN VARIOUS FORMER COLONIES AND THEIR ADJUSTMENT TO AFRICAN MAJORITY RULE.  THEMES EXPLORE AND RECOUNT THE BIOGRAPHIES OF THOSE WHO ONCE LIVED IN ANGOLA, MOZAMBIQUE & RHODESIA - AND HOW THEIR EXPERIENCES ARE RELEVANT TO THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXT.   FOREIGN BIDDERS TO PAY USING BOB BUCKS - QUOTED SHIPPING  NO COLLECTIONS  PAYMENT IN 7 DAYS OR SNC SEE SHIPPING.

REALLY INSIDE BOSS: A Tale of South Africas late Intelligence Service (And Something about the CIA) PC Swanepoel Authors Foreword: This book was initially conceived of as nothing else but a commentary on James Sanders' APARTHEIDS FRIENDS THE RISE AND FALL OF SOUTH AFRICA'S SECRET SERVICE which appeared in 2006. Its name was suggested by INSIDE BOSS, a book written 25 years earlier and copiously made use of by Sanders. For one reason or another commentary seemed to end up as something else. I felt called upon to undertake this task. Having served in the National Intelligence Service and its predecessors for more than 34 years, my colleagues and I never considered ourselves "Apartheid's Friends". Most of us were opposed to "petty apartheid". We tried to be apolitical and objective. It is true that I saw merit in what came to be called "grand apartheid", the ideal of a Federation of Southern African States,  in which my own people, the Afrikaners, would control their own (albeit a small) portion or portions of the country. I even propounded, in print in 1965, the creation of a homeland for whites. Later I was to replace "whites with "Afrikaners defined as "Afrikaans speaking people, irrespective of their race, colour or creed". (This switch to a more inclusive world-view occurred before I discovered that I was a descendant of Eva Krokoa, the Khoekoen (or Hottentot) girl, who grew up, (circa 1655) in Jan Van Riebeeck's house in Cape Town!) In a sense this book also sets out to highlight the role played covertly against the previous South African government by Western, as against communist forces.  Curiously enough, there appears to be reluctance on the part of British and American commentators to deal with this issue. The book is not a literary work. English is not the writer's first language. The reason why it was written in English was to enable the James Sanders of this world to read it. Numerous and often lengthy verbatim quotations are included. The sources are identified in the script and not in footnotes Pretoria, May, 2007.

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  

Hard cover with dust cover, 186 pages. Very good condition. Under 1kg. This study profiles the lives of 60 eminent Black Africans who have reached the top of their professions and social hierarchy in South African society despite a political system designed to maintain the pre-eminence of Whites. It outlines their backgrounds, and their perceptions of a new South Africa and argues that White fears of a Black South African government destroying the economy of South Africa are unfounded. The individuals chosen for the study represent business, religion, the professions and community life, and therefore seeks to represent those who are poised to play a decisive role in the transformation of South Africa as white domination comes under threat.