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When Political Transitions Work
The peaceful end of apartheid in South Africa was a monumental event in late twentieth century history. A racist regime built upon a foundation of colonialist exploitation, South Africa had become by that point a tinderbox: suffused with day-to-day violence and political extremism on all sides. Yet two decades later it was a stable democracy with a growing economy. How did such a deeply divided, conflicted society manage this remarkable transition? In When Political Transitions Work, Fanie du Toit, who has been a participant and close observer in post-conflict developments throughout Africa for decades, offers a new theory for why South Africa's reconciliation worked and why its lessons rema...
Reconciliation in Divided Societies
"As nations struggling to heal wounds of civil war and atrocity turn toward the model of reconciliation, Reconciliation in Divided Societies takes a systematic look at the political dimensions of this international phenomenon. . . . The book shows us how this transformation happens so that we can all gain a better understanding of how, and why, reconciliation really works. It is an almost indispensable tool for those who want to engage in reconciliation"—from the foreword by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu As societies emerge from oppression, war, or genocide, their most important task is to create a civil society strong and stable enough to support democratic governance. More and more co...
Father in Law
When a violently gruesome murder takes place in an overpopulated prison, the police charge the wrong man. A mob connection comes to light as the trial begins with trumped-up evidence and an unexpected kidnapping. Though the defendant is acquitted, an attempted murder and another kidnapping occur. As the action moves to a game reserve, where a crocodile infested river becomes a player, this high stakes crime drama concludes with a riveting and unforgettable finale.
Zimbabwe in Transition
Zimbabwe's Transition to Democracy in the post-independence era has been a very difficult one. To date, there have been a number of sustained efforts by various local, regional and international actors to move Zimbabwe towards democracy as well as attempts to find a lasting solution to the political and economic crises that seriously affected the country's progress from the late 1990s. However, these attempts have been less successful mainly because Zimbabwe has complex political and economic problems, with interlocking national, regional and international political and economic dimensions rooted in both historical and contemporary factors and developments. To understand the complexities of ...
Teaching for Change
Contributors from various theological higher education institutions in South Africa and beyond come together to reflect on the best pedagogical practices to teach on often complex issues of gender, sexual orientation, race, and class, and on how they impact on health in our classrooms, in our churches, and in the communities where we live and work.
The JACK DELANEY CHRONICLES Bookset at WHOLESALE RATES - 60% OFF!
From the pen of TERRY HAYWARD, himself a retired criminal attorney who practised law in South Africa during the apartheid years. An avid wildlife conservationist, Terry has fictionalised a number of his most notorious cases and has linked them to the blight of poaching sweeping the continent of Africa. The result is almost 2,000 pages of non-stop action, adventure, drama and mystery from the court-room to crowded high-rise cities and to the rural remoteness of the African bushveld. In the latest work in the series, THE HANGING TREE, sees lawyer Jack Delaney, and his six-foot-seven Zulu sidekick Moses Dlamini (pronounced Shla-mee-nee), known as the Refrigerator, called in to investigate a kid...
MURDER IS JUST THE WARNING
MURDER in a public park and the daughter of a jailed mob boss is kidnapped - so the action begins. All this violence is just a warning to put pressure on the jailed mobster to prevent him spilling all to the authorities. The mobster’s gardener is arrested for the murder and a lively courtroom drama ensues. The lawyer and his private investigator are hired to find the missing child. The search leads to a mob farm on South Africa's Highveld near Johannesburg, into the highrise slums of Hillbrow then into the township of Soweto. This is followed by a mad dash into neighbouring Zimbabwe to rescue the investigator’s young brother in law from a group of rogue Zimbabwean soldiers involved in rhino horn poaching and reaches its terrifying climax in an encounter with an enraged Hippopotamus in the Limpopo riverbed.
THE HANGING TREE
When the Mob try to purchase a luxury, “big five” game reserve, right next to an international border in South Africa, all hell breaks loose! A kidnapping, aimed to menace the owners of the reserve to sell, becomes the catalyst in a host of actions and re-actions leading to unexpected alliances, coupled with violence, murder and confrontations with the police, lions, elephants and crocodiles in the wild. This interspersed with investigations into the illegal poaching of rhinos and elephants and the smuggling of animal products out of the country coupled with illicit diamond buying and smuggling, the tracking of escaped prisoners, and the parry and thrust of a high stakes courtroom drama, and you have a real page-turner you won’t be able to put down. The action is high octane, keeping the story moving quickly with changing scenes as Jack Delaney follows the clues and investigates the latest exciting mystery !!!
DIVORCE BY MURDER
A South African crime boss institutes divorce proceedings against his wife who defends the action. Later, she is found shot dead in her apartment and the criminal husband charged with her murder. But have the police been too blinkered in their approach and too quick to conclude that the husband’s criminal connections automatically make him the killer? So starts a flying trip to New York by the notorious lawyer, Jack Delaney, to investigate the husband’s mafia connections followed by a trip to a 'Big 5' Game Reserve in South Africa to investigate his criminal connections in the highly illegal, but lucrative, rhino horn and elephant tusk trade. While this shows the husband to be a most uns...
