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Product Description: When apartheid ended in 1994, a radiant optimism suggested a bright future for the new, unified South Africa. But today, even in the midst of a vibrant economy, the cumulative effect of the country’s corrosive past—three hundred years of colonialism, the Anglo-Boer War, the displacement, dispossession, and disenfranchisement of millions of people, and the ravages of racism and capitalist exploitation—continues to eat away at what Desmond Tutu admiringly called “the Rainbow Nation...read more

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9780857421746 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 15, 2013, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: When apartheid ended in 1994, a radiant optimism suggested a bright future for the new, unified South Africa.

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Product Description: One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career. Part One of Skinned contains poems about writing, family and love poems...read more

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9781609804633 | Seven Stories Pr, May 7, 2013, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: One of South Africa’s greatest living poets selects from her most recent poems and also from the poems and the themes that best represent her from across her long career.

Miscellaneous:

9781415202395 | New Holland Pub Ltd, May 13, 2011, cover price $13.99

Miscellaneous:

9781415203385 | New Holland Pub Ltd, May 13, 2011, cover price $13.99

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Product Description: In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them. What does this metamorphosis entail and in what ways are we affected by it? How do we live through it and what may we become on our journey toward each other, particularly when the space and places form which we depart are – at least on the surface – so vastly different?Ranging freely and often wittily across many terrains, this brave book by one of South Africa’s foremost writers and poets provides a unique and compelling discourse on living creatively in Africa toda...read more

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9780958446846 | Random House Struik, March 1, 2009, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In times of fundamental change, people tend to find a space, lose it and the find another space as life and the world transform around them.

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Product Description: In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog’s stoep. In Begging to Be Black, Krog begins by exploring her position in this controversial case. From there the book ranges widely in scope, both in time – reaching back to the days of Basotho king Moshoeshoe – and in space – as we follow Krog’s experiences as a research fellow in Berlin, far from the Africa that produced her...read more

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9781770220706 | Reprint edition (Random House Struik, June 30, 2010), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad.
9780155039650, titled "Problem Solving Strategies for Writing" | 5th edition (Harcourt College Pub, July 1, 2003), cover price $23.95 | also contains Problem-Solving Strategies for Writing

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Product Description: This is the first collection of Antjie Krog’s poetry to appear in English, and it cements her reputation as one of South Africa’s greatest poets. Down to My Last Skin is her poetic exploration of her different identities, the layers that make the human condition so intricate, fragile and yet resilient...read more

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9780958419550 | 2 edition (Random House Struik, May 15, 2009), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: This is the first collection of Antjie Krog’s poetry to appear in English, and it cements her reputation as one of South Africa’s greatest poets.

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Product Description: The taboos within the tidal moods of the menopause are described with an anger and a verbal intensity that are uniquely Krog’s. Close relationships are searingly explored, occasionally in a confrontational way, more often searching for resolution...read more

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9781415200124 | Casemate Pub & Book Dist Llc, May 15, 2009, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: The taboos within the tidal moods of the menopause are described with an anger and a verbal intensity that are uniquely Krog’s.

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Describes South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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9780812931280 | 1 edition (Times Books, March 1, 1999), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Describes South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

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9780812931297 | Reprint edition (Broadway Books, August 1, 2000), cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Documents South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, offering a definitivec report on its founding in 1995, investigation into state-sanctioned apartheid as revealed by both perpetrators and victims, and subsequent responses.

Miscellaneous:

9780307420503 | Crown Pub, December 18, 2007, cover price $16.00

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Product Description: Bushman stories and songs are arranged into verse by a renowned South African author and poet in this anthology. Using archival material meticulously recorded from a group of /Xam prisoners by the late-19th-century German philologist Wilhelm Bleek and his sister-in-law Lucy Lloyd, these poems remain true to the original text, resulting in haunting tales that tell of mythological beings, hunting, and the spirits of animals...read more

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9780795701757 | Kwela Books, September 28, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Bushman stories and songs are arranged into verse by a renowned South African author and poet in this anthology.

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Product Description: The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994. Within a year legislation was drafted to create a Truth and Reconcilliation Commission to establish a picture of the gross human rights violations committed between 1960 and 1993...read more

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9780958419567 | Gardners Books, January 15, 2002, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: The first free elections in South Africa's history were held in 1994.

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