Product Description: Designed as a teaching tool, this analysis looks back at the events that occurred on March 21, 1960, in South Africa. The day became known as the Sharpville Massacre—69 protestors were shot and killed. Now named Human Rights Day, it stands as an observance to those victims and a memorial to their sacrifice in the struggle against apartheid and in shaping democracy...read more

Product Description: An educational resource, this reference explains the importance of voting, the 300-year struggle for the vote in South Africa, and the role voting plays in keeping a democracy alive. This guidebook also analyzes the negotiations that brought apartheid to an end, focusing on April 27, 1994—the day all South Africans of legal age were allowed to vote—as a milestone in the present day South African political system...read more

Product Description: Discussing the South African holiday Workers' Day, this examination explains how the day celebrates workers’ struggle to improve their rights and working conditions, protects the interests of workers, and commemorates the contributions workers made in the struggle against apartheid...read more

Product Description: In honor of the 30th anniversary of June 16, 1976—now called Youth Day in South Africa—this book provides an account of the events leading up to the Soweto uprising, which was ignited by police brutality toward students protesting the compulsory teaching of half their subjects in Afrikaans...read more

'Presents extracts from poetry, novels, songs, sayings and letters which Kathrada secretly transcribed and treasured as he served his life sentence, with Nelson Mandela, mainly in South Africa's notorious Robben Island Maximum Security Prison'--P. 4 of cover.

Product Description: Journalists from around the world relate how various encounters, events, and moments have touched them during the course of their duties in this collection of writings.