Query: Non-disaster books about apartheid
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
White Writing
Selling Apartheid
Where Others Wavered
What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works
I Write What I Like
A Human Being Died That Night
Black and Gold (book)
Biko (book)
Singing Away the Hunger
The Lost Boys of Bird Island
Country of My Skull
My Traitor's Heart
Move Your Shadow
Student Comrade Prisoner Spy
Kaffir Boy
Evidence from documents: White Writing: he reads a range of texts, in various genres, which represent the endeavours of white writers to come to terms with the South African landscape and their tenuous place within it.
Selling Apartheid: ''Selling Apartheid'' is an in-depth investigation into the Foreign relations of South Africa during apartheid and the international propaganda campaign conducted by the apartheid government.
Where Others Wavered: '''''Where Others Wavered: The Autobiography of Sam Nujoma. My Life in SWAPO and My Participation in the Liberation Struggle of Namibia''''', commonly known as '''''Where Others Wavered''''', is an autobiographical work written by Sam Nujoma and published by Panaf Books in 2001. The text describes his life, from his childhood through his beginnings with SWAPO, exile in Angola and Zambia, as well as part of his presidency.
What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works: '''''What Happened to Burger's Daughter or How South African Censorship Works''''' is a 1980 collection of essays by South African novelist Nadine Gordimer and others. The book is about the South African government's banning and subsequent unbanning of Gordimer's 1979 novel ''Burger's Daughter''.
I Write What I Like: ''I Write What I Like'' reflects Biko's conviction that black people in South Africa could not be liberated until they united to break their chains of servitude, a key tenet of the Black Consciousness Movement that he helped found.
A Human Being Died That Night: The book is Gobodo-Madikizela's account of her interviews with state-sanctioned mass murderer Eugene De Kock from the time of apartheid in South Africa. These interviews are mixed in with stories of victims and criminals on both sides of the racial barrier that she met with during her time as a member of the Human Rights Violations Committee, a part of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Black and Gold (book): '''''Black and Gold: Tycoons, Revolutionaries, and Apartheid''''' is a 1987 book by English journalist Anthony Sampson which deals with the relationship between international big business and Black political movements in South Africa, weaving together the themes of apartheid and gold mining. Black and Gold includes an account of foreign finance behind the "Apartheid Boom."
Biko (book): '''''Biko''''' is a biography about Black Consciousness Movement leader and anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko. It was written by the liberal white South African journalist Donald Woods, a personal friend of Biko. Donald Woods was forced into exile for attempting to expose the truth surrounding Biko’s death. It was the inspiration for the 1987 film ''Cry Freedom''.
Singing Away the Hunger: '''''Singing Away the Hunger: The Autobiography of an African Woman''''' is a 1996 autobiography by Mosotho woman Mpho 'M'atsepo Nthunya, edited by K. Limakatso Kendall.
The Lost Boys of Bird Island: 'The Lost Boys of Bird Island''''' (2018) is a non-fiction book by Mark Minnie, a former police detective and Chris Steyn, an investigative journalist, both from South Africa. The book is about alleged corruption within the last Apartheid government of South Africa and a pedophile network whose most notable members were alleged to be the apartheid era defence minister
Country of My Skull: '''''Country of My Skull''''' is a 1998 nonfiction book by Antjie Krog about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC). It is based on Krog's experience as a radio reporter, covering the Commission from 1996 to 1998 for the South African Broadcasting Corporation. The book explores the successes and failures of the Commission, the effects of the proceedings on her personally, and the possibility of genuine reconciliation in post-Apartheid South Africa.
My Traitor's Heart: '''''My Traitor's Heart''''' is an autobiographical book by Rian Malan first published in 1990 on his return from exile. It is subtitled '''''South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe and His Conscience''''' or ''Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Exile Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself''.
Move Your Shadow: First edition'''''Move Your Shadow: South Africa, Black and White''''', written by Joseph Lelyveld and published by Times Books in 1985, won the 1986 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction as well as the 1986 ''Los Angeles Times'' Book Prize for ''Current Interest''.
Student Comrade Prisoner Spy: The book recounts Hilton-Barber's opposition to apartheid as a young white student at Rhodes University in the Eastern Cape, and the betrayal by her best friend Olivia Forsyth, who was a spy working for the Security Branch of the South African Police.
Kaffir Boy: '''''Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa''''' is Mark Mathabane's 1986 autobiography about life under the South African apartheid regime.