Recommended South Africa books
 |
 |
| South African Provinces |
|
Recommended Books about the Western Cape and its people
|
| Weekend Trails in the Western Cape by Mike Lundy Weekend Trails in the Western Cape is the title on two-day hiking trails in the Western Cape and most of them are within a two-hour drive from Cape Town. All 24 walks are ideal weekend escapes and you don't even have to take time off from work! The title does much more than tell you about hiking from point A to B. Fascinating nature notes and local history are adeptly woven into the descriptions of the trails. Valuable hiking tips are given on anything from menus and check-lists to heavy-weather gear and the ten commandments of mountain safety. |
||
| Back Roads of the Cape by David Fleminger Back roads is not a travel guide with lists of hotels and restaurants. Instead, the pages are taken up with historical narratives, personal recollections, reflections on politics, environmental debates, social observation and some practical travel information. The rest is left up to the traveller to organise. Resources for further information are listed in the back of the title. The title is also an attempt to modernise the rather old-fashioned genre of travel writing with an idiosyncratic writing style and a sense of humour. It also aims to share a flavour of the travel experience with the reader and, hopefully, show them a little of the adventure that lies in wait outside the living room. |
||
| Liberating the Family?: Gender and British Slave Emancipation in the Rural Western Cape, South Africa by Pam Scully The author of this study argues that the ending of slavery in South Africa's Cape Colony initiated an era of exceptional struggle about cultural categories and sensibilities. Far more than simply abolishing bonded labour, British slave emancipation reconfigured the relations between men and women, and individual and society. It was precisely because emancipation implied that slaves would be free to live as they pleased that claims regarding the legitimacy of specific family, labour, gender and sexual relations became central to the struggle by various colonial groups to shape post-emancipation society. The author postulates that for government officials the linkage between political economy to questions of cultural reproduction became a crucial component of the construction of colonial society. |
||
| Cape Town (Lonely Planet S.) by Simon Richmond This guide to Cape Town provides detailed coverage of the architecture of Cape Town, walking tours of the city, a special section on gay and lesbian Cape Town, as well as much more. |
||
| Outcast Cape Town by Robert Coles and John Western This text analyzes the urban spatial planning of the 1950s Group Areas Act that achieved, in the built environment of Cape Town, the racial separatism of apartheid. The prologue assesses the changes that can be expected from the new government of 1994, and the obstacles to significant change. |
||
