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Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography
Mark Mathabane
4.18 average rating, · 16.6k ratings
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Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game That Made a Nation
John Carlin
4.18 average rating, · 5.7k ratings
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My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience
Rian Malan
4.26 average rating, · 4k ratings
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Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa
Antjie Krog
4.10 average rating, · 3.3k ratings
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I Write What I Like: Selected Writings
Steve Biko
4.37 average rating, · 2.8k ratings
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The Bang-Bang Club: Snapshots from a Hidden War
Greg Marinovich
4.26 average rating, · 2.9k ratings
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No Future Without Forgiveness
Desmond Tutu
4.23 average rating, · 2.7k ratings
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The President's Keepers: Those Keeping Zuma in Power and Out of Prison
Jacques Pauw
4.27 average rating, · 1.9k ratings
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The Wilderness Family: At Home with Africa's Wildlife
Kobie Krüger
4.46 average rating, · 1.6k ratings
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Rise: The Brand New Autobiography
Siya Kolisi
4.18 average rating, · 1.7k ratings
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Biko
Donald Woods
4.24 average rating, · 1.5k ratings
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The Elephants of Thula Thula
Françoise Malby-Anthony
4.46 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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Truth to Power: My Three Years Inside Eskom
André de Ruyter
4.52 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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A Human Being Died That Night: A South African Woman Confronts the Legacy of Apartheid
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
4.16 average rating, · 1.2k ratings
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The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild, Young Readers Adaptation
Lawrence Anthony
4.43 average rating, · 1k ratings
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A Man of Good Hope
Jonny Steinberg
4.34 average rating, · 859 ratings
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Msomi and Me
Brian Connell
4.48 average rating, · 776 ratings
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Byleveld: Dossier of a Serial Sleuth
Hanlie Retief
4.09 average rating, · 692 ratings
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