Eminent South African novelist and historian Schoeman wrote most of the 17 essays here for the Quarterly Bulletin of what is now the National Library of South Africa, Cape Town, with the intention of
In this reference for non-specialists and non-South African readers, Schoeman (Research Fellow, Dept of History, University of the Free State, South Africa) presents biographies of 12 individuals, thr
Most of the literature on slavery during the first 60 years in the colony that is now South Africa, is Dutch or Afrikaans, says Schoeman, and his purpose with this volume is to translate that material
In this book, based on published sources, both primary and secondary, the available information on Cape slavery during the eighteenth century is placed in the wider context of Dutch colonial society d
This is a highly personal book about old-age, the process of writing and self-determination with commentary about ageing and being old in a modern society, and was updated for the last time on 26 Apri
This volume documents the phase of white contact with the Transgariep region in Africa from 1819 to 1840 through written accounts left by the first white travelers. White hunters from the Cape Colony
"THIS LIFE considers both the past and future of the Afrikaner people through four generations of one South African [family]. Told from the perspective of one woman in her final days, it is a lyrical
