160pp., paperback, New Africa Books, Cape Town, 2007
ISBN: 9781869285760
Foreword by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
An introduction to the history of South Africa that guides the reader year by year through the most important political and social events. Fact panels highlight particular events or individuals.
"This book is deceptively simple, yet it is a punchy, fast-paced, remarkable literary broad brush across the canvas that is South Africa's most contested history. It takes into consideration colonial times, moves through the era of apartheid-capitalism, to the end of the first decade of post-apartheid South Africa." Advocate Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza SC