HOME FRONT, South Africa and the Second World War

429pp., illus., paperback, Sun Press, Stellenbosch, 2024

ISBN: 9781991260598

A collection of essays on the experiences of South Africans at home between 1939 and 1945.

Contributions include:

"Introduction: Between participation and resistance" by Evert Kleynhans and Anri Delport 

"Realignment of African politics in South Africa during the Second World War" by Kongko Louis Makau

"'Beware of Nazi Utopia': Propaganda, dubious reformism and expedient gestures towards black South Africans during the Second World War" by Fankie Monana

"From the Home to the Home Front: The military mobilisation of white women for the South African war effort" by Esté Kotzé

"'Going for Broke': Oswald Prow and the New Order for South Africa, 1940-1943" by FA Mouton

"Nazis in South West Africa" by Robert Gordon

"The Role of Radio Zeesen's Pro-German and Anti-British Propaganda Against the Background of Afrikaner Resistance to the Second World War" by Suné Kleynhans.

Evert Kleynhans is a senior lecturer in the Department of Military History at the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University (SU). He is the author of Hitler’s Spies: Secret agents and the intelligence war in South Africa (2021) and The Naval War in South African Waters, 1939-1945 (2022).

Anri Delport is a lecturer in the Department of Military History of the Faculty of Military Science at Stellenbosch University.