ONGEKENDE ELLENDE, rampe wat Suid-Afrika geruk het

171pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2022

Covers disasters from the stranding of the VOC ship the Gouden Buys on the West Coast (1693) to the soccer tragedies at Orkney (1991) and  Ellis Park (2001). Includes the smallpox epidemic (1713); the Victoria West flood (1871), the Malmesbury tornado (1905); the Blaauwkrantz Bridge train disaster (1911); the Great Depression (1929-1933); the Great Drought (1933); the De Havilland Comet disaster (1954); the Henley-on-Klip school bus accident (1970) and The Merriespruit tailings dam disaster (1994).

Historian and journalist Chris Schoeman is the author of Nêrens Veiling - twee eeue van Suid-Afrikaanse rampe; Angels of Mercy, foreign women in the Anglo-Boer War, and Brothers in Arms, Hollanders in the Anglo-Boer War.