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South Africa Audiobooks

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    Born A Crime

    Stories from a South African Childhood

    by Trevor Noah ...
    Narrated by Trevor Noah ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his ... Read more

    $26.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Long Walk to Freedom

    Booktrack Edition

    by Nelson Mandela, Sharon Gelman ...
    Narrated by Michael Boatman ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 10 min

    The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post).Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela: Booktrack Edition adds an immersive musical soundtrack to your audiobook listening experience! *Nelson Mandela was one of the great ... Read more

    $46.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Long Walk to Freedom

    The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela

    by Nelson Mandela, Sharon Gelman ...
    Narrated by Michael Boatman ...

    Unabridged

    27 hours 39 min

    The autobiography of global human rights icon Nelson Mandela is "riveting . . . both a brilliant description of a diabolical system and a testament to the power of the spirit to transcend it" (Washington Post).Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him ... Read more

    $59.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Breaker Morant

    by Peter FitzSimons ...
    Narrated by Cameron Goodall ...

    Unabridged

    23 hours 4 min

    The epic story of the Boer War and Harry 'Breaker' Morant: drover, horseman, bush poet - murderer or hero?Most Australians have heard of the Boer War and of Harry 'Breaker' Morant, a figure who rivals Ned Kelly as an archetypal Australian folk hero. But Morant was a complicated man. Born in England and immigrating to Queensland in 1883, he established a reputation as a rider, polo player and poet ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    South Africa: History in an Hour

    by Anthony Holmes ...
    Narrated by Jonathan Keeble ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 20 min

    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.With the passing of Nelson Mandela, ‘the father of the nation’, comes the end of an era, and the moment to look back on his remarkable saving, and remaking, of South Africa. After years of oppression and racial inequality, concentrated violence and apartheid, Mandela led the country to unite ‘for the freedom of us all’ as the country’s first ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Kaffir Boy

    The True Story of a Black Youth’s Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa

    by Mark Mathabane ...
    Narrated by Mark Mathabane ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 34 min

    The classic story of life in apartheid South AfricaMark Mathabane was weaned on devastating poverty and schooled in the cruel streets of South Africa’s most desperate ghetto, where bloody gang wars and midnight police raids were his rites of passage. Like every other child born in the hopelessness of apartheid, he learned to measure his life in days, not years. Yet Mark Mathabane, armed only with ... Read more

    $49.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Colonies of British South Africa, The: The History and Legacy of British Imperialism in Modern South Africa and Zimbabwe

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 3 min

    The Napoleonic Wars radically altered the old, established European power dynamics, and in 1795, the British, now emerging as the globe’s naval superpower, assumed control of the Cape as part of the spoils of war. In doing so, they recognized the enormous strategic value of the Cape as global shipping routes were developing and expanding. Possession passed back and forth once or twice, but more or ... Read more

    $21.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    German South West Africa: The History and Legacy of Germany’s Biggest African Colony

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Stephen Platt ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 57 min

    The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    To End a Plague

    America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa

    by Emily Bass ...
    Narrated by Catherine Ho ...

    Unabridged

    16 hours 19 min

    “Randy Shilts and Laurie Garrett told the story of the HIV/AIDS epidemic through the late 1980s and the early 1990s, respectively. Now journalist-historian-activist Emily Bass tells the story of US engagement in HIV/AIDS control in sub-Saharan Africa. There is far to go on the path, but Bass tells us how far we’ve come.” —Sten H. Vermund, professor and dean, Yale School of Public HealthWith his ... Read more

    $77.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Like Wolves on the Fold

    The Defense of Rorke's Drift

    by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook ...
    Narrated by Mike Cooper ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 44 min

    A detailed chronicle of a significant opening battle in the Anglo-Zulu War: "The Zulu attack on Rorke's Drift thrillingly retold" (Richard Holmes). On January 22, 1879, the British Army in South Africa was swept aside by the seemingly unstoppable Zulu warriors at the Battle of Isandlwana. Nearby, at a remote outpost on the Buffalo River, a single company of the 24th Regiment and a few dozen ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    South Africa

    by Joseph Stromberg, Pat Childs ...
    Narrated by Harry Reasoner ...
    series The World’s Political Hot Spots

    Unabridged

    2 hours 47 min

    South Africa has become the world’s symbol of racism. From the moment the Dutch colonists set foot on the Cape in 1652, this nation has steered a straight course toward apartheid, resulting in consistent civil unrest. This presentation explores the economic and social forces that have brought South Africa into the international spotlight.The World’s Political Hot Spots Series explains the basis of ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    UMzimba Iqhawe Lenkosi uShaka

    by Sibahle Cebekhulu ...
    Narrated by Sibahle Cebekhulu ...

    Unabridged

    1 hour 21 min

    This book Narrated in Zulu is a history of the Cebekhulu people and of their Warrior Chief who was a General of King Shaka's AmaWombe regiments. ... Read more

    $17.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    The World's First Human Heart Transplant

    by Ryan King ...
    Narrated by Ryan King ...

    Unabridged

    15 min

    A fascinating look back at how one of the 20th centuries medical mile stones came to be in one of the most unlikely places on earth Aparthied South Africa. The rest of the world had turned its back on South Africa after a controversial massacre in 1960 but Seven years later a pioneering heart surgeon was able to shine a much more positive light on the country when he performed the world's first ... Read more

    $1.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Until We Have Won Our Liberty

    South Africa after Apartheid

    by Evan Lieberman ...
    Narrated by Daniel Henning ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 18 min

    At a time when many democracies are under strain around the world, Until We Have Won Our Liberty shines new light on the signal achievements of one of the contemporary era's most closely watched transitions away from minority rule. South Africa's democratic development has been messy, fiercely contested, and sometimes violent. But as Evan Lieberman argues, it has also offered a voice to the ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Zulu War and Boer War, The: The History and Legacy of the Conflicts that Cemented British Control of South Africa

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 54 min

    The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismarck, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Republic of Zimbabwe, The: The History and Legacy of the Nation Since Its Independence from the British Empire

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 15 min

    The modern history of Africa was, until very recently, written on behalf of the indigenous races by the white man, who had forcefully entered the continent during a particularly hubristic and dynamic phase of European history. In 1884, Prince Otto von Bismark, the German chancellor, brought the plenipotentiaries of all major powers of Europe together, to deal with Africa's colonization in such a ... Read more

    $10.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Mandela Brief

    Sydney Kentridge and the Trials of Apartheid

    by Thomas Grant ...
    Narrated by Gareth Armstrong ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 4 min

    The remarkable story of Sir Sydney Kentridge QC, the greatest living barrister.Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only lawyer to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief ... Read more

    $44.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

  • Audiobook

    The Plot to Save South Africa

    The Week Mandela Averted Civil War and Forged a New Nation

    by Justice Malala ...
    Narrated by Justice Malala, Nick Boraine ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 35 min

    Nine days that set the course of a nation...Johannesburg, Easter weekend, 1993. Nelson Mandela has been free for three years and is in slow-moving power-sharing talks with President FW de Klerk when a white supremacist shoots Mandela’s popular young heir apparent, Chris Hani, in the hope of igniting an all-out civil war. Will he succeed in plunging South Africa into chaos, safeguarding apartheid ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    I Can't Wait to Call You My Wife

    by Rita Roberts ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 30 min

    This book honors the voices of African Americans of the Civil War era through their letters, inviting readers to engage personally with the Black historical experience. Amidst bloody battles and political maneuvering, thousands of African Americans spent the Civil War trying to hold their families together. This moving book illuminates that struggle through the letters they exchanged. Despite ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    South Africa and the British Empire: The History and Legacy of the Region Under Great Britain’s Control

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 32 min

    “The Boers were hostile toward indigenous African peoples, with whom they fought frequent range wars, and toward the government of the Cape, which was attempting to control Boer movements and commerce. They overtly compared their way of life to that of the Israel patriarchs of the Bible, developing independent patriarchal communities based upon a mobile pastoralist economy. Staunch Calvinists, ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    A Strange Campaign

    The Battle for Madagascar

    by Russell Phillips ...
    Narrated by Henry Hyde ...

    Unabridged

    3 hours 13 min

    Madagascar provided the stunning backdrop for one of the strangest conflicts of the Second World War — when Britain went head to head against one of its closest allies.When British forces landed on the island in 1942, the enemy they faced wasn’t German, Japanese or even Italian, this time the opposing forces were French.Concerned that Japan might use Madagascar as a strategic base to disrupt the ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    Bush War Operator

    Memoirs of the Rhodesian Light Infantry, Selous Scouts and beyond

    by A.J. Balaam ...
    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 1 min

    Anyone living in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s would have had a father, husband, brother or son called up in the defense of the war-torn, landlocked little country. A few of these brave men would have been members of the elite and secretive unit that struck terror into the hearts of the ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas infiltrating the country at that time-the Selous Scouts. Twice decorated-with ... Read more

    $36.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    How Can Man Die Better

    The Secrets of Isandlwana Revealed

    by Lieutenant Colonel Mike Snook ...
    Narrated by Dennis Kleinman ...

    Unabridged

    10 hours 58 min

    On January 22, 1879, a massive Zulu host attacked the British Army's 24th Regiment in its encampment at the foot of the mountain of Isandlwana. It was the first major encounter in the Anglo-Zulu War and a disastrous defeat for the colonial power. Later that afternoon the victorious Zulus would strike the tiny British garrison at Rorke's Drift. How Can Man Die Better is a unique analysis of the ... Read more

    $29.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial

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    South Africa: The History and Legacy of the Nation from European Colonization to the End of the Apartheid Era

    by Charles River Editors ...
    Narrated by Colin Fluxman ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 17 min

    The Boer War was the defining conflict of South African history and one of the most important conflicts in the history of the British Empire. Naturally, complicated geopolitics underscored it, going back centuries. In fact, the European history of South Africa began with the 1652 arrival of a small Dutch flotilla in Table Bay, at the southern extremity of the African continent, which made landfall ... Read more

    $14.99 AUD or free with audiobook trial