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  • How Long Will South Africa Survive?

    The Looming Crisis

    by R.W. Johnson ...
    In 1977, Johnson's best selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? offered a controversial and highly original analysis of the survival prospects of apartheid. Now, after more than two decades of the ANC in government, he believes the question must be posed again. "The big question about ANC rule," Johnson writes, "is whether African nationalism would be able to cope with the challenges of ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Fighting for the Dream

    by RW Johnson ...
    RW Johnson's bestselling book How Long Will South Africa Survive? was described by Alec Hogg as 'a masterpiece in unblemished reality'. Published at the height of the Zuma presidency it offered a chilling warning: the ANC appeared determined to drive South Africa into the abyss.Since then, Cyril Ramaphosa has taken over as president and there have been some attempts to clean up government. But the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Unintended Traveler

    by RW Johnson ...
    "The Unintended Traveler" is a thrilling science fiction novel that takes readers on an unforgettable journey through an alternate reality. When Walter Briggs, a business analyst from San Francisco, mysteriously awakens in a parallel reality, his first reaction is that he must be dreaming. But as time goes by, he realizes this is no dream and his new world is nothing like home. After unexpectedly ... Read more

    $6.86 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Foreign Native

    An African Journey

    by RW Johnson ...
    In Foreign Native, RW Johnson looks back with affection and humour on his life in Africa. From schooldays in Durban – fresh off the plane from Merseyside – to later years as an academic, director of the Helen Suzman Foundation and formidable political commentator, he has produced an entertaining and occasionally eye-popping memoir brimming with history, anecdote and insight. Johnson charts his ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • South Africa's Brave New World

    The Beloved Country Since the End of Apartheid

    by R. W. Johnson ...
    The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the modern era: peaceful, rational change was possible and, as with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weight of an oppressive history was suddenly lifted.R.W. Johnson's major ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Roving Eye

    Selected Essays

    by R.W. Johnson ...
    R.W. Johnson's articles and essays travel far beyond Southern Africa, reaching readers across continents. Their appeal lies not only in their acuity but also in his exceptional range of subjects – political, historical and cultural. As a former Oxford don and a leading international commentator, Johnson remains unmatched as an interpreter of national and world events.Whether he's writing about ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Tafelberg Short: The African University?

    The critical case of South Africa and the tragedy at the UKZN

    by RW Johnson ...
    Series series Tafelberg Kort/Tafelberg Short
    Unless it can improve its universities, Africa risks losing out in a globalised knowledge economy. Yet many African universities, including South Africa's, are under threat with policies and management styles too frequently inimical to academic quality. Focusing on recent developments at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN), RW Johnson is scathing about 'nationalist fundamentalism' and the 'Big ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • Orogenesis

    The Making of Mountains

    by Michael R. W. Johnson, Simon L. Harley ...
    Orogenesis, the process of mountain building, occurs when two tectonic plates collide – either forcing material upwards to form mountain belts such as the Alps or Himalayas or causing one plate to be subducted below the other, resulting in volcanic mountain chains such as the Andes. Integrating the approaches of structural geology and metamorphism, this book provides an up-to-date overview of ... Read more

    $103.99 CAD

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  • How Long will South Africa Survive? (2nd Edition)

    The Crisis Continues

    by Johnson RW ...
    In 1977 R W Johnson's best-selling How Long Will South Africa Survive? provided a controversial analysis of the survival prospects of the apartheid regime. Now, after more than twenty years of ANC rule, he believes the situation has become so critical that the question must be posed again. He moves from an analysis of Jacob Zuma's rule to the increasingly dire state of the South African economy, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The European Union

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Simon Usherwood, John Pinder ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The European Union (EU) stands out as a fascinatingly unique political organisation. On the one hand, it has shown the potential for developing deep and wide-ranging cooperation between member states, going far beyond that found anywhere else in the world. On the other, it is currently in the throes of a phase of profound uncertainty about its viability and future. Showing how and why the EU has ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • A Rumour of Spring

    South Africa after 20 Years of Democracy

    by Max du Preez ...
    Democracy in South Africa turns twenty on 27 April 2014. In A Rumour of Spring, Max du Preez investigates and analyses the progress and lack of progress the country has made during these twenty years. A Rumour of Spring looks at the legacies of Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki in an attempt to understand how we got here, and examines Jacob Zuma’s presidency to better understand where we are.In the ... Read more

    $13.19 CAD

  • Why Vote Leave

    by Daniel Hannan ...
    POST-REFERENDUM EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, WITH A NEW PREFACE.'Confused about the EU referendum? In the dark about which way to vote? Daniel Hannan's invaluable vade mecum will illuminate the whole question, showing why voting to leave is a leap back into the light' Boris Johnson.'Powerful, intelligent, hard-hitting, well-written... absolutely required reading for every Briton who is ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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