1961-1994

A guide to help A level history students learn about South Africa from the period of 1948-1994.

"Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death... Until the Soweto Uprising, in which a protest by black students ignites racial conflict, alters the fault lines on which their society is built, and shatters their worlds when Robin's parents are left dead and Beauty's daughter goes missing. After Robin is sent to live with her loving but irresponsible aunt, Beauty is hired to care for Robin while continuing the search for her daughter..."--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the trials of Nelson Mandela and the politics of South Africa.

In Johannesburg, South Africa, in the late 1960s, twelve-year-old Emily, who longs for affection from her quarreling parents, finds comfort in the stories of a Zulu servant and in her friendship with a young houseguest who has an equally troubled family.

Examines the life of Steve Biko, a black South African man who stood up against apartheid and made a point of inspiring his own generation to stop participating in their own oppression.

Ahmed Kathrada has been a modest hero of the South African resistance against apartheid. As one of Nelson Mandela's closest friends, he shared his prison term with him for a quarter-century and his ordeals afterwards. For fifty years he has worked side-by-side with Mandela to bring an end to apartheid and achieve reconciliation between old enemies.