South Africa
- The Covenant by James A. Michener (from prehistory onwards)
- King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard (19th century)
- The Turning Wheels by Stuart Cloete (Great Trek)
- Rags of Glory by Stuart Cloete (Boer War)
- Frankie & Stankie by Barbara Trapido (1950s)
- Playing the enemy by John Carlin
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Famous quotes containing the words south africa, south and/or africa:
“I don’t have any doubts that there will be a place for progressive white people in this country in the future. I think the paranoia common among white people is very unfounded. I have always organized my life so that I could focus on political work. That’s all I want to do, and that’s all that makes me happy.”
—Hettie V., South African white anti-apartheid activist and feminist. As quoted in Lives of Courage, ch. 21, by Diana E. H. Russell (1989)
“These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Everywhere—all over Africa and South America ... you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There’s a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they’re terrifying, because they are the death of the soul.... This is the prison this planet is being turned into.”
—J.G. (James Graham)