Pretoria - Post Report Question and Answers
Do you recommend any books or movies about this city/country for those who are interested in learning more?
Long Walk to Freedom The Power of One - Jan 2020
District 9 and something about Mandela. - Dec 2019
Bang Bang Club, about journalists covering the transition from apartheid. Tsotsi (set in Joburg, and the Waterkloof suburb in Pretoria where many expats live). - Mar 2019
No. - Jun 2018
Winston Churchill's account of the Boer War, when he was imprisoned and escaped a Pretoria jail, is great reading! - Jan 2018
- Jun 2012
Playing the Enemy: Nelson Mandela and the Game that Made a Nation, and anything else about Nelson Mandela and the history of South Africa. - Aug 2009
The Covenant by James Michener. The Power of One (Bryce Courtenay). - Aug 2009
Long Walk to Freedom, Mandela. - Feb 2009
The Covenant, Michener; Anything by J.M. Coetzee - Feb 2009
Anything by or about Nelson Mandela, writing by Helen Susman, Desmond Tutu, biographies of any ANC leaders, and evry history book you can find -there's 300 years of history to sort out. - Oct 2008
Commando by Denys Reitz on the Boer War, anything by Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink, Laurens Van der Post, Athol Fugard the list goes on and on. - Oct 2008
Long walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela. - Jun 2008
Any SA-centric book by Wilbur Smith. - Jun 2008