{"id":24243,"count":13,"description":"Our South African coverage is focused on the transition from the Apartheid regime to a democratic one.\u00a0 For a general picture Alec Russell, the Financial Times\u2019 former Johannesburg bureau chief offers his best books on South Africa<\/a>.\u00a0 John Carlin, another journalist who covered the country during the transition from Apartheid to democracy gives his best books on Understanding Mandela and South Africa<\/a>.\u00a0 He stresses the use Mandela made of forgiveness in achieving his political objectives.\u00a0 Colleen Murphy speaks at length on the country as a paradigm in her interview on her best books on Transitional Justice<\/a>.\r\n\r\nJonny Steinberg chooses his best books on identity in the country<\/a>\u00a0and Kevin Bloom his best books on post-Apartheid identity in South Africa<\/a>.\u00a0 Justin Cartwright also looks at the country in discussing his best books on Being White in Africa<\/a>.\r\n\r\nImraan Coovadia chooses his five best books on the country's fiction<\/a>.\u00a0 Daniel Norcross discusses cricket controversies during the Apartheid era<\/a> and Steve Bloomfield talks about the role of football pre- and post-Apartheid in his discussion of World Football<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe journalist Heather Brooke talks about the role of newspapers in Apartheid South Africa in her best books on Holding Power to Account<\/a> and\u00a0 issues related to the country are also touched on by the Ghanaian economist, George Ayittey in his best books on Africa through African Eyes<\/a> and by the historian David Olusoga on his best books on Race and Slavery<\/a>.\r\n\r\nThe 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature was won by South African author Nadine Gordimer<\/a> with the 2003\u00a0 prize going to J M Coetzee<\/a>. Other notable South African authors include Damon Galgut<\/a> (winner of the 2021 Booker Prize) and Zakes Mda<\/a>.\r\n<\/h1>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/africa\/south-africa\/","name":"South Africa","slug":"south-africa","taxonomy":"category","parent":21097,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/24243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/21097"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=24243"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=24243"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=24243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}