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Cape Town

Books in this genre are set in or about Cape Town.

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'Buckingham Palace', District Six by Richard Rive

Dance with a Poor Man's Daughter by Pamela Jooste

Up from Slavery by Richard E. van der Ross

Understanding Cape Town

103 books — 4 voters

Waiting for the Barbarians by J.M. Coetzee

Best South African Books

135 books — 77 voters

The Washing of the Spears by Donald R. Morris

Rogues, Rebels and Runaways by Nigel Penn

Colonial South Africa

110 books — 5 voters

Best South African reads

314 books — 182 voters

Shirley, Goodness & Mercy by Chris van Wyk

Life under Apartheid - memoirs and biographies

111 books — 9 voters

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