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From Jo’burg to Jozi, edited by Heidi Holland and Adam Roberts, is an eminently readable collection of short takes on this famous city by local and foreign journalists. The follow-up volume, Soweto Inside Out, edited by Adam Roberts and Joe Thloloe, offers more of the same, this time with the focus on South Africa’s most famous township.
Power Lines: Two Years on South Africa’s Borders by Jason Carter chronicles a Peace Corps’ volunteer’s perspectives on the still-deep divisions between white and black South Africa.
While not travel literature, Nelson Mandela’s superb and inspirational autobiography, Long Walk to Freedom, is one of the best ways to prepare for a South Africa trip. To pick up where Mandela leaves off, try the less profound but insightful Rainbow Diary: A Journey in the New South Africa by John Malathronas. After the Dance: Travels in a Democratic South Africa by David Robbins is another intriguing chronicle of travels through post-apartheid South Africa.
For a dated but still relevant perspective, look for South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa, in which inveterate Irish writer Dervla Murphy details her bicycle journey through the rainbow nation before, during and after the 1994 elections.
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