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Author : Lionel Friedberg
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789046475
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Flying Springbok written by Lionel Friedberg and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An artistic rendering of the African antelope, the Springbok, was depicted with stylized wings to serve as the logo of South African Airways (SAA) for well over 60 years. It was replaced by a new corporate identity when the airline was rebranded after the demise of apartheid, the release of Nelson Mandela from political incarceration, and the introduction of a non-racist democratic society in South Africa in the mid-nineties. As a state-owned entity, many people once saw SAA as the 'apartheid airline.' For a time, travel on board its aircraft was restricted to whites only, but this was later changed to include members of all the country's diverse racial groups. SAA pioneered flight throughout Africa during the colonial era, long before airports, supply services, radio and weather forecasting capabilities even existed. Its staff and equipment served with the Allies in Europe and North Africa during WWII and it met the enormous challenge of having to circumvent African airspace when flying to destinations abroad after most African nations closed their skies to it in protest against the country's racist policies in the early sixties. Over the years the airline grew into one of the world's major domestic, regional, and international carriers. Its long history was eventually terminated and replaced by a new entity in 2020 with the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. In its original incarnation it could proudly boast of being one of the world's oldest and longest-surviving international carriers. It is still seen by many around the world as the airline with that much revered and fondly remembered emblem, the Flying Springbok.

Author : Eddie Grieb
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 186842457X
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Springbok Handbook written by Eddie Grieb and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-22 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fact-filled handbook will: • Give you information on all past Rugby World Cup encounters • Amaze your mates with Springbok statistics past and present • Provide you with hours of entertaining reading • Help the Bokke win the next World Cup! Okay, the last point might be an exaggeration. But The Springbok Handbook does contain everything there is to know about our team, from the very first match played in 1891 to the present. It's all here, everything you wanted to know about the 'Bokke' - including a special section on the World Cup.

Author : Craig Thomas
Publisher : Canelo
ISBN 13 : 1804361747
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Hooded Crow written by Craig Thomas and published by Canelo. This book was released on 2023-05-22 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The battlefield is new, the enemies unfamiliar, but for British agent Patrick Hyde, the stakes are as high as ever... Patrick Hyde has uncovered a conspiracy: high-tech equipment is being smuggled out of the UK with help from the KGB, and the evidence points to electronics conglomerate, Reid Group. But with Reid’s former chairman now working in Cabinet, Hyde’s accusations fall on deaf ears. Meanwhile, deep in the Namibian Bush, British ex-pat Richard Anderson stumbles upon a crashed Dakota plane. Inside, he finds a dead KGB man and stolen British electronics. He takes some as proof, sensing foul play, to send back to British Intelligence. Both Hyde and Anderson, one agent and one unofficial agent-in-place, each working on opposite sides of the globe, soon find themselves targets of the same conspiracy. The mission that connects them is big – far bigger than either of them bargained for – and their pursuers will stop at nothing to ensure it fails... A game of death under a scorching sun, Craig Thomas’ A Hooded Crow is perfect for fans of Charles Cumming and Jack Higgins.

Author : Timothy John Lindsay Chandler
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780714644110
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making the Rugby World written by Timothy John Lindsay Chandler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1999 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the expansion of rugby from its imperial and amateur upper-class white male core into other contexts throughout the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The development of rugby in the racially divided communities of the setter empire and how this was viewed are explored initially. Then the editors turn to four case studies of rugby's expansion beyond the bounds of the British Empire (France, Italy, Japan and the USA). The role of women in rugby is examined and the subsequent development of women's rugby as one of the fastest growing sports for women in Europe, North America and Australasia in the 1980s and 1990s. The final section analyses the impact of commercialisation, professionalisation and media on rugby and the impact on the historic rugby culture linked to an ethos of amateurism.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book South African Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1072 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Air University Periodical Index written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 1072 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gerard Corsane
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415289450
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heritage, Museums and Galleries written by Gerard Corsane and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reader provides a starting point and introductory resource for anyone wishing to engage with certain key issues relating to the heritage, museums and galleries sector.

Author : Douglas Booth
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714647993
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Race Game written by Douglas Booth and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Douglas Booth takes a fresh look at the role of sport in the fostering of a new national identity in South Africa.

Author : Geoff Jones
Publisher : Fonthill Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book Douglas DC written by Geoff Jones and published by Fonthill Media. This book was released on 2017-05-17 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like the P-51 Mustang and Supermarine Spitfire, the Douglas DC-3 is an iconic aircraft design. It has endured more than any other with several hundred still in use worldwide in locations as far apart as Africa, Antarctica and the US. Many of the current operators use turbine conversions of the DC-3mainly using Basler, SAAF and Dodson International the main proponents. Just about every major post-war airline began their schedules with the DC-3. Many took advantage of post-war military surplus C-47s that had already written huge volumes of history with their roles with the US Army Air Corps in the Second World War such as the D-Day landings. Many enthusiast organisations still keep DC-3s airworthy and fly them for members. However, the days of DC-3 operations are now nearing an end thanks to spares unavailability, cost and the shortages of Avgas fuel in remote parts of the world. The Douglas DC-3 is to aviation what the Volkswagen and Ford were to motoring, and what the DC-3 operators started, the 21st century Airbus/Boeing operators continued thanks to the astonishing legacy of this remarkable aircraft. 198 black-and white and 71 colour photographs

Author : Neil Roos
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351152025
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ordinary Springboks written by Neil Roos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Springbok' was a term used to describe the 200,000 white South African men who volunteered to serve during the Second World War. Volunteers developed bonds of comradeship, and rites of passage were expressed in the idiom of 'the front'. Without exception, volunteers nurtured hopes for some form of post-war 'social justice'. Neil Roos provides a fresh approach in considering comradeship and social justice ethnographically, as a way of focusing on ordinary Springboks' expectations and experiences during and after the war. As troops were demobilized, the contradictions of social justice in a colonial society were exposed. The majority of white veterans used the memory of service to stake their claim as white men who had served their country, and to negotiate a better position for themselves within the context of segregated colonial society. However, social justice amongst white veterans did not necessarily assume a racist character. A small group of radical white veterans invoked their war experience and traditions of anti-fascism to challenge the very precepts of racialized South African society. These veterans featured in the struggle against apartheid during the 1950s, and were especially prominent in the shift towards armed resistance to apartheid in 1961. Drawing heavily on the testimony of veterans, the book includes previously unreferenced documentary and visual material on the history of white servicemen, including official responses such as military intelligence reports on the political mood of serving soldiers, as well as material produced by veterans' organisations, such as the Springbok Legion, the War Veterans' Torch Commando and the Memorable Order of Tin Hats (MOTH). Roos offers a new framework for examining the social, cultural and political history of whites (and whiteness) in South Africa. The book will appeal to those interested in the elaboration of apartheid society and the types of acceptance and resistance that it engendered, and will also co