Selected Bibliography

  • The Fox and the Flies: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath
  • The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper, 1849-1985
  • The Small Matter of a Horse: The Life of “Nongoloza” Mathebula 1867-1948
  • Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886-1914, Vol. I: New Babylon, Vol. II:New Nineveh
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Charles van Onselen

Charles van Onselen is a historian based in Johannesburg. The Seed is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Price for Non-Fiction.

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