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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.

Selected bibliography

  • The Fox and the Files: The World of Joseph Silver, Racketeer and Psychopath (2007)
  • The Seed Is Mine: The Life of Kas Maine, a South African Sharecropper 1894-1985 (1996)
  • The Small Matter of a Horse: The Life of “Nongoloza” Mathebula 1867-1948 (1984)

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 not available in archive Dead but Not Quite Buried · 29 October 1998

 not available in archive A Childhood on the Edge of History · 5 February 1998

  • Boyhood: Scenes from Provincial Life by J.M. Coetzee