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21) Blood safari
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Emma Le Roux hires a personal security expert when her believed-dead brother is named as a suspect in the murders of five people, a situation that exposes her to political tensions, corruption, and life-threatening violence.
22) In my country
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A Washington Post journalist is sent to South Africa to cover the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings in which perpetrators on both sides of Apartheid are allowed to confront their victims as an act of contrition and gain amnesty.
23) Primeval
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An American news crew is determined to capture the legendary 25-foot man-eating crocodile and stop his demonic rampage. They travel deep within the darkest reaches of Africa to hunt their prey. But Gustave, as the native call him, is also on the hunt - always on the move, always elusive, always hungry for human flesh.
24) Small mercies
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When social workers begin to scrutinize Mercy's homelife in modern-day Pietermartizburg, she uses life lessons taught to her by Mr. Singh to stand up for herself and her eccentric foster aunts.
26) Desert December
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A South African boy makes a long journey through the desert to join his parents in a mining village, reaching them on Christmas Day and seeing his new baby sister.
27) Reapers
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After World Cup fever grasps South Africa, a game ranger finds a corpse in Chobe National Park, and she and Kgabo Modise soon realize that their findings in the case could lead to an international incident.
28) Thirteen hours
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As morning dawns in Cape Town, Det. Capt. Benny Griessel finds himself facing a difficult day. A South African music executive has been shot dead. An American teenager's body has been found on the street, her throat cut. And her friend Rachel Anderson is somewhere in the city, terrified and alone, but hopefully still alive. For both cases, time is short and media attention is high. And while the homicide detective has been sober for 156 days, day...
29) Love on safari
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After she inherits a wildlife reserve in South Africa, an American woman is taken on a safari there by the head ranger who hopes she will decide to save it.
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"Drug addict Cathleen is kidnapped and her distracted, middle-class family fails to notice her absence; Zilindile, who services Cathleen's drug habit, and his Muslim Indian girlfriend Farhana, struggle to make sense of their relationship despite their very different backgrounds; and domestic worker Flora and the silent Runyararo, who was painting Cathleen's house until accused by Cathleen's father of stealing, become entangled with romance and criminals,...
34) Little lion
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In a story set in contemporary South Africa based on a traditional tale, when a father brings home a lion and announces it is a dog, the whole family treats it as a dog, until the day it gets loose and encounters the class bully.
35) Here comes Lolo
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"Lolo skips through life, leaving a trail of laughter and a few frowns. In these four easy-to-read stories, follow Lolo as she gets a gold star at school, longs for a cute floppy hat, finds a missing ring, and helps to rescue a dog"--
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"Perfect for readers of The Secret Life of Bees and The Help, a perceptive and searing look at Apartheid-era South Africa, told through one unique family brought together by tragedy. Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles...
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"Persomi's dreams are much bigger than the world of poverty and deprivation that surround her in the Bushveld of the 1940s and 1950s in South Africa. Persomi is young, white and poor, born the middle child of illiterate sharecroppers on the prosperous Fourie farm. Persomi's world is extraordinarily small. She has never been to the local village and spends her days absorbed in the rhythms of the natural world around her. Her older brother, Gerbrand,...
39) Seven days
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In order to stop a shooting spree against cops, homicide detective Bennie Griessel is given the thankless task of solving a cold case that has no leads.
40) Bopha!
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A sergeant in South Afrida's police force finds his world torn apart as his son discovers the impact of apartheid and his father's role in enforcing it.
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