I can recommend these books about South Africa and videos as a great way of getting to know South Africa before you visit the country. This selection of South African general interest books and travel guide books about South Africa are the ones I feel are worth looking at.
Long
Walk to Freedom : The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela by Nelson
Mandela: Paperback - 625 pages
VHS
Video: Biography - Nelson Mandela: Journey to Freedom (1987) Director: Kevin
Burns (III), Jeff Scheftel.
Anatomy
of a Miracle: The End of Apartheid & the Birth of the New South
Africa by Patti Waldmeir - Hardcover.
Mandela
: An Illustrated Autobiography [Abridged] by Nelson Mandela. Hardcover
- 207 pages
The
Power of One - by Bryce Courtenay
African
Wildlife : A Photographic Safari by Stephen J. Krasemann, Barbara
Bach. Hardcover - 160 pages.
Footprint
South Africa Handbook 2001 : The Travel Guide
Southern
Africa Revealed : South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, and
Mozambique by Elaine Hurford
South
Africa - By Gerald Hoberman.
Eyewitness
Travel Guides: South Africa
Lonely
Planet Cape Town (2nd Ed) by Jon Murray.
Travel
Guide Cape Town by Peter Joyce
Adventuring
in Southern Africa: Botswana, Zambia, Namibia, South Africa, Malawi,
Lesotho & Swaziland
Lonely
Planet South Africa : Lesotho & Swaziland (4th Ed)