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Featuring a variety of rare and unpublished colour photographs, George Woods explores the world of steam locomotives and trains in 1970s South Africa.

This is the third of five planned volumes of technical papers by the Argentinean engineer L.D. Porta covering various aspects relating to the "modernisation" of steam locomotives. Most have been transcribed from handwritten manuscripts that have never been published before.This second volume contains three technical papers relating to Adhesion, Compounding

South Africa's leading economists adopt within this volume a sectoral approach in their analysis of the drastic changes that have occurred within the South African economy since 1970. The book illustrates how, despite its sophisticated infrastructure, the South African economy has shared in the economic decline - resulting from misguided

v. 3: The third volume in the series examines the role of anti-apartheid movements around the world. The global anti-apartheid movement was very successful in creating awareness of the liberation struggle in South Africa, and in contributing to the downfall of the apartheid government. This volume, in 2 parts, brings

South Africa’s high rate of unemployment (26.4%) makes it a complete outlier compared with other middle-income countries. Indeed, the unemployment rate rises to 36% if discouraged workers are taken into account. It underpins extreme poverty and inequality and is a major contributor to social dislocation. If it were not for