When it comes to general information about South Africa, books are a great place to start – particularly those dating from after 1994, when the country underwent significant political transformation and dismantled the last vestiges of its Apartheid regime.

Here are a few books owned by the UNC libraries and the call numbers and locations where you can find them:

Contemporary South Africa.
Anthony Butler. Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Stone Center Library, Undergraduate Library DT1975 .B87 2004

Culture and Customs of South Africa.
Funso Afolayan. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2004.
Davis Library, Undergraduate Library GN656 .A36 2004

Fault Lines: Journeys in the New South Africa.
David Goodman and Paul Weinberg. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.
Davis Library, Stone Center Library, Undergraduate Library DT1974 .G66 1999

Modern South Africa.
Phillip Gay. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2001.
Davis Library, Stone Center Library, Undergraduate Library HN801.A8 G39 2001

Moving in Time: Images of Life in a Democratic South Africa.
Ed. George Hallett. Sandton, South Africa: KMM Review Pub., 2004.
Davis Library DT1723 .M68 2004

South Africa: A Modern History.
T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders. Hampshire, England: Macmillan Press; New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000.
Davis Library, Stone Center Library, Undergraduate Library DT1787 .D38 2000

Using the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries Catalog, you can also search using the term "South Africa" to locate more books. Tip: searching "South Africa" as an "LC Subject" will give you a more limited and relevant pool of records than by simply searching "South Africa" as a Keyword.