Gavin Bell   Somewhere Over the Rainbow (Abacus, UK). A British foreign correspondent during the apartheid years returns in the mid-1990s to provide an astute commentary on the fortunes and foibles of the new South Africa.

 

Dan Jacobson   The Electric Elephant (Hamish Hamilton, UK). Jacobson, who left South Africa in the 1950s, returned in 1993 to travel from Kimberley in the Northern Cape to Victoria Falls, along the old "Great North Road", built by Rhodes and since trodden by generations of missionaries, colonists and freebooters.

Dervla Murphy   South from the Limpopo: Travels through South Africa (John Murray, UK). A fascinating bike journey through the new South Africa with a writer who isn't afraid to explore the complexities and paradoxes of this country.

Marco Turco   Visitor's Guide to Lesotho (Southern, SA). An exhaustive account of nearly every town and village on the main routes through Lesotho, accompanied by constant exhortations for readers to get out and meet the Sotho. Helpful in places, though rather indiscriminate.

Marco Turco   Visitor's Guide to Swaziland (Southern, SA). Turco travelled everywhere to write this book, including some really out-of-the-way places, though his account is marred by his tendency to recommend everything, no matter how dull it turns out to be when you get there.