Hermann Giliomee is an author of historical and political studies, former Professor of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town

University of Cape Town

The University of Cape Town is a public research university located in Cape Town in the Western Cape province of South Africa. UCT was founded in 1829 as the South African College, and is the oldest university in South Africa and the second oldest extant university in Africa.-History:The roots of...

 (1983–2002), President of the South African Institute of Race Relations (1995–1997) and current Extraordinary Professor of History at the Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University

Stellenbosch University is a public research university situated in the town of Stellenbosch, South Africa. Other nearby universities are the University of Cape Town and University of the Western Cape....

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He co-founded Die Suid-Afrikaan, an Afrikaans journal of opinion in 1984. Giliomee was a regular columnist for the Cape Times

Cape Times

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, The Rand Daily Mail

The Rand Daily Mail

The Rand Daily Mail was a Johannesburg daily newspaper with an anti-apartheid bias that broke the news about the apartheid state's Muldergate Scandal in 1979.- History :...

 and other periodicals from 1980 to 1997 and is presently writing a political column for the Afrikaans morning newspapers Die Burger

Die Burger

Die Burger is a daily Afrikaans language newspaper, published by Naspers. By 2008, it had a circulation of 91,665 in the Western and Eastern Cape Provinces of South Africa...

, Beeld

Beeld

Beeld is an Afrikaans language daily newspaper that was launched on 16 September 1974. Beeld is distributed in five provinces of South Africa: Gauteng, Mpumalanga, Limpopo, North West and KwaZulu-Natal. Die Beeld was an Afrikaans language Sunday newspaper in the late 1960s...

and Volksblad.

Books by Hermann Giliomee

• Ethnic power mobilized - Can South Africa change ? (Co-author: Heribert Adam), Yale University Press, 1979
• Die Kaap tydens die eerste Britse bewind, 1795–1803, 1971
• The parting of the ways, 1982
• Up against the fences, 1985
• The Shaping of South African Society 1652-1840, 1988
• From apartheid to nation-building, 1989
• Negotiating South Africa's future, 1989
• The Bold experiment, 1994
• The awkward embrace, 1999
• Kruispad, 2001
• The Afrikaners - Biographie d'un peuple, 2003, ISBN 0-8139-2237-2
• Die Afrikaners: `n Biografie, 2004
• 'n Vaste plek vir Afrikaans (Co-author: Lawrence Schlemmer), Protea Boekhuis, 2006
• Nog altyd hier gewees – Die storie van 'n Stellenbosse gemeenskap, Tafelberg, 2007
• New History of South Africa / Nuwe geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika, (Co-editor: Bernard Mbenga)