Book review

W. C. J. van Rensburg and D. A. Pretorius (H. Glen ed.). South Africa's strategic minerals - pieces on a continental chessboard. Johannesburg, Valiant Publishers, 1977. 170 pp. RI2,00. (Obtainable from The Librarian, Foreign Affairs Association, P.O. Box 26410, Arcadia, 0007 South Africa.) This book provides the answers to many questions relating to what minerals South Africa produces and in what quantities, what mineral industries and trade she practises, and what mineral resources and reserves she possesses.