Can you recommend books set in colonial era Africa, prefereably South Africa?

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Looking for recommendations. Something absorbing and rich in historical/local detail please.

I recently read The Last Horseman by David Gilman which is set in the Boer War. It was a bit hard going at first but i was disappointed when it ended as I had got really into it.

Equiano’s story is extraordinary, but from memory, very little of it is set in any part of Africa? OP, another South African novel I like is Imraan Coovadia’s Tales of the Metric System.

I loved The Africa House by Christina Lamb. Wonder if it's still in print? Non fiction but utterly absorbing.

The Apricot Tree by Rae Norridge. Fiction. The story line is a little bit melodramatic (one character, Hannah, seems to have maximum drama AND maximum luck throughout the book), but the scope and detail is terrific. It focuses on a mixed Afrikaner-English family living on a farm in the Transvaal during the Boer War (action takes place around 1897 - 1903), with the main family group fighting/working on the side of the Boers but one daughter (Hannah) married to a British officer in Cape Town and assumed to be loyal to the British side. A lot of detail both on landscape and culture and on the history and the politics of the day, without getting too bogged down. The author is South African.

@Roseau18 thanks for the correction, I always get that mixed up.

Laurens van der Post?