Clarke's Books

NEW ARRIVALS
October 2006

Allen (J.) RABBLE-ROUSER FOR PEACE, the authorised biography of Desmond Tutu, 481 pp., maps, illus., paperback. d.w., London, 2006.

	R147

"As a religious correspondent of a major South African daily newspaper, John Allen covered Desmond Tutu's rise to prominence in the years following the Soweto uprising in 1976. He served with Tutu for 13 years from 1987, first as his press secretary and then as Communications Director of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission and at Emory University in the United States."

Ballard (R.) et. al. (eds.) VOICES OF PROTEST, social movements in post-apartheid South Africa, 437 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

	R190

Contributions include "Seeking the High Ground: The Treatment Action Campaign and the politics of morality" by Steven Friedman & Shauna Mottiar,
"The Landless People's Movement and the Failure of Post-Apartheid South Africa" by Stephen Greenberg,
"Reconstructing a Social Movement in an Era of Globalisation: a case study of COSATU" by Adam Habib & Imraan Valodia
and "The Challenges of Inclusion and Transformation" the Women's Movement in democratic South Africa" by Shireen Hassim.

Barber (K.) ed. AFRICA'S HIDDEN HISTORIES, everyday literacy and making the self, 451 pp., illus., paperback, Bloomington, 2006.

	R359

Articles include "Ekukhanyeni Letter-Writers: a historical inquiry into epistolary network(s) and political imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa" by Vukile Khumalo,
"Reasons for Writing" African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth-century South Africa" by Keith Breckenridge,
"'The Bantu World' and the World of the Book: reading, writing, and 'enlightenment'" by Bhekizizwe Peterson and
"Reading Debating/ Debating Reading: the case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or why Mandela quotes Shakespeare" by Isabel Hofmeyr.

Calland (R.) ANATOMY OF SOUTH AFRICA, who holds the power?, 330 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

	R170

"Richard Calland takes the reader along the corridors of power - from the presidency and the cabinet to the judges and the media, via the labyrinth of the ANC-led alliance - mixing anecdote with solid research."

Richard Calland is an independent political analyst and executive director of the Open Democracy Advice Centre, which he founded in 2000.

Coullie (J.) et. al. (eds.) SELVES IN QUESTION, interviews on southern African auto/biography , 487 pp., paperback, Honolulu, 2006.

	R230

Includes "I Speak Their Wordless Woe", Dennis Brutus interviewed by Simon Lewis;
"All Autobiography is 'Autre'-biography", J.M.Coetzee interviewed by David Atwell;
"We Would Write Very Dull Books If We Just Wrote about Ourselves", Sindiwe Magona interviewed by Stephan Meyer;
"Metaphors of Self", Es'kia Mphahlele interviewed by N.Chabani Manganyi; "Writing Autobiography and Writing Fiction", Doris Lessing interviewed by M.J.Daymond;
"Reflections in Identity", Breyten Breytenbach interviewed by Marilet Sienaert;
"'Every Secret Thing' as Family Memoir", Gillian Slovo interviewed by Margaretta Jolly;
"Reflections in a Cracked Mirror"' Pieter-Dirk Uys interviewed by Mervyn McMurty;
"Philosophical Reflections on Chronicles of Conversion", Wilhelm Verwoerd interviewed by Stephan Meyer;
"Group Portrait: self, family and nation on exhibit", Paul Faber, Rayda Jacobs and David Goldblatt interviewed by Stephan Meyer, and much more.

de Waal (A.) AIDS AND POWER, why there is no political crisis - yet, 147 pp., paperback, Cape Town, London & New York, 2006.

	R95

Seeks to explain why "social and political life in Africa goes on in a remarkably normal way, and how political leaders have successfully managed the AIDS epidemic so as to overcome any threats to their power".

Alex de Waal is a fellow of the Global Equity Initiative, Harvard; director of the Social Science Research Council program on AIDS and social transformation; and a director of Justice Africa in London.

Guy (J.) REMEMBERING THE REBELLION, the Zulu uprising of 1906, 197 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

	R180

Beautifully illustrated with vintage and modern photographs of the British and Zulu leaders and soldiers, the stunning landscape, and detailed maps.

Jeff Guy is a Research Fellow at the Campbell Collections of the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the author of several books.

Human (M.) et. al. (eds.) THE WOMEN'S FREEDOM MARCH OF 1956, , 160 pp., oblong 4to., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

	R225

Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Women's March to Pretoria: on August 9th, 1956, 20 000 women marched on the Union Buildings to demand the withdrawal of passes for women and the repeal of the pass laws, the attempt by the Nationalist government to control the influx of blacks into designated white areas.

Contents include articles on the Federation of South African Women, the leaders of the 1956 march, the Black Sash, ordinary women, women activists and working class leaders who took part and documents, articles and photographs relating to both the 1955 and 1956 marches. There are profiles on Nadine Gordimer by Maureen Isaacson & Barbara Masekela by Ben Magubane & Gregory Houston, an interview with Mary Burton by Candy Malherbe and texts by Hilda Bernstein and Ezekiel Mphahlele. Also included are sections on female musicians of the 1950s and female visual and graphic artists.

Luthuli (A.) LET MY PEOPLE GO, the autobiography of Albert Luthuli, 253 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

	R150

Orignally published in 1962.

Introduction by Kader Asmal. Includes President Thabo Mbeki's address at the launch of the Luthuli Legacy Project.

Scully (P.) & Paton (D.) eds. GENDER AND SLAVE EMANCIPATION IN THE ATLANTIC WORLD, , 376 pp., paperback, Durham & London, 2005.

	R265

Includes the essay, "Masculinity, Citizenship, and the Production of Knowledge in the Postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834-1844" by Pamela Scully.

Seekings (J.) & Nattrass (N.) CLASS, RACE, AND INEQUALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA, , 446 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

	R190

"The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehrensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-fist century"."

Jeremy Seekings is Professor in Sociology and Politics at the University of Cape Town and Nicoli Nattrass in Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town.

Shefer (T.) et. al. (eds.) THE GENDER OF PSYCHOLOGY, , 355 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

	R257

Chapters include "A Gendered Analysis of Woman Abuse" by Floretta Boonzaier, "Men and Maculinities: psychology and politics" by Kopano Ratele and "'Going Places': black women negoatiating race and gender in post-apartheid South Africa".

South African Democracy Education Trust (comp.) THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA, volume 2 (1970 - 1980), 963 pp., maps, illus., hardback, Pretoria, 2006.

	R425

Compiled and coordinated by the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET) the Road to Democracy Project "aims to compile a chronological analysis of four decades, namely 1960-1970, 1970-1980, 1980-1990 and 1990-1994."

Worden (N.) & Groenewald (G.) eds. TRIALS OF SLAVERY, selected documents concerning slaves from the criminal records of the Council of Justice at the Cape of Good Hope, 1705-1794, 681 pp., maps, illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2005.

	R250

A collection of 87 verbatim records of trials involving slaves at the Cape during the 18th century. The transcripts are printed in the original Dutch, with an English translation.