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NEW ARRIVALS
November 2006


 

Arnold (G.) AFRICA, a modern history, 1028 pp., maps, illus., paperback, London, (2005) 2006.

  R230
  Guy Arnold covers the period 1960 to 2000. He has specialized in African and Third World affairs for forty years, is the author of a number of books, lectures on international affairs and has worked as a consultant for agencies involved in the Third World.
 

Ashforth (A.) WITCHCRAFT, VIOLENCE, AND DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA, , 396 pp., map, illus., paperback, Chicago & London, 2005.

  R295
  "Adam Ashforth examines how people in Soweto and other parts of post-apartheid South Africa manage their fear of 'evil forces' such as witchcraft...He develops a new framework for understanding occult violence as a form of spiritual insecurity...analyzes the response of post-apartheid governments to issues of spiritual insecurity and suggests how these matters pose severe long-term challenges to the legitimacy of the democratic state"

Adam Ashforth is visiting associate professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.
 

Buhlungu (S.) ed. TRADE UNIONS AND DEMOCRACY, Cosatu's workers' political attitudes in South Africa, 259 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R190
  Contents include "Introduction: Cosatu and the first ten years of democratic transition in South Africa" by Sakhela Buhlungu,
"Trade Unions and the Challenge of the Informalisation of Work" by Edward Webster,
"Union Democracy, Parliamentary Democracy and the 2004 Elections" by Janet Cherry and Roger Southall,
""Broadening Internal Democracy with a Diverse Workforce: challenges and opportunities" by Geoffrey Wood and Pauline Dibben,
"The Marginalisation of Women Unionists during South Africa's Democratic Transition" by Malehoko Tshoaedi and Hlengiwe Hlela,
"Coastu and Black Economic Empowerment" by Roger Southall and Roger Tangri, "Workers and Policy-Making" by Janet Cherry,
"Cosatu, alliances and working-class politics" by Devan Pillay
and "Conclusion: Cosatu and the democratic transformation of South Africa" by Sakhela Buhlungu, Roger Southall and Edward Webster.
 

Clapham (C.) et. al. (eds.) BIG AFRICAN STATES, , 308 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

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  Contents include "Africa's Big Dysfunctional States: an introductory overview" by Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills,
" From 'confusăo' to 'estamos juntos'? Bigness, development and state dysfunction in Angola" by Greg Mills,
"South Africa: the contrarian big African state" by Tim Hughes,
"Dysfunctional States, Dysfunctional Armed Movements, and Lootable Commodities" by Marina Ottaway,
"International Responses to State Dysfunctionality" by Nicolas van de Walle,
"Conflict in Africa: armies, rebels and geography" by Jeffrey Herbst,
"Africa's Big States and Organised Crime" by Gail Wannenburg,
"Leading Large States"by Joseph Ayee,
"Africa and its Boundaries, a Legal Overview: from colonialism to the African Union" by Garth Abraham
and "Conclusion: policy options for the problems of Africa's big states" by Christopher Clapham.

Christopher Clapham is an associate of African Studies, Cambridge Unviersity. Jeff Herbst is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University, Ohio. Greg Mills heads the Brenthurst Foundation. From 1996 to 2005 he was the National Director of the SA Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) based at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Edelstein (J.) text & photo. TRUTH & LIES, stories from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, 228 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, New York, (2001) 2002.

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  Photographer Jill Edelstein spent four years attending hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, photographing and interviewing both victims and perpetrators.

Introduction by historian, writer and broadcaster Michael Ignatieff. Includes an essay, "Memory and Trauma", by clinical psychologist Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, author of "A Human Being Died Last Night, a story of forgiveness".
 

Elbourne (E.) BLOOD GROUND, colonialism, missions, and the contest for Christianity in the Cape Colony and Britain, 1799-1853., 499 pp., maps, illus., hardback, d.w., Montreal & Kingston, 2002.

  R680
  "'Blood Ground' looks at the relationship between the Khoekhoe, the British Empire, and the London Missionary Society in the early nineteenth century, a time of intense conflict during which different groups competed to mobilize Christianity for their own political ends."

Elizabeth Elbourne is associate professor in the Department of History, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
 

Francis (S.) & Rico MADAMS OF THE CARIBBEAN, Madam & Eve, 176 pp., oblong 4to., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

  R130
  A collection of "Madam & Eve" cartoon strips published in numerous South African newspapers.
 

Frankel (G.) RIVONIA'S CHILDREN, three families and the cost of conscience in white South Africa, 381 pp., illus., paperback, New York, (1999) 2001.

 
OUT OF PRINT
  The story of a group of mostly Jewish, mostly communist activists, including Hilda and Rusty Bernstein, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, James Kantor and Harold and AnneMarie Wolpe, who either went into exile or were imprisoned for their anti-apartheid activities.
 

Godwin (P.) WHEN A CROCODILE EATS THE SUN, a memoir, 342 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

  R149
  An account of Peter Godwin's family, and their lives in Zimbabwe.

Peter Godwin is the author of the award-winning "Mukiwa", an account of his childhood and early adulthood in Zimbabwe.
 

Hall (S.) ZULU, with some guts behind it, the making of the epic movie, 431 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Sheffield, (2005) 2006.

  R400
  The 1964 film, "'Zulu', produced by Stanley Baker and directed by Cy Endfield, tells the story of the Battle of Rorke's Drift in 1879.

Includes first-hand accounts of shooting the film, extracts from the screenplay, script notes, letters and production documents, biographies of all the principal actors and filmakers and screenwriter John Prebble's original article on Rorke's Drift.

Sheldon Hall lectures in film history, theory and criticism at Sheffield Hallam University. A former freelance journalist, he has published articles and contributed to numerous books.
 

Hassim (S.) WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA, contesting authority, 355 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

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  Shireen Hassim, senior lecturer in political science at the University of the Witwatersrand, examines interactions between the transition to democracy and the women's movement in South Africa.
 

Hopkins (P.) & Hilton-Barber (B.) comps. WORST JOURNEYS, an anthology of South African travel disasters, 260 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2005.

  R150
  Contents include "Arrival in Natal"by Mahatma Gandhi, "The Armoured Train" by Winston Churchill, "One Night with the Niggers" by Sol Plaatje, "Desolation" by Pauline Smith, "The Dube Train" by Can Themba, "Mr Drum Goes to Jail" by Henry Nxumalo, "The Waste Land" by Alan Paton, "To Robben Island" by Nelson Mandela, "Noorjehan" by Ahmed Essop, "Soweto: fragment from a homecoming" by John Matshikiza, and much more.
 

Huchzermeyer (M.) & Karam (A.) eds. INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, a perpetual challenge?, 318 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R200
  Contributions include "The New Instrument for Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa" by Marie Huchzermeyer,
"Informal Settlements: Infernal and Eternal? The role of research in policy advocacy and urban informal settlements in Angola" by Paul Jenkins, "Understanding the Complexities of Informal Settlements: insights from Cape Town" by Warren Smit,
"An HIV and AIDS Lens for Informal Settlement Policy and Practice in South Africa" by Cecile Ambert,
"Informal Settlement Upgrading in Cape Town: challenges, constraints and contradictions within local government" by Nick Graham,
"Local Governance and Social Conflict: implications for piloting South Africa's new housing plan in Cape Town's informal settlements" by Catherine Cross
and "The Local Government Challenge of Healthy Development in Informal Settlements in a Time of HIV/AIDS" by Elizabeth Thomas.
 

Lodge (T.) MANDELA, a critical life, 274 pp., illus., paperback., Oxford, (2006) 2008.

  R155
  This biography provides insight into the shaping of Nelson's Mandela's personality and public persona, examines the sources of his almost mythic appeal and the extent to which he self-consciously created the status of political hero he enjoys.

Tom Lodge was a member of the Department of Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand between 1978 and 2005. He is now Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Limerick University in Ireland. He is the author of five other books on South African politics.
 

Maharaj (M.) & Kathrada (A.) eds. MANDELA, the authorised portrait, 356 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2006.

  R350
  Text by Mike Nicol. Includes more than sixty interviews with Nelson Mandela's friends, associates and comrades: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Bono, Thabo Mbeki, Muhammad Ali, Hilda Bernstein, George Bizos, Albie Sachs, Dennis Goldberg, Arthur Chaskalson, Mac Maharaj, Ahmed Kathrada, Neville Alexander, Helen Suzman, Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink, Cyril Ramaphosa, Allister Sparks, Pallo Jordan, Gillian Slovo, Antjie Krog and many others. The interviews were conducted by Tim Couzens, Rosalind Coward and Amina Franse.

Foreword by Kofi Annan. Introduction by Desmond Tutu.
 

Meredith (M.) THE STATE OF AFRICA, a history of fifty years of independence, 752 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (2005) 2006.

  R130
  Martin Meredith is a journalist, biographer and historian who has written many books about Africa and its recent history, including "In the Name of Apartheid" (1988), "Coming to Terms: South Africa's search for truth" (1999) and "Mugabe: power and plunder in Zimbabwe" (2002).

"Focusing on the key personalities, events and themes of the independence era, Martin Meredith's magisterial history seeks to explore and explain the myriad problems that Africa has faced in the past half-century, and faces still.
 

Milllar (M.) JOURNEY OF THE TALL HORSE, a story of African theatre, 237 pp., illus., paperback, London, 2006.

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  In 2004 a group of performers and writers from around the world collaborated to tell the story of the giraffe presented to King Charles X of France. They made use of puppets, actors, dancers, stilt-walkers, music, costumes and graphics and incorporated a range of theatrical styles and techniques.
The show was co-produced by Basil Jones of the Handspring Puppet Comany and the Sogolon pupper troupe of Mali. Adrian Kohler was responsible for set and costume design. The international team included director Marthinus Basson, video artist Jaco Bouwer and composer Warrick Sony, all South Africans, as well as Yaya Coulibaly, the puppet-maker and director from Mali, choreographer Koffi Kôkô from Benin and writer Khephra Burns from New York. The book includes Burns's performance script. Theatre director and puppet specialist Mervyn Millar was present as observer, chronicler and assistant director.
 

Naidoo (P.) 156 HANDS THAT BUILT SOUTH AFRICA, the 1956 treason trial, 470 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, d.w., Durban, 2006.

  R355
  Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Treason Trial. Includes profiles on each of the accused.

Foreword by Zanele and Thabo Mbeki.
 

Nyamnjoh (F.B.) INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS, citizenship and xenophobia in contemporary South Africa, 273 pp., paperback, London & Dakar, 2006.

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  "Focusing on two of sub-Saharan Africa's most economically successful nations, Botswana and South Africa, the eminent sociologist Francis Nyamhjoh demonstrates the processes through which new hierarchies of citizenship and rights are being constructed...He meticulously documents the fate of immigrants in these Southern African societies through a focus on the situation of 'illegal' maids who cross borders in flight from economic hardship in their own countries"

Francis Nyamnjoh is Associate Professor and Head of Publications and Dissemination with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and has published widely on globalisation, citizenship, media and the politics of identity in Africa.
 

Orr (M.) et. al. (eds. BUTTONS AND BREAKFASTS, the Wits WonderWoman book, 173 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

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  "The Wits WonderWomen are a group of academics at the University of the Witwatersrand. This collection of their writings reflects on growing up in a man's world and working in an environment peopled by male professors."

Contributions by Mary Rorich, Moyra Keane, Tracy McLellan, Susan Chemaly, Jane Castle, Margaret Orr, Sigrid Ewert, Norma M Nongauza-Tsotsi, Brenda Keen, Leah Gilbert, Pam Nichols, Wendy Orr and Alison Kearney.
 

Padayachee (V.) ed. THE DEVELOPMENT DECADE?, ecenomic and social change in South Africa, 1994-2004, 471 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R260
  Contributions include "Development Discourses in Post-Apartheid South Africa" by Vishnu Padayachee, "Reflections on SOuth Africa's First Wave of Economic Reforms" by Rashad Cassim, "Constructing the Social Policy Agenda: conceptual debates around poverty and inequality" by Julian May, "Gender and Social Security in South Africa" by Francie Lund, "LOcal Economic Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa: a ten-year research review" by Christian M.Rogerson, "Local Economic Development: utopia and reality - the example of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal" by Benoît Lootvoet & Bill Freund, "Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: a critical analysis" by Richard Devey, Caroline Skinner & Imraan Valodia, "Framing the South African AIDS Epidemic: a social science perspective" by Eleanor Preston-Whyte, "Economic and Development Issues Around HIV/AIDS" by Alan Whiteside & Sabrina Lee, "Social Movements in South Africa: promoting crisis or creating stability?" by Richard Ballard, Adam Habib & Imraan Valodia & "Democracy and Social Movements in South Africa" by Dale McKinley.
 

Pauw (J.) DANCES WITH DEVILS, a journalist's search for truth, 393 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

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  "This is not an autobiography...but rather a collection of events and encounters with extraordinary people in places where 'ordinary' people don't go. The journey stretches from the last, dark days of apartheid and its aberrations to the apocalyptic events in several African states around and since the dawn of the new millennium".

Jacques Pauw is the author of two previously published books: "In the Heart of the Whore: the story of apartheid's death squads" and "Into the Heart of Darkness: confessions of apartheid's assassins".

He was a founder member and assistant editor of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper "Vrye Weekblad" in 1988. In 1998 he was a founder member of the SABC's "Special Assignment" current affairs programme and is currently executive producer.
 

Penn (N.) THE FORGOTTEN FRONTIER, colonist and Khoisan on the Cape's nothern frontier in the 18th century, 388 pp., map, paperback, Athens & Cape Town, 2005.

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  Nigel Penn tells the epic story of the conflict between Dutch colonists and the indigenous Khoi and San on the frontier north of Cape Town.

Nigel Penn is in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town.
 

Picard (L.A.) THE STATE OF THE STATE, institutional transformation, capacity and political change in South Africa, 390 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005.

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  Explores "political and socio-economic issues about the nature of the South African state from the 1990s through the early 21st century."

Luuis Picard is Professor in the Division of International Development, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

Published in the P & DM Governance Series, "an initiative of Wits University Press and the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand."
 

Pillay (U.) et. al. (eds.) DEMOCRACY AND DELIVERY, urban policy in South Africa, 334 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R190
  Essays include "Local Government Boundary Reorganisation" by Robert Cameron, "Local Government in South Africa's Larger Cities" by Alan Mabin, "Free Basic Services: the evolution and impact of free basic water policy in South Africa" by Tim Modsell, "Reaching the Poor? An analysis of the influences on the evolution of South Africa's housing programme" by Sarah Charlton & Caroline Kihato, ""Integrated Development Plans and Third Way Politics" by Philip Harrison & "Urban Spatial Policy" by Alison Todes.
 

Piombo (J.) & Nijzink (L.) eds. ELECTORAL POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA, assessing the first democratic decade, 297 pp., paperback, New York & Cape Town, (2005) 2006.

  R190
  Contributions include "A Voice for Some: South Africa's ten years of democracy" by Steven Friedman, "The Electoral Implications of Social and Economic Change Since 1994" by Jeremy Seekings, "Voter Information, Government Evaluations, and Party Images in the First Democratic Decade" by Robert Mattes, "Parliament and the Electoral System: how are South Africans Being Represented?" by Lia Nijzink and Jessica Piombo, "The African National Congress; there is no party like it; 'ayikho efana nayo'" by Tom Lodge, "Electoral Administration: achievements and continuing challenges" by Claude Kabemba and "Media Coverage in Election 2004" were some parties more equal than others?" by Gavin Davis, and more.
 

Roberts (A.) THE WONGA COUP, the British mercenary plot to seize oil billions in Africa, 304 pp., maps, paperback, London, 2006.

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  "On 7 March 2004, Zimbabwean police impounded an American plane which had flown from South Africa with sixty four alleged mercenaries on board.The men, led by former SAS officer Simon Mann, were heading for the tiny west African nation of Equatorial Guinea, where they planned to overthrow the government...Equatorial Guinea is Africa's thrid largest producer of oil and they wanted a share..." Roberts looks into the role played by Mark Thatcher.

Adam Roberts works for "The Economist" in London.
 

Roberts (R.S.) NO COLD KITCHEN, a biography of Nadine Gordimer, 733 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005.

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  This biography, drawing upon "unpresedented access to Gordimer and her documents", charts the Nobel Laureate's life and times and discusses her work in depth.

Nadine Gordimer attempted to stop publiscation of this book.

Ronald Suresh Roberts was born in London, grew up in Trinidad, graduated from Balliol College Oxford and Harvard Law School, worked in New York and came to Johannesburg in 1994 as coordinator of an international election monitoring delegation. He is co-author of "Reconciliation Through Truth: a reckoning of apartheid's criminal governance" (1997).
 

Salih (M.A.) ed. AFRICAN PARLIAMENTS, between governance and government, 286 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

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  Contents include "People, Party, Politics, and Parliament: government and governance in Namibia" by Henning Melber, The South African Parliament's Failed Moment" by Tim Hughes, "Parliaments, Politics, and Governance: African democracies in comparative perspective" by Wil Hout, "Legislative Quotas for Women: implications for governance in Africa" by Aili Mari Tripp & "Local Assemblies and Local Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa" by Dele Olowu.
 

Saul (J.) THE NEXT LIBERATION STRUGGLE, capitalism, socialism and democracy in Southern Africa, 354 pp., paperback, Toronto etc, 2005.

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  John Saul "charts the movements...that culminated in the independence of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Namibia and the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa. Looking ahead, he outlines the imperatives of Africa's next liberation struggle - for socio-economic freedom and popularly-defined development".

John Saul is a professor emeritus of political science at York University.
 

Sisulu (E.) WALTER & ALBERTINA SISULU, in our lifetime, 672 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, (2002) 2006.

  R210
  Foreword by Nelson Mandela.

Elinor Sisulu is a freelance writer and editor. "In the late 1980s she worked for the International Labour Organisation in Lusaka, to provide programs of asistance to the ANC, PAC and SWAPO".
 

Stevens (G.) et. al. (eds.) A RACE AGAINST TIME, psychology and challenges to deracialisation in South Africa, 353 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2006.

  R160
  Contributions include "'All the Black People Speak English or Afrikaans, So It Doesn't Matter...' - ideologies of language and race on a South African school ground" by Desmond Painter, "Ethnicity: it's about making a difference" by Garth Stevens, Norman Duncan and Brett Bowman, "Two Nations: race and poverty in post-apartheid South Africa" by Martin Terblanche, "'It's Not Us, They're Spreading AIDS': race, schoolboy masculinities and perception of personal risk in relation to HIV/AIDS among male youth in post-apartheid South Africa" by Kay Govender, "(Post)colonial Racism: racial Otherness, the colonial stereotype and the model of fetishism" by Derek Hook, "New Questions, Old Answers? Gender and race in post-apartheid South Africa" by Tamara Shefer and Kopano Ratele, "Truth, Reconciliation, Reparation and Deracialisation in Post-apartheid South Africa: fact or fiction?" by Garth Stevens and "The 'Rainbow Nation': constructs of national identity in post-apartheid South Africa" by Peace Kiguwa.
 

Tienda (M.) et. al. (eds.) AFRICA ON THE MOVE, African migration and urbanisation in comparative perspective, 375 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

  R180
  Contributions include "Patterns and Processes of International Migration in the Twenty-First Century: lessons for South Africa" by Douglas S.Massey, "Highly Prevalent Circular Migration: households, mobility and economic status in rural South Africa" by Mark Collinson, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn, Samuel Clark and Michel Carenne, "Moving On: patterns of labour migration in post-apartheid South Africa" by Dorrit Posel and "Health Consequences of Migration: evidence from South Africa's rural north-east (Agincourt)" by Mark Collinson, Mark Lurie, Kathleen Kahn, Ari Johson and Stephen Tollman.
 

van Zyl Slabbert (F.) THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY, an anecdotal reflection on political transition in South Africa, 174 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

  R130
  Frederick van Zyl Slabbert was in Parliament in opposition against the Nationalist government from 1974 to 1986, becoming leader of the opposition in 1979. He resigned from Parliament over the issue of the Tricameral Parliament.

"This is a personal reflection on a fascinating period in my life which coincided with fundamental shifts in the political life of South Africa. I was fortunate to be in a position where I knew and had access to persons of influence across the political spectrum. This is my account of their interaction with each other and mine with them" van Zyl Slabbert.
 

Watson (S.) ed. A CITY IMAGINED, , 216 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (2006) 2010.

  R130
  Views of the city of Cape Town from 19 writers including Damon Galgut, Finuala Dowling, Jeremy Cronin, Mike Nicol, Antony Sher, Sindiwe Magona, André Brink, Mark Behr, Marlene van Niekerk and Justin Cartwright.

Introduction and afterword by poet and academic Stephen Watson, who asked these writers, "the majority of them current citizens of this city, to write a personal essay in which they attempt to take the meaure of the place and to define its meaning for them".
 

Williiams (S.) COLOUR BAR, the triumph of Seretse Khama and his nation, 408 pp., map, illus., hardback, d.w., London, 2006.

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  Using newly released records from London, Pretoria and Gaberone and many personal accounts from Africa and Britian, historian Susan Williams recounts hows British polititians and South Africa's Nationalist government colluded to prevent Seretse Khama, heir apparent to the chieftainship of the Bangwato people, from returning home with his English wife, Ruth Williams.