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NEW ARRIVALS
October 2007


 

Amoateng (A.Y.) & Heaton (T.B.) eds. FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, socio-demographic perspectives, 188 pp., 4to., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R180
  In this study undertaken within the Human Sciences Research Council by the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme, social scientists from a variety of disciplines attempt to explain the changes in families and households in South Africa following the end of apartheid.

Progessor Acheampong Yaw Amoateng is a family sociologist and Director of Research in the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme of the HSRC.
Tim Heaton is a Professor of Demography and Research Associate at the Centre for Studies of the Family at Brighma Young University in the United States.
 

Anderson (P.R.) FOUNDLING'S ISLAND, , 64 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R85
  P.R.Anderson lectures in English at the University of Cape Town. He has published another collection of poetry, "Litany Bird", and edited the anthology, "In the Country of the Heart, love poems from South Africa".
 

Barlow (E.) EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES, against all odds, 552 pp., map, colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R250
  Eeben Barlow, a former lieutenant-colonel in the Permanent Force of the South African Defence Force who served in Military Intelligence and in the Civil Co-operation Bureau division of the Special Forces, formed Executive Outcomes, a private military company, in 1989. Executive Outcomes gave specialist covert training to the SADF's Special Forces, and security advice and training to numerous foreign governments, including the Angolan government and the government of Sierra Leone, as well as to large multi-national corporations. The company closed down in 1998.
 

Batley (K.) ed. A SECRET BURDEN, memories of the Border War by South African soldiers who fought in it, 133 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R110
  A collection of prose and poetry by white South African conscripts deployed during the "Border War" in Namibia and Angola. All contributions are published anonymously.

Foreword by Justice Yvonne Mokgoro. Introduction by Carol Allais and Ian Liebenberg.

Includes the essay, "Socialised Warriors: anti-heroic subversion in writing by South African soldiers in the Border War" by Karen Batley.
 

Bleek (W.H.I.) & Lloyd (L.C.) comp. SPECIMENS OF BUSHMEN FOLKLORE, , 468 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Einsiedeln, (1911) 2001.

  R550
  Foreword by Megan Biesele.

A facsimile reprint of Bushmen tales collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd originally published in 1911, with the /Xam text and English translations on facing pages.
 

Boon (M.) THE AFRICAN WAY, the power of interactive leadership, 159 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (1996) 2007.

  R130
  Mike Boon "explains the problems that lead to a breakdown in communication between diffrent cultural groups in business and interpersonal relationships, and presents original and practical solutions."

Mike Boon is the CEO of Vulindlela Network, which specialises in organisational transformation and growth.
 

Britain (I.) ed. MEANJIN, on translation, volume 64, number 4, 2005, 216 pp., paperback, Melbourne, 2005.

  R295
  Includes the essay, "Roads to Translation, how a novelist relates to his translators" by J.M.Coetzee.
 

Brook (R.) MORE THAN EYES CAN SEE, a nine-month journey through the AIDS pandemic, 285 pp., colour illus., paperback, London, 2007.

  R179
  Between January and September 2006 writer Rhidian Brook travelled with his wife and two children to the places most severely affected by HIV/AIDS, including Kenya, Rwanda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, China and India. He was sent by the Salvation Army to record the work they are doing in these areas in response to the pandemic.
 

Burger (W.) ed. DIE OOP GESPREK, N.P.van Wyk Louw-gedenklesings, 485 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2006.

  R155
  A collection of the N.P.van Wyk Louw Memorial Lectures presented at the Univerity of Johannesburg (formerly Rand Afrikaans University) between 1982 and 2005. This is a companion volume to "Oopgelate Kring" (1982), which published the first ten lectures. The Van Wyk Louw Memorial Lecture has been presented annually since 1971.

Text in Afrikaans.

Includes lectures by P.G.du Plessis, Elize Botha, Beyers Naudé, Hermann Giliomee, André Brink and Antjie Krog, amongst others.
 

Claase (L.A.) CAUGHT OUT, cricket match-fixing investigated, 320 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R165
  Freelance writer and editor Laurie Claase's investigation into corruption in world cricket and the evidence against the test-playing nations, England, India, Pakistan, Australia and South Africa.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) AGE OF IRON, , 198 pp., paperback, London, (1990) 1998.

  R110
  This novel won the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) BOYHOOD, scenes from provincial life, 166 pp., paperback, London, (1997) 1998.

  R112
  J.M.Coetzee writes about his childhood in a small country town in South Africa.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) DISGRACE, , 220 pp., paperback, London, (1999) 2000.

  R112
  This novel won the Booker Prize, making J.M.Coetzee the first author to win the Booker Prize twice.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) DUSKLANDS, , 125 pp., paperback, London, (1982) 2004.

  R112
  J.M.Coetzee's first novel.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) ELIZABETH COSTELLO, eight lessons, 230 pp., paperback, , (2003) 2004.

  R128
  J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) FOE, , 157 pp., paperback, London, (1986) 1987.

  R110
  J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) IN THE HEART OF THE COUNTRY, , 151 pp., paperback, London, (1977) 2004.

  R112
  This novel, J.M.Coetzee's second, won the CNA Prize.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) LIFE & TIMES OF MICHAEL K, , 184 pp., paperback, London, (1974) 2004.

  R114
  This novel won the Booker Prize and the Prix Etranger Fémina.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) SLOW MAN, , 263 pp., paperback, London, (2005) 2006.

  R130
  J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) THE MASTER OF PETERSBURG, , 250 pp., paperback, London, (1994) 2004.

  R112
  This novel won the Irish Times International Fiction Award.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS, , 170 pp., paperback, London, (1980) 2004.

  R128
  This novel won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the CNA Prize.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) YOUTH, , 169 pp., paperback, London, (2002) 2003.

  R95
  J.M.Coetzee's account of his life as a young man.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) trans. LANDSCAPE WITH ROWERS, poetry from the Netherlands, 105 pp., paperback, Princeton & Oxford, 2004.

  R190
  J.M.Coetzee's English translations - published alongside the Dutch originals - of work by six contemporary Dutch poets: Cees Nooteboom, Gerrit Achterberg, Hugo Claus, Sybren Polet, Hans Faverey and Rutger Kopland.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Doxtader (E.) & Salazar (P.-J.) TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, the fundamental documents, 478 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R260
  Erik Doxtader and Philippe-Joseph Salazar present selections from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's public archive in an attempt "to provide a clear sense of the Commission's mandate and development" and to offer "a detailed view of the varied work undertaken by the TRC, the ways in which victims and perpetrators of human rights violations chose to present accounts of their experiences and actions, and the basic findings of the Commission."

Erik Doxtader is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina.
Philippe-Joseph Salazar is Distinguished Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.
 

Hollman (J.C.) ed. CUSTOMS AND BELIEFS OF THE /XAM BUSHMEN, , 438 pp., 4to., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg & Philadelphia, 2004.

  R250
  Reproduces extracts from Wilhelm Bleek's and Lucy Lloyd's original manuscripts which Dorothea Bleek published between 1931 and 1936 in the journal Bantu Studies under the general title, "Customs and Belief of the /Xam Bushmen".

Introduced and annotated by Jeremy Hollman, with a foreword by Janette Deacon, the book includes Dorothea Bleek's sketch of the grammar of the /Xam language, original drawings by the /Xam informants and photographs taken by Dorothea Bleek of the descendants of these informants.

Jeremy Hollman is a researcher at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Jordan (Z.P.) ed. OLIVER TAMBO REMEMBERED, , 463pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2007.

  R250
  A compilation of memories in celebration of what would be Oliver Tambo's 90th birthday. Contributions by Thabo Mbeki, Z.Pallo Jordan, Kader Asmal, Nelson Mandela, Ruth Mompati, Sam Njoma, Wally Serote, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Ronnie Kasrils, Reg September, and many others.
 

Lewis-Williams (D.) & Pearce (D.) SAN SPIRITUALITY, roots, expressions and social consequences, 267 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2004.

  R170
  Anthropologists David Lewis-Williams and David Pearce examine San cosmology, art, myth, ritual, and the role of shamans, in an attempt to understand the San world-view, how it is expressed in their society and how it is responding to the challenges of the modern world.
 

Masilela (N.) THE CULTURAL MODERNITY OF H.I.E.DHLOMO, , 248 pp., paperback, Trenton, 2007.

  R275
  Herbert Isaac Ezra Dhlomo (1903-1956) was one of the most well-known intellectuals of the New Africa Movement, together with Solomon Plaatje, Thomas Mofolo, Peter Abrahams, Harold Cressey, Mahatma Gandhi, Nadine Gordimer and Ezekiel Mphahlele.

Ntongela Masilela discusses Dhlomo's contribution to the New African Movement and the construction of New African modernity through his work as a playwright, short-story writer, essayist, poet, journalist and violinist. He focuses on articles and essays Dhlomo wrote for the newspapers, "Umteteli wa Bantu", "The Bantu World", "Inkundla ya Bantu" and "Ilanga lase Natal".

Ntongela Masilela is Professor of English and World Literature and Professor of Creative Studies at Pitzer College in Claremont, California, where he is also Director of the H.I.E.Dhlomo Centre for African Intellectual History.
 

Ndebele (N.S.) FINE LINES FROM THE BOX, further thoughts about our country, 279 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R175
  A collection of lectures, addresses and essays by Njabulo Ndebele written between 1987 and 2006, most of which have been previously published.

Njabulo Ndebele is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. He is the author of the novel "Fools and Other Stories", which won the Noma Award in 1983, "The Cry of Winnie Mandela", and an earlier collection of essays, "Rediscovery of the Ordinary".
 

Ngenelwa (T.) THE DAY I DIED, , 127 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R95
  In October 2003 Thembelani Ngenelwa was shot five times from close range by gangsters, but managed to survive.
 

Otter (S.) KHAYELITSHA, Umlungu in a township, 294 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R110
  Journalist Steven Otter's lived in Khayeltisha in 2002 and 2005.
He now lives in Cape Town and serves as the media officer for Patricia de Lille, leader of the Social Democrats.
 

Poplak (R.) JA, NO, MAN, a memoir of pop culture, girls, suburbia...and Apartheid, 225 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R160
  Writer Richard Poplak was born in Johannesburg in 1973 and emigrated to Canada with his family in 1989, where he now lives. This is his first book.
 

Schoeman (C.) LEGENDS OF THE BALL, rugby's greatest players chosen by Willie John McBride, Frik du Preez and David Camprese, 239 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Colesburg, 2007.

  R330
  Chris Schoeman invited Willie John McBride, Frik du Preez and David Campese to select their favourite rugby players.

Chris Schoeman is the author of several books on rugby and is the founder and editor of the annual "Who's Who of South African Rugby".
 

Schoeman (K.) EARLY SLAVERY AT THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, 1652-1717, 507 pp., hardback, d.w., Pretoria, 2007.

  R220
  Basing his account mainly on contemporary sources and providing as much information on individual slaves and their lives as possible, Karel Schoeman describes the first sixty years of the development of slavery at the Cape, the gradual manumission of slaves and the growth of a "free black" community.

Karel Schoeman is the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, inlcuding "Armosyn van die Kaap: die węreld van 'n slavin, 1661-1733" and "Kinders van die Kompanjie", a collection of 17th century Cape biographies.
 

Shell (R.C-H.), Shell (S.R.) & Kamedien (M.) comps. BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF BONDAGE, selected bibliographies of South African slavery and abolition, 325 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

 
OUT OF PRINT
  A comprehensive compilation of original sources and published writings on slavery at the Cape of Good Hope.

Sandra Rowoldt Shell is Head of the African Studies Library at the University of Cape Town.
Robert Shell is the Commissioner of Truth and Justice on Mauritius and Extraordinary Professor of Historical Demography in the Statistics Department, University of the Western Cape.
Mogamat Kamedien is an independent slave scholar.

Includes contributions by Cecelia blight, Odila Braga, Anne Eichmann, Gerald Groenewald, Stewart Harris & Jackie Loos.
 

Thumbadoo (B.) & Wilson (G.L.) FROM DUST TO DIAMONDS, stories of South African social entrepreneurs, 237 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R195
  Foreword by Gill Marcus.

Tells the stories of 19 South African social entrepreneurs working in the fields of education, health, environment, business and youth at risk.
 

Watson (S.) THE LIGHT ECHO, and other poems, 2000-2006, 124 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R100
  Poet Stephen Watson teaches in the English Department at the University of Cape Town.
 

Wylie (D.) ROAD WORK, , 82 pp., paperback, Durban, 2007.

  R110
  A new collection of poems by poet and academic Dan Wylie, who teaches in the Department of English at Rhodes University.