Clarke's Books

NEW ARRIVALS
December 2007

THE WINDS OF CHANGE, a journey through the key music and moments that gave birth to a free, democratic South Africa, 1 hour 45 minutes running time, CDs, Johannesburg, 2004.

	R180

A 2-CD set that includes extracts from Albert Luthuli's Nobel Prize Award speech, Nelson Mandela's Rivonia Trial and Inauguration speeches, J.B.Vorster's Fight to the End speech, P.W.Botha's Total Onslaught speech, an AWB speech by Eugene Terblanche, F.W.de Klerk's Unbanning speech, and Thabo Mbeki's I am an African speech.
Also music by Jeremy Taylor, Pops Mohamed, Amampondo, Johnny Clegg, Stimela, Johannes Kerkorrel, Hugh Masekela, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Sibongile Khumalo, amongst others.

Balson (S.) CHILDREN OF THE MIST, the lost tribe of South Africa, 340 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Queensland, 2007.

	R200

Bester (M.) text & Bester (S.) illus. THE COOL NGUNI, , 21 pp., 4to., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R80

A children's story about Nguni cattle.

Bloomberg (D.) MY TIMES, the memoirs of David Bloomberg, man of the theatre, lawyer, businessman and former mayor of Cape Town, 286 pp., illus., haqrdback, d.w., Cape Town, 2007.

	R200

David Bloomberg was mayor of Cape Town from 1973-1975. As an impresaio he brought a number of famous performers to Cape Town and produced many acclaimed theatre productions between 1956 and 1967. He was a director of the Cape Performing Arts Board and closely involved with the Cape Town Municipal Orchestra. He was also an attorney and defended Demitrio Tsafendas, the assasin of Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd. He and his wife left South Africa in 1988.

Bopela (T.) & Luthuli (D.) UMKHONTO WE SISWE, fighting for a divided people, 272 pp., , Johannesburg, 2005.

	R195

Thula Bopela and Daluxolo Luthuli left South Africa to join Umkhonto we Siswe (MK), the armed wing of the ANC, in Tanzania in the early 1960s. After receiving military training in the Soviet Union and fighting alongside Joshua Nkomo's ZIPRA in Rhodesia, they were both captured. Thula Bopela was tried for terrorism in Rhodesia and spent thirteen years in prison. After his release he became a successful business man, and is now a senior official in South Africa's Ministry of Defence. Daluxolo Luthuli was handed over to South Africa where he was convicted of terrorism and sentenced to 10 years imprisonment on Robben Island. After his release in 1979 he switched his support to the IFP and became a senior war lord fighting against the UDF. In 1993, using Thula Bopela as a go-between to make contact with the ANC, he defected back to the ANC and negotiated the withdrawal of his hit squads from the ANC/IFP struggle. He is now a lieutenant-colonel in the SANDF.

Coplan (D.B.) IN TOWNSHIP TONIGHT!, three centuries of South African black city music and theatre, 455 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1985) 2007.

	R220

A completely revised, expanded and updated edition of David Coplan's social history of black South Africa's city music, dance and theatre.

David Coplan is professor in and chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of "Lyrics of the Basotho Migrants" and "In the Time of Cannibals: word music of South Africa's Basotho Migrants".

Grundlingh (A.) THE DYNAMICS OF TREASON, Boer collaboration in the South African War of 1899-1902, 532 pp., illus., hardback, Pretoria, 2006.

	R200

Originally published in 1979 as "Die 'Hendoppers' en 'Joiners': die rasionaal en verskynsel van verraad".

Translated from the Afrikaans by Bridget Theron.

Gunn (S.) comp. & text IF TREES COULD SPEAK, the Trojan Horse story, 132 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R95

The Trojan Horse shootings was a double-ambush in Athlone on 15 October and in Crossroads on 16 October 1985, planned by the South African Police, the South African Railways Police and the South African Defence Force. An unmarked railway police truck with wooden boxes on the back to serve as hiding places for armed policemen authorised to shoot to kill was driven into areas where youths regularly erected burning barricades and stoned vehicles. When the vehicle was stoned these policemen would be able take the attackers by surprise. Three boys were killed in Athlone and two in Crossroads.

Contents inlcude the life stories of Zodwa Mali and Gordon Mali, the mother and twin bother of Goodman Mali, and the life story of Tatana Fatman, Mabhuti Fatman's uncle. Goodman and Mabhuti died in the Crossroads shootings.

Lemon (D.) NEVER QUITE A SOLDIER, A Rhodesian policeman's war, 1972-1982, 264 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

	R195

David Lemon was a District Branch policeman in the British South African Police of Rhodesia during the Bush War. He joined the Police Support Unit, the Black Roots, and as commander of Charlie Company, fought against ZANLA and ZIPRA guerrillas, before resigning and leaving the country in 1983.

First published in the UK in 2000.

Mallett (L.) THE MALAY CAMP KIMBERLEY, forceful removal imposed by the apartheid regime, 250 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Kimberley, (2006).

	R215

Malay Camp was a "non-racial" suburb in Kimberley, much like Sophiatown or District Six. Sol Plaatje was its first well-known politician. Its residents were forcefully removed in 1964.

Published by the Sol Plaatje Education Trust.

McIntosh (F.) SLACKPACKING, a guide to South Africa's top lesiure trails, 160 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R140

"Slackpacking is backpacking without the 'schlep', allowing hikers to travel light while someone else takes care of the overnight bags".
Includes luxury, guided and catered trails, cummunity-run guided trails and unguided, self-catered trails around South Africa, including the Hoerikwaggo Trails in Cape Town.

Mills (G.) & Williams (D.) 7 BATTLES THAT SHAPED SOUTH AFRICA, , 196 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

	R150

Greg Mills and David Williams explore 7 battles that changed South Africa's political and social landscape: Blood River, Isandlwana, Majuba, Colenso, Delville Wood, El Alamein and Cuito Cuanavale.

Forewords by Lt.Gen. David Richards and Prof. Kader Asmal.

Includes guides to the major Souh African battlefields

Nortje (P.) 32 BATTALION, the inside story of South Africa's elite fighting unit, 315 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, (2003) 2004.

	R140

The story of 32 Battalion, an SADF unit that fought in Angola from 1975-1989. The unit was disbanded in 1993.

Piet Nortje joined 32 Battalion in 1978, was later appointed sergeant major in charge of training at Buffalo Base in the Caprivi and, during a decade of service with the battalion, took part in most of the major SADF operations inside Angola.

Parker (J.) ASSIGNMENT SELOUS SCOUTS, inside story of a Rhodesian Special Branch Officer, 360 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

	R240

In 1977, at the height of the Rhodesian Bush War, Jim Parker joined the ranks of the Special Branch Selous Scouts as a Reserve Detective Section Officer and served with the unit until its disbandment in 1980. He is now a farmer in South Africa.

Pattman (R.) & Khan (S.) eds. UNDRESSING DURBAN, , 499 pp., illus., paperback, Durban, 2007.

	R195

A collection of papers offering a comprehensive view of Durban. Some of the articles in this edition were originally published in the first "Undressing Durban" published in 2006 for the delegates to the International Sociology Association Conference.

The papers are divided into the following sections: "Outsiders in Durban (and Durbanites as outsiders),
"Mixed 'Race' Heterosexual Partners in Durban",
"Sport, Entertainment and Relaxation",
"Transport and Residential Spaces in Durban",
"Living on the streets and in Shelters in Durban",
"Fear of Crime and Moral Panics",
"Punishments", "Gangsters", "Shack Dwellers",
"Indian Identities and Culture",
"Black African Identities and Culture",
"HIV and AIDS", "Universaity of KwaZulu-Natal",
"Women Sex Workers in Durban"
and "Challenging Local and Global Inequalities".

Rob Pattman and Sultan Khan teach sociology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Pinnock (D.) WRITING LEFT, the radical journalism of Ruth First, 268 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

	R150

A study of Ruth First's political journalism. This book is published in the Hidden History Series edited by Raymond Suttner.

Award-winning journalist, historian and criminologist Don Pinnock is the author of "The Brotherhoods", "Street Gangs in Cape Town", Gangs, Rituals and Rites of Passage", "Voices of Liberation: Ruth First", as well as several books of travel writings. In 2005 he received the Mondi Award for his journalism.

Reitz (D.) ADRIFT ON THE OPEN VELD, the Anglo-Boer War and its aftermath, 1899-1943, 563 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

	R285

The trilogy by Deneys Reitz (1882-1944), which includes "Commando", originally published in 1929, "Trekking On", originally published in 1933 and "No Outspan", originally published in 1943. Edited and with an introduction by T.S.Emslie.

Soudien (C.) YOUTH IDENTITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA, race, culture and schooling, 135 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R178

Based on 15 years of research amongst young people in South Africa schools. Crain Soudien discusses the identities of South Africa's youth in an attempt to understand the relationship between race, class and identity and what it means to grow up in a diverse society.

Foreword by Njabulo Ndebele.

Steinberg (J.) NOTES FROM A FRACTURED COUNTRY, selected journalism, 327 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R140

A selection of Jonny Steinberg's fortnightly columns in the Business Day.

Jonny Steinberg is the author of "Midlands" and "The Number". He won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award twice for these two books.

Stiff (P.) THE SILENT WAR, South African Recce operations, 1969-1994, 608 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1999) 2006.

	R245

Covers operations by the South African Defence Force Special Forces Unit, the "Reconnaissance Commando" - or the Recces for short - in Mozambique, Angola, Zambia, Rhodesia, Lesotho, and against the ANC.

Walker (M.) FORGOTTEN SHIPWRECKS OF THE WESTERN CAPE, , 150 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R145

Some of the over 80 shipwrecks referred to by Michael Walker are the "Australia" (1840), the "Abercrombie Robinson" (1842), the "Maria Frederika" (1882), the "Meermin" (1766), the "Bernicia" (1861), the "Queen of the Thames" (1871), the "British Settler" (1852), the "Malmesbury" (1930) and the "Rangatira" (1916).

Wells (J.) REBELLION AND UPROAR, Makhanda and the great escape from Robben Island, 1820, 46 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

	R65

Makhanda, a warrior-prophet of the Xhosa people, led an attack against British forces in Grahamstown in 1819. After his surrender he was imprisoned on Robben Island but escaped in 1820, together with over 20 other prisoners. This is the story of what is known about their escape.

Published in the Hidden History Series, edited by Raymond Suttner.

White (J.) & Ray (C.) IN BLACK AND WHITE, the Jake White story, 342 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R190

The autobiography of controversial Jake White, Springbok rugby coach from 2004. The team he coached won World Cup in 2007.