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NEW ARRIVALS
March 2007


 

Brown (D.) TO SPEAK OF THIS LAND, identity and belonging in South Africa and beyond, 214 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

  R170
  Through a series of case studies, which cover Bushman storytelling, rock painting, African-Christian identity and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Mazisi Kunene's "Emperor Shaka the Great", Ronnie Govender's Cato Manor stories, Douglas Livingstone's poetry and the rap music of Prohpets of the City, Duncan Brown explores how people have, historically and in the present, used different forms to express a sense of what it means to live in a particular place.

Foreword, "From //Kabbo to Zapiro", by Antjie Krog.

Duncan Grant is the Deputy Head of the School of Literary Studies, Media and Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His previous books include "Voicing the Text: South African oral poetry and performance", available @ R210.
 

Buur (L.), Jensen (S.) & Stepputat (F.) eds. THE SECURITY-DEVELOPMENT NEXUS, expressions of sovereignty and securitization in southern Africa, 284 pp., paperback, Uppsala & Cape Town, 2007.

  R180
  Explores the links between security and development by examining peace-keeping interventions, community policing, human rights, gender, land claims, squatters, nations and state-building, social movements, disarmament, demobilisation, repatriation programmes and democratisation in southern Africa.

Contributions include "The Nationalist Imperative, South Africanisation, regional integration and mobile livelihoods" by Steffen Jensen and Lars Buur,
"Nambia's Pariah Heroes, Swapo ex-combatants between liberation gospel and security interests" by Lalli Metsola and Henning Melber,
"The Intertwined History of Security and Development, the case of developmental struggles in South Africa's townships" by Lars Buur,
"The Politics of Policing, re-capturing 'zones of confusion' in rural post-war Mozambique" by Helene Maria Kyed,
"Struggling for the City, evictions in inner-city Johannesburg" by Jacob Rasmussen,
"Through the Lens of Crime, land claims and contestations of citizenship on the frontier of the South African state" by Steffen Jensen,
"Criminality, Security and Development, post-colonial reversals in Zimbabwe's margins" by Amanda Hammer", and more.

Lars Buur and Finn Stepputat are Senior Researchers at the Danish Institute for International Studies. Steffen Jensen is Senior Researcher at the Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Survivors and teaches at the International Development Studies Centre at Roskilde University, Denmark.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) INNER WORKINGS, literary essays 2000 - 2005, 304 pp., paperback, London, (2007) 2008.

  R145
  Introduction by Derek Attridge.

Essays include "Nadine Gordimer", "V.S.Naipaul, 'Half a Life'", "Walt Whitman", Saul Bellow, the early novels", "William Faulkner and his biographers, and many more.

Most of these essays first appeared, in earlier form, in the New York Review of Books.
 

Cornell (C.) SLAVES AT THE CAPE, a guidebook for beginner researchers, 80 pp., 4to., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, (2000) 2005.

  R125
  "The book focuses on how to research the lives of groups of slaves or freed slaves who lived and worked in a particular place or community...it would also be useful if you want to trace individual slaves or the slave ancestry of a family...". Also offers guidance on what sources of information to use and which libraries and archives to visit.
 

Cornell (C.) & Malan (A.) HOUSEHOLD INVENTORIES AT THE CAPE, a guidebook for beginner researchers, 80 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2005.

  R125
  A guide on how to explore Cape households of the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries and the lives of the people who lived in them, with information on sources and where to find them. Household inventories list all the possessions in a deceased estate, including slaves.
 

Donne (R.D.) text & van Heerden (M.) illus. SAN TALES FROM AFRICA, , 111 pp., 4to., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R100
  Freelance writer and part-time lecturer Raffaella Delle Donne has adapted and re-told a variety of traditional San tales for children.
 

Dubow (S.) A COMMONWEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE, science, sensibility and white South Africa 1820 - 2000, 296 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R185
  Examines how, in 19th and 20th century South Africa, the development of social and scientific knowledge was used to support white political power and claims to "being South African".

Saul Dubow was born and educated in South Africa. He is currently Professor of History at the University of Sussex and chair of the board of the Journal of Southern African Studies.
 

Edjabe (N.) ed. CHIMURENGA 10, futbol, politricks & ostentatious cripples, 267 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R53
  Contents include "Like Cows Driven to a Dip, the 2001 Ellis Park stadium disaster" by Peter Alegi and a poem, "The Touch" by Gabeba Baderoon.
 

Field (S.), Meyer (R.) & Swanson (F.) eds. IMAGINING THE CITY, memories and cultures in Cape Town, 240 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R190
  A selection of oral histories drawn from people who live and work in Cape Town researched, written and produced by the staff and students of the Centre for Popular Memory at the University of Cape Town.

Contents include "Sites of Memory in Langa" by Sean Field,
"Between Waking and Dreaming: living with urban fear, paradox and possibility" by Renate Meyer,
"'Catch with the eye': stories of Muslim food in Cape Town" by Gabeba Baderoon,
"'Julle kan ma New York toe gaan, ek bly in die Manenberg': an oral history of jazz in Cape Town from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s" by Colin Miller,
"'Die SACS kom terug': intervarsity rugby, masculinity and white identity at the University of Cape Town, 1960s-1970s" by Felicity Swanson,
"'The quickest way to move on is to go back': bomb blast survivors' narratives of trauma and recovery" by Anastasia Maw,
"Da Struggle Kontinues into the 21st Century: two decades of nation-conscious rap in Cape Town" by Ncedisa Mkonyeni, and more.

Sean Field is the Director of the Centre for Popular Memory and Senior Lecturer in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town. Both Renate Meyer And Felicity Swanson work at the Centre, Meyer as the Senior Audio-Visual Archivist and Swanson as a researcher.
 

Gess (D.W.) ed. THE AFRICAN HUNTING AND TRAVEL JOURNALS OF JBS GREATHEAD, 1884 - 1910, , 325 pp., 4to., maps, illus., hardback, d.w., (Cape Town), (2007).

  R840
  JBS Greathead (1854-1910) was a medical practitioner in Grahamstown. His journals are a personal record of recreational hunting and travels in southern and eastern Africa, illustrated with his own photographs.

David Gess is a great grandson of JBS Greathead.
 

James (D.) GAINING GROUND?, "rights" amd "property" in South African land reform, 282 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R180
  Deborah James focuses on the province of Mpumalanga and discusses land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa and how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state in interaction with local communities have tried to settle land claims.
Deborah James is Reader in the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics.
 

Nicol (M.) THE FIRM, a biography of Webber Wentzel Bowens, 240 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

  R250
  Mike Nicol was commissioned by Webber Wentzel Bowens, one of the oldest legal firms in South Africa, to write this history of the firm's growth from its beginnings in 1868 in Fort Beaufort, its move to King William's Town and then, with the discovery of diamonds, to Johannesburg, where it has been based ever since. This authorised "biography" covers the history of the firm, the role it and its corporate clients played in the growth and development of Johannesburg and the country, and its transformation over the past 30 years into a multi-cultural firm. It also provides two recent examples of high-profile work handled by Webber Wentzel Bowens: the De Beers delisting and a case involving asbestosis handled by the litigation department.

Nicol has written four previous works of non-fiction, including "A Good-Looking Corpse", a history of Drum magazine, and "The Waiting Country", a memoir of the 1994 election, as well as several novels.
 

Scheub (H.) coll. & trans. SOUTH AFRICAN VOICES, vol.1: a long time passed/ vol.2: created in olden times/ vol.3: the way we travelled, 269 + 309 + 102 pp., paperback, Madison, 2006.

  R995
  The three-volume set contains performances by the Xhosa storyteller, Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, and a number of other Xhosa and Zulu oral historians and poets. The materials were taped and filmed by Harold Scheub in the late 1960s and the 1970s.

Presented in their original Xhosa or Zulu form. Vol. 1 includes a preface by Ken Frazier, a foreword by Isidore Okpewho and and introduction, "The Art of Nongenile Masithathu Zenani", by Harold Scheub. Vol. 2 includes and introduction, "The Art of the Storyteller", by Nongenile Masithathu Zenani, translated into English by Harold Scheub. Vol.3 includes and introduction by Harold Scheub.
 

Skjelten (S.) A PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION, public participation in the South African constitution-making process, 231 pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

  R160
  An account of the public participation programme of the Constitutional Assembly, formed in 1994 to draft a final constitution for South Africa.

Foreword by Cyril Ramaphosa, chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly, 1994 -1996.

Synnøve Skjelten observed the public-participation process of the Constitutional Assembly first-hand. In 2000 she obtained a master's degree in political studies at the University of Cape Town with a thesis entitled "Democracy and Communication: an analysis and assessment of the public participation programme of the Constitutional Assembly".
 

Terry (P.E) BREAKING STONE SILENCE, giving voice to AIDS prevention in Africa, 282 pp., illus., paperback, Trenton, 2006.

  R195
  Discusses AIDS prevention in Africa, particularly in Zimbabwe, and looks at the difficulties of changing behaviour and of putting knowledge into action in situations where political strife and cultural forces like racism and sexism seriously hamper efforts.

Paul Terry is the President and C.E.O of the Park Nicollet Institute in Minnesota and co-founder of Shape Zimbabwe, an NGO committed to HIV prevention in Africa.
 

van der Merwe (L.M.) GESPREKKE OOR INGRID JONKER, , 255 pp., illus., paperback, Hermanus, 2006.

  R155
  Interviews with Anna Jonker, Prof. P.J.Nienaber, Dr. Cor Pama, Jan Rabie, Majorie Wallace, Berta Smit, Freda Linde, W.A.de Klerk, Uys Krige and André Brink, amongst others, psychologist Lucas van der Merwe conducted in 1977 when he was doing research for his doctoral thesis, "Ingrid Jonker: 'n psigologiese analise".

Foreword by Petrovna Metelerkamp, who edited the taped interviews.

Text in Afrikaans.
 

Zimba (B.), Alpers (E.) & Isaacman (A.) eds. SLAVE ROUTES AND ORAL TRADITION IN SOUTHEASTERN AFRICA, , 335 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Maputo, 2005.

  R250
  This book results from the UNESCO Project, "Slave Routes and Oral Tradition in Southeastern Africa", which began in 2001, hosted jointly by the Institute of Social and Cultural Research, the Ministry of Education and Culture, and the History Department of Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique. Interdisciplinary field research was undertaken in Mozambique, Malawi, Tanzania and Kenya. The project culminated in a conference held in Maputo in March 2004.

Contributions include "Mozambique and 'Mozambiques': slave trade and diaspora on a global scale" by Edward Alpers,
"Making Mozbiekers: history, memory and the African diaspora at the Cape" by Patrick Harries,
"Identity, Sex, Age and Profession of Slaves in Mozambique in the Nineteenth Century" by José Capela,
"The Ambiguous Role of the Chikunda in the South Central African Slave Trade 1800 - 1902" by Allen Isaacman and Barbara Isaacman,
"From 'Shirazi' to 'Monhé': Angoche and the mainland in the context of the nineteenth century slave trade of northern Mozambique" by Liazzat Bonate, "Slave Trade and Slavery in southeastern Africa: interviews and images" by Benigna Zimba, and more.

Allen Isaacman is Regents Professor of History and Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for the Study of Global Change/Macarthur Program at the University of Minnesota. Benigna Zimba is Senior Lecturer and Head of the History Department at Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo. Edwad Alpers is Professor at the University of California, Los Angeles.