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NEW ARRIVALS
April 2007


 

Chan (S.) CITIZEN OF AFRICA, conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai, 106 pp., paperback, (Harare), 2005.

  R140
  A series of interviews with Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

Stephen Chan is Dean of Law and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at the School of African and Oriental Studies at the University of London.
 

Chipkin (I.) DO SOUTH AFRICANS EXIST?, nationalism, democracy and the identity of "the people", 261 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R190
  Focuses on the question of what constitutes South Africanness, what makes South Africans a nation, and provides a critical study of South African nationalism against the broader context of African nationalism in general.

Ivor Chipkin is currently based at the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria.
 

Eglin (C.) CROSSING THE BORDERS OF POWER, the memoirs of Colin Eglin, 374 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R225
  Colin Eglin was a founding member of The Progressive Party, becoming leader in 1970. "He served in parliament through the terms of seven successive prime ministers and presidents - from J.G.Strijdom to Thabo Mbeki; and under five constitutions, from the union constitution to the constitution of 1996. In the constitutional negotiations that followed Nelson Mandela's release from jail in February 1990, Mandela described Eglin as 'one of the architects of our democracy'".
 

Giliomee (H.) "NOG ALTYD HIER GEWEES", die storie van 'n Stellenbossse gemeenskap, 252 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R150
  The history of the coloured community of Stellenbosch.
 

Holmes (R.) THE HOTTENTOT VENUS, the life and death of Saartjie Baartman: born 1789 - buried 2002, 239 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R150
  Saartjie Baartman was born in 1789 in the Gamtoos River Valley. At twenty-one years old she was taken to London where she was put on display as a Hottentot Venus. Saartjie died in Paris in 1815. After an international campaign launched by Nelson Mandela her remains were finally returned to South Africa and buried in 2002.
 

Jeal (T.) STANLEY, the impossible life of Africa's greatest explorer, 570 pp., maps, illus., hardback, d.w., London, 2007.

  R240
  With access to a previously closed family archive Tim Jeal reappraises Henry Morton Stanley's reputation.

Tim Jeal is the author the acclaimed biographies, "Livingstone" and "Baden-Powell". He is also a novelist and a former winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize.
 

LaFont (S.) & Hubbard (D.) eds. UNRAVELLING TABOOS, gender and sexuality in Namibia, 366 pp., paperback, Windhoek, 2007.

  R395
  Essays include "The Interrelationship of 'Ohango' Ritual, Gender and Youth Status among the 'Owambo' of North-Central Namibia" by Sayumi Yamakawa,
"Ideas about Equality: gender, sexuality and the law" by Dianne Hubbard,
"Adolescent Sexuality: negotiating between tradition and modernity" by Panduleni Hailonga-van Dijk,
"'We All Have Our Own Father!' reproduction, marriage and gender in north-west Namibia" by Julia Paul,
"The Face of AIDS is a Woman" by Lucy Y.Steinitz and Diane Ashton,
"Same-Sex Sexuality among Damara Women" by Elizabeth Khaxas and Saskia Wieringa, and
"The Male 'Powersexual': an exploratory study of manhood, power and sexual behaviour among Afrikaner and Owambo men in Windhoek" by Sheila L.Wise.

Dianne Hubbard is Coordinator of the Gender Research & Advocacy Project at the Legal Assistance Centre in Windhoek, Namibia. Suzanne LaFont is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York.
 

Marsh (J.) SKELETON COAST, the dramatic resue operation of the Dunedin Star, 200 pp., map, illus., paperback, Windhoek, (1978) 2006.

  R295
  The ship, the Dunedin Star, ran aground at the Skeleton Coast of then South West Africa in 1942/43.

The South African Navy, Air Force, Army and Police, the Administration for Railways and Harbours and the Royal Navy worked together to rescue the men, women and children marooned on the isolated beach.
 

Robbins (D) ON THE BRIDGE OF GOODBYE, the story of South Africa's discarded San soldiers, 229 pp., map, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R140
  David Robbins travelled with a small group of San men who had fought for the Portuguese in Angola and then for South Africa in northern Namibia. After the war these ex-soldiers and their dependents came to South Africa and are now living at Platfontein outside Kimberley.

David Robbins has written five other works of non-fiction about southern Africa, including "The 29th Parallel" and "After the Dance".
 

Rudner (I.) & (J.) AXEL WILHELM ERIKSSON OF HEREROLAND (1846 - 1901), his life and letters, 302 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Windhoek, 2006.

  R250
  The story of the Swedish trader, philanthropist and ornithologist Axel Wilhelm Erikkson who arrived in south-west Africa in 1865 to assist explorer Carl Johan Andersson. He subsequently spent 36 years in the region.

Jalmar Rudner, Swedish architect and town planner, worked for the Cape Town City Council. Iona Rudner worked at the South African Museum.
 

van Onselen (C.) THE FOX AND THE FLIES, the world of Joseph Silver, racketeer and psychopath, 646 pp., maps, illus., paperback, paperback, London, (2007) 2008.

  R163
  The biography of psychopath, gangster, brothel-owner, pimp and trafficker in women Joseph Silver, born Joseph Lis in Poland in 1868. During his research van Onselencame to the conclusion that Joseph Silver was Jack the Ripper.

Biographer Charles van Onselen's earlier works on the social history of southern Africa won him the American African Studies Association's Herskovits Prize and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies' Trevor Reese Memorial Prize. He won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for non-fiction for "The Seed is Mine, the life of Kas Maine, a South African sharecropper, 1894-1985", published in 1996. He is also the author of "New Babylon, New Nineveh, everyday life on the Witwatersrand, 1886-1914, published in 1982.











































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































The biography of Joseph Silver - brothel-owner, pimp and trafficker in women
 

Veit-Wild (F.) WRITING MADNESS, borderlines of the body in African literature, 174 pp., illus., paperback, Oxford, etc., 2006.

  R140
  Flora Veit-Wild focuses on "those writers and topics who touch on the extreme, on the thin line between sanity and insanity". Includes chapters on Dambudzo Marechera, Lesego Rampolokeng, Bessie Head and Tsitsi Dangarembga.

Flora Veit-Wild is Professor of African Literature at Humboldt University in Berlin.