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May 2007


 

Atkinson (D.) GOING FOR BROKE, the fate of farm workers in arid South Africa, 302 pp., map, paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R260
  Doreen Atkinson examines past policy failures and future policy options in relation to farm workers in South Africa, with the aim of promoting new approaches and partnerships amongst government, commercial farmers, agricultural co-operatives, municipalities, training agencies and farm worker trade unions.

Doreen Atkinson is a Research Asociate at the Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State.
 

Bank (A.) ed. KRONOS 32, journal of Cape history, November 2006, 287 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R190
  Kronos is published annually by the Department of History and the Centre for Humanities Research of the University of the Western Cape.

Articles include "Confronting Horror: Emily Hobhouse and the concentration camp photographs of the South African War" by Michael Godby,
"Anthropology and Fieldwork Photography: Dorothea Bleek's expedition to the northern Cape and the Kalahari, July to December 1911" by Andrew Bank,
"'The Africa I Know': film and the making of 'Bushmen' in Lauren van der Post's Lost World of the Kalahari (1956)" by Lauren van Vuuren,
"Eventless History at the End of Apartheid: the making of the 1988 Dias Festivl" by Leslie Witz",
and "Inside and Outside: Mikhael Subotzky in conversation with Michael Godby", as well a selection of Subotzky's photographs of prisoners and ex-prisoners.
 

Barnard (R.) APARTHEID AND BEYOND, South African writers and the politics of place, 221 pp., hardback, d.w., New York, 2007.

  R350
  Rita Barnard's study of South African literary culture in which she examines the writings of J.M.Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Miriam Tlali, Sindiwe Magona, Fatima Dike and Zakes Mda, focusing on the relationship between place, subjectivity and literary form in their work.

Rita Barnard is Professor of English and Director of the Women's Studies Program and the Alice Paul Center for Research on Women and Gender at the University of Pennsylvania.
 

Bhorat (H.) & Kanbur (R.) eds. POVERTY AND POLICY IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, , 471 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R260
  Contributions include "From Chimera to Prospect: South African sources of and constraints on long-term growth, 1970-2000" by Johannes Fedderke,
"Evolution of the Labour Market: 1995-2002" by Haroon Bhorat & Morné Oosthuizen,
"Does City Structure Cause Unemployment? The case of Cape Town" by Sandrine Rospabe & Harris Selod,
"Crime and Local Inequality in South Africa" by Gabriel Demombynes & Berk Özler,
"Poverty, Asset Accumulation and Shocks in South Africa: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal" by Julian May,
"Half-Measures Revisited: the ANC's unemployment and poverty reduction goals" by Charles Meth, and more.

Haroon Bhorat is Associate Professor and Director in the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. Ravi Khanbur is the THH Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA.
 

Bizos (G.) ODYSSEY TO FREEDOM, a memoir by the world-renowned human rights advocate, friend and lawyer to Nelson Mandela, 616 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2007.

  R270
  George Bizos was born in 1928 in the Greek village of Vasilitsi. During the Second World War he escaped from his occupied homeland, becoming a refugee in South Africa. Graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a legal degree and called to the Bar, he acted for many of Nelson Mandela's and Oliver Tambo's clients. He was involved with the Treason Trial of the late 1950s and the subsequent Rivonia Trial, the trials of Braam Fischer and Namibian Toivo ja Toivo, the trials of Winnie Mandela, the Delmas Trial, and other human-rights trials through the 1970s and 1980s. He acted for the ANC at the post-1994 constitutional hearings, was associated with the amnesty hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the 2004 treason trial of Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.
 

Breytenbach (B.) DIE WINDVANGER, , 183 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R150
  Brreyten Breytenbach's first volume of poetry since the publication of "Papierblom" in 1998, which won the Hertzog Prize.

Text in Afrikaans.
 

Chapman (M.) ed. OMNIBUS OF A CENTURY OF SOUTH AFRICAN SHORT STORIES, , 868 pp., paperback, Johannesubrg, 2007.

  R250
  A collection of all the stories from the previous three anthologies: A Century of South African Short Stories (1978), edited by Jean Marquard; the revised edition of the same title (1993), edited by Martin Trump; and The New Century of South African Short Stories (2004) edited by Michael Chapman. Includes Bushman and African oral tales and stories by Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Herman Charles Bosman, C.Louis Leipoldt, Alan Paton, Nadine Gordimer, Es'kia Mphahlele, Hennie Aucamp, Ahmed Essop, Njabulo Ndebele, Peter Wilhelm, Sindiwe Magona, Marlene van Niekerk, Ivan Vladislavíc, and many others.
 

Crook (L.) ARTILLERY OF THE ANGLO-BOER WAR, 1899-1902, 336 pp., 4to., illus., hardback, d.w., Brandfort, 2006.

  R660
  A study of the British and Boer artillerymen and of their armament.

Colonel Lionel Crook commanded the Cape Field Artillery from 1973-1979 and in May 1977 was appointed Colonel Artillery (SS) Artillery) at Headquarters, 7 SA Division. He became Deputy Director Artillery (Field) in 1983 and from 1984 held the post of Training Wing Commander, 71 Motorised Brigade. He is National Vice-Chairman of The Gunners Association and Chairman of the Cape Field Artillery Regiment Council.
 

Freund (B.) THE AFRICAN CITY, a history, 214 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cambridge, 2007.

  R270
  Includes the chapters, "Cities in Revolt: the long-term crisis of South African urbanism" and "Globalisation and the African city: Touba, Abidjan, Durban".

Bill Freund is Professor of Economic History and Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
 

Jenkins (E.) FALLING INTO PLACE, the story of modern South African place names, 220 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R150
  Elwyn Jenkins provides detailed accounts of how towns, cities, suburbs, provinces and airports have been named, and sometimes renamed, over the last 30 years.

Jenkins is Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He was appointed to the National Place Names Committee in 1987, served on the committe that drafted the South African Geographical Names Council Act, and was appointed by the Minister to the new Council in 1999, serving until 2003.
 

Kerr (D.J.) AMASSING TREASURES FOR ALL TIMES, Sir George Grey, colonial bookman and collector, 351 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Delaware & Dunedin, 2006.

  R475
  Sir George Grey, governor of the British colonies of New Zealand, South Australia and the Cape Colony, was an obsessive collector of rare books and artefacts which he donated to libraries in Cape Town and Auckland, establishing "Grey Collections" now housed in the National Library of South Africa and Auckland City Library.

Donald Jackson Kerr was the rare books librarian in the Grey Collection at Auckland City Library for fourteen years. He is now Special Collections librarian at the University of Otago in Dunedin.
 

Lewis (D.) LIVING ON A HORIZON, Bessie Head and the politics of imagining, 317 pp., paperback, Trenton, 2007.

  R265
  Desiree Lewis draws on postcolonial and feminist theories to explore the fusion of styles, subjects and philosophical and literary influences evident in Bessie Head's writing.

Desiree Lewis teaches in the Women's and Gender Studies Programme at the University of the Western Cape.
 

Makgala (C.J.) ELITE CONFLICT IN BOTSWANA, a history, 228 pp., maps, paperback, Pretoria, 2006.

  R175
  Christian John Makgala examines conflict between and within various political elites in Botswana, with an emphasis on the two main political parties.
 

Matshazi (M.J.) ZIMBABWE, with Robert Mugabe to the brink of the abyss, 220 pp., paperback, Alice, 2007.

  R170
  An account of Zimbabwe's recent history, from the first organised resistance to colonial oppression up to the present day.

M.J. Matshazi, born in Zimbabwe, is currently Doctoral Studies and Research Coordinator in the Faculty of Education at the University of Fort Hare.
 

Matthews (C.) WALKING ON AIR, , 149 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006.

  R80
  The story of ANC activist John Edward Matthews written by his oldest daughter, Colleen Matthews.

Foreword by Hugh Lewin. Prologue by Jeremy Cronin, whose poem about Matthews provides the title for this book.

John Matthews was a member of the South African Communist Party. In 1964 he was charged under the Suppression of Communism Act and was in prison for fifteen years in Pretoria.
 

Motsei (M.) THE KANGA AND THE KANGAROO COURT, reflections on the rape trial of Jacob Zuma, 208 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R145
  Mmatshilo Motsei examines the rape trial of Jacob Zuma, seeing it as a mirror that reflects "the hidden yet public forms of violence against women in their homes, marriages, churches and political organisations.

Motsei is the author of "Hearing Visions, Seeing Voices". She was awarded the UN Habitat Award in 2000, and is the founder of the Asiganang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training (ADAPT) programme in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg.
 

O'Malley (P.) SHADES OF DIFFERENCE, Mac Maharaj and the struggle for South Africa, 648 pp., hardback, d.w., New York, 2007.

  R240
  Foreword by Nelson Mandela.

A South African of Indian descent, Mac Maharaj was a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress for nearly forty years. He spent twelve years on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela and was Minister of Transport in Mandela's government before retiring in 1999.

Padraig O'Malley draws on extensive interviews with Maharaj over the last eleven years, as well as previously unavailable documentation, to tell Maharaj's story.

O'Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Professor for International Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School of Studies, University of Massachusetts, and a visiting professor of political studies at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. He edited the books "Uneven Paths: advancing democracy in Southern Africa" and "Southern Africa: the people's voices".
 

Patterson (A.S.) THE POLITICS OF AIDS IN AFRICA, , 226 pp., paperback, Boulder & London, 2006.

  R180
  Focusing on the politics of how states respond to AIDS, Amy Patterson examines why some African states commit more effectively than others to the fight against the epidemic.

Patterson is associate professor of political science at Calvin College.
 

Poyner (J.) ed. J.M.COETZEE, and the idea of the public intellectual, 246 pp., paperback, Athens & Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

  R180
  Includes the essays "The Life and Times of Elizabeth Costello: J.M.Coetzee and the public sphere" by David Atwell, "Against Allegory: 'Waiting for the Barbarians', 'Life & Times of Michael K', and the question of literary reading" by David Attridge, "What is It Like to Be a Nonracist? Costello and Coetzee on the lives of animals and men" by Michael Bell, "A Belief in Frogs: J.M.Coetzee's enduring faith in fiction" by Dominic Head, "Going to the Dogs: humanity in J.M.Coetzee's 'Disgrace', 'The Lives of Animals', and South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission" by Rosemary Jolly, "A Feminist-Vegetarian Defense of Elizabeth Costello: a rant from an ethical academic on J.M.Coetzee's 'The Lives of Animals'" by Laura Wright, and more.

Jane Poyner is a lecturer in postcolonial literature in the School of English at the University of Exeter.
 

Rattray (D.) A SOLDIER-ARTIST IN ZULULAND, William Whitelocke Lloyd and the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879, 259 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Rorke's Drift, 2007.

  R1700
  Foreword by H.R.H. The Prince of Wales.
Biographical notes and chronology by Major Martin Everett, curator, The Royal Regiment of Wales (Brecon) Museum.
Includes a facsimile reprint of an 1881 map of Zululand, folded, inside back cover.

William Whitelocke Lloyd (1856-1897), a lieutenant in the British Army, saw active service in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. An accomplished artist, during the war he made many watercolour paintings and sketches which remained unknown until brought to the attention of Zulu War historian David Rattray. Recognising their significance as a unique pictorial record of the British Army's campaign in Zululand, he undertook to write Lloyd's story and that of the war, placing the paintings within a meaningful framework.

An expert on the Anglo-Zulu War, David Rattray's Fugitive's Drift Lodge near Rorke's Drift and his battlefield tours were legendary. He was murdered at Fugitive's Drift in 2007, shortly after the publication of this book.
 

Rosenthal (E.) "WE WANT FRUIT", the story of Leicester Dicey & the Cape Orchard Company, 182 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R125
  In the early 1960s historian and author Eric Rosenthal was commissioned to write the biography of Leicester Maguire Dicey and the history of the Cape Orchard Company which Dicey co-founded in the Hex River Valley in the 1890s. That typescript, titled "Cape Orchard Chronicle", is now published for the first time.
 

Rupiya (M.) ed. THE ENEMY WITHIN, southern African militaries' quarter-century battle with HIV and AIDS, 218 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2006.

  R100
  This book is the product of a research initiative by the Institute for Security Studies - thorugh its MilAIDS Project - to document the efforts of the armed forces in Botswana, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe to counter the impact of HIV and AIDS in their ranks over the past 25 years.
 

Scanlon (H.) REPRESENTATION & REALITY, portraits of women's lives in the Western Cape, 1948-1976, 318 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R246
  Helen Scanlon draws on the personal narratives of Western Cape women from across the political spectrum to examine some of the regional social and political forces that shaped their lives in the 1950s and 1960s.

Includes portraits of Ray Alexander, Eulalie Stott, Dora Tamana, Mildred Ramakaba Lesiea, Elizabeth van der Heyden and Elizabeth Abrahams.
 

Standing (A.) ORGANISED CRIME, a study from the Cape Flats, 313 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2006.

  R115
  André Standing examines the structure and dynamics of organised crime on the impoverished Cape Flats in Cape Town, the relationship between street gangs, organsied crime and corporate crime and whether or not organsied crime is a threat to democracy and state power.

André Standing is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Cape Town.
 

Stockenström (W.) DIE STOMME AARDE, 'n keur, 135 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R140
  A selection of Wilma Stockenström's poetry, chosen by the poet from her seven collections.

Wilma Stockenström received the Hertzog Prize in 1977 for her poetry collection, "Van vergetelheid en van glans". She was awarded it again in 1992 for her novel, "Abjater wat so lag". Her most well-known novel, "Die kremetartekspedisie", has been translated into English, French, Dutch, German and Italian.
 

The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe GUKURAHUNDI IN ZIMBABWE, a report on the disturbances in Matalbeleland and the Midlands 1980-1988, 440 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1997) 2007.

  R185
  Introduction by Elinor Sisulu. Foreword by Archbishop Pius Ncube of Bulawayo.

Originally published in 1997 by The Catholic Commission for Justice and Peace in Zimbabwe and the Legal Resources Foundation as "Breaking the Silence: a report on the disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands" and now reprinted
 

Todd (J.G.) THROUGH THE DARKNESS, a life in Zimbabwe, 460 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R200
  Judith Todd is the daughter of Sir Garfield Todd, a former prime minister of colonial Southern Rhodesia and later appointed a senator by Robert Mugabe. Jailed and then exiled by Ian Smith's regime Judith Todd returned to Zimbabwe in 1980. She was director of the Zimbabwe Project Trust, a local development agency. An outspoken critic of the Mugabe regime, she was stripped of her citizenship in 2003. She now lives in Cape Town. She is the author of "Rhodesia: an act of treason" and "The Right to Say No".