Clarke's Books

NEW ARRIVALS
July 2007

TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION REPORT, volumes 1-7, 508 + 710 + 745 + 316 + 460 + 788 + 976 pp., illus., hardback, Cape Town, 1998.

	R1360

Adebajo (A.), Adedeji (A.) & Landsberg (C.) eds. SOUTH AFRICA IN AFRICA, the post-apartheid era, 339 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

	R190

Contents include "Black economic empowerment: myths and realities" by Khehla Shubane,
"Race and reconciliation, 'e pluribus unim'?" by Yasmin Sooka,
"Conflict and land reform in Southern Africa: how exceptional is South Africa?" by Sam Moyo & Ruth Hall,
"HIV/AIDS and the African Renaissance: South Africa's achilles heel?" by Angela Ndinga-Muvumba & Shauna Mottiar,
"South Africa and the making of the African Union and NEPAD: Mbeki's 'progessive African agenda'" by Chris Landsberg,
"South Africa and its lusophone neighbours: Angola and Mozambique" by Augusta Conchiglia, and more.

Adekeye Adebajo is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town. Adebayo Adedeji is the director of the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS) in Nigeria.
Chris Landsberg is Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg and a Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg.

Asmal (K.), Asmal (L.) & Roberts (R.S.) RECONCILIATION THROUGH TRUTH, a reckoning of apartheid's criminal governance, 231 pp., paperback, Cape Town, Oxford & New York, (1996) 1997.

	R105

Foreword by Nelson Mandela.

Examines the historical and political background essential to an understanding of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Kader Asmal was exiled in Ireland for 27 years. He was a Cabinet Minister in Nelson Mandela's government and is now a Member of Parliament.
Lifelong civil rights campaigner Louise Asmal is a former honorary secretary of the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement.
Ronald Suresh Roberts, graduate of Balliol College, Oxford, and Harvard Law School, has lived in South Africa since 1994, and is the author of biographies of Nadine Gordimer and Thabo Mbeki.

Bond (P.), Dada (R.) & Erion (G.) eds. CLIMATE CHANGE, CARBON TRADING AND CIVIL SOCIETY , negative returns on South African investments, 192 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

	R160

Contributions include "Dirty Politics: South African Energy" & "Oil Companies and African Wealth Depletion" by Patrick Bond,
Interrogating Nuclear and Renewable Energy" by Muna Lakhani & Vanessa Black,
"World Bank Carbon Colonies" by Daphne Wysham,
"Climate Fraud and Carbon Colonialism" by Heidi Bachram, and more.

Patrick Bond is director of the Centre for Civil Society and profesor of Development Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Rehana Dada is an environmental journalist. Graham Erion is based at York University School of Law and Faculty of Environmental Studies in Toronto and is a TNI Carbon Trade Watch research associate.

Boraine (A.) A COUNTRY UNMASKED, inside South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 466 pp., hardback, d.w., Oxford, 2000.

	R200

Alex Boraine, deputy chairman of the TRC, gives an insider's account of the Commission's conception, planning and life, reflects on the histories of P.W.Botha and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and evaluates the Commission's achievements and failures.

Boraine (A.), Levy (J.) & Scheffer (R.) eds. DEALING WITH THE PAST, truth and reconciliation in South Africa, 175 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (1994) 1997.

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In 1994 the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA) held a conference entitled "Justice in Transition: dealing with the past" in which participants from countries like Argentina, Chile, Bulgaria and Germany shared their experiences of dealing with painful pasts. The first edition of this book emerged from this conference. This second edition has an updated introduction and conclusion.

Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Contributors from South Africa include Albie Sachs, Alex Boraine, Michael Lapsley, Nomonde Calata, Paizoah Gcina, Lourens du Plessis, Mary Burton, Dumisa Ntsebeza, Andre du Toit and Wilmot James.

Cameron (E.) WITNESS TO AIDS, with contributions by Nathan Geffen, 138 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2005.

	R140

Foreword by Nelson Mandela.

Justice Edwin Cameron's study of the many facets of the AIDS pandemic in South Africa, interwoven with the story of his legal work and his personal expeirence of HIV. This book won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Non-Fiction Award in 2006.

Edwin Cameron, now a judge in the Supreme Court of Appeal, co-drafted the Charter of Rights on AIDS and HIV, co-founded the AIDS Consortium and founded and was the first director of the AIDS Law Project.

Chubb (K.) & van Dijk (L.) BETWEEN ANGER AND HOPE, South Africa's youth and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 255 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2001.

	R145

Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

A study of the testimonies of youths and children given at the TRC hearings.

Originally published in 1999 in German in the series "rororo aktuell" under the title "Der Traum vom Regenbogen".

Karin Chubb teaches German language and literature at the University of the Western Cape.
Lutz van Dijk is the author of several books.

Dawes (A.), Bray (R.) & van der Merwe (A.) eds. MONITORING CHILD WELL-BEING, a South African rights-based approach, 663 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R280

"The book has two main parts. Part I provides the conceptual underpinnings that inform the development of the rights-based approach to monitoring child well-being over a range of domains...Part II contains comprehensive tables of indicators for the domains covered in Part I, with recommended measurement and data sources..."

Contents include "A rights-based approach to monitoring the well-being of children in South Africa" by Rachel Bray & Andrew Dawes,
"Conceptualising, defining and measuring child poverty in South Africa: an argument for a multidimensional approach" by Michael Noble, Gemma Wright & Lucie Cluver,
Monitoring child unintentional and violent-related morbidity and mortality" by Amelia van der Merwe & Andrew Dawes,
"Early childhood development and home-care environment in the pre-school years" by Linda Biersteker & Jane Kvalsvig,
"Monitoing the well-being of street children from a rights perspective" by Catherine Ward,
"A monitoring dilemma: orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV-AIDS" by Andrew Dawes, Amelia van der Merwe & Ren� Brandt, and much more.

Delius (P.) ed. MPUMALANGA, history and heritage, 522 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

	R345

Covers the geology, archaeology, rock art, traditions of early settlement, frontier conflicts, the South African War, conservation, economic development and 20th century political struggles of Mpumalanga, one of South Africa's provinces.

Contributors are Jane Carruthers, Richard Cope, Peter Delius, Maarten de Wit, Amanda Esterhuysen, Paul Holden, Cynthia Kros, Tlou Makhura, Sello Mathabatha, Bernard Mbenga, Christopher Mulaudzi, Stefan Schirmer, Benjamin Smith, Jeannette Smith and Leslie Zubeita.

Peter Delius is professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Doxtader (E.) & Villa-Vicencio (C.) eds. THROUGH FIRE WITH WATER, the roots of division and the potential for reconciliation in Africa, 405 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2003.

	R100

This collection of essays presents 15 case studies of African countries recently torn by conflict.

Contributions include "Angola: the beginning of hope for peace" by Erik Doxtader & Ricky Khaukha,
"Zimbabwe: a hundred years war" by Tyrone Savage and Shupikayi Blessing Chimhini,
"Swaziland: between monarchy and democracy" by Manelisi Genge,
"Zimbabwe: half way to democracy" by Susanne Streleau,
"South Africa: beyond the 'miracle'" by Charles Villa-Vicencio and S'fiso Ngesi,
"Mozambique: making peace - the roots of the conflict and the way forward" by Ira� Baptista Lundin and Ant�nio da Costa Gaspar,
"Namibia: the jigsaw puzzle of democracy" by Edmond Tiku and Erik Doxtader,
"Lesotho: political conflict, peace and reconciliation in the mountain region" by Mokete Lawrence Pherudi, and
"Botswana: the hopes and fears of consolidation" by Gape Kaboyakgosi.

Charles Villa-Vicencio is the Director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.
Erik Doxtader is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Wisconcin-Madison, USA, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Doxtader (E.) & Villa-Vicencio (C.) eds. TO REPAIR THE IRREPARABLE, reparation and reconstruction in South Africa, 426 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (2004) 2006.

	R165

Preface by Desmond Tutu.

Contributions include "Reparations - it is still not too late" by Mary Burton,
"A Difficult Justice: reparation, restoration and rights" by Charles Villa-Vicencio,
"Voices Not Heard: small histories and the work of repair" by Fiona Ross and Pamela Reynolds,
"The Promise and Pitfalls of Apology" by Trudy Govier and Wilhelm Verwoerd,
"The Rupture of Necklace Murders: a need for psychological and broader strategies of reparation" by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and
"On Monuments, Memorials and Memory: some precendent towards a South African option" by Neville Dubow.

Erik Doxtader is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Charles Villa-Vicencio is the DIrector of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Fisher (R.) RACE, , 250 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R165

Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Ryland Fisher interviews South Africans, including Naledi Pandor, Wilmot James, Rhoda Kadalie, Melanie Verwoerd, Phatekile Holomisa and Carel Boshoff, on the idea of race, what it has meant to them and their visions of a future South Africa.

Ryland Fisher is a former editor of the Cape Times. He is the CEO of Sekunjalo Media Holdings.

Garfield (B.) THE MEINERTZHAGEN MYSTERY, the life and legend of a colossal fraud, 352 pp., hardback, d.w., Washington DC., 2007.

	R260

Col Richard Meinertzhagen was a British war hero, secret agent and dean of international ornithology. Brain Garfield reveals how many of the events recorded in Meinertzhagen's diaries are imaginary and how he committed scientific, military and political fraud.

Gibson (J.) OVERCOMING APARTHEID, can truth reconcile a divided nation?, 467 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2004.

	R185

James Gibson analyses whether or not the TRC succeeded and how the process of reconciliation can be taken further.

James Gibson is Sidney W.Souers Professor of Government at Washington University in St.Louis, fellow at the Centre for International and Comparative Politics and Professor Extraordinary in Political Science at Stellenbosch University and Distinguished Visiting Research Scholar at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Grandin ((G.) & Klubock (T.M.) eds. TRUTH COMMISSIONS: STATE TERROR, HISTORY, AND MEMORY, Radical History Review, issue 97, winter 2007, 179 pp., paperback, Durham, 2007.

	R200

Includes the essay, "Knowledge, Experience, and South Africa's Scenarios of Forgiveness" by Alejandro Castillejo-Cu�llar, a professor of anthropology at the Universidad de los Andes, Colombia, and a research associate at the Direct Action Centre for Peace and Memory, South Africa.

Haggard (H.Rider) MAMEENA, and other plays, the complete dramatic works, 411 pp., illus., hardback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

	R375

Edited and with an introduction and notes by Stephen Coan and Alfred Tella.

Inclues the plays "Star of Egypt", "To Hell or Connaught" and "Mameena".

Coan is a feature writer, assistant editor of the "The Witness" newspaper and has worked as a writer-director in film, television and theatre. Alfred Tella is an economist, former Georgetown University research professor and lifelong Haggard collector.

Hassim (A.), Heywood (M.) & Berger (J.) eds. HEALTH & DEMOCRACY, a guide to human rights, health law and policy in post-apartheid South Africa, 506 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R230

A comprehensive guide to the health system, health law and health policy, with examples drawn from health activism regarding HIV/AIDS to illustrate the practical implications of law and policy.

Adila Hassim is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Johannesburg Bar. She is head of litigation and legal services at the Aids Law Project. Mark Heywood is head of the Aids Law Project. Jonathan Berger is head of policy and research at the Aids Law Project.

Holmes (R.) THE SECRET LIFE OF DR JAMES BARRY, Victorian England's most eminent surgeon, 335 pp., illus., paperback, Stroud, 2007.

	R215

First published by Viking in 2002 as "Scanty Particulars".

James Barry, "innovative medical pioneer, radical humanitarian and flamboyant dandy"arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in 1816. He became Medical Inspector for the Colony and Lord Charles Somerset's personal physician and close friend. He left the Cape in 1828.

Writer Rachel Holmes is also the author of "The Hottentot Venus: Saartjie Baartman's life, adventures and death."

Krog (A.) COUNTRY OF MY SKULL, , 312 pp., paperback, Johanneburg, (1998) 2004.

	R175

This book on the work of the TRC won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, the BookData/South African Booksellers' Book of the Year Prize, the Hiroshima Foundation Award and the Olive Schreiner Award for best prose work published in South Africa between 1998 and 2000.

Award-winning poet and author Antjie Krog, under the name of Antjie Samuel, worked for SABC radio reporting on the TRC proceedings. Her and her team received the Pringle Award for excellence in journalism. She also won the Foreign Correspondents' Award for outstanding journalism for her Mail & Guardian articles on the TRC.

Krog (A.) poems & Moodie (F.) illus. FYNBOS FAIRIES, , 31 pp., colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2007.

	R140

English version of the poems by Gus Ferguson.

Also available in Afrikaans as "Fynbos Feetjies".

Legassick (M.) TOWARDS SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY, , 725 pp., hardback, Pietermartizburg, 2007.

	R345

Explores the history of the global struggle for socialism in the twentieth century with particluar emphasis on the liberation struggle in South Africa from the 1920s through the 1980s, discusses the mistakes made by the leadership of the South African Communist Party and examines the economic record of the African National Congress government since 1994.

Martin Legassick is emeritus professor at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.

Makholwa (A.) RED INK, a novel, 234 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R95

Angela Makholwa runs her own business in Johannesburg. This is her first published novel, a thriller.

Makrs (S.C.) WATCHING THE WIND, conflict resolution during South Africa's transition to democracy, 225 pp., paperback, Washington, 2000.

	R115

A personal account of the National Peace Accord.

Susan Collin Marks is a South African who worked as a conflict resolution practitioner and peacemaker during South Africa's transition to democracy. She served on the executive committee of the Western Cape Regional Peace Committee under the auspices of the National Peace Accord, and worked as a senior researcher at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town. In 1994 she was awarded a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellowship at the United States Institute of Peace. She now lives in Washington, D.C., where she is executive vice president of a nonprofit organisation working in conflict resolution internationally.

Metelerkamp (P.) comp. INGRID JONKER, beeld van 'n digterslewe, 253 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Hermanus, (2003) 2007.

	R250

Journalist Petrovna Metelerkamp's interest in Ingrid Jonker began when she got to know some of the poet's close friends shortly after her suicide in 1965. This biography is based largely on extracts from her correspondence and conversations with her friends and colleagues.

Nasson (B.) BRITANNIA'S EMPIRE, making a British world, 254 pp., maps, illus., hardback, d.w., Stroud, 2004.

	R170

A history of the British Empire.

Bill Nasson, author of the acclaimed "The South African War", is Professor of History at the University of Cape Town.

Nattrass (N.) MORTAL COMBAT, AIDS denialism and the struggle for antiretrovirals in South Africa, 257 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

	R170

A history of AIDS policy in South Africa.

Nicoli Nattrass is Director of the AIDS and Society Research Unit and Professor of Economics at the University of Cape Town.

Nattrass (N.) THE MORAL ECONOMY OF AIDS IN SOUTH AFRICA, , 224 pp., paperback, Cambridge, (2004) 2006.

	R140

Nicoli Nattrass presents a history of AIDS policy in South Africa and analyses the social and economic implications of the pandemic.

Nicoli Nattrass is Professor of Economics and Director of the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town.

Nuttall (S.) & Coetzee (C.) eds. NEGOTIATING THE PAST, the making of memory in South Africa, 300 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (1998) 2005.

	R250

Contributions include "Memory, metaphor, and the triumph of narrative" by Njabulo Ndebele,
"Stories of history: reimagining the past in post-apartheid narrative" by Andr� Brink,
"Forgiving and forgetting: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission" by Anthony Holliday,
"Cracked heirlooms: memory on exhibition" by Ingrid de Kock,
"Memory and history in William Kentridge's 'History of the Main Complaint" by Michael Godby,
"Kroto� remembered: a mother of unity or mother of sorrows?" by Carli Coetzee,
"Museums and the reshaping of history" by Patricia Davison,
"Commemorating, suppressing, and invoking Cape slavery" by Kerry Ward and Nigel Worden, and much more.

Parkington (J.) SHORELINES, STRANDLOPERS AND SHELL MIDDENS, , 127 pp., maps, colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

	R220

John Parkington examines the shell heaps, bones and artefacts found along the shoreline of South Africa for information about how people lived along the shore thousands of years ago.

Parkington is Professor of Archeology at the University of Cape Town.

Pillay (V.) ACADEMIC MOTHERS, , 196 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

	R110

An inquiry into how two seemingly opposed identities, that of academic and that of mother, live within the same person, based on a study of the lives of three white women academics.

Dr Venitha Pillay is a senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria.

Posel (D.) & SImpson (G.) eds. COMMISSIONING THE PAST, understanding South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, 256 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (2002) 2003.

	R170

Papers from a conference which took place in June 1999, jointly organised by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and the University of the Witwatersrand's History Workshop. Its aim was to create a multidisciplinary forum for evaluating the TRC. Includes insider accounts and victims' stories from the TRC process, as well as outsider assessments of the TRC's activities.
Contributions include "Researching the 'Truth': a view from inside the Truth and Reconciliation Commission" by Janet Cherry, John Daniel and Madeleine Fullard,
"False Promises and Wasted Opportunites?: insude South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission" and "The Murder of Sicelo Dlomo" by Piers Pigou,
"Nothing but the Truth: the ordeal of Duma Khumalo" by Mtutuzeli Matshoba,
"The TRC Report: what kind of history? what kind of truth?" by Deborah Posel,
"'Tell No Lies, Claim No Easy Victories': a brief evaluation of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission" by Graeme Simpson, and more.

Ross (F.C.) BEARING WITNESS, women and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, 206 pp., paperback, London & Sterling, 2003.

	R308

Reflecting on the TRC's work in Zwelethemba and on the experiences and words of women activists there, Fiona Ross explores how the TRC's emphasis on gross violations of human rights ignored women's political activities and their creative efforts to live an ordinary everyday life under apartheid.

Fiona Ross lectures in Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.

Samuelson (M.) REMEMBERING THE NATION, DISMEMBERING WOMEN?, stories of the South African transition, 272 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

	R210

Examines fictional and autobiographical representations of women produced during the first decade of democracy in South Africa. Writers studied include Zo� Wicomb, J.M.Coetzee, Sindiwe Magona, Zakes Mda, Njabulo Ndebele, Elleke Boehmer, Andr� Brink, Zubeida Jaffer and Mamphela Ramphele.

Meg Samuelson is a senior lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Stellenbosch.

Segal (L.), van den Berg (C.) & Madikida (C.) curators MAPPING MEMORY, former prisoners tell their stories, 132 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (2006) 2007.

	R180

A project of Constitutional Hill, which brought back former prisoners who were held in the Womens' Jail and Number Four and helped them take photograghs of the jail, draw their stories and record oral testimonies as the basis for exhibitons at Constitutional Hill and this book.

Stobie (C.) SOMEWHERE IN THE DOUBLE RAINBOW, representations of bisexuality in post-aparthied novels, 307 pp., paperback, Pietermartizburg, 2007.

	R190

Novels discussed include "Bitter Eden" by Tatamkulu Afrika, "Cracks" by Sheila Kohler, "The Smell of Apples" by Mark Behr, "The House Gun" by Nadine Gordimer, "The Quiet Violence of Dreams" by K.Sello Duiker, "Love Themes for the Wilderness" by Ashraf Jamal, "The World Unseen" by Shamin Sarif & "In Tangier We Killed the Blue Parrot" by Barbara Adair.

Cheryl Strobie lectures in the English Department at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Strode (T.F.) THE ETHICS OF EXILE, colonialism in the fictions of Charles Brocken Brown and J.M.Coetzee, 253 pp., hardback, New York & London, 2005.

	R770

Examines three novels by J.M.Coetzee: "Life & Times of Michael K", "Age of Iron" and "Disgrace".

Suttner (R.) & Cronin (J.) 50 YEARS OF THE FREEDOM CHARTER, , 272 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2006.

	R140

Contributions by Mosiuoa "Terror" Lekota, Dorothy Nyembe, Wilson Fanti, Edgar Ngoyi, Steve Tshwete, Popo Molefe, Bishop Manas Buthelezi, Billy Nair, Cheryl Carolus, Rev Frank Chikane & Fr Smangaliso Mkatshwa.

This is the reprint of a work that first appeared in 1986 entitled "30 Years of the Freedom Charter", banned for possession by the apartheid government. The authors have written a new introduction and there are additional photographs.

Taylor (J.) UBU AND THE TRUTH COMMISSION, from the production by William Kentridge and The Handspring Puppet Company, 73 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, (1998) 2007.

	R140

Includes the full playscript and a writer's note by Jane Taylor, a director's note by William Kentridge and a puppeteers' note by Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler as well as a selection of photographs of the production, drawings for animation and archival images.

Verwoerd (W.) & Mabizela (M.) comps. TRUTHS DRAWN IN JEST, commentary on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission through cartoons, 161 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2000.

	R126

Contributions include "Life and Times of the TRC" by Antjie Krog, Wilhelm Verwoerd & Mahlubi "Chief" Mabizela,
"My Concerns about the TRC" & "Botha was a Butcher" by Sandile Dikeni,
"TRC Cartoons and the Afrikaner Community" by Willie Esterhuyse,
"Eugene de Kock and Symbols of Blood and Dirt" by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,
and an interview with Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) by Wilhelm Verwoerd and Mahlubi Mabizela.

Wilhelm Verwoerd is a lecturer in the Department of Philosophy, University of Stellenbosch.
Mahlubi "Chief" Mabizela is a researcher at the Education Policy Unit, University of the Western Cape. He was a researcher for the TRC.

Villa-Vicencio (C.) & Doxtader (E.) eds. THE PROVOCATIONS OF AMNESTY, memory, justice and impunity, 331 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2003.

	R170

Contributions include "The Choice of Amnesty: did political necessity trump moral duty?" by Antjie Krog,
"The Legacy of the TRC" by Dumisa Ntsebeza,
"South Africa's Amnesty Revisited" by Alex Boraine,
"Truth Without Reconciliation, Reconciliation Without Truth" by Frederik van Zyl Slabbert,
"Why Prosecutions Are Necessary" by George Bizos,
"The Case for a General Amnesty" by Letlapa Mphahlele,
"Alternatives to Revenge: building a vocabulary of reconciliation through political pardon" by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, and much more.

Charles Villa-Vicencio is the Director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation. Erik Doxtader is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

Villa-Vicencio (C.) & Verwoerd (W.) LOOKING BACK REACHING FORWARD, reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa, 322 pp., paperback, Cape Town & London, 2000.

	R180

Foreword by Richard Goldstone.
Contributions include "Restorative Justice: dealing with the past differently" and "Getting On With Life: a move towards reconciliation" by Charles Villa-Vicencio,
"Making Moral Judgements" by Mary Burton,
""When the Assassin Cries Foul: the modern Just War doctrine" by Kader Asmal, Louise Asmal and Ronald Suresh Roberts,
"Towards the Recognition of Our Past Injustices" by Wilhelm Verwoerd,
"What Makes a Perpetrator? An attempt to understand" by Don Foster,
"Reparation Delayed is Healing Retarded" by Wendy Orr,
"National Reconciliation: holy grail or secular pact?" by Jakes Gerwel, and more.

Watson (W.) BRICK BY BRICK, an informal guide to the history of South Africa, 159 pp., paperback , Cape Town, 2007.

	R95

Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Takes the reader year by year through the most important events of South African's history.

Wendy Watson is Project Manager for Marketing and Communication at South African National Roads Agency Limited (SANRAL). Previously she ran an organisation that investigated state violence, and worked for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

Wilson (R.A.) THE POLITICS OF TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, legitimizing the post-apartheid state, 269 pp., maps, paperback, Cambridge, 2001.

	R300

Based on extended anthropological fieldwork in urban African communities in the Johannesburg area Richard Wilson demonstrates that the TRC's restorative justice approach and religious-redemptive language of reconciliation had little effect on popular ideas of justice as retribution.

Richard A.Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex.

Wood (F.) in colloboration with Lewis (M.) THE EXTRAORDINARY KHOTSO, millionaire medicine man from Lusikisiki, 368 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R220

A biography of the herbalist Khotso Sethuntsa, who remained famous and feared throughout South African and beyond even after his death in 1972. Khotso, who claimed to be in spiritual contact with Paul Kruger, was best-known for his remedy for sexual potency and a terrifying procedure for acquiring wealth.

Includes photographs by Obie Oberholzer.

Felicity Wood lectures in the English Department at the University of Fort Hare.

Worden (N.) ed. CONTINGENT LIVES, social identity and material culture in the VOC world, 612 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.


OUT OF PRINT

Papers first presented at an international conference held at the University of Cape Town in 2006.

Includes "Identifying buildings and building lives at the Cape in the early VOC period" by Antonia Malan,
"Belonging: kinship and identity at the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1795" by Laura Mitchell,
"Social identities and the making of private property: the Cape and Lagos Colony compared" by Wayne Dooling,
"A Cape bourgeoisie?: alcohol, entrepreneurs and the evolution of an urban free-burgher society in VOC Cape Town" by Gerald Groenewald,
"Sodomy, race and respectability in Stellenbosch and Drakenstein, 1698-1762: the story of a family, loosely defined" by Susan Newton-King,
"Knocking on death's door: mapping spectrums of bondage and status through marking the dead at the Cape" by Kerry Ward,
"Changing perceptions of free burgher status and identity at the Cape during the period of VOC rule" by Yvonne Brink,
"The role of writing in the first steps of the Cape Colony: a short enquiry into the 'Journal of van Riebeeck' (1652-1662)" by Adrien Delmas, and more.