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NEW ARRIVALS
August 2007


 

Barham (J.E.) ed. ALICE GREENE, teacher and campaigner, South African correspondence 1887-1902, 649 pp., maps, illus., paperback,, Leicester, 2007.

  R395
  Alice Greene (1858-1920) left England in 1887 to teach at the Collegiate School for Girls in Port Elizabeth. She became friends with Elizabeth Molteno who became principal of the school. They left in 1900 and moved to Cape Town where they were involved in helping Boer women and children held in the British camps. They assisted Emily Hobhouse, were friends with Olive Schreiner, and knew many of the politicians of the day.

John Barham is Alice Greene's great nephew. He has edited the letters she wrote from the time of her departure for South Africa up to a visit she made to England after the end of the Boer War, as well as her 1901 diary.
 

Barnard (M.) CAPE TOWN STORIES, local flavours from the Peninsula, 175 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R130
  Madeleine Barnard offers "a combination of historical and latter-day stories and interviews" about the people and places of Cape Town. Includes interviews with Tatamkhulu Afrika and an article on Anthony Clarke, the original owner of Clarke's Bookshop.
 

Bickford-Smith (V.), van Heyningen (E.) & Worden (N.) CAPE TOWN IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, an illustrated social history, 255 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 1999.

  R357
  A history of twentieth century Cape Town from the British colonial town on the brink of the Anglo-Boer War to the post-1994 city struggling with the legacy of apartheid.

The companion volume, "Cape Town, the making of a city", is also available @ R315.

Vivian Bickford-Smith, Elizabeth van Heyningen and Nigel Worden are all in the History Department at the University of Cape Town.
 

Biko (S.) I WRITE WHAT I LIKE, a selection of his writings, 244 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1978) 2006.

  R95
  Edited, with a personal memoir, by Father Aelred Stubbs, priest and confidante of the young Steve Biko. Preface by Desmond Tutu. New introduction by Nkosinathi Biko, one of Steve Biko's sons.

A collection of Steve Biko's columns entitled "I Write What I Like", published in the journal of the South African Student Organisation under the pseudonym "Frank Talk". It also contains other journal articles, interviews and letters.
 

Bloem (T.) KROTOA-EVA, the woman from Robben Island, 239 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, (1999) 2002.

  R140
  Krotoa, a member of the Goringhaikona tribe, was employed by Maria van Riebeeck and given the name Eva. She became the chief interpreter of the Dutch and later married Pieter van Meerhoff, who was appointed overseer on Robben Island. Shortly after her arrival there in 1665 she became an alcoholic and after his death was frequently confined on Robben Island because of her drinking. She died in 1674.
 

Camay (P.) & Gordon (A.) RACE, REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE, a brief history of South African civil society to 1994 , 240 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R215
  Phiroshaw Camay and Anne Gordon provide an introduction to the emergence and development of civil society organisations in South Africa from pre-colonial times to the advent of democracy.
 

Campbell (C.) "LETTING THEM DIE", how HIV/AIDS prevention programmes often fail, 214 pp., paperback, Cape Town, etc, 2003.

  R145
  Through a detailed study of the Summertown Project, a community-led HIV-prevention programme in a mining community near Johannesburg, Catherine Campbell attempts to understand why people knowingly engage in sexual behaviour that could kill them.

Catherine Campbell is a Reader at the London School of Economics and an External Professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
 

Campion (D.) photo. & Shields (S.) text WHERE FIRE SPEAKS, a visit with the Himba, 164 pp., map, illus., paperback, Vancouver, 2002.

  R175
  Introduction by Hugh Brody.

Photographer David Campion and writer Sandra Shields spent two months living with the Himba documenting the effects of development on their traditional way of life.
 

Chenwi (L.) TOWARDS THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN AFRICA, a human rights perspective, 239 pp., map, paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

  R220
  Discusses the international trend towards the abolition of the death penalty from an African perspective.

Dr Lilian Chenwiworks as a senior researcher in the Socio-Economic Rights Project of the Community Law Centre, Univerity of the Western Cape. This book is an updated and reworked version of her doctoral thesis.
 

Collins (R.O.) & Burns (J.M.) A HISTORY OF SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, , 406 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cambridge, 2007.

  R195
  Chapters include "The peoples and states of southern Africa", "Africans, Dutch and the British in South Africa, 1486-1910" and "The Union of South Africa and the apartheid state".

Robert Collins is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. James Burns is Associate Professor of History at Clemson Univerity.
 

Crawford-Browne (T.) EYE ON THE MONEY, one man's crusade against corruption, 238 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R175
  During the late 1990s former international banker Terry Crawford-Browne launched a campaign against "the arms deal", an armaments acquisition programme that involved the purchase of warships and warplanes from Britian, Germany, Sweden and Italy. He claimed these purchases were unwarranted, given that South Africa had no discernible foreign enemies.

Terry Crawford-Browne represented the Anglican Church at the Western Province Council of Churches and the parliamentary Defence Review. From 1985 to 1993 he advised Dr Allan Boesak and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the banking sanctions campaign agaisnt apartheid. Currently he chairs the South African affiliate of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction.
 

Daniels (E.) THERE AND BACK, Robben Island 1964-1979, 264 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2002.

  R140
  Foreword by Nelson Mandela.

The autobiography of Eddie Daniels who spent 15 years on Robben Island in the company of Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Ahmed Kathrada and others.
 

de Beer (M.) THE LION MOUNTAIN, and the story of Bantry Bay, Clifton and Camps Bay on the Atlantic Coast of the Cape Peninsula, 176 pp., 4to., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 1987.

 
OUT OF PRINT
  Mona de Beer discusses the geology, flora and fauna of the Lion Mountain, which includes Lion's Head and Signal Hill, and the history of the suburbs that have grown up around it, from Sea Point to Camps Bay.

Foreword by Frank Bradlow.
 

Deacon (H.) ed. THE ISLAND, a history of Robben Island, 1488-1990, 186 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 1996.

  R150
  Dr Harriet Deacon is a freelance historian and an independent consultant.
Other contributros to the book are Nigel Penn, Arthur Davey and Fran Buntman.
 

Diesel (A.) comp. SHAKTI, stories of Indian women in South Africa, 221 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R150
  A collection of life stories told to Alleyn Diesel by Indian women from Hindu, Muslim and Christian backgrounds living in and around Pietermaritzburg.

Alleyn Diesel is currently an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
 

Eales (H.) RIDDLES IN STONE, controversies, theories and myths about southern Africa's geological past, 361 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R220
  Hugh Eales unravels nearly forty riddles and clashes of interpretation that accompanied the evolution of the study of earth sciences in southern Africa.

Hugh Eales is a Professor Emeritus of Geology at Rhodes University.
 

Esterhuysen (A.) STERKFONTEIN, early hominid site in the "Cradle of Humankind", 64 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R95
  An overview of the geological and fossil history of the Sterkfontin Valley.

Amanda Esterhuysen is an archaeologist at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Field (S.) ed. LOST COMMUNITIES, LIVING MEMORIES, remembering forced removals in Cape Town, 142 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2001.

  R163
  Records and interprets the memories of some of the Capetonians who were forcibly removed from their homes as a result of the Group Areas Act. Includes histories of the communities of Windermere, Tramway Road in Sea Point, District Six and Simon's Town, destroyed by these removals.

This book is the result of a project conducted by the Centre for Popular Memory at the Univerity of Cape Town and was edited by the Centre's director, Sean Field.
 

Govender (P.) LOVE AND COURAGE, a story of insubordination, 261 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R165
  The autobiography of activist, feminist, teacher and trade unionist Pregs Govender who, from 1994 to 2002, was a member of South Africa's democratic parliament.
 

Guest (E.) CHILDREN OF AIDS, Africa's orphan crisis, 176 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, (2001) 2003.

  R125
  Emma Guest interviews orphans, street children, grandparents, aunts, foster parents, charity and social workers and donors in South Africa, Zambia and Uganda about AIDS and how it has affected their lives.

Emma Guest is a freelance writer on AIDS-related matters.
 

Guthrie (T.) & Hickey (A.) eds. FUNDING THE FIGHT, budgeting for HIV/AIDS in developing countries, 353 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2004.

  R200
  Examines how governments in South Africa, Mozambique, Namibia, Kenya and five countries in Latin America are funding the fight against HIV/AIDS.
 

Haacke (W.H.G.) THE TONOLOGY OF KHOEKHOE (NAMA/ DAMARA), , 233 pp., paperback, Cologne, 1999.

  R230
  A tonological analysis of the Khoekhoe language.
 

Harries (P.) BUTTERFLIES & BARBARIANS, Swiss missionaries & systems of knowledge in South-East Africa, 286 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg etc., 2007.

  R220
  "Swiss missionaries played an important role in explaining Africa to the literate world in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasises how these European intellectuals, brought to deep rural areas of south-eastern Africa by their vocation, formulated and ordered knowledge about the continent.".

Patrick Harries is Professor of History at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
 

Harring (S.L.) & Odendaal (W.) "OUR LAND THEY TOOK", San land rights under threat in Namibia, 77 pp., 4to., maps,colour illus., paperback, Windhoek, 2006.

  R195
  Examines the threats to San lands in Namibia and the legal issues raised by these threats.

Sidney Harring is Professor of Law at the City University of the New York School of Law. Willem Odendaal works for the Legal Assistance Centre in Windhoek.
 

Izumi (K.). ed. RECLAIMING OUR LIVES, HIV and AIDS, women's land and property rights and livelihoods in southern and East Africa, narratives and responses, 117 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R110
  A collection of interviews with women from South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Uganda, Kenya and Rwanda, who speak about how HIV/AIDS has worsened the situation for women and children, who are often dispossessed of their property, evicted from their homes and forced into destitution.

Kaori Izumi is Land Tenure and Rural Institutions Officer and HIV and AIDS Focal Point for the FAO Sub-Regional Office for Southern and East Africa in Harare, ZImbabwe.
 

James (A.) THE FIRST BUSHMAN'S PATH, stories, songs and testimonies of the /Xam of the northern Cape, versions, with commentary, 269 pp., maps, paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.

  R160
  A collection of re-presentations of a selection of /Xam narrations from the Bleek and Lloyd Collection, together with explanatory notes, by poet Alan James.
 

Katz (R.), Biesele (M.) & St.Denis (V.) HEALING MAKES OUR HEARTS HAPPY, spirituality & cultural trandformation among the Kalahari Jul'hoansi, 213 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Rochester, 1997.

  R300
  Tells the story of the Kalahari Jul'hoansi from the early beginnings of their culture to the social upheaval of the present time and the role that their traditional healing dance plays in helping them sustain and heal their communal way of life in the face of outside pressures.

Clinical Psychologist Richard Katz is the author of "Boiling Energy: community healing among the Kalahari Kung".
Anthropologist Megan Biesele wrote "Women Like Meat: the folklore and foraging ideology of the Kalahari Jul'hoan" and "Shaken Roots: the Bushmen of Namibia".
 

Kilian-Hatz (C.) & Naude (D.) FOLKTALES OF THE KXOE IN THE WEST CAPRIVI, , 338 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cologne, 1999.

  R195
  Narrated by Dao Ngyengye.

The original Kxoe text is given together with a word-by-word English translation. This is followed by a free translation and comments on the moral and messages of the tale.
 

Lewis-Williams (J.D.) ed. STORIES THAT FLOAT FROM AFAR, ancestral folklore of the San of Southern Africa, 285 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, (2000) 2002.

  R135
  A selection of previously unpublished /Xam "kukummi" (folklore) from the Bleek and Lloyd Collection.

David Lewis-Williams recently retired as Professor of Cognitive Archeaology and Director of the Rock Art Research Unit at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 

MacKenzie (J.) & Dalziel (N.R.) THE SCOTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, ethnicity, identity, gender and race, 1772-1914, 283 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R220
  The first full-length study of the role of the Scots in South Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

John MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University, Honorary Professor at St. Andrews, Aberdeen and Stirling Universities, and Honorary Fellow at Edinburgh University.
Dr Nigel Dalziel is a freelance writer and researcher.
 

Marais (E.N.) THE RAIN BULL, and other tales from the San, 48 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2007.

  R120
  Translated from the Afrikaans by Jacques Coetzee.

Eugene Marais's re-telling of four San stories originally told to him by Outa Hendrik, a Bushman he knew. These four "dwaalstories", or wandering tales, were published for the first time in 1921.
 

Marinovich (G.) & Silva (J.) THE BANG-BANG CLUB, snapshots from a hidden war, 320 pp., illus., paperback, London, (2000) 2001.

  R112
  Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Photographers Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Ken Oosterbroek and Kevin Carter covered the war in the townships of South Africa in the 1990s. In 1994 Ken Oosterbroek was killed by a stray bullet and Kevin Carter committed suicide weeks after he won a Pulitzer Prize. The two surviving members of the group tell the story.
 

Masilela (E.) NUMBER 43 TRELAWNEY PARK, KwaMagogo, untold stories of ordinary people caught up in the struggle against apartheid, 227 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R165
  Number 43 Trelawney Park, in Manzini, Swaziland, was for many years a safe house and base of operations for the ANC. The house became known as "KwaMagogo" (place of the grandmother), after Rebecca Makgomo Masilela - the author's mother - who sheltered and supported many of the ANC cadres who operated from Swaziland.

Elias Masilela tells the story of the ANC and PAC cadres who passed through the house in which he grew up and provides background information on the Church Street bombing, the activities of Eugene de Kock, Craig Williamson and Dirk Coetzee, and the defection of Glory September.
 

McGregor (L.) KHABZELA, the life and times of a South African, 240 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005.

  R125
  Foreword by Zackie Achmat.

A biography of Fana Khaba a.k.a. Khabzela. Born and raised in dire poverty in Soweto he managed to realise his dream of becoming a DJ, only to fall ill with AIDS. He died in 2004, aged 35.
 

Mendel (G.) photo. A BROKEN LANDSCAPE, HIV & AIDS in Africa, 207 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, (2001) 2002.

  R120
  Gideon Mendel, a leading photojournalist, was born in Johannesburg in 1959. He moved to London in 1990 and has been documenting the AIDS pandemic in Africa since 1993. He won the Eugene Smith Award for Humanistic Photography in 1996.

Mendel photographed and recorded personal testimonies from AIDS sufferers in Malwai, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
 

Meyer (D.) DEVIL'S PEAK, , 409 pp., paperback, London, 2007.

  R180
  Translated by K.L.Seegers.

Thriller writer Deon Meyer is the author of "Dead Before Dying", "Dead at Daybreak" and "Heart of the Hunter".
 

Morna (C.L.) & Tolmay (S.) eds. AT THE COALFACE, gender and local government in Southern Africa, 316 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R195
  A sequel study to "Ringing up the Changes: gender in Southern African politics", this book focuses on gender politics in local government and documents the stories of women leaders.

Colleen Lowe Morna is the executive director and Susan Tolamy the Gender and Governance manager at Gender Links.
 

Murray (N.), Shepherd (N.) & Hall (M.) DESIRE LINES, space, memory and identity in the post-apartheid city, 315 pp., illus., paperback, Abingdon & New York, 2007.

  R471
  Contributions include "Planning Fictions: the limits of spatial engineering and governance in a Cape Flats ghetto" by Steven Robins,
"Remaking Modernism: South African architecture in and out of time" by Noëleen Murray,
"Memory, Nation Building and the Post-apartheid City: the apartheid museum in Johannesburg" by Lindsay Jill Bremner,
"Memory and the Politics of History in the District Six Museum" by Ciraj Rassool,
"On a Knife-edge or in the Fray: managing heritage sites in a vibrant democracy" by Abdulkader I.Tayob,
"Leaving the City: gender, pastoral power and the discourse of development in the Eastern Cape" by Premesh Lalu,
"The World Below: post-apartheid urban imaginaries and the bones of the Prestwich Street dead" by Nick Shepherd and Christian Ernstein,
"Paths of Nostalgia and Desire through Heritage Destinations at the Cape of Good Hope" by Martin Hall And Pia Bombardella, and much more.

Noëleen Murray is an architect and academic based in the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Historical archeologist Martin Hall is Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Cape Town.
Archeologist Nick Shepherd is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town.
 

Naidoo (I.) ISLAND IN CHAINS, prisoner 885/63, 296 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (2000) 2006.

  R110
  Foreword by Mac Maharaj. Includes the postscript to the first edition by Albie Sachs and the foreword to the first edition by Francis Meli.

Indres Naidoo's account of the ten years he spent as a political prisoner on Robben Island. First published in the UK in 1982 this book was written together with Albie Sachs after Indres Naidoo had been released from prison in 1973 and gone into exile in 1977.
 

Naudé (C-P.) AGAINST THE LIGHT, , 131 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

  R120
  Translation of "In die Geheim van die Dag" (2004) by Charl-Pierre Naudé.

Poet Charl-Pierre Naudé's second collection, "In die Geheim van die Dag" won the Protea Prize for Poetry 2005 and the M-Net Prize for Afrikaans Poetry 2005. His first collection, "Die Nomadiese Oomblik" won the Ingrid Jonker Prize for poetry 1997.
 

Naudé (J.) MAKING THE CUT IN SOUTH AFRICA, a medico-political journey, 172 pp., illus., paperback, London, 2007.

  R320
  Renowned urologist and trnasplant surgeon Johan Naudé developed pioneering surgical procedures and revolutionized urological practice in Mozambique. At one time he shared the organ transplant unit at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town with Dr Chris Barnard. He was also involved in medical politics and struggled with issues such as racism, the treatment of prisoners, HIV/AIDS, and the place of affirmative action in medicine and the universities.
 

Ngcelwane (N.) SALA KAHLE DISTRICT SIX, an African woman's perspective, 136 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, (1998) 2006.

  R65
  Nonvuyo Ngcelwane describes the general social life in District Six, where she grew up. Her family were forcibly removed to Nyanga West in 1968. She now lives in Khayelitsha.
 

Page (J.) et. al. WORKING WITH HIV/AIDS, , 126 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R124
  Discusses what HIV/AIDS is, how it is spread, what can be done to avoid becoming HIV positive and how to live positively if infected. All these issues are discussed in the context of the workplace.
 

Parle (J.) STATES OF MIND, searching for mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918, 334 pp., illius., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

  R190
  "This study of mental illness and its cures in colonial and immediately post-Union Natal and Zululand investigates Westenized treatments of insanity at the Natal Government Asylum, as well as less well-known routes back to health via African and Indian modes of healing."

Julie Parle is a senior lecturer in the Department of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
 

Penn (N.) ROGUES, REBELS AND RUNAWAYS, eigthteenth-century Cape characters, 195 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (1999) 2003.

  R97
  A collection of essays about some lesser-known men and women from the eighteenth-century Dutch Cape who, in their day, were regarded as having transgressed the boundaries of acceptable behaviour.

Dr Nigel Penn lectures in the Department of History at the University of Cape Town.
 

Potgieter (D.W) TOTAL ONSLAUGHT, apartheid's dirty tricks exposed, 314 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R200
  Investigative reporter de Wet Potgieter exposes the corruption of the NP government and the "behind-the scenes machinations of South Africa's security apparatus during the apartheid era".
 

Prince (B.) et. al. (eds.) EXPLORING THE CHALLENGES OF HIV/AIDS, seminar proceedings, 67 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R90
  The presentations and discussions delivered with partners by the SAHARA Network of the HSRC at the two satellite sessions of the 16th International AIDS Conference, Toronto, 2006.

Includes "The complexity of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Africa and the need for creative responses" by Dr Zola Skweyiya,
"Unfolding continental developments in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa" by Professor Eric Buch, and
"'Missing the women: exploring key challenges in policy responses to HIV/AIDS" by Dr Olive Shisana and Julia Louw.
 

Rive (R.) 'BUCKINGHAM PALACE', DISTRICT SIX, , 212 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (1986) 1996.

  R84
  Introduction and notes on the classic novel by Robin Malan.

Author and scholar Richard Rive grew up in District Six.
 

Schadeberg (J.) comp. & photo. VOICES FROM ROBBEN ISLAND, , 109 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1994) 2006.

  R189
  Photographs of and interviews with former inmates, family members and jailers. Photographer Jürgen Schadeberg, together with Elinor Sisulu and Enoch Sithole, documented the 1994 revisit to Robben Island of some it's former prisoners, including Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki, Tokyo Sexwale, Ahmed Kathrada, Neville Alexander, Mac Maharaj, Jacob Zuma, and many others.

Includes the script of Mary Benson's radio play, "Robben Island".
 

Shostak (M.) NISA, the life and words of a !Kung woman, 402 pp., illus., paperback, London, (1990) 2000.

  R239
  The life story of Nisa, a !Kung woman living in the Kalahari desert in Botswana, told in her own words to anthropologist Majorie Shostak.
 

Smith (A.), Malherbe (C.), Guenther (M.) & Berens (P.) THE BUSHMEN OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, a foraging society in transition, 112 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town & Athens, (2000) 2004.

  R140
  An introduction to the history and current situation of the Bushmen, or San, living in Namibia and Botswana.

Suitable for students, teachers and the general reader.
 

Smith (C.) ROBBEN ISLAND, , 160 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 1997.

  R132
  A social and political history of Robben Island.

Charlene Smith is a journalist specialising in politics and economics.
 

Thomas (E.M.) THE OLD WAY, a story of the first people, 341 pp., map, illus., hardback, d.w., New York, 2006.

  R250
  Anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, author of "The Harmless People" (1959), arrived in Africa with her family to live among the Kalahari San or Bushmen in 1950, when she was nineteen years old. This exprience led her mother, Lorna Marshall, to write "The !Kung of Nyae Nyae", and her brother, John, to make a series of films which culminated in the epic "A Kalahari Family".
 

van Niekerk (A.A.) & Kopelman (L.M.) eds. ETHICS AND AIDS IN AFRICA, the challenge to our thinking, 222 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2005.

  R190
  Foreword by Edwin Cameron, author of "Witness to Aids" (2005).

Reviews the ethical implications of the Aids pandemic in Africa.

Contributions include "AIDS in Africa: facts, figures and the extent of the problem" by Alan Whiteside,
"Through a glass, darkly: data and uncertainty in the AIDS debate" by Alan Whiteside, Tony Barnett, Gavin George & Anton van Niekerk,
"Rolling Out Antiretroviral Treatment in South Africa: economic and ethical challenges" by Nicoli Nattrass,
"HIV vaccine trial participation in South Africa: an ethical assessment" by Keymanthri Moodley, and much more.
 

Vassen (R.D.) ed. LETTERS FROM ROBBEN ISLAND, a selection of Ahmed Kathrada's prison correspondence, 1964-1989, 300 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, (1999) 2000.

  R106
  Foreword by Nelson Mandela. Introduction by Walter Sisulu.

Ahmed Kathrada spent 26 years on Robben Island, having been sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial. This book is a collection of 103 of the more than 900 letters he wrote from the Island.
 

Walker (L.), Reid (G.) & Cornell (M.) WAITING TO HAPPEN, HIV/AIDS in South Africa - the bigger picture, 143 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, etc, 2004.

  R150
  Foreword by Edwin Cameron.

Examines the social, cultural and historical aspects of HIV/AIDS in South Africa. The book draws on papers presented at the AIDS in Context conference convened by the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2001.

Liz Walker and Graeme Reid are researchers in the Culture of Sexuality and Power programme at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER).
 

Weinberg (P.) photo. & Berger (D.) et. al. text ONCE WE WERE HUNTERS, a journey with Africa's indigenous people, 175 pp., colour illus., hardback, d.w., Amsterdam, 2000.

  R200
  Documents a journey made in the late 1990s to six different countries in Africa to visit indigenous communities still surviving in their natural environment.

Includes a photographer's foreword by Paul Weinberg and
"Kalahari, Namibia and Botswana - no respite for the San" by Tony Weaver,
"Uneasy Paradfise - a journey through Maputaland" by Victor Munnik & Gcina Mhlope,
"It Takes a Lot of God to Survive Here - the Richtersveld National Park" by Antjie Krog,
"Zimbabwe - people and animals, a tense harmony" by Chenjerai Hove", and
"Namibia's Kunene Region - a new vision unfolds" by Margaret Jacobsohn.
 

Worden (N.), van Heyningen (E.) & Bickford-Smith (V.) CAPE TOWN, the making of a city, an illustrated social history, 283 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, (1998) 2004.

  R362
  A history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule, from 1652 to 1899.

A companion volume, "Cape Town in the Twentheith Century", is also available @ R295.

The authors, Vivian Bickford-Smith, Elizabeth van Heyningen and Nigel Worden, are all at the History Department at the University of Cape Town.