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NEW ARRIVALS
January 2008


 

Athiros (G.) & (L.) eds. WOODSTOCK, a selection of articles from The Woodstock Whisperer, 2003-2007, a journey into the colourful and fascinating character of South Africa's earliest suburb, 140 pp., 4to., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R235
  The first issue of this tabloid, produced to capture the historic essence of the suburb and to be a vehicle for business, appeared in November 2003 as The Cape Odyssey - Woodstock Edition, and later became The Woodstock Whisperer.

Articles include "The Story of Roodebloem Farm, 1666-1964" by Ruth Prowse,
"Discovering Woodstock Glass" and "Glass Manufacturing in Papendorp" by Donald Hodgkiss,
"The Anglican Church of St Mary the Virgin" by B.W.Basset,
"The Woodstock-Salt River Jewish Community, a place of echoes that return" by Mike Getz,
"The Charm of the Gympie Street Precinct" by Peter Ross, and much more.
 

Bonner (P.), Esterhuysen (A.) & Jenkins (T.) eds. A SEARCH FOR ORIGINS, science, history and South Africa's "Cradle of Humankind", 313 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R280
  Foreword by Phillip V. Tobias.

A history of the "Cradle of Humankind" (bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province), and of the important human and animal fossils that have been discovered there.

Contents include "White South Africa and the South Africanisation of Science: humankind or kinds of humans?" by Saul Dubow,
"Fossil Homonids of the 'Cradle of Humankind'" by Kevin Kuykendall,
"The Emerging Stone Age" and "The Earlier Stone Age" by Amanda Esterhuysen,
"Rock Engravings in the Magaliesberg Valley" by David Pearce,
"The Myth of the Vacant Land" by Philip Bonner,
"Tswana History in the Bankenveld" by Simon Hall,
"The Early Boer Republics: changing political forces in the 'Cradle of Humankind', 1830s to 1890s" by Jane Carruthers,
"The Story of Sterkfontein since 1895" by Phillip V Tobias,
"The South African War of 1899-1902 in the 'Cradle of Humankind'" by Vincent Carruthers, and
"Voice of Politics, Voice of Science: politics and science after 1945" by Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins.

Historian Philip Bonner, archaeologist Amanda Esterhuysen and geneticist Trefor Jenkins are all academics based at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Butler (A.) CYRIL RAMAPHOSA, , 442 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R185
  A biography of Cyril Ramaphosa, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in the 1980s, secretary-general of the ANC after its unbanning and its chief negotiator of the new democratic constitution, and now successful businessman.

Anthony Butler, educated at St Anne's College, Oxford, and King's College, Cambridge, now teaches public policy in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town. He also writes a weekly column for the newspaper, Business Day.
 

Cock (J.) THE WAR AGAINST OURSELVES, nature, power and justice, 245 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R190
  Jacklyn Cock "demonstrates the need for an inclusive politics which brings together peace, social and environmental justice activists who believe that another world is both possible and necessary".

Jacklyn Cock is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand. She is the author of "Maids and Madams" and co-author, together with A.Bernstein, of "Melting Pots and Rainbow Nations".
 

Etherington (N.) ed. MAPPING COLONIAL CONQUEST, Australia and Southern Africa, 220 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Crawley, 2007.

  R300
  A survey of the role of cartography in the colonial conquest of Australia and Southern Africa which examines how "the proliferation of maps produced by colonizers have erased, written over and/or displaced Indigenous conceptions of space".

Contributions include "Cartographical Rivalries: Friedrich Jeppe and the Transvaal" by Jane Carruthers,
"Projecting Power on Conquered Landscapes: Canberra and Pretoria" by Christopher Vernon, and
"Unmapping Conquest?: a millennium project" by Lindy Stiebel.

Norman Etherington is Professor of History at The University of Western Australia, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences and former President of the Australian Historical Association. He is the author of "Great Treks, the transformation of southern Africa, 1815-1854".
 

Ferrus (D.) ANSELA, van de Caab, 40 minutes running time, CD, Cape Town, 2007.

  R100
  The true story of a young woman, Ansela, born into slavery in the Cape of the 17th century. After she was freed she married a German, Lourens Campher, who had been granted a piece of land in 1699 by the governor of the Cape. Together they built a house, which still exists, and planted the first vines on the farm now called Muratie Wine Farm.

Text in Afrikaans.

Written and read by Diane Ferrus. Victor Fredericks, who wrote the songs for the production, sings and plays the guitar. Producer Charles Louw plays the piano and "klawerbord".
 

Hirson (D.) GARDENING IN THE DARK, , 68 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R110
  Denis Hirson grew up in South Africa and now lives in Paris. He edited "The Lava of This Land: an anthology of South African poetry" and co-edited "The Heinemann Book of South African Short Stories". He is the author of the autobiographical writings, "The House Next Door to Africa", "I Remember King Kong (the Boxer)", "We Walk Straight So You Better Get Out the Way" and "White Scars, on reading and rites of passage".

This new collection of poetry was published in France as "Jardiner dans la noir" in 2007.
 

Jonker (I.) BLACK BUTTERFLIES, selected poems of Ingrid Jonker, translated from Afrikaans by André Brink and Antjie Krog, 127 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R135
  Includes an introduction by André Brink and a more extensive selection of Ingrid Jonker's poems than the 1988 translation, "Selected Poems" by Jack Cope and William Plomer.
 

Kalahari Peoples Fund MUSIC OF THE KALAHARI SAN, instrumental pieces and songs of the healing dance, 71 minutes running time, CD, Austin, 2005.

  R155
  Instrumental and healing dance music recorded among the Ju/'hoan San in Namibia and Botswana between 1950 and 1975 by Majorie Shostak, Megan Biesele, John Marshall, Nicholas England and Richard Katz.

The Kalahari Peoples Fund, founded in 1973 and active in Namibia, Botswana and South Africa, gathers inofrmation on the San, supports San-based initiatives and provides aid, advocacy and assistance to the San, BaKgalagadi, and other peoples of the region.
 

Krog (A.) text & Moodie (F.) illus. FYNBOS FAIRIES, , 31 pp., 4to., colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2007.

  R140
  A collection of children's verse by Afrikaans poet Antjie Krog, translated into English for this edition by Gus Ferguson and illustrated Fiona Moodie.

Also available in Afrikaans.
 

Loos (U.) comp. BEGINNINGS, inspiring stories of success in the townships of Khayelitsha and Zwelihle, 54 pp., 4to., illus., hardback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R318
  Learn to Earn, a skills training and job creation organisation with branches in and around Cape Town, has been instrumental in changing the lives of many unemployed people. Here are some of the success stories.
 

Sanders (M.) AMBIGUITIES OF WITNESSING, law and literature in the time of a truth commission, 257 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R220
  Mark Sanders analyses key individual testimonies to South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, discusses "the nature of the literary and its relation to the legal, the political, and the ethical", and investigates questions of human rights, mourning, forgiveness and reparation.

Mark Sanders is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at New York University. He is the author of "Complicities: the intellectual and apartheid", published in 2002.
 

van Blerk (B.) DE LA REY, , 46 minutes running time, CS, Johannesburg, 2006.

  R200
  Bok van Blerk's debut CD, featuring the song "De La Rey" which sold more than 16 000 copies in 2006/7. The song follows the format of early twentieth-century Afrikaner nationalist compositions and the lyrics "pay homage to the 'valiant Boers' standing up against the overpowering might of the British Empire in the South African War (1899-1902); the concentration camps; and the scorched-earth policy of the British that destroyed Boer family farms." The song promises "that the 'fire' ignited by the war in the hearts of Afrikaners will burn on" and the accompanying video shows van Blerk in nineteenth-century Boer dress with a rifle (from "White Power by Christi van der Westhuizen)
 

van Wyk (C.) ed. WE WRITE WHAT WE LIKE, celebrating Steve Biko, 170 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

  R180
  A collection of essays commissioned to offer tribute to Steve Biko on the 30th anniversary of his death.

Contributions include "Steve Biko: 30 years after" by Thabo Mbeki,
"Biko's Testament of Hope" by Achille Mbembe,
"A White Man Remembers" by Duncan Innes,
"Steve Biko and the SASO/BPC Trial" by Saths Cooper and Pandelani Nefolovhodwe.
"Through Chess I Discovered Steve Biko" by Darryl Accone, and
"White Carnations and the Black Power Revolution: they tried us for our ideas" by Zithulele Cindi.