Clarke's Books

NEW ARRIVALS
November 2008

Anker (W.) SLAGHUIS, , 75 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R50

Willem Anker's other plays include "Skroothonde", which won the 2004 Aardvarkprys, and "Sielsiek". "Slaghuis" was awarded the 2006 Sanlam Prize for Afrikaans Theatre. He teaches Creative Writing at Stellenbosch University.

Bailey (B.) THE PLAYS OF MIRACLE & WONDER, bewitching visions and primal high-jinx from the South African stage, 200 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2003.

	R290

Foreword by John Matshikiza.

Includes the three plays, "Ipi Zombi?", "iMumbo Jumbo" and "The Prophet" which, according to playwright and theatre director Brett Bailey, "explore the spiritual beliefs of the Xhosa people and their collision with changing times; ritualistic dramas based on 'sangoma' ceremonies, with an emphasis on trace performance from the actors."

Also included are working notes, autobiographical writings and reflection by Brett Bailey and extracts from theatre reviews.

Barham (L.) & Mitchell (P.) THE FIRST AFRICANS, African archaeology from the earliest toolmakers to most recent foragers, 601 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cambridge, 2008.

	R330

Lawrence Barham and Peter Mitchell review and assess the archaeological and fossil evidence left by Africa's earliest homonid inhabitants and present a new synthesis of the archaeology of more recent hunter-gatherers on the continent.

Lawrence Barham is Senior Lecturer in the School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology at the University of Liverpool.
Peter Mitchell is Porfessor of African Archaeology at the University of Oxford and Tutor and Fellow in Archaeology at St Hugh's College, Oxford.

Barker (J.) dir. BUNNY CHOW, know thyself, 94 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2007.

	R95

Film director John Barker's comedy about four men who set out on a weekend journey to Oppikoppi, South Africa's biggest rock festival.

"Shot in a cinema vérité style and using the street food 'bunny chow' as a metaphor for contemporary Johannesburg's mix of races, cultures and attitudes, Barker's edgy, urban comedy asks us to envision a nation through the eyes of its future, rather than the tragedy of its past." Global Film Initiative

Soundtrack in Afrikaans, 'tsotsi taal' and English, with English subtitles.

Beckett (D.) MAGENTA, , 533 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

	R185

"Magenta is a biting and hilarious South African social satire" Jane Rosenthal

"Magenta is Afro-reality: an unflinching examination of our (both black and white) foibles, prejudices, stupidities and occasional touches of nobility" William Saunderson-Meyer

Journalist and radio and TV commentator Denis Beckett was the editor of Frontline magazine and presenter of the TV actuality series, "Beckett's Trek". This is his first novel.

Bila (V.) HANDSOME JITA, selected poems, 117 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

	R120

Bila (V.) HANDSOME JITA, selected poems, 117 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007.

	R120

Poet Vonani Bila is the founder and editor of the poetry jounral, "Timbila", and directs the Timbila Poetry Project in Limpopo Province. This collection combines the selected best from his previous three collections, "No Free Sleeping" (1998), "In the Name of Amandla" (2004) and "Magicstan Fires" (2006).

Bruce (I.) GROUNDSWELL, a play, 126 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R82

Ian Bruce lives in Cape Town and heads the New Africa Theatre Association. His plays include "Falls the Shadow" (1978) winner of the Dutch Arts Council Best New Play Award, "My Father's House" (1987), "The Gift" (2000) and "Good Rubbish" (2002).

Cussons (S.) VERSAMELDE GEDIGTE, , 672 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2006.

	R250

The collected works by poet Sheila Cussons, published between 1970 and 2000. Includes drawings by Sheila Cussons.

Text in Afrikaans

Davids (N.) CISSIE, , 66 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R70

A play about Cissie Gool (1897-1963), a political activist from District Six in Cape Town.

Nadia Davids was born in 1977 in Cape Town. She has written five plays, among them "At Her Feet" (2002), for which she received the Fleur du Cap for Best New Director.

de Villiers (I.L.) VERVREEMDELING, , 77 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R125

In 1982 poet I.L.de Villiers was awarded the Credo Prize for his total oevre. His previous collection, "Van Jerusalem tot Johannesburg" (2005) was awarded the M-Net Prize for Poetry in 2006.

Dixon (I.) A FOLD IN THE MAP, , 72 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R110

Poet Isobel Dixon was born in Umtata, grew up in Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo, studied in Scotland and now lives in Cambridge and works in London as a literary agent. Her debut collection, "Weather Eye", was awarded the Sanlam Prize and the Olive Schreiner Prize.

"Fine, warm, sensuous poems which deal boldly with both the light and the dark sides of family life and with the many manifestations and resonances of grief." Kate Clanchy

Drotksie (J.) et. al. prod. MK, die derde DVD, 200 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2008.

	R145

A selection of music videos from the 2008 DSTV MK Awards, an annual national music poll and music video competition in which South Africa's best and worst music videos are chosen by public vote.

Includes videos by Fokofpolisiekar, Snotkop, Foto Na Dans, and many others.

Lyrics in English and Afrikaans.

du Preez (M.) OF TRICKSTERS, TYRANTS AND TURNCOATS, more unusual stories from South Africa's past, 232 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R170

The sequel to "Of Warriors, Lovers and Prophets", this collection of stories spans more than three hundred years of South African history.

Award-winning investigative journalist Max du Preez was the founder of Vrye Weekblad, South Africa's first anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper. He also launched the television programme "Special Assignment" and writes columns for various South African newspapers.

Edward (V.) & Drotskie (J.) comps. SNOTKOP, spring lewendig, 68 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2007.

	R145

A live performance by punk rocker Snotkop (Francois Henning), formerly known as the kwaito singer, Lekgoa.

Lyrics in English and Afrikaans.

Epprecht (M.) HETEROSEXUAL AFRICA?, the history of an idea from the age of exploration to the age of AIDS, 231 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg & Ohio, 2008.

	R190

Marc Epprecht explores "the historical processes by which a singular, heterosexual identity for Africa was constructed - by anthropologists, ethnopsychologists, colonial officials, African elites, and most recently, health care workers seeking to address the HIV/AIDS pandemic".

Marc Epprecht is associate professor in the departments of history and global development studies at Queen's University. He is also the author of "Hungochani: the history of dissident sexuality in southern Africa", which won the 2006 Canadian Association of African Studies Joel Gregory Prize.

Forman (S.) LIONEL FORMAN, a life too short, a personal memoir, 254 pp., paperback, Alice, 2008.

	R220

A memoir about Lionel Forman written by his wife, Sadie.

South African communist Lionel Forman was born in Johannesburg in 1927. At the age of fourteen he joined the Young Communist League. As a student he was active in NUSAS and edited the student newspaper, Witwatersrand Student. He was also editor of Advance, the South African Communist Party newspaper. As an advocate working in Cape Town he defended trade unionists and victims of apartheid. A Treason Trialist, he died during a heart operation in 1959, at the age of 31.

Fourie (P.) EK, ANNA VAN WYK, , 101 pp., paperback, Pretoria, (1986) 2002.

	R72

A play in Afrikaans by award-winning playwright Pieter Fourie.

Fourie (P.) JASMYN, , 67 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

	R150

A play in Afrikaans by playwright, director and actor Pieter Fourie.

Francis (S.) & Rico UNPLUGGED, Madam & Eve, 176 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

	R140

A collection of "Madam & Eve" comic strips published in various South African newspapers in 2007/8.

Gibson (G.) KAPLYN, gedigte, 110 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R110

Gilbert Gibson's debut collection of poetry, "Boomplaats", was awarded the 2006 Protea Poetry Prize.

Gopie (R.) OUT OF BOUNDS, , 70 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R70

A play about a South African Indian family living under apartheid by Durban-born actor and playwright Rajesh Gopie.

Foreword by Nadine Gordimer.

"Rajesh Gopie is the most multi-talented young artist whose work I have come across in more than a decade of deep interest in the theatre." Nadine Gordimer

Greene (T.) dir. BOY CALLED TWIST, , 111 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2005.

	R95

An adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel, "Oliver Twist", the film tells the story of an orphaned boy living on the streets in Cape Town. Winner of Best Feature at the 2005 Apollo Film Festival.

Includes an interview with director Tim Greene.

Kani (J.) NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH, , 60 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (2002) 2007.

	R95

A story of "two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, of the contradictions of liberation and the perplexities of freedom"

Introduction by Zakes Mda.

John Kani is an actor, managing trustee of the Market Theatre in Johannesburg and chairman of the National Arts Council of South Africa.

Kaplan (M.) dir. ROOTS CALLING, , 55 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2004.

	R180

A documentary on two South African jazz musicians, singer Pinise Saul and guitarist Lucky Ranku, who left South Africa for Britain in the mid-1970s and subsequently performed together all over the world. Because their music was linked to ANC cultural activities they were banned and could not return home. Thrity years later the producers of this film brought them back to Cape Town on a visit.

Filmed in Cape Town and London.

Kowen (D.) text & Mathew (G.) illus. NYAMA AND THE ELAND, , 26 pp., oblong 4to., colour illus., hardback, Johannesburg, 2008.

	R90

A children's story based on San oral tradition.

Kruger (H.) LUSH, poems for four voices, 61 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

	R103

A debut collection by Haidee Kruger

Lalu (P.) THE DEATHS OF HINTSA, postapartheid South Africa and the shape of recurring pasts, 337 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

	R190

In 1996 Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer-diviner from the Eastern Cape, returned to South Africa from Scotland with what he claimed was Hintsa's skull. Hintsa was a Xhosa king shot by the British colonial forces in 1835. Gcaleka claimed his ancestors had told him the violence and corruption that plagued the new South Africa was because Hintsa's soul had had no rest and its return would bring peace. His mission was mocked and derided. Premesh Lalu explores the reasons for such laughter and examines the controversy surrounding the different stories of King Hintsa's death, arguing for new models for writing histories.

Dr Premesh Lalu is Professor of History and Director of the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of the Western Cape.

Laurie (T.) SONSKYF, , 103 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

	R134

A collection of poetry in Afrikaans by Trienke Laurie. Her previous collections include "Skietspoel", for which she was awarded the Ingrid Jonker Prize in 1997.

Mahola (M.) DANCING IN THE RAIN, , 74 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006.

	R90

A collection of poetry by Mzi Mahola. His previous collections include "Strange Things" (1994) and "When Rains Come" (2000), which won the Olive Schriener Prize for 2001.

Mamdoo (F.) dir. WHAT HAPPENED TO MBUYISA?, , 65 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 1998.

	R250

A documentary about Mbuyisa Makhubu, the young student who carried the body of Hector Peterson after he was shot during the Soweto student uprising of June 16, 1976. Harassed by the security police after the photograph was published around the world, he went into exile, first to Botswana and then to Nigeria. His family last heard from him in 1978. He has been missing ever since.

McCracken (D.P.) SAVING THE ZULULAND WILDERNESS, an early struggle for nature conservation, 176 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2008.

	R350

Discusses the first efforts to preserve the wild game, birds and indigenous forests of the Zululand and Maputaland wilderness, from the 1820s to the 1890s.

Donal McCracken is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Development and Social Sciences and Senior Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Molusi (O.) ITSOSENG, and For the Right Reasons, 75 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R60

Two plays by Omphile Molusi, who won the 2007 Brett Goldin Bursary to spend time working with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Itsoseng was performed at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival.

Moorcraft (P.) & McLaughlin (P.) THE RHODESIAN WAR, a military history, 208 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1982) 2008.

	R180

A revised and updated edition of Paul Moorcraft's and Pater McLaughlin's classic account of the Rhodesian war, originally published in 1982 as "Chimurenga".

Includes a new chapter that looks at the war from the perspective of the last three decades.

Naidoo (R.) THE INDIAN IN DRUM IN THE 1950S, , 140 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R250

A collection of photographs of Indian South Africans curated from Bailey's African History Archive, with text by Riason Naidoo. The book draws extensively from the body of work by two Durban photographers, G.R. Naidoo and Ranjith Kally.

Ngema (M.) SARAFINA!, the times, the play, the man, 122 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

	R106

First rehearsed in Johannesburg in the mid-1980s, the play paints of picture of life in Soweto during the struggle against apartheid. It was revived in 2004 and toured South Africa and abroad.

Includes and introduction and a chapter on playwright Mbongeni Ngema by Susan de Villiers.

Odendaal (B.) ONBEDOELDE LAND, , 102 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R110

A collection of poems in Afrikaans by Bernard Odendaal, who lectures in Afrikaans and Dutch literature at the University of the Orange Free State.

Opperman (D.) KABURU, 'n drama vir die verhoog, 72 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

	R130

A play that deals with the emotional effects of emigration, criminal violence and the Angolan war by award-winning Afrikaans playwright Deon Opperman.

Park (Y.J.) A MATTER OF HONOUR, being Chinese in South Africa, 220 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

	R195

Yoon Jung Park explores Chinese South African social identities - racial, ethnic, cultural, and national - and examines how these identities were constructed and how apartheid influenced them.

Dr Yoon Jung Park is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Johannesburg.

Pollak (J.B.) THE KASRILS AFFAIR, Jews and minority politics in post-apartheid South Africa, 198 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

	R186

In 2001 cabinet minister Ronnie Kasrils launched a declaration calling on South Africans of Jewish descent to protest against Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. Joel Pollack documents the Kasrils declaration and its implications, places the Kasrils affair in the context of South African Jewish history and experience, explores the controversy and debate the declaration caused and how it has affected politics in the Jewish community, and South Africa in general.

Joel Pollack served a speechwriter for Tony Leon, former head of the Democratic Alliance and Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Africa. He currently studies at Harvard Law School and is a teaching fellow at Harvard College.

Servais (N.) dir. SOWING IN TEARS, , 60 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2007.

	R100

Based on the book, "HIV/AIDS, a call to action, responding as Christians" by Bishop Hugh Slattery MSC, Bishop of Tzaneen, this film documents the response of the Diocese of Tzaneen in Limpopo Province to the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The Diocese has adopted a three pronged approach which involves implementing the "Education for Life" programme, home-based care and the care of orphans and needy children.

Winner of the Fraternity Prize at the Religion Film Festival in 2007 and the 22nd International Catholic Film and Multimedia Festival in Poland in 2007.

Servais (N.) dir. THE CHANGE IS ON, tools for pure living, education for life from Uganda to South Africa, 49 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2007.

	R100

A sequel to the award-winning DVD, "Sowing in Tears", this DVD focuses on the educational and preventative aspect of the Diocese of Tzaneen's response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic, especially their implementation of the "Education for Life" programme developed in Uganda.

Snyman (D.) ON THE BACK ROADS, encounters with people and places, 231 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R150

Journalist Dana Snyman's account of his travels on the back roads of South Africa.

"Dana Snyman will take you to places you've never been" David Kramer
"A warts-and-all biography of a people and a country" Neil Sonnekus

Tobias (P.), Strkalj (G.) & Dugard (J.) TOBIAS IN CONVERSATION, genes, fossils and anthropology, 330 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

	R190

A collection of interviews Goran Strkalj and Jane Dugard conducted with human anatomist Philip Tobias over a period of five years.

Philip Tobias is professor emeritus and Honorary Professional Research Fellow in the School of Anatomical Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Goran Strkalj is a biological anthropologist working in the Department of Health and Choripractic at Macquarie University, Sydney.
Jane Dugard is a Cambridge-trained biologist who writes evolutionary materials for school textbooks.

Vos (C.) DIE AFDRUK VAN ONE HANDE, , 99 pp., hardback, Pretoria, 2007.

	R103

Cas Vos is Dean of the Faculty of Theology at the University of Pretoria. His previous collections of poetry include "Vuurtog" (1999), "Gode van Papier" (2001) and "Enkeldiep" (2003).

Woolman (S.) & Bishop (M.) eds. CONSTITUTIONAL CONVERSATIONS, , 347 pp., paperback, CD-Rom, Pretoria, 2008.

	R300

A collection of nine colloquies from the Constitutional Law of South Africa Public Lecture Series held at the Women's Jail on Constitution Hill in 2007.

Foreword by Chief Justice Pius Langa.
Contributors include Albie Sacks, Kate O'Regan, Laurie Ackermann, Sandra Liebenberg, Stu Woolman, Michael Bishop and Theunis Roux.

Includes a CD-Rom with extracts and chapters from "Constitutional Law in South Africa", edited by Stu Woolman, Theunis Roux and Michael Bishop.

Zapiro PIRATES OF POLOKWANE, , 134 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

	R140

The annual collection of Zapiro (Jonathan Shapiro) cartoons, published since 1996.