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NEW ARRIVALS
December 2008


 

Allman (J.), Geiger (S.) & Musisi (N.) eds. WOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES, , 338 pp., maps, paperback, Bloomington, 2002.

  R295
  Contributions include "'What My Heart Wanted': gendered stories of early colonial encounters in southern Mozambique" by Heidi Gengenbach,
""Virgin Territory? Travel and migration by African women in twentieth-century southern Africa" by Teresa Barnes,
"'When in the White Man's Town': Zimbabwean women remember "chibeura'" by Lynette A.Jackson, and
"Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle" by Tanya Lyons.

Jean Allman teaches African history at the University of Illinois.
The late Susan Geiger was Professor Emeritus of Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota.
Makanyike Musisi is Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda.
 

Bester (M.) text & Bester (S.) illus. MEILIES AND BEANS, , 32 pp, colour illus., hardback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R90
  Another children's picture book by the author of "The Cool Nguni".
 

Bonner (P.) & Nieftagodien (N.) ALEXANDRA, a history, 508 pp., map, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R190
  A social and political history of Alexandra, one of South Africa's oldest townships, founded in 1912.

Philip Bonner and Noor Nieftagodien are researchers based at the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Britton (H.), Fish (J.) & Meintjes (S.) eds. WOMEN'S ACTIVISM IN SOUTH AFRICA, working across divides, 294 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.

  R210
  A collection of South African women's experiences of collective activism and social change since 1994.

Contributions include "Gender Equality by Design: the case of the Commission on Gender Equality" by Sheila Meintjes,
"Sexual Violence, Civil Society and the New Constitution" by Helen Moffett,
"Race, Gender and Feminist Practice: lessons from Rape Crisis Cape Town" by Benita Moolman,
"Activating Children's Citizenship: the politics of the girl child in democratic South Africa" by Christina Nomdo and Shaamela Cassiem, and
"Crafting Spaces for Women's Voices: the case of refugee women in KwaZulu-Natal" by Janine Hicks.

Hannah Britton is an Associate Professor of Political Science and Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas.
Jennifer Fish is an Associate Professor in the Department of Women's Studies and an affiliated faculty member in the Graduate Program in International Studies at Old Dominion University.
Sheila Meintjes is Head of the Political Studies Department at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Crais (C.) & Scully (P.) SARA BAARTMAN AND THE HOTTENTOT VENUS, a ghost story and a biography, 232 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2009.

  R220
  A reconstruction of the life of Sara Baartman, who was displayed in Europe from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus.

"In the very act of demonstrating the impossibility of knowing Sara Baartman, the authors of this remarkable book have restored her humanity. This is less a biography than an anti-biography, a searing work of social history that acknowledges the deep silence that surrounds so much of human history. A richly researched and deeply moving work." Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"Finally, an authoritative account of the mythologized life of Sara Baartman." Zoë Wicomb

Clifton Crais is professor of history at Emory University.
Pamela Scully is associate professor of women's studies and African studies at Emory University.
 

Davis (D.) & le Roux (M.) PRECEDENT & POSSIBILITY, the (ab)use of law in South Africa, 201 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R220
  Foreword by Cyril Ramaphosa.

"'Precedent & Possibility' examines a series of key cases over the past 60 years, the judgements of which changed the political or social landscape of the country."

Dennis Davis is a Judge of the High Court of South Africa, Judge-President of the Competition Appeal Court and a Judge of the Labour Appeal Court. He is also an Honorary Professor of Law at the University of Cape Town.
Michelle le Roux is an Advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Johannesburg and New York Bars.
 

Dreyer (T.) EQUATORIA, , 160 pp., paperback, Laverstock, 2008.

  R135
  This novel was first published in Afrikaans in 2006. Translated by Michiel Heyns.

It tells the story of two English adventurers who, in 1912, travel to the Belgian Congo to find and bring back a live specimen of the okapi for the Antwerp Zoo.

Tom Dreyer was born in Cape Town in 1972. He has published two previous novels, "Erdvarkfontein" (1998) and "Stinkafrikaners" (2000), which was awarded the Eugene Marais Prize in 2001.
 

Gordin (J.) ZUMA, a biography, 390 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (2008) 2010.

  R145
  A revised and updated edition of Jeremy Gordin's sympathetic biography of Jacob Zuma that covers his early life as a herd boy, his adult life as a member of the ANC, his incarceration on Robben Island, his time in exile and the transitional years of the early 1990s. In this new edition Gordon includes Zuma's 2010 visit to Buckingham Palace during which he was maligned by the British press, evaluates his presidency to date, and includes information on his wives and children and the 1985 "Pedro" document.

Award-winning journalist Jeremy Gordin is associate editor of The Sunday Independent.
 

Green (P.) CHOICE, NOT FATE, the life and times of Trevor Manuel, 602 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2008.

  R320
  A biography of Trevor Manuel that covers his birth into a working-class family on the Cape Flats, his childhood under apartheid, his role as one of the most prominent leaders in the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the 1980s and his rise through the ranks of the ANC to become minister of finance in 1996. This book was shortlisted for the 2009 Alan Paton Award.

Journalist Pippa Green has been a deputy editor of The Sunday Independent and Pretoria News. She was a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard in 1999, and was Ferris Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in 2006.
 

Gregorowski (C.) text & Grogan (T.) illus. ANGELO AT THE WATERFRONT, , 31 pp., oblong 4to., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R70
  A children's Christmas story set in Cape Town, with illustrations by Tony Grogan. For children aged 5 to 10.
 

Hamann (R.), Woolman (S.) & Sprague (C.) eds. THE BUSINESS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, human rights, partnerships, alternative business models, 359 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

  R228
  "This book is about enhancing the contribution of business to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa, with an emphasis on both challenges and opportunities."

Contributions include "Who is responsible for the squatter camps? Mining companies in South Africa and the challenge of local collaboration" by Ralph Hamann,
"The South African National Anti-Corruption Forum" by Odette Ramsingh & Kris Dobie,
"Testing the limits of 'inclusive capitalism': a case study of the South African HP i-community" by Ricarda McFalls,
"Aspen Pharmacare: providing affordable generic pharmaceuticals to treat HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis" by Stu Woolman & Courtenay Sprague, and
"Stitch Wise: strategic knowledge management for pro-poor enterprise on South Africa's goldfields" by Martin Hall.
 

Hassim (S.), Kupe (T.) & Worby (E.) eds. GO HOME OR DIE HERE, violence, xenophobia and the reinvention of difference in South Africa, 259 pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R150
  In response to the xenophobic attacks in May 2008 the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand convened an urgent colloquium that focused on searching for short and long term solutions. This book grew out of the colloquium.

Contributions include "(Dis)connections: elite and popular 'common sense' on the matter of 'foreigners'" by Daryl Glaser,
"Behind Xenophobia in South Africa - poverty or inequality?" by Stephen Gelb,
"Relative Deprivation, Social Instability and Cultures of Entitlement" by Devan Pillay,
"Crossing Borders" by David Coplan,
"Two Newspapers, Two Nations? The media and the xenophobic violence" by Anton Harber,
"We Are Not All Like That: race, class and nation after apartheid" by Andile Mngxitama, and
"Brutal Inheritances: echoes, negrophobia and masculinist violence" by Pumla Dineo Gqola.
 

Marx (C.) OXWAGON SENTINEL, radical Afrikaner nationalism and the history of the Ossewabrandwag, 654 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

  R435
  A social history of the extremist organisation, the Ossewabrandwag, founded in 1939.

Originally published in 1998 in German under the title "Im Zeichen des Ochsenwagens: der radikale Afrikaaner-nationalismus in Südafrika und die geschichte der Ossewabrandwag". Translated into English by Sheila Gordon-Schröder.

Christoph Marx is Professor for Extra-European History at the Univerisity of Duisburg-Essen.
 

Matthee (D.) PIETERNELLA, DAUGHTER OF EVA, , 551 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R190
  This novel was first published in Afrikaans as "Pieternella van die Kaap" in 2000. Translated into English by Malcolm Hacksley.

Pieternella was the daugher of Eva, one of the first interpreters and intermediaries between her Goringhaicona tribe and the Dutch. Pieternella's father was Pieter van Meerhoof, the Company surgeon.

Award-winning author Dalene Matthee was posthumously honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the South African Department of Arts and Culture in 2007. She died in 2005. Her books have been translated into 14 languages. Her other novels include "Fiela's Child", "Circles in a Forest", "Dreamforest" and "Driftwood".
 

Miller, (T.E.) & Miller (S.S.) THE CHURCH OF GOD AND SAINTS OF CHRIST IN AFRICA, the first one hundred years (1903 - 2003), 90 pp., illus., paperback, Kent, Ohio, 2008.

  R150
  A history of The Church of God and Saints of Christ in Africa. The church was founded in 1896 in the USA by William Saunders Crowdy. In the early 1900s Prophet Crowdy sent Albert Christian to South Africa. He established churches in Cape Town, Port ELizabeth and Uitenhage, before returning to the USA.

Terry E.Miller and Sara Stone Miller both teach at Kent State University.
 

Nuttall (S.) & Mbembe (A.) eds. JOHANNESBURG, the elusive metropolis, 398 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R220
  Many of the essays in this book appeared in the journal "Public Culture", vol.16, no.3, fall 2004, published by Duke University Press.

"Taken together, the essays in 'Johannesburg: the elusive metropolis' offer radically new ways of thinking about this complex city, as well as many hints about emerging or re-emerging cities elsewhere. The essays challenge dominant models of urbanism and demonstrate with force and subtlety how African cities in general and Johannesburg in particular outpace urban theory. Each essay 'de-scribes' the city now in order to envision the city to come. In this volume, we hear - over the droning clichés that still circulate about the African city's ruin and decadence - another note, another cadence". Ackbar Abbas.

Introduction by Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall.
Afterword, "The Risk of Johannesburg", by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A.Breckenridge.

Contributions include "Aesthetics as Superfluity" by Achille Mbembe,
"Stylizing the Self" and "Literary City" by Sarah Nuttall,
"Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern" by Jonathan Hyslop,
"Art Johannesburg and Its Objects" by David Bunn,
"Instant City" by John Matshikiza,
"From the Ruins" by Mark Gevisser,
"Reframing Township Space" by Lindsay Bremner, and
"Soweto Now" by Achille Mbambe, Nzizwa Dlamini and Grace Khunou.

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand. She is also the author of "Entanglement: literary and cultural reflections on post-apartheid" (2007) and editor of "Beautiful/Ugly: African and diaspora aesthetics" (2006) and "Sense of Culture: South African culture studies" (2000).
Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand and Senior Researcher at WISER. His most recent book in English is "On the Postcolony" (2001).
 

Oostindie (G.) ed. FACING UP TO THE PAST, perspectives on the commemoration of slavery from Africa, the Americas and Europe, 150 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Jamaica, 2001.

  R295
  A revised English-language edition of a Dutch book that was published in 1999, 'Het verleden onder ogen'". Many of the original essays have been retained, together with several new contributions particularly from Africa.

Essays include "The Subjects of the World" by Achille Mbembe,
"Freedom, Yes!...And Then What?" by Carl Niehaus,
"The Slave Trade and Slavery in the Western Indian Ocean: significant contrasts" by Abdul Sheriff, and
"The Forgotten Region: commemorations of slavery in Mauritius and South Africa" by Nigel Worden.
 

Price (R.) MAKING EMPIRE, colonial encounters and the creation of imperial rule in nineteenth-century Africa, 371 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cambridge, 2008.

  R325
  Richard Price examines the ways individual British missionaries, officials and politicians interacted with the Xhosa in ninteenth-century South Africa, and how these encounters changed and shaped the culture of imperial rule.

Richard Price is a professor and the Chair of the Department of History, University of Maryland, College Park.
 

Storey (W.K.) GUNS, RACE, AND POWER IN COLONIAL SOUTH AFRICA, , 378 pp., map, hardback, d.w., Cambridge, 2008.

  R810
  "William Kelleher Storey shows that guns and discussions about guns during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries were fundamentally important to the establishment of racial discrimination in South Africa."

William Kelleher Storey is associate professor of history at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi.
 

Turok (B.) FROM THE FREEDOM CHARTER TO POLOKWANE, the evolution of ANC economic policy, 279 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R150
  Ben Turok traces the economic debates in the ANC from the Freedom Charter to the RDP, the 2007 National Conference in Polokwane, and beyond.

Ben Turok is an ANC member of parliament and a visiting professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is editor of the journal New Agenda and founder of the Institute for African Alternatives in the UK and Africa.
 

van Bart (M.) SONGS OF THE VELD, and other poems, English poems on the Anglo-Boer War/ Engelse gedigte oor die Anglo-Boereoorlog, 136 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, (1902) 2008.

  R285
  This anthology was originally published in 1902 in London. The poems chosen had originally appeared in The New Age, a weekly publication on Christian culture, social service and literary life edited by Anglican clergymen. This facsimile re-edition has an additional preface, introduction, postscript and background chapters in English and Afrikaans by journalist Marthinus van Bart. The poets include C Louis Leipoldt, Elizabeth (Betty) Molteno, Alice Greene, Anna Purcell and Friedrich Carl Kolbe.

Text in English and Afrikaans.
 

Voysey-Braig (M.) TILL WE CAN KEEP AN ANIMAL, , 230 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R135
  This novel won Megan Voysey-Braig the 2007/8 European Union Literary Award for Best First Novel. From Cape Town, she currently lives in Berlin.

The story is narrated by a South African woman brutally murdered in her home, who hovers around trying to understand her death and comfort her family.
 

Zapiro illus. & text THE MANDELA FILES, , 209 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2009.

  R350
  Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

A chronological record of Zapiro's (Jonathan Shapiro) cartoons of Nelson Mandela and the political changes in South Africa, from the late 1980s to the present. Also includes Zapiro's comments on his life as a cartoonist and the events and inspiration behind the cartoons.