Clarke's Books

NEW ARRIVALS
February 2008

!Xun Traditional Council of Elders KULIMATJI NGE, we tell our old stories with music , 40 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback + CD, 73 minutes running time, Cape Town, 2004.

	R165

These traditional songs and stories are sung by the elders of the !Xun community now living in Schmidtsdrift, in the Northern Cape, South Africa.
The text introduces some of the musicians and includes a short history of the Schmidtsdrift community, written by Hennie Swart.

Ansell (G.) SOWETO BLUES, jazz, popular music and politics in South Africa, 350 pp., map, illus., paperback, New York & London, 2005.

	R135

Explores the link between history and culture, reveals how apartheid affected the lives of musicians and examines the role their music played and continues to play in the transformation of South African society.

Includes interviews with Sibongile Khumalo, Pops Muhamed, Basil Coetzee, Vusi Khumalo, Robbie Jansen, Thandi Klaasen, Hugh Masekela, and many others.

Gwen Ansell is a former Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in South Africa. She wrote and produced "Ubuyile: jazz coming home", a radio series broadcast in South Africa in 2001.

Breytenbach (B.) A VEIL OF FOOTSTEPS, (memoir of a nomadic fictional character), 302 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R165

In a book which blurs the borders between fact and fiction, Breyten Breytenbach weaves together memories, impressions of real events, surreal fantasies, dreamlike sequences, philosophical thoughts and fictions.

Writer, poet and artist Breyten Breytenbach left South Africa in 1960, and settled in Paris, and became a leading anti-apartheid campaigner. In 1975 he was arrested in Johannesburg, charged with terrorist activities, and sentenced to 9 years imprisonment. Since his release in 1983 he has received wide recognition as a leading poet and his books have been translated into many languages. In 1999 he was awarded the Hertzog Prize for poetry for "Papierblom".

Burrows (J.E.) SOUTH AFRICAN FERNS AND FERN ALLIES, , 359 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 1990.

	R3000

John Eric Burrows covers all 343 known species of the region and includes some of the naturalised introduced species. Every species is illustrated with colour photographs and individual line drawings by Sandra Margaret Burrows.

Chirambo (K.) ed. THE POLITICAL COST OF AIDS IN AFRICA, evidence from six countries, 401 pp., 4to., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

	R200

This IDASA publication argues that the young multi-party democracies in Namibia, Malawi, Tanzania, South Africa, Senegal and Zambia are being undermined by AIDS-related sickness and death among elected leaders and within the electorate.

Cole (D.T.) LITHOPS, flowering stones, 254 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 1988.

	R2000

Foreword by Gordon D.Rowley.

Describes each species, subspecies, variety and cultivar in detail, including chapters on morphology, names and nomenclature, cultivation, distribution, flowers, seeds and the structure of seed capsules. Includes over 300 colour photographs, distribution maps and line drawings by Garhard Marx.

Dickinson (S.) THE RUGBY WORLD CUP DIARIES, a referee's inside view, 176 pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R140

Australian Stuart Dickinson was one of the referees for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. As the video referee at the final he made the controversial decision to rule out England's attempted try against South Africa.

Edjabe (N.) ed. CHIMURENGA 11, conversations with poets who refuse to speak, 95 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R55

Contents include "52 Niggers" by Stacy Hardy,
Queenstown" by Sandile Dikeni,
"The Picture" by Suren Pillay,
"A World Doped on Words" by Neelika Jayawardane, and
"Ride the Tortoise" by Liesl Jobson.

Giddy (C.) CYCADS OF SOUTH AFRICA, , 112 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, (1974) 1986.

	R750
OUT OF PRINT

"Each of the 29 South African species is described in terms of stem, leaves, seeds and cones. Each description is accompanied by a colour plate showing details of male cones, female cones, leaves and plants in their natural environment. These are supplemented by superb pencil and pen and ink drawings by Barbara Jeppe."

Harrison (P.), Todes (A.) & Watson (V.) PLANNING AND TRANSFORMATION, learning from the post-apartheid experience, 300 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Abingdon & New York, 2008.

	R479

Examines the first ten years of post-apartheid planning in South Africa.

Philip Harrison is Executive Director of Development Planning and Urban Management in the City of Johannesburg and an honorary professor at the University of the Witwatersrand where he was previously Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning.
Alison Todes is Professor of Urban and Regiobal Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Vanessa Watson is Professor in the City and Regional Planning Programme in the School of Architecture and Geomatics, University of Cape Town.

Kruger (J.) comp, & ed. VENDA LASHU, Tshivenda songs, musical games and song stories, 129 pp., 4to., map, illus., paperback, Potchefstroom, 2004.

	R270

A collection of 38 songs, musical games and song stories of the Tshivenda-speaking people accompanied by a pronunciation guide, text explanations, and performance instructions. Some songs feature original guitar accompaniments while piano accompaniments have been composed for others by Hannes Taljaard.

Jaco Kruger teaches ethnomusicology at Northwest University in Potchefstroom.

Levine (L.) THE DRUMCAFÉ'S TRADITIONAL MUSIC OF SOUTH AFRICA, , 286 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005.

	R195

Includes chapters on Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Tsonga-Shangaan and Khoi-San music.

Includes a 54-track CD.

Lucia (C.) comp. & ed. THE WORLD OF SOUTH AFRICAN MUSIC, a reader, 367 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 2005.


OUT OF PRINT

A selection of texts on South African music, dating from 1806 to the present.

Contents include "Music in the Cape" by Christian Latrobe,
"A Journey to the Booshuanas" by John Barrow,
"The State of Folk Music in Bantu Africa" by Hugh Tracey,
"Africa, Music, and Show Business" by Dollar Brand/ Abdullah Ibrahim,
Highbreaks: a taste of marabi in the 1920s and '30s" and "Basotho Performance Aesthetics: sefela and shebeen songs" by David Coplan,
"My Story" by Miriam Makeba,
"The Royal School of Church Music in South Africa" by Barry Smith,
"Indigenous Instruments" by Andrew Tracey,
"Cape Malay Music" by Desmond Desai,
"The Art of Metamorphosis - or the Ju/'hoan Conception of Plurivocality" by Emmanuele Olivier, and much more.

Christine Lucia is Professor and Chair of Music at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Mangcu (X.) TO THE BRINK, the state of democracy in South Africa, 208 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

	R160

Xolela Mangcu examines the controversies around HIV-AIDS, Zimbabwe and corruption, analyses the "racial insider-outsider dynamic" that has evolved under Thabo Mbeki's rule, discusses the implications of the ANC's election of Jacob Zuma and suggests how black and white people can build a joint culture.

Xolela Mangu is executive chairman of the Platform for Public Deliberation and a visiting scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his regular newspaper columns.

Maticka-Tyndale (E.), Tiemoko (R.) & Makinwa-Adebusoye (P.) eds. HUMAN SEXUALITY IN AFRICA, beyond reproduction, 244 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007.

	R145

Contributions include "Sex Education: do our teens do it?" by Scholatica Nganda,
"Sexuality and the Marriage Institution in Islam: an appraisal" by Hajiya Bilikisu Yusuf,
"Married Couples and the Expression of Sexuality During and After Middle Age" by Michael Moloney,
"Health and the Individual Right to Sexual Pleasure and Choice" by Sophie B.Oluwole, and
"Sexuality and Religion in the Time of AIDS" by Barbara Schmid.

Eleanor Maticka-Tybdale is Professor of Sociology and Canda Research Chair in Social Justice and Sexual Health at the University of Windsor, Canada.
Richmond Tiemoko is Director of the Africa Regional Sexuality Resource Centre (ARSRC).
Paulina Makinwa-Adebusoye is presently a member of of the Advisory and Review Group of the Migration and Development Research Centre on Migrastion, Globalization and Poverty, University of Sussex, and a member of the Board of Directors of the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies, Japan.

McDonald (D.A.) WORLD CITY SYNDROME, neoliberalism and inequality in Cape Town, 355 pp., maps, hardback, d.w., London & New York, 2008.

	R599

David McDonald "argues that Cape Town must be understood as a neoliberal city, wracked by the socio-spatial inequalities inherent to market-oriented reforms. Despite the pro-poor rhetoric of local and national government in post-apartheid South Africa, Cape Town has arguably become the most unequal city in the world".

David McDonald is Associate Professor and Director of Global Development Studies at Queen's University, Canada.

McNamee (G.) ed. THE GIRL WHO MADE STARS, and other Bushman stories, collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy C.Lloyd, 72 pp., illus., paperback, Einsiedeln, 2001.

	R250

Author Gregory McNamee's adaptations of some of the original nineteenth-century English translations of stories collected by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd in "Specimens of Bushmen Folkore".

Miller (P.) prod. AN ALBUM OF SOUTH AFRICAN LULLABIES, , 44 minutes running time, CD, Johannesburg, 2003.

	R155

The Thula Project brings together a range of lullabies that reflect South Africa's diverse languages and culture. Includes a 32 pp. booklet of lyrics and English translations of each of the songs as well as photographsa of and commentary by the musicians.

Mostert (N.) FRONTIERS, the epic of South Africa's creation and the tragedy of the Xhosa people, 1355 pp., maps, illus., hardback, d.w., New York, 1992.

	R750

A narrative history of the nine wars and the moral struggle that took place on the eastern Cape frontier between the European colonizers and the Xhosa people.

Award-winning journalist and writer No�l Mostert was born and educated in South Africa. He is the author of "Supership".

N�rnberger (K.) THE LIVING DEAD AND THE LIVING GOD, Christ and the ancestors in a changning Africa, 312 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzberg & Pretoria, 2007.

	R95

Foreword by Buti Tlhagale, Archbishop of Johannesburg.

Systematic theologian Klaus N�rnberger reflects on African traditional spirituality in the light of Christianity, the Reformation and modernity. He is Professor Emeritus, Fellow and Senior Research Associate at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Suttner (I.) HIDDEN AND REVEALED, poems, 64 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

	R100

"This kind of poetry is 'simple'. But it is not the simplicity of shallowness: it is the lucidity of a deep pool...: Jeremy Gordin, Sunday Independent.

van der Merwe (C.) & Gobodo-Madikizela (P.) NARRATING OUR HEALING, perspectives on working through trauma, 106 pp., paperback, Newcastle, 2008.

	R205

Explores the importance of narrative as a way of working through trauma.

Chris van der Merwe is Associate Professor of Afrikaans and Dutch Literature at the University of Cape Town.
Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Cape Town and a former member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She is the author of "A Human Being Died that Night: a story of forgiveness", about her meetings with Eugene de Kok..

van Donk (M.), Swilling (M.), Pieterse (E.) & Parnell (S.) eds. CONSOLIDATING DEVELOPMENTAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT, lessons from the South African experience, an Isandla Institute Book Project, 568 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R299

Documents "the dynamics of local government transformation and captures the key themes of the debates about policy options, lessons and key strategic decisions".

Contributions include "Continuities and discontinuities in South African Local Government" by Jennifer Robinson,
"Local Governance and the Politics of Sustainability" by Mark Swilling,
"Reframing Urban Passenger Transport as a Strategic Priority for Developmental Local Government" by Peter Wilkinson,
"The Implications of HIV/AIDS for Local Governance and Sustainable Municipal Service Delivery" by Mirjam van Donk,
"Tools and Trade-Offs in Environmental Decision-Making" by Zarina Patel,
"The Distribution of Power: local government and electricity distribution industry reforms" by Mark Pickering,
"Political Systems and Capacity Issues" by Dominique Wooldridge,
"Democratisation with Inclusion: revisiting the role of ward committees" by Imraan Buccus and Janine Hicks, and
"Participatory Mechanisms and Community Politics: building consensus and conflict" by Sophie Oldfield.