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NEW ARRIVALS
March 2008


 

Coetzee (J.M.) WHITE WRITING, on the culture of letters in South Africa, 194 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1988) 2007.

  R155
  J.M.Coetzee's first volume of criticism, in which "he reads a range of texts, in various genres, which represent the endeavours of white writers to come to terms with the South African landscape and their tenuous place in it". The seven essays examine writing by William Burchell, Thomas Pringle, W.E.G.Louw, W.C.Scully, Roy Campbell, C.W.van den Heever, Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Alan Paton, C.H.Kühn (Mikro), Sarah Gertrude Millin, Guy Butler, Sydney Clouts, and others.

J.M.Coetzee was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003.
 

Foster (D.), Haupt (P.) & de Beer (M.) THE THEATRE OF VIOLENCE, narratives of protagonists in the South African conflict, 364 pp., paperback, Cape Town & Oxford, 2005.

  R200
  Drawing from the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and from other writings, this book documents and examines testimony from some of those who acknowledge having committed acts of violence during the apartheid era.

Foreword by Charles Villa-Vicencio.
 

Gobodo-Madikizela (P.) A HUMAN BEING DIED THAT NIGHT, a story of forgiveness, 193 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (2003) 2007.

  R222
  Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, a clinical psychologist who served on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Human Rights Violations Committee, was sent to interview Eugene de Kock, in an attempt to understand his actions. Colonel Eugene de Kock, a commanding officer of apartheid death squads, is currently serving 212 years in prison for crimes against humanity.

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is associate professor of psychology at the University of Cape Town and adjunct professor in the Unilever Ethics Centre at Natal University.

Preface by Albie Sachs.
 

Goode (D.) text & illus. CYCADS OF AFRICA, , 256 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., slipcase, Cape Town, 1989.

  R750
  Douglas Goode focuses on cycads in the wild and examines all 50 known species of the genus "Encephalartos", the sole living representative of the genus "Stangeria" and a single species of "Cycas". Each species account is accompanied by three detailed full-colour plates, showing the plant in its natural habitat, details of leaf and cone-scale structure, and the diagnostic features ofthe male and female cones.
 

Gunn (M.) & Codd (L.E.) BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, , 400 pp., 4to., illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 1981.

  R1750
  An illustrated history of early botanical literature on the Cape flora and biographical accounts of the leading plant explorers and their activities in southern Africa from the days of the East India Company to 1980.

Signed by Mary Gunn and Lesley Howard Codd.
 

Jeppie (S.) & Diagne (S.B.) eds. THE MEANINGS OF TIMBUKTU, , 376 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R290
  All but one of the essays in this book were read as papers at a conference of the Tombouctou Manuscript Project of the University of Cape Town in August 2005.

The authors offer a historical perspective on the region, explore various kinds of Arabic writing from Africa as sources for the writing of African history, examine the lives and works of the influential family of Kunti scholars of the late eighteenth and mid-nineteenth century, and discuss Timbuktu's libraries and private manuscipt collections.

Beautifully illustrated with images of the original manuscripts.
 

Landau (L.B.) THE HUMANITARIAN HANGOVER, displacement, aid and transformation in western Tanzania, 182 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R220
  Examines the impact on western Tanzania of the influx of refugees from neighbouring Rwanda, Burundi and rhe DRC and millions of dollars of aid from Europe, Japan and the USA.

Loren Landau is Director of the Forced Migration Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Lawson (L.) SIDE EFFECTS, the story of AIDS in South Africa, 352 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R180
  A historical account that attempts to explain how and why South Africa, one of the richest countries in Africa, has one of the worst AIDS epidemics in the world.

Lesley Lawson works as a freelance writer, photographer and film-maker, covering social and development issues in South Africa.
 

le Roux (W.) & van Marle (K.) eds. POST-APARTHEID FRAGMENTS, law, politics and critique, 188 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

  R150
  Investigates different aspects of post-apartheid law, politics and society.

Contributors include Johan van der Walt, Karin van Marle, Wessel le Roux, André van der Walt, Henk Botha and Stewart Motha, all South African legal scholars.
 

Reynolds (G.W.) THE ALOES OF SOUTH AFRICA, , 520 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 1950.

  R1750
  Glibert Westacott Reyonds traces the history of the discovery of aloes in Southern Africa.

The companion volume to "The Aloes of Tropical Africa and Madagascar" by the same author.
 

Reynolds (G.W.) THE ALOES OF TROPICAL AFRICA AND MADAGASCAR, , 537 pp., 4to., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., some sellotape marks on f.f.e.p., Mbabane, 1966.

  R2500
  Describes 197 species, each of which is illustrated in black and white. There are also 106 colour reproductions.

The companion volume to "Aloes of South Africa" by the same author.
 

Riley (H.P.) FAMILIES OF FLOWERING PLANTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA, , 269 pp., 4to., maps, colour illus., hardback, d.w., Kentucky, 1963.

  R750
  Herbert Riley discusses each family of flowring plants found in Southern Africa, providing a detailed treatment of the genera, the chromosome numbers for each family and a description of the economic uses of the plants.
 

Ross (R.) A CONCISE HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICA, , 251 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town & Cambridge, (1999) 2008.

  R190
  Covers the history of Southern Africa from the introduction of agriculture about 1 500 years ago up to and including the government of Thabo Mbeki.

Robert Ross is Professor of History at the Rijksuniversiteit Leiden. He is the author of "Adam Kok's Griquas" (1976), "Cape of Torments: slavery and resistance in South Africa" (1982), "Beyond the Pale: essays in the history of colonial South Africa" (1992) and "Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870" (1999).
 

Sarkin (J.) ed. HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICAN PRISONS, , 254 pp., paperback, Cape Town & Ohio, 2008.

  R180
  Contributions include "A Brief History of Human Rights in the Prisons of Africa" by Stephen Peté,
"Challenges to Good Prison Governance in Africa" by Chris Tapscott,
"Children in African Prisons" by Julia Sloth-Nielsen,
"The Imprisonment of Women in Africa" by Lisa Vetten, and
"Rehabilitation and Reintegration in African Prisons" by Amanda Dissel.

Jeremy Sarkin is Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and Senior Professor of Law at The University of the Western Cape.
 

Sibeko (A.) & Leeson (J.) ROLL OF HONOUR, Western Cape ANC comrades 1953 - 1963, 189 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R90
  Trade unionist and ANC stalwart Archie Sibeko's tribute to grassroots activists of the Western Cape from 1953 to 1963, when he was in the provincial and regional leadership of the ANC. He was also secretary of SARHWU and a founder of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU). He later joined Umkhonto we Siswe (MK) and was sent into exile for military training.

Activists listed include Chris Hani, Zollie Malindi, Annie Silinga, Dora Tamana, and many others.
 

Soal (S.) comp. HOLDING INFINITY, guiding social process, a workbook for development practitioners, 100 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2004.

  R150
  Published by the Community Development Resource Association (CDRA), an NGO based in Cape Town which helps development practioners and their organisations strengthen their developmental practice.
 

Steinberg (J.) THREE-LETTER PLAGUE, a young man's journey through a great epidemic, 342 pp., paperback, Johannesburg., (2008) 2010.

  R170
  Jonny Steinbeg's investigation into why HIV-positive people who live close to well-administered antiretroviral treatment choose to stay at home and die. He explores the relationship between "Sizwe Magadla", a successful 29 year old trader who fears he has AIDS but refuses to be tested, and Hermann Reuter, a doctor with Médecins Sans Frontières who establishes an antiretroviral treatment programme in "Sizwe's" village in rural Transkei.

Washington Post Book of the Year, South African Sunday Times Book of the Year 2008, and winner of the Recht Malan Prize 2009.

"If you want to know why AIDS is devastating southern Africa, you have to read this book. It is a brilliant exploration of the secret, intimate decisions that turn an epidemic into a catastrophe." Robert Guest, former Africa editor for The Economist

Jonny Steinberg has won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for literary non-fiction twice for his books, "Midlands" (2002) and "The Number" (2004). "In a Different Time" was shortlisted for the 2009 Alan Paton Award.
 

Swanepoel (P.C.) REALLY INSIDE BOSS, a tale of South Africa's late Intelligence Service (and something about the CIA), 202 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

 
OUT OF PRINT
  Petrus Cornelius Swanepoel worked as a policeman before being drafted to the Bureau for State Security (BOSS). After retiring he worked for the National Intelligence Service on a contract basis in KwaZulu Natal, Namibia and Europe. He lives on a smallholding near Pretoria.
 

Vogts (M.) text & Paterson-Jones (C.) photo. SOUTH AFRICA'S PROTEACEAE, know them and grow them, 240 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, (1982) 1989.

  R650
  Marie Vogts introduces each genus and describes all the species, stressing range, habitat and growth form. She also gives practical advice on how to grow proteas. The text is illustrated throughout with photographs by Colin Paterson-Jones and distribution maps and illustrations by Peter Slingsby.

Signed by Marie Vogts.
 

Whiteside (A.) HIV/ AIDS, a very short introduction, 147 pp., illus., paperback, Oxford, 2008.

  R95
  Explores the unfolding catastophe of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, explains the science, and focuses on the profound impact of the disease on the lives of people and communities in South Africa and around the world.

Alan Whiteside is Professor of Health Economics and HIV/AIDS, and Director of the Research Division, University of KwaZulu-Natal. In 2003 he was appointed by Kofi Annan to the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa, and has been an elected member of the Governing Council of the International AIDS Society since 2000.
 

Zug (J.) THE GUARDIAN, the history of South Africa's extraordinary anti-apartheid newspaper, 371 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

  R190
  A history of The Guardian newspaper, which had a continous 26 year run of publication, from 1937 to 1963, only interrupted for 5 months during the 1960 state of emergency. It appeared under 7 different titles: Cape Guardian, Guardian, Clarion, People's World, Advance, New Age and Spark.