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NEW ARRIVALS
May 2008


 

Beez (J.) et. al. FUSBAAL/ FOOTBALL, ein spiel - viele welten/ one game - many worlds, 240 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Stuttgart, 2006.

  R450
  Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Munich City Museum during the 2006. Includes essays by writers from the fields of science, sport, literature and journalism:
"Football as the 'Clash' of World-Views" and "Football as Politics with Different Means" by Stefan Eisenhofer,
"Soccer and Democracy in South Africa, from post-election honeymoon to World Cup" by Fiona Rankin-Smith,
"Memento Mori, the stadium as a holy place" by Christiane Lambert & Barbara Rusch,
"Football is East African Political Caricature" by Jigal Beez,
"Beckham Meets Buddha" by Patricia Müller, and much more.

Text in English & German.
 

Bester (M.) text & Bester (S.) illus. THREE FRIENDS AND A TAXI, , 19 pp., oblong 4to., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (2004) 2007.

  R80
  A tale first told to the author by a local guide in a taxi in the islands of the Comores. It is a tale told all across Africa.

Winner of the Sappi Isiqalo Book Competition.
 

Beukes (L.) MOXYLAND, , 239 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R145
  Journalist Lauren Beukes lives and works in Cape Town. This is her first novel. She is also the author of "Maverick: extraordinary women from South Africa's past".
 

Bieler (A.), Lindberg (I.) & Pillay (D.) eds. LABOUR AND THE CHALLENGES OF GLOBALIZATION, what prospects for transnational solidarity?, 330 pp., paperback, London & Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

  R220
  Foreword by Samir Amin.

Examines the responses of the working classes in ten countries to the challenges posed by the neoliberal restructuring of the global economy.

Contributions include "Globalization and the Informalization of Labour: the case of South Africa" by Devan Pillay, and
"Building Alliances Between Formal and Informal Workers: experiences from Africa" by Ilda Lindell.

Devan Pillay, a former trade unionist, is Associate Professor in Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.
Andreas Bieler is Professor of Political Economy in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham.
Ingemar Lindberg, a former trade unionist, is a senior researcher at the Swedish think-tank, Agora.
 

Callinicos (L.) THE WORLD THAT MADE MANDELA, a heritage trail, 338 pp., map, 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, (2000) 2006.

  R450
  Traces 70 places of meaning in Nelson Mandela's life. Sites include Nelson Mandela's birthplace at Mvezo; Clarkebury, the Methodist school he attended; Tyhalarha, where he was initiated into manhood; Sol Plaatje's home in Mafikeng; Dr Xuma's home in Sophiatown; Chief Albert Luthuli's house in Groutville; The Old Fort prison in Johannesburg; Freedom Square in Kliptown, where the Congress of the People approved the Freedom Charter; Lilliesleaf Farm in Rivonia, where the ANC set up its underground headquarters; Robben Island, Pollsmoor Prison and Victor Verster Prison; the Grand Parade in Cape Town where Nelson Mandela made his first public speeech on his release; East London City Hall, where the first hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation were held; the World Trade Centre in Johannesburg, venue for the CODESA convention; and Qunu, where he has rebuilt his family home.

Luli Callinicos is the author of the award-winning trilogy "Gold and Workers" (1981), "Working Life" (1987) and "A Place in the City" (1993), as well as a biography of Oliver Tambo.
 

de Vries (F.) THE FRED DE VRIES INTERVIEWS, from Abdullah to Zille, 325 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R180
  Journalist and author Fred de Vries's interviews with musicians Abdullah Ebrahim, Chris Chameleon, Bok van Blerk, Fokofpolisiekar, Toast Coetzer and Steve Hofmeyr, poets Gabeba Baderoon, Ronalda Kamfer, Danie Marais and Yabadaka Shamah, authors Rain Malan, Marlene van Niekerk, Ingrid Winterbach, Kleinboer and Ivan Vladislavic, Cape Town mayor Hellen Zille and businessman Eric Mafuna, amongst others.
 

Ecott (T.) STEALING WATER, a secret life in an African city, 304 pp., paperback, London, 2008.

  R220
  Author Tim Escott's memoir of growing up in Ireland and then in Johannesburg durring the 1970s.
 

Farred (G.) LONG DISTANCE LOVE, a passion for football, 209 pp., paperback, Philadelphia, 2008.

  R265
  Grant Farred explores how, as a boy growing up disenfranchised in apartheid South Africa, he became a life-long supporter of Liverpool Football Club.

Grant Farred gre up on the Cape Falts. He now lives in the USA where he teaches in the Literature Programme at Duke University. He is also the author of "Midfielder's Moment" Coloured literature and culture in contemporary South Africa: (1999) and "What's My Name? Black vernacular intellectuals" (2003).
 

Galgut (D.) THE IMPOSTOR, , 237 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008 (2009).

  R130
  Damon Galgut was born in Pretoria in 1963. He now lives in Cape Town. His other novels include "Small Circle of Beings", "The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs", "The Quarry" and "The Good Doctor". "The Imposter" was shortlisted for the 2009 Sunday Times Literary Award.
 

Green (M.C.) FOR THE SAKE OF SILENCE, , 558 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R250
  "Of the Trappist enterprise in nineteenth-century South Africa, with all its passionate personal rivalries and Byzantine internal politics, Michael Cawood Green has made a work of history cum fiction that will grip and sometimes amaze the reader" - J.M.Coetzee.

A work the author describes as "creative non-fiction" or the "literature of fact" about Abbott Franz Pfanner, the leader of the Trappists in South Africa and the founder of the monastery at Mariannhill.

Michael Cawood Green is head of the School of Literary Studies, Media and Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He is also the author of "Sinking: a verse novella" (1997) which won the University of Natal Book Prize.
 

Harris (P.) IN A DIFFERENT TIME, the inside story of the Delmas four, 320 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (2008) 2010.

  R185
  Lawyer Peter Harris represented Jabu Masina, Ting Ting Masango, Neo Potsane and Joseph Makhura who were part of an ANC specialist unit reporting to Chris Hani. They returned to South Africa in 1986 to carry out acts of sabotage. Ten months later, in April 1987, they were arrested and charged with high treason and murder and subsequently sentenced to death. On appeal this sentence was set aside, and replaced with a 25 year prison sentence. They were all released from jail in 1991.

This book won the 2009 Alan Paton Award.

"A dark chapter in our history brilliantly brought to light." Ivan Vladislavic

"'In a Different Time' is the most wonderfully good book about South Africa I have read in a decade" Peter Bruce, Business Day
 

Judge (M.), Manion (A.) & de Waal (S.) eds. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD, the making of same-sex marriage in South Africa, 354 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R165
  Contents include "Getting to the Constitutional Court on Time: a litigation of same-sex marriage" by Jonathan Berger,
"Difference and Belonging: the Constitutional Court and the adoption of the Civil Union Act" by Pierre de Vos,
"This thing' and 'that idea': traditionalist responses to homosexuality and same-sex marriage" by Graeme Reid,
"(Not) in My Culture: thoughts on same-sex marriage and African practices" by Nonhlanhla Mkhize,
"A Way Through 'Ijtihad': a Muslim perspective on same-sex marriage" by Muhsin Hendricks,
"Blissful Complexities: black lesbians reflect on same-sex marriage and the Civil Union Act" by Zethu Matebeni, and much more.
 

Keeney (B.) BUSHMAN SHAMAN, awakening the spirit through ecstatic dance, 231 pp., paperback, Rochester, 2005.

  R170
  Bradford Keeney's description of his initiation into the shamanic tradition of the Kalahari Bushmen. He is a scholar of cultural studies for the Ringing Rocks Foundation and a cultural anthropologist at the Mental Research Institute in Palo Alto, California.
 

Knighton-Fitt (J.) BEYOND FEAR, , 350 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2003.

  R150
  Foreword by Charles Villa-Vicencio.

The story of Theo and Helen Kotze. Rev. Kotze was born in Knysna in 1920. A Methodist minister, in 1969 he became regional director of the Christian Institute, responsible for the Cape and Namibia. The Institute was banned in 1977, and he was placed under house arrest. Eventually he and his family escaped, going into exile in Holland and then the UK. They returned to Cape Town in the early 1990s. He died in 2003.
 

Kunzmann (R.) DEAD-END ROAD, , 439 pp., paperback, London, 2008.

  R160
  A crime novel set in South Africa by the author of "Bloody Harvests" and "Salamander Cotton", with the detectives Harry Maon and Jacob Shabalala.
 

Payne (L.A.) UNSETTLING ACCOUNTS, neither truth nor reconciliation in confessions of state violence, 374 pp., paperback, Durham, 2008.

  R250
  Leigh Payne draws on interviews, unedited television film, newspaper archives and books written by perpetrators to analyse their confessions to acts of authoritarian state violence in Argentina, Chile, Brazil and South Africa.

Liegh Payne is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
 

Poland (M.) text & Voigt (L.) illus. THE MANTIS AND THE MOON, stories for the children of Africa, 120 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1979) 2002.

  R61
  Winner of the Percy Fitzpatrick Award 1979.
 

Ramphele (M.) LAYING GHOSTS TO REST, dilemmas of the transformation in South Africa, 341 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (2008) 2009.

  R210
  Mamphela Ramphele's discussion of the state of South Africa's democracy, with a focus on racism and sexism, transformation at the expense of delivery, capacity problems and the unintended consequences of policies such as Black Economic Empowerment and affirmative action.

Medical doctor, academic and activist Dr Ramphele was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town between 1996 and 2000. She was appointed Managing Director at the World Bank in 2000 and was co-chair of the Global Commission on International Migration from 2004 to 2005. She currently chairs Circle Capital Ventures in South Africa.