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NEW ARRIVALS
July 2008


 

IKON SOUTH AFRICA, volume 2, 70 minutes, DVD, South Africa, No Date.

  R350
  Ikon South Africa produces films for South African television and provides a platform for emerging filmmakers who want to make short documentary films that deal with issues of identity and self-discovery. These films were first screened on SABC in 2008.

Features the following films:
Yoko (V."Breeze") dir. BIKO'S CHILDREN, 14 minutes
Winner of the Best Documentary at the 2007 Tricontinental Film Festival. Two young South Africans - Nkhensani, founder and creative director of the clothing label Stoned Cherrie, and Mambila, co-founder and creative director of the street brand 25hour - talk about what Steve Biko and his teachings mean to them.

Pululu (M.) dir. AMINA MY DAUGHTER, 15 minutes
A coversation between a former refugee from the Congo now living in Cape Town and his teenage daughter.

Rorke (R.) dir. PAM & ASHRAF, 15 minutes
An exploration of the lives of a young couple living on the Cape Flats and working for the Anti-Eviction Campaign.

Ntsandeni (M.) dir. BRUSH, 6 minutes
Portrait of an artist, Rendani, living in Limpopo Province, who uses Vhavenda culture as a theme in his painting.

Mulligan (D.) dir. SEE ME HEAR ME, 10 minutes
Deaf filmmaker Donovan Mulligan documents the life of Zoleka Tshotswana, born deaf and living with her mother in Nyanga township outside Cape Town.

Masondo (N.) dir. BLAKBOX SUITE, 10 minutes
An exploration of the music of rap collective, Blakbox.
 

IKON SOUTH AFRICA, volume 1, 38 minutes, DVD, South Africa, No Date.

  R350
  Ikon South Africa produces films for South African television and provides a platform for emerging filmmakers who want to make short documentary films that deal with issues of identity and self-discovery. These films were first screened on SABCTV in 2008.

Features the following films:
Mzamane (N.) dir. NATIVE YARD, 13 minutes
Guguletu residents talk about what Native Yard 1, Guguletu's main street, means to them.

Fredericks (J.) dir. DEVIOUS SHORT FILM, 18 minutes
The story of rapper Mario van Rooy aka Mr Devious (1997-2004), who lived and worked in Mitchell's Plain. He saw himself as a "hip-hop activist" and worked in creative education with youth at risk in Cape Flats communities. At the age of 26 he was stabbed to death by a gangster when he tried to help his father who was being robbed.

Davis (B.) dir. GEMAAKTE HARE, 7 minutes
Lameez Peters talks about growing up half Muslim and half Christian in a society obsessed with racial identity and why she now wears dreadlocks.

Giose (V.) dir. ZION YOUTH CREW, 10 minutes
Interviews with two young Rastafarian musicians.
 

Bekker (S.) & Leildé (A.) eds. REFLECTIONS ON IDENTITY IN FOUR AFRICAN CITIES, , 248 pp., maps, paperback, (Cape Town), 2006.

  R90
  Selected papers from a conference held at the University of Stellenbosch in 2004, in which researchers explore questions of urban identity in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville and Lomé. The conference was the culmination of an international three-year collaborative research programme between the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch and the Centre d'Etudes d'Afrique Noire (CEAN) at the University of Bordeaux IV.

Contributions include "Cape Town and Johannesburg" by Izak van der Merwe and Arlene Davids,
"Space and Identity: thinking through some South African examples" by Philippe Gervais-Lambony,
"Domestic Workers, Job Access, and Work Identities in Cape Town and Johannesburg" by Claire Bénit and Marianne Motange,
"When Shacks Ain't Chic! Planning for 'difference' in post-apartheid Cape Town" by Steven Robins,
"Class, Race, and Language in Cape Town and Johannesburg" by Simon Bekker and Anne Leildé, and
"The Importance of Language Identities to Black Residents of Cape Town and Johannesburg" by Robert Mongwe.
 

Burdett (R.) & Sudjic (D.) eds. THE ENDLESS CITY, the Urban Age Project by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank's Alfred Herrhausen Society, 510 pp., maps, colour illus., hardback, d.w., London & New York, 2007.

  R600
  "Over the course of two years, a group of internationally renowned professionals from a variety of different disciplines and backgrounds gathered togehter in six world cities to take stock of the new urban condition and to offer an approach to dealing with it".

Includes a chapter on Johannesburg with the essays,
"The View from Outside" by Deyan Sudjic,
"Recovering from Apartheid" by Lindsay Bremner, and
"African Urbanism" by Caroline Kihato.
 

Cartwright (J.) THE SONG BEFORE IT IS SUNG, , 276 pp., paperback, London, 2007.

  R180
  Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and lives in London. His novels include "In Every Face I Meet", "White Lightning", the Whitbread Novel Award-winner "Leading the Cheers" and "The Promise of Happiness", which won the 2005 Hawthornden Prize. This novel, set in Germany in 1944, is short-listed for the 2008 Sunday Times Alan Paton Fiction Award.
 

Deléage (P.) END OF A DYNASTY, the last days of the Prince Imperial, Zululand 1879, 212 pp., map, illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

  R160
  Translated by Fleur Webb. Introduction and notes by Bill Guest.

Paul Deléage, a young correspondent attached to the French newspaper, Le Figaro, was sent to cover the French Prince Louis Napoleon's participation in the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879. He spent three months with the British High Command, to which the Prince Imperial was seconded. His book, "Trois Mois Chez les Zoulous" was originally published in France in 1879.
 

Dornford-May (M.) dir. U-CARMEN EKHAYELITSHA, 122 minutes, DVD, 122 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2005.

  R130
  A re-telling of Bizet's opera, Carmen, set in the township of Khayelitsha, outside Cape Town, with actors and singers from the theatre and opera company, Dimpho Di Kopane. Pauline Malefane plays Carmen. Includes interviews with director Mark Dornford-May and co-writers and translators Pauline Malefane and Andiswa Kedama. The film won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2005 Berlin Film Festival.

In Xhosa, with English subtitles.
 

Farren (T.) WHIPLASH, , 313 pp. paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R150
  The story of a prostitute trying to change her life, set in Cape Town.

Tracey Farren lives in Cape Town. This is her first novel, and was shortlisted for the 2009 Sunday Times Literary Award.
 

Gaonkar (D.P.) & Lee (B.) eds. PUBLIC CULTURE, volume 14, number 1, winter 2002: PUBLIC CULTURE, 279 pp., illus., paperback, Society for Transnational Cultural Studies, Duke U, 2002.

  R225
  Public Culture is a journal sponsored by the Humanities and Social Sciences Division of the University of Chicago and the Society for Transnational Cultural Studies, Duke University. It is published three times a year.

Contributions include "African Modes of Self-Writing" by Achille Mbembe.
 

Gould (C.) & Fick (N.) SELLING SEX IN CAPE TOWN, sex work and human trafficking in a South African city, 205 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

  R110
  A two-year study undertaken by the Crime, Justice and Politics Programme of the Institute for Security Studies and the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) which "analyses numbers, earnings, working conditions and various aspects of exploitation of both street-based and brothel-based sex workers, and makes recommendations on how exploitation of sex-workers can be prevented".
 

Govinden (D.) "SISTER OUTSIDERS", the representation of identity and difference in selected writings by South African Indian women, 385 pp., paperback, Pretoria & Leiden, 2008.

  R217
  Devarakshanam (Betty) Govinden discusses Ansuyah Singh's "Behold the Earth Mourns", Zuleikha M.Mayat's "A Treasure Trove of Memories", Jayapraga Reddy's "The Unbending Reed" and "On the Fringe of Dreamtime and Other Stories", Anges Sam's "Jesus is Indian and Other Stories", Dr Goonam's "Coolie Doctor", as well as the writings of Phyllis Naidoo, Fatima Meer and Farida Karodia.
 

Gray (A.) THE FENCE, , 223 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R145
  A political thriller about the diamond trade set in contemporary Johannesburg.

This thriller "brings a new kind of novel into South African literature in general and extends the reach of local crime fiction by a quatum leap." Mike Nicol, author of "Out to Score".

Andrew Gray grew up in Pretoria. He is currently legal advisor to a multi-national European industrial conglomerate. This is his first novel.
 

Hendricks (R.) dir. A FISHERMAN'S TALE, , 26 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2004.

  R180
  Riaan Hendricks's meditation on his father's life as a fisherman in Kalk Bay, Cape Town.
 

Hendricks (R.) dir. THE CITY THAT KILLS SOMALIANS, , 48 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2007.

  R220
  Capetonian Riaan Hendricks interviews people living in his home town who are struggling to survive and adjust to life under an ANC government. It has nothing to do with current xenophobic attacks or with Somalians.
 

Huntly (J.) illus. & text VELD SKETCHBOOK, wildlife portraits and essays, 192 pp., colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2008.

  R220
  Articles by natural history artist and author Jeff Huntly, selected from his weekly column, "Veld Sketchbook", which ran in The Witness newspaper between 1983 and 2006. The text is richly illustrated with Jeff Huntly's wildlife paintings and drawings.
 

Jensen (S.) GANGS, POLITICS & DIGNITY IN CAPE TOWN, , 212 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, etc., 2008.

  R220
  Based on two years of fieldwork in Heideveld (1997 - 1999), Steffen Jensen explores what it means to live in a working-class neighbourhood on the Cape Flats where gangs are omnipresent, criminality is a blurred concept and alternative and competing moral codes exist.

Steffen Jensen is a Senior Researcher with the Rehabilitation and Research Center for Torture Victims in Copenhagen. He is also a research affiliate with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER).
 

Kasiram (M.), Partab (R.) & Dand (B.) eds. HIV/ AIDS IN AFRICA , "the not so silent presence", 163 pp., paperback, Durban, 2006.

  R180
  Contributions include "Exploring the Link Between Changing Family Patterns and HIV-AIDS in South Africa" by Akin Jasper Mturi and Nompumelelo Mzimande,
"Women, HIV/AIDS, Domestic Violence and Human Rights" by Hugo Kamya,
"Challenges to HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care in a South African Correctional Setting" by Aneetha Moodley,
"Towards Spiritual Competence in HIV/AODS Care" by Madhubala Kasiram, and
"The Silent Survivors of HIV/AIDS: a quest for comprehensive strategies in Botswana" by Tapologo Maundeni.

Madhu Kasiram is Professor in the School of Social Work and Community Development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, where Rubeena Partab and Babalwa Dand are lecturers.
 

Klepp (K-I.), Flisher (A.J.) & Kaaya (S.F.) eds. PROMOTING ADOLESCENT SEXUAL AND REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH IN EAST & SOUTHERN AFRICA, , 344 pp., paperback, Uppsala & Cape Town, 2008.

  R190
  "The basis for this volume emerged out of the extensive collaboration born out of the Adolescent Reproductive Health Network (ARHNe), which lasted from 1997-2001."

Contributions include "From Initiation Rituals to AIDS Education: entering adulthood at the turn of the millenium" by Graziella van den Bergh,
"Public Policy: a tool to promote adolescent sexual and reproductive health" by Yogan Pillay & Alan J.Flisher,
Peer Education for Adolescent Reproductive Health: an effective method for program delivery, a powerful empowerment strategy, or neither?" by Sheri Bastien et. al., and
"Quality of Care: assessing nurses' and midwives' attitudes towards adolesecents with sexual and reproductive health problems" by Elisabeth Faxelid, et. al.

Alan Flisher is Professor and Head of the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Cape Town, and Professor II at the Research Centre for Health Promotion at the University of Bergen in Norway.
Sylvia Kaaya is Senior Lecturer and Head of the Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences in Dar es Salaam.
Knut-Inge Klepp is Professor and Head of the Centre for Prevention of Global Infections at the University of Oslo and Director of the Public Health and Welfare Division of the Norwegian Directorate for Health and Social Affairs.
 

Magubane (P.) photo. MAN OF THE PEOPLE, a photographic tribute to Nelson Mandela, 204 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2008.

  R300
  Includes the essays, "Through the Lens of a Resilient Storyteller" by Melanie Lawrence,
"'The Goodest Man in the World'" by Raymond Louw, and
"Generosity of Spirit" by Benjamin Pogrund.

Photographer Peter Magubane began his career in 1954 with Drum magazine. He joined the Rand Daily Mail newspaper in 1966. In 1990 he was selected as Nelson Mandela's offocial photographer to chronicle South Africa's transition to democracy.
 

Malan (R.) comp. CHEESECUTTERS AND GYMSLIPS, South Africans at boarding school, 107 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R140
  Foreword by John van de Ruit.

37 southern African writers reflect on their boarding school experiences, from the 1910s to the 1990s. Some pieces are extracts from published autobiographies while other pieces were written specifically for this collection. Writers include Ellen Kuzwayo, Don Mattera, Peter Abrahams, Es'kia Mphahlele, ZK Matthews, Anthony Akerman, Stephen Gray, Jonty Driver, Guy Butler, Patrick Cullinan, Shimmer Chinodya, Doris Lessing, Nelson Mandela, William Plomer, Lionel Abrahams, Mamphela Ramphele, Bessie Head, Dambudzo Marechera and Imraan Coovadia.

Robin Malan has complied many collections, including "Being Here", No Place Like" and "Leaves to a Tree", as well as the poetry anthologies "Worldscapes", "New Inscapes" and "New Poetry Works".
 

Mamdani (M.) SCHOLARS IN THE MARKETPLACE, the dilemmas of neo-liberal reform at Makerere University, 1989-2005, 296 pp., paperback, Dakar, 2007.

  R275
  A case study of market-based reforms at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda.

Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government at Columbia University. His previous books include "Citizen and Subject". "When Victims Become Killers" and "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim". He lives in New York City and Kampala.
 

Mandela (N.) LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, the autobiography of Nelson Mandela, 768 pp., illus., paperback, London, (1994) 2007.

  R155
  Nelson Mandela's autobiography.
 

Murray (M.J.) TAMING THE DISORDERLY CITY, the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid, 261 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town & Ithaca, 2008.

  R196
  A portrait of contemporary Johannesburg that "brings together a wide range of urban theory and local knowledge' and explores the behaviours of rich and poor as they rebuild the city.

Martin Murray is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of "The Revolution Deferred: the painful birth of post-apartheid South Africa", and the co-editor of "Cities in Contemporary Africa".
 

Ndinga-Muvumba (A.) & Pharoah (R.) eds. HIV/AIDS AND SOCIETY IN SOUTH AFRICA, , 265 pp., paperback, Pitermaritzburg, 2008.

  R190
  Contributions include "From State Security to Human Security" by Nana Poku and Bjorg Sandkjaer,
"The Burdens of the Past" by Shula Marks,
"Human Rights in the Context of Human Security" by Edwin Cameron and Marlise Richter,
"The Treatment Action Campaign's Activism" by Dean Peacock, Thokozile Budaza and Alan Greig,
"The Development Agenda and HIV/AIDS" by Alan Whiteside, and
"The United Nations and the Securitisation of HIV/AIDS" by Pieter Fourie.
 

Nelson Mandela Foundation & Umlando Wezithombe NELSON MANDELA, the authorised comic book, 193 pp., 4to., colour illus., hardback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R149
  This book began as a series of eight comics distributed free in daily newspapers by the Nelson Mandela Foundation in partnership with comic publisher Umlando Wezithombe between 2005 and 2007.

The eight comics are: A Son of the Eastern Cape, Becoming A Leader, The Black Pimpernel, The Trialist, Prisoner 466/64. The Negotiator, President-In-Waiting and Mr President.

Scriptwriting and research by Santa Buchanan and Andrew Smith. Storyboarding by Santa Buchanan and Pitshou Mampa. Illustrating by Pitshou Mampa, Pascal "Freehand" Nzoni and Sivuyile Matwa. Inking and colouring by Richie Orphan, Pascal Nzoni, Sivuyile Matwa, Jose "King" Jungo, Pitshou Mampa and Sean Abbood.
 

Nkabinde (N.Z.) BLACK BULL, ANCESTORS AND ME, my life as a lesbian sangoma, 162 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R120
  Nkunzi Zandile Nkabinde was born in Soweto in 1975. She works as a sangoma and as a tour guide at Constitution Hill.
 

Paramoer (E.) dir. DEAFENING ECHOES, , 25 minutes, DVD, South Africa, No Date.

  R265
  Documentary about Umkhonto we Sizwe soldier, Anton Fransch (b. 1969), who died in 1989 in a shoot-out at his home in Athlone, a previously coloured suburb in Cape Town. after keeping a squadron of South African Police and South African Defence Force members sent to arrest him at bay for seven hours.
 

Pick (W.) THE SLAVE HAS OVERCOME, , 292 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R170
  The autobiography of William Pick, who grew up in Elsies River, a coloured suburb of Cape Town. He is Professor Emeritus and former Head of the School of Public Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. William Pick holds honorary professorships at the universities of Cape Town and the Western Cape and was a Fellow in International Health at Harvard University, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine. He was also Temporary Advisor to the World Health Organisation, and is a member of the Academy of Science of South Africa.
 

Staunton (I.) ed. OUR BROKEN DREAMS, child migration in southern Africa, 114 pp., colour illus., paperback, Maputo & Harare, 2008.

  R100
  Extracts from interviews with migrant children conducted by Save the Children UK, Save the Children Norway and Save the Children Swaziland in four countries: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland. The text is illustrated with drawings made by the children interviewed.

Introduction by Chris McIvor of Save the Children UK in Mozambique. Also includes reflections by the research team who conducted the interviews.
 

Stockenström (W.) THE EXPEDITION TO THE BAOBAB TREE, , 115 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (1983) 2008.

  R130
  A reprint of J.M.Coetzee's 1983 English translation of Wilma Stockenström's novel, "Die kremertartekspedisie", first published in Afrikaans in 1981.

Poet, novelist and playwright Wilma Stockenström was born in 1933 in the village of Napier in the Cape. She now lives in Cape Town. She won the Hertzog Prize and the WA Hofmeyr Prize for her 1991 novel, "Abjater wat so lag", the Hertzog Prize for Poetry for "Van vergetelheid en van glans" (1977) and the CNA, Louis Luyt and Old Mutual Prize for "Monsterverse" (1984).
 

Trapido (A.) HUNGER FOR FREEDOM, the story of food in the life of Nelson Mandela, 216 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R225
  "This book explores Madiba's life and his hunger for freedom in a literal and metaphorical manner. What follows is not so much a cookbook as a gastro-political history with recipes. Food has provided the backdrop and occasionally the primary cause for momentous personal and political events in Madiba's life". Anna Trapido

Contains recipes from and photographs of Madiba's family and friends.

Anna Trapido trained an an anthropologist at King's College Cambridge and completed her PhD in the Department of Community Health at the University of the Witwatersrand. She qualified as a chef at the Prue Leith Chef's Academy in Centurion and is now responsible for the Pan African cuisine programme at the Prue Leith Chef's Academy. She is co-author of "To the Banqueting House: African cuisine - an epic journey", which won the Golf Medal at the World Gourmand Cookbook Awards in 2007.
 

Turnley (D.) photo. & text MANDELA!, struggle and triumph, 167 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., New York, 2008.

  R395
  A collection of photographs, with text, by Pulitzer-winning photographer and filmmaker David Turnley, who covered Nelson Mandela and South Africa for the world's press in the 1980s and 1990s.
 

van der Merwe (K.) dir. BROWN, , 54 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2004.

  R265
  Documentary on pregnant Capetonian singer and songwriter Ernestine Deane and her family. In the 1960s her grandparents, classified coloured, were evicted from their functioning farm in Constantia and relocated to the suburb of Grassy Park. The film won First Prize - African Documentary at the 15th Milan African, Asian & Latin American Film Festival and Best South African Documentary at the 26th Durban International Film Festival.
 

Wicomb (Z.) THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY, short stories, 190 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R150
  "Zoë Wicomb's new stories combine the coolly interogative gaze of the outsider with an insider's intimate warmth." J.M.Coetzee

Zoë Wicomb is Professor in the Department of English Studies at Strathclyde University, Glasgow, and Visiting Professor Extraordinaire at Stellenbosch University. She has also published "You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town", a collection of linked stories, and two novels, "David's Story" and "Playing in the Light".