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NEW ARRIVALS
August 2008


 

Akokpari (J.) & Zimbler (D.S.) eds. AFRICA'S HUMAN RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE, , 300 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R145
  Contributions include "Between the Insidious and the Sanitised: national human rights institutions and human rights language in Africa" by Daniel Shea Zimbler,
"Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect in Africa" by Jeremy Sarkin,
"'Aluta Continua': the struggle for human rights and democratic governance in Africa" by Siphamandla Zondi,
"Women's Rights as Human Rights in Africa" by Yaliwe Clarke, and
"African Sub-regional Human Rights Courts: the ECOWAS Court of Justice, the SADC Tribunal and the EAC Court of Justice in comparative perspective" by Abdul Rahman Lamin.

John Akokpari is Senior Levturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Daniel Shea Zimbler is a researcher at the Centre for COnflict Resolution in Cape Town.
 

Badal (S.) THE FALL OF THE BLACK-EYED NIGHT, , 176 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R150
  A novel about a young Muslim man who returns to Cape Town after the July 2005 bombings in the UK.

Former journalist Sean Badal was born in South Africa and raised in the UK. He now lives and works in Johannesburg. He has published two previous books, "Dead Sanctities" (1999) and "Seeds of Disorder" (2002).
 

Baines (G.) & Vale (P.) eds. BEYOND THE BORDER WAR, new perspectives on southern Africa's late-Cold War conflicts, 342 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

  R288
  "This volume offers new perspectives on the Border War through the paradigms of diplomatic and military history, cultural and literary studies, as well as victimology".

Contributions include "The Cold War and South Africa: repetitions and revisions on a prolegomenon" by Peter Vale,
"The Construction and Subversion of Gender Stereotypes in Popular Cultural Representations of the Border War" by Michael Drewett,
"Writing from Within: representations of the Border War in South African literature" by Henriette Roos,
"Remaking Our Histories: the liberation war in post-colonial Namibian writings" by Keike Becker,
"'Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!': peace-keeping as adventure in Namibia" by Robert Gordon, and
"South Africa's Role in Namibia/Angola: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Account" by Christopher Saunders.

Gary Baines is an Associate Professor in the History Department and Peter Vale is the first Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics, both at Rhodes University.
 

Baker (B.) MULTI-CHOICE POLICING IN AFRICA, , 227 pp., paperback, Uppsala, 2008.

  R180
  "Policing in Africa is very much more than what the police do. It concerns the activities of business interests, residential communites, cultural groups, criminal organisations, local political figures and governments. How people negotiate this 'multi-choice' of policing and the implications of this for government and donor security policy, is the subject of this book."

Bruce Baker is Professor of African Security at Coventry University.
 

Boden (G.) comp. & ed. !QAMTEE /AA =XANYA, "The Book of Traditions", histories, texts and illustrations from the !Xoon and 'N/ohan people of Namibia, 108 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Basel, 2007.

  R195
  A collection of oral history accounts from the Taa-speaking people living in Namibia. This booklet is a product of research on the language, cultural practices and oral histories of Namibian Taa-speakers undertaken by the Volkswagen Foundation's initiative "Documentation of Endangered Languages".
 

Boler (T.) & Archer (D.) THE POLITICS OF PREVENTION, a global crisis in AIDS and education, 162 pp., paperback, London & Johannesburg, 2008.

  R150
  Foreword by Mary Robinson.

Tania Boler and David Archer use personal stories from around the world to illustrate "the ways and means of fighting the spread of AIDS through the expansion of education: better schooling, enhancement of public knowledge and understanding of science." Amartya Sen

Tania Boler, a specialist in HIV and education, works for ActionAid and the United Nations. David Archer currently head ActionAid's education team.
 

Brown (A.) STREET BLUES, the experiences of a reluctant policeman, 209 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R140
  Author and advocate Andrew Brown has worked as a reservist in the South African Police Service in Cape Town since 1999. His thriller, "Coldsleep Lullaby", won the 2006 Sunday Times Fiction Prize. This is his first work of non-fiction, and was shortlisted for the 2009 Alan Paton Award.
 

Burnett (P.), Karmali (S.) & Manji (F.) eds. GRACE, TENACITY AND ELOQUENCE, the struggle for women's rights in Africa, 223 pp., paperback, Oxford & Nairobi, 2007.

  R335
  Includes a chapter, "Women and the Jacob Zuma Trial" with the following contributions:
"The Jacob Zuma Rape Case: a letter to Khwezi from 54 African women",
"South Africa: the Zuma trial, gender and the judiciary, interview with Delphine Serumaga",
"Can I Speak, Please?" by Sibongile Ndashe,
"Justice with Dignity" by Vanessa Ludwig,
"The Socio-Political Eunuch Called an Impartial Judge" by Nikki Naylor,
and "Dear Diary" by Lindiwe Mkutha,
as well as "Letter to Thabo Mbkei from African Women" by Mohau Pheko and Lebohang Pheko,
"Towards Human Rights for All Women in Namibia" by Liz Frank, and
"Fast Tracking to Equality: the SADC gender journey" by Janah Ncube.
 

Carton (B.), Laband (J.) & Sithole (J.) eds. ZULU IDENTITIES, being Zulu, past and present, 633 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

  R395
  Contributions include "Reflections on the Politics of Being 'Zulu'" by John Wright,
"Cattle Symbolism in Zulu Culture" by W.D.Hammond-Tooke,
"'Bloodstained Grandeur': colonial and imperial stereotypes of Zulu warriors and Zulu warfare" by John Laband,
'"What Do Red-Jackets Want in Our Country?': the Zulu response to the British invasion of 1879" by Ian Knight,
"Imperial Appropriations: Baden-Powell, the Wood Badge and the Zulu 'Iziqu'" by Jeff Guy,
"Healing and Harming: medicine, madness, witchcraft and tradition" by Karen Flint and Julie Parle,
"Beauty in the Hard Journey: defining trends in twentieth-century Zulu art" by Fiona Rankin-Smith,
"Cry, the Beloved Country: a murder in Alan Paton's country, 1999" by Jonny Steinberg,
"'So that I will be a Marriageable Girl': 'umemulo' in contemporary Zulu society" by Thenjiwe Magwaza,
"Virginity Testing: a backward-looking response to sexual regulation in the HIV/AIDS crisis" by Tessa Marcus,
"Zulu Identity in the International Context" by Bill Freund, and much more.

Benedict Carton is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, Virginia, USA.
John Laband is Professor of HIstory at Wilfid Laurier University, Canada.
Jabulani Sithole is a lecturer in Historical Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
 

Chapman (A.R.) & van der Merwe (H.) eds. TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, did the TRC deliver?, 347 pp., hardback, d.w. , Philadelphia, 2008.

  R650
  An evaluation of the TRC process and its impact on South African society, based on an eight year study undertaken by the Science and Human Rights Program of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation (CSVR) in Cape Town. The project was co-directed by Audrey Chapman and Hugo van der Merwe and this book is based on the data collected, including an analysis of the Victim Hearings, the Human Rights Violations Hearings and the amnesty process, public opinion survey data and interviews with TRC staff, people who worked with the commission and members of different communities affected by the TRC.

Andrew Chapman is Joseph M.Healey, Jr. Endowed Chair in Medical Humanities and Ethics and Professor in the Department of Community Medicine and Health Services at the University of Connecticut Health Center.
Hugo van der Merwe is Programme Manager of the Transitional Justice Programme at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation in Cape Town.
 

Clarke (B.) ANGLICANS AGAINST APARTHEID, 1936-1996, 594 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

  R265
  This book aims to give "an overview of the recurring themes of the church-state conflict during the tenure of eight Archbishops of Cape Town, starting with Francis Phelps and ending with Desmond Tutu." Bob Clarke
 

Crwys-Williams (J.) comp. THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN QUOTATIONS, , 534 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1994) 2008.

  R120
  "It is part of Mandela's charm that he can be humble without a hint of false modesty" André Brink
"The relationship between a biographer and his subject is one of intimacy without loyalty" Ronald Suresh Roberts.
"I should have known better" Jacob Zuma
"Thabo and Manto can bamboozle the nation about HIV and Aids and dish out all the garlic grown in Africa, but the scoreboard says our people are dying like flies" Max du Preez
"We're talking about a country where life is an insane gamble that'll end in blinding light or darkest disaster, and there's absolutely no way of knowing which" Rian Malan
"Sadly, I have to admit that South African art is, from my point of view, getting worse and worse, increasingly resembling that kind of stale growth that one finds underneath large rocks" Kendell Geers
"Most politicians seem to have a massive allergy to admitting they might have been wrong" Desmond Tutu
"You write because you do not know what you want to say" JM Coetzee
 

Dowling (F.) NOTES FROM THE DEMENTIA WARD, , 62 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R110
  A new collection of poems by Finuala Dowling. Her first volume of poetry, "I, flying", was awarded the Ingrid Jonker Prize and her second, "Doo-wop girls of the universe", was joint winner of the Sanlam Award. She is also the author of two novels, "What poets need" and "Flyleaf".
 

Election Poster MANDELA FOR PRESIDENT, , 58 cm wide x 82 cm long , (Johannesburg), 1994.

  R1500
  The ANC's 1994 election poster, on board, with two holes top and bottom for hanging on poles, which do not affect the image of Neslon Mandela's face.
 

Grobler (J.) ed. THE WAR DIARY OF JOHANNA BRANDT, , 472 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

  R180
  During the Anglo-Boer War Johanna Brandt worked as a nurse at Iréne Concentration Camp. She also worked undercover for the Boer Secret Service, undertaking espionage against the British and hiding Boers in her home. She noted her experiences and activities in her diary, reproduced here. After the war she wrote numerous books, including "Het Concentratie-kamp van Iréne (The Irene Concentration Camp), published in 1904, and "The Petticoat Commando", published in 1913.

Jackie Grobler is senior lecturer at the University of Pretoria, Department of Historical and Heritage Studies.
 

Haarhoff (D.) ed. SEVEN LETTERS, HIV/AIDS stories from Namibian children, 95 pp., illus., paperback, Basel, 2007.

  R145
  In 2006, during writing workshops led by Dorian Haarhoff at the Windhoek College of Education, teachers in training were taught writing skills and asked, during the course of their practice teaching, to encourage children to write stories on HIV/AIDS. A selection of these stories are published in this book.

Writer Dorian Haarhoff is Professor of English at the University of Namibia.
 

Hadland (A.), Louw (E.), Sesanti (S.) & Wasserman (H.) eds. POWER, POLITICS AND IDENTITY IN SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA, selected seminar papers, 403 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R180
  Most of these essays, which explore the relationship between identity and the media in contemporary South Africa, were presented at an international conference in Stellenbosch in 2006.

Essays include "Media, Youth, Violence and Identity in South Africa: a theoretical appraoch" by Abebe Zegeye,
"'National' Public-Service Boradcasting: contradictions and dilemmas" by Ruth Teer-Tomaselli,
"The Mass Subject in Antjie Krog's 'Country of My Skull'" by Anthea Garman,
"Tsotsis, Coconuts and Wiggers: Black masculinity and contemporary South African media" by Jane Stadler,
"The Media and the Zuma/Zulu Culture: an Afrocentric perspective" by Simphiwe Sesanti, and
"Online Coloured Identities: a virtual ethnography" by Tanja Bosch.
 

Jeppie (S.) et. al. TIMBUKTU, script & scholarship, 136 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R215
  Catalogue of the travelling exhibition of 40 manuscripts from the holdings of the Hamed Baba Institute of Higher Learning and Islamic Research in Timbuktu, Mali, which opened in Cape Town in 2008. The exhibition and the catalogue arise from the South African-Mali Project initiated in 2002 by Thabo Mbeki, which aims to conserve this collection of manuscripts.

Includes messages from President Thabo Mbeki and Amadou Toumani Touré, President of the Republic of Mali,
a foreword by H.C.Jatti Bredekamp, CEO of Iziko Museums of Cape Town,
an introduction, "Travelling Timbuktu Books", by Shamil Jeppie from the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town,
and the essays, "Ahmad Baba of Timbuktu (1556-16270: introduction to his life and works" by Mahmoud Zouber, former director of the Ahmed Baba Institute, and
"Conservation in the Extreme: preserving the manuscripts of Timbuktu" by Mary Minicka.
 

Kirsten (A.) A NATION WITHOUT GUNS?, the story of Gun Free South Africa, 244 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

  R190
  The story of the NGO Gun Free South Africa and the gun-control movement in South Africa.

Adéle Kirsten was the Director of Gun Free South Africa from 1995-2002 ans is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.
 

Kruger (J.) & le Roux (I.) eds. & Coetzer (D.) illus. THE FLAMBOYANT ROOSTER, and other Tshivenda song stories, 149 pp., map, 4to., illus., paperback, Potchefstroom, 2007.

  R190
  Twenty-seven Tshivenda "ngano" (song narratives) collected by Ina le Roux, with brief biographies of the storytellers, musical transcriptions, performance instructions, a guide to pronunciation and a short bibliography. Ten of the "ngano' published here first appeared in the book, "The Talking Drum".

Jaco Kruger teaches in the School of Music at North-West University. Ina le Roux is director of Tambani Enterprises, a community embroidery project in the Limpopo Valley.
 

Kruger (R.) GOODBYE DOLLY GRAY, the story of the Boer War, 540 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, (1959) 2008.

  R250
  "Rayne Kruger's classic account places the Boer War squarely in its social and political settings". This book has been reprinted many times.
 

Leon (T.) ON THE CONTRARY, leading the opposition in a democratic South Africa, 766 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R250
  From 1994 to 2007 Tony Leon (b.1956) led the Democratic Alliance and it's predecessor, the Democratic Party. For eight of those years, from 1999 to 2007, he was leader of the Official Opposition. After standing down he was awarded a Fellowship to the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He lives in Cape Town.

Also available in hardback @ R325.
 

Liebenberg (P.) DAAR'S 'N GAY PASTOOR IN MY KOP, , 373 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R190
  The autobiography of Philip Liebenberg's struggle as a gay man and a Christian minister. He is currently pastor at The Chapel in Melville, Johannesburg.
 

Nicolson (R.) ed. PERSONS IN COMMUNITY, African ethics in a global culture, 146 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

  R145
  Contributions include "African Ethics in a Globalising World" by Augustine Schutte,
"Religious Ethics, HIV and AIDS and Masculinities in Southern Africa" by Ezra Chitando,
"Reflections on Reconciliation and 'Ubuntu'" by R.Neville Richardson,
"Africa's Healing Wisdom: spiritual and ethical values of traditional African healthcare practices" by Lucinda Domoko Manda, and
"'Ubuntu' and Harmony: an African approach to morality and ethics" by Nhlanhla Mkhize.

Before his retirement Ronald Nicolson was Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Natal, now the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
 

Pieterse (E.) CITY FUTURES, confronting the crisis of urban development, 206 pp., paperback, Cape Town, etc., 2008.

  R190
  Edgar Pieterse analyses current thinking on how to deal with the problems that confront the cities of the developing world - slums, poverty, umeployment and lack of governance - and offers an alternative approach.

Edgar Pieterse is director of the African Centre for Cities and professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town.
 

Pisani (E.) THE WISDOM OF WHORES, bureaucrats, brothels, and the business of AIDS, 372 pp., map, paperback,, London, 2008 (2009).

  R160
  Epidemiologist Elizabeth Pisani has worked in the fields of HIV prevention since 1995 for the World Bank, UNAIDS, the World Health Organisation and other international institutions. Most of the research on which this book is based was done in Asia, particularly Indonesia.

"A fascinating and revelatory account of a world in which AIDS has become a fashionable cause to which the West now pledges billions of dollars - money that has introduced corruption and greed into an already complex equation" Stephanie Merritt, Observer

"This book will make her many enemies among the 'Aids mafia', but it cuts through much of the cant that surrounds the subject." David Sinclair, Tribune
 

Prince (B.), Pugh (S.) & Kleintjies (S.) (eds.) SKILLS-BUILDING FOR GENDER MAINSTREAMING IN HIV/AIDS, research and practice, seminar proceedings, 80 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007.

  R70
  Presentations delivered at the gender and HIV/AIDS-themed sessions held during the 3rd African Conference of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA), held in Dakar in 2005.

Papers include "A Critical Look at the Use of Gender Theory in Responses to HIV/AIDS" by Tamara Shefer,
"Gender Mainstreaming and HIV/AIDS in Swaziland" by Doo Aphane,
"Sexual Identities and Men Who Have Sex with Men" by Sarah Pugh,
"Women, Poverty and Vulnerability in the Face of HIV/AIDS" by B Lévi Tshizubu Mutombo, and
"Masculinities: implications for the HIV/AIDS epidemic" by Joseph Amuzu.

 

Raath (A.W.G.) DE LA REY, 'n stryd vir vryheid, 576 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Brandfort, 2007.

  R755
  A memorial volume in honour of "Bittereinder" General J.H.de la Rey, published on the 150th anniversary of the Vierkleur and the swearing in of M.W.Pretorius as the first President of the South African Republic.

Text in Afrikaans.

Andries Raath is professor in Constitutional Law and Philosophy of Law at the University of the Free State.
 

Rödlach (A.) WITCHES, WESTERNERS AND HIV, AIDS & cultures of blame in Africa, 247 pp., illus., paperback, Walnut Creek, 2006.

  R390
  Investigates and compares beliefs about witchcraft and conspiracies surrounding HIV/AIDS in Africa and their importance for HIV/AIDS advocacy and public health programmes.

Anthropologist and Catholic priest Alexander Rödlach works in the editorial department of the journal, Anthropos, at the Anthropos Institute, St. Augustine, Florida.
 

Saul (J.S.) DECOLONIZATION AND EMPIRE, contesting the rhetoric and reality of resubordination in southern Africa and beyond, 202 pp., paperback, Monmouth and Johannesburg, 2008.

  R220
  John Saul explores the question of what "empire" means today, in a world in which the gap between rich and poor, North and South, continues to grow.

John S. Saul is Professor Emeritus, York University in Toronto. He has written many books on Africa, including "Recolonization and Resistance: southern Africa in the 1990s" (1994), "The Next Liberation Struggle: capitalism, socialism and democracy in southern Africa" (2005) and "Development After Globalization: theory and practice for an embattled South in a new imperial age" (2006).
 

South African Democracy Education Trust THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY, South Africans telling their stories, volume 1, 1950-1970, 511 pp., illus., hardback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R250
  This is a project of the South African Post Office in collaboration with the South African Democracy Trust (SADET), which focuses on South Africans talking about their experiences under apartheid and their contribution to the liberation struggle. SADET's Oral History Project collected interviews, some of which have been edited for this volume. These interviews are intended as complimentary reading to the volumes that make up "The Road to Democracy in South Africa". Interviewees include Joe Matthews, Helen Suzman, Ruth Mopati, Phillip Kgosana, Denis Goldberg, Brain Bunting, Mary Burton, Sipho Makana and Peter Molotsi.
 

South African Democracy Education Trust (comp.) THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA, volume 3, international solidarity, parts 1 & 2, 1402 pp., illus., hardback, 2 volumes, Pretoria, 2008.

  R958
  Compiled and co-ordinated by the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET), the Road to Democracy Project "aims to compile a chronological analysis of four decades, namely 1960-1970, 1970-1980, 1980-1990 and 1990-1994".

Foreword by Essop Pahad.
Contents include "The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement" by Louise and Kader Asmal with Thomas Alberts,
"Anti-Apartheid Solidarity in United States-South African Relations: from the margins to the mainstream" by William Minter and Sylvia Hill,
"The Anti-Apartheid Movements in Australia and Aotearoa/ New Zealand" by Peter Limb,
"Solidarity: India and South Africa" by Vijay Gupta,
"Sweden and the Nordic Countries: offocial solidarity and assistance from the West" by Tor Sellström, and
"The European Community and Apartheid: minimal effective pressure" by Sietse Bosgra.
 

Steinberg (J.) THIN BLUE, the unwritten rules of policing South Africa, 183 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R120
  Jonny Steinberg examines the relationship between ordinary South Africans and the country's new police force.

Two of Jonny Steinberg's previous books, "Midlands" (2002) and "The Number" (2004), were awarded the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for literary non-fiction. He is also the author of "Three-Letter Plague" and "Notes from a Fractured Country".
 

Thomas (C.) TANGLING THE LION'S TALE, Donald Card, from apartheid cop to crusader for justice, 276 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., East London, 2007.

  R265
  The story of Donald Card, a former police officer and a security policeman who, after meeting Steve Biko, came to a new understanding of South African politics and committed himself to the struggle for democracy.
 

Tosco (D.) dir. SCARS, , 30 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 1998.

  R265
  Documentary on two street children in Cape Town. Dialogue in Afrikaans and Xhosa, with English subtitles.
 

van der Merwe (K.) & Tosco (D.) dir. IDUMA ELINGOPIYO/ THE WOUND THAT DOES NOT BLEED, a view from the inside, 53 minutes, DVD, Cape Town, 1998.

  R265
  Documentary on the lives of street children in Cape Town. Dialogue in English, Afrikaans and Xhosa, with English subtitles. This film won Second Prize for Best Foreign Film at Adriatico Cinema International FIlm Festival, Rimini, Italy.
 

Verster (F.) dir THE MOTHERS' HOUSE, , 76 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2006.

  R180
  Documents four years in the life of Miché Moses, a teenager living with her HIV-positive mother, Valencia, her grandmother, Amy, an aunt and two siblings in a small house in Bonteheuwel, a previously coloured suburb in Cape Town. This film won Best Documentary at the Cape Town World Cinema Festival in 2005, Best Documentary at the 2006 SAFTA Awards, Best Documentary at the Apollo Film Festival 2006 and Best Film at Play-Doc in 2007, as well as numerous other awards.
 

Viljoen (F.) & Precious (S.) eds. HUMAN RIGHTS UNDER THREAT, four perspectives on HIV, AIDS and the law in southern Africa, 195 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2007.

  R220
  In 2006 the Centre for Human Rights at the University of Pretoria began a research project on issues related to HIV, AIDS, law and human rights. Four researchers, hosted by four different research institutions in southern Africa, were selected to prepare research papers, which are published here:
"Pandora's Box: the crimilisation of HIV transmission or exposure in SADC countries" by Patrick M.Eba,
"Routine HIV Testing of Individuals Attending Public Health Facilities: are SADC countries ready?" by Nyasha C.Chingore,
"The Human Rights and Public Health Implications of Restricting Prisoners' Access to HIV Prevention and Treatment in SADC Countries" by Babafemi Odunsi, and
"The Realsiation of Access to HIV and AIDS-related Medicines in Southern African Countries: possibilities and actual realisation of international law obligations" by Dorothy Mushayavanhu.
 

Williams (P.) SOLDIER BLUE, , 407 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R185
  A memoir about growing up during the Rhodesian bush war of the 1970s.

Paul Williams was born in England and grew up in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. In 2001 his novel, "The Secret of Old Mukiwa" won the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Prize for young adult fiction. He is Professor of English and Humanities at South Florida Community College.
 

Zimmerer (J.) & Zeller (J.) eds. GENOCIDE IN GERMAN SOUTH-WEST AFRICA, the colonial war (1904-1908) in Namibia and its aftermath, 291 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Monmouth, 2008.

  R210
  This book was first published in German in 2003. This edition is translated and introduced by E.J.Neather.

This collection of essays examines the 1904 uprising in South-West Africa (now Namibia) and Germany's war against the Herero and Nama people.

Contributions include "The Golden Age of the Pastoralists, Namibia in the 129th century" by Gesine Krüger,
"War, Concentration Camps and Genocide in South-West Africa, the first German genocide" by Jürgen Zimmerer,
"Symbolic Politics, notes on the German colonial culture of remembrance" by Joachim Zeller,
"'The drama was played out on the dark stage of the sandveldt', the destruction of Herero and Nama in German (popular) literature" by Medardus Brehl,
"Wartime Wedding, the experiences of Kaera Ida Getzen-Leinhos" by Dag Henrichsen,
"The Nama and the War in the South" by Werner Hillebrecht,
"'We never spoke about reparations', German-Namibian relationships: suppression or reconciliation?" by Henning Melber, and
"The Funeral of Samuel Maharero and the reorganisation of the Herero" by Jan-Bart Gewald.