Clarke's Books

NEW ARRIVALS
January 2009

Dennison (C.) A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE WILD COAST, , 174 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Ashburton, 2008.

	R159

Clive Dennison has explored the Wild Coast since he first went there as a child, in 1957.

"Fascinating tales about shipwrecks and survivors, settlers and tribes, and colonial claims on the Transkei and Wild Coast over the past 400 years". Pat Goss

Dommisse (B.) THE PALACE, Simon's Town, 122 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2008.

	R265

A history of the recently renovated Simon's Town building orginally called The Palace, home of the wealthy entrepreneur John Osmond. During the Anglo-Boer War it served as the Palace Hospital and then as Palace Barracks for the South African Navy. In 2004 the architectural firm Gabriël Fagan and Associates were appointed to plan and supervise its reconstruction.

A companion volume to Boet Dommisse's previous publication, "Admiralty House, Simon's Town".

Flint (K.E.) HEALING TRADITIONS, African medicine, cultural exchange, and competition in South Africa, 1820-1948, 274 pp., illus., paperback, Athens & Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

	R220

Karen Flint examines changes in the medical, social and political role of healers in the Zulu kingdom and investigates how local ideas of health and healing changed under white rule.

Karen E. Flint is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina.

Govender (R.) THE LAHNEE'S PLEASURE, , 175 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

	R125

The play script of "The Lahnee's Pleasure" was published by Ravan Press in 1976.

Writer and playwright Ronnie Govender was born in Cato Manor in 1934. He is also the author of 15 plays, a collection of short stories, "At the Edge and Cator Manor and other stories", "In the Manure, memoirs and reflections", and the novel, "Song of the Atman", which won the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book.

Gribble (J.) & Athiros (G.) TALES OF SHIPWRECKS AT THE CAPE OF STORMS, , 160 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback , Cape Town, 2008.

	R235

Records the stories of twenty nine shipwrecks around the Cape of Good Hope, including the Birkenhead, De Jonge Thomas, Nieuw Haarlem, Gouden Buys, and Brederode.

Gunn (S.) & Krwala (S.) eds. KNOCKING ON, mothers and daughters in struggle in South Africa, 264 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R95

A collection of life stories told by six pairs of mothers and daughters, who talk about how activism in the struggle against apartheid affected their sense of self, family relationships, life options, and hopes for the country's future.

Shirley Gunn is Director of the Human Rights Media Centre.

Hofmeyr (G.) dir. MAMA JACK, , 100 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2005.

	R110

A comedy about the misadventures of a man who disguises himself as a black woman, Mama Jack, written by and starring Leon Schuster.

Kathrada (A.) A SIMPLE FREEDOM, the strong mind of Robben Island prisoner, no.468/64, 148 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., DVD, Johannesburg, 2008.

	R149

Introduction by Nelson Mandela. Preface by Tim Couzens.

While in prison on Robben Island Ahmed Kathrada kept cladestine notebooks in which he noted down quotations from library books and newspapers that inspired him. This book offers a selection of these quotations, together with personal memories Tim Couzens collected in informal conversations with Ahmed Kathrada.

Also includes a DVD, directed by Anant Singh, which "shows the waves of Robben Island as they are washing up against the voice of Kathrada, interviewed by Couzens, off camera." Maureen Isaacson

This book was shortlisted for the 2009 Alan Paton Award.

Marx (F.) dir. WEERSKANT DIE NAG, , 87 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 1979.

	R130

An Afrikaans film based on the novel by P.G.du Plessis. Stars Alletta Bezuidenhout and Nic van Rensburg.

Molebatsi (N.) comp. & ed. WE ARE..., a poetry anthology, 104 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

	R120

Foreword by Gcina Mhlope.

A collections of poems written by young South Africans, mainly women. Contributors include Phillippa de Villiers, Myesha Jenkins, Maakomele "mak" Manaka, Napo Masheane, Lebogang Mashile, Natalia Molebatsi and Otumile Shupinganeng.

Rive (R.) comp. & ed. QUARTET, Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Alf Wannenburgh, Richard Rive, 158 pp., paperback, Cape Town, (1963) 2008.

	R176

"Here is a piece of Cape history, recorded, forty years ago, in compassion and in truth of mood. The Cape, and Cape Town, are changing at a more rapid pace than ever, and Quartet offers us a holdfast to whom we were. This book, this quartet of storytellers, was first published in 1963 by Crown Publishers New York, to be followed by the Heinemann Africa Series in 1965. Of the four contributors, two have passed on - Richard Rive (who also edited the collection), and Alex La Guma." Brian O'Connell, from his foreword

Schaefer (A.) text & Grogan (T.) illus. LIFE & TRAVELS IN THE NORTHWEST 1850-1899, Namaqualand, Bushmanland & West Coast, 260 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

	R212

Arne Shaefer has travelled around Namaqualand for 26 years and has assembled a large collection of printed material on the region. In this collection he has arranged, translated and annotated a collection of excepts from some of these obscure sources, which include articles published in the Cape Monthly Magazine, published parliamentary reports and papers, the journal of the Royal Geographical Society, and several books.

Includes drawings by Tony Grogan.

Serra (D.A.) dir. CAPE OF RAPE, , 52 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 1999.

	R215

Derek Antonio Serra documents the experiences of seven women who were raped in and around Cape Town.

Serra (D.A.) dir. CULTURE CLASH!, , 52 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2001.

	R215

A documentary that looks at the misconceptions, misunderstandings, and prejudices that exist between the different cultural groups in South Afica.

Serra (D.A.) dir. STREETLIFE - VIRGINS, , 52 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 1998.

	R215

A documentary on the experiences of five street prostitutes, aged from 12 to 34 years, working in Woodstock and Green Point in Cape Town.

Please note that this film contains sexually explicit language and scenes.

Serra (D.A.) dir. WHITE WORKING CLASS, , 48 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2007.

	R215

Director Derek Serra's personal film on his father, an Italian immigrant who came to South Afica in 1920 to work in the building industry.

Serra (D.A.) prod. WOMEN SPEAK OUT!, , 4 x 24 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2001.

	R300

A 4 x 24 minutes documentary series directed by three emerging black women directors:
"Bring Back Yesterday", directed by Lungiswa Sithole, which looks at the lives of pensioners in the township hostels of Langa and Guguletu,
"Parent Alone", directed by Bongi Mdongwe, which documents the lives of a few men who are single parents,
"Body Beautiful", directed by Omelga Mthlyane, which explores black women's attitudes towards their bodies, and
"Speaking Out", directed Terry Westby-Nunn, which looks at the realities facing emerging black women filmmakers.

Simpson (J.) NOT QUITE WORLD'S END, a traveller's tales, 475 pp., colour illus., paperback, London, (2007) 2008.

	R119

Award-winning journalist John Simpson's collection of writings about life in different parts of the world, including chapters on Afrikaners and Bushmen forcibly removed for the Central Kalahari Game Reserve by the government of Botswana.

John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor.