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NEW ARRIVALS
October 2009


 

THE STEVE BIKO MEMORIAL LECTURES, , , , .

 
 
 

Alexander (N.) et. al. ADVANCING A HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA IN SOUTH AFRICA, perspectives from civil society, 213 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R165
  A selection of papers commissioned by The Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) between 2007 and 2009. The Jophannesburg-based FHR is an independent body established to implement a 1996 agreement between the European Union and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. It's mandate is to address the legacy of apartheid, assist with transformation, build a human rights culture and strengthen civil society.

Contributions include "South Africa Today: the moral responsibility of intellectuals" by Neville Alexander,
"Land and Agrarian Transformation in South Africa" by Samuel Kariuki,
"The Financial and Administrative Independence and Accountability of the Judiciary: some lessons from the Commonwealth" by John Hatchard,
"Beyond the Numbers: the struggle for women's liberation" by Shamin Meer, and
"Environmental Justice" by David Hallowes.
 

Arnott (J.) & Crago (A-L.) RIGHTS NOT RESCUE, a report on female, male and trans sex workers' human rights in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa, 102 pp., colour illus., paperback, (Johannesburg), 2009.

  R175
  The published findings of a study undertaken by The Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP) of the Open Society Initiative Public Health Programme. The study, based on interviews and focus groups with eighty-nine female, male and transgender sex workers as well as interviews with eleven NGOs, documents widespread human rights abuses against sex workers, describes organizing tactics among workers to redress these violations and highlights opportunities for NGOs, governments, donors and UN agencies to expand rights-based approaches to sex work.
 

Bester (M.) text & Bester (S.) illus. THE MISSING BALL, , 31 pp., colour illus., hardback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R90
  Another story about Gaps, the Nguni calf, by the author of "The Cool Nguni".
 

Bloch (G.) THE TOXIC MIX, what's wrong with South Africa's schools and how to fix it, 192 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R180
  Educationist Graeme Bloch examines the factors responsible for South Africa's failed shools, gives examples of schools that are getting it right and offers solutions to the problems.

"'The Toxic Mix will make a lot of sense to ordinary South Africans struggling to understand why a nation that spends more (as a percentage of GDP) on school education than any other African state, has the worst results to show for such investment." Jonathan Jansen, the new rector of the University of the Orange Free State and author of "Knowledge in the Blood"
 

Bould (G.) ed. CONSCIENCE BE MY GUIDE, an anthology of prison writings, 294 pp., paperback, Harare & London, 2005.

  R160
  A collection of prison literature by prisoners of conscience, including Breyten Breytenbach, Pitika Nulti, Steve Biko, Frank Chikane, Anita Kromberg, Dennis Brutus, Rommel Roberts, Bram Fischer, Cedric Mayson, Richard Steele, Ruth First, Beyers Naude and Albie Sachs from South Africa, Welshman Mabhena, Gertrude Mthombeni, Vincent Ndlovu, Lovedale Madhuku, Wilfred Mhanda, Paul Themba Nyathi and Fletcher Dulini Ncube from Zimbabwe, Henrique Guerra and Agostinho Neto from Angola, Magdelena from Namibia, Wole Soyinka from Nigeria and Ngugi wa Thiong'o from Kenya.
 

Coetzee (G.) JOHNNY BOSKAK IS FEELING FUNNY, and other plays, 313 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.

  R235
  Foreword by Mannie Mannim.

This collection of Greig Coetzee's plays, compiled and introduced by Hazel Barnes, includes "Johnny Boskak is Feeling Funny", "White Men with Weapons", "Seeing Red", "The Blue Period of Milton van der Spuy", "Breasts - a play about men", "Look Out" and "Happy Natives".

Writer, director and performer Greg Coetzee has received numerous South African and international awards for his work, including the Scotsman Fringe Award for innovation in theatre and outstanding new production at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2000 and 2006, and was named SA Playwright of the Year by the 1997 National Vita Awards.
 

Coetzee (J.M.) SUMMERTIME, scenes from provincial life, 266 pp., hardback, d.w., London, 2009.

  R295
  This book completes the trilogy of fictionalised memoir begun with "Boyhood" and "Youth".

Shortlisted for the 2010 Sunday Times Fiction Prize.

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

Dames (G.E.) ed. ETHICAL LEADERSHIP, and the challenges of moral transformation, 159 pp., paperback, Stellenbosch, 2009.

  R150
  A collection of essays on the meaning and implications of ethical leadership and the challenges of moral transformation based on the proceedings of eight conferences convened by the Ethical Leadership Project from 2005 to 2008.

Contributions include "Ethical Leadership In and Through Gender and Sexuality" by Tamara Shefer,
"Ethical Leadership In and Through Labour" by Sue Mcwatts and Geraldine Kennedy,
"Ethical Leadership In and Through Business" and "Ethics in Action" by Willie Esterhuyse,
"Ethical Leadership In and Through Politics" by Courtney Smapson, and
"Building Ethical Leadership In and Through Education" by Colleen Howell.
 

Davies (R.) AFRIKANERS IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA, identity politics in a globalised economy, 200 pp., hardback, d.w., London & New York, 2009.

  R395
  Rebecca Davies explores the impacts of globalisation on "Afrikaner identity reconstruction" in post-apartheid South Africa.

"The varieties of Afrikaner identities and how this plays out in the social, economic and political landscape of South Africa is of great importance and the author has really tackled the subject well." Professor Ian Taylor, University of St. Andrews

Rebecca Davies is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Plymouth University and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Comparative and International Politics, University of Stellenbosch.
 

Digby (A.), Phillips (H.), Deacon (H.) & Thomson (K.) AT THE HEART OF HEALING, Groote Schuur Hospital 1938-2008, 398 pp., maps, illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2009.

  R250
  A history of Groote Schuur Hospital.

Forewords by Dr Saadiq Kariem and Professor Marian Jacobs.

Contributions include ""The Gaze From Below: patient experiences" by Howard Phillips and Kirsten Thomson,
"General Hospital Workers" by Anne Digby and Kirsten Thomson,
"Clinical Research: the 'fighting arm' of the medical profession" by Harriet Deacon,
""The Waxing and Waning of a Golden Age" and "White Coats and Stethoscopes: doctors and medical students at GSH" by Howard Phillips, and
"Challenge and Change, 1987-2007" and "From Racial Segregation Towards Transformation" by Anne Digby.

Anne Digby is Research Professor in History at Oxford Brookes University. She is also the author of "Diversity and Division in Medicine: health care in South Africa from the 1800s" (2006).
Howard Phillips is Professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is also the author of "'Black October': the impact of the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 on South Africa" (1990) and "UCT 1918-1948" (1993) and co-editor of and contributor to "The Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19: new perspectives" (2003) and "The Cape Doctor in the Nineteenth Century: a social history" (2004).
Harriet Deacon is currently a freelance researcher.
Kirsten Thomson worked as a research assistant on the History of the Groote Schuur Hospital Project which culminated in this book.
 

Drew (A.) BETWEEN EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION, a life of Sydney Bunting, 1873-1936, 294 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, (2007) 2009.

  R175
  A biography of Sydney Bunting, founding member of the Communist Party of South Africa.

"This superbly researched and beautifully written work illuminates the diverse worlds of Bloomsbury and Oxford, of dusty South African mining towns, and of the Moscow of Lenin's day - and tells us much about the unexpected connections between these disparate realities" Jonathan Hyslop
 

du Preez (M.) & Rossouw (M.) comps. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JULIUS MALEMA, , 125 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R130
  A collection of more than eighty famous and infamous statements by Julius Malema, president of the ANC Youth League, collated and contextualised by Max du Preez and Mandy Roussouw.

Former newspaper editor and television personality Max du Preez works as a political analyst, newspaper columnist, writer and documentary film maker. He received the Nat Nakasa Award for courageous journalism from the SA National Editors' Forum in 2008 and was named the Yale Globalist International Journalist in 2006.
Mandy Roussouw is a senior political journalist for the Mail & Guardian newspaper.
 

Elsdon (A.D.) THE TALL ASSASSIN, the darkest political murders of the old South Africa, 239 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R200
  A work of fiction based upon historical facts and events. Alan Elsdon, a former member of the Security Police, paints a picture of General "Lang" Hendrik van den Bergh, former head of the Security Police, and links him to a number of political murders: HF Verwoerd, Nic Diederichs, Steve Biko, Anton Lubowski, Johan Heyns, and Robert Smit and his wife.

Also available in Afrikaans.
 

Emdon (E.) JELLY DOG DAYS, , 279 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R190
  A novel about a young girl growing up in a white working-class family in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s.

Erica Emdon lives and works in Johannesburg as a public interest lawyer at an NGO focusing on women's and children's rights. This is her first novel.
 

Giannini (T.), Farbstein (S.), Bent (S.) & Jackson (M.) PROSECUTING APARTHEID-ERA CRIMES?, a South African dialogue on justice, 160 pp., paperback, Cambridge, 2009.

  R185
  Prologue by actor and playwright John Kani.

In September 2006, the Cape Town-based Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR) invited a team from Harvard Law School's International Human Rights Clinic to examine a South African government policy, promulgated in December 2005, which granted the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) extensive powers in deciding whether or not to prosecute alleged perpetrators. This book, based on extensive interviews with former TRC staff and commissioners, human rights lawyers, governments officials, survivors of apartheid, presents and reflects on a variety of South African perspectives on the enduring issue of prosecution of apartheid-era crimes.
 

Gibson (J.L.) OVERCOMING HISTORICAL INJUSTICES, land reconciliation in South Africa, 307 pp., paperback, Cambridge, 2009.

  R250
  James Gibson investigates how the issues of land reconciliation are understood by South Africans, how much support exists for various aspects of land redistribution, how this support varies across the various subcultures and whether competing views of land can be reconciled.

James Gibson is the Sidney W.Souers Professor of Government at Washington University in St. Louis. He is also the author of "Overcoming Apartheid: can truth reconcile a divided nation?" (2004) and co-author with Amamda Gouws of "Overcoming Intolerance in South Africa: experiments in democratic persuasion", (2003).
 

Hendricks (P.) ed. HIJAB, unveiling queer Muslim lives, 208 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R22
  A collection of short biographies by South African Muslims who have struggled to reconcile their spirituality and their sexuality. "Hijab" is the Arabic word meaning "to veil", "to cover" or "to shelter".
 

Jordan (A.C.) THE WRATH OF THE ANCESTORS, , 285 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1980) 2009.

  R250
  Translated from the original Xhosa by the author with the help of Priscilla P.Jordan.

Archibald Campbell Jordan's historical novel, "Ingqumbo yeminyanya", the first novel written in Xhosa, was first published in Xhosa in 1940.

Archibald Campbell Jordan was born in 1906 in Mbokotwana, Transkei, the son of a minister of the Anglican Church. He won a Transkei Bhunga scholarship and qualified as a teacher, later obtaining a Masters degree in African Languages from the University of South Africa. He worked as a lecturer in African Languages at the University of Fort Hare and the University of Cape Town before leaving South Africa in 1961 to avail himself of a Carnegie grant. In 1964 he was appointed Professor of African Languages and Literature at the University of Wisconsin, a post he held until his death in 1968.
 

Joubert (R.) & Prinsloo (S.) THE LAW OF EDUCATION IN SOUTH AFRICA, , 254 pp., paperback, Pretoria, (2001) 2009.

  R270
  This book makes school law accessible by describing and explaining legal aspects pertaining to managing a school in a professional and ethical way and addressing the interpretation and implementation of acts, regulations, policies and court judgements using practical day-to-day examples experienced in South African schools.
 

Kapp (P.) DRAER VAN 'N DROOM, die geskiedenis van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns 1909-2009 , 484 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Hermanus, 2009.

  R248
  A history of Die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie van Wetenskap en Kuns (The South African Academy for Science and Arts), a cultural organisation founded in 1909 to further science, technology and the arts. This book is based on the Academy's extensive archive.

Text in Afrikaans.

Pieter Kapp was a professor of history at Rand Afrikaans University and the University of Stellenbosch. From 1999 to 2001 he was Chairman of the Academy.
 

Kearney (P.) GUARDIAN OF THE LIGHT, Denis Hurley: renewing the Church, opposing apartheid, 382 pp., illus., hardback, d.w, Pietermaritburg & New York, 2009.

  R395
  A biography of Denis Hurley, Catholic Archbishop of Durban from 1951 to 1992 and Chancellor of the University of Natal from 1993 to 1998. He was an outspoken opponent of apartheid.

"Archbishop Hurley was one of our greatest South Africans. This biography reveals what gave him that stature - his integrity, fealessness, gentleness of spirit and his magnaminity. It is a must read for all of us." Desmond Tutu
 

Khumalo (S.) HEART OF AFRICA, centre of my gravity, 222 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R195
  In 2008 Sihle Khumalo spent four weeks travelling around central Africa using only public transport. He travelled thorugh Zambia, across Lake Tanganyika and around Lake Victoria, visiting the official source of the Nile at Jinja in Uganda, the equator, and the Memorial Centre at Kigali, epicentre of the Rwandan genocide.

"I can't imagine a better guide into the heart of Africa than Sihle Khumalo - a no-nonsense traveller, an astute observer, a lover of people and a man with a fine sense of humour." Max du Preez, journalist and writer

Sihle Khumalo is also the author of "Dark COntinent My Black Arse".
 

Long (C.) CONTRADICTING MATERNITY, HIV-positive motherhood in South Africa, 231 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R220
  Drawing on interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, Carol Long provides a perspective of motherhood from the mother's point of view and explores the situation in which two identities, those of motherhood and of being HIV-positive, come together.

"'Contradicting Maternity' matters enormously to all the women for whom the mothers of this book speak. We, the readers, are almost certainly not these women; but, for all our sakes, we need to listen. If we do not, our 'cultural aneasthesia' will prevail: our knowledge of what Carol Long has heard as she asked and listened to the world's catastrophes and its people's trauma, will be without meaning. A meaningless knowledge diminishes us all." Juliet Mitchell, Cambridge University, author of Psychoanalysis and Feminism

Carol Long is Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand and a practising clinical psychologist.
 

Mandela (N.) text & Bouma (P.) illus. LONG WALK TO FREEDOM, , 56 pp., oblong 4to., map, colour illus., hardback , London, 2009.

  R149
  Abridged from Nelson Mandela's autobiography, "Long Walk to Freedom", by Chris van Wyk and illustrated by Paddy Bouma.

Suitable for young children.
 

Manghezi (N.) THE MAPUTO CONNECTION, the ANC in the world of Frelimo, 246 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R180
  Based on interviews with more that forty people from the ANC community in Maputo in the 1970s and 1980s, this book records the history of the relationship between the African National Congress and Frelimo.

Nadja Manghezi and her husband Alpheus supported Frelimo and participated in the exiled struggle of the ANC. She was part of the ANC Education Committee and worked with the Women's Section and the Cultural Group, while finding safe houses for ANC cadres.
 

Morgan (A.) SLEEPER'S WAKE, , 180 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R190
  A novel about a man recovering from a car accident that killed his wife and daughter.

"Not in very long time have I read something that gripped me so intensely." André Brink

This novel won the Paris Review's Plimpton Prize for Fiction in 2009.

Alistair Morgan was born in Johannesburg in 1971. This is his first novel.
 

Ndebele (N.) et. al THE STEVE BIKO MEMORIAL LECTURES, 2000 - 2008, 139 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R155
  "The annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture is given by Africa's foremost scholars and artists, as well as religious and political leaders."

The nine lectures included in this volume were delivered by Njabulo Ndebele, Zakes Mda, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nelson Mandela, Mamphela Ramphele, Desmond Tutu, Thabo Mbeki and Trevor Manuel.
 

Orford (M.) DADDY'S GIRL, , 367 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R175
  A new Clare Hart thriller by the author of "Like Clockwork" and "Blood Rose".
 

Rabie (S.) BOSTON SNOWPLOUGH, , 215 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R140
  A thriller set in the Natal Midlands during a snowstorm.

This novel was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book.

Sue Rabie was born in Durban in 1968. This is her first novel.
 

Roggeband (I.) 50 STEMME, die grootste name in Afrikaans musiek, 256 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R230
  A book about the fifty most famous Afrikaans musicians, past and present. Includes chapters on Anton Goosen, Bles Bridges, Bok van Blerk, Brasse Vannie Kaap, Steve Hofmeyr, Carike Keuzenkamp, Gé Korsten, David Kramer, Fokofpolisiekar, Gert Vlok Nel, Johannes Kerkorrel, Koos Kombuis, Mimi Coertse, Min Shaw, Sonja Herholdt, Leon Schuster, Valiant Swart, Elzabé Zietsman and Karen Zoid.

Text in Afrikaans.
 

Shaw (J.) dir. DARLING!, the Pieter-Dirk Uys story, 54 minutes, DVD, , 2007.

  R120
  A documentary on political satirist Pieter Dirk-Uys. Australian director Julian Shaw focuses especially on Pieter Dirk-Uys's use of comedy to help educate school children and adults about HIV/AIDS.

This film won the Independent Spirit Award at the 2007 Inside Film Awards.
 

Slingsby (P.) & Johns (A.) T.P.STOKOE, the man, the myths, the flowers, 151 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R318
  A biography of Thomas Pearson Stokoe, the mountain climber and botanical explorer who discovered 150 plants in the Cape Floristic Kingdom previously unknown to science. Thirty Cape flowers and the colophone beetle are named after him.

T.P.Stokoe was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1868. He emigrated to Cape Town in 1911 where he lived until his death in 1959.

Foreword by John Rourke, President of the Botanical Society.
 

Smith (J.) & Tromp (B.) HANI, a life too short, a biography, 338 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R190
  A biography of Chris Hani, Communist Party leader and Umkhonto we Sizwe chief of staff, who was assassinated in 1993.

Janet Smith is an excecutive editor of The Star and Saturday Star and a special writer at Independent newspapers.
Beauregard Tromp is a senior reporter at The Star newspaper. He was awarded the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Journalist of the Year in 2009.
 

Tracey (C.G.) ALL FOR NOTHING?, my life remembered, 327 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Harare, 2009.

  R230
  Farmer, entrepreneur, businessman and sanctions-buster C.G.Tracey was involved in different ways in the development of Zimbabwe. In 2002 he lost his farm under Robert Mugabe's land reform programme.

"We need people like C.G.Tracey. People who are dedicated to the cause of unity and who know no colour bar." Senator Dr Isaac Samuriwo
 

Vahed (G.) & Waetjen (T.) comps. DEAR AHMEDBHAI, DEAR ZELEIKHABEHN, the letters of Zuleikha Mayat and Ahmed Kathrada, 1979-1989, 282 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R165
  A collection of letters that chronicles the development of a friendship between Ahmed Kathrada, convicted of treason and serving out a life sentence on Robben Island, and Zuleikha Mayat, a freelance writer, community organiser and editor of the cookbook "Indian Delights".
 

Versfeld (M.) POTS AND POETRY, and other essays, 172 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009.

  R120
  Introduction by André Brink.

"Pots and Poetry" was first published in 1985.
The others essays in this collection first appeared in "Sum", published in 1991.

Martin Versfeld was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cape Town.
 

Wegerif (M.), Russell (B.) & Grundling (I.) STILL SEARCHING FOR SECURITY, the reality of farm dweller evictions in South Africa, 210 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005.

  R195
  This book presents the findings of a national survey of evictions from farms that occurred from 1984 to the end of 2004. The National Evictions Survey, carried out by Social Surveys in partnership with Nkuzi Development Association, has for the first time established how many farm dwellers have been evicted and the impact this has had on the livelihoods of the families affected.

A short documentary of farm dweller evictions produced by Social Surveys to accompany this publication is also available on DVD @ R295
 

Wenzel (J.) BULLETPROOF, afterlives of anticolonial prohpecy in South Africa and beyond, 311 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg & Chicago, 2009.

  R260
  Jennifer Wenzel examines literary and historical texts to show how writers have manipulated images and ideas associated with the 1856/57 Xhosa cattle killing "to speak to their contemporary predicaments. Widening her lens, she also looks at how past failure can both inspire and constrain movements for justice in the present".

"This book counts among the very best works of literary history I have read to date. It is strikingly well argued, beautifully written, and highly original in its conception and design." Sarah Nuttall, Associate Professor of Literary & Cultural Studies at Wits Institute for Social and Economic Studies (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand.

Jennifer Wenzel is Associate Professor of English at the University of Michigan.
 

West (M.) WHITE WOMEN WRITING WHITE, identity and representation in (post-) apartheid literatures of South Africa, 232 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R176
  Mary West analyses the works of selected South African women writers, examining the ways in which they have portrayed the white South African experience. Works discussed include "People Like Ourselves" by Pamela Jooste, "One Tongue Singing" by Susan Mann, "A Change of Tongue" by Antjie Krog, "Echo Location" by Karen Press, short stories by Nadine Gordimer and Marlene van Niekerk and Marianne Thamm's columns in Fair Lady magazine.

Mary West teaches in the Department of Languages and Literature at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University in Port Elizabeth.