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NEW ARRIVALS
March 2009


 

Adhikari (M.) ed. BURDENED BY RACE, coloured identities in southern africa, 240 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R243
  Contributions include "From Narratives of Miscegenation to Post-Modernist Re-Imagining: towards a historiography of coloured identity in South Africa" by Mohamed Adhikari,
"Trauma and Memory: the impact of apartheid-era forced removals on coloured identity in Cape Town" by Henry Trotter,
"Collaboration, Assimilation and Contestation: emerging constructions of coloured identity in post-apartheid South Africa" by Michele Ruiters,
"'We are the original inhabitants of this land': Khoe-San identity in post-apartheid South Africa" by Michael Besten,
"Race, Ethnicity and the Politics of Positioning: the making of coloured identity in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1980" by James Muzondidya, and
"Absent White Fathers: coloured identity in Zambia" by Juliette Milner-Thornton.

Mohamed Adhikari teaches in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town. He is also the author of "'Let us Live for Our Children'": the Teacher's League of South Africa, 1913-1940" and "Not White Enough, Not Black Enough: racial identity in South Africa's coloured community".
 

Bell (T.) & Ntsebeza (D.B.) UNFINISHED BUSINESS, South Africa, apartheid and truth, 385 pp., harback, d.w., London, (2001) 2003.

  R195
  Terry Bell and Dumisa Ntsebeza seek to reveal some of the hidden history of South Africa's apartheid past which he feels the Truth and Reconciliation Commission failed to uncover.

Terry Bell is a Cape Town-based freelance writer, columnist and editor.
Dumisa Buhle Ntsebeza practices as an advocate in Cape Town and is a distinguished visiting professor of law and history at the University of Connecticut.
 

Benger (R.) dir. MADIBA, the life and times of Nelson Mandela, 120 minutes, DVD, Canada, 2004.

  R195
  A two-part documentary on Nelson Mandela. Includes archival footage as well as recent interviews with Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, Neville Alexander, Mac Maharaj, Allister Sparks, P.W.de Klerk, Pik Botha and Niel Barnard, amongst others.
 

Cooper (B.) A NEW GENERATION OF AFRICAN WRITERS, migration, material culture & language, 182 pp., paperback, Woodbridge & Pitermaritzburg, 2008.

  R170
  "Brenda Cooper tracks the journeys undertaken by a new generation of African writers, their protagonists and the solid objects that populate their fiction, to depict the material realities of their multiple worlds and languages".

Includes chapters on Biyi Bandele's "The Street", Leila Aboulela's "The Translator" and "Coloured Lights", Jamal Mahoub's "The Carrier", Moses Isegawa's "Abyssinian Chronicles" and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's "Purple Hibiscus" and "Half of a Yellow Sun".

Brenda Cooper is Director of the Centre for African Studies and a professor in the Department of English Language & Literature at the University of Cape Town.
 

Feinberg (B.) TIME TO TELL, an activist's story, 169 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R160
  Foreword by Pallo Jordan.

Activist, poet, painter and filmmaker Barry Feinberg went into exile in Britain in 1961, becoming one of the leading activists in the international solidarity movement. He was also involved in the secret work of both the ANC and the SACP and was one of the founding members of Mayibuye, an ANC music and poetry performance ensemble. He also headed up the information division of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF). He returned to South Africa in 1991, after the unbanning of the ANC.
 

Fish (L.) dir. HOERIKWAGGO, PEOPLE OF THE MOUNTAIN, , 52 minutes, DVD, South Africa, (2003).

  R180
  A documentary that traces the social history of Table Mountain. Narrated by Gcina Mhlope.

Hoerikwaggo is the Khoi Khoi name for Table Mountain and means "mountain of the sea" or "sea mountain".
 

Goldstein (A.) & Lubin (A.) eds. SETTLER COLONIALISM, The South Atlantic Quarterly, 107:4, Fall 2008, 866 pp., paperback, Durham, 2008.

  R195
  Includes "The American Construction of the Poor White Problem in South Africa" by Zine Magubane, an associate professor and chair of the Department of Sociology at Boston College.
 

Good (K.) DIAMONDS, DISPOSSESSION AND DEMOCRACY IN BOTSWANA, , 182 pp., paperback, Oxford & Johannesburg, (2008) 2009.

  R165
  "This book focuses on five main elements of Botswana's political economy: diamond production, presidentialism, predominance, social weakness and the subordination of the San people." Kenneth Good

Kenneth Good was Professor of Political Studies at the University of Botswana when he was expelled from the country.
 

Grundlingh (A.M.) & Huigen (S.) eds. VAN VOLKSMOEDER TOT FOKOFPOLISIEKAR, kritiese opstelle oor Afrikaanse herinneringsplekke, 221 pp., illus., paperback, Stellenbosch, 2008.

  R190
  A collection of critical essays on cultural symbols shared by Afrikaans-speaking South Africans.

Contributions include "Koos Kombuis en die Kollektiewe Herinnering" by Siegried Huigen and Albert Grundlingh,
"Die Volksmoeder, 'n beeld van 'n vrou" by Elsabé Brink,
"'n Kleurlingkenner se Kleurling" by Heim Willemse,
"Die Etende Afrikaner, aantekeninge vir 'n klein tipologie" by Marlene van Niekerk,
"Bantoe - van abantu na ubuntu" by Kees van der Waal,
"Rugby" and "Waarom 'n Spook as 'n Leier? Die 'De la Rey'-fenomeen en die herskep van herinneringe, 2006-2007" by Albert Grundlingh,
"Die Geweldige Gewel van die Kaap" by Hans Fransen,
"Boeremusiek" and "Die Stem" by Stephanus Muller, and
"'In Wrede Woede het Ek die Hand wat Beheer Gebyt', die opkoms van Afrikaanse (punk)rockmusiek" by Annie Klopper.
 

Hoffmann (A.) ed. WHAT WE SEE, reconsidering an anthropological collection from southern Africa: images, voices, and versioning, 233 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Basel, 2009.

  R250
  Published to accompany the exhibition shown at the Slave Lodge, Cape Town, in 2009.

In 1931 the German artist Hans Lichtenecker created an archive of racial types by casting, measuring and photographing people in the Witzpütz police station in southern Namibia. He also recorded their voices on wax cylinders. The casts, voice recordings, anthropometrical photographs and other physical representations were exhibited at the colonial exhibition in Köln, Germany, in 1934. They were exhibited again in the 1980s in Windhoek.

This book engages with the anthropometrical archive and its canned voices theoretically, visually and artistically and provides transcriptions of many of the recorded texts, transcribed and translated here for the first time.

Essays include "Widerspenstige Simmen - Unruly Voices" and "Finding Words (of Anger)" by Anette Hoffmann,
"What One Does (Not) Hear. Approaching canned voices through Rancičre" by Ruth Sonderegger,
"The Joy of Looking: early German anthropology, photography and audience formation" by Udo Krautwurst,
"South African Museums and Human Remains" by Matin Legassick and Ciraj Rassool, and
"Bones of Conflict" by Fiona Clayton.
 

Johnson (R.W.) SOUTH AFRICA'S BRAVE NEW WORLD, the beloved country since the end of apartheid, 710 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, London, (2009) 2010.

  R320
  R.W.Johnson tells the story of South Africa from the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as president to the present.

"A masterpiece, utterly devastating for anyone who still cherishes illusions about the Rainbow Nation." Rian Malan

"A relentless and pulverising polemic against the ruling African National Congress and virtually all of its leading lights." Economist

R.W.Johnson is the South Africa correspondent for the London Sunday Times. He is also the author of "How Long Will SOuth Africa Survive?" (1977) and "South Africa: the first man, the last nation" (2004).
 

Krog (A.), Mpolweni (N.) & Ratele (K.) THERE WAS THIS GOAT, investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile, 235 pp., colour illus., paperback , Pietermaritzburg, 2009.

  R170
  Notrose Nobomvu Konile, the mother of Zabonke Konile, one of the Guguletu Seven killed by the police in 1986, testified before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in 1996. Antjie Krog, reporting as a journalist at the time, was stuck by the seeming incoherence of the testimony. In 2004 she began working with Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele to more closely investigate Mrs Konile's words.

"This book may prove to be one of the most significant texts of its time. What Antjie Krog, Nosisi Mpolweni and Kopano Ratele have accomplished here speaks to questions of identity, difference and representation in ways that have not been heard before." Duncan Brown

Antjie Krog is a poet, journalist and extraordinary professor at the University of the Western Cape.
Nosisi Mpolweni is a lecturer in the Xhosa Department at the University of the Western Cape.
Kopano Ratele is a professor in the Institute for Social and Health Sciences at the University of South Africa.
 

Morris (C.) dir. VUKA SIZWE BENEFIT CONCERT, honouring Busi Mhlongo, 110 minutes, DVD, South Africa, 2007.

  R150
  The SABC hosted the inaugural Vuka Sizwe Benefit Concert on 28 October 2007 at Old Jo'burg Park Station, Newtown Precinct, Johannesburg, in honour of singer Busi Mhlongo, who besides fighting breast cancer was also celebrating her 60th birthday. Through this concert the SABC sought to raise funds in support of the fight against breast cancer, and to contribute to the establishment of a South African Social Security Trust Fund for Musicians.

Artists include Dumisile, Thandiswa Mazwai, Simphiwe Dana, Sibongile Khumalo, Dorothy Masuka, Gloria Bosman and Ray Phiri.

Filmed live for television.
 

Mukuka (G.S.) THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY, the silent experience of the Black clery in the Catholic Church in South Africa (1898-1976), 218 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

  R112
  Drawing on archival sources and oral history Dr Mukuka examines the geographical, social and anthropological environment in which the first black priests and the first African bishop in South Africa lived and worked.

Dr George Sombe Mukuka works as a researcher at the University of Johannesburg and is a visiting fellow at the Research School of Social Science (RSSS) history programme at the National University of Australia.
 

Musengezi (C.) & Staunton (I.) eds. A TRAGEDY OF LIVES, women in prison in Zimbabwe, 320 pp., paperback, Harare, 2003.

  R145
  A collection of thirty seven personal stories told by former women prisoners in Zimbabwe. The interviews were conducted by members of the Zimbabwe Women Writers group, recorded on tape, then transcribed and translated.

Forword by Chiedza Musengezi and Irene Staunton.

Includes the essays "Females Prisoners in 'Male' Prisons" by Jill N.Samakayi-Makarati, and "Prison is No Place for a Woman" by Julie Stewart.
 

Nuttall (S.) ENTANGLEMENT, literary and cultural reflections on post-apartheid, 198 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R220
  An exploration of the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting

"Sarah Nuttal offers her readers new critical vocabularies with which to grasp the fictions of self-making, the politics and aesthetics of consumption, and the new and terrifying technologies of the sexualised body." Hazel Carby

"Sarah Nuttall's book is a welcome addition to South African literary and cutural studies, taking us in new directions beyond the apartheid and even standard post-apartheid models, Moving through a variety of settings and moments both textual and non-textual, it is prepared to take risks in matters ranging from the 'citiness' of Johannesburg, to the recombinatory qualities of style, to the larger implications of violence in South Africa" Stephen Clingman

"Elegantly and lucidly written, it offers a penetrating and unique analysis of the complex and paradoxical forms of culture emerging in South Africa today." Isabel Hofmeyr

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Parsons (R.) ed. ZUMANOMICS, which way to shared prosperity in South Africa? Challenges for a new government, 218 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R180
  A collection of essays that outline the economic and social realities confronting the South African government and offer recommendations as to how they can best be managed.

Contributions include "South Africa's economic performance since 1994: can we do better?" by Charlotte du Toit and Johann van Tonder,
"Labour Policy and Job Creation: too many holy cows?" by Carel can Aardt,
"Politics and Human-Oriented Development" by Adam Habib, and
"The Role of the State" by Raymond Parsons.
 

Rassool (C.) & Witz (L.) eds. KRONOS 34, southern African histories, November 2008, making histories, 336 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008.

  R190
  Contributions include "'A Fragile Inheritor': the post-apartheid memorial complex, A.C.Jordan and the re-imagining of cultural heritage in the Eastern Cape" by Gary Minkley,
"Ingxoxo enkulu ngoNongqawuse (A Great Debate about Nongqawuse's Era" by Helen Bradford and Msokoli Qotole,
"Writing, Authorship and I.B.Tabata's Biography: from collective leadership to presidentialism" by Ciraj Rassool,
"Uncertain Myths: the TRC and the (un)making of public myths" by Nicky Rousseau and Madeleine Fullard, and
"When was South African History Ever Postcolonial?" by Premesh Lalu.
 

Rostron (B.) BLACK PETALS, a novel, 186 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R165
  A novel about an archivist who discovers an old surveillance file about himself.

Bryan Rostron's previous novel, "My Shadow", was commended for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize (Africa). He is also the author of "Till Babylon Falls", a non-fiction account of Robert McBride and the 1986 Magoo Bar bombing,
 

Stoffberg (D.) SLAVE ART AT STILL BAY, , 52 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Still Bay, 2005.

  R95
  Translated from the Afrikaans and edited by Marie-Lou Roux.

Dirk Stoffberg traces the origin of a relief sculpture against a rock face in a small cave in Still Bay, Western Cape, possibly carved by a run-away slave.
 

Taylor (D.) RAGE OF LIFE, , 205 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R180
  Written in the early 1950s, this previously unpublished novel set in Sophiatown has been edited by Sheila Belshaw.

Dora Taylor was born in Scotland in 1899. She and her husband settled in Cape Town in 1926 and lived there for over thirty-five years. She took part in multicultural politically dissident groups and wrote political and cultural essays and reviews as well as poetry, short stories and novels. She died in exile in England in 1976.
Two of Dora Taylor's novels, "Kathie" and "Don't Tread on my Dreams'', were published for the first time in 2008.
 

Wilson (J.M.) ISAAC ROSENBERG, the making of a great war poet, a new life, 468 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., London, 2007.

  R385
  Poet Isaac Rosenberg (1890-1918) spent eight months in Cape Town, from June 1914 to February 1915, where he was stimulated "to produce more verse than at any other period of his life." Jean Moorcroft Wilson

Includes an interesting account of Jewish immigrant society and District Six, as well as colour reproductions of portraits Rosenberg painted while in Cape Town.