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NEW ARRIVALS
April 2009


 

Baxen (J.) & Breidlid (A.) eds. HIV/AIDS IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA, understanding the implications of culture & context, 144 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R155
  This book explores the various contexts in which debate about HIV/AIDS takes place and examines how the pandemic is perceived by scholars, religious leaders and trandtional healers, among others, in communities around South Africa.

Contributions include "What Questions? HIV/AIDS educational research: beyond more of the same to asking different epistemological questions" by Jean Baxen,
"Examining Religious Leaders' and Traditional Healers' Responses to HIV/AIDS in a Modern Community" by Aysha Hattas,
"Performing Masculine and Feminine Identities: sexuality and identity construction among youth in a context of HIV/AIDS" by Mamatsoso Matsoso-Makhate with Gerald Wangenge-Ouma, and
"Cultural Practices, Gender and HIV/AIDS: a study of young women's sexual positioning in the context of HIV/AIDS in South Africa" by Marit Petersen.

Jean Baxen is Associate Professor at the Faculty of Education, Rhodes University.
Anders Breidlid is Professor of International Education at Oslo University College, Norway.
 

Berger (I.) SOUTH AFRICA IN WORLD HISTORY, , 190 pp., paperback, New York, 2009.

  R160
  A general survey of South African history that integrates social history and women's history and emphasizes connections between the USA and South Africa.

Iris Berger is Professor of History, Africana Studies and Women's Studies at the University of Albany, State University of New York.
 

Brien (M.) AN UNEASY ANGER, de la Rey and the Foster Gang, 230 pp., map, b/w & colour illus.,, Cape Town, 2009.

  R170
  The story of the life and times of the Boer general and statesman, Koos de la Rey, and the rise and fall of the gangster William Foster.
 

Chisholm (L.) & Steiner-Khamsi (G.) eds. SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION IN EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT, , 304 pp., paperback, New York & Cape Town, 2009.

  R275
  A collection of articles that explore the possibilties and challenges of South-South cooperation in educational development.

Includes the chapters, "India and South Africa: diaspora and transfer" by Crain Soudien, and
"The New Regionalism in African Education: limits and possibilities" by Leon Tikly and Hillary Dachi.
 

Coetzer (T.) & Reinders (S.) KEY TO CAPE TOWN, your insider's guide to exploring the Mother City, 223 pp., 4to., maps, colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R195
  A quirky guide to Cape Town which lists 115 things to do and places to visit, many of them unusual.

"Clarkes Bookshop (211 Long Street) has been around since 1956 and scratching around this quaint old two-storey shop is an adventure which could easily take up a whole morning."
 

Cullinan (K.) & Thom (A.) ed. THE VIRUS, VITAMINS AND VEGETABLES, the South African HIV/AIDS mystery, 211 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R170
  A collection of essays on Aids denialism by South Africa's political leadership in the Mbeki era.

Contributions include "Love, Courage, Insubordination and HIV/AIDS denialism" by Pregs Govender,
"The President's Panel" by Michael Cherry,
"Garlic, Olive Oil, Lemons and Beetroot" by Liz McGregor,
"Saints and Sinners: the Treatment Action Campaign" by Janine Stephen,
"Speaking Truth to Power" by Claire Keeton, and
"Remembering a Decade of the Treatment Action Campaign" by Zackie Achmat.

Kerry Cullinan and Anso Thom work for Health-e News Service, a non-profit news agency that covers HIV/AIDS and health in South Africa.
 

du Bois-Pedain (A.) TRANSITIONAL AMNESTY IN SOUTH AFRICA, , 391 pp., hardback, Cambridge, 2007.

  R1260
  The "first comprehensive analysis of South Africa's amnesty scheme in its practical and normative dimensions. Through empirical analysis of over 1,000 amnesty decisions made by the Amnesty Committee of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the study measures the scheme against its stated goals of truth recovery, victim empowerment and perpetrator accountability. It also explores normative questions raised by the absence of punishment."

Antje du Bois-Pedain is a lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge.
 

Dugmore (H.) & van Wyk (B-E.) MUTHI AND MYTHS, from the African bush, 128 pp., colour illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

  R199
  Fifty-two accounts of the use of traditional medicine (muthi) in Africa. Many of these stories have been inherited through oral tradition and are written down here for the first time. The plants covered include Leopard Orchid, Baobab, Bitter Aloe, Marula, Wild Dagga, Sugarbush, Ghaap, Pennywort, Kalahari Fever Bush, African Potato, Devil's Claw, Rooibos, Cancer Bush, Hibiscus, Honeybush, Wild Ginger and Wild Olive.

Ben-Erik van Wyk is Professor of Botany at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Journalist and writer Heather Dugmore is also the author of "Big Cats of Mala Mala".
 

Eze (E.C.) REASON, MEMORY AND POLITICS, , 137 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2008.

  R120
  Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze explores the question of what it means, in the early twenty-first century, to be a philosopher of Africa or an African philosopher.

"This book forms part of an emerging zone of scholarship which seeks to theorize Africa and its intellectual lineages in a broader universal perspective." Isabel Hofmeyr

Nigerian-born Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze (1963-2007) was Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University, Chicago.
 

Gear (S.) GOING GREEN, 365 ways to change our world, 379 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R140
  Weartherman Simon Gear's easy-to-implement suggestions on how to reduce your carbon imprint and make your environment more sustainable.
His suggestions include drip-drying your clothes, having dirty kids and fewer allergies, obeying the speed limit, taking the train on holiday, leaving everywhere better than you found it, eating your leftovers, becoming a mentor, never buying a gift from a "gift shop", giving thanks and saying hello.
 

Gevisser (M.) THABO MBEKI, the dream deferred, the updated international edition, 376 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R175
  An updated shortened edition of Mark Gevisser's biography of Thabo Mbeki, first published in 2007, which won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award in 2008.
 

Hichens (J.) comp. & ed. BAD COMPANY, stories of intrigue, suspense and thrills, 209 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R190
  A collection of thriller and crime fiction.

Includes short stories by Deon Meyer, Margie Orford, Richard Kunzmann, David Dison, Mike Nicol and Tim Keegan.
 

Hopkins (P.) JOHNNY GOLIGHTLY COMES HOME, a portrait of eccentricity, 234 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R190
  This book "defies a neat categorisation. The narrative follows a journey of discovery by author Pat Hopkins - discovery of himself, of the nature of eccentricity and the multiple identities of a unique South African conceptual artist, John Anthony Boerma." John Boerma is otherwise known as Johnny Golightly.

Author and journalist Pat Hopkins is also the author of "Voëlvry: the movement that rocked South Africa".
 

Joyce (P.) text & de la Harpe (R.) & (P.) photo. CULTURES OF SOUTH AFRICA, a celebration, 144 pp., 4to., map, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R180
  Records the history and the traditional way of life of South African's indigenous people, the San, Xhosa, Zulu, Southern Sotho, Northern Sotho, Tsonga, Swazi, Ndebele, Venda and Tswana.
 

Kadalie (R.) IN YOUR FACE, passionate conversations about people and politics, 262 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R180
  A collection of Rhoda Kadalie's newspaper columns.

Forewords by Helen Suzman and Njabulo Ndebele.
"I once thought that her unrelenting forthrightness could eventually be dismissed as her 'usual thing'. That has not happened. What rescues her writing from the predictability of sameness is precisely the varied reactions it evokes. They guarantee freshness of impact. It is a total package of forthrightness, passion, strong belief, strong-mindedness, and unflinching witness." Njabulo Ndebele

Rhoda Kadalie is a columnist for Business Day, Die Burger and Beeld newspapers. From 1976-1995 she worked as an academic at the University of the Western Cape, where she founded the Gender Equity Unit. in 1995 Nelson Mandela appointed her Human Rights Commissioner. In 1998 she served as head of the District Land Claims Unit for the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights. Since 1999 she has been the executive director of the Impumelelo Innovations Award Trust which rewards initiatives that improve service delivery and eradicate poverty in South Africa.
 

Keim (M.) comp. & ed. UMAMA, recollections of South African mothers and grandmothers, 176 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R150
  Forty South Africans celebrate their mothers and grandmothers.
Includes contributions from Mac Maharaj, Desmond Tutu, Sibongile Khumalo, Antjie Krog, Kader Asmal, André Brink, JM Coetzee, Richard Goldstone, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Miriam Makeba, Rian Malan, Nelson Mandela, Trevor Manuel, Zakes Mda, Albie Sachs, Helen Suzman and Pieter-Dirk Uys.

Marion Keim is associate professor at the University of the Western Cape, Advisory Boards member of Women for Peace Western Cape and an advocate of the High Court.
 

Lipman (J.) dir. COURTING JUSTICE, , 70 minutes, DVD, , 2008.

  R360
  A documentary on the women appointed judges in South Africa since 1994. Includes interviews with Deputy Judge President Jeanette Traverso, Judges of the Cape High Court Patricia Goliath and Tandazwa Ndita, Judge of the Johannesburg High Court Mathilde Masipa, Justice of the Supreme Court of Appeal Mandisa Maya, and Yvonne Mokgoro and Bess Nkabinde of the Constitutional Court.

Music by Philip Miller.
 

Mashile (L.) FLYING ABOVE THE SKY, , 124 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R135
  A second collection of poems by Lebogang Mashile. Her first collection, "In a Ribbon of Rhythm", published in 2005, won the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa in 2006.
 

McDonald (P.D.) THE LITERATURE POLICE, apartheid censorship and its cultural consequences, 416 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Oxford, 2009.

  R320
  "At last - a small Truth and Reconciliation Commission on South African literature! For the first time the secret documents of the censors and the roles black/white/English/Afrikaans writers and publishers played during apartheid censorship are brought together and scrutinized. Everything is exposed: from the unseemly sensitivities of Afrikaner housewives to the infighting between angry black writers and liberal magazine editors and all of it shows up like never before the vast stinking morass people inevitably create when they try to police literature. An extra bonus is the insightful analysis of the internal negotiations and outward strategies top South African writers developed to deal with the reality of severe injustice, on the one hand, and the effect of censorship, on the other." Antjie Krog

"Indispensable reading if we wish to understand the forces forming and deforming literary productions in South Africa during the apartheid years." JM Coetzee

Peter McDonald is a Fellow of St Hugh's College and a lecturer in English at the University of Oxford.
 

Merrett (C.) SPORT, SPACE AND SEGREGATION, politics and society in Pietermaritzburg, 391 pp., map, paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.

  R285
  Journalist and writer Christopher Merrett uses sport as a lens through which to view the political, social, economic and cultural history of the city of Pietermaritzburg.
 

Mistry (J.) dir. WE REMEMBER DIFFERENTLY, a short film, 26 minutes, DVD, , 2004.

  R135
  A film about a mother and daughter coming to terms with their memories.

Associate Professor Jyoti Mistry teaches writing for experimental film and documentary at Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Mngxitama (A.) WHY BIKO WOULD NOT VOTE, New Frank Talk no.1, 26 pp., paperback, (Johannesburg), (2009).

  R35
  Andile Mngxitama presents an argument for why Stephen Biko would not be voting in the 2009 general election.

"The first part of this three-part discussion touches on Biko's views on liberation, white liberals, what I call (black) socialism, class and simultaneously discuss anti-racism and anti-racialism as postulated by David Theo Goldberg. The second part concentrates on Azapo - one of the political parties purporting Black Consciousness - and critically exposes its 2009 election manifesto - which is similar to that of the DA: a predominantly white party. Im comparing the Azapo-DA manifestos, focus is given to the respective parties' position on education, crime, corruption and the 'constitutional crisis'. The third section briefly focuses, and posthumously locates Biko in the emergent extra-electoral politics - 'energy points' - expressly embodied, inter alia, by Abahlali baseMjondolo, Anti-privatisation and Anti-eviction campaigns, the Landless People's Movement, Blackwash and NOPE! These initiatives stand for a continual anti-racist and anti-capitalist critique - Biko's passion."

Andile Mngxitama, together with Amanda Alexander & Nigel Gibson, edited "Biko Lives! Contesting the legacies of Steve Biko".
 

Mofokeng (L.) LEGAL PLURALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA, aspects of African customary, Muslim and Hindu family law, 181 pp., paperback, CD-Rom, Pretoria, 2009.

  R271
  Lesala Mofokeng focuses on recent developments in South African law concerning the legal recognition of African customary marriages and aspects of Hindu and Muslim religious marriages.
 

Mulhall (S.) THE WOUNDED ANIMAL, J.M.Coetzee and the difficulty of reality in literature and philosophy, 255 pp., paperback, Princeton, 2009.

  R310
  Stephen Mulhall examines J.M.Coetzee's writings about Elizabeth Costello, and the ways in which philosophers have responded to them, focusing in particular on their presentation of both literature and philosophy as seeking, and failing, to represent reality.

Stephen Mulhall is fellow and tutor in philosophy at New College, University of Oxford.
 

Murray (B.) & Vahed (G.) eds. EMPIRE AND CRICKET, the South African experience 1884-1914, 326 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2009.

  R295
  Foreword by André Odendaal.

Describes the relationship between the British Empire and cricket, especially in the making of South African society between 1884 and 1914.

Contributions include "Black Cricketers, White Politicians and the Origins of Segregation at the Cape to 1894" by Richard Parrry,
"Empire, Race and Indian Cricket in Natal, 1880-1914" by Goolam Vahed and Vishnu Padayachee,
"The Boer Prisoners of War in Ceylon and the 'Great and Grand Old Manly Game of Cricket'" by Heinrich Schulze,
"Constructing Imperial Identity: The 1907 South African Cricket Tour of England" by Geoffrey Levett, and
"Abe Bailey and the Foundation of the Imperial Cricket Conference" by Bruce Murray.

 

Nogueira (H.) dir. INGRID JONKER, her lives and time..., 150 minutes, DVD, , 2007.

  R150
  A documentary on the poet Ingrid Jonker (1933-1965). Includes interviews with Andre Brink, Jan Rabie, Majorie Wallace, Sir Laurens van der Post, Breyten Breytenbach, Revel Fox, Grethe Fox, James Matthews, Peter Clarke, Michael Cope, Erik Laubsher and James Matthews. Poetry read by Antjie Krog and Ingrid Jonker. Ingrid's diaries read by Aletta Bezuidenhout. Jack Cope diaries read by Graham Hopkins.

This film won the 2008 South African Film and Television Award for Best Documentary.
 

Ntantala (P.) A LIFE'S MOSAIC, the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala, 238 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1992) 2009.

  R190
  A new edition of Phyllis Ntantala's autobiography in which she describes her life in South Africa before she moved to North America. She writes about being the wife and mother of famous men - the pioneering scholar A.C.Jordan and the ANC activist and intellectual, Pallo Jordan, the current Minister of Arts and Culture.
 

Pienaar (A.) THE GRIQUA'S APPRENTICE, ancient healing arts of the Karoo, 143 pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R190
  Translated from the Afrikaans by Catherine Knox.

In 2000 Afrikaans singer and actress Antoinette Pienaar met Oom Johannes Willemse and became his apprentice to learn from him about the healing power of Karoo herbs. Includes an index of herbs and their uses.
Profusely illustrated, with photographs of the Karoo landscape and indigenous herbs.

Also available in Afrikaans as "Kruitjie Roer My".
 

Pincott (S.) THE ELEPHANTS AND I, pursuing a dream in troubled Zimbabwe, 280 pp., map, colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R195
  In 2001 Sharon Pincott moved from Australia to South Africa to live and work among elephants on land bordering Hwange National Park.

"Sharon Pincott has written a brave and passionate book about her work in Zimbabwe trying to protect the special herd called the 'Presidential Elephants'. Against all odds and her own safety she has stayed in this troubled country for over eight years trying to deal with poaching, land grabbing, unethical hunters and personal harassment. Sharon vividly portrays both the tragedies and the joys of her mission. Her writing about individual elephants and their behaviour is fascinating." Cynthia Moss, world-renowned elephant expert

"A moving account of Africa's power to attract, inspire, and change the course of one's life, giving it a new meaning. Sharon's story is of courage, adventure, love and commitment to the elephant of Zimbabwe." Kuki Gallmann
 

Russell (A.) AFTER MANDELA, the battle for the soul of South Africa, 324 pp., map, paperback, London, (2009) 2001.

  R145
  Alec Russell looks at the challenges facing South Africa post-Mandela, especially the question of "whether the ANC can avoid the atrophy that has enveloped other African liberation movements that had such high hopes at independence."

"This is the book we have all been waiting for - the book that takes us beyond the easy assumptions and lazy comfort of the Mandela era and into what Russell calls the second struggle. Eloquently he shows how transforming the magic of freedom into a nuts-and-bolts change in the lives of ordinary people is turning out to be far more difficult than anyone could have imagined." George Alagiah

"Layered with anecdote, historical background and close scrutiny of recent events, stands as an informative, nuanced and provocative end of era report" Gillian Slovo

Award-winning journalist Alec Russell is World News Editor for the Financial Times, and formerly their Johannesburg bureau chief.
 

Stein (S.A.) PLUMES, ostrich feathers, Jews, and a lost world of global commerce, 244 pp., map, illus., hardback, d.w., New Haven, 2008.

  R385
  Examines the thriving global trade in ostrich feathers from the "boom" of the 1880s to the economically devastating "bust" that coincided with the First World War, and the prominant role Jews played in the industry.
Includes a chapter on Jewish feather handlers in South Africa, "The Cape of southern Africa: Atlantic crossings".

Sarah Abrevaya Stein is the Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies and Professor of History, University of California, Los Angeles.
 

Steyn (M.) & van Zyl (M.) eds. THE PRIZE AND THE PRICE, shaping sexualities in South Africa, 416 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009.

  R290
  Contributions include "Colouring Sexualities: how some black South African schoolgirls respond to 'racial' and gendered inequalities" by Rob Pattman and Deevia Bhana,
"Glamour, Glitz and Girls: the meanings of femininity in high school Matric Ball culture in urban South Africa" by Elaine Salo and Bianca Davids,
"E-race-ing the Line: South African interacial relationships yesterday and today" by Rebecca Sherman and Melissa Steyn,
"Renegotiating Masculinity in the Lowveld: narratives of male-male sex in compounds, prisons and at home" by Isak Niehaus,
"Fauna, Flora and Fucking: female sex safaris in South Africa" by Haley McEwan,
"Are Blind People Better Lovers?" by Reinette Popplestone, and
"Sexuality in Later Life" by Helena Thornton, Felix Potocnik and Jacqueline Muller.

Melissa Steyn is Associate Professor in Sociology and Director of Intercultural and Diversity Studies of Southern Africa (INCUDISA) at the University of Cape Town.
Mikki van Zyl runs her own business, Simply Said and Done, consulting on gender and sexualities.