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NEW ARRIVALS
May 2009


 

HAYIBO!, The best of hayibo.com. Breaking news. Into lots of little pieces, 96 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R160
  A selection of articles from the satirical "news" website hayibo.com.

"The second best source of made up news after the SABC."
 

Adichie (C.N.) THE THING AROUND YOUR NECK, , 218 pp., paperback, London, 2009.

  R210
  A collection of short stories by Nigerian-born Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She was awarded the 2005 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for her first novel, "Purple Hibiscus". Her second novel, "Half of a Yellow Sun", won the 2007 Orange Prize.
 

Ampiah (K.) & Naidu (S.) eds. CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON?, Africa and China, 357 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008.

  R220
  A collection of country case studies that assess China's Africa policy.
Contributions include "The Geo-Strategic Dimensions of the Sino-African Relationship" by Garth le Pere,
"All's Fair in Loans and War: the development of China-Angola relations" by Lucy Corkin,
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Agena? Zimbabwe-China Relations" by Lloyd Sachikonye,
"Chinese Investments in Africa: a case study of Zambia" by Muna Ndulo,
"Balancing a Strategic Partnership? South Africa-China relations" by Sanusha Naidu,
"An Axis of Evil? China, the United States and France in Africa" by Adekeye Adebajo, and
"Western Hegemony, Asian Ascendancy and the New Scramble for Africa" by Adam Habib.

Kweku Ampiah is an Academic Fellow and member in the Department of East Asian Studies at the University of Leeds.
Sanusha Naidu is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Chinese Studies at Stellenbosch University.
 

Bloom (K.) WAYS OF STAYING, , 228 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R189
  Kevin Bloom, award-winning journalist and former editor of Maverick and Empire magazines, travels through South Africa meeting victims of violence and discovering whether or not the experience has made them want to leave the country.

This book is shortlisted for the 2010 Alan Paton Award for non-fiction.

"Kevin Bloom is that rare creature - a local journalist who kept his head and a measure of cool objectivity even as South Africa teetered on the brink of madness. His book betrays familiarity with the darkest corners of our collective psyche, but he somehow renders the mess we're in with the lucid detachment of a New Yorker writer. This is a vanishingly rare achievement. Bloom's tales of who we are and how we got here should be read by everyone contemplating the agonsising question that follows: where are we going?" Rian Malan

"Ways of Staying is a remarkable book that should be read by all South Africans. Told with a journalist's eye for the deceptively normal, it is a layered story of love and stubborn allegiance to ideals by the nuanced characters, black and white, who have decided that South Africa is there only home." Mandla Langa.
 

Büttiker-Otto (W.) MEMORIES OF A SCIENTIST, the Carp Expedition to the Save River in Zimbabwe and Mozambique , 70 pp., map, b/w & colour illus, paperback, DVD, Basel, 2008.

  R155
  In 1950 Swiss parasitologist William Bütticker-Otto participated in a scientific expedition to remote parts of Rhodesia and Mozambique to survey plant and animal life for museums and botanical gardens. In this memoir he brings together his recollections, a selection of his materials and a short DVD of the expedition. Also includes reminiscences on family life in Harare between 1949 and 1952 by his wife Sonya.
 

Chabal (P.) AFRICA, the politics of suffering and smiling, 212 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, London & New York, 2009.

  R260
  Patrick Chabal discusses the limitations of existing political theories of Africa and proposes a radically different approach, "arguing that political thinking should be driven by the immediacy of everyday life and death".


"This is an important rumination on those aspects of African life that most political science finds too scary, or too complicated, to investigate. Chabal asks deadly simple questions about very complex matters." John Lonsdale, University of Cambridge.

Patrick Chabal is Professor at King's College, London.
 

Cowen (D.) COWEN ON LAW, selected essays, 387 pp., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, (2008) 2009.

  R484
  A collection of essays by Denis Cowen, edited by his daughter, advocate Susannah Cowen. Introduction by Laurie Achermann, former Justice of the Constitutional Court. Each of the essays are introduced by leading legal thinkers, including Arthur Chaskalson, Jeremy Gauntlett, Pius Langa, Dennis Davis, Albie Sachs and Edwin Cameron.

Denis Cowen was born in Cape Town in 1917. He was Professor of Comparative Law at the University of Cape Town and Dean of the Faculty of Law. In the 1950s and 1960s he was a legal adviser to the Basotho people on constitutional reform and after independence in 1966 became special adviser to the Government of Lesotho. He was also Professor of Law at the University of Chicago and Director of the Centre for Legal Research (New Nations). In the 1970s he was Chief Law Adviser to the Johannesburg City Council. In 1982 he was made Honorary Professor of Banking Law at Rand Afrikaans University. In the 1980s he worked as a consultant for Webber Wentzel. He died in Cape Town in 2007.
 

de Villiers (J.C.) HEALERS, HELPERS AND HOSPITALS, a history of military medicine in the Anglo-Boer War, volumes I & II, 707 + 325 pp., map, illus., hardbacks, slipcase, Pretoria, 2008.

  R600
  The Anglo-Boer War "represented a watershed in military medicine and in the way armies take care of their wounded and sick soldiers in times of war." Kay de Villiers covers all military medical aspects of the war, from the influence of Red Cross societies and foreign aid to the clinical aspects of military medical care.

Chapters include "Traditional Remedies Used by Burghers on Commando", "Unqualified Boer Healers and Attendants of the Sick and Wounded", "Radiology During the War", "Medical Events on the Mafikeng Front", "The Lady Hindrance - non-nursing nurses", and "The Sivewright Ambulance (The Afrikaner Ambulance".

Emeritus Professor J.C. (Kay) de Villiers held the Helen and Morris Mauerberger Chair of Neurosurgery at the University of Cape Town. He served as president of the Society of Neurosurgeons of South Africa, was its representative at the World Federation of Neurological Societies and on retirement was made an honorary life vice-president of the World Federation. He is an honorary life president of the Pan-African Society of Neurological Surgeons. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by the University ofthe Western Cape in 1989 and an honorary doctorate by the University of Stellenbosch in 1993. He also founded the Cape Medical Museum.
 

Dimond (J.T.) WRECKED UNDER THE GREEN POINT LIGHT, the background to the Green and Mouille Point lights and stories of six shipwrecks in the area, 111 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R110
  The stories of the building of the two lighthouses and of the wrecks of the Juliana (1839), Prince Rupert (1841), RMS Athens (1865), SS Thermopylae (1899), SS Aotea (1911), and S.A.Seafarer (1966).

John Dimond's original manuscript, found after his death, has been edited by Gabriel and Nikolai Athiros.
 

Doxtader (E.) WITH FAITH IN THE WORKS OF WORDS, the beginnings of reconciliation in South Africa, 1985-1995, 368 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R220
  Erik Doxtader looks behind the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) to examine the fundamental role reconciliation played in the transition from apartheid to nonracial democracy.

"This is simply the best available record and analysis of the debate leading to the adoption of the South African TRC and its implementation. No one interested in South Africa's transition from apartheid to the beginning of democracy can afford not to read it." Charles Villa-Vicencio

Erik Doxtader is Professor of Rhetoric at the University of South Carolina and a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.
He is also co-editor of "Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa - the fundamental documents" (2007) and "To Repair the Irreparable: reparation and reconstruction in South Africa" (2004).
 

du Bois ((F.) & du Bois-Pedian (A.) eds. JUSTICE AND RECONCILIATION IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, , 321 pp., paperback, Cambridge, 2008.

  R180
  International and South African scholars assess the various transitional processes under way in South Africa since the early 1990s. The work of the TRC is viewed within a broader context that involved other responses, such as land restitution, institutional reform and social and cultural initiatives.

Contributions include "Land Restitution and Reconciliation in South Africa" by Theunis Roux,
"Radical Forgiveness: transforming traumatic memory beyond Hannah Arendt" by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela,
"The Contributions of Criminal Justice" by Volker Nerlich,
"For Justice and Reconciliation to Come: the TRC archive, big business and the demand for material reparations" by Jaco Barnard-Naudé,
"Drawing the Line: justice and the art of reconciliation" by Carrol Clarkson,
"Transition, Forgiveness and Citizenship: the TRC and the social construction of forgiveness" Stéphane Leman-Langlois and Clifford Sheaing, and
"The Evolving Legitimacy of the South African Constitutional Court" by James Gibson.

François du Bois is an associate professor and reader in private law at the University of Nottingham.
Antje du Bois-Pedain is a lecturer in law at the University of Cambridge.
 

Eppel (J.) ABSENT, the English teacher, 145 pp., paperback, Harare & Johannesburg, 2009.

  R150
  A satirical novel by Zimbabwean writer John Eppel. His previous novels include "D.G.G. Berry's The Great North Road", winner of the M-Net prize, and "Hatchings". His collection of poems, "Spoils of War", won the Ingrid Jonker Prize.
 

Foley (A.) THE IMAGINATION OF FREEDOM, critical texts and times in contemporary liberalism, 315 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R220
  Andrew Foley explores the work of writers who have responded from a liberal viewpoint when the freedom of the individual has been threatened by political developments. He discusses the work of Alan Paton, Chinua Achebe, Athol Fugard, Ken Kesey, Seamus Heaney, Fay Weldon, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ian McEwan and others, in order to clarify their political vision, assess their significance and develop a case for liberalism as a political philosophy.

Andrew Foley is Professor and Head of the Department of English in the School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand.
 

Kagwanja (P.) & Kondlo (K.) eds. STATE OF THE NATION, South Africa 2008, 350 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R180
  The fifth volume of an annual evaluation of contemporary South Africa.

Contributions include "The Polokwane Moment and South Africa's Democracy at the Crossroads" by Somadoda Fikeni,
"Modernising the African National Congress: the legacy of President Thabo Mbeki" by William Gumede,
"The Developmental State in South Africa: the difficult road ahead" by Sampie Terrblanche,
"Service Delivery as a Measure of Change: state capacity and development" by David Hemson, Jonathan Carter and Geci Karuri-Sebina, and
"Beyond Yard Socialism: landlords, tenants and social power in the backyards of a South African city" by Leslie Bank.
 

Levy (L.) RADICAL ENGAGEMENTS, a life in exile, 213 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R180
  An autobiography by South African trade unionist Lorna Levy, forced into exile in London in 1963 where she became a Labour Party Councillor. She also involved herself in the work of the ANC in exile. She and her husband Leon returned to live in Cape Town in 1997.
 

Lipton (M.) LIBERALS, MARXISTS, AND NATIONALISTS, competing interpretations of South African history, 228 pp., paperback, New York, (2007) 2009.

  R199
  Merle Lipton compares conflicting liberal, Marxist and African and Afrikaner nationalist interpretations of South African history. She also explores the influence these conflicting perspectives have on attitudes, social relations and politics in post-apartheid South Africa and how the differences in these interpretations can be explained.

Merle Lipton is Visiting Senoir Research Fellow at Sussex University, Brighton, and Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. Her books include "Capitalism and Apartheid: South Africa 1910-86", "Sanctions and South Africa: the dynamics of economic isolation", "State and Market in Post-Apartheid South Africa" and "Land, Labour and Livelihoods in Rural South Africa".
 

Lottering (M.) HALLELUJAH!, , 100 minutes, DVD, , 2007.

  R145
  Award-winning Cape comic Marc Lottering's one man show, directed by David Kramer, filmed live at the Baxter Theatre in Cape Town in 2007.
 

Maathai (W.) THE CHALLENGE FOR AFRICA, a new vision, 319 pp. paperback, London, 2009.

  R215
  "From one of Africa's most positive and far-sighted thinkers comes a wonderful book combining an elegant critique of Africa's troubled past with a rallying cry for how Africans can use culture, nature and self-belief to reverse their continent's decline. 'The Challenge of Africa' is a milestone in African writing that both educates and inspires." Tim Butcher

Wangari Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2004. She is also the founder of the Green Belt Movement. Born in Kenya in 1940 she lives and works in Nairobi.
 

Malan (R.) comp. A-Z OF AFRICAN WRITERS, a guide to modern African writing in English, 305 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2009.

  R225
  An introduction to African authors writing in English. Includes over 200 writers, offering a brief biography of each writer, a list of their books, short extracts from their writing, and sometimes critical comment.

Robin Malan is the complier of various well-known anthologies of poems, plays and short stories and is the editor of "English Alive", the annual anthology of writing in high schools in southern Africa. In 2001 he was awarded the Molteno Medal for Lifetime Service to Literature.
 

Manjoo (S.) CLASSROOMS IN THE SHADE, , 300 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R145
  An autobiography by Shanthee Manjoo, a retired teacher who lives in Pietermaritzburg, where she grew up.

"Shanthee contributes richly to our history of education in KwaZulu Natal, then known as the Province of Natal. She experiences this education altogether in eight institutions, mostly Indian, in terms of the prevailing apartheid policies." Fatima Meer, in her foreword.
 

Mashamaite (M.) THE MOVING FINGER WRITES, retelling the untold and the shabbily told story of the last ANC warrior, Jacob Zuma, 294 pp., illus., paperback, Durban, 2008.

  R295
  In his book Pretoria motivational speaker, writer and businessman Moss Mashamaite claims a political conspiracy against Jacob Zuma and defends him in response to criticisms about polygamy, having sex with an HIV-postive woman, and so on. He outlines Zuma's history and deals with the battle between him and the National Prosecuting Authority.

"To most South Africans, the moving finger has written - that is where Jacob Zuma is concerned, and since there is no retrieval or luring back, and there are no tears that could wash a word that was written or said, I run the risk of spending my literary energy and skill in an act of futility. I intend to give it a shot though, because it is that much important. I pledge my life to purge South Africa and the entire world's collective psyche of that lie. I throw my entire soul into this book, this book becomes me, whatever the consequences. This might be the most important moment of my life and contribution to this generation in this incarnation." Moss Mashamaite, chapter 1

"There are those who would like to shut one eye and look at the world with the other, boogers and all. - Denialists of the smear campaign who see not but a series of meaningless coincidences in the galloping passage of time. Moss is not one of those. He aruges that Jacob Zuma was the subject of a deliberate 'smear' and 'hurt' campaign which was intended to reduce him into a political nonentity come the 52nd National Conference of the ANC. The events of the past five years have put the career and life of Jacob Zuma under a very dim light. That he is still up and smiling is testimony to his indefatigable spirit and larger than life soul. His path to the ANC presidency was lined with thorns and thistles, even landmines. How he has been able to brave it through all that tells the story of a mighty warrior." from the back cover
 

Mbeki (T.) LETTERS FROM THE PRESIDENT, articles from the first 100 editions of ANC TODAY, 200 pp., 4to., paperback, Johannesburg, 2003.

  R150
  Foreword by Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Secretary-General.

Thabo Mbeki, as President of South Africa, wrote a weekly column for ANC Today, the online journal of the African National Congress. The columns in this collection were written between January 2001 and January 2003.
 

McGregor (L.) & Nuttall (S.) eds. LOAD SHEDDING, writing on and over the edge of South Africa, 250 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R140
  A collection of non-fiction pieces by authors, academics and journalists, including Imraan Coovadia, Deborah Posel, Achille Mbembe, Jonathan Hyslop, Jacob Dlamini, Pamila Gupta, Kgomotso Matsunyane, and Makhosazana Xaba. This book is a successor to the collection, "At Risk, writing on and over the edge of South Africa", published in 2007.

Journalist Liz McGregor is the author of "Khabzela: the life and times of a South African" and co-author, with Sarah Nuttall, of "At Risk".
Sarah Nuttall is a senior researcher ar WISER. She is the author of "Entanglement" and co-editor, with Liz McGregor, of "At Risk", with Achille Mbembe, of "Johannesburg", and with C. Coetzee of "Negotiating the Past".
 

Mojapelo (J.S.) THE CORNER PEOPLE OF LADY SELBOURNE, , 272 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2009.

  R360
  The story of Lady Selbourne, once a multiracial township to the west of Pretoria. In 1958 it was declared a "white group area" and in the 1960s the inhabitants were forcibly removed. Africans were resettled in Ga-Rankuwa , Indians were moved to Laudium while "coloureds" were relocated to Eeesterust. Lady Selbourne was demolished and a new white suburb called Suiderberg was established.

This book is published in the Hidden History series edited by Raymond Suttner.

Journalist and attorney John Seakalala Mojapelo was born in Lady Selbourne. His family were forcibly removed to Mamelodi in the mid-1960s. He is General Sectretary of the organisation of ex-Lady Selbourne residents, who claimed their land back through the Land Restitution Act process. He is the first resident of the New Lady Selbourne.
 

Mojapelo (M.) BEYOND MEMORY, recording the history, moments and memories of South African music, from the diary of Max Mojapelo, 360 pp., paperback, Somerset West, 2008.

  R225
  A collection of writings on South African music and musicians of the past few decades based on Max Thamagana Mojapelo's diaries, on interviews he conducted and on numerous other sources, edited by his nephew, musician Sello Galane. Max Mojapelo was a deejay and presenter at the SABC and former station manager for the SABC's Thobela FM radio station.
 

Moyo (D.) DEAD AID, why aid is not working and how there is another way for Africa, 188 pp., paperback, London, 2009.

  R185
  Dambisa Moyo analyses the history of economic development in Africa over the last fifty years and shows how aid "crowds out financial and social capital and feeds corruption".

"Dambisa Moyo makes a compelling case for a new approach in Africa. Her message is that 'Africa's time is now'. It is time for Africans to assume full control over their economic and political destiny. Africans should grasp the many means and opportunities available to them for improving the quality of life." Kofi Annan

Dambisa Moyo holds a Masters from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government and a PhD in Economics fom Oxford University. She has worked as a consultant for the World Bank and at Goldman Sachs.
 

Naidoo (P.) MORE FOOTPRINTS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD, , 208 pp., illus., paperback, Durban, 2009.

  R285
  Veteran struggle activist Phyllis Naidoo remembers some of her comrades and friends, including John Matshikeza, Mike Lapsley, Brian Bunting, Dennis Goldberg, Dulcie September, Eli Wienberg, Helen Suzman, and Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge.
 

Ngcobo (N.) IS IT COZ I'M BLACK?, , 154 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R145
  Another collection of humorous essays by writer Ndumiso Ngcobo, the author of the "Some of My Best Friends Are Black".
 

Pinnock (D.) THE WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A TREE, and other perfect strangers, 289 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R160
  A collection of true stories about African adventurers by travel writer Don Pinnock. These essays first appeared in Getaway magazine.
 

Robb (N.) THE SASH AND I, a personal memoir and a tribute to the Black Sash, 119 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006.

  R180
  Foreword by Mary Burton.

Noël Robb helped to establish the Black Sash in Cape Town in 1955 and was deeply involved in the organisation for fifty years. The Black Sash, a group of white suburban housewives and mothers, opposed apartheid legislation and alerted the white community to its devastating effects by wearing black sashes and standing or marching in protest. They also established advice offices to help black women cope with the pass laws.
 

Slater (K.) dir. FROM NKOKO, with love, 49 minutes, DVD, , 2005.

  R240
  A documentary about Grace Masuku, a tribal matriarch of the Bakgatla ba Kgafela tribe and a retired headmistress, who travels around sharing her conviction in the power of indigenous knowledge with the youth. Her teachings cover Tswana ancestors, traditional sex education and healing plants.

Filmed on location in Tswaneng, North West Province, and Pilanesberg National Park. In English and Setswana, with English subtitles.

"Nkoko" means "granny" in Setswana.
 

Thornton (R.J.) UNIMAGINED COMMUNITY, sex, networks, and AIDS in Uganda and South Africa, 282 pp., illus., paperback, Berkeley, 2008.

  R295
  An anthropological approach to the AIDS pandemic in Africa which explores why HIV prevalence fell during the 1960s in Uganda despite that country's having one of Africa's highest fertility rates, while during the same period HIV prevalence rose in South Africa, the country with Africa's lowest fertility rate.

"Thornton's audacious ambition is to reveal the collective causes of intimate personal behaviour; he takes as the critical zone of his investigation the hidden network linking sexual partners to society at large. Unimagined Communities succeeds as a compellingly original study of AIDS and as a work of deep anthropology. This book is a tour de force, reflected in the consistently high quality of the writing, which never flags." Keith Hart

Robert J.Thornton is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Witwatersrand.
 

Tyson (H.) BLOOD ON THE PATH, a saga of the founding of South Africa 100 years ago, 564 pp., maps, paperback, Bot River, 2009.

  R229
  A historical novel that covers events in South Africa from 1880 to 1930, by journalist Harvey Tyson.

Foreword by Guy Willoughby.

"Here, at last, is a really great South African epic. The story is told in intensely human terms. "Blood on the Path" is a landmark historical novel: gripping, poignant, deeply researched. A brilliant insight into what made South Africa." James Clarke
 

Ward (K.) NETWORKS OF EMPIRE, forced migration in the Dutch East India Company, 340 pp., maps, paperback, Cambridge, 2009.

  R250
  "Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent."

Kerry Ward is Assistant Professor of World History at Rice University.