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NEW ARRIVALS
August 2009


 

Achebe (C.) GIRLS AT WAR, and other stories, 109 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1972) 2009.

  R130
  A reprint of the classic collection of Chinua Achebe's short fiction, written over 20 years and drawn from literary journals and magazines.

Award-winning Nigerian writer and academic Chinua Achebe's other novels include the African Trilogy "Things Fall Apart" (1958), "No Longer At Ease" (1960) and "Arrow of God" (1964). In 2007 he was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction. He is Charles P.Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College in New York.

Published in the Penguin African Writers series.
 

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Coetzee (J.M.) IN ONEER, , 207 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R220
  The translation of J.M.Coetzee's novel, "Disgrace", first published in 1999, for which he was awarded the Booker Prize. Translated into Afrikaans by Fanie Olivier.

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

Comaroff (J.L.) & (J.) ETHNICITY, INC., , 234 pp., colour illus., paperback, Chicago & Pietermaritzburg, 2009.

  R240
  In this book John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff "explore a range of intriguing, disturbing, even absurd phenomena to analyze a new moment in the history of human identity: its rampant comodification. Ethno-theme parks; Native American casinos; Scotland the brand; a world religion declared to be intellectual property; San 'Bushmen' with patent rights potentially worth millions of dollars; nations acting as commercial enterprises; and the growth of marketing firms that target specific ethnic populations..."

"'Ethnicity, Inc.' will be a watershed for anyone looking for new ways to explain our neoliberal world. This extraordinarily lucid book is one of the most ambitious, wide-ranging, and thought-provoking pieces of anthropological scholarship written over the last few decades; it sets a standard other scholars can only hope to emulate." Matti Bunzi, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

John Comaroff is the Harold W.Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and a Research Professor at the American Bar Foundation.
Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Suny Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago.
 

Desai (R.) dir. BHAMBATHA, War of the Heads 1906, 72 minutes, DVD, , 2008.

  R150
  A documentary about the Bhambatha rebellion which took place near Greytown in Natal in 1906. It was led by Bhambatha kaMancinza, leader of the Zondi clan, one of the Zulu chiefs who resisted the collection of a poll tax introduced by the colonial government.
 

Desai (R.) dir. BORN INTO STRUGGLE, , 74 minutes, DVD, , 2004.

  R150
  Filmmaker Rehad Desai's personal journey into his past. The son of struggle hero Barney Desai who fled into exile in 1963, Rehad explores the pain caused to himself and his siblings by his father's constant political activity.

"Rehad Desai builds layer upon layer of narration that looks both forwards and backwards. It brings into memory important people and events and adds a chapter to an alternative history of the struggle." Rustum Kozain

This film won the Best Documentary Audience Award at the 2004 Encounters International Documentary Festival, Best Documentary at the 2004 Apollo Film Festival and Best Documentary at the 2004 Cape Town World Cinema Festival.
 

Drotskie (J.) & Edward (V.) comp. MK, die tweede DVD, 173 minutes, DVD, , 2007.

  R145
  A selection of music videos from the 2007 DSTV MK Awards, an annual national music poll and music video competition, in which South Africa's best and worst music videos are chosen by public vote.

Includes videos by Snotkop, Foto Na Dans, Parlotones, Fokofpolisiekar, and many others.

Lyrics in English and Afrikaans.
 

El-Tahri (J.) dir. BEHIND THE RAINBOW, , 138 minutes, DVD, , 2009.

  R170
  Egyptian filmmaker Jihan El-Tahri's documentary covers South Africa's political history after 1975 by focusing on the internal struggles and challenges faced by the ANC as it transforms itself from a liberation movement into the ruling party.

Includes interviews with Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Mac Maharaj, Pallo Jordan, Terror Lekota, Ronnie Kasrils and Kgalema Motlanthe.
 

Harper-Ronald (J.) & Budd (G.) SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, a soldier's war in Northern Island, Rhodesia, Mozambique and Iraq, 376 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R250
  Jake Harper-Ronald's account, as told to Greg Budd, of his experiences with the Red Berets, the SAS, the Selous Scouts and the Counter-Intelligence Division of Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation. He also describes working as an intelligence agent for South African, US and British intelligence, running militias in Mozambique for M16, and working with a Private Military Company in Iraq. He died in 2007.
 

Heyns (M.) BODIES POLITIC, a novel, 312 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008.

  R160
  Against the background of the stuggle for the vote for women and the First World War, Michiel Heyns examines, in fictionalised form, the private lives of three suffragettes: Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the Women's Movement, her daughter Sylvia, and Helen, a woman loved by Emmeline's son Harry.

This novel was shortlisted for the 2009 Sunday Times Fiction Award.

Michiel Heyns is also the author of "The Children's Day", "The Reluctant Passenger" and "The Typewriter's Tale".
 

Key (L.) dir. THE FURIOSUS, , 51 minutes, DVD, , 1999.

  R295
  A documentary on the life of Dimitri Tsafendas, the man who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd in 1965.

Includes interviews with Gerard Shaw, Helen Suzman, Wilhelm Verwoerd, Breyten Breytenbach, David Bloomberg, Judge Wilfred Cooper and Jaap Marais.
 

King-Aribisala (K.) THE HANGMAN'S GAME, , 205 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (2007) 2009.

  R130
  A novel about a pregnant writer living in Nigeria under a tyrant known as Butcher Boy.

Karen King-Aribisala was born in Guyana and lives and works in Nigeria where she is the Professor of English at the University of Lagos. Her short story collection, "Our Wife and Other Stories" won the 1991 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book. "The Hangman's Game" won the 2008 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best Book in Africa.

Published in the Penguin African Writers series.
 

Langa (M.) THE LOST COLOURS OF THE CHAMELEON, , 326 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (2008) 2009.

  R175
  Mandla Langa's satirical novel about politics in the developing world. This novel won the 2009 Regional Commonwealth Prize for Best Book in the African Region, and was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Fiction Award.

"Using the universal language of allegory, Mandla Langa portrays with a paradoxical combination of sensitivity and brutal honesty how power transforms the most benign and mild-mannered of us into despots. Here is a writer who re-imagines Africa, and indeed the world, in a refreshing and timeless mode of storytelling." Zakes Mda

Mandla Langa's other published works include "Tenderness of Blood" (1987), A Rainbow on a Paper Sky" (1989), "The Naked Song and Other Stories" (1997) and "The Memory of Stones" (2000).
 

Mackenzie (J.) MY BROTHER'S KEEPER, , 254 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R170
  A thriller set in Johannesburg.

Jassy Mackenzie is also the author of the thriller "Random Violence" (2008).
 

Magona (S.) PLEASE, TAKE PHOTOGRAPHS, , 79 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R130
  A debut collection of poetry by novelist Sindiwe Magona, author of "Mother to Mother", amongst others.
 

Mamdoo (F.) dir. OF JOURNEY, HOME AND TREASURE, , 72 minutes, DVD, , 2008.

  R275
  Filmed in 2000 this documentary chronicles the journey South African filmmaker Feizel Mamdoo and the late Dumisani Dlamini made to the "Festival of the Dhow Countries" in Zanzibar. The festival is a celebration of African, Indian and Arab cultures, brought together in Zanzibar by the dhow. In this way Dumisani, of African and Indian Tamil descent, and Feizel, of Muslim Indian descent, sought to better understand the relations between African and Indian in South Africa.
 

Marechera (D.) BLACK SUNLIGHT, , 134 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1980) 2009.

  R130
  The reprint of Dambudzo Marechera's cult stream-of-consciousness novel about a group of anarchists. It was banned in Zimbabwe in 1980 on charges of "Euromodernism" and challenging the concept of nation-building.

Zimbabwean author and poet Dambudzo Marechera (1952-1987) was known as the "'enfant terrible' of African literature". His other books include the "The House of Hunger: a novella and short stories", which won the Guardian First Book Award in 1979, the novel "The Black Insider", and "Cemetry of Mind: poems".

Published in the Penguin African Writers series.
 

Marshall (J.) dir. A KALAHARI FAMILY, , 5 x 72 minutes, DVD, , 2002.

  R1550
  A five-part series that documents fifty years in the life of the Ju/'hoan of Nyae Nyae in Namibia.
The series begins in 1951, when John Marshall first met Oma Tsamkxao and his extended family, and documents their lives as independent, self-sufficient hunter-gatherers. It continues through their experiences of dispossession, militarization and exploitation, and ends in 2001 with their attempts to establish viable farming methods.

Part 1. A Far Country
Part 2. End of the Road
Part 3. The Real Water
Part 4. Standing Tall
Part 5. Death by Myth

This series won a Jury Award at the Athens Film Festival, a Seahorse Award at the Moondance Film Festival and the Grand Jury Award, Best in World Cinema, at the DC Independent Film Festival in Washinton.
 

Mattera (D.) MEMORY IS THE WEAPON, , 152 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1987) 2009.

  R160
  A reprint of Don Mattera's famous autobiographical essay about his life in Sophiatown, covering his teenage years from 1948 to 1962.

Award-winning writer Don Mattera was born in 1935 in Western Native Township across the road from Sophiatown, a multicultural suburb bulldozed by the apartheid government in 1955 and replaced by the white suburb of Triomf. Partly under the influence of Trevor Huddleston, Don Mattera began writing about the struggle for liberation and produced many poems, stories and plays, among them "Azanian Love Song". He also worked as a journalist and was imprisoned, tortured and banned by the authorities.
 

Mattera (T.) dir. MAX AND MONA, , 100 minutes, DVD, , 2005.

  R120
  A comedy about a young man with the unusual talent of being able to cry at funerals, who leaves his rural village for Johannesburg, where he hopes to become a doctor.

This film was named Best Screenplay at the 2004 Sithengi CT Wold Film Festival and won the Best New Film Award, Fespaco 2005.

Music by Philip Miller.
 

Mc Lennan (A.) & Munslow (B.) eds. THE POLITICS OF SERVICE DELIVERY, , 321 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R220
  Published in The Wits P & DM Governance Series, this collection "examines the obstacles to effective service delivery and, in a series of case studies, reflects on lessons for delivery in developing countries."

Contributions include "Delivering the Democratic Developmental State in South Africa" by William Gumede,
"Beyond the Ballot and the Brick: continuous dual repertoires in the politics of attaining service delivery in South Africa?" by Susan Booysen,
"Building and Sustaining Systems for Delivering Education: the role of the state" by Stephanie Matseleng Allais.

Anne McLennan is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, where Barry Munslow is a Visiting Research Fellow.
 

Mngxitama (A.) BLACKS CAN'T BE RACIST, New Frank Talk no.3, 32 pp., paperback, (Johannesburg), 2009.

  R20
  Andile Mngxitama argues that racism is a concept which seeks to describe and explain how whites have come to oppress blacks and that black people, "by virtue of their historically evolved positionality", can't be racist.

Andile Mngxitama is a doctoral student at the University of the Witwatersrand, an activist in the South African Landless People's Movement and a columnist for City Press. He was National President of the Azanian Students Movement and co-edited the book, "Biko Lives!".
 

Momplé (L.) NEIGHBOURS, the story of a murder, 130 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (2001) 2009.

  R130
  Translated from the Portuguese by Richard Bartlett and Isaura Oliveira.

"'Neighbours' was written out of my horror at the way countries can abuse other's sovereignty for their own ends and with impunity. Like many Mozambicans, I lived through decades when South Africa did as it pleased in Mozambique in order to protect the interests of the apartheid regime. During this period many Mozambicans were killed or had their lives destroyed." Lilia Momplé, from her preface to the novel

Published in the Penguin African Writers series.
 

Mzizi (J.B.) POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND THE CHALLENGES FOR DEMOCRACY IN SWAZILAND, , 71 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005.

  R125
  This report is part of a global study on political party systems sanctioned by the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) and EISA. It investigates the operations of three major political organisations in Swaziland: the NNLC, The People's United Democratic Movement (Pudemo) and Sive Siyinwaba (SS).

Joshua Bheki Mzizi is a senior lecturer in the Theology and Religious Studies Department at the University of Swaziland.
 

Ngugi wa Thiong'o WEEP NOT, CHILD, , 149 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (1964) 2009.

  R130
  The reprint of Ngugi wa Thiongo's novel about the effects of the Mau Mau war in Kenya on the lives of two bothers and their family.

Ngugi wa Thiongo is Director of the International Center of Writing and Translation at the University of California, Irvine. His other works include "A Grain of Wheat" (1967), "Decolonising the Mind: the politics of language in African literature" (1986) and the satire"Matigari" (!987).
 

Parsons (N.) CLICKO, the wild dancing Bushman , 251 pp., map, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R195
  A biography of Franz Taibosh (Clicko), who performed in circuses, music halls and freak-shows around the world in the 1920s and 1930s.

Neil Parsons is Professor of History at the University of Botswana. His previous books include "King Khama, Emperor Joe, and the Great White Queen: Victorian Britian through African eyes" (1998).
 

Paton (A.) ALAN PATON, selected letters, 496 pp., map, illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2009.

  R247
  A collection of nearly 350 previously unpublished letters by Alan Paton, edited and introduced by Peter Alexander.

Peter Alexander is Professor of English at the University of New South Wales. His previous publications include "Roy Campbell: a critical biography" (1982), "William Plomer: a biography" (1989) and "Alan Paton: a biography" (1994).
 

Peterson (B.) & Suleman (R.) ZULU LOVE LETTER, , 156 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, DVD, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R300
  The script of the award-winning screenplay, Zulu Love Letter, written by Bhekizizwe Peterson and Ramadan Suleman. The script won the Special Jury Prize - Best Script 2001, France, 15th Edition, Grand Prix du Meilleur Scenariste. The film, directed by Ramadan Suleman, has won ten international awards.

Foreword by Mbye Cham.
Includes the essays, "Beadworks and Visual Praise Poems" by Anitra Nettleton,
"Love, Loss, Memory and Truth" by Jacqueline Maingard,
"Writer's Statement, trauma, art and healing" by Bhekizizwe Peterson, and
"Director's Statement" by Ramadan Suleman.

Includes a DVD of the films "Zulu Love Letter" (2004) and "Fools" (1997).

Bhekizizwe Peterson and Ramadan Suleman are directors of Natives At Large, the production company that produced "Fools", "Zulu Love Letter" and "Zwelidumile" (2009).
 

Sachs (A.) THE STRANGE ALCHEMY OF LIFE AND LAW, , 306 pp., colour illus., hardback, d.w., Oxford, 2009.

  R220
  Justice Albie Sachs writes about his 15 years as a member of the Constitutional Court, how his life has influenced his approach, and his views on the nature of justice and its achievement through law.

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

Schoeman (K.) TITAAN, 'n roman oor die lewe van Michelangelo Buonarroti, 727 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R310
  Karel Schoeman's biographical novel, in Afrikaans, on the life of painter, sculptor and architect Michelangelo Buonarroti.
 

Smith (G.) A CAPTAIN'S DIARY 2007 - 2009, , 243 pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R175
  Captain Graeme Smith's diary, beginning with the South African cricket team's arrival in Pakistan in October 2007 until Australia's departure from South Africa in April 2009.
 

Strieman (M.) ON THE BALL, getting to know you before 2010, 247 pp., map, colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R135
  A guide to the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa, with information on FIFA, FIFA Confederations Cup, FIFA World Cup, football, South Africa and 50 other countries that have previously participated in FIFA events.
 

Tadjo (V.) AS THE CROW FLIES, , 112 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, (2001) 2009.

  R130
  Translated from the French by Wangui wa Goro.

The novel "As the Crow Flies" was originally published in 1992 in French as "A Vol d'Oiseau".

Véronique Tadjo is Head of French at the School of Literature and Language Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Published in the Penguin African Writers series.
 

Tucker (A.) QUEER VISIBILITIES, space, identity and interaction in Cape Town, 246 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Chichester, 2009.

  R600
  Andrew Tucker examines the lives of queer men among the three major race groups in Cape Town - whites, coloureds and black Africans - in order to show how changes in South African law remain marginal for vast numbers of the city's queers.

"How can we understand the closet if we do not understand our visibilities? Tucker has provided an impressive study driven by intellectual parley between geography, queer theory, postcolonial and development studies. This book adds to the already powerful queer geographies on a fascinating place as well as to debates around queer globalisations." Michael Brown, University of Washington

Andrew Tucker lectures in the Department of Geography, University of Cambridge.
 

Turner (J.) dir. WHITE WEDDING, , 94 minutes, DVD, , 2009.

  R140
  A comedy about two friends driving from Johannesburg to Cape Town for a wedding.

Jann Turner is also the author of 3 books, "Heartland" (1997), "Home is Where You Find It" (2000) and "Southern Cross" (2003).
 

Wiese (T.) & Goedeman (R.) DIE VERHAAL VAN ELANDSKLOOF, , 325 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009.

  R220
  A history of Elandskloof and the successful land claim made by the original inhabitants of the area. Based on letters, minutes of meetings, reports and interviews, the book begins in 1862 when the NG Kerk bought the land and established a mission station and ends in 1996 when the original inhabitants moved back onto the land.

Text in Afrikaans.

Journalist Tobie Wiese is deputy editor of "Insig", a reporter for Die Burger and a lecturer in journalism at the University of Stellenbosch.
Ricky Goedeman was a researcher at the Institute for Historical Research at the University of the Western Cape.
 

Williams (W.) dir. HIP HOP REVOLUTION, , 48 minutes, DVD, , 2006.

  R375
  A documentary on 25 years of hip hop in South Africa. Beginning with its birth on the Cape Flats, it explores the integration of hip hop culture with the state of emergency politics of the 1980s and its role in post-apartheid South Africa. Includes interviews with Prophets of da City and Shamiel X.
 

Zevenbergen (A.) SPOTS OF A LEOPARD, on being a man, 250 pp., map, paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R195
  Originally published in 2007 in Dutch as "Vlekken van een luipaard".

Travelling through Africa meeting men from different cultures and backgrounds Zambian-born journalist Aernout Zevenbergen explores the question of what it means to be a man today on a continent ravaged by war, economic troubles, sexual violence and AIDS.

"[Spots] is a penetrating collection of stories about AIDS ruining societies, of poverty without hope of rapid improvement and the disintegration of values and norms. The author does not judge anything; instead, he provides a well-documented and thorough image of backgrounds and situations. An extremely well written work on a topic for which there has been little attention." Biblion