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NEW ARRIVALS
September 2009


 

Broderick (S.I.) UNWANTED, a novel based on historical events, 566 pp., map, b.w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R265
  A historical novel set in the Eastern Cape.
 

Cooper (L.) & Walters (S.) eds. LEARNING/ WORK, turning work and lifelong learning inside out, 378 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R240
  This book grew out of the Fifth International Conference on Researching Work and Learning, held in Cape Town in 2007 and co-hosted by the University of the Western Cape and the University of Cape Town.Thirty-four scholars from ten countries challenge established understandings of lifelong learning and work, critique the underlying power relations and practices that shape possibilities for learning and/or work and imagine futures that prioritise justice and sustainability for the majority.

Contributions include "Making Different Equal? rifts and rupture in state and policy: The National Qualifications Framework in South Africa" by Rosemary Lugg,
"Learning Indigenous Knowledge Systems" by Jennifer Hays,
"Domestic Workers and Knowledge in Everyday Life" by Jonathan Grossman,
"A New Perspective on the 'Learning Organisation': a case study of a South African trade union" by Linda Cooper, and
"Insights from an Environmental Education Research Programme in South Africa" by Heila Lotz-Sisitka.
 

Desai (A.) WE ARE THE POORS, community struggles in post-apartheid South Africa, 153 pp., paperback, New York, 2002.

  R265
  "One of South Africa's leading activist intellectuals has produced a remarkable book detailing growing resistance to neoliberalism in post-apartheid South Africa. Desai gives a moving picture of desperate conditions in post-apartheid South Africa, where things have not changed for most of the people. But this is also a stirring account of a courageous fightback, the fight that is being globalized as we challenge corporate globalization." Dennis Brutus

Ashwin Desai follows the growth of a community resistance movement that began in Chatsworth, Durban, where residents protested against evictions and electricity and water cut-offs. The resistance spread other communities around South Africa, such as Mpumalanga, Wentworth and Tafelsig, and united in massive anti-government protests at the times of the UN World Conference Against Racism in 2001.

Ashwin Desai teaches at the Workers' College in Durban, and is a newspaper columnist and community activist. He is also the author of "Arise Ye Coolies" and "South Africa: Still Revolting".
 

Goodnow (K.) CHALLENGE AND TRANSFORMATION, museums in Cape Town and Sydney, 221 pp., 4to., colour illus., paperback, Paris, 2006.

  R450
  This book is built around a series of case studies undertaken in Australia and South Africa, where ethnographical museums, historic sites and art galleries have had to come to terms with diversity and change. "The case studies present the ethical foundations of the methodological approach as well as the processes necessary for transforming the museums, especially through new aspects of design and display and new policies for staffing and training."

Introduction by Jack Lohman, Director of the Museum of London, Professor at the Bergen National Academy of the Arts and previously CEO of IZIKO Museums of Cape Town.
Epilogue by Jatti Brdedkamp, the current CEO at IZIKO Museums.

Katherine Goodnow is Associate Professor at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies at the University of Bergen, Norway,
 

Jeffery (A.) PEOPLE'S WAR, new light on the struggle for South Africa, 634 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2009.

  R275
  Anthea Jeffery's review of ANC policy and strategy between 1979 and 1994.

"Fifteen years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political conflict; and the memory of the trauma has faded. Some 20 500 people were nevertheless killed between 1984 and 1994. The convetional wisdom is that they died at the hands of a state-backed Third Force, but the more accurate explanation is that they died as a result of the people's war the ANC unleashed." from the back cover

Dr Anthea Jeffery works for the South African Institute of Race Relations. Her other publications include "The Natal Story: sixteen years of conflict" and "The Truth About the Truth Commission".
 

Key (L.) dir. BEARING WITNESS, 30 years of The Market Theatre, 50 minutes, DVD, , 2007.

  R295
  A documentary on the history of The Market Theatre in Johannesburg. Includes interviews with Mannie Manim, Janice Honeyman, Vanessa Cooke, John Kani, Pieter Dirk-Uys, Sir Anthony Sher, William Kentridge, Marius Weyers, Gcina Mhlope, WInston Nthsona, Lara Foot-Newton, Clare Stopford, and many others.
 

Moele (K.) THE BOOK OF THE DEAD, , 165 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R150
  A new novel by Kgebetli Moele, author of "Room 207," published in 2006. "Room 207" was short-listed for the 2007 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best First Book in Africa and was joint winner of both the Herman Charles Bosman Prize and the University of Johannesburg Debut Fiction Prize.

This novel is shortlisted for the 2010 Sunday Times Fiction Prize.

Kgebetli Moele was born in Polokwane and raised on a family farm. He lives and works in Tshwane (Pretoria).
 

Mokgatla (K.) LOVE ON DEATH ROW, , 115 pp., paperback, (Glasgow), (2009).

  R150
  Kathi Mokgatla worked for the Black Sash in the 1980s and 1990s and visited political prisoners on death row. On one of these visits she met Zonga Mokgatla, one of the Upington Four. In this book she tells the story of their relationship.
 

Monson (J.) AFRICA'S FREEDOM RAILWAY, , , , .

 
 
 

Orderson (K.) dir. THE PRODIGAL SON, , 64 minutes, DVD, , 2008.

  R230
  Rastafarian filmmaker Kurt Orderson documents his journey to Barbados in 2007 to explore his ancestral roots. His great grandfather, Joseph Orderson, an emancipated slave who immigrated to Cape Town from the West Indies in the 1980s.
 

Orderson (K.) dir. VISIBLY INVISIBLE, , 60 minutes, DVD, , 2008.

  R230
  A film about the 2008 African History Week Festival in Oslo, Norway.

The African History Week is an annual cultural festival that takes place in Norway every year. Africans from the continent and the Diaspora use music, film, dance, poetry and workshops to celebrate African history, culture and identity. Features musicians Tlokwe Sehume from South Africa and Bonga from Angola.
 

Swartz (S.) & Bhana (A.) TEENAGE TATA, vioces of young fathers in South Africa, 121 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009.

  R50
  An in-depth study of impoverished young South African men who become fathers while teenagers.

"Becoming a young father is often portrayed as a personal disaster. In this book, we are taken beyond this story of misfortune into the rich emotional worlds of young, black South African fathers." Robert Morrell, Professor of Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

"'Teenage Tata' is beautifully written and well-illustrated with the words of the protagonists. What beams through is the responsibility young men feel towards their children, and their emotional investment in them. But what is also evident is that these young men have very few options for realising this sense of responsibility. It is plain that this study will be a landmark on the path towards the development of innovative programmes to assist young fathers." Linda Richter, Executive Director, Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Programme (CYFSD), Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC).

Dr Sharlene Swartz is a sociologist and researcher at the CYFSD, HSRC, and a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge.
Professor Arvin Bhana is a psychologist and Deputy Executive Director at CYFSD, and an adjunct associate professor in the School of Psychology, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
 

Venter (B.) IN PURSUIT OF A DREAM, Bill Venter and the Altron story, 404 pp., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2009.

  R315
  Entrepreneur Bill Venter was born in 1934 to a working class South African family. At 16 his father enrolled him in an apprenticeship as a post office engineering technician. He went on to create Altron, the largest technology corporation in South Africa. He lives in Johannesburg.
 

Verster (F.) dir. SEA POINT DAYS, a record in five parts, 93 minutes, DVD, , 2009.

  R177
  Sea Point is a Cape Town suburb on the Atlantic seaboard which under apartheid was reserved for whites only. Today the promenade and the municipal pools are one of the few public spaces used by all the city's peoples.

Emmy award-winning filmmaker Francois Verster records life at Sea Point's promenade and municipal pools and captures the tensions of a society in transition.

"To stroll around a place in this open manner, to find a plethora of outstanding detail, and to at the same time tell a complex story of a nation that reaches far beyond a little beach area is an awesome achievement." Munich International FIlm Festival

This film won Best Editor Prize at the 2009 DocNZ Film Festival.
 

Weiss (B.) STREET DREAMS AND HIP HOP BARBERSHOPS, , , , .