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THE RED CARD, the best of Hayibo.com, vol.2, 2009/10
128 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R120

A selection of articles from the satirical news website.

Adebajo (A.) THE CURSE OF BERLIN, Africa after the Cold War
414 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2010. R280

Preface by Ali Mazrui.

Adekeye Adebajo focuses on Africa's quest for security, leadership and unity, with chapters on Africa's security institutions, the roles played by South Africa, Nigeria, China, France and the USA, and the significance of Nelson Mandela, Cecil Rhodes, Thabo Mbeki, Kwame Nkrumah, Barack Obama, and Mahatma Ghandi.

"...an intellectually and morally courageous analysis of Africa's place in the world, a tracing of its traumatic history, not to bemoan it, but to understand where Africa has come from, to appreciate where it is at present, and to shed light on where it is headed." Professor Francis M.Deng, UN Special Adviser on the Prevention on Genocide

"This superbly written and ambitiously conceived work takes us through the last two decades of Africa's international relations with critical acumen. With an unusual eye for both the big historical picture and the telling detail, this eloquent study is full of relevance for understanding the continent's current predicament." Dr Ricardo Soares de Oliviera, Oxford Univerity

Adekeye Adebajo has been Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR), Cape Town, since 2003. His other books include "South Africa in Africa" and "From Global Apartheid to Global Village: Africa and the United Nations".

Adebajo (A.), Adedeji (A.) & Landsberg (C.) eds. SOUTH AFRICA IN AFRICA, the post-apartheid era
339 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007. R190

Contents include "Black economic empowerment: myths and realities" by Khehla Shubane,
"Race and reconciliation, 'e pluribus unim'?" by Yasmin Sooka,
"Conflict and land reform in Southern Africa: how exceptional is South Africa?" by Sam Moyo & Ruth Hall,
"HIV/AIDS and the African Renaissance: South Africa's achilles heel?" by Angela Ndinga-Muvumba & Shauna Mottiar,
"South Africa and the making of the African Union and NEPAD: Mbeki's 'progessive African agenda'" by Chris Landsberg,
"South Africa and its lusophone neighbours: Angola and Mozambique" by Augusta Conchiglia, and more.

Adekeye Adebajo is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution at the University of Cape Town. Adebayo Adedeji is the director of the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies (ACDESS) in Nigeria.
Chris Landsberg is Director of the Centre for Policy Studies in Johannesburg and a Research Professor at the University of Johannesburg.

Africa (S.) WELL-KEPT SECRETS, the right of access to information and the South African intelligence services
179 pp., paperback, Johannesburg & Maputo, 2009. R195

Sandy Africa assesses whether the post-apartheid intelligence services have complied with the obligation, entrenched in South Africa's democratic constitution, to grant citizens right of access to information held by the state and whether there has been a decisive break with the culture of secrecy that characterised the apartheid intelligence apparatus.

Akokpari (J.) & Zimbler (D.S.) eds. AFRICA'S HUMAN RIGHTS ARCHITECTURE,
300 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R145

Contributions include "Between the Insidious and the Sanitised: national human rights institutions and human rights language in Africa" by Daniel Shea Zimbler,
"Humanitarian Intervention and the Responsibility to Protect in Africa" by Jeremy Sarkin,
"'Aluta Continua': the struggle for human rights and democratic governance in Africa" by Siphamandla Zondi,
"Women's Rights as Human Rights in Africa" by Yaliwe Clarke, and
"African Sub-regional Human Rights Courts: the ECOWAS Court of Justice, the SADC Tribunal and the EAC Court of Justice in comparative perspective" by Abdul Rahman Lamin.

John Akokpari is Senior Levturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Daniel Shea Zimbler is a researcher at the Centre for COnflict Resolution in Cape Town.

Akokpari (J.), Ndinga-Muvumba (A.) & Murithi (T.) eds. THE AFRICAN UNION AND ITS INSTITUTIONS,
390 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R155

The Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town conceived and edited this collection of essays on the African Union.

"This book is a welcome and timely intervention by academics and practitioners on the main challenges facing the AU in implementing the Constitutive Act. An analysis on the current institutional capacity of the AU will contribute immensely towards the debate on the Union Government. This book is a must-read for those interested in regional integration." Welile Nhlapo, South African Ambassador to the United States

"An informative publication which joins scholars, activists and policy makers into a discourse that has been considered for a long time an exclusive preserve of governments and diplomats." Salim Ahmed Salim, Former Secretary General of the OAU and Special Envoy of the AU for Darfur

Contributions include "Renaissance of Pan-Africanism: the AU and the new Pan-Africanists" by Kay Mathews,
"Dilemmas of Regional Integration and Development in Africa" by John Akokpari,
"The Peacekeeping Role of the OAU and the AU: a comparative analysis" by Solomon Gomes,
"Accelerating the Response: an evolving African HIV/AIDS policy?" by Angela Ndinga-Muvumba,
"The Birth and Evolution of NEPAD" by Chris Landsberg,
"The Pan-African Parliament: progess and prospects" by Baleka Mbete,
"Africa and Gender Equality: priorities for the AU" by Winnie Byanyima, and
"The AU and the EU" by Daniel Bach.

Alexander (A.) ed. ARTICULATIONS, a Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture collection
334 pp., paperback, Durban, 2006. R295

A collection of sixteen of the lectures presented in the Harold Wolpe Memorial Public Lecture Series. Also includes reviews of the lectures by activists and academics.

Includes "Fanon, Marx, and the New Reality of the Nation: black political empowerment and the challenge of a new humanism in South Africa" by Nigel Gibson,
"Keeping it in Their Pants: politicians, men, and sexual assault in South Africa" by Charlene Smith,
"Democracy and the Importance of Criticism, Dissent, and Public Dialogue" by William Mervin Gumede,
"An Incomplete Freedom: the state of the media ten years into democracy" by Ferial Haffajee,
"Slow Delivery in South Africa's Land Reform Programme: the property clause revisited" by Lungisile Ntsebeza, and
"Ten Years of Democracy: a review" by Patrick Bond.

Alexander (N.) et. al. ADVANCING A HUMAN RIGHTS AGENDA IN SOUTH AFRICA, perspectives from civil society
213 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R165

A selection of papers commissioned by The Foundation for Human Rights (FHR) between 2007 and 2009. The Jophannesburg-based FHR is an independent body established to implement a 1996 agreement between the European Union and the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development. It's mandate is to address the legacy of apartheid, assist with transformation, build a human rights culture and strengthen civil society.

Contributions include "South Africa Today: the moral responsibility of intellectuals" by Neville Alexander,
"Land and Agrarian Transformation in South Africa" by Samuel Kariuki,
"The Financial and Administrative Independence and Accountability of the Judiciary: some lessons from the Commonwealth" by John Hatchard,
"Beyond the Numbers: the struggle for women's liberation" by Shamin Meer, and
"Environmental Justice" by David Hallowes.

Alexander (P.) et. al. (eds.) GLOBALISATION AND NEW IDENTITIES, a view from the middle
361 pp., map, paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R185

A collection of essays on South Africa, including "Globalisation and New Social Identities: a jigsaw puzzle from Johannesburg" by Peter Alexander, "Black Workers, Fatherhood and South Africa's Gold Mines" by Marlize Rabe,
"Students, Activism and Identity" by Marcelle Dawson,
"A Self-Employed 'Worker' Identity: women garment makers in Ahmedabad and Durban" by Meera Icharam,
"Countering Stigma: collectively counselling an AIDS identity" by Sandra Jane Roberts
and "The South African Broadcasting Corporation and Dilemmas of National Identity" by Kurai Masenyama.

This book comes out of a project funded by South Africa's National Research Foundation (NRF). Research was undertaken by staff and students associated with the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), now the University of Johannesburg.

Ally (S.) FROM SERVANTS TO WORKERS, South African domestic workers and the democratic state
228 pp., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Pietermaritzburg, 2010. R175

"'From Servants to Workers' explores the paradox of independence: as private domestic workers became recognized in the labor law in the postapartheid state, as their work became 'modernized' to be like other forms of employment, their unions withered. To account for demobilization of a militant group of women, Shireen Ally turns to ethnography and critical feminist theory, unpacking the subjective experience of intimate labor and the discursive construction of the domestic as a victim in need of state protection. Ally's is the finest analysis of the politics of social reproduction, bringing the state back into the study of domestic labor." Eileen Boris, Hull Professor and Chair, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.
This book was first published by Cornell University Press in 2009.

Shireen Ally teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Amoateng (A.Y.) & Heaton (T.B.) eds. FAMILIES AND HOUSEHOLDS IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA, socio-demographic perspectives
188 pp., 4to., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R180

In this study undertaken within the Human Sciences Research Council by the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme, social scientists from a variety of disciplines attempt to explain the changes in families and households in South Africa following the end of apartheid.

Progessor Acheampong Yaw Amoateng is a family sociologist and Director of Research in the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development Research Programme of the HSRC.
Tim Heaton is a Professor of Demography and Research Associate at the Centre for Studies of the Family at Brighma Young University in the United States.

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.

Anseeuw (W.) & Alden (C.) eds. THE STRUGGLE OVER LAND IN AFRICA, conflicts, politics & change
289 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R308

A collection of essays that analyse "the role of land as a place and source of conflict, especially in relation to policy issues, crisis management and post-war/ post-conflict reconstruction."

Contributions include "The Politics of Communal Tenure Reform: a South African case study" by Ben Cousins,
"The Conflicting Distribution of Tourism Revenue as an Example of Insecure Land Tenure in Namibian Communal Lands" by Renaud Lapeyre,
"Land Rights and Enclosures: implementing the Mozambican Land Law in practice" by Christopher Tanner,
"The Role of Land as a Site and Source of Conflict in Angola" by Jenny Clover,
"Two Cycles of Land Policy in South Africa: tracing the contours" by Ruth Hall, and
"The Zimbabwe Crisis: land reform and normalisation" by Sam Moyo.

Arendse (C-L.) & Gunn (S.) eds. EDGE OF THE TABLE, fourteen Cape Flats youths tell their life stories
351 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R110

This book is the result of a three-year project run by the Human Rights Media Centre. Most of the life story interviews were conducted in early 2010.

"This book is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how we are failing our youth, and how they understand that failure." Fiona Ross, Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town.

Arnott (J.) & Crago (A-L.) RIGHTS NOT RESCUE, a report on female, male and trans sex workers' human rights in Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa
102 pp., colour illus., paperback, (Johannesburg), 2009. R175

The published findings of a study undertaken by The Sexual Health and Rights Project (SHARP) of the Open Society Initiative Public Health Programme. The study, based on interviews and focus groups with eighty-nine female, male and transgender sex workers as well as interviews with eleven NGOs, documents widespread human rights abuses against sex workers, describes organizing tactics among workers to redress these violations and highlights opportunities for NGOs, governments, donors and UN agencies to expand rights-based approaches to sex work.

Ashforth (A.) WITCHCRAFT, VIOLENCE, AND DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA,
396 pp., map, illus., paperback, Chicago & London, 2005. R295

"Adam Ashforth examines how people in Soweto and other parts of post-apartheid South Africa manage their fear of 'evil forces' such as witchcraft...He develops a new framework for understanding occult violence as a form of spiritual insecurity...analyzes the response of post-apartheid governments to issues of spiritual insecurity and suggests how these matters pose severe long-term challenges to the legitimacy of the democratic state"

Adam Ashforth is visiting associate professor in the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study.

Asmal (K.) & Hadland (A.) KADER ASMAL, politics in my blood, a memoir
313 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R250

Son of a shopkeeper from Natal, Kader Asmal trained as a lawyer, spent time in exile in the UK, taught at Trinity College Dublin, and returned to South Africa to become a member of the ANC's Constitutional Committee and negotiating team. He later became an MP and a cabinet minister under Nelson Mandela and Thabo Mbeki.

Atkinson (D.) GOING FOR BROKE, the fate of farm workers in arid South Africa
302 pp., map, paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R260

Doreen Atkinson examines past policy failures and future policy options in relation to farm workers in South Africa, with the aim of promoting new approaches and partnerships amongst government, commercial farmers, agricultural co-operatives, municipalities, training agencies and farm worker trade unions.

Doreen Atkinson is a Research Asociate at the Centre for Development Support, University of the Free State.

Baai (S.) OLIVER REGINALD TAMBO, teacher, lawyer & freedom fighter
312 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R196

Preface by Dr N.C.Dlamini-Zuma. Foreword by Desmond Tutu. Includes an edited selection of Tambo's articles, papers, speeches, statements and other documents compiled by E.S.Reddy.

A biography of Oliver Tambo by Dr Sandi Baai, who is originally from Kwa Ndunge village Bizana, Pondoland, Tambo's birthplace.

Baines (G.) & Vale (P.) eds. BEYOND THE BORDER WAR, new perspectives on southern Africa's late-Cold War conflicts
342 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2008. R288

"This volume offers new perspectives on the Border War through the paradigms of diplomatic and military history, cultural and literary studies, as well as victimology".

Contributions include "The Cold War and South Africa: repetitions and revisions on a prolegomenon" by Peter Vale,
"The Construction and Subversion of Gender Stereotypes in Popular Cultural Representations of the Border War" by Michael Drewett,
"Writing from Within: representations of the Border War in South African literature" by Henriette Roos,
"Remaking Our Histories: the liberation war in post-colonial Namibian writings" by Keike Becker,
"'Oh Shucks, Here Comes UNTAG!': peace-keeping as adventure in Namibia" by Robert Gordon, and
"South Africa's Role in Namibia/Angola: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Account" by Christopher Saunders.

Gary Baines is an Associate Professor in the History Department and Peter Vale is the first Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics, both at Rhodes University.

Baker (D-P.) & Jordaan (E.O.) eds SOUTH AFRICA AND CONTEMPORARY COUNTERINSURGENCY, roots, practices, prospects
268 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R295

A collection of essays by strategic studies scholars and military practitioners on insurgency and counterinsurgency from a South African perspective.

"This book brilliantly outlines future COIN requirements and challenges for South African forces. Using lessons learnt from past and present operations, it offers an outstanding appraisal of new thinking and future planning on COIN and complex peace operations in Africa. It deserves to find a wide audience." Dr Knox Chitiyo, Head, Africa Programme, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, United Kingdom

Contributions include:
"Making Sense of Counterinsurgency" by Annette Seegers,
"Counterinsurgency in Africa: the colonial experience" by Thean Potgieter,
"The South African Military and Counterinsurgency: an overview " by Anita Gossman,
"Guerilla Warfare from an MK Perspective" by Mashudu Godfrey Ramuhala,
"Countering Spoilers: peacekeeping and counterinsurgency in Africa" by Tim Terrie,
"Preparing for Hybrid Wars: structuring, training and equipping the South African army of the future" by Dean-Peter Baker.

Ballard (R.) et. al. (eds.) VOICES OF PROTEST, social movements in post-apartheid South Africa
437 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006. R190

Contributions include "Seeking the High Ground: The Treatment Action Campaign and the politics of morality" by Steven Friedman & Shauna Mottiar,
"The Landless People's Movement and the Failure of Post-Apartheid South Africa" by Stephen Greenberg,
"Reconstructing a Social Movement in an Era of Globalisation: a case study of COSATU" by Adam Habib & Imraan Valodia
and "The Challenges of Inclusion and Transformation" the Women's Movement in democratic South Africa" by Shireen Hassim.

Bankie (B.F.) & Mchombu (K.) eds. PAN-AFRICANISM/ AFRICAN NATIONALISM, strenghtening the unity of Africa and its diaspora
393 pp., paperback, Revised Edition, Trenton, (2006) 2008. R250

The first edition of this book was based on the proceedings of the 17th All African Students' Conference (AASC) held in 2005 in Windhoek. "This second edition came about in the context of the prior neglect of developments in the Afro-Arab borderlands and their impact on Africans both at home and abroad, as well as on the unity movement. The book moves from continental unity to Pan-African national unity, which is constituted by Africa south of the Sahara (Arabia, north Africa, Gulf states and points eastwards) and the west (Caribbean, Americas, Europe etc) Diasporas." from the back cover

Barber (K.) ed. AFRICA'S HIDDEN HISTORIES, everyday literacy and making the self
451 pp., illus., paperback, Bloomington, 2006. R359

Articles include "Ekukhanyeni Letter-Writers: a historical inquiry into epistolary network(s) and political imagination in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa" by Vukile Khumalo,
"Reasons for Writing" African working-class letter-writing in early-twentieth-century South Africa" by Keith Breckenridge,
"'The Bantu World' and the World of the Book: reading, writing, and 'enlightenment'" by Bhekizizwe Peterson and
"Reading Debating/ Debating Reading: the case of the Lovedale Literary Society, or why Mandela quotes Shakespeare" by Isabel Hofmeyr.

Barchiesi (F.) PRECARIOUS LIBERATION, workers, the state and contested social citizenship in postapartheid South Africa
331 pp., maps, paperback, Pietermaritzburg & Albany, 2011. R285

"Franco Barchiese provides a detailed, critical account of how the dicourse and ideology of the postpartheid government cast waged work as a primary source of virtue for social subjects and key to the rights of citizenship, even at a time when employment for the majority of workers is becoming ever more precarious. He adds to this a wonderfully rich ethnographic investigation of workers' views, desires, and fears regarding work, which are complex and at times surprising. Although firmly grounded in South Africa, Barchiesi's analysis is essential for anyone trying to understand and contest the intimate relation between work and governmentality." Michael Hardt, co-author of "Empire", "Multitude: war and democracy in the age of Empire" and "Commonwealth"

"In his 'tour de force', Franco Barchiesi shows how the reduction of citizenship to wage labour, inherited from the struggles against apartheid, has left South Africa's working class defenseless against the neoliberal offensive. Desperation takes over and violence spreads. Capturing disillusionment among subject populations, 'Precarious Liberation' is sure to make waves in the field of South African studies and beyond." Michael Burawoy, author of "The Extended Case Method" and "One Theoretical Tradition"

Franco Barchiesi is Assistant Professor in the Department of African-American and African Studies at Ohio University. He is the co-author of "Rethinking the Labour Movement in the 'New South Africa'".

Barlow (E.) EXECUTIVE OUTCOMES, against all odds
552 pp., map, colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R250

Eeben Barlow, a former lieutenant-colonel in the Permanent Force of the South African Defence Force who served in Military Intelligence and in the Civil Co-operation Bureau division of the Special Forces, formed Executive Outcomes, a private military company, in 1989. Executive Outcomes gave specialist covert training to the SADF's Special Forces, and security advice and training to numerous foreign governments, including the Angolan government and the government of Sierra Leone, as well as to large multi-national corporations. The company closed down in 1998.

Basson (A.) FINISH & KLAAR, Selebi's fall from Interpol to the underworld
328 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R180

Jackie Selebi, member of the African National Congress, South Africa's ambassador to the United Nations and first black director-general of foreign affairs, the first African president of Interpol and South Africa's national police commissioner, was found to have been repeatedly bribed by convicted drug trafficker Glenn Agliotti. In 2010 he was convicted of corruption and sentenced to fifteen years imprisonment.

Adriaan Basson has won the Taco Kuiper Prize for Investigative Journalism twice and was awarded the Mondi Shanduka Award for Investigative Journalist of the Year in 2010. He is associate partner at the Mail & Guardian Centre for Investigative Journalism and covered the Jackie Selebi trial for the Mail & Guardian.

Batley (K.) ed. A SECRET BURDEN, memories of the Border War by South African soldiers who fought in it
133 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R110

A collection of prose and poetry by white South African conscripts deployed during the "Border War" in Namibia and Angola. All contributions are published anonymously.

Foreword by Justice Yvonne Mokgoro. Introduction by Carol Allais and Ian Liebenberg.

Includes the essay, "Socialised Warriors: anti-heroic subversion in writing by South African soldiers in the Border War" by Karen Batley.

Beckman (B.), Buhlungu (S.) & Sachikonye (L.) eds. TRADE UNIONS & PARTY POLITICS, labour movements in Africa
219 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R198

A collection of essays that examine the political role of trade unions in seven African countries and the ways in which they seek to influence political parties and the state. The book grew out of a conference held in Johannesburg in 2006, hosted by the Sociology of Work Unit (SWOP) at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Contributions include "The Labour Movement and Democratisation in Zimbabwe" by Lovemore Matombo and Lloyd Sachikonye,
"Unions and Parties in South Africa: COSATU and the ANC in the wake of Polokwane" by Roger Southall and Edward Webster, and
"Serving Workers or Serving the Party? Trade unions and politics in Namibia" by Herbert Jauch.

Beinart (W.) & Dawson (M.C.) eds. POPULAR POLITICS AND RESISTANCE MOVEMENTS IN SOUTH AFRICA,
368 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R240

A collection of essays that explore aspects of popular politics and resistance in South Africa before and after 1994.

Contributions include:
"Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa, 1970-2008" by William Beinart,
"The Role of the African National Congress in Popular Protest During the Township Uprisings, 1984-1989" by Thula Simpson,
"From Removals to Reform: land struggles in Weenen in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa" by Chizuko Sato,
"'It's a Beautiful Struggle': 'Siyainqoba/ Beat it!' and the HIV/AIDS treatment struggle on South African television" by Rebecca Hobbs,
"The Nelson Mandela Museum and the Tyranny of Political Symbols" by Mfaniseni Fana Sihlongonyane,
"The 'New Struggle': resources, networks and the formation of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) 1994-1998" by Mandisa Mbali,
"New Social Movements as Civil Society: the case of past and present Soweto" by Kelly Rosenthal.

Bekker (S.) & Leildé (A.) eds. REFLECTIONS ON IDENTITY IN FOUR AFRICAN CITIES,
248 pp., maps, paperback, (Cape Town), 2006. R90

Selected papers from a conference held at the University of Stellenbosch in 2004, in which researchers explore questions of urban identity in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Libreville and Lomé. The conference was the culmination of an international three-year collaborative research programme between the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch and the Centre d'Etudes d'Afrique Noire (CEAN) at the University of Bordeaux IV.

Contributions include "Cape Town and Johannesburg" by Izak van der Merwe and Arlene Davids,
"Space and Identity: thinking through some South African examples" by Philippe Gervais-Lambony,
"Domestic Workers, Job Access, and Work Identities in Cape Town and Johannesburg" by Claire Bénit and Marianne Motange,
"When Shacks Ain't Chic! Planning for 'difference' in post-apartheid Cape Town" by Steven Robins,
"Class, Race, and Language in Cape Town and Johannesburg" by Simon Bekker and Anne Leildé, and
"The Importance of Language Identities to Black Residents of Cape Town and Johannesburg" by Robert Mongwe.

Benningfield (J.) THE FRIGHTENED LAND, land, landscape and politics in South Africa in the twentieth century
254 pp., maps, illus., paperback, London & New York, 2006. R325

"This book investigates the consequences for the imagination and meaning of the land of the spatial politics of separation and division in South Africa principally during the apartheid years."

Architect Jennifer Benningfield is founding principal of Openstudio Architects and divides her time between London and Johannesburg.

Beresford (D.) TRUTH IS A STRANGE FRUIT, a personal journey through the apartheid war
349 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R180

David Beresford's account of his experience as a journalist in apartheid South Africa. He borrows from evidence given to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, makes use of his own journalism and includes extracts from the letters "station bomber" John Harris wrote to his wife while awaiting execution in 1964/5.

David Beresford was born in South Africa and moved to the UK in 1974. He joined the Guardian newspaper and covered the conflicts in Ireland, Sri Lanka, Pakistan and the first Gulf War. In 1984 the Guardian posted him to South Africa. He is also the author of "10 Men Dead" (1986) on the Irish hunger strike.

Besteman (C.) TRANSFORMING CAPE TOWN,
296 pp., map, illus., paperback, Berkeley, etc., 2008. R295

Catherine Besterman "explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule by homing in on intimate questions of love, family, and community and capturing the complex, sometimes contradictory voices of a wide variety of Capetonians".

Catherine Besterman is Professor of Anthropology and Director of African Studies at Colby College.

Bhengu (M.J.) UBUNTU, the global philosophy for humankind
268 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R200

Mfuneselwa John Bhengu demonstrates how the African philosophy of Ubuntu offers a value-based model for economic, social and political development in Africa and the world.

Bhorat (H.) & Kanbur (R.) eds. POVERTY AND POLICY IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA,
471 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R260

Contributions include "From Chimera to Prospect: South African sources of and constraints on long-term growth, 1970-2000" by Johannes Fedderke,
"Evolution of the Labour Market: 1995-2002" by Haroon Bhorat & Morné Oosthuizen,
"Does City Structure Cause Unemployment? The case of Cape Town" by Sandrine Rospabe & Harris Selod,
"Crime and Local Inequality in South Africa" by Gabriel Demombynes & Berk Ã?zler,
"Poverty, Asset Accumulation and Shocks in South Africa: evidence from KwaZulu-Natal" by Julian May,
"Half-Measures Revisited: the ANC's unemployment and poverty reduction goals" by Charles Meth, and more.

Haroon Bhorat is Associate Professor and Director in the Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town. Ravi Khanbur is the THH Lee Professor of World Affairs, International Professor of Applied Economics and Management Professor of Economics at Cornell University, USA.

Biko (S.) I WRITE WHAT I LIKE, a selection of his writings
244 pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, (1978) 2006. R95

Edited, with a personal memoir, by Father Aelred Stubbs, priest and confidante of the young Steve Biko. Preface by Desmond Tutu. New introduction by Nkosinathi Biko, one of Steve Biko's sons.

A collection of Steve Biko's columns entitled "I Write What I Like", published in the journal of the South African Student Organisation under the pseudonym "Frank Talk". It also contains other journal articles, interviews and letters.

Bizos (G.) ODYSSEY TO FREEDOM, a memoir by the world-renowned human rights advocate, friend and lawyer to Nelson Mandela
616 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2007. R270

George Bizos was born in 1928 in the Greek village of Vasilitsi. During the Second World War he escaped from his occupied homeland, becoming a refugee in South Africa. Graduating from the University of the Witwatersrand with a legal degree and called to the Bar, he acted for many of Nelson Mandela's and Oliver Tambo's clients. He was involved with the Treason Trial of the late 1950s and the subsequent Rivonia Trial, the trials of Braam Fischer and Namibian Toivo ja Toivo, the trials of Winnie Mandela, the Delmas Trial, and other human-rights trials through the 1970s and 1980s. He acted for the ANC at the post-1994 constitutional hearings, was associated with the amnesty hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and the 2004 treason trial of Zimbabwean opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai.

Blake (C.) FROM SOLDIER TO CIVVY,
302 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R180

A collection of writings that explore how conscription into the South African Defence Force and taking part in the Border War affected soldiers and their families. Includes accounts by eight National Servicemen as well as interviews with mothers, wives, sisters and girlfriends.

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.

Boesak (A.) RUNNING WITH HORSES, reflections of an accidental politician
427 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R209

A collection of essays in which Rev. Allan Boesak, co-founder of the United Democraic Fronf (UDF), reflects on 30 years as a theologian and political activist.

Bond (P.) POLITICS OF CLIMATE JUSTICE, paralysis above, movement below
267 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2012. R205

In this book Patrick Bond provides background and theoretical context to world leaders' responses to climate change through the United Nations' Conference of the Parties (COP) of Kyoto, Copenhagen, Cancun and Durban, and discusses the new climate justice movement.

"A very valuable contribution to scholarship. The originality of the book lies in what Patrick Bond calls 'climate-crisis capitalism' - a brilliant and original notion. The central theme is that global elites are failing to deal with the threat of climate change and so effective action depends on pressure from civil society led by the climate justice movement." Jacklyn Cock, Professor Emeritus, University of the Witwatersrand.

Patrick Bond is Senior Professor of Development Studies and Director of the Centre for Civil Society at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Bond (P.) ed. DURBAN'S CLIMATE GAMBLE, trading carbon, betting the earth
254 pp., map, colour illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2011. R230

A collection of essays that reflect on Durban's political ecology, global climate policy and COP politics.

Contributions include:
"Prefigurative Political Ecology and Socio-Environmental Injustice in Central Durban" by Patrick Bond and Ashwin Desai
"The Politics of Climate Change in South Africa" by Del Weston
"Colonising Africa's Atmospheric Commons" by Khadija Sharife
"The Endless Algebra of Climate Markets" by Larry Lohmann.

Patrick Bond directs the University of KwaZulu-Natal Centre for Civil Society.

Booysen (S.) THE AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS AND THE REGENERATION OF POLITICAL POWER,
515 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R250

Susan Booysen explores how the African National Congress has acted since 1994 to continuously regenerate its power and how South African politics is likely to unfold in the years to come.

"Few outsiders have been able to penetrate the complex worls of the ANC in power as Susan Booysen has. This is a superlative and passionate work by a critical observer, researcher, analyst who is miles ahead of the field. The author is that magical fly on the wall and has produced a masterpiece that has educated, beguiled, intrigued and challenged me. I couldn't put the book down and will re-read it again and again." Ronnie Kasrils, former ANC government minister and lifetime ANC/SACP activist and author of "The Unlikely Secret Agent".

"'The ANC and the Regeneration of Political Power' shows the ANC holding onto power by continually reinventing itself. It tells the story of how that process happened and is happening still. Exceedingly well-documented and completely devoid of polemics and hagiography, this book weighs judiciously the credits and debits of the ANC's achievement in maintaining its mass popularity. Booysen's great gift is to offer a point of view seemingly from the inside - without an insider's partisanship." Diana Wylie, Professor of History, African Studies Centre, Boston University

Bould (G.) ed. CONSCIENCE BE MY GUIDE, an anthology of prison writings
294 pp., paperback, Second Revised Edition, Harare & London, 2005. R160

A collection of prison literature by prisoners of conscience, including Breyten Breytenbach, Pitika Nulti, Steve Biko, Frank Chikane, Anita Kromberg, Dennis Brutus, Rommel Roberts, Bram Fischer, Cedric Mayson, Richard Steele, Ruth First, Beyers Naude and Albie Sachs from South Africa, Welshman Mabhena, Gertrude Mthombeni, Vincent Ndlovu, Lovedale Madhuku, Wilfred Mhanda, Paul Themba Nyathi and Fletcher Dulini Ncube from Zimbabwe, Henrique Guerra and Agostinho Neto from Angola, Magdelena from Namibia, Wole Soyinka from Nigeria and Ngugi wa Thiong'o from Kenya.

Brabazon (J.) MY FRIEND THE MERCENARY, a memoir
457 pp., map, colour illus., paperback, Edinburgh, 2010. R230

British documentary filmmaker and war reporter James Brabazon's account of the Liberian civil war, the infamous attempt to overthrow the government of Equatorial Guinea, and his friendship with South African mercenary Nick du Toit. With Nick's protection,

Bray (R.) et. al. GROWING UP IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA, childhood and adolescence in post-apartheid Cape Town
358 pp., map, colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R270

This book by Rachel Bray, Imke Gooskens, Lauren Kahn, Sue Moses and Jeremy Seekings, all based at the time at the Centre for Social Science Research at the University of Cape Town, is based on ethnographic research conducted in the Fish Hoek valley, with the participants in the study being drawn from the communities of Fish Hoek, Ocean View and Masiphumelele.

"This thought-provoking book provides rare and nuanced insight into the everyday lives of young people in post-apartheid South Africa. The social complexities it unravels make it essential reading for African scholars and for those interested in international childhood studies." Allison James, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth, University of Sheffield

Bremner (L.) WRITING THE CITY INTO BEING, essays on Johannesburg 1998-2008
347 pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R295

Lindsay Bremner's collection of essays, both written and photographic, on Johannesburg.

Architect Linsay Bremner has published, lectured and exhibited widely on the transformation of Johannesburg after the end of apartheid. She was formerly Chair of Architecture at the University of the Witwatersrand and is currently Professor of Architecture in the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, USA.

Brown (D.) TO SPEAK OF THIS LAND, identity and belonging in South Africa and beyond
214 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006. R170

Through a series of case studies, which cover Bushman storytelling, rock painting, African-Christian identity and the poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho, Mazisi Kunene's "Emperor Shaka the Great", Ronnie Govender's Cato Manor stories, Douglas Livingstone's poetry and the rap music of Prohpets of the City, Duncan Brown explores how people have, historically and in the present, used different forms to express a sense of what it means to live in a particular place.

Foreword, "From //Kabbo to Zapiro", by Antjie Krog.

Duncan Grant is the Deputy Head of the School of Literary Studies, Media and Creative Arts at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. His previous books include "Voicing the Text: South African oral poetry and performance", available @ R210.

Buhlungu (S.) A PARADOX OF VICTORY, COSATU and the democratic transformation of South Africa
210 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2010. R245

An exploration of The Congress of South African Trade Unions' (COSATU's) successes and failures and the implications of its loss of organisational power.

"Sakhela Buhlungu's work is path-breaking and controversial because he follows his findings rather than pandering to current opinion...These are ideas that need to be debated in union circles and beyond." Dunbar Moodie, Professor of Sociology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York

"Sakhela Buhlungu pulls no punches. His bleak prognosis is sure to fire debate and controversy...a must-read for anyone interested in the fate of the South African labour movement." Michael Burawoy, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

Sakhela Buhlungu is Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg.

Buhlungu (S.) ed. TRADE UNIONS AND DEMOCRACY, Cosatu's workers' political attitudes in South Africa
259 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R190

Contents include "Introduction: Cosatu and the first ten years of democratic transition in South Africa" by Sakhela Buhlungu,
"Trade Unions and the Challenge of the Informalisation of Work" by Edward Webster,
"Union Democracy, Parliamentary Democracy and the 2004 Elections" by Janet Cherry and Roger Southall,
""Broadening Internal Democracy with a Diverse Workforce: challenges and opportunities" by Geoffrey Wood and Pauline Dibben,
"The Marginalisation of Women Unionists during South Africa's Democratic Transition" by Malehoko Tshoaedi and Hlengiwe Hlela,
"Coastu and Black Economic Empowerment" by Roger Southall and Roger Tangri, "Workers and Policy-Making" by Janet Cherry,
"Cosatu, alliances and working-class politics" by Devan Pillay
and "Conclusion: Cosatu and the democratic transformation of South Africa" by Sakhela Buhlungu, Roger Southall and Edward Webster.

Buhlungu (S.) et. al. (eds.) STATE OF THE NATION, South Africa 2007
586 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R190

This is the fourth volume of an annual evaluation of contemporary South Africa.
Contributions include "The State of the African National Congress" by Anthony Butler,
"Taking to the Streets: has developmental local government failed in South Africa?" by Doreen Atkinson,
"Disability and Welfare in South Africa's Era of Unemployment and AIDS" by Nicoli Natrass,
"The ANC, Black Economic Empowerment and State-Owned Enterprises: a recycling of history?" by Roger Southall,
"Old Victories, New Struggles: the state of the National Union of Mineworkers" by Andries Bezuidenhout and Sakhela Buhlungu,
"The Promise and the Practice of Transformation in South Africa's Health System" by Helen Schneider, Peter Barron and Sharon Fonn,
"The State of South Africa's Prisons" by Julia Sloth-Nielsen,
"Violence Against Women in South Africa" by Lisa Vetten,
"Improving Learner Achievement in Schools: applications of national assessments in South Africa" by Anil Kanjee,
"South Africa in Africa: trends and forecasts in a changing African political economy" by John Daniel, Jessica Lutchman and Alex Comninos
and "The Zimbabwean Community in South Africa" by Elinor Sisulu, Bhekinkosi Moyo and Nkosinathi Tshuma.

Butcher (T.) CHASING THE DEVIL, the search for Africa's fighting spirit
325 pp., maps, illus., paperback, London, 2010. R215

Journalist Tim Butcher walked 350 miles through Sierra Leone and Liberia, following the trail taken by Graham Greene in 1935 and described in his travel classic "Journey Without Maps".

"'Chasing the Devil' shows the power of good to prevail over evil. Where once there was cruelty and conflict in Sierra Leone and Liberia, Tim Butcher finds grounds for hope. An inspirational account of humanity's wonderful spirit to survive." Desmond Tutu

Tim Butcher was on the staff of the Daily Telegraph from 1990 to 2009 serving as chief war correspondent, Africa bureau chief and Middle East correspondent. His first book, "Blood River", was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He currently lives in Cape Town.

Butler (A.) CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICA,
244 pp., maps, paperback, Second Edition, New York, (2004) 2009. R308

A revised and updated second edtion of Anthony Butler's introduction to South Africa's social, political, cultural and economic life in the twenty-first century, and its changing role in the world.

"This timely book fills an important gap: a reliable, intelligent and accessible introduction to contemporary South Africa...he is particularly deft in summarizing hotly contested debates around social policy, economic development, and how race and class pattern South African life in the twenty-first century." Professor Colin Bundy, University of Oxford, on the first edition

Anthony Butler is Professor of Political Studies, University of the Witwatersrand

Butler (A.) ed. PAYING FOR POLITICS, party funding and political change in South Africa and the global South
284 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R175

A collection of essays that explore the challenges of party funding reform in South Africa and investigate the lessons South Africa can learn from countries like Botswana, Mexico, Russia, Brazil and Malaysia.

Contributions include:
"Predominance and Private Party Funding in Botswana" by Kenneth Good,
"Government Buy the People? democracy and the private funding of politics in South Africa" by Steven Friedman,
"Party Financing in Democratic South Africa: harbringer of doom?" by Andile Sokomani,
"Money Politics in South Africa: from covert party funding to the problem of black economic empowerment' by Sam Sole,
"Financing the ANC: Chancellor House, Eskom and the dilemmas of party finance reform" by Zwelethu Jolobe,
"Paying for our Democracy" by Raenette Taljaard.

Anthony Butler is Professor of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of "Cyril Ramaphosa" (2007) and "Contemporary South Africa" (2009).

Böhmke (H.) THE WHITE REVOLUTIONARY AS A MISSIONARY, contemporary travels and researches in Caffraria, New Frank Talk no.5, critical essays on the Black condition
28 pp., paperback, (Johannesburg), 2010. R25

An essay by Heinrich Böhmke about the place, motivation and role of white people in black struggles. He concludes that white revolutionaries are essentially missionaries, arguing that white activists and researchers are involved in black struggles to be "saved from the native" and to preserve "the zone of civil society".

Calland (J.), Naidoo (L.) & Whaley (A.) THE VUVUZELA REVOLUTION, anatomy of South Africa's World Cup
218 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R165

Richard Calland, Lawson Naidoo and Andrew Whaley travelled 5000 kms by car, took trains and planes across South Africa to attend 12 games during the 2010 World Cup.

Richard Calland is Associate Professor of Public Law at the University of Cape Town and Director of IDASA's Economic Governance Programme.
Lawyer, freelance consultant and entrepreneur Lawson Naidoo is Executive Secretary of the Council for the Advancement of the South African Constitution.
Andrew Whaley writes plays for stage, screen and radio.

Calland (R.) ANATOMY OF SOUTH AFRICA, who holds the power?
330 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R170

"Richard Calland takes the reader along the corridors of power - from the presidency and the cabinet to the judges and the media, via the labyrinth of the ANC-led alliance - mixing anecdote with solid research."

Richard Calland is an independent political analyst and executive director of the Open Democracy Advice Centre, which he founded in 2000.

Camay (P.) & Gordon (A.) RACE, REPRESSION AND RESISTANCE, a brief history of South African civil society to 1994
240 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R215

Phiroshaw Camay and Anne Gordon provide an introduction to the emergence and development of civil society organisations in South Africa from pre-colonial times to the advent of democracy.

Camay (P.) & Gordon (A.) eds. POVERY REDUCTION THROUGH IMPROVED REGULATION, perspectives on South African and international experience
509 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2005. R190

48 papers presented at "Poverty Reduction through Better Regulation", a conference on water and electricity regulation hosted by CORE, the Co-operative for Research and Education in Johannesburg, 2005. Panelists and participants came from twelve countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America.

Contributions include "Regulation of Water Services in South Africa: a practical analysis" by Patience Nyakane-Maluka,
"Water Supply Service Regulation in Mozambique: challenges and lessons learned" by Manuel Carrilho Alvarinho,
"The Role of Regulation as a Means of Ensuring Safe, Sufficient and Affordable Water to Poor Communities: a South African perspective" by Hameda Deedat,
"Examining the Municipal Regulatory Framework: the case of Johannesburg" by Premakanthan Govender,
"Information Challenges and the Process of Revising the Pro-Poor Pricing Policy of the City of Johannesburg" by Roland Hunter,
"Benchmarking as a Tool Towards Regulation of the South African Water Services Sector: a need for improving efficiencies and services delivery" by Jayant N.Bhagwan
and "Regulating the Regulators? civil society and regulation in South Africa" by David Hemson.

Caminero-Santangelo (B.) & Myers (G.) eds. ENVIRONMENT AT THE MARGINS, literary and environmental studies in Africa
295 pp., paperback, Athens, 2011. R340

A collection of essays that analyse writings by African colonial administrators and literary authors, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers.

Contributions include:
"'A Beautiful Country Badly Disfigured': enframing and reframing Eric Dutton's 'The Basuto of Basutoland'" by Garth Myers
"'Hunter of Elephants, Take Your Bow!' A historical analysis of nonfiction writing about elephant hunting in southern Africa" by Jane Carruthers
"Waste and Postcolonial History: an ecocritical reading of J.M.Coetzee's 'Age of Iron'" by Anthony Vital
"Never a Final Solution: Nadine Gordimer and the environmental unconscious" by Byron Caminero-Santangelo
"Inventing Tradition and Colonizing the Plants: Ngugi was Thiong'o's 'Petals of Blood' amd Zakes Mda's 'The Heart of Redness'" by Laura Wright.

"Ecocritical studies have long neglected the postcolonial regions of the world, so its refreshing and timely to see a collection of essays focused entirely on Africa. This collection is the first of its kind and as such is positioned to make a vital intervention in postcolonial, ecocritical, and African studies." Elizabeth DeLoughrey, co-editor of "Postcolonial Ecologies: literatures of the environment"

Byron Caminero-Santangelo is an associate professor of English at the University of Kansas.
Garth Myers is Paul E.Raether Distinguished Professor of Urban and International Studies in the Center for Urban and Global Studies and Department of International Studies at Trnity College, Hartford.

Cardo (M.) OPENING MEN'S EYES, Peter Brown and the liberal struggle for South Africa
368 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R195

The biography of Peter Brown (1924-2004), co-founder of the Liberal Party in 1953 and its National Chairman from 1958 until his banning in 1964. After the ban ended in 1974, he edited the magazine "Reality: a journal of liberal and radical thinking", was involved with the Church Agricultural Project (CAP) and co-founded the Association for Rural Advancement (AFRA) in 1979. He was also involved in the Five Freedoms Forum and a member of the Liberal Democratic Association.

Michael Cardo has worked for the Democratic Alliance since 2003 in a variety of capacities: as Director of Research; as Helen Zille's speechwriter during the 2009 election; and currently as a policy adviser. Between 2006 and 2008, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Helen Suzman Foundation, while he researched and wrote this book.

Carlin (J.) INVICTUS, Nelson Mandela and the game that made a nation
274 pp., illus., paperback, Reprint, London, 2008 (2009). R150

Journalist John Carlin explores how Nelson Mandela set out to woo white South Afticans and used the 1995 Rugby World Cup to finally win their hearts. This book, now a film, was first published under the title "Playing the Enemy".

"The train of evetns leading up to what has been called South Africa's epiphany has long been crying our for a multilayered account and it is to John Carlin's eternal credit that he has written it. This is not so much a sporting volume as a wonderfully crafted and beautifully written work of modern political history." Matthew Syed, The Times

John Carlin spent 1989-1995 in South Africa as the Independent newspaper's correspondent.

Carneson (L.) RED IN THE RAINBOW, the life and times of Fred and Sarah Carneson
315 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R220

Fred Carneson (1920-2000) was a leader of the Communist Party of South Africa, a defendant in the Treason Trial and business manager of the left-wing newspaper "New Age". He was detained in 1965 and served a prison sentence for contraventions of the Suppression of Communism Act. After his release in 1972 he left South Africa for Britian.
Sarah Carneson (1916- ), a member of the Communist Party of South Africa and a trade unionist, was banned in 1954 and imprisoned in 1967 for breaching her banning order. Shortly after her release she went into exile.
Fred and Sarah Carneson returned to South Africa in 1991.

"It would have been virtually impossible to sustain an environment of non-racism in South Africa today if there had not been a minority of whites like Fred and Sarah, who visibly diametrically opposed apartheid, who actually lived non-racism and who were persecuted for their pains. It says a great deal about tenacity, perseverance and just plain guts. That is a hell of a legacy." Pallo Jordan

"Lynn Carneson's frank account of her parents and their times reminds us of how countless ordinary South Africans, many black and some white, fought and eventually defeated the apartheid regime. It's a story of perseverance and wry humour, of putting together family lives disrupted over and over again, of passions, foibles, confusions. If South Africa's democratic transition was a 'miracle', then it was this miracle - decades of everyday acts of courage and basic human solidarity." Jeremy Cronin

Lynn Carneson, daughter of Fred and Sarah Carneson, was brought up in Cape Town and exiled at the age of eighteen to London. She is currently a senior fellow at the Corporate Governance Unit at Stellenbosch University.

Carton (B.), Laband (J.) & Sithole (J.) eds. ZULU IDENTITIES, being Zulu, past and present
633 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Pietermaritzburg, 2008. R395

Contributions include "Reflections on the Politics of Being 'Zulu'" by John Wright,
"Cattle Symbolism in Zulu Culture" by W.D.Hammond-Tooke,
"'Bloodstained Grandeur': colonial and imperial stereotypes of Zulu warriors and Zulu warfare" by John Laband,
'"What Do Red-Jackets Want in Our Country?': the Zulu response to the British invasion of 1879" by Ian Knight,
"Imperial Appropriations: Baden-Powell, the Wood Badge and the Zulu 'Iziqu'" by Jeff Guy,
"Healing and Harming: medicine, madness, witchcraft and tradition" by Karen Flint and Julie Parle,
"Beauty in the Hard Journey: defining trends in twentieth-century Zulu art" by Fiona Rankin-Smith,
"Cry, the Beloved Country: a murder in Alan Paton's country, 1999" by Jonny Steinberg,
"'So that I will be a Marriageable Girl': 'umemulo' in contemporary Zulu society" by Thenjiwe Magwaza,
"Virginity Testing: a backward-looking response to sexual regulation in the HIV/AIDS crisis" by Tessa Marcus,
"Zulu Identity in the International Context" by Bill Freund, and much more.

Benedict Carton is Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, Virginia, USA.
John Laband is Professor of HIstory at Wilfid Laurier University, Canada.
Jabulani Sithole is a lecturer in Historical Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Cartwright (J.) & Shearing (C.) WHERE'S THE CHICKEN?, making South Africa safe
149 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2012. R100

Foreword by Maphela Ramphele.

While this is a book about making South Africa safe it is not a step-by-step manual on what to do but is rather designed to spark creative thinking which can lead to unexpected solutions.

"In this book two cosmopolitan, creative and innovative thinkers with a wealth of experience have provided us with a fresh perspective on dealing with the crime problem be examining 'best thinking' as the precursor to practical and sustainable solutions to it. Cartwright and Shearing make us stop and think anew about crime, safety and security in an insightful, provocative and crystal-clear text that should be of inestimable value, not only in shaping policy and practice in South Africa, but also in many other countries across the globe." Maurice Punch, King's College London and London School of Economics.



John Cartwright is a consultant with the Centre for Criminology at the University of Cape Town. He is also involved in the Neighbourhood Director Co-ordination Programme, a joint venture between the Centre for Criminology, the Dutch police and the City of Cape Town.
Clifford Shearing is Director of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Cape Town, He also holds the South African National Research Foundation Chair in Security and Justice as well as appointments at various universities abroad.

Cawthra (G.) ed. AFRICAN SECURITY GOVERNANCE, emerging issues
227 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R220

This book, which focuses on the role of the state and other social actors in both human and state security, is the result of research carried out by the Southern African Defence and Security Management Network (SADSEM), in cooperation with the Danish Institute for International Studies and the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung.

Contributions include "Transforming Safety and Security in Southern Africa: some trends and more challenges" by Elrena van der Spuy,
"Southern African Security Governance: a cautionary tale" by Anthoni van Niekerk,
"The Link Between Sustainable Development and Security in Botswana" by Mpho Molomo,
"Governance of the Military in Zambia" by Godfrey Haantobolo, and
"Governance of Defence in Namibia" by Vincent Mwange.

Gavin Cawthra is Chair in Defence and Security Management at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Cazdyn (E.) ed. DISASTROUS CONSEQUENCES, The South Atlantic Quarterly, fall 2007, volume 106, number 4, special issue
231 pp., paperback, Durham, 2007. R210

Contributions include "When Disaster is a Bureaucrat" by Isobel S.Frye, director of the Studies in Poverty and Inequality Institute in Johannesburg.

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.

Chan (S.) CITIZEN OF AFRICA, conversations with Morgan Tsvangirai
106 pp., paperback, (Harare), 2005. R140

A series of interviews with Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change.

Stephen Chan is Dean of Law and Social Sciences and Professor of International Relations at the School of African and Oriental Studies at the University of London.

Chan (S.) OLD TREACHERIES, NEW DECEITS, insights into southern African politics
302 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R200

First published in Great Britain in 2011 under the title "Southern Africa - old treacheries, new deceits".

Stephen Chan focuses on three countries in particular: South Africa, Zimbabwe and Zambia, examining how they are poised to change and what the repercussions are likely to be for all of Africa.

"If there is any book that 'explains' the tumultuous recent history of southern Africa, this is surely it: a sweeping overview that is a combination of academic detachment and an insider's account, peppered with first-hand experiences and personal knowledge of many of the region's players." Michael Holman, former Africa editor for the Financial Times

Stephen Chan is Professor of International Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He was recently awarded an OBE for his work in Africa.

Chenwi (L.) TOWARDS THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY IN AFRICA, a human rights perspective
239 pp., map, paperback, Pretoria, 2007. R220

Discusses the international trend towards the abolition of the death penalty from an African perspective.

Dr Lilian Chenwiworks as a senior researcher in the Socio-Economic Rights Project of the Community Law Centre, Univerity of the Western Cape. This book is an updated and reworked version of her doctoral thesis.

Chikane (F.) EIGHT DAYS IN SEPTEMBER, the removal of Thabo Mbeki
271 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2012. R195

In 2008, as Secretary of the Cabinet and Director-General of the Presidency, Frank Chikane was directly responsible for managing the transition from Thabo Mbeki to Kgalema Motlanthe to Jacob Zuma as President of South Africa. This is his behind-the-scenes account of the eight-day period in September that led to the removal of Mbeki from office. The book builds on the "Chikane Files", a series of controversial articles Chikane published with Independent Newspapers in July 2010, in which he provided an insider's perspective on this period and explored Mbeki's legacy.

Frank Chikane's former appointments include Deputy President of the United Democratic Front, member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, commissioner of the Independent Electoral Commission, and General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches. He is currently pastor of the Apostolic Faith Mission of South Africa (AFM) in Soweto, the president of AFM International, and the visiting adjunct professor at the Graduate School of Public & Development Management at the University of the Witwatersrand. He also consults with companies that do business on the African continent.

Chinweizu BLACK COLONIALISTS, the root of the trouble with Africa, New Frank Talk, no.4, critical essays on the black condition
55 pp., paperback, (Johannesburg), 2009. R25

An interview with Chinweizu, conducted by Paul Odili in Lagos, Nigeria, in September 2006. Dr Chinweizu provides a detailed argument "about what is wrong with Africa and how those of us who want true freedom must fight the next 'chimurenga'." from the introduction by Andile Mngxitama

Dr Chinweizu's books include "The West and the Rest of Us" (1975) and "Decolonizing the African Mind" (1987).

Chipkin (I.) DO SOUTH AFRICANS EXIST?, nationalism, democracy and the identity of "the people"
261 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R190

Focuses on the question of what constitutes South Africanness, what makes South Africans a nation, and provides a critical study of South African nationalism against the broader context of African nationalism in general.

Ivor Chipkin is currently based at the Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria.

Chirwa (D.W.) & Nijzink (L.) eds. ACCOUNTABLE GOVERNMENT IN AFRICA, perspectives from public law and political studies
302 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2012. R375

Published in the USA in 2012.

A collection of essays on legal and political developments on acountable government in a number of African countries, including Malawi, Zambia, South Africa, Ghana, Mali, Tanzania and Uganda.

Contributions include:
"Post-apartheid Accountability: the transformation" by Andrew Nash
"Judicial Review of Parliamentary Actions in South Africa: a nuanced interpretation of the Separation of Powers" by Hugh Corder
"Balancing Independence and Accountability; the role of Chapter 9 institutions in South Africa's constitutional democracy" by Pierre de Vos
"Accountability Compromised: floor crossing in Malawi and South Africa" by Lia Nijzink
"Democracy Within Political Parties: the state of affairs in East and South Africa" by Augustine T.Magolowondo.

Claasen (M.) & Alpin-Lardiés (C.) eds. SOCIAL ACCOUNTABILITY IN AFRICA, practitioners' experiences and lessons
224 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R186

A collection of case studies on social accountability from Africa written by practitioners, providing first-hand experiences of designing and implementing social accountability initiatives.

Contributions include:
"Controlling Power - Africans' views on governance, citizenship and accountability" by Robert Mattes,
"Monitoring Ourselves - the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) as a catalyst for accountability" by Terence Corrigan and Steven Grudz,
"Parliamentary Oversight of the HIV and AIDS Pandemic - the case of Mozambique" by Isau Joaquim Meneses,
"Leveraging State Accountability - the South African Commission for Gender Equality" by Janine Hicks,
"Developing Civil Society's Budget Monitoring Capacity of HIV and AIDS Resources in Southern and Eastern Africa" by Teresa Guthrie, Nhlanhla Ndlovu, Rose Wanjiru and Paulina Chiwangu,
"Activating Citizens Through Community-Based Planning: the Case of Johannesburg" by Lesley Hudson and Khadija Richards.

Claassens (A.) & Cousins (B.) LAND, POWER & CUSTOM, controversies generated by South Africa's Communal Land Rights Act
392 pp., paperback, CD-Rom, Cape Town, 2008. R305

A collection of essays that deal with "tenure reform in the former homelands, and the implications for power and gender relations".
"The book includes a CD-Rom containing current and historical legislation affecting communal land and affidavits by rural applicants, state officials and traditional leaders in pending legislation concerning land rights and chiefly power."

Contributions include "Contextualising the Controversies: dilemmas of communal tenure reform in post-apartheid South Africa" and "Characterising 'Communal' Tenure: nested systems and flexible boundaries" by Ben Cousins,
"'Official' vs 'Living' Customary Law: dilemmas of description and recognition" by Tom Bennett,
"Women, Land and Power: the impact of the Communal Land Rights Act" by Annika Claasens and Sizani Ngubane,
"Contested Terrain: land rights and chiefly power in historical perspective" by Peter Delius, and
"Customary Law and Zones of Chiefly Sovereignty: the impact of government policy on whose voices prevail in the making and changing of customary law" by Annika Claasens.

Ben Cousins is a Professor in the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape and the Director of the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies (Plaas).
Annika Claasens worked for the Ministry of Land Affairs as a tenure specialist from 1996 to 2000. is currently contracted by the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) to co-ordinate research relating to the Communal Land Rights Act 11 of 2004.

Clapham (C.) et. al. (eds.) BIG AFRICAN STATES,
308 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R180

Contents include "Africa's Big Dysfunctional States: an introductory overview" by Jeffrey Herbst and Greg Mills,
" From 'confusão' to 'estamos juntos'? Bigness, development and state dysfunction in Angola" by Greg Mills,
"South Africa: the contrarian big African state" by Tim Hughes,
"Dysfunctional States, Dysfunctional Armed Movements, and Lootable Commodities" by Marina Ottaway,
"International Responses to State Dysfunctionality" by Nicolas van de Walle,
"Conflict in Africa: armies, rebels and geography" by Jeffrey Herbst,
"Africa's Big States and Organised Crime" by Gail Wannenburg,
"Leading Large States"by Joseph Ayee,
"Africa and its Boundaries, a Legal Overview: from colonialism to the African Union" by Garth Abraham
and "Conclusion: policy options for the problems of Africa's big states" by Christopher Clapham.

Christopher Clapham is an associate of African Studies, Cambridge Unviersity. Jeff Herbst is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University, Ohio. Greg Mills heads the Brenthurst Foundation. From 1996 to 2005 he was the National Director of the SA Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA) based at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Clarke (D.) CRUDE CONTINENT, the struggle for Africa's oil prize
674 pp., maps, hardback, d.w., London, 2008. R560

Duncan Clarke's comprehensive study of Africa's oil industry: its history, economics and geopolitics.

"Everyone wants to understand Africa's oil industry, but until now it was hard to know where to start. Now the choice is easy. 'Crude Continent' is the most thorough exploration yet of this crucial field." Robert Guest, author of "The Shackled Continent

"No other writer matches his unique knowledge of the global energy industry and Africa's historical, political and economic oil context. Clarke's insights into contemporary policy, poverty, corporate strategies and African geopolitics make this book required reading for energy industry executives, investment analysts and African policy-makers, diplomats, donor agencies, banks and international lenders. Very good stuff." Professor Tony Hawkins, Correspondent, Financial Times

Duncan Clarke has "three decades experience inside the oil industry worldwide, exposure to 44 African countries, and more years spent studying and observing the continent's economies and political economy." from the author's acknowledgements

Cock (J.) THE WAR AGAINST OURSELVES, nature, power and justice
245 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R230

Jacklyn Cock "demonstrates the need for an inclusive politics which brings together peace, social and environmental justice activists who believe that another world is both possible and necessary".

Jacklyn Cock is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand. She is the author of "Maids and Madams" and co-author, together with A.Bernstein, of "Melting Pots and Rainbow Nations".

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.

Crawford (R.) BYE THE BELOVED COUNTRY, South Africans in the UK 1994-2009
182 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2011. R195

A study of the different discourses surrounding white South African emigration to the UK. Robert Crawford examines the reasons that these South Africans have given for leaving the country, why they chose the UK as their destination, their employment patterns in the UK, the ways in which they socialise, how they view themselves, and whether or not they are likely to return.

Robert Crawford lectures in Public Communication at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.

Crawford-Browne (T.) EYE ON THE MONEY, one man's crusade against corruption
238 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R175

During the late 1990s former international banker Terry Crawford-Browne launched a campaign against "the arms deal", an armaments acquisition programme that involved the purchase of warships and warplanes from Britian, Germany, Sweden and Italy. He claimed these purchases were unwarranted, given that South Africa had no discernible foreign enemies.

Terry Crawford-Browne represented the Anglican Church at the Western Province Council of Churches and the parliamentary Defence Review. From 1985 to 1993 he advised Dr Allan Boesak and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the banking sanctions campaign agaisnt apartheid. Currently he chairs the South African affiliate of Economists Allied for Arms Reduction.

Crwys-Williams (J.) comp. THE PENGUIN DICTIONARY OF SOUTH AFRICAN QUOTATIONS,
534 pp., paperback, Third Edition, Johannesburg, (1994) 2008. R120

"It is part of Mandela's charm that he can be humble without a hint of false modesty" André Brink
"The relationship between a biographer and his subject is one of intimacy without loyalty" Ronald Suresh Roberts.
"I should have known better" Jacob Zuma
"Thabo and Manto can bamboozle the nation about HIV and Aids and dish out all the garlic grown in Africa, but the scoreboard says our people are dying like flies" Max du Preez
"We're talking about a country where life is an insane gamble that'll end in blinding light or darkest disaster, and there's absolutely no way of knowing which" Rian Malan
"Sadly, I have to admit that South African art is, from my point of view, getting worse and worse, increasingly resembling that kind of stale growth that one finds underneath large rocks" Kendell Geers
"Most politicians seem to have a massive allergy to admitting they might have been wrong" Desmond Tutu
"You write because you do not know what you want to say" JM Coetzee

Dames (G.E.) ed. ETHICAL LEADERSHIP, and the challenges of moral transformation
159 pp., paperback, Stellenbosch, 2009. R150

A collection of essays on the meaning and implications of ethical leadership and the challenges of moral transformation based on the proceedings of eight conferences convened by the Ethical Leadership Project from 2005 to 2008.

Contributions include "Ethical Leadership In and Through Gender and Sexuality" by Tamara Shefer,
"Ethical Leadership In and Through Labour" by Sue Mcwatts and Geraldine Kennedy,
"Ethical Leadership In and Through Business" and "Ethics in Action" by Willie Esterhuyse,
"Ethical Leadership In and Through Politics" by Courtney Smapson, and
"Building Ethical Leadership In and Through Education" by Colleen Howell.

Daniel (J.), Naidoo (P.), Pillay (D.) & Southall (R.) eds. NEW SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW 2, new paths, old compromises?
398 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R280

"In this second volume of the 'New South African Review', the New Growth Path adopted by the government in 2010 provides the basis for a dialogue about whether 'decent work' is the best solution to South Africa's problems of low economic growth and high unemployment." from the back cover

Contributions include:
"The Zuma Presidency: the politics of paralysis?" by John Daniel and Roger Southall
"The African National Congress and the Zanufication Debate" by Devan Pillay
"Democracy and Accountability: quo vadis South Africa?" by Paul Hoffman
"Dancing Like a Monkey: the Democratic Alliance and opposition politics in South Africa" by Neil Southern and Roger Southall
"'The wages are low but they're better than nothing': the dilemma of decent work and job creation in South Africa" by Edward Webster
"Policing in the Streets of South African townships" by Knowledge Rajohane Matshedisho
"Corrosion and Externalities: the socio-economic impacts of acid mine drainage on the Witwatersrand" by David Fig
"The South African Broadcasting Corporation: the creation and loss of a citizenship vision and the possibilities of building a new one" by Kate Skinner

John Daniel has recently retired as Academic Director, School for International Training in Durban.
Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall are all in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Daniel (J.), Naidoo (P.), Pillay (D.) & Southall (R.) eds. NEW SOUTH AFRICAN REVIEW 1, 2010: development or decline?
476 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R280

"In producing this, the first edition of the 'New South African Review', it editors seek to follow that tradition of critical scholarship established so firmly by the seven volumes of the 'South African Review' which appeared in the 1980s and 1990s." from the preface

Contributions include:
"South Africa 2010: from short-term success to long-term decline?" by Roger Southall,
"Growth, Resource Use and Decoupling: towards a 'green new deal' for South Africa?" by Mark Swilling,
"The African National Congress Under Jacob Zuma" by Anthony Butler,
"The Mobile Nation: how migration continues to shape South Africa" by Loren Landau, Tara Polzer and Aurelia Wa Kabwe-Segatti,
"'Silencing and worse...': the humanities and social science in South Africa" by Peter Vale,
"The Polarising Impact of South Africa's AIDS epidemic" by Hein Marais,
"Breaking Down Barriers: policy gaps and new options in South African land reform" by Doreen Atkinson,
"Our Burden of Pain: murder and the major forms of violence in South Africa" by David Bruce,
"Waiting for Godot: awaiting trial detainees in South Africa" by Jeremy Gordon.

John Daniel is based at the School of International Training in Durban.
Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall are all in the Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand

Davies (R.) AFRIKANERS IN THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA, identity politics in a globalised economy
200 pp., hardback, d.w., London & New York, 2009. R395

Rebecca Davies explores the impacts of globalisation on "Afrikaner identity reconstruction" in post-apartheid South Africa.

"The varieties of Afrikaner identities and how this plays out in the social, economic and political landscape of South Africa is of great importance and the author has really tackled the subject well." Professor Ian Taylor, University of St. Andrews

Rebecca Davies is Senior Lecturer in the Department of International Relations at Plymouth University and a visiting fellow at the Centre for Comparative and International Politics, University of Stellenbosch.

Dawes (A.), Bray (R.) & van der Merwe (A.) eds. MONITORING CHILD WELL-BEING, a South African rights-based approach
663 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R280

"The book has two main parts. Part I provides the conceptual underpinnings that inform the development of the rights-based approach to monitoring child well-being over a range of domains...Part II contains comprehensive tables of indicators for the domains covered in Part I, with recommended measurement and data sources..."

Contents include "A rights-based approach to monitoring the well-being of children in South Africa" by Rachel Bray & Andrew Dawes,
"Conceptualising, defining and measuring child poverty in South Africa: an argument for a multidimensional approach" by Michael Noble, Gemma Wright & Lucie Cluver,
Monitoring child unintentional and violent-related morbidity and mortality" by Amelia van der Merwe & Andrew Dawes,
"Early childhood development and home-care environment in the pre-school years" by Linda Biersteker & Jane Kvalsvig,
"Monitoing the well-being of street children from a rights perspective" by Catherine Ward,
"A monitoring dilemma: orphans and children made vulnerable by HIV-AIDS" by Andrew Dawes, Amelia van der Merwe & René Brandt, and much more.

de Satgé (R.), Kleinbooi (K.) & Tanner (C.) DECENTRALISED LAND GOVERNANCE, case studies and local voices from Botswana, Madagascar and Mozambique
110 pp., 4to., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R106

This book "examines the experience of three countries in their attempts to decentralise the governance structures and systems for recording, allocating and managing land rights and reflect on the lessons learnt." from the preface

Rick de Satgé is a development consultant and a partner in Phuhlisani Solutions, and is an Associate of the Institute for Poverty Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS) at the University of the Western Cape.
Karin Kleinbooi is a researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS).
Christopher Tanner is a FAO Senior Technical Advisor on Land and Natural Resources Policy currently working in Mozambique.

de Vries (F.) THE FRED DE VRIES INTERVIEWS, from Abdullah to Zille
325 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R180

Journalist and author Fred de Vries's interviews with musicians Abdullah Ebrahim, Chris Chameleon, Bok van Blerk, Fokofpolisiekar, Toast Coetzer and Steve Hofmeyr, poets Gabeba Baderoon, Ronalda Kamfer, Danie Marais and Yabadaka Shamah, authors Rain Malan, Marlene van Niekerk, Ingrid Winterbach, Kleinboer and Ivan Vladislavic, Cape Town mayor Hellen Zille and businessman Eric Mafuna, amongst others.

de Waal (S.) ed. 25 YEARS OF THE MAIL & GUARDIAN,
208 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R220

A generously illustrated history of The Mail & Guardian newspaper.

Foreword by Trevor Ncube.
Introduction by Shaun de Waal.

Contributions include "A War of Independence" by Anton Harber,
"Voortrekkers of Tech" by Irwin Manoim,
"The DNA of Courage" by Ph

Delius (P.) ed. MPUMALANGA, history and heritage
522 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, Pietermaritzburg, 2007. R345

Covers the geology, archaeology, rock art, traditions of early settlement, frontier conflicts, the South African War, conservation, economic development and 20th century political struggles of Mpumalanga, one of South Africa's provinces.

Contributors are Jane Carruthers, Richard Cope, Peter Delius, Maarten de Wit, Amanda Esterhuysen, Paul Holden, Cynthia Kros, Tlou Makhura, Sello Mathabatha, Bernard Mbenga, Christopher Mulaudzi, Stefan Schirmer, Benjamin Smith, Jeannette Smith and Leslie Zubeita.

Peter Delius is professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Denis (P.), Ntsimane (R.) & Cannell (T.) INDIANS VERSUS RUSSIANS, an oral history of political violence in Nxamalala (1987-1993)
91 pp., map, paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2010. R78

Between 2003 and 2007 researchers from the Sinomlando Centre, University of KwaZulu-Natal, interviewed over fifty survivors from the civil war waged in the late 1980s and early 1990s between the African National Congress and Inkatha in a tribal area called Nxamalala on the outskirts of Pietermaritzburg. The ANC supporters were labelled "Indians" by their enemies and the Inkatha supporters "Russians". They describe the assaults, murders and burning of property they suffered, but also how they survived, where they found consolation and how they managed to move on once the violence had subsided. All those interviewed combined various forms of Christianity with African traditional religion.

Philippe Denis is Professor of History of Christianity at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Director of the Sinomlando Centre.
Radikobo Ntsimane is a lecturer at the School of Religion and Theology, University of KwaZulu-Natal and Deputy Director of the Sinomlando Centre.
Thomas Cannell works on community technology projects for the New York City Department of Health.

Depelchin (J.) SILENCES IN AFRICAN HISTORY, between the syndromes of discovery and abolition
256 pp., paperback, Dar es Salaam, 2005. R395

Jacques Depelchin examines and analyses the dominant political, social, economic, cultural and ideological theories on Africa and discusses the misconceptions about Africa and Africans that have been accepted as facts.

"This is a book about academic violence; collective intellectual denial; culpable erasure; and deliberate omission. But it is also about emancipation and liberation; for it explores the complex linkages between historical knowledge and our collective freedom." Ibrahim Abdullah, from his preface

Historian Jacques Depelchin has taught at the University of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania and the Centre of African Studies in Maputo, Mozambique. He is currently the executive director of the Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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".

Desai (A.) ed. THE RACE TO TRANSFORM, sport in post-apartheid South Africa
271 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R190

Explores the relationship between elite and grassroots sport in the context of growing economic disparities and the emergence of a black middle and super-rich class and outlines an agenda for both theory and practice in the debate about sport and transformation in South Africa.

Contributions include "'Transformation' From Above: the upside-down state of contemporary South African soccer" by Dale McKinley,
"Beyond the Nation? Colour and class in South African cricket" by Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed,
"Women's Bodies and the World of Football in South Africa" by Prishani Naidoo and Zanele Muholi, and
"Jumping Over the Hurdles: a political analysis of transformation measures in South African athletics" by Justin van der Merwe.

Donaldson (A.) & Rossouw (M.) comps. THE YEAR IN QUOTES: 2010,
157 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R130

A collection of South African quotes of the year, covering the World Cup, the Jacob Zuma presidency, Julius Malema, foreigners, corruption, and more.

Journalist Andrew Donalson was until recently a columnist and senior writer with the Sunday Times newspaper.
Many Rossouw is deputy political editor for the Mail & Guardian newspaper.

Donaldson (A.) & Roussouw (M.) comps, COME AGAIN?, quotes from the famous, the infamous and the ordinary
156 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R135

A collection of quotes on various aspects of South African public life collected from Facebook, Twitter and the press over the past year.

Dowden (R.) AFRICA, altered states, ordinary miracles
576 pp., map, paperback, Reprint, London, (2008) 2009. R180

Foreword by Chinua Achebe.

Journalist Richard Dowden's account of modern sub-Saharan Africa.

Richard Dowden is Director of the Royal African Society. He first went to Africa as a volunteer teacher in Uganda in 1972, and then again in 1983 as a journalist working for The Times. He became Africa Editor for the Independent in 1986 and in 1995 became Africa Editor for the Economist. He has also made three television documentaries on Africa, for the BBC and Channel 4.

Doxtader (E.) & Villa-Vicencio (C.) eds. THROUGH FIRE WITH WATER, the roots of division and the potential for reconciliation in Africa
405 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2003. R100

This collection of essays presents 15 case studies of African countries recently torn by conflict.

Contributions include "Angola: the beginning of hope for peace" by Erik Doxtader & Ricky Khaukha,
"Zimbabwe: a hundred years war" by Tyrone Savage and Shupikayi Blessing Chimhini,
"Swaziland: between monarchy and democracy" by Manelisi Genge,
"Zimbabwe: half way to democracy" by Susanne Streleau,
"South Africa: beyond the 'miracle'" by Charles Villa-Vicencio and S'fiso Ngesi,
"Mozambique: making peace - the roots of the conflict and the way forward" by Iraê Baptista Lundin and António da Costa Gaspar,
"Namibia: the jigsaw puzzle of democracy" by Edmond Tiku and Erik Doxtader,
"Lesotho: political conflict, peace and reconciliation in the mountain region" by Mokete Lawrence Pherudi, and
"Botswana: the hopes and fears of consolidation" by Gape Kaboyakgosi.

Charles Villa-Vicencio is the Director of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.
Erik Doxtader is an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric at the University of Wisconcin-Madison, USA, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation.

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.

du Pisani (K.) THE LAST FRONTIER WAR, Braklaagte and the struggle for land before, during and after apartheid
282 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Amsterdam & Pretoria, 2010. R157

The account of how the Bahurutshe ba ga Moiloa community, led by John Lekoloane Sebogodi, resited attempts by successive white-controlled governments to forcefully remove them from the farm Braklaagte in the Lehurutshe district, North West Province, which they had purchased in 1908. Expropriated and then forcefully incorporated into the Bophuthatswana homeland, the community lived through serious violence before being reincorporated into a reunited South Africa in 1994.

Kobus du Pisani is Professor of History in the School of Social and Government Studies at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University.

du Plessis (M.) THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT THAT AFRICA WANTS,
105 pp., paperback, Monograph No. 172, Pretoria, 2010. R35

Max du Plessis examines Africa's relationship with the International Criminal Court (ICC), identifies and evaluates the criticisms of the court that have arisen within the African Union (AU), and offers recommendations in respect of each complaint.

Max du Plessis is a senior research associate at the International Crime in Africa Programme at the Institute for Security Studies, Pretoria, and an associate professor of law at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. He also practices as an advocate.

du Preez (M.) & Rossouw (M.) comps. THE WORLD ACCORDING TO JULIUS MALEMA,
125 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R130

A collection of more than eighty famous and infamous statements by Julius Malema, president of the ANC Youth League, collated and contextualised by Max du Preez and Mandy Roussouw.

Former newspaper editor and television personality Max du Preez works as a political analyst, newspaper columnist, writer and documentary film maker. He received the Nat Nakasa Award for courageous journalism from the SA National Editors' Forum in 2008 and was named the Yale Globalist International Journalist in 2006.
Mandy Roussouw is a senior political journalist for the Mail & Guardian newspaper.

du Preez (M.) ed. OPINION PIECES BY SOUTH AFRICAN THOUGHT LEADERS,
249 pp., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2011. R280

A collection of critical essays on various aspects of contemporary South Africa.

Contributions include:
"Of Jacob, Julius, Jimmy and the Dancing Monkey" by Max du Preez
"Toxic Policies: diary of a bad year" by Njabulo Ndebele
"The South African Nation" by Neville Alexander
"Crime and Policing: how we got it wrong" by Antony Altbeker
"The Judiciary and the Constitution' by Carmel Rickard
"Environment and Sustainability" by Leonie Joubert
"Perspectives on Poverty in a Democratic South Africa" by Len Verwey
"The State of the Nation's Health" by Kerry Cullinan and Anso Thom
"Education" by Eric Atmore, Dylan Wray and Gillian Godsell
"'The Content of Their Character'" by Jonathan Jansen
"After Invictus" by James Myburgh.

Columnist, editor, film-maker and executive producer Max du Preez has received the following awards: the Louis M Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism (University of Harvard); the Pringle Award for Contributing to Press Freedom (SA Union of Journalists); the Outstanding Journalism Award (SA Foreign Correspondents' Association); and the Nat Nakasa Award (SA National Editors' Forum and Print Media SA).

du Toit (F.) & Doxtader (E.) eds. IN THE BALANCE, South Africans debate reconciliation
178 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R180

A collection of essays that debate the meaning, practice and value of reconciliation in South Africa.

Contributors include Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Antjie Krog, Pumla Gobodo-Ntsebeza, Zackie Achmat, Thabo Mbeki, Jonathan Jansen, F.W.de Klerk, Njabulo Ndebele, Charles Villa-Vicencio and Pregs Govender.

Dubow (S.) A COMMONWEALTH OF KNOWLEDGE, science, sensibility and white South Africa 1820 - 2000
296 pp., illus., paperback, First South African Edition, Cape Town, 2006. R185

Examines how, in 19th and 20th century South Africa, the development of social and scientific knowledge was used to support white political power and claims to "being South African".

Saul Dubow was born and educated in South Africa. He is currently Professor of History at the University of Sussex and chair of the board of the Journal of Southern African Studies.

Durrheim (K.), Mtose (X.) & Brown (L.) RACE TROUBLE, race, identity and inequality in post-apartheid South Africa
234 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2011. R195

An analysis of the racially structured forms of social life that perpetuate segregation and inequality and produce racially troubled identities in post-apartheid South Africa.

Kevin Durrheim is Professor of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Xoliswa Mtose is Executive Dean in the Faculty of Education at the University of Fort Hare and a member of the Anti-Racism Network in Higher Education.
Lyndsay Brown has worked for local government in Durban and in non-governmental organisations focused on children's and women's rights. Currently she teaches English at Durban Girls' High School.

Edjabe (N.) & Pieterse (E.) eds. AFRICAN CITIES READER II, mobilities and fixtures
208 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R285

"'The African Cities Reader' is a biennial publication that brings together contributors from across Africa and the world to challenge the prevailing depiction of urban life on the continent and redefine cityness, Africa-style. It is a joint creation of Chimurenga Magazine and the African Centre for Cities at the University of Cape Town."

Contributions include:
"Tracks", with words by MADEYOULOOK and photographs by Santu Mofokeng
"Anti-Iconic: the photography of David Adjaye", in which Sean O'Toole chats to architect David Adjaye
"Tailor" by Jonny Steinberg, in which he tells of his conversation with a Liberian now living in New York
"Yeoville Studio: negotiating the line between research and activism" by Claire Benit-Cbaffou
"Harare North: an excerpt" by novelist Brian Chikwava
"Avalon in Two Monuments", two poems by Khulile Nxumalo
"Avalon", a short story by Nicole Turner
"'Here I Am Nobody': rethinking urban governance, sovereignty and power" by Caroline Kihato.

Edjabe (N.) ed. CHIMURENGA 15, the curriculum is everything (for comrades who ask "what is to be done")
271 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R95

Chimurenga is a pan African publication about Africa and its Diasporas and includes political analysis, interviews, photography, fiction, art, and poetry.

This issue focuses on "what the curriculum could be - if it was designed by the people who dropped out of school so they could breathe". Karen Press and Steve Coleman instruct in folk dancing, Winston Mankunku refuses to teach, Phillip Tabare and Johnny Dyani offer method to the Skanga (black music family), and Dambudzo Marechera proposes a "guide to the earth". Other contributors include Sean O'Toole, Aryan Kaganof and Khulile Nxumalo.

Eglin (C.) CROSSING THE BORDERS OF POWER, the memoirs of Colin Eglin
374 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R225

Colin Eglin was a founding member of The Progressive Party, becoming leader in 1970. "He served in parliament through the terms of seven successive prime ministers and presidents - from J.G.Strijdom to Thabo Mbeki; and under five constitutions, from the union constitution to the constitution of 1996. In the constitutional negotiations that followed Nelson Mandela's release from jail in February 1990, Mandela described Eglin as 'one of the architects of our democracy'".

Ellis (S.) SEASON OF RAINS, Africa in the world
215 pp., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Johannesburg, 2011. R180

Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Stephen Ellis surveys Africa today and explains how money, power, religion and indigenous development will shape Africa's coming generations.

Stephen Ellis is Professor of Social Sciences at the Free University, Amsterdam.

Essa (A.) ZUMA'S BASTARD, encounters with a desktop terrorist
173 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R145

A collection of writings adapted from and inspired by the Thought Leader blog, Accidental Academic, created by journalist, columnist and lecturer Azad Essa. The blog won the Best Political Blog at the 2009 SA Blog Awards.

Foreword by Ferial Haffajee.

"At once 'tjatjarag' and lyrical, the digitally compressed and accelerated voice of a South Africa that no media tribunal could ever silence." Nic Dawes, editor-in-chief, Mail & Guardian newspaper

"Azad is a journalist for the 21st century. He is at the beginning of a professional life of activism, action and a whole lot of fun. I have no doubt that this will be the first book of many. I am honoured to be associated with it." Ferial Haffajee

Azad Essa is currently working for the Al Jazeera Network in Doha, Qatar.

Essof (S.) & Moshenberg (D.) eds. SEARCHING FOR SOUTH AFRICA, the new calculus of dignity
236 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2011. R174

A collection of essays on social movements and resistance in South Africa between 1994 and 2009.

Contributions include:
"A Report and Comment on Worker Organising at the University of Cape Town" by Ronald Wesso
"Race and Resistance in Post-Apartheid South Africa" by Amanda Alexander and Andile Mngxitama
"Masiphumelele: making the ordinary endure on the outskirts of Cape Town" by Shereen Essof and Daniel Moshenberg
"Women's Struggle During This Democratic Government" by Nomvuyo Tshamakambulashe
"Daalah Cape Flets: hip-hop, resistance and hope" by Shaheen Ariefdien
"'Looking Back Moving Forward': legacies of struggle and the challenges facing the new social movements" by Jonathan Grossman and Trevor Ngwane.

Shereen Essof is a feminist activist who worked at the Zimbabwe Women's Resource Centre and Network in Harare.
Daniel Moshenberg is Director of the Women's Studies Program at George Washington University, co-convenor of Women In and Beyond the Global, and a founding member of the Tenants and Workers United of Northern Virginia.

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.

Fairweather (J.G.) A COMMON HUNGER, land rights in Canada and South Africa
260 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Calgary, 2006. R395

Examines the impact of colonization and dispossesion in Canada and South Africa, providing historical context to the current land claim processes in these two countries.

Joan Fairweather is a South African historian, achivist and writer now living in Ottawa, Canada.

Faull (A.) BEHIND THE BADGE, the untold stories of South Africa's police service members
297 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R190

This book is composed of excerpts from interviews with twenty-eight current and former members of the South African Police Service conducted between late 2008 and September 2009.

Andrew Faull is a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies and a reservist in the South African Police Service.

Feinstein (A.) AFTER THE PARTY, a personal and political journey inside the ANC
287 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R170

Andrew Feinstein, a member of the ANC from the mid-1980s and an ANC Member of Parliament from 1994, resigned in 2001 in protest at the party's handling of the infamous arms deal. This is his account of what really happened in the arms deal and provides insight in current South African politics and the culture within the ANC.

Andrew Feinstien now lives in London where he writes, lectures and consults on public policy issues and chairs an HIV/AIDS charity.

Feinstein (A.) THE SHADOW WORLD, inside the global arms trade
672 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R280

"'The Shadow World' peels back the veil of secrecy behind which the global arms trade undermines accountable democracy, socio-economic development and human rights, causing suffering across the world. In the same way that Andrew Feinstein exposed a corrupt arms deal that darkened South Africa's rainbow nation, he has now turned his forensic gaze on the impact of similar weapons deals around the world. This book is essential reading for anyone who cares about justice, transparency and accountability in both public and private spheres, and for anyone who believes that it is more important to invest in saving lives than in the machinery of death." Desmond Tutu

"A devastating and scrupulously documented account of the greed, venality, and rampant corruption pervading the global arms trade. Andrew Feinstein has produced a brilliant and massively important book." Andrew J Bacevich, retired colonel, US Army, and author of "Washington Rules, America's path to permanent war"

"Andrew Feinstein has written an authoritative guide to the business of war. Chilling, heartbreaking and enraging" Arundhati Roy

Journalist Andrew Feinstein is the author of "After the Party: a personal and political journey inside the ANC" about his time as an African National Congress Member of Parliament.

Feinstein (A.) BATTLE SCARRED, hidden costs of the Border War
216 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R170

During his national service in the early 1980s Anthony Feinstein worked as a medical officer in the psychiatric unit, both in South Africa and up on the border in Owamboland, Namibia. Afterwards he was called up for month-long camps at small units set up on the outskirts of the Sebokeng and Sharpeville townships. This memoir is constructed from the diaries he kept during this time.

Field (S.), Meyer (R.) & Swanson (F.) eds. IMAGINING THE CITY, memories and cultures in Cape Town
240 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R231

A selection of oral histories drawn from people who live and work in Cape Town researched, written and produced by the staff and students of the Centre for Popular Memory at the University of Cape Town.

Contents include "Sites of Memory in Langa" by Sean Field,
"Between Waking and Dreaming: living with urban fear, paradox and possibility" by Renate Meyer,
"'Catch with the eye': stories of Muslim food in Cape Town" by Gabeba Baderoon,
"'Julle kan ma New York toe gaan, ek bly in die Manenberg': an oral history of jazz in Cape Town from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s" by Colin Miller,
"'Die SACS kom terug': intervarsity rugby, masculinity and white identity at the University of Cape Town, 1960s-1970s" by Felicity Swanson,
"'The quickest way to move on is to go back': bomb blast survivors' narratives of trauma and recovery" by Anastasia Maw,
"Da Struggle Kontinues into the 21st Century: two decades of nation-conscious rap in Cape Town" by Ncedisa Mkonyeni, and more.

Sean Field is the Director of the Centre for Popular Memory and Senior Lecturer in the Historical Studies Department at the University of Cape Town. Both Renate Meyer And Felicity Swanson work at the Centre, Meyer as the Senior Audio-Visual Archivist and Swanson as a researcher.

Fisher (R.) RACE,
250 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R165

Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Ryland Fisher interviews South Africans, including Naledi Pandor, Wilmot James, Rhoda Kadalie, Melanie Verwoerd, Phatekile Holomisa and Carel Boshoff, on the idea of race, what it has meant to them and their visions of a future South Africa.

Ryland Fisher is a former editor of the Cape Times. He is the CEO of Sekunjalo Media Holdings.

Forde (F.) AN INCONVENIENT YOUTH, Julius Malema and the "new" ANC
274 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R155

Fiona Forde's biography of Julius Malema. She traces his life, from his early, poverty-stricken years in Limpopo to his joining the student structures of the ANC in the early 1990s, and his rapid rise through the party's ranks to become the president of the ANC Youth League in 2008. She also situates him within the ANC's history and analyses the sources of his wealth.

"Fiona Forde shows how the oldest modern political organisation in Africa has mutated into a patchwork of unstable, segmented and shifting networks of interests less and less united by principle or ideology and more and more bound by ruthless expediency. Born and raised in poverty, Julius Malema is at once atypical and symptomatic of his times. He embodies both the passions and contradictions of post-struggle politics and the dark and troubling undercurrents of a long South African tradition of lumpen radicalism. Lumpen radicalism is a political tradition of unruliness - and at times resistance - in which fantasies of male power, control and desire have always been deeply entangled with 'war envy' and an almost insatiable appetite for money, luxuries and women." from the foreword by Achille Mbembe.

Fiona Forde is an Irish journalist based in Cape Town.

Forman (S.) LIONEL FORMAN, a life too short, a personal memoir
254 pp., paperback, Alice, 2008. R220

A memoir about Lionel Forman written by his wife, Sadie.

South African communist Lionel Forman was born in Johannesburg in 1927. At the age of fourteen he joined the Young Communist League. As a student he was active in NUSAS and edited the student newspaper, Witwatersrand Student. He was also editor of Advance, the South African Communist Party newspaper. As an advocate working in Cape Town he defended trade unionists and victims of apartheid. A Treason Trialist, he died during a heart operation in 1959, at the age of 31.

Fox (W.) A GUIDE TO PUBLIC ETHICS,
196 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R196

This book "seeks to enhance excellence in public service delivery by making the public sector more relevant to the needs of the South African community" and emphasises "human development and management training of public servants in all spheres of government."

William Fox is an Emeritus Professor of the University of Stellenbosch and an Honorary Professor at the Cape Town University of Technology.

Frankel (G.) RIVONIA'S CHILDREN, three families and the cost of conscience in white South Africa
381 pp., illus., paperback, Reprint, New York, (1999) 2001. OUT OF PRINT

The story of a group of mostly Jewish, mostly communist activists, including Hilda and Rusty Bernstein, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, James Kantor and Harold and AnneMarie Wolpe, who either went into exile or were imprisoned for their anti-apartheid activities.

Funke (N.) & Solomon (H.) EXPLORING ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALIST IDEOLOGIES IN AFRICA,
410 pp., map, paperback, Pretoria, 2006. R295

Nikki Funke and Hussein Solomon examine Islamic fundamentalist ideologies in Algeria, Sudan and South Africa and explore the root causes of fundamentalism in Africa.

Nikki Funke is a Senior Associate of the Centre for International Political Studies at the University of Pretoria and is working as a social scientist at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research.
Professor Hussein Solomon lectures at the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria where he is also Director of the Centre for International Political Studies.

Gear (S.) DAAI DING, sex, sexual violence and coercion in men's prisons
84 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2002. R125

A study of sexual interactions and violations among male inmates of South African prisons, undertaken by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.

Gevisser (M.) THABO MBEKI, the dream deferred
892 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R225

Journalist Mark Gevisser is well-known for his insightful political profiles, originally published in Mail & Guardian and later collected in the book, "Portraits of Power: profiles in a changing South Africa". He began working on his biography in 1999.

Gevisser (M.) THABO MBEKI, the dream deferred, the updated international edition
376 pp., illus., paperback, Revised Edition, Johannesburg, 2009. R195

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.

Geyer (Y.) & Jenkins (I.) eds. CIVIL SOCIETY AND THE ZUMA GOVERNMENT, opportunities for engagement
39 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R50

Idasa and the International Development Research Centre (IDRA) held a round-table coversation in Pretoria in 2009 on the role of civil society in South Africa. This publication includes the three commissioned research papers:
"New World Governance and the Emergence of a Global Community Round Table" by Raenette Taljaard,
"Thoughts on the State of Civil Society in South Africa" by Khehla Shubane, and
"A Disguised Opportunity" by Steven Friedman.

Gibson (N.C.) FANONIAN PRACTICES IN SOUTH AFRICA, from Steve Biko to Abahlali baseMjondolo
312 pp., paperback, New York & Pietermaritzberg, 2011. R230

Nigel Gibson examines post-apartheid South Africa through the lens of Frantz Fanon's revolutionary humanism, focusing especially on Steve Biko's analysis of the dangers of liberalism and the politics of the shack dwellers' movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo, founded in Durban during the countrywide revolts of 2004-5.

Nigel Gibson is director of the Honors Program at Emerson College, USA, where he teaches postcolonial, global and African studies. He is also a visiting research fellow at the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Gibson (R.) FINAL DEADLINE, the last days of the Rand Daily Mail
208 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R160

The story of the controversial closure of the Rand Daily Mail newspaper in 1985, after 83 years.

Award-winning journalist Rex Gibson worked on the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg at various times from 1958 and became editor in 1982, a position he held until the paper was closed.

Glaser (D.) ed. MBEKI AND AFTER, reflections on the legacy of Thabo Mbeki
308 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R230

A collection of essays that examine the legacy of President Thabo Mbeki.

Contributions include:
"Why is Thabo Mbeki a 'Nitemare'?" by Mark Gevisser
"Machiavelli Meets the Constitution: Mbeki and the law" by Richard Calland and Chris Oxtoby
"Civil Society and Uncivil Government: the Treatment Action Campaign versus Thabo Mbeki, 1998-2008" by Mark Heywood
"Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: racism, technique and the Mbeki administration" by Steven Friedman
"Thabo Mbeki and the Great Foreign Policy Riddle" by Peter Vale.

Daryl Glaser is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Goldberg (D.) THE MISSION, a life of freedom in South Africa
427 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, DVD, Johannesburg, 2010. R220

An autobiography by political activist Denis Goldberg, sentenced with Mandela and others to life imprisonment at the Rivonia Treason Trial. On his negotiated release in 1985 he went into exile in London. He returned to South Africa in 2002 to become a Member of Parliament. Now retired, he lives in Hout Bay.

Foreword by Pallo Jordan.

Includes a DVD with footage ofr Denis' life and work.

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.

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,

Gordin (J.) ZUMA, a biography
390 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Second Revised Edition, Johannesburg, (2008) 2010. R145

A revised and updated edition of Jeremy Gordin's sympathetic biography of Jacob Zuma that covers his early life as a herd boy, his adult life as a member of the ANC, his incarceration on Robben Island, his time in exile and the transitional years of the early 1990s. In this new edition Gordon includes Zuma's 2010 visit to Buckingham Palace during which he was maligned by the British press, evaluates his presidency to date, and includes information on his wives and children and the 1985 "Pedro" document.

Award-winning journalist Jeremy Gordin is associate editor of The Sunday Independent.

Gould (C.) & Fick (N.) SELLING SEX IN CAPE TOWN, sex work and human trafficking in a South African city
205 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2008. R110

A two-year study undertaken by the Crime, Justice and Politics Programme of the Institute for Security Studies and the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce (SWEAT) which "analyses numbers, earnings, working conditions and various aspects of exploitation of both street-based and brothel-based sex workers, and makes recommendations on how exploitation of sex-workers can be prevented".

Green (P.) CHOICE, NOT FATE, the life and times of Trevor Manuel
602 pp., map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2008. R320

A biography of Trevor Manuel that covers his birth into a working-class family on the Cape Flats, his childhood under apartheid, his role as one of the most prominent leaders in the United Democratic Front (UDF) in the 1980s and his rise through the ranks of the ANC to become minister of finance in 1996. This book was shortlisted for the 2009 Alan Paton Award.

Journalist Pippa Green has been a deputy editor of The Sunday Independent and Pretoria News. She was a recipient of the Nieman Fellowship at Harvard in 1999, and was Ferris Visiting Professor of Journalism at Princeton University in 2006.

Grey (S.) GHOST PLANE, the inside story of the CIA's secret rendition programme
306 pp., maps, illus., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Johannesburg & London, (2006) 2007. R180

Using prisomers' accounts, interviews with pilots and CIA flight logs journalist Stephen Grey reveals how the CIA transports prisoners to foreign jails and its own secret facilities around the world knowing they will be tortured.

Grey's reporting on the CIA rendition programme won the Amnesty International 2005 Media Award for Best Periodical Article, was declared runner-up "story of the year" by the Foreign Press Association in 2004, and has been short-listed for the 2006 Paul Foot Award for Investigative and Campaigning Journalism.

Gruzd (S.) ed. GRAPPLING WITH GOVERNANCE, perspectives on the African Peer Review Mechanism
226 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R195

A collection of essays that examine how the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), a tool designed to promote good governance in Africa, has evolved and how effective it has been.

Contributions include:
"Assessing South Africa's APRM: an NGO perspective" by Nick Hutchings, Mukelani Dimba and Alison Tilley
"Using Representative Opinion Surveys in the APRM Process" by Robert Mattes
"APRM's Economic Governance and Management Standards: what civil society should look for" by Colm Allan and Neil Overy
"Making the News: why the APRM didn't" by Brendan Boyle
"Common African Political Governance Issues: insights from six early APRM Country Review Reports" by Yarik Turianskyi.

"Essential reading to understand how civil society has perceived and experienced the APRM, and how their engagement has strengthened this organic African governance initiative." Gabriel Negatu, Director, Governance, Economic and Financial Reform, African Development Bank

Gumede (W.) & Dikeni (L.) eds. THE POVERTY OF IDEAS, South African democracy and the retreat of intellectuals
258 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R180

A collection of essays that examine the devaluation of ideas and the intellect and the intolerance of criticism and dissent in post-apartheid South Africa.

Contributions include "Building a Democratic Political Culture" by William Gumede,
"Our Intellectual Dilemma: the pseudo-intellectuals" by Leslie Dikeni,
"The Role of Revolutionary Intellectuals: the life of Comrade Mzala" by Jeremy Cronin,
"African Intellectuals and Identity: overcoming the political legacy of colonialism" by Mahmood Mamdani, and
"Intellectuals, the State and Universities in South Africa" by Jonathan Jansen.

William Gumede is Senior Associate and Programme Director, Africa Asia Centre, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and Honorary Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of "Thabo Mbeki and the Battle for the Soul of the ANC" (2005).
Leslie Dikeni is Research Associate at the Department of International Politics, University of Pretoria.

Gumede (W.M.) THABO MBEKI AND THE BATTLE FOR THE SOUL OF THE ANC,
476 pp., paperback, Revised Edition, Cape Town, (2005) 2007. R200

A revised and updated edition of journalist and academic William Mervyn Gumede's unauthorised biography of Thabo Mbeki. Gumede analyses Mbeki's rise within the ANC, his political career, personality and politics, and examines issues such as the President's controversial position on AIDS and Zimbabwe, the impact of Jacob Zuma, the ANC-SACP-COSATU alliance, and the succession battle within the party.

William Gumede is Senior Associate and Oppenheimer Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford University. Formerly a deputy editor of the Sowetan newspaper, he is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand, is a contributing analyst to the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and the BBC World Service, and writes a blog on global politics for the Washington Post.

Gunn (S.) & Visser (R.) eds. LABOUR PAINS FOR THE NATION, eight women workers share their stories
254 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R95

As part of their Women Workers Life Story Project the Human Rights Media Centre (HMRC) compiled this collection of stories from taped interviews with eight South African women workers in the Western Cape: Charlotte Petersen, Lizzie Phike, Florence De Villiers, Darlina Tyawana, Myrtle Witbooi, Pat Van Voore, Rachel Vissr and Sarah Claasen.

Foreword by Pregs Govender.

Gunn (S.) comp. & text IF TREES COULD SPEAK, the Trojan Horse story
132 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R95

The Trojan Horse shootings was a double-ambush in Athlone on 15 October and in Crossroads on 16 October 1985, planned by the South African Police, the South African Railways Police and the South African Defence Force. An unmarked railway police truck with wooden boxes on the back to serve as hiding places for armed policemen authorised to shoot to kill was driven into areas where youths regularly erected burning barricades and stoned vehicles. When the vehicle was stoned these policemen would be able take the attackers by surprise. Three boys were killed in Athlone and two in Crossroads.

Contents inlcude the life stories of Zodwa Mali and Gordon Mali, the mother and twin bother of Goodman Mali, and the life story of Tatana Fatman, Mabhuti Fatman's uncle. Goodman and Mabhuti died in the Crossroads shootings.

Gupta (P.), Hofmeyr (I.) & Pearson (M.) eds. EYES ACROSS THE WATER, navigating the Indian Ocean
394 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R228

Foreword by Amitav Ghosh.

A collection of papers on the Indian Ocean world, re-emerging as a major arena in world politics in the twenty-first century. These papers were first presented at a colloquium hosted by the South Africa/ India Research Thrust at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2007. Two additional essays were solicited after the conference.

Contributions include "Africa as a Fault Line in the Indian Ocean" by Isabel Hofmeyr,
"The Unwieldy Fetish: desire and disavowal of Indianness in South Africa" by Thomas Blom Hansen,
"The South African Indian Film Industry: new directions in Indian commercial and disporic cinema" by Stefanie Lotter,
"'African Appendix': distortion, forgery and superfluity on a southern littoral" by Ashraf Jamal,
"Navigating Difference: gender, miscegenation and Indian domestic space in twentieth-century Durban" by Jon Soske, and
"Transnational Spaces, Islam and the Interaction of Indian and African Identity Strategies in South African During and After Apartheid" by Preben Kaarsholm.

Pamila Gupta is a researcher at WISER, the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research.
Isable Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature and Acting Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Michael Pearson is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, and Adjunct Professor of Humanities at the University of Technology, Sydney.

Habib (A.) & Bentley (K.) eds. RACIAL REDRESS & CITIZENSHIP, in South Africa
369 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008. R180

Contents include "Counting on 'Race': what the surveys say (and do not say) about 'race' and redress" by Steven Friedman and Zimitri Erasmus,
"Affirmative Action in the Public Service" by Mcebisi Ndletyana,
"The Meaning of Racial Redress in South African schools, 1994 to 2006" by Linda Chisholm, and
"Sport For All: exploring the boundaries of sport and citizenship in 'liberated' South Africa" by Ashwin Desai and Dhevarsha Ramjettan.

Adam Habib is the Deputy Vice-Chanvellor, Research, Innovation and Advancement at the University of Johannesburg.
Kristina Bentley is an independent scholar and former Chief Research Specialist in Democracy and Governance at the Human Sciences Research Council.

Hadland (A.), Louw (E.), Sesanti (S.) & Wasserman (H.) eds. POWER, POLITICS AND IDENTITY IN SOUTH AFRICAN MEDIA, selected seminar papers
403 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008. R180

Most of these essays, which explore the relationship between identity and the media in contemporary South Africa, were presented at an international conference in Stellenbosch in 2006.

Essays include "Media, Youth, Violence and Identity in South Africa: a theoretical appraoch" by Abebe Zegeye,
"'National' Public-Service Boradcasting: contradictions and dilemmas" by Ruth Teer-Tomaselli,
"The Mass Subject in Antjie Krog's 'Country of My Skull'" by Anthea Garman,
"Tsotsis, Coconuts and Wiggers: Black masculinity and contemporary South African media" by Jane Stadler,
"The Media and the Zuma/Zulu Culture: an Afrocentric perspective" by Simphiwe Sesanti, and
"Online Coloured Identities: a virtual ethnography" by Tanja Bosch.

Hall (R.) ed. ANOTHER COUNTRYSIDE?, policy options for land and agrarian reform in South Africa
264 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R155

A compilation of papers that explore the question of land redistribution in South Africa.

Contributions include "Land Reform for What? land use, production and livelihoods", "Land Reform How and For Whom? land demand, targeting and acquisition" and "Dynamics in the Commercial Farming Sector" by Ruth Hall,
"Agricultural Employment Scenarios" by Michael Aliber, Mompathi Baiphethi and Peter Jacobs,
"The Private Sector and Land Reform" by Karin Kleinbooi, and
"New Institutional Mechanisms" by Lionel Cliffe.

Ruth Hall is a senior researcher at the Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies (PLAAS), University of the Western Cape.

Hallowes (D.) & Munnick (V.) WASTING THE NATION, making trash of people and places, the groundWork report 2008
196pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008. R250

GroundWork is a non-profit environmental justice service and developmental organisation in South Africa. Each year they publish a report on an aspect of environmental justice. This report focuses on waste issues.

Handmaker (J.) & Berkhout (R.) eds. MOBILISING SOCIAL JUSTICE IN SOUTH AFRICA, perspectives from researchers and practitioners
208 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R220

The findings of five research projects on social justice practice presented at a conference organised by the HIVOS-ISS Knowledge Programme and held at the University of the Witwatersrand in November 2009.

Contributions include:
"Civic-State Interactions and the Potential for Structural Change" by Jeff Handmaker,
"The Budget Process and Strategic Civic Interventions" by Frank S.Jenkins,
"Civic Action and Legal Mobilisation: the Phiri water meters case" by Jackie Dugard,
"Resistance and Repression: policing protest in post-apartheid South Africa" by Marcelle C.Dawson,
"Migrant Mobilisation: structure and strategies for claiming rights in South Africa and Kenya" by Zabeena Jinnah and Rio Holaday,
"Unlocking the Potential for Civic Action and Structural Change: reflections on mobilising social justice" by Jeff Handmaker and Remko Berkhout.

Harber (A.) DIEPSLOOT,
231 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R175

Journalist Anton Harber spent several months in Diepsloot, an informal settlement north of Johannesburg.

"Most of all, I learned that if you want to understand where this country is headed, you need to listen to the people of Diepsloot. Hear what they are saying. Take note of their hopes and aspirations. You might be surprised" Anton Harber

"'Diepsloot' is the first study of its kind that seeks to understand change as it is lived on the ground, and not as it is talked about in the media and corridors of power. Rich with detail and local colour, it offers a nuanced examination of life as it is lived despite the State with its half-completed police station and the ANC with its internecine warfare." Jacob Dlamini

"Driven by restless curiosity and laced with dry-as-dust humour, 'Diepsloot' is packed with delight." John Perlman

Anton Harber is the Caxton Professor of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand. He was a founder and editor of the Mail & Guardian.

Harber (A.) & Renn (M.) eds. TROUBLEMAKERS, the best of South Africa's investigative journalism
239 pp., colour illus., paperback, DVD,, Johannesburg, 2010. R180

A collection of investigative reporting. The journalists are all finalists in the 2009 Taco Kuiper Award, South Africa's biggest journalism prize. The award was won by Rob Rose for the exposé of Barry Tannebaum's collapsed Ponzi scheme.

Introduction by Anton Harber, Caxton Professor of Journalism at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Articles include:
"Tearful Niehaus Admits Fraud" by Pearlie Joubert,
"Did Mphe Plagiarise a Hong Kong Judge?" by James Myburgh, on Mokotedi Mpshe dropping charges of corruption against Jacob Zuma,
"I Want My F*%#@!! Pardon!!" by Julian Rademeyer and Felix Dlangamandla, on Shabir Schaik violating his parole conditions,
"Death-trap Taxis" by Stephen Hodstatter and Rob Rose,
"Keeping the Lights On" by Jan de Lange, on the Eskom CEO who ignored warnings of a coal crisis.

Also includes a DVD which features two films made for television:
"Golden Girl", produced by Debora Patta and Xolisile Moloi, in which Athletics South Africa president, Leonard Chuene, is confronted with evidence that he knew about the request for a gender test for Caster Semenya, and
"Hell Hole", produced by Johann Abrahams and Godknows Nare, on conditions in Zimbabwe's prisons.

Harris (P.) IN A DIFFERENT TIME, the inside story of the Delmas four
320 pp., paperback, Reprrint, Cape Town, (2008) 2010. R185

Lawyer Peter Harris represented Jabu Masina, Ting Ting Masango, Neo Potsane and Joseph Makhura who were part of an ANC specialist unit reporting to Chris Hani. They returned to South Africa in 1986 to carry out acts of sabotage. Ten months later, in April 1987, they were arrested and charged with high treason and murder and subsequently sentenced to death. On appeal this sentence was set aside, and replaced with a 25 year prison sentence. They were all released from jail in 1991.

This book won the 2009 Alan Paton Award.

"A dark chapter in our history brilliantly brought to light." Ivan Vladislavic

"'In a Different Time' is the most wonderfully good book about South Africa I have read in a decade" Peter Bruce, Business Day

Harris (P.) BIRTH, the conspiracy to stop the '94 elections
288 pp., map, paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R200

In 1992 Peter Harris was seconded to the National Peace Accord, and headed the Monitoring Directorate of the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for the 1994 election. In this book he provides an insider's account of the dramatic events leading up to the first democratic elections in South Africa.

Lawyer Peter Harris is also the author of "In a Different Time", which won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award.

Harrison (P.), Todes (A.) & Watson (V.) PLANNING AND TRANSFORMATION, learning from the post-apartheid experience
300 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Abingdon & New York, 2008. R479

Examines the first ten years of post-apartheid planning in South Africa.

Philip Harrison is Executive Director of Development Planning and Urban Management in the City of Johannesburg and an honorary professor at the University of the Witwatersrand where he was previously Professor of Urban and Regional Planning in the School of Architecture and Planning.
Alison Todes is Professor of Urban and Regiobal Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Vanessa Watson is Professor in the City and Regional Planning Programme in the School of Architecture and Geomatics, University of Cape Town.

Harrison (R.) THE BLACK CHRIST, a journey to freedom
180 pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. OUT OF PRINT

Foreword by Dr Albertina Luthuli. Introduction by Marilyn Martin.

In his oil painting, "The Black Christ", unveiled in Cape Town in 1962, artist Ronald Harrison portrayed Chief Albert Luthuli as Christ and modelled the two centurions on John Vorster and Hendrick Verwoerd. This is Harrison's account of the context in which the painting was made, the state's response and his subsequent imprisonment, torture and harrassment, the banned painting's tour abroad and it's return to South Africa more than 30 years later. It is now in the permanent collection of the Iziko South African National Gallery.

Hassim (A.), Heywood (M.) & Berger (J.) eds. HEALTH & DEMOCRACY, a guide to human rights, health law and policy in post-apartheid South Africa
506 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R230

A comprehensive guide to the health system, health law and health policy, with examples drawn from health activism regarding HIV/AIDS to illustrate the practical implications of law and policy.

Adila Hassim is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a member of the Johannesburg Bar. She is head of litigation and legal services at the Aids Law Project. Mark Heywood is head of the Aids Law Project. Jonathan Berger is head of policy and research at the Aids Law Project.

Hassim (S.) WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS AND DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA, contesting authority
355 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2006. R190

Shireen Hassim, senior lecturer in political science at the University of the Witwatersrand, examines interactions between the transition to democracy and the women's movement in South Africa.

Hassim (S.), Kupe (T.) & Worby (E.) eds. GO HOME OR DIE HERE, violence, xenophobia and the reinvention of difference in South Africa
259 pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R150

In response to the xenophobic attacks in May 2008 the Faculty of Humanities at the University of the Witwatersrand convened an urgent colloquium that focused on searching for short and long term solutions. This book grew out of the colloquium.

Contributions include "(Dis)connections: elite and popular 'common sense' on the matter of 'foreigners'" by Daryl Glaser,
"Behind Xenophobia in South Africa - poverty or inequality?" by Stephen Gelb,
"Relative Deprivation, Social Instability and Cultures of Entitlement" by Devan Pillay,
"Crossing Borders" by David Coplan,
"Two Newspapers, Two Nations? The media and the xenophobic violence" by Anton Harber,
"We Are Not All Like That: race, class and nation after apartheid" by Andile Mngxitama, and
"Brutal Inheritances: echoes, negrophobia and masculinist violence" by Pumla Dineo Gqola.

Haupt (A.) STEALING EMPIRE, P2P, intellectual property and hip-hop subversion
264 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008. R160

Adam Haupt "poses the question, 'What possibilities for agency exist in the age of corporate globalisation?'" He "explores arguments about copyright via peer-to-peer (P2P) platforms such as Napster, free speech struggles, debates about access to information and open content licences", and analyses "counterdiscourses produced by South African hip-hop artists".

Adam Haupt is Senior Lecturer in the Centre for Film and Media Studies at the University of Cape Town.

Herzenberg (C.S.) ed. PLAYER AND REFEREE, conflicting interests and the 2010 FIFA World Cup
236 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R30

Six case studies that explore the dynamics that gave rise to conflict between public and private interests in the context of the 2010 FIFA World Cup.

Contributions include:
"Soccer City: what is says about the murky world of government tenders" by Rob Rose
"Tendering Irregularities in the Eastern Cape" by Eddie Botha and Gcina Ntsaluba
"How FIFA Corruption Empowers Global Capital" by Andrew Jennings
"FIFA's 'Official' Suppliers: shadowy tenders and conflicts of interest at Match" by Rob Rose
"Public Loss, FIFA's Gain: how Cape Town got its 'white elephant'" by Karen Scheepers and Stefaans Brümmer
"Durban's Moses Mabhida Stadium: arch of hope or yoke of debt?" by Sam Sole

Collette Schulz Herzenberg is a senior researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Cape Town.

Heunis (J.) THE INNER CIRCLE, reflections on the last days of white rule
207 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R130

Lawyer Jan Heunis, son of Nationalist Party Constitutional Development minister Chris Heunis, was Chief State Law Adviser in the State President's Office under P.W.Botha. He also played an influencial role in the multi-party negotaitions that led to the 1996 Constitution. He offers appraisals of key players such as P.W.Botha, Nelson Mandela, Pik Botha, F.W.de Klerk, Kobie Coetsee, Denis Worrall, Heunis Kriel, Roelf Meyer, and his own father.

Also available in Afrikaans.

Hlongwane (K.), Ndlovu (S.) & Mutloatse (M.) eds. SOWETO '76, reflections on the liberation struggles, commemorating the 30th anniversary of June 16, 1976.
238 pp., oblong 4to., map, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R225

Includes poetry by Mongane Wally Serote, Steve Jacobs, Sipho Sepamla, James Matthews, Essop Patel, Chris van Wyk, Keorapetse Kgositsile and others, personal reflections by Robert Berold, Graeme Bloch, John Matshikiza, Khangela Ali Hlongwane, Harry Mashabela, and others, oral testimonies by some of those involved, and freedom songs.

Hodgson (R.) FOOT SOLDIER FOR FREEDOM, a life in South Africa's liberation movement
273 pp., b/w & colour paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R225

An autobiography by political activist Rita Hodgson, born in 1920 in Johannesburg, a child of emigrant Jews. She was a member of the Springbok Legion, the Communist Party and the African National Congress, working full time for the movement.

Hofmeyr (I.) & Williams (M.) eds. SOUTH AFRICA & INDIA, shaping the global south
328 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R250

A collection of essays which trace the historical connections between India and South Africa and explore unconventional socio-political comparisons that offer new ground on which to build areas of study.

Contributions include:
"Gandhi's Printing Press: Indian Ocean print cultures and cosmopolitanisms" by Isabel Hofmeyr
"Steamship Empire: Asian, African and British sailors in the Merchant Marine c.1880-1945" by Jonathan Hyslop
"The Interlocking Worlds of the Anglo-Boer War in South Africa and India" by Pradip Kumar Datta
"The Disquieting of History: Portuguese decolonisation and Goan migration in the Indian Ocean" by Pamila Gupta
"Renaissances, African and Modern: Gandhi as a resource?" by Crain Soudien
"Democratic Deepening in India and South Africa" by Patrick Heller.

Isabel Hofmeyr is a professor of African Literature and Michelle Williams a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, both at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Holden (P.) THE ARMS DEAL IN YOUR POCKET,
357 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R145

Foreword by Andrew Feinstein, author of "After the Party".

Paul Holden's handbook to the arms deal. He identifies and explains the key aspects of the deal, the cover-up, the crucial questions that remain unanswered, and why it has created a political and moral crisis.

Holden (P.) & van Vuuren (H.) THE DEVIL IN THE DETAIL, how the Arms Deal changed everything
517 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R260

Paul Holden and Hennie van Vuuren explain the series of inter-related corruption scandals that have come to be known as the Arms Deal, and explore how the cover-up and the continuing corruption take South Africa further and further away from transparent democratic practice.

"This is a very important book that reveals significant new information about the arms deal. The deal was the point at which South Africa lost its moral compass and remains crucial to our politics today. Unless we confront the full truth of the arms deal we will not be able to address the scourge of corruption and cronyism, as well as the lack of real accountability and transparency that blights our democracy. This book is a significant contribution on that quest." Andrew Feinstein author of "After the Party" and "The Shadow World, inside the global arms trade".

This book is an output of the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) Corruption and Democratic Governance Division.

Holland (H.) 100 YEARS OF STRUGGLE, Mandela's ANC
227 pp., paperback, Revised Edition, Johannesburg, (1989) 2012. R220

A revised and updated edition of the book first published in 1989 as "The Struggle: A history of the African National Congress".

Journalist Heidi Holland is also the author of "Dinner with Mugabe".

Holomisa (P.) A DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD, a quest for a place in the sun
283 pp., illus., paperback, Third Edition, Johanneburg, (2007) 2011. R180

A collection of archival records on the formation and missions of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa.

Forewords by President Jacob Zuma and Winnie Mandela.

Sango Phathekile Holomisa is an advocate of the High Court of South Africa and a founder member of the National Association of Democratic Lawyers. He has been a Member of Parliament since 1994. He is the Head of the Hegebe Traditional Council and has been President of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa since 1990. In 2002 he was elected Chairperson of the Southern African Development Community Council of Traditional Leaders. He is also the author of "According to Tradition".

Holomisa (S.P.) ACCORDING TO TRADITION, a cultural perspective on current affairs
211 pp., paperback, (Cape Town), 2009. R140

Sango Phathekile Holomisa is the traditional leader of amaHegebe in Mqanduli in the Eastern Cape and has been president of the Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa since 1990. He is an advocate, ANC activist and MP. In this collection of essays he provides an indigenous African perspective on contemporary issues in South Africa, such as the culture of violence, Africans in business, land redistribution, abandonded babies and street children, the use of African languages, traditional justice, the ANC leadership battle, Robert Mugabe, and HIV-AIDS.

Holt-Giménez (E.) & Patel (R.) FOOD REBELLIONS!, crisis and the hunger for justice
260 pp., illus., paperback, Oxford & Cape Town, 2009. R243

"In this very timely book, two of the most prominent critics of the global food system dissect the causes of hunger and the food price crisis, locating them in a political economy of capitalist industrial production dominated by corporations and driven by the search for profits for the few instead of the welfare of the many." Professor of Sociology Walden Bello, University of the Phillippines

"'Food Rebellions!' demonstrates the imperative to protect and enhance the multifaceted knowledge, practices, and lands of sustainable farmers. Contrary to some views, sustainable food systems are most helpful to the poor, especially the rural poor, who suffer the most from the dire social and ecological effects of industrial agriculture. Absent perverse subsidies to agrifood industries, what is good for farmers is also good for eaters and citizens. Holt-Giménez and Patel contribute to an urgent awakening - supported by practical experiments and expert reports - to the necessity and possibility for transforming food systems." Harriet Friedman, Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto

Eric Holt-Giménez is Executive Director of Food First/ Institute for Food and Development Policy. He is the author of "Campesino a Campesino: voices from Larin America's Farmer to Farmer Movement for Sustainable Agriculture".
Raj Patel is an honorary research fellow at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and works with the South African Shackdwellers' Movement, Abahlali baseMjondolo. He is also a fellow at Food First and a visiting scholar at the Centre for African Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of "Stuffed and Starved: markets, power and the hidden battle for the world food system".

Hopkins (P.) text & Hilton-Barber (S.) photo. VOËLVRY, the movement that rocked South Africa
239 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. OUT OF PRINT

Based on interviews with participants and observers this book documents the 1989 Voëlvry tour and the influential social movement that grew out of it. In the 1980s a group of young Afrikaner musicians, including André Letoit (Koos Kombuis), Johannes Kerkorrel en die Gereformeerde Blues Band and Bernoldus Niemand (James Phillips) en die Swart Gevaar, amongst others, decided to use rock music to challenge the status quo and free Afrikaner youth from the strictures of their culture. The two-month long 1989 Voëlvry tour was organised by Vrye Weekblad and Shifty Records.

Foreword by Max du Preez. Afterword by Koos Kombuis. Includes a DVD produced by Lloyd Ross..

Huchzermeyer (M.) CITIES WITH "SLUMS", from informal settlement eradication to a right to the city in Africa
296 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R280

Marie Huchzermeyer discusses "the question of 'slums' or informal settlements and the global forces, in the form of campaigns and urban policy norms, that shape the dominant approach to informal settlements." from her introduction

"Marie Huchzermeyer has tackled an issue of enormous social and political significance. With about half the world's population now living in cities and with rural-to-urban migration continuing unabated, the question of worldwide slums and slum eradication is central to understanding city-building processes and urbanization in the future." Martin Murray, Professor of Urban Planning, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning

Marie Huchzermeyer is an academic and public intellectual at the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is also the author of "Unlawful Occupations: informal settlements and urban policy in South Africa and Brazil" (2004) and "Tenement Cities: from 19th century Berlin to 21st century Nairobi" (2011).

Huchzermeyer (M.) & Karam (A.) eds. INFORMAL SETTLEMENTS, a perpetual challenge?
318 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R259

Contributions include "The New Instrument for Upgrading Informal Settlements in South Africa" by Marie Huchzermeyer,
"Informal Settlements: Infernal and Eternal? The role of research in policy advocacy and urban informal settlements in Angola" by Paul Jenkins, "Understanding the Complexities of Informal Settlements: insights from Cape Town" by Warren Smit,
"An HIV and AIDS Lens for Informal Settlement Policy and Practice in South Africa" by Cecile Ambert,
"Informal Settlement Upgrading in Cape Town: challenges, constraints and contradictions within local government" by Nick Graham,
"Local Governance and Social Conflict: implications for piloting South Africa's new housing plan in Cape Town's informal settlements" by Catherine Cross
and "The Local Government Challenge of Healthy Development in Informal Settlements in a Time of HIV/AIDS" by Elizabeth Thomas.

Human (M.) et. al. (eds.) THE WOMEN'S FREEDOM MARCH OF 1956,
160 pp., oblong 4to., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R225

Published to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Women's March to Pretoria: on August 9th, 1956, 20 000 women marched on the Union Buildings to demand the withdrawal of passes for women and the repeal of the pass laws, the attempt by the Nationalist government to control the influx of blacks into designated white areas.

Contents include articles on the Federation of South African Women, the leaders of the 1956 march, the Black Sash, ordinary women, women activists and working class leaders who took part and documents, articles and photographs relating to both the 1955 and 1956 marches. There are profiles on Nadine Gordimer by Maureen Isaacson & Barbara Masekela by Ben Magubane & Gregory Houston, an interview with Mary Burton by Candy Malherbe and texts by Hilda Bernstein and Ezekiel Mphahlele. Also included are sections on female musicians of the 1950s and female visual and graphic artists.

Human Rights Media Centre (HRMC) THEN LIGHT WENT BLACK, six South African stories of people who became blind
159 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R109

A collection of the stories of six people with visual impairment living in Cape Town. The aim of the publication is to raise awareness around what causes visual impairment and the challenges faced by people living with blindness.

Jacklin (H.) & Vale (P.) eds. RE-IMAGINING THE SOCIAL IN SOUTH AFRICA, critique, theory and post-apartheid society
308 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2009. R245

The essays in this collection "offer explanations for why post-apartheid discourses are narrowly focused, and imagine different conversations around contemporary South African life." from the back cover

"Democracy did not bring 'the end of history' to South Africa: difficult ethical and political questions remain. This volume reaffirms the project of theoretically grounded critique from perspectives in the south. This is a very welcome and important contribution to contemporary debates about post-apartheid society." Deborah Posel, Professor of Sociology and founding director of the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER)

"This collection makes a powerful case for the need to encourage traditions of critical thought in contemporary South Africa. Some of the liveliest academic minds in the country question the passivity of current intellectual discourse and remind us of the important role played by the humanities and social sciences in ending apartheid habits of mind. The authors argue that current problems require similarly adventurous and challenging ideas." Saul Dubow, Professor of History, Sussex University

Contributions include "Citizenship, Knowledge and the Nationalist State" by Ivor Chipkin,
"On Representation: citizenship and critique in Marx and Said" by John Higgins,
"Translating 'South Africa": race, colonialism and challenges of critical thought after apartheid" by Suren Pillay, and
"A Subaltern Studies for South African History" by Premesh Lalu.

Heather Jacklin is Senior Lecturer in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town.
Peter Vale helds the Nelson Mandela Chair in Politics at Rhodes University.

Jaffer (Z.) LOVE IN THE TIME OF TREASON, the life story of Ayesha Dawood
224 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008. R145

Biography of activist, ANC member and Treason Trialist Ayesha Dawood.

Journalist Zubeida Jaffer has also written an autobiography, "Our Generation".

Jaffer (Z.) NOT BY DREAD ALONE, thoughts about our journalism
60 pp., paperback, , 2011. R70

An essay on the state of journalism in South Africa.


Journalist and author Zubeida Jaffer currently works as Communications Specialist for the Minister of Economic Development, Mr Ebrahim Patel. She is also the author of the book, "Love in the Time of Treason".

James (D.) GAINING GROUND?, "rights" amd "property" in South African land reform
282 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R180

Deborah James focuses on the province of Mpumalanga and discusses land reform policy and practice in post-apartheid South Africa and how human rights lawyers, NGOs and the state in interaction with local communities have tried to settle land claims.
Deborah James is Reader in the Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics.

Jansen (J.) WE NEED TO TALK,
270 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R160

A collection of articles on issues that confront South Africa by Jonathan Jansen, previously published in The Times newspaper.

Professor Jonathan Jansen is the rector of the University of the Free State. He is also the author of "Knowledge in the Blood, confronting race and the apartheid past" (2009).

Jantjes (G.) ed. STRENGTHS & CONVICTIONS, the life and times of the South African Nobel Peace Prize laureates
207 pp., 4to., colour illus., hardback, d.w., Oslo, 2009. R625

Published to accompany the travelling exhibition about the lives and times of the four South African Nobel Peace Prize laureates, Albert Luthuli, Desmond Tutu, FW de Klerk and Nelson Mandela. The exhibition opened at the IZIKO South African National Gallery in Cape Town in 2009.

Includes the laureates' presentation speeches and Nobel lectures and the essays, "From Conviction to a Democratic Constitution: the role of the laureates and Oliver Tambo in the making of South Africa's constitution" by Albie Sachs, "Trying the Un-Learn the Past: a current perspective on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission" by Antjie Krog and "Art and History" by Gavin Jantjes.

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".

Jeffery (A.) CHASING THE RAINBOW, South Africa's move from Mandela to Zuma
500 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R195

Anthea Jeffery looks at South Africa's progress from May 1994 to April 2009 with reference to ten crucial policy areas which the South African Institute of Race Relations calls the "ten pillars of democracy": democratic governance, the rule of law, individual rights, racial goodwill, effective governance, growth-focused policies, scope for free enterprise, liberation of the poor and good citizenship.

"The book you're holding contains a vanishingly rare and valuable commodity. You could call it information, I suppose, but that's misleading...The commodity we lack is clarity, and that's what Anthea Jeffery provides in 'Chasing the Rainbow." Rian Malan, in his foreword

Anthea Jeffery works for the South African Institute of Race Relations. Her previous publications include "Business and Affirmative Action", "The Truth About the Truth Commission" and "People's War".

Jenkins (E.) FALLING INTO PLACE, the story of modern South African place names
220 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R150

Elwyn Jenkins provides detailed accounts of how towns, cities, suburbs, provinces and airports have been named, and sometimes renamed, over the last 30 years.

Jenkins is Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of English Studies at the University of South Africa and President of the South African Institute of Race Relations. He was appointed to the National Place Names Committee in 1987, served on the committe that drafted the South African Geographical Names Council Act, and was appointed by the Minister to the new Council in 1999, serving until 2003.

Jensen (S.) GANGS, POLITICS & DIGNITY IN CAPE TOWN,
212 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, etc., 2008. R220

Based on two years of fieldwork in Heideveld (1997 - 1999), Steffen Jensen explores what it means to live in a working-class neighbourhood on the Cape Flats where gangs are omnipresent, criminality is a blurred concept and alternative and competing moral codes exist.

Steffen Jensen is a Senior Researcher with the Rehabilitation and Research Center for Torture Victims in Copenhagen. He is also a research affiliate with the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER).

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

Jolly (R.) CULTURED VIOLENCE, narrative, social suffering, and engendering human rights in contemporary South Africa
184 pp., paperback, Liverpool & Pietermaritzburg, 2010. R235

Rosemary Jolly "explores contemporary South African culture as a test case for the achievement of democracy by constitutional means in the wake of prolonged and violent conflict. The books addresses key ethical issues, normally addressed from within the discourses of law, the social sciences, and health sciences, through narrative analysis. To make her argument, Rosemary Jolly draws from and juxtaposes narratives of profoundly different kinds: fictional narratives, such as the work of Nobel Laureate J.M.Coetzee; public testimony, from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission and from Jacob Zuma's 2006 rape trial; and personal testimony, drawn from interviews undertaken by the author over the past ten years in South Africa." from the back cover

"Moving freely between testimony and fiction, social realities and their representations, Rosemary Jolly's admirable study engages unflinchingly with her subject, asking tough questions about the perpetuation of violence and the problem of complicity." Derek Attridge, University of York

Professor Rosemary Jolly holds appointments in the Department of English, Southern African Research Centre and Institute for Population and Public Health at Queen's University, Canada. Her previous books include "Colonization, Violence and Narration in White South African Writing" (1996), co-edited by Derek Attridge, and "Writing South Africa" (1997).

Jordan (Z.P.) ed. OLIVER TAMBO REMEMBERED,
463pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2007. R250

A compilation of memories in celebration of what would be Oliver Tambo's 90th birthday. Contributions by Thabo Mbeki, Z.Pallo Jordan, Kader Asmal, Nelson Mandela, Ruth Mompati, Sam Njoma, Wally Serote, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, Ronnie Kasrils, Reg September, and many others.

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.

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.

Kaminer (D.) & Eagle (G.) TRAUMATIC STRESS IN SOUTH AFRICA,
222 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R240

Psychologists Debra Kaminer and Gillian Eagle examine the extent of and manner in which traumatic stress manifests in South Africa, including the way in which exposure to extremely threatening events impacts on people's meaning and belief systems. They also cover therapeutic and community strategies for dealing with the effects of exposure to trauma, as well as the particular needs of traumatised children and adolescents.

Debra Kaminer is a senior lecturer in the Psychology Department at the University of Cape Town. Gillian Eagle is Professor of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand. Both are registered clinical psychologists.

Kapteijns (L.) & Richters (A.) eds. MEDIATIONS OF VIOLENCE IN AFRICA, fashioning new futures from contested pasts
265 pp., colour illus., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Johanneburg, 2010. R240

Originally published in The Netherlands in 2010.

A collection of essays that analyse the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of the people who experienced and witnessed them.

Contributions include:
"The Road, the Song and the Citizen: singing after violence in KwaZulu-Natal" by Liz Gunner,
"Testimonies of Suffering and Recasting the Meanings of Memories of Violence in Post-war Mozambique" by Victor Igreja,
"'The Balsak in the Roof: bush war experiences and mediations as related by white South African conscripts" by Diana Gibson.

Lidwien Kaptrijns is Professor of History at Wellesley College, USA.
Annemiek Richters is Professor of Culture, Health and Illness at Leiden University Medical Center and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research.

Kasrils (R.) THE UNLIKELY SECRET AGENT,
183 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R170

Ronnie Kasrils' account of his wife Eleanor's arrest by the Security Police in 1963, her detention and interrogation, and her escape from Fort Napier, a mental hospital in Pietermaritzburg where she had been sent for assessment.

"Eleanor Kasrils was catapulted into the politics of the national democratic movement by the terrible events at Sharpville and Langa of March 1960. Because her conscience would not allow her to stand by passively muttering complaints she threw herself heart and soul into the struggle to eradicate racism and apartheid. That commitment led her to being cast in the unlikely roles of burglar, saboteur, underground courier and ultimately that of exile. For twenty-seven years Eleanor and her husband Ronnie were engaged in some of the most clandestine aspects of the struggle for liberation. Leading a life filled with the tensions, anxieties and suspense typical of a spy thriller, Eleanor was still able to run a household and bring up two sons. Perhaps it was precisely her image, belying the work she was engaged in, that made her successful. This slim volume retells the story of one more dimension of our multifaceted liberation struggle that has remained secret until now." Z.Pallo Jordan

"This 'little' book about an 'ordinary' woman with the heart of a lioness confirms the truth that our freedom was not free." Thabo Mbeki

"Fugitives, freedom fighters, lovers: 'The Unlikely Secret Agent' is the remarkable true story of the South African liberation struggle's very own Bonnie and Clyde." John Carlin, journalist and author of "Invictus"

Ronnie Kasrils became South Africa's Minister of Intelligence Services in 2004. He has also written an autobiography, "Armed and Dangerous".

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.

Keller (E.j.) & Iyob (R.) eds. RELIGIOUS IDEAS AND INSTITUTIONS, transitions to democracy in Africa
180 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2012. R266

A collection of papers that consider the relationship between religion and politics, arguing that Africa's religious organisations can play a central role in creating a political climate that enables elites to consolidate democracy. These papers were originally presented at the international conference, "Religious Ideas and Institutions and Transitions to Democracy in Africa", held in May 2007 at the UCLA Globalization Research Institute.

Contributions inlcude:
"The State, Religion and the Challenge to State Hegemony" by Jeffrey Haynes
"Religious Identity and Civil Conflict in Africa" by Marc Scarcelli
"Interrogating Secularism in Africa: paradigmaticor heretical?" by Ruth Iyob.

Edmond Keller is Professor of Political Science and director of the UCLA Globalization Research Center - Africa.
Ruth Iyob is an associate professor of Political Science at the University of Missouri - St Louis.

Kennedy (K.) text & Adams (E.) photo. SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER, human rights defenders who are changing our world
260 pp., map, illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2008. R210

Kerry Kennedy spent two years interviewing fifty-one people from nearly forty countries, including South Africa's Desmond Tutu and Abubacar Sultan from Mozambique.

"You cannot kill an idea, you cannot imprison freedom. The lives of the commen men and women in this book, heroes every one, inspire all who believe in liberty and justice. This book is a tribute to the human spirit and proof of the capacity of one person of courage to triumph over overwhelming evil". Nelson Mandela

Khumalo (F.) ZULU BOY GONE CRAZY, hilarious tales post Polokwane
153 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R173

A collection of journalist Fred Khumalo's newspaper columns, most of which were first published in the Sunday Times (South Africa). Fred Khumalo has also published three books: "Touch My Blood", his authobiography, the novel "Bitches' Brew", co-winner of the 2005 European Union Literary Award, and its sequel, "Seven Steps to Heaven".

Kirsten (A.) A NATION WITHOUT GUNS?, the story of Gun Free South Africa
244 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008. R190

The story of the NGO Gun Free South Africa and the gun-control movement in South Africa.

Adéle Kirsten was the Director of Gun Free South Africa from 1995-2002 ans is currently Director of the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation.

Klatzow (D.) & Warner (S.) STEEPED IN BLOOD, the life and times of a forensic scientist
314 pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R240

Internationally recognised forensic scientist David Klatzow discusses many of the cases he has investigated in his career. These include the deaths of Brett Kebble and Inge Lotz, the Helderberg aeroplane crash, the Guguletu Seven and Trojan Horse massacres, and the assasination of David Webster.

Foreword by George Bizos.

Knott-Craig (A.) DON'T PANIC!, a book by South Africans, for South Africans
96 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R50

A collection of positive messages from South Africans, including Alan Knott-Craig, Arthur Goldstuck, Achmat Dangor, Chief Rabbi Warren Goldstein, John Robbie and Noeleen Maholwana-Sangqu.

Kondlo (K.) & Maserumule (M.H.) eds. THE ZUMA ADMINISTRATION, critical challenges
146 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R150

A collection of essays on the issues facing the Zuma government.

Essays include "Consolidating a Developmental State Agenda: a governance challenge" by Mashupye H Maserumule,
"Rural Development Under a 'Developmental' State: analysing the policy shift on agrarian transformation in South Africa" by Gilingwe Mayende,
"Public Service Delivery Issues in Question" by Modimowabarwa H Kanyane, and
"Socio-Economic Development and Poverty Reduction in South Africa" by Polly Mashigo.

Krog (A.) BEGGING TO BE BLACK,
291 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R220

"In 1992, a gang leader was shot dead by an ANC member in Kroonstad. The murder weapon was then hidden on Antjie Krog's stoep. In 'Begging to Be Black', Krog begins by exploring her position in this controversial case. From there the book ranges widely on scope, both in time - reaching back to the days of Basotho king Moshoeshoe - and in space - as we follow Krog's experiences as a research fellow in Berlin, far from the Africa that produced her." from the flyleaf

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

Award-winning journalist and poet Antjie Krog has published eight volumes of poetry, several of which have been translated. The book, "Country of My Skull" (1998), her account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which she covered for the SABC and Mail & Guardian newspaper, won numerous awards, including the Alan Paton Award and the Olive Schreiner Award. It was followed in 2003 by "A Change of Tongue", in which she examines issues of transformation.

Krog (A.) A CHANGE OF TONGUE,
376 pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, (2003) 2004. R190

Antjie Krog explores the themes of identity and belonging, transformation and change, and what it means to live in South Africa and Africa today.

Award-winning journalist and poet Antjie Krog has published eight volumes of poetry, several of which have been translated. Her book "Country of My skull" (1998), an account of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which she covered for the SABC and the Mail & Gaurdian newspaper, won the Alan Paton Award and the Olive Schreiner Award.

Landau (L.B.) ed. EXORCISING THE DEMONS WITHIN, xenophobia, violence and statecraft in contemporary South Africa
275 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R250

A collection of essays that explore the May 2008 violence against immigrants in South African townships.

Contributions include:
"People, Place and Politics: an exploration of factors explaining the 2008 anti-foreigner violence in South Africa" by Christine Fauvelle-Aymar and Aurelia Segatti
"Xenophobia's Local Genesis: historical constructions of insiders and the politics of exclusion in Alexandra Township" by Noor Nieftagodien
"Taking Out the Trash? A 'garbage can' model of immigration policing" by Darshan Vigneswaran
"Making the Law; Breaking the Law; Taking the Law Into Our Own Hands: sovereignty and territorial control in three South African settlements" by Tamlyn Monson.

"By placing the demons within both migration and violent citizenship and in a longer historical perspective, this book succeeds in surpassing current interpretations of the 2008 violence against immigrants in the townships as just resulting from xenophobia. The authors masterfully show that the politics of statecraft - notably the African National Congress' (ANC) language of multicultural dominance - inspired a fatal depolitisation of difference. The very coherence of this collection offers a challenging analysis of struggle over belonging and denial of difference that is of much broader relevance than South Africa alone." Peter Geschiere, Department of African Anthropology, University of Amsterdam

Loren Landau is Director of the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Landsberg (C.) THE DIPLOMACY OF TRANSFORMATION, South African foreign policy and statecraft
313 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R240

Chris Landsberg analyses South Africa's diplomatic history from 1910 to today by considering the links between state or regime identity, national interests and global roles.

Chris Landsberg is Professor and Chair of Politics at the University of Johannesburg.

Lang (D.) SAVING MANDELA'S CHILDREN, the true story of South Africa's unwanted children
398 pp., paperback, (East London), 2008. R140

Dianne Lang is a human rights activist for children who worked with abandoned, abused, neglected and orphaned children in the Eastern Cape. She established the SA CARE Trust in 2000 in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic and opened the Dianne Lang Foundation Children's Home in 2002.

le Roux (M.) MISADVENTURES OF A COPE VOLUNTEER, my crash course in politics
164 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R150

At the end of 2008 Michiel le Roux resigned from his job at an investment bank, volunteered for Cope and spent three months working on their National Election Task Team.

le Roux (W.) & van Marle (K.) eds. POST-APARTHEID FRAGMENTS, law, politics and critique
188 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2007. R150

Investigates different aspects of post-apartheid law, politics and society.

Contributors include Johan van der Walt, Karin van Marle, Wessel le Roux, André van der Walt, Henk Botha and Stewart Motha, all South African legal scholars.

Legassick (M.) TOWARDS SOCIALIST DEMOCRACY,
725 pp., hardback, Pietermartizburg, 2007. R345

Explores the history of the global struggle for socialism in the twentieth century with particluar emphasis on the liberation struggle in South Africa from the 1920s through the 1980s, discusses the mistakes made by the leadership of the South African Communist Party and examines the economic record of the African National Congress government since 1994.

Martin Legassick is emeritus professor at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town.

LeMaitre (A.) & Savage (M.) eds. VAN ZYL SLABBERT - THE PASSION FOR REASON, essays in honour of an Afrikaner African
252 pp., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2010. R195

A collection of essays in honour of academic, politician and businessman Frederick van Zyl Slabbert. As leader of the official opposition (1979-1986) Frederick van Zyl Slabbert fought against the apartheid system. As one of the co-founders of IDASA (Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa) he led a group of Afrikaners on the historic 1987 trip to Dakar to meet the ANC in exile. With the advent of democracy he became the founding chair of the Open Society Foundation for South Africa.

Essays include "The Slow Quickness of Life (Thinking about my friend, the Chief)" by Breyten Breytenbach,
"An Amalgam That Worked" by Alex Boraine,
"Slabbert's Opening of the Apartheid Mind: portrait of an unrecognised patriot" by Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley,
"The Man Who Wasn't There" by Ken Owen,
"On Not Becoming A Useful Idiot" by Max du Preez,
"Van Zyl Slabbert: sociologist at work in advancing democratic politics" by Wilmot James, and
"Gender Politics in South Africa: in need of a resurrection" by Rhoda Kadalie.

Leon (T.) ON THE CONTRARY, leading the opposition in a democratic South Africa
766 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R250

From 1994 to 2007 Tony Leon (b.1956) led the Democratic Alliance and it's predecessor, the Democratic Party. For eight of those years, from 1999 to 2007, he was leader of the Official Opposition. After standing down he was awarded a Fellowship to the John F Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He lives in Cape Town.

Also available in hardback @ R325.

Lewis (H.P.) GOD'S GANGSTERS?, the history, language rituals, secrets and myths of South African's prison gangs
162 pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2006) 2010. R147

A reprint of social worker Heather Parker Lewis' book on The Number gangs in South African prisons.

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".

Lodge (T.) MANDELA, a critical life
274 pp., illus., paperback., Reprint, Oxford, (2006) 2008. R155

This biography provides insight into the shaping of Nelson's Mandela's personality and public persona, examines the sources of his almost mythic appeal and the extent to which he self-consciously created the status of political hero he enjoys.

Tom Lodge was a member of the Department of Political Studies at the University of Witwatersrand between 1978 and 2005. He is now Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Limerick University in Ireland. He is the author of five other books on South African politics.

Loewenson (R.) et. al. RECLAIMING THE RESOURCES FOR HEALTH, a regional analysis of equity in health in east and southern Africa
227 pp., 4to., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Harare, 2007. R240

Intended as a resource for institutions and individuals working to improve health and social justice, this analysis outlines "a range of policy and programme options to reclaiming the resources for health within and beyond the health sector". It focuses mainly on "the comprehensive, primary health care oriented, people-centred and publicly-led health systems that have been found to improve health, particularly for the most disadvantaged people with greatest health needs."

Loomba (A.) et. al. (eds.) POSTCOLONIAL STUDIES, and beyond
499 pp., illus., paperback, Durham & London, 2005. R295

Contributions include "'The Deep Thoughts the One in Need Falls Into': quotidian experience and the perspectives of poetry in postliberation South Africa" by Kelwyn Sole, "Beyond Black Atlantic and Postcolonial Studies: the South African differences of Sol Plaatje and Peter Abrahams" by Laura Chrisman and "Hybridity and Heresy: apartheid comparative religion in late antiquity" by Daniel Boyarin.

Lord (D.) STANDBY!, South African Air Force Search and Rescue
240 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Revised Edition, Johannesburg, (1999 2010. R265

An updated edition of the book "Fire, Flood and Ice", published in 1999, on South African Air Force search and rescue missions, both military and civilian.

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.

MacDonald (M.) WHY RACE MATTERS IN SOUTH AFRICA,
245 pp., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Pietermaritzburg, 2006. R180

MacDonald demonstrates how, in the new South Africa, the strong white establishment forces the ANC to compromise plans for full political and economic transformation while nurturing a small black elite who come to share the white eilites' economic interests while continuing to identify racially with the still impoverished black majority.

First published in the USA by Harvard University Press.

Michael MacDonald is Professor of Political Science at Williams College, USA.

Mafeje (A.) ed. THE DISENFRANCHISED, perspectives on the history of elections in South Africa
170 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2008. R190

Contributions include "Black Initiatives and Responses to Disenfranchisement" by Pallo Jordan,
"The Role of Political Parties in the Electoral and Democratic Process in South Africa" by Joseph Diescho,
"Women and Suffrage in South Africa: a fractured history" by Shireen Hassim,
"Elections and the Politics of Nationalism, Race and Ethnicity in South Africa" by Xolela Mangu, and
"Ten Years of Electoral Democracy in South Africa: successes and achievements of the Electoral Commission" by Brigalia Bam.

Mager (A.K.) BEER, SOCIABILITY, AND MASCULINITY IN SOUTH AFRICA,
232 pp., paperback, Cape Town & Bloomington, 2010. R235

Anne Mager examines the culture of drinking in South Africa. She "looks at the current commerce of beer, its valourizing of male sociability and sports, and the corporate culture of South African Breweries (SAB)".

Anne Mager is Associate Professor of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. She is the author of "Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: a social history of the Ciskei, 1945-1959".

Mageza (T.), Tsholetsane (R.), Matsobane (M.S.) & Hlatshwayo (T.) THE BETHAL TRIAL STORY, where do we begin...
243 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R200

A personal account of the events that took place in Kagiso, Krugersdorp on 17 June 1976, the day after the Soweto uprising began, which led to Rodney Tsholetsane, Themba Hlatshwayo and the late Molathlegi Thlale, members of the Students Representative Council at Mosupatsela High School, and Mike Matsobane, leader of the Young African Religious Movement, being charged under the Terrorism Act.

Also includes chapters on each of the four authors in which they relate their experiences under apartheid and their lives in the new South Africa.

Maharaj (B.), Desai (A.) & Bond (P.) eds. ZUMA'S OWN GOAL, losing South Africa's 'War on Poverty'
432 pp., paperback, Trenton, 2011. R350

A collection of essays the examine how the South African goverment is tackling the profound challenges facing the country, such as AIDS, social security, housing, basic services and education.

Contributions include:
"Limits to Class Apartheid' by Patrick Bond,
"Provocations of Neoliberalism" by Gillian Hart,
"The Developmental State?" by Ben Fine,
"The Proper Subject for Poverty Research is Inequality" by Andries du Toit,
"AIDS and Inequality" by Hein Marais,
"The 'Feminisation of Poverty' as Disabling Discourse" by Prishani Naidoo,
"Justice and the Treatment Action Campaign" by Mark Heywood.

Maharaj (M.) & Kathrada (A.) eds. MANDELA, the authorised portrait
356 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2006. R350

Text by Mike Nicol. Includes more than sixty interviews with Nelson Mandela's friends, associates and comrades: Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Bono, Thabo Mbeki, Muhammad Ali, Hilda Bernstein, George Bizos, Albie Sachs, Dennis Goldberg, Arthur Chaskalson, Mac Maharaj, Ahmed Kathrada, Neville Alexander, Helen Suzman, Nadine Gordimer, Andre Brink, Cyril Ramaphosa, Allister Sparks, Pallo Jordan, Gillian Slovo, Antjie Krog and many others. The interviews were conducted by Tim Couzens, Rosalind Coward and Amina Franse.

Foreword by Kofi Annan. Introduction by Desmond Tutu.

Malala (J.) LET THEM EAT CAKE, how I ate my way through Mbeki, Polokwane, Zuma and beyond
159 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R175

A selection of Justice Malala's weekly columns for the Financial Mail magazine, in which he combines an admiration for South Africa's top restaurants with satirical political analysis.

Political commentator and newspaper columnist Justice Malala is head

Malan (R.) RESIDENT ALIEN,
338 pp., paperback, Reprint, Johannesburg, (2009) 2011. R145

A collection of essays by writer and journalist Rian Malan, author of "My Traitor's Heart." These pieces first appeared, some in different form, in The Spectator, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The Observer, Maverick, The Sunday Independent, Sunday Telegraph and elsewhere.

Mamdani (M.) SAVIOURS AND SURVIVORS, Darfur, politics, and the war on terror
398 pp., map, paperback, Cape Town, etc, 2009. R210

Mahmood Mamdani looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan, and examines the world's response.

Mahmood Mamdani is Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Department of Anthropology and Political Science and the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. His previous books include "Good Muslim, Bad Muslim", "Citizen and Subject" and "When Victims Become Killers".

Mangcu (X.) TO THE BRINK, the state of democracy in South Africa
208 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2008. R160

Xolela Mangcu examines the controversies around HIV-AIDS, Zimbabwe and corruption, analyses the "racial insider-outsider dynamic" that has evolved under Thabo Mbeki's rule, discusses the implications of the ANC's election of Jacob Zuma and suggests how black and white people can build a joint culture.

Xolela Mangu is executive chairman of the Platform for Public Deliberation and a visiting scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is well known for his regular newspaper columns.

Mangcu (X.) THE DEMOCRATIC MOVEMENT, South Africa's prospects under Jacob Zuma
200 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R180

Newspaper columnist and public commentator Xolela Mangcu discusses the state of South Africa's democracy and provides an informed prognosis of its future. He looks at the state of the political opposition, the courts and the media and examines President Zuma's style and philosophy of government.

Xolela Mangcu writes regulalry for Busniess Day newspaper. He is a non-resident Senior Scholar at the Brookings Institution, Washington, and convener of the Platform for Public Deliberation, a not-for-profit think-tank at the University of Johannesburg. He is also the author of "To the Brink: the state of democracy in South Africa" (2008).

Mangcu (X.) ed. BECOMING WORTHY ANCESTORS, archive, public deliberation and identity in South Africa
168 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R240

In 2006 The Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project at the University of the Witwatersrand convened a series of lectures "on how the archive can inform public deliberation about identity and citizenship, and thereby enable us to become worthy ancestors to future generations." These lectures are presented here "in the hope of inspiring a re-thinking of what it means to have an inclusive conception of citizenship in South Africa." from the back cover

Contributions include:
"Evidentiary Genocide: intersections of race, power and the archive" by Xolela Mangcu
"The Transmission Lines of the New African Movement" by Ntongela Masilela
"Some Do Contest the Assertion that I am an African" by Frederick van Zyl Slabbert
"Unconquered and Insubordinate: embracing black feminist intellectual activist legacies" by Pumla Dineo Gqola
"Why Archive Matters: archive, public deliberation and citizenship" by Carolyn Hamilton

Xolela Mangcu, previously a fellow at The Constitution of Public Intellectual Life Project, is now based at the University of Johannesburg. He is Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brooking Institution, Washington D.C.

Manghezi (N.) THE MAPUTO CONNECTION, the ANC in the world of Frelimo
246 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R180

Based on interviews with more that forty people from the ANC community in Maputo in the 1970s and 1980s, this book records the history of the relationship between the African National Congress and Frelimo.

Nadja Manghezi and her husband Alpheus supported Frelimo and participated in the exiled struggle of the ANC. She was part of the ANC Education Committee and worked with the Women's Section and the Cultural Group, while finding safe houses for ANC cadres.

Manji (F.) & Ekine (S.) eds. AFRICAN AWAKENING, the emerging revolutions
323 pp., paperback, Oxford, etc., 2012. R269

A collection of essays on uprisings that took place across Africa in 2011.

Contributions include:
"Swaziland: uprising in the slipstream of North Africa" by Peter Kenworthy
"South Africa: on the murder of Andries Tatane" by Richard Pithouse.

Feminist, educator and activist Sokari Ekine is the editor of Black Looks Blog and editor of "SMS Uprising: mobile activism in Africa".
Firoze Manji is founder and editor-in-chief of Pambazuka News and Pambazuka Press.

Mann (S.) CRY HAVOC, "When I set out to overthrow an African tyrant,I knew I would either make billions or end up getting shot..."
351 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R205

British SAS soldier and mercenary Simon Mann's account of his central role in commanding the failed 2004 coup d'état to overthrow President Teodoro Obiang Nguema in Equatorial Guinea. Mann was sentenced to a 34 year jail term but received a presidential pardon on humanitarian grounds in 2009.

First published in the United Kingdom in 2011.

Marais (H.) SOUTH AFRICA PUSHED TO THE LIMIT, the political economy of change
566 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2011. R295

Builidng on his previous book, "Limits to Change", Hein Marais examines post-apartheid South Africa's most pressing political, social, and economic issues.

"An extraordinary achievement. This is, by a considerable margin, the best book yet on the political economy of South Africa. Marais combines an unrivalled knowledge of the literature with a prose style that is accessible, moving and witty. I know of very few authors who can discuss such complex issues while telling a story and engaging the reader." John Sender, Emeritus Professor of Economics, School of African and Oriental Studies, University of London, and Fellow of Wolfson College, Uhniversity of Cambridge

"'South Africa Pushed to the Limit' will become a classic. I doubt whether anyone can match Marais' grasp of where South Africa is at today." Bill Freund, Professor of Economic History, University of KwaZulu-Natal

"Combining powerful analysis with a wealth of documentation, 'South Africa Pushed to the Limit' provides by far the best overview of political, economic and social change in post-apartheid South Africa. Essential reading for anyone trying to understand one of the great social experiments of our time." Gillian Hart, Professor of Geography and Chair of Development Studies at the University of California at Berkeley

Writer and journalist Hein Marais was former deputy editor of "Work in Progress" magazine, South Africa, and former chief writer for the Joint UN Programme on AIDS.

Marais (J.) TIME BOMB, a policeman's true story
185 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R180

Johan Marais was sixteen years old when he joined the South African Police Force. He was transferred to Koevoet, took part in the Border Wars and in the 1980s worked in the townships of the East Rand as a member of the Riot Unit. He writes about how daily exposure to extreme violence destroyed his life.

Marindo (R.) et. al. (eds.) THE STATE OF THE POPULATION IN THE WESTERN CAPE PROVINCE,
243 pp., 4to., paperback, Cape Town, 2008. R180

"An overview of salient demographic features and a review of the policy frameworks that have influenced population and planning in the Western Cape set the context for a detailed analysis of the population data currently available."

Contributions include "Under-Five Mortality in the Western Cape Province" by Nancy Stiegler,
"Population, HIV/AIDS and the Provision of Health Care in the Western Cape" by Najma Shaikh,
"Population and Education in the Western Cape" by Jean Baxen, and
"Foreign-Born and Non-Citizen Populations in the Western Cape (1996-2006): a demographic overview" by Ravayi Marindo.

Marinovich (G.) & Silva (J.) THE BANG-BANG CLUB, snapshots from a hidden war
320 pp., illus., paperback, Reprint, London, (2000) 2001. R112

Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Photographers Greg Marinovich, Joao Silva, Ken Oosterbroek and Kevin Carter covered the war in the townships of South Africa in the 1990s. In 1994 Ken Oosterbroek was killed by a stray bullet and Kevin Carter committed suicide weeks after he won a Pulitzer Prize. The two surviving members of the group tell the story.

Maseko (L.) ed. SOWETAN, celebrating 25 years of "The Soul Truth"
118 pp., oblong 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., (Johannesburg), (1996). R200

Published to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sowetan newspaper. Foreword by Don Mattera. Includes a message from Nelson Mandela.

"'The Sowetan' is the...off-shoot of 'Post' and 'Sunday Post', which were closed down by the Nationalist Party government in 1981. It follows in the tradition of its predecessors, 'The World' and 'Weekend World', both of which were banned by the same government in October 19, 1977 and saw its Editor Percy Qoboza and the then Assistant Editor Aggrey Klaaste thrown in prison."

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

Mashamaite (M.) DEMONCRACY [sic], seeking to exorcise the demons that bedevil African democracies
309 pp., illus., paperback, Durban, 2009. R195

Motivational speaker, writer and businessman Moss Mashamaite's critique of the state of African democracies.

From the first chapter:
"Africa remains the only continent where freedom rings with the wails of women and children, and the sounds of guns looming in the background, a form of musical accompaniment, track-sounds for the next episode of the most watched soapie, Let's call it "The Decline of a Squatter Camp." (If such a thing was ever possible)
Africa is the only continent that is less free after the advent of freedom than it was in the dark ages of blatant suppression and oppression.
Africa is the only continent that is less liberated after liberation has had its day in the sun on our cloud-bare skies than others. For that I cry liquid tears."

Moss Mashamaite is also the author of "The Moving Finger Writes, retelling the untold and the shabbily told story of the last ANC warrior, Jacob Zuma".

Masilela (E.) NUMBER 43 TRELAWNEY PARK, KwaMagogo, untold stories of ordinary people caught up in the struggle against apartheid
227 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R165

Number 43 Trelawney Park, in Manzini, Swaziland, was for many years a safe house and base of operations for the ANC. The house became known as "KwaMagogo" (place of the grandmother), after Rebecca Makgomo Masilela - the author's mother - who sheltered and supported many of the ANC cadres who operated from Swaziland.

Elias Masilela tells the story of the ANC and PAC cadres who passed through the house in which he grew up and provides background information on the Church Street bombing, the activities of Eugene de Kock, Craig Williamson and Dirk Coetzee, and the defection of Glory September.

Matthews (C.) WALKING ON AIR,
149 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R80

The story of ANC activist John Edward Matthews written by his oldest daughter, Colleen Matthews.

Foreword by Hugh Lewin. Prologue by Jeremy Cronin, whose poem about Matthews provides the title for this book.

John Matthews was a member of the South African Communist Party. In 1964 he was charged under the Suppression of Communism Act and was in prison for fifteen years in Pretoria.

Mazibuko (N.) SPRING OFFENSIVE, youth underground structures in South Africa during the 80s
78 pp., paperback, (Johannesburg), 2006. R135

The story of Hlula Thulani Msimang and Nhlanhla Mabaso, young activists from Soweto who were recruited into Umkhonto we Siswe in the 1980s.

Nokuthula Mazibuko was born in 1973 in Soweto. This book was completed with funds received from the 2003 Sunday Ti

Mbeki (M.) ed. ADVOCATES FOR CHANGE, how to overcome Africa's challenges
297 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R225

Contributions include:
"Negative Trends in the South African Economy: how should these be overcome?" by Seeraj Mohamed
"Class Formation and Rising Inequality in South Africa: what does this mean for future voting patterns?" by David Everatt
"South Africa's Education System: how can it be made more productive?" by Jonathan Jansen
"Health in Africa: how can the situation be improved?" by Francois Venter and Helen Rees
"Fraudulent Elections Lead to Pseudo-Democracy: how can the crisis of democracy in Africa be overcome?" by Gilbert Khadiagala
"Regional Integration in Africa: what are the challenges and opportunities?" by Sindiso Ndema Ngwenya.

Moeletsi Mbeki is a journalist, private business entrepreneur, political commentator and author of "Architects of Poverty: why African capitalism needs changing" (2009).

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.

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.

Miescher (G.), Rizzo (L.) & Silvester (J.) eds. POSTERS IN ACTION, visuality in the making of an African nation
256 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Basel, 2009. R795

"This publication is the result of six years of collaborative work based on the research and documentation of the two large collections of Namibian posters held at the National Archives of Namibia (ANA) and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (BAB) in Switzerland. In this volume scholars from both countries argue that "these posters form an important part of Namibia's heritage in the field of visual history, and that the historical posters in these collections played a crucial role in shaping the visual representation of Namibia".

Contributions include "Posters, T-shirts and Placards: images and popular mobilisation in Rundu during the liberation struggle" by Kletus Muhena Likuwa and Bertha Nyambe,
"A Picture of Health: posters and HIV-Aids Campaigns in Namibia" by Naitsi Iizyenda and Sonia Ndimbira,
"Images of the Cassinga Massacre - contested visualities" by Nadja Borer,
'"Strictly Members Only' - the circulation of SWAPO posters in northern Namibia during the liberation struggle" by Martha Akawa, and
"'The Struggle is Futile' - a short overview of anti-SWAPO visual propaganda" by Jeremy Silvester.

Miller (A.) SLOW MOTION, stories about walking
363 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R165

Interviews with South African walkers, from golf caddies to Phaswane Mpe walking through Hillbrow to Innocent who walked to Johanneburg to escape the massacres in Rwanda to the Sabbath walkers in Glenhazel, the traditional Jewish suburb in Johannesburg.

"Anie Miller...has a sceptical eye and a gift for asking deceptively difficult questions. 'Slow Motion' proves, if proof were needed, that the subject of walking and the ways of writing about it remain quite literally inexhaustible." Geoff Nicholson, author of "The Lost Art of Walking"

Andie Miller received the 2006 Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Award for creative journalism and the 2009 Ernst van Heerden Award.

Misra-Dexter (N.) & February (J.) eds. TESTING DEMOCRACY, which way is South Africa going?
282 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R186

A collection of essays that "assess South Africa's democracy in terms of the goals that defined the country's democratic transformation in 1994." This assessment draws on Idasa's Democracy Index, a barometer of a hundred questions that measure progress in socio-economic delivery and the realisation of the political rights of citizens.

Contributions include "The One-Party State and Liberation Movements in Africa: lessons for South Africa" by Aubrey Matshiqi,
"The Developmental State and Post-Liberation South Africa" by Samantha Ashman, Ben Fine and Susan Newman,
"Beneath the Surface: civil society and democracy after Polokwane" by Steven Friedman, and
"Key Institutions Affecting Democracy in South Africa" by Pierre De Vos.

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".

Mngxitama (A.) FROM MBEKI TO ZUMA, what's the difference? New Frank Talk, no.2
16 pp., stapled, (Johannesburg), (2009). R20

Andile Mngxitama rejects the idea that a Zuma presidency signifies a fundamental break with the Mbeki era and the beginning of a new phase in South Africa's democracy more in tune with the needs of the poor.

"Once the residual forces of Mbeki are defeated, the media and intellectual classes dealt with, the sword of the victorious Populist Politician will land on the restless and impatient masses. They still want land, food, jobs, and houses. They don't understand why there are still delays when the enemies of progress have been defeated. Patience would be demanded and brutally enforced. The truth of just how similar Mbeki and Zuma actually are will become apparent"

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

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!".

Mngxitama (A.) THE PEOPLE VS PHILLIP, how the ANC sold us for a cup, New Frank Talk, critical essays on the Black condition, volume 6
25 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R25

Andile Mngxitama's critical essay lamenting "the enormity of the crime of the World Cup against our nation.."

"It was again our two revered patriarchs of a democracy that doesn't serve the majority, Desmond Tutu and Nelson Mandela, who were mobilised to

Mngxitama (A.), Alexander (A.) & Gibson (N.C.) eds. BIKO LIVES!, contesting the legacies of Steve Biko
294 pp., paperback, New York and Basingstoke, 2008. R199

Brings together philosophical reflections on Steve Bikio's thought and his global legacy, historical investigations of Black Consciousness in South Africa and analysis of the significance of his ideas to today.

Contributions include "Self-Consciousness as Force and Reason of Revolution in the Thought of Steve Biko" by Lou Turner,
"May the Black God Stand Please!: Biko's challenge to religion" by Tinyiko Sam Maluleke,
"Black Consciousness after Biko: the dialectics of liberation in South Africa, 1977-1987" by Nigel Gibson,
"An Illuminating Moment: background to the Azanian Manifesto" by Neville Alexander,
"A Human Face: Biko's conceptions of African culture and humanism" by Andries Oliphant, and
"The Black Consciousness Philosophy and the Woman's Question in South Africa: 1970-1980" by M.J.Oshadi Mangena.

Amanda Alexander is a doctoral student in African history at Columbia University and a Visiting Researcher at the Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Nigel Gibson is director of the Honors Programme at Emerson College.
Andile Mngxitama is a doctoral student at the University of Witwatersrand.

More (P.M.) SEX & RACISM, psycho-sexual racism and the myth of the black libido, New Frank Talk, critical essays on the Black condition, no.9
41 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R25

New Frank Talk is "a radical journal of critical essays about the black condition in post-94 South Africa. It is published by newspaper columnist and social commentator, Andile Mngxitama, who is preoccupied with contributing towards a revolutionary Black Consciousness." from inside the back cover

"There are two dominant and powerful streams of thought: the black man is his penis, the white man his soul and brains. Within these two truth formations the first is perpetually a victim of state and society-sanctioned violence and the second the perpetrator in defense of civilization against the marauding black phallus! Drawing on Fanonian insights, Mabogo Percy More invites us to a re-examination of these premises. It's a fantastic invite!" Andile Mngxitama, from his editorial

Morrell (R.), Bhana (D.) & Shefer (T.) eds. BOOKS AND BABIES, pregancy and young parents in schools
236 pp., colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2012. R295

This book is the result of a five-year collaborative research project involving the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and Erasmus University in The Netherlands. Quantitative and qualitative research was conducted in secondary schools in Durban and Cape Town. The book explores how teachers and principals respond to the presence of pregnant learners and young parents in school, surveys the attitudes of fellow learners and presents the experiences and struggles of the young parents themselves.

"This book steps beyond our oft-repeated concerns about teenage pregnancy by presenting a gender analysis of the meaning of parenthood for young parents, and the responses of the educational system and stakeholders to teenage fertility and child-rearing. It is essential reading for those seeking to understand this critical area of health and education policy and practice." Rachel Jewkes, Director of the Gender & Health Unit, Medical Research Council.

Morris (M.) & McLagan (J.) comps. PAGING THROUGH HISTORY, 150 years with the Cape Argus: 1857 - 2007
199 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Johannesburg, 2007. R265

A selection of news reports, analysis, columns, editorials, photographs, cartoons, letters from readers and advertisements, published to celebrate 150 years of reportage by the Cape Town newspaper, the Cape Argus, founded in 1857.

Journalist Michael Morris has been Special Writer on the Cape Argus since 1997.
News photographer Jim McLagan has been Picture Editor of the Cape Argus for many years.

Mosoetsa (S.) EATING FROM ONE POT, the dynamics of survival in poor South African households
178 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R240

Between 1999 and 2004 Sarah Mosoetsa collected stories from poor men and women in two townships in KwaZulu-Natal in order to document how people respond to poverty and unemployment and discuss their experiences in relation to the restructuring of South Africa's welfare and social policies, and the extension of social grants.

"'Eating from One Pot' tells a tale of fragmentation and resilience, impoverishment and survival, despair and hope. In many ways therefore this book tells the story of post-apartheid South Africa where inequality and dire poverty have blighted the celebratory mood that followed the 1994 democratic breakthrough and dashed the hope for the egalitarian future that so many people fought for. This book is a superb example of the importance of rigorous social science research to understand and unravel the dilemmas of our rapidly changing times." Sakhela Buhlungu, Professor of Sociology, University of Pretoria and author of "A Paradox of Victory - COSATU and the democratic tranformation in South Africa"

Sarah Mosoetsa is a research associate at the Society, Work, and Development Institute (SWOP) and senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.

Moto (F.) LANGUAGE, POWER & SOCIETY,
228 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009. R250

Explores the language situation in Malawi before and after independence, examines the social, economic and educational repercussions of the language policies adopted by pre- and post-independence governments and considers the ramifications of the new language policy introduced in a democratic Malawi.

Dr Francis Moto, currently Malawi's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, is also Associate Professor of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Malawi.

Motsei (M.) THE KANGA AND THE KANGAROO COURT, reflections on the rape trial of Jacob Zuma
208 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R145

Mmatshilo Motsei examines the rape trial of Jacob Zuma, seeing it as a mirror that reflects "the hidden yet public forms of violence against women in their homes, marriages, churches and political organisations.

Motsei is the author of "Hearing Visions, Seeing Voices". She was awarded the UN Habitat Award in 2000, and is the founder of the Asiganang Domestic Abuse Prevention and Training (ADAPT) programme in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg.

Moyo (D.) & Chuma (W.) eds. MEDIA POLICY IN A CHANGING SOUTHERN AFRICA, critical reflections on media reforms in the global age
319 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R103

A collection of essays on media policy-making in southern Africa over the past few decades.

Contributions include "Turning Points in South African Television Policy and Practice since 1990" by Jane Duncan and Ian Glenn,
"Reforming the Media in Zimbabwe: critical reflections" by Wallace Chuma,
"Zambia: policies of a media-phobic state" by Isaac Phiri,
"Realising or Dreaming? Vision 2016, media reform and democracy in Botswana" by James Zaffiro,
"Namibia: the paradox of broadcasting reform in an emerging democracy" by William Heuva, and
"Swaziland Struggles for Media Freedom" by Richard Rooney.

Moyo (S.) AFRICAN LAND QUESTIONS, AGRARIAN TRANSITIONS AND THE STATE, contradictions of neo-liberal land reforms
159 pp., illus., paperback, Dakar, 2008. R140

Published in the CODESRIA Working Paper Series.

Murray (M.J.) TAMING THE DISORDERLY CITY, the spatial landscape of Johannesburg after apartheid
261 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Cape Town & Ithaca, 2008. R196

A portrait of contemporary Johannesburg that "brings together a wide range of urban theory and local knowledge' and explores the behaviours of rich and poor as they rebuild the city.

Martin Murray is Professor of Sociology at Binghamton University, State University of New York. He is the author of "The Revolution Deferred: the painful birth of post-apartheid South Africa", and the co-editor of "Cities in Contemporary Africa".

Murray (M.J.) CITY OF EXTREMES, the spatial politics of Johannesburg
470 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R250

Martin Murray's critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since 1994.

"In this meticulously researched account of Johannesburg's sociospatial history, Martin J.Murray gets beneath the surface of the city's chaotic present to discover the inertia of long-term deployments. He finds that ingrained habits of urban planning and real estate entrepreneurship have always been mobilized in the city as twin mechanisms of change and renewal across moments of territorial mutation. This exposes postapartheid transformation as a rearticulation of old orders and habits and makes an important contribution to revising the idea of a decisive historical rupture at the end of apartheid." Lindsay Bremner, Professor of Architecture, Tyler School of Art, Temple University


Martin J.Murray is Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan.

Naidoo (J.) FIGHTING FOR JUSTICE, a lifetime of political and social activism
393 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2010. R210

An autobiography by Jay Naidoo, the first General Secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU). He served as Nelson Mandela's Minister responsible for the Reconstruction and Development Programme (RDP), and later as Minister of Communi

Naidoo (P.) 156 HANDS THAT BUILT SOUTH AFRICA, the 1956 treason trial
470 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, d.w., Durban, 2006. R355

Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 1956 Treason Trial. Includes profiles on each of the accused.

Foreword by Zanele and Thabo Mbeki.

Naudé (J.) MAKING THE CUT IN SOUTH AFRICA, a medico-political journey
172 pp., illus., paperback, London, 2007. R320

Renowned urologist and trnasplant surgeon Johan Naudé developed pioneering surgical procedures and revolutionized urological practice in Mozambique. At one time he shared the organ transplant unit at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town with Dr Chris Barnard. He was also involved in medical politics and struggled with issues such as racism, the treatment of prisoners, HIV/AIDS, and the place of affirmative action in medicine and the universities.

Ndebele (N.) et. al THE STEVE BIKO MEMORIAL LECTURES, 2000 - 2008
139 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R155

The annual Steve Biko Memorial Lecture is given by Africa's foremost scholars and artists, as well as religious and political leaders.

The nine lectures included in this volume were delivered by Njabulo Ndebele, Zakes Mda, Chinua Achebe, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Nelson Mandela, Mamphela Ramphele, Desmond Tutu, Thabo Mbeki and Trevor Manuel.

Ndebele (N.S.) FINE LINES FROM THE BOX, further thoughts about our country
279 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R175

A collection of lectures, addresses and essays by Njabulo Ndebele written between 1987 and 2006, most of which have been previously published.

Njabulo Ndebele is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town. He is the author of the novel "Fools and Other Stories", which won the Noma Award in 1983, "The Cry of Winnie Mandela", and an earlier collection of essays, "Rediscovery of the Ordinary".

Neocosmos (M.) FROM "FOREIGN NATIVES" TO "NATIVE FOREIGNERS", explaining xenophobia in post-apartheid South Africa: citizenship and nationalism, identity and politics
150 pp., paperback, Dakar, 2006. R125

Published in the CODESRIA Monograph Series. This work is a product of the CODESRIA Comparative Research Network on Globalisation, Citizenship,

Ngculu (J.) THE HONOUR TO SERVE, recollections of an Umkhonto soldier
271 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R240

Foreword by Thabo Mbeki.

""Reinforced by diligent research the book provides telling insight into the reasons for MKs formation; explains what motivated its cadres and details their training and preparation; provides graphic details of campaigns and operations; illustrates how the strategy and tactics of People's War evolved..." Ronnie Kasrils

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

As a young man James Kgculu was inspired by the 1976 Soweto Uprising to join Umkhonto we Sizwe in exile in Botswana. He served as Secretary of the Regional Commissariat in Angola, worked in Maputo in the Internal Reconstruction Unit on Maputo and was Assistant Administrator at the Military HQ in Lusaka. He was also one of the founding members of MK Military Intelligence. In 1991 he returned to South Africa after getting a job in the University of Natal's Education Policy Unit. In 1994 he was elected Provincial Secretary of the ANC in the Western Cape, later serving as Provincial Chairperson. In 1998 he was elected to Parliament where he served on the Defence Portfolio and the Joint Standing Committee on Defence. Hi is also co-author of the book, "Ourselves to Know - Civil-Military Relations, Defence Transformations in Southern Africa".

Ngurare (E.T.), Seibeb (H.H.), Swartbooi (C.) comps. & eds. THE POLITICS OF APOLOGETICS,
223 pp., paperback, Windhoek, 2009. R150

Foreword by Sam Nujoma.

Contributions include "Challenges and Possibilities in Crafting a Contemporary Feminist Politics in Southern Africa" by Patricia McFadden,
"The Land and Agrarian Question in Zimbabwe" by Sam Moyo,
"Harnessing Custom and Traditions for Development - seen from the perspective of indigenous knowledge systems" by Mavis Chidzonga,
"The Politics of Linguistic Empowerment in Africa" by Kwesi Prah, and
"Ubuntu Philosophy, Reconciliation and Restorative Justice in Africa" by Dani Nabudere.

Ntantala (P.) A LIFE'S MOSAIC, the autobiography of Phyllis Ntantala
238 pp., paperback, Revised Edition, 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.

Ntsebeza (L.) DEMOCRACY COMPROMISED, chiefs and the politics of land in South Africa
326 pp., maps, paperback, First S.A.Edition, CapeTown, 2006. R240

Focusing on the history of the chieftaincy in the Xhalanga area of the Eastern Cape, Ntsebeza demonstrates how, despite the role they played under apartheid, traditional authorities in South Africa have not only survived the transition to democracy, but have increased their powers in the rural areas. Ntsebeza explores the link between chieftancy and the land question and shows how control of the land allocation process is central to understanding the "resilience" of these authorities.

Ntsebeza (L.) & Hall (R.) eds. THE LAND QUESTION IN SOUTH AFRICA, the challenge of transformation and redistribution
256 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R160

Contributions include "Agrarian Questions of Capital and Labour: some theory about land reform (and a periodisation)" by Henry Bernstein, "The Land Question in Southern Africa: a comparative review" by Sam Moyo, "Transforming Rural South Africa? Taking stock of land reform" by Ruth Hall, "Land Redistribution in South Africa: the property clause revisited" by Lungisile Ntsebeza, "Redistributive Land Reform: for what and for whom?" by Cherryl Walker, "Agrarian Reform and the 'two economies': transforming South Africa's countryside" by Ben Cousins, "Agricultural Land Redistribution in South Africa: towards accelerated implementation" by Rogier van den Brink et. al. & "Struggling for a Life of Dignity" by Mercia Andrews.

Ruth Hall is a researcher at the Programme for Land and Agrarian Studies at the University of the Western Cape. Lungisile Ntsebeza is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Cape Town.

Nuttall (S.) & Coetzee (C.) eds. NEGOTIATING THE PAST, the making of memory in South Africa
300 pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (1998) 2005. R250

Contributions include "Memory, metaphor, and the triumph of narrative" by Njabulo Ndebele,
"Stories of history: reimagining the past in post-apartheid narrative" by André Brink,
"Forgiving and forgetting: the Truth and Reconciliation Commission" by Anthony Holliday,
"Cracked heirlooms: memory on exhibition" by Ingrid de Kock,
"Memory and history in William Kentridge's 'History of the Main Complaint" by Michael Godby,
"Krotoä remembered: a mother of unity or mother of sorrows?" by Carli Coetzee,
"Museums and the reshaping of history" by Patricia Davison,
"Commemorating, suppressing, and invoking Cape slavery" by Kerry Ward and Nigel Worden, and much more.

Nuttall (S.) & Mbembe (A.) eds. JOHANNESBURG, the elusive metropolis
398 pp., illus., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Johannesburg, 2008. R220

Many of the essays in this book appeared in the journal "Public Culture", vol.16, no.3, fall 2004, published by Duke University Press.

"Taken together, the essays in 'Johannesburg: the elusive metropolis' offer radically new ways of thinking about this complex city, as well as many hints about emerging or re-emerging cities elsewhere. The essays challenge dominant models of urbanism and demonstrate with force and subtlety how African cities in general and Johannesburg in particular outpace urban theory. Each essay 'de-scribes' the city now in order to envision the city to come. In this volume, we hear - over the droning clichés that still circulate about the African city's ruin and decadence - another note, another cadence". Ackbar Abbas.

Introduction by Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall.
Afterword, "The Risk of Johannesburg", by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A.Breckenridge.

Contributions include "Aesthetics as Superfluity" by Achille Mbembe,
"Stylizing the Self" and "Literary City" by Sarah Nuttall,
"Gandhi, Mandela, and the African Modern" by Jonathan Hyslop,
"Art Johannesburg and Its Objects" by David Bunn,
"Instant City" by John Matshikiza,
"From the Ruins" by Mark Gevisser,
"Reframing Township Space" by Lindsay Bremner, and
"Soweto Now" by Achille Mbambe, Nzizwa Dlamini and Grace Khunou.

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of the Witwatersrand. She is also the author of "Entanglement: literary and cultural reflections on post-apartheid" (2007) and editor of "Beautiful/Ugly: African and diaspora aesthetics" (2006) and "Sense of Culture: South African culture studies" (2000).
Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand and Senior Researcher at WISER. His most recent book in English is "On the Postcolony" (2001).

Nyamnjoh (F.B.) INSIDERS AND OUTSIDERS, citizenship and xenophobia in contemporary South Africa
273 pp., paperback, London & Dakar, 2006. R140

"Focusing on two of sub-Saharan Africa's most economically successful nations, Botswana and South Africa, the eminent sociologist Francis Nyamhjoh demonstrates the processes through which new hierarchies of citizenship and rights are being constructed...He meticulously documents the fate of immigrants in these Southern African societies through a focus on the situation of 'illegal' maids who cross borders in flight from economic hardship in their own countries"

Francis Nyamnjoh is Associate Professor and Head of Publications and Dissemination with the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) and has published widely on globalisation, citizenship, media and the politics of identity in Africa.

O'Malley (P.) SHADES OF DIFFERENCE, Mac Maharaj and the struggle for South Africa
648 pp., hardback, d.w., New York, 2007. R240

Foreword by Nelson Mandela.

A South African of Indian descent, Mac Maharaj was a member of the South African Communist Party and the African National Congress for nearly forty years. He spent twelve years on Robben Island with Nelson Mandela and was Minister of Transport in Mandela's government before retiring in 1999.

Padraig O'Malley draws on extensive interviews with Maharaj over the last eleven years, as well as previously unavailable documentation, to tell Maharaj's story.

O'Malley is the John Joseph Moakley Professor for International Peace and Reconciliation at the McCormack Graduate School of Studies, University of Massachusetts, and a visiting professor of political studies at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town. He edited the books "Uneven Paths: advancing democracy in Southern Africa" and "Southern Africa: the people's voices".

Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa THE STATE OF SOUTHERN AFRICAN DEMOCRACIES, a discourse on the rule of law and human rights
56 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R150

In 2007 the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa held a symposium on the rule of law and its impact on the furtherance of open society ideals in the region. The proceedings of this symposium have been updated and expanded upon in this publication.

Orr (M.) et. al. (eds. BUTTONS AND BREAKFASTS, the Wits WonderWoman book
173 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R180

"The Wits WonderWomen are a group of academics at the University of the Witwatersrand. This collection of their writings reflects on growing up in a man's world and working in an environment peopled by male professors."

Contributions by Mary Rorich, Moyra Keane, Tracy McLellan, Susan Chemaly, Jane Castle, Margaret Orr, Sigrid Ewert, Norma M Nongauza-Tsotsi, Brenda Keen, Leah Gilbert, Pam Nichols, Wendy Orr and Alison Kearney.

Padayachee (V.) ed. THE DEVELOPMENT DECADE?, ecenomic and social change in South Africa, 1994-2004
471 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R260

Contributions include "Development Discourses in Post-Apartheid South Africa" by Vishnu Padayachee, "Reflections on SOuth Africa's First Wave of Economic Reforms" by Rashad Cassim, "Constructing the Social Policy Agenda: conceptual debates around poverty and inequality" by Julian May, "Gender and Social Security in South Africa" by Francie Lund, "LOcal Economic Development in Post-Apartheid South Africa: a ten-year research review" by Christian M.Rogerson, "Local Economic Development: utopia and reality - the example of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal" by Benoît Lootvoet & Bill Freund, "Definitions, Data and the Informal Economy in South Africa: a critical analysis" by Richard Devey, Caroline Skinner & Imraan Valodia, "Framing the South African AIDS Epidemic: a social science perspective" by Eleanor Preston-Whyte, "Economic and Development Issues Around HIV/AIDS" by Alan Whiteside & Sabrina Lee, "Social Movements in South Africa: promoting crisis or creating stability?" by Richard Ballard, Adam Habib & Imraan Valodia & "Democracy and Social Movements in South Africa" by Dale McKinley.

Parker (A.) text & Zapiro (illus.) 50 PEOPLE WHO STUFFED UP SOUTH AFRICA,
206 pp., paperback , Cape Town, 2010. R165

Journalist and author Alexander Parker's list of the fifty most damaging people in South African history includes Jan van Riebeeck, Julius Malema, Sepp Blatter, P.W.Botha, Alec Erwin, Lord Kitchener, Lord Milner, Shabir Schaik, Shaka, Thabo Mbeki, Jackie Selebi, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang, Jan Verwoerd, and Jacob Zuma.

Includes illustrations by Zapiro.

Pattman (R.) & Khan (S.) eds. UNDRESSING DURBAN,
499 pp., illus., paperback, Durban, 2007. R195

A collection of papers offering a comprehensive view of Durban. Some of the articles in this edition were originally published in the first "Undressing Durban" published in 2006 for the delegates to the International Sociology Association Conference.

The papers are divided into the following sections: "Outsiders in Durban (and Durbanites as outsiders),
"Mixed 'Race' Heterosexual Partners in Durban",
"Sport, Entertainment and Relaxation",
"Transport and Residential Spaces in Durban",
"Living on the streets and in Shelters in Durban",
"Fear of Crime and Moral Panics",
"Punishments", "Gangsters", "Shack Dwellers",
"Indian Identities and Culture",
"Black African Identities and Culture",
"HIV and AIDS", "Universaity of KwaZulu-Natal",
"Women Sex Workers in Durban"
and "Challenging Local and Global Inequalities".

Rob Pattman and Sultan Khan teach sociology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

Pauw (J.) DANCES WITH DEVILS, a journalist's search for truth
393 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R190

"This is not an autobiography...but rather a collection of events and encounters with extraordinary people in places where 'ordinary' people don't go. The journey stretches from the last, dark days of apartheid and its aberrations to the apocalyptic events in several African states around and since the dawn of the new millennium".

Jacques Pauw is the author of two previously published books: "In the Heart of the Whore: the story of apartheid's death squads" and "Into the Heart of Darkness: confessions of apartheid's assassins".

He was a founder member and assistant editor of the anti-apartheid Afrikaans newspaper "Vrye Weekblad" in 1988. In 1998 he was a founder member of the SABC's "Special Assignment" current affairs programme and is currently executive producer.

Peberdy (S.) SELECTING IMMIGRANTS, national identity and South African's immigration policies, 1910-2008
329 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R220

Sally Peberdy relates the history of the immigration policies of the South African state and "explores the synergy between periods of significant change in state discourses and policies of migration, and those historical moments when South Africa was reinvented politically or was in the process of active nation building."

"Through careful archival study, Peberdy has written a path-breaking account of what it is to be a South African. This is the first analysis and periodisation of South Africa's immigration laws, and without it one cannot claim to understand the vexed issue of South African identity." Peter Alexander, Director, Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg

Sally Peberdy is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of the Western Cape. She is the 2007 winner of the University of the Witwatersrand Research Committee Publication Award.

Peires (J.) THE HOLOCAUST AND APARTHEID, a comparison of human rights abuses
131 pp., 4to., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R195

Based on Juliette Peires's 2004 MA thesis for the University of Cape Town.

Examines the discriminatory legal frameworks in Nazi Germany and apartheid South Africa and compares the human rights abuses, social controls, restriction of living areas, disparities in employment, the different groups targeted and differences in the implementation of torture and murder.

Petlane (T.) & Gruzd (S.) eds. AFRICAN SOLUTIONS, best practices from the African Peer Review Mechanism
144 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R195

A collection of essays that critically examine the best practices identified in the first 12 countries that published Country Review Reports (CRRs) under the African Peer Review Mechanism: Algeria, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Uganda.

Steven Gruzd was head of the Governance and APRM Programme at SAIIA from May 2008 to June 2011. He joined the Institute in 2003, and is currently a research associate of SAIIA. He co-authored "The African Peer Review Mechanism: Lessons from the pioneers" with Ross Herbert, and edited "Grappling with Governance: perspectives on the African Peer review Mechanism".
Tsoeu Petlane was deputy programme head for the Governance and APRM Programme at SAIIA until early 2011. He is currently a freelance governance researcher based in Maseru, Lesotho.

Picard (L.A.) THE STATE OF THE STATE, institutional transformation, capacity and political change in South Africa
390 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005. R180

Explores "political and socio-economic issues about the nature of the South African state from the 1990s through the early 21st century."

Luuis Picard is Professor in the Division of International Development, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A.

Published in the P & DM Governance Series, "an initiative of Wits University Press and the Graduate School of Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand."

Pieterse (E.) CITY FUTURES, confronting the crisis of urban development
206 pp., paperback, Cape Town, etc., 2008. R190

Edgar Pieterse analyses current thinking on how to deal with the problems that confront the cities of the developing world - slums, poverty, umeployment and lack of governance - and offers an alternative approach.

Edgar Pieterse is director of the African Centre for Cities and professor in the School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics, University of Cape Town.

Pillay (U.) et. al. (eds.) DEMOCRACY AND DELIVERY, urban policy in South Africa
334 pp., maps, paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R190

Essays include "Local Government Boundary Reorganisation" by Robert Cameron, "Local Government in South Africa's Larger Cities" by Alan Mabin, "Free Basic Services: the evolution and impact of free basic water policy in South Africa" by Tim Modsell, "Reaching the Poor? An analysis of the influences on the evolution of South Africa's housing programme" by Sarah Charlton & Caroline Kihato, ""Integrated Development Plans and Third Way Politics" by Philip Harrison & "Urban Spatial Policy" by Alison Todes.

Pillay (U.) et. al. (eds.) SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL ATTITUDES, changing times, diverse voices
391 pp., map, paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R190

The first volume in a new series which aims to provide an analysis of attitudes and values towards various social and political issues in contemporary South Africa. This volume presents the public's responses during nation-wide interviews conducted by the HSRC in l2003. The findings are analysed in three sections: an examination of race, class and politics, a critical assessment of perceptions of poverty, inequality and service delivery, and an exploration of various societal values.

Contributions include "Issues of Democracy and Governance" by John Daniel, Roger Southall and Sarah Dippenaar, "The Happy Transition? attitudes to poverty and inequality after a decade of democracy" by Benjamin Roberts, "What Do South Africans Think About Education?" by Mbithi wa Kivilu and Seán Morrow, "Partner Violence" by Andrew Dawes, Zosa de Sas Kropiwnicki, Zuhayr Kafaar and Linda Richter and "Ten Years into Democracy: how South Africans view their world and themselves" by Mark Orkin and Roger Jowell.

Pinnock (D.) WRITING LEFT, the radical journalism of Ruth First
268 pp., illus., paperback, Pretoria, 2007. R150

A study of Ruth First's political journalism. This book is published in the Hidden History Series edited by Raymond Suttner.

Award-winning journalist, historian and criminologist Don Pinnock is the author of "The Brotherhoods", "Street Gangs in Cape Town", Gangs, Rituals and Rites of Passage", "Voices of Liberation: Ruth First", as well as several books of travel writings. In 2005 he received the Mondi Award for his journalism.

Piombo (J.) & Nijzink (L.) eds. ELECTORAL POLITICS IN SOUTH AFRICA, assessing the first democratic decade
297 pp., paperback, First S.A.Edition, New York & Cape Town, (2005) 2006. R190

Contributions include "A Voice for Some: South Africa's ten years of democracy" by Steven Friedman, "The Electoral Implications of Social and Economic Change Since 1994" by Jeremy Seekings, "Voter Information, Government Evaluations, and Party Images in the First Democratic Decade" by Robert Mattes, "Parliament and the Electoral System: how are South Africans Being Represented?" by Lia Nijzink and Jessica Piombo, "The African National Congress; there is no party like it; 'ayikho efana nayo'" by Tom Lodge, "Electoral Administration: achievements and continuing challenges" by Claude Kabemba and "Media Coverage in Election 2004" were some parties more equal than others?" by Gavin Davis, and more.

Plaatjies (D.) ed. FUTURE INHERITANCE, building state capacity in democratic South Africa
321 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R225

Foreword by Dawn Prinsloo.
Preface by Desmond Tutu.

A collection of essays that examine "the present architecture and performance of the South African state and assess its institutional capacity to deliver on its mandates. The basic assumption is that without capacity, the state cannot govern." Daniel Plaatjies, from his introduction

"This book provides a fresh and compelling analysis to inform our current debates on the role of government in national development - and indeed to inform the strategies we must forge urgently to meet the imperatives for a just society." Professor Rob Moore, Deputy Vice Chancellor: Advancement and Partnerships, University of the Witwatersrand

"...the essays offer a rich account of government capacity, and the lack thereof, as explanatory framework for the crises of credibility and delivery. I have no doubt this collection will become a standard reference for students of government, politics and administration for a long time to come." Professor Jonathan Jansen, Vice Chancellor and Principal, University of the Free State

Contributions include:
"State Capacity and Political Accountability in Post-Apartheid South Africa" by Anthony Butler
"Strengthening the Centre: the South African presidency, 1994-2008" by Frank Chikane
"Who Governs the Governors? Accountability and government effectiveness in post-apartheid South Africa" by Steven Friedman
"The Provinces as a Bulwark of Democracy" by Helen Zille
"Basic Education: a development perspective" by Graeme Bloch
"State Ownership and the National Democratic Revolution: debating the issue of nationalisation" by Joel Netshitenzhe

Daniel Plaatjies is Professor at the School of Business Management at the University of the Free State and is currently Head of Performance Monitoring and Evaluation within the Office of the Premier, Free State Provincial Government.

Pollak (J.B.) THE KASRILS AFFAIR, Jews and minority politics in post-apartheid South Africa
198 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R186

In 2001 cabinet minister Ronnie Kasrils launched a declaration calling on South Africans of Jewish descent to protest against Israeli policies towards the Palestinians. Joel Pollack documents the Kasrils declaration and its implications, places the Kasrils affair in the context of South African Jewish history and experience, explores the controversy and debate the declaration caused and how it has affected politics in the Jewish community, and South Africa in general.

Joel Pollack served a speechwriter for Tony Leon, former head of the Democratic Alliance and Leader of the Opposition in the Parliament of South Africa. He currently studies at Harvard Law School and is a teaching fellow at Harvard College.

Potenza (E.) curator BIKO, the quest for a true humanity
58 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R175

An exhibition presented by the Apartheid Museum in Johannesburg in 2007 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the death of Bantu Stephen Biko.

Potgieter (D.W) TOTAL ONSLAUGHT, apartheid's dirty tricks exposed
314 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R200

Investigative reporter de Wet Potgieter exposes the corruption of the NP government and the "behind-the scenes machinations of South Africa's security apparatus during the apartheid era".

Pottinger (B.) THE MBEKI LEGACY,
348 pp., paperback, Second Edition, Cape Town, (2008) 2009. R210

Journalist Brian Pottinger analyses Thabo Mbeki's presidency, his successes and failures, and why he was defeated at the ANCs 2007 Polokwane conference. "This updated edition covers events up to the 2009 election and Jacob Zuma's first State of the Nation address, and offers additional insights into the post-Mbeki era."

Brian Pottinger is a former editor of the Sunday Times. He is also the author of "The Imperial Presidency, PW Botha, the first 10 years".

Journalist Brian Pottinger analyses Thabo Mbeki's presidency, his successes and failtures, and why he was defeated at the ANC's 2007 Polokwane conference. "This updated edition covers events up to the 2009 election and Jacob uma's first State of the Nation address, and offers additional insights into the post-Mbeki era."

Brian Pottinger is a former editor of the Suday Times. He is also the author of "The Imperial Presidenct. PW Botha, the fist 10 years.".

Rajab (D.) NO SUBJECT IS TABOO, Devi's diary
311 pp., paperback, Durban, 2011. R125

A selection of Devi Moodley Rajab's columns, published in the Mercury newspaper in Durban since 1996.

"The writing is neither low-brow nor high-brow but weaves a skilful path between an engaging sense of the everyday (or of current affairs in our journalistic parlance) with Rajab's deep knowledge of philosophy, psychology and politics, among many other areas of obvious ecpertise." Ferial Haffajee, from her introduction

Devi Rajab was a former Dean of Student Development at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. She is also the author of "South African Women of Indian Origin".

Ramphele (M.) LAYING GHOSTS TO REST, dilemmas of the transformation in South Africa
341 pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2008) 2009. R210

Mamphela Ramphele's discussion of the state of South Africa's democracy, with a focus on racism and sexism, transformation at the expense of delivery, capacity problems and the unintended consequences of policies such as Black Economic Empowerment and affirmative action.

Medical doctor, academic and activist Dr Ramphele was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town between 1996 and 2000. She was appointed Managing Director at the World Bank in 2000 and was co-chair of the Global Commission on International Migration from 2004 to 2005. She currently chairs Circle Capital Ventures in South Africa.

Ribane (N.) BEAUTY, a black perspective
149 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermartizburg, 2006. R165

A journey through South African history and politics from the perspective of the beauty industry.

Nakedi Ribane has been a fashion model, actress, fashion and beauty editor and co-owner of a Black modelling agency.

Richman (T.) ed. SHOULD I STAY OR SHOULD I GO?, to live in or leave South Africa
191 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R145

A selection of essays by South Africans and ex-South Africans offering different viewpoints on the question of emigration.

Contributors include André Brink, Jacob Dlamini, Sarah Britten and Kevin Bloom.

Robbins (D) ON THE BRIDGE OF GOODBYE, the story of South Africa's discarded San soldiers
229 pp., map, illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R140

David Robbins travelled with a small group of San men who had fought for the Portuguese in Angola and then for South Africa in northern Namibia. After the war these ex-soldiers and their dependents came to South Africa and are now living at Platfontein outside Kimberley.

David Robbins has written five other works of non-fiction about southern Africa, including "The 29th Parallel" and "After the Dance".

Roberts (A.) THE WONGA COUP, the British mercenary plot to seize oil billions in Africa
304 pp., maps, paperback, London, 2006. R165

"On 7 March 2004, Zimbabwean police impounded an American plane which had flown from South Africa with sixty four alleged mercenaries on board.The men, led by former SAS officer Simon Mann, were heading for the tiny west African nation of Equatorial Guinea, where they planned to overthrow the government...Equatorial Guinea is Africa's thrid largest producer of oil and they wanted a share..." Roberts looks into the role played by Mark Thatcher.

Adam Roberts works for "The Economist" in London.

Roberts (B.), wa Kivilu (M.) & Davids (Y.D.) eds. SOUTH AFRICAN SOCIAL ATTITUDES, 2nd report, reflections on an age of hope
367 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R170

A collection of essays based primarily on the findings of the 2004 and 2005 rounds of the South African Social Attitudes Survey (SASAS), each of which involved interviewing a nationally representative sample of more than 5 000 individuals aged 16 years and older. The essays examine the public's views on issues such as national priorities, racial redress, local government, poverty, inequality, service delivery, religion, the environment, empoyment and crime.

Roberts (R.S.) FIT TO GOVERN, the native intelligence of Thabo Mbeki
296 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R150

Ronald Suresh Roberts examines the intellectual traditions and central ideas that inform President Thabo Mbeki's actions, including his decisions on Zimbabwe and HIV/AIDS.

Ronald Suresh Roberts is the author of the biography on Nadine Gordimer, "No Cold Kitchen".

Robins (S.L.) FROM REVOLUTION TO RIGHTS IN SOUTH AFRICA, social movements, NGOs & popular politics after apartheid
192 pp., illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, etc, 2009. R220

"Steven L. Robins argues for the continued importance of NGOs, social movements and other 'civil society' actors in creating new forms of citizenship and democracy, producing a complex, hybrid and ambiguous relationship between civil society and the state, where new negotiations around citizenship emerge."

"What becomes of popular politics in post-revolutionary times, when liberation meets liberalization, and struggles against colonial inequality give way to a rhetoric of rights? In this provocative, richly-illustrated book, one of South Africa's most thoughtful scholars probes the everyday meaning of 'rights talk', 'citizenship' and cultural identity...His enlightening ethnographic examples make it plain that post-apartheid politics continues a long tradition of creative improvisation: that it manages to combine the language of rights with an enduring investment in communal forms of belonging." Jean Comaroff, University of Chicago

Steven Robins is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch. He edited the book "Limits to Liberation after Apartheid" and co-edited "New South African Keywords".

Ross (F.C.) RAW LIFE, NEW HOPE, decency, housing and everyday life in a post-apartheid community
248 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R243

Based on research conducted over eighteen years amongst the residents of The Park (now called The Village), a shack settlement on the outskirts of Cape Town, Fiona Ross offers insight into the complex ways of life within an impoverished community and the efforts such a community makes to secure a decent life in post-apartheid South Africa.

Fiona Ross is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.

Rostron (B.) text & Zapiro (illus.) THE RANTER'S GUIDE TO SOUTH AFRICA, a handbook for hotheads, windbags and demagogues
140 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R125

A satirical dictionary that identifies and defines some of most overused and abused words, acronyms and jargon in use in South Africa.

Ruiters (G.) ed. THE FATE OF THE EASTERN CAPE, history, politics and social policy
352 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2011. R220

A collection of essays that combine historical accounts with current socio-political analyses to present an agenda for social-spatial justice for the people of the Eastern Cape.

Contributions include:
"How the Eastern Cape Lost its Edge to the Western Cape: the political economy in the Eastern Cape on the eve of Union" by Jeff Peires
"Traditional Authorities and Democracy: are we back to apartheid?" by Lungisile Ntsebeza
"Eastern Cape Civil Society and NGOs: forces for change or partners of the state?" by Siv Helen Hesjedal
"The Eastern Cape Environment: problems and people-centred solutions" by Morgan Griffiths and Patrick Dowling
"Coega, Corporate Welfare and Climate Crisis" by Patrick Bond
"Volkswagen Workers: global integration and union disintegration" by Ashwin Desai
"Health Care and Responses to the HIV Epidemic in the Eastern Cape" by Kevin Kelly
"Provinces in Contention: wither the Eastern Cape?" by Greg Ruiters.

Greg Ruiters is the Director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research and Matthew Goniwe Professor in Society and Development at Rhodes University.

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

Russell (M.) & (M.) AFRIKANERS OF THE KALAHARI, white minority in a Black state
167 pp., map, illus., paperback, Reprint, Cambridge, (1979) 2008. R290

Margo and Martin Russell explore ethnic relations in the Ghanzi district in Botswana, between the white Afrikaans-speaking cattle pastoralists , the hunting and gathering Bushmen, the Kgalagari, the Batawana, and various other groups.

"Most studies of blacks and white have been of rich whites and poor blacks, or powerful whites and powerless blacks. This is the colonial hertiage. Even where white have been deprived of political power they have generally retained sufficient economic influence to make formal loss of political power unimportant, at least in the short run. The Afrikaans settlement in the western Kalahari represents a white group who have been neither a colonial nor an economic power. Politically, socially and economically unimportant, they have also been isolated from fellow Afrikaners and the events which have given Afrikanerdom much of its distinctive cast." from chapter 1

Salih (M.A.) ed. AFRICAN PARLIAMENTS, between governance and government
286 pp., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Cape Town, 2006. R180

Contents include "People, Party, Politics, and Parliament: government and governance in Namibia" by Henning Melber, The South African Parliament's Failed Moment" by Tim Hughes, "Parliaments, Politics, and Governance: African democracies in comparative perspective" by Wil Hout, "Legislative Quotas for Women: implications for governance in Africa" by Aili Mari Tripp & "Local Assemblies and Local Democracy in sub-Saharan Africa" by Dele Olowu.

Sanders (J.) APARTHEID'S FRIENDS, the rise and fall of South Africa's Secret Service
539 pp., map, illus., paperback, London, 2006. R190

The history of the South African secret service from the 1940s to the present, including the involvement of the USA and Britain and the role played by MI5 and MI6.

James Sanders is also the author of "South Africa and the International Media, 1972-1979: a struggle for representation", published in 1999.

Sarkin (J.) ed. HUMAN RIGHTS IN AFRICAN PRISONS,
254 pp., paperback, Cape Town & Ohio, 2008. R180

Contributions include "A Brief History of Human Rights in the Prisons of Africa" by Stephen Peté,
"Challenges to Good Prison Governance in Africa" by Chris Tapscott,
"Children in African Prisons" by Julia Sloth-Nielsen,
"The Imprisonment of Women in Africa" by Lisa Vetten, and
"Rehabilitation and Reintegration in African Prisons" by Amanda Dissel.

Jeremy Sarkin is Visiting Professor of Human Rights at the Fletcher School at Tufts University and Senior Professor of Law at The University of the Western Cape.

Saul (J.) THE NEXT LIBERATION STRUGGLE, capitalism, socialism and democracy in Southern Africa
354 pp., paperback, Toronto etc, 2005. R190

John Saul "charts the movements...that culminated in the independence of Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Namibia and the overthrow of apartheid in South Africa. Looking ahead, he outlines the imperatives of Africa's next liberation struggle - for socio-economic freedom and popularly-defined development".

John Saul is a professor emeritus of political science at York University.

Scheub (H.) THE UNCOILING PYTHON, South African storytellers and resistance
240 pp., paperback, Athens, Ohio, 2010. R250

Harold Schreub has collected stories and poetry of the Xhosa, Zulu, Swati, and Ndebele peoples in order to demonstrate the ways in which these indigenous oral traditions were used to combat and subvert colonial domination in South Africa.

Harold Schreub is Evjue-Bascom Professor of Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His other books include "The Tongue is Fire" (1996), "The African Storyteller" (1999), and "A Dictionary of African Mythology: the mythmaker as storyteller" (2000).

Seekings (J.) & Nattrass (N.) CLASS, RACE, AND INEQUALITY IN SOUTH AFRICA,
446 pp., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Pietermaritzburg, 2006. R190

"The distribution of incomes in South Africa in 2004, ten years after the transition to democracy, was probably more unequal than it had been under apartheid. In this book, Jeremy Seekings and Nicoli Nattrass explain why this is so, offering a detailed and comprehrensive analysis of inequality in South Africa from the mid-twentieth century to the early twenty-fist century"."

Jeremy Seekings is Professor in Sociology and Politics at the University of Cape Town and Nicoli Nattrass in Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town.

Segal (L.) & Cort (S.) ONE LAW, ONE NATION, the making of the South African constitution
255 pp., 4to., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R250

Foreword by Cyril Ramaphosa.

Lauren Segal's and Sharon Cort's popular account of South Africa's struggle for constitutional rights, Codesa, the multi-party negotiations, the Constitutional Assembly, the certification of the constitution, and the role played by the Constitutional Court.

Shaw (G.) BELIEVE IN MIRACLES, South Africa from Malan to Mandela - and the Mbeki era, a reporter's story
148 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2007. R135

Journalist Gerald Shaw's memoir covers over 50 years of South African history, from the first apartheid government until the birth of democracy in 1994.

Gerald Shaw has been writing for South African newspapers since 1954 and worked for 30 years on the Cape Times. He is currently a freelance journalist and researcher.

Shepherd (N.) & Robins (S.) eds. NEW SOUTH AFRICAN KEYWORDS,
266 pp., paperback, Johannesburg & Ohio, 2008. R175

A guide to key words and key concepts that have come to shape public life, political thought and debate in South Africa since 1994.

Essays include "AIDS" by Deborah Posel,
"Crime" by Jonny Steinberg,
"Ethnicity" by John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff,
"Gender" by Helen Moffett,
"Race" by Zimitri Erasmus,
"Truth and Reconciliation" by Fiona Ross, and
"Writing Africa", Achille Mbembe in conversation with Isabel Hofmeyr.

Shillinger (K.) ed. AFRICA'S PEACEMAKER?, lessons from South African conflict mediation
260 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R175

A collection of papers that examine South Africa's conflict mediation in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Cotê d'Ivoire and Sudan.

Contributions include "Learning Lessons from South African Engagement in African Crises" by Kurt Shillinger,
"South Africa's Implementation of Its Own Peacekeeping Model in Africa: a reality check" by Daniel Kroslak,
"Healer or Hegemon: assessing perceptions of South Africa's role in African mediation" by Kwesi Aning,
"Courting El Bashir: South Africa, Sudan and Darfur" by Laurie Nathan, and
"Lessons from the Burundi Peace Process" by Jan van Eck.

Simpson (J.) NOT QUITE WORLD'S END, a traveller's tales
475 pp., colour illus., paperback, Reprint, London, (2007) 2008. R119

Award-winning journalist John Simpson's collection of writings about life in different parts of the world, including chapters on Afrikaners and Bushmen forcibly removed for the Central Kalahari Game Reserve by the government of Botswana.

John Simpson is the BBC's World Affairs Editor.

Sisulu (E.) WALTER & ALBERTINA SISULU, in our lifetime
672 pp., illus., paperback, Second Editon Reprint, Cape Town, (2002) 2006. R210

Foreword by Nelson Mandela.

Elinor Sisulu is a freelance writer and editor. "In the late 1980s she worked for the International Labour Organisation in Lusaka, to provide programs of asistance to the ANC, PAC and SWAPO".

Sitas (A.) THE MANDELA DECADE 1990-2000, labour, culture and society in post-apartheid South Africa
212 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2010. R195

South African poet Ari Sitas reflects on South Africa's transition from apartheid and the post-apartheid era, addressing issues such as Nelson Mandela's charisma, reconciliation, nationalism, globalisation, comradeship, and the poor. He also suggests new ways of thinking about the South African nation.

Skjelten (S.) A PEOPLE'S CONSTITUTION, public participation in the South African constitution-making process
231 pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R160

An account of the public participation programme of the Constitutional Assembly, formed in 1994 to draft a final constitution for South Africa.

Foreword by Cyril Ramaphosa, chairperson of the Constitutional Assembly, 1994 -1996.

Synnøve Skjelten observed the public-participation process of the Constitutional Assembly first-hand. In 2000 she obtained a master's degree in political studies at the University of Cape Town with a thesis entitled "Democracy and Communication: an analysis and assessment of the public participation programme of the Constitutional Assembly".

Smith (J.) & Tromp (B.) HANI, a life too short, a biography
338 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R190

A biography of Chris Hani, Communist Party leader and Umkhonto we Sizwe chief of staff, who was assassinated in 1993.

Janet Smith is an excecutive editor of The Star and Saturday Star and a special writer at Independent newspapers.
Beauregard Tromp is a senior reporter at The Star newspaper. He was awarded the Mondi Shanduka Newspaper Journalist of the Year in 2009.

Southall (R.) & Daniel (J.) eds. ZUNAMI!, the South African elections of 2009
300 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R180

A collection of essays that analyse the South African general elections of April 2009, examine voting trends and results and consider South Africa's future prospects.

Contributions include "The ANC's National Election Campaign of 2009: Siyanqoba!" by Anthony Butler,
"Congress of the People: between foothold of hope and slippery slope" by Susan Booysen,
"Strategy, Sacrifice or Sour Grapes? COPE versus the ANC in the Eastern Cape" by Janet Cherry,
"The Democratic Alliance: consolidating the official opposition" by Zwelethu Jolobe,
"Azapo, MF, PAC and UCDP: searching for a role and fighting for survival" by Tsoeu Petlane,
"Godzille and the Witches: gender and the 2009 elections" by Shireen Hassim,
"Desperately Seeking Depth: the media and the 2009 elections" by Jane Duncan, and
"Glancing Back, Looking Ahead: tilting left?" by John Daniel.

Roger Southall is Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand.
John Daniel is Academic Director of the School of International Training in Durban.

Sparks (A.) FIRST DRAFTS, South African history in the making
399 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R205

A collection of veteran journalist Allister Sparks' writings on South Africa over the past decade, taken from his syndicated column, "At Home and Abroad", which appears in several South African newspapers, as well as reports he has written as a political analyst for various investment institutions. He covers issues such as the Mbeki presidency, the Zimbabwe crisis, HIV-AIDS and the rise to power of President Jacob Zuma.

Award-winning journalist Allister Sparks is a former editor of the Rand Daily Mail and served as a correspondent for The Economist, The Washington Post and The Observer of London. He was awarded a Nieman Fellowship to study at Harvard Univesity in 1962/63 and has taught at several American universities. He now works as a political analyst serving the investment community. His other books include "Tomorrow is Another Country", "Beyond the Miracle" and "The Mind of South Africa".

Sriram (C.L.) & Pillay (S.) eds. PEACE VS JUSTICE?, The dilemma of transitional justice in Africa
373 pp., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2009. R245

This book examines the challenges and prospects of promoting both peace and accountability, especially in African countries affected by conflict or political violence.

Contributions include "The Politics of Transitional Justice" by Yasmin Louise Sooka,
"Inclusive Justice: the limitations of trial justice and truth commissions" by Charles Villa-Vicencio,
"Gender and Truth and Reconciliation Commissions: comparative reflections" by Sheila Meintjes,
"South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission from a Global Perspective" by Alex Boraine, and
"The Politics of Peace, Justice and Healing in Post-war Mozambique: 'practices of rupture' by Magamba spirits and healers in Gorongosa" by Victor Igreja.

Chandra Lekha Sriram is Professor of Human Rights at the School of Law, University of East London, and Chair of the International Studies Association Human Rights Section.
Suren Pillay is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Western Cape and a Senior Research Specialist in the Democracy and Governance programme of the Human Sciences Research Council.

Staunton (I.) ed. OUR BROKEN DREAMS, child migration in southern Africa
114 pp., colour illus., paperback, Maputo & Harare, 2008. R100

Extracts from interviews with migrant children conducted by Save the Children UK, Save the Children Norway and Save the Children Swaziland in four countries: Zimbabwe, South Africa, Mozambique and Swaziland. The text is illustrated with drawings made by the children interviewed.

Introduction by Chris McIvor of Save the Children UK in Mozambique. Also includes reflections by the research team who conducted the interviews.

Steinberg (J.) NOTES FROM A FRACTURED COUNTRY, selected journalism
327 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R140

A selection of Jonny Steinberg's fortnightly columns in the Business Day.

Jonny Steinberg is the author of "Midlands" and "The Number". He won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award twice for these two books.

Steinberg (J.) LITTLE LIBERIA, an African odyssey in New York city
286 pp., maps, illus., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Johannesburg, 2011. R195

Jonny Steinberg spent two years with a community of Liberians living in a Staten Island housing project. He gets to know two very different expatriates: Rufus Arkoi, an ambitious immigrant to the USA in 1988 before the civil war and now leader of the Liberian enclave on New York's Park Hill, and a younger Jacob Massaquoi, a traumatised survivor of the war who arrived in 2002. In exploring the fraught relationship between these two men he seeks to understand the conundrum of their community, a community who mentally still inhabit wartime Liberia. His quest for understanding eventually takes him on a visit to Liberia itself.

Jonny Steinberg is also the author of "Three-Letter Plague" as well as "Midlands" and "The Number", which both won the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award. He currently works at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (Huma) at the University of Cape Town.

Stephan (H.), Power (M.), Hervey (A.F.) & Fonseca (R.S.) THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA IN THE 21ST CENTURY, a view from the South
352 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2006. R195

Analyses the economic and political issues that will affect Africa in the new millenium and demonstrates how African states can shape their own global destinies.

Stevens (F.L.) THE AFRICAN PHILOSOPHY OF SELF-DESTRUCTION,
174 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R125

Fayiso Liyang Stevens explores the reasons for Africa's continuing poverty.

"It is surprising, if not illogical, that not too many people have ever wondered whether a Black man exists at all. If a Black man does exist, why is he constantly in a state of pandemonium, molestation, disease and backwardness? Can a Black man, or any man for that matter, exist for so long and seem to be doing nothing about his problems? There may be grounds for assuming that his inaction in the face of adversity proves a lack of substantive existence. And why is it that someone else and not the Black man himself is responsible for his problems, and guilty of victimising him, as if a Black man is the world's greatest spectator?" from pg. 19

Stevens (G.) et. al. (eds.) A RACE AGAINST TIME, psychology and challenges to deracialisation in South Africa
353 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2006. R160

Contributions include "'All the Black People Speak English or Afrikaans, So It Doesn't Matter...' - ideologies of language and race on a South African school ground" by Desmond Painter, "Ethnicity: it's about making a difference" by Garth Stevens, Norman Duncan and Brett Bowman, "Two Nations: race and poverty in post-apartheid South Africa" by Martin Terblanche, "'It's Not Us, They're Spreading AIDS': race, schoolboy masculinities and perception of personal risk in relation to HIV/AIDS among male youth in post-apartheid South Africa" by Kay Govender, "(Post)colonial Racism: racial Otherness, the colonial stereotype and the model of fetishism" by Derek Hook, "New Questions, Old Answers? Gender and race in post-apartheid South Africa" by Tamara Shefer and Kopano Ratele, "Truth, Reconciliation, Reparation and Deracialisation in Post-apartheid South Africa: fact or fiction?" by Garth Stevens and "The 'Rainbow Nation': constructs of national identity in post-apartheid South Africa" by Peace Kiguwa.

Steyn-Barlow (C.) PUBLISH AND BE DAMNED, two decades of scandals
368 pp., b/w & colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R240

Chris Steyn-Barlow's account of her work as a journalist at the Sunday Tribune, The Citizen, the Rand Daily Mail, The Star, the Cape Times, The Times of London and as editor of the Independent Newspapers Investigative Unit and the political and criminal scandals that she covered: the death of National Party MP John Wiley, the story of renegade policeman André Stander, the campaign to discredit Allan Boesak by exposing his affair with Di Scott, Samora Machel's death in a plane crash, the Westdene bus accident, the visit by a group of Afrikaans academics and politicians to the ANC in East Berlin in 1988, and many more.

Stolten (H.E.) ed. HISTORY MAKING AND PRESENT DAY POLITICS, the meaning of collective memory in South Africa
376 pp., paperback, Uppsala, 2007. R230

South African historians and social scientists discuss the importance of history and heritage for the transformation of South African society. Contributions include "Thoughts on South Africa: some preliminary ideas" by Saul Dubow, "New Nation, New History? constructing the past in post-apartheid South Africa" by Colin Bundy, "Truth Rather Than Justice? historical narratives, gender, and public education in South Africa" by Elaine Unterhalter, "From Apartheid to Democracy in South Africa: a reading of dominant discourses of democratic transition" by Thiven Reddy, "The Transformation of Heritage in the New South Africa" & "Four Decades of South African Academic Historical Writing: a personal perspective" by Christopher Saunders, "Building the 'New South Africa': urban space, architectural design, and the disruption of historical memory" by Martin Murray, "Whose Memory - Whose History? the illusion of liberal and radical historical debates" by Bernhard Makhosezwe Magubane, "The Role of Business Under Apartheid: revisiting the debate" by Merle Lipton & "'1922 And All That': facts and the writing of South African political history" by Allison Drew.

Hans Erik Stolten is a historian working at the Centre of African Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

Suttner (R.) THE ANC UNDERGROUND IN SOUTH AFRICA TO 1976, a social and historical study
198 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R175

Drawing on oral testimony Raymond Suttner discusses how, after the ANC's banning in 1960 and the imprisonment of it's leaders, internally based ANC activists, sometimes working independently of the ANC in exile and sometimes in combination, reconstituted networks within South Africa and continued with underground activities.

Raymond Suttner is Professor and Head of the Walter and Albertina Sisulu Knowledge and Heritage Unit within the School for Graduate Studies at the University of South Africa. During the apartheid era he was jailed for his activities as an ANC underground operative, described in his book, "Inside Apartheid's Prison" (2001).

Swanepoel (P.C.) REALLY INSIDE BOSS, a tale of South Africa's late Intelligence Service (and something about the CIA)
202 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2007. OUT OF PRINT

Petrus Cornelius Swanepoel worked as a policeman before being drafted to the Bureau for State Security (BOSS). After retiring he worked for the National Intelligence Service on a contract basis in KwaZulu Natal, Namibia and Europe. He lives on a smallholding near Pretoria.

Swartz (S.) IKASI, the moral ecology of South Africa's township youth
228 pp., illus., paperback, First S.A.Edition, Johannesburg, 2010. R240

First published in England in 2009.

In this ethnographic study Sharlene Swartz "examines how disenfranchised youth living in poverty think about morality". She worked with a group of thirty-seven young people aged between fourteen and twenty from Langa, a township near Cape Town.

"Written with tempered passion, Sharlene Swartz's award winning research heralds a powerful new voice, one that can clarify the ambiguity and ambivalence of moral development under difficult circumstances." Professor Robert Selman, Harvard University

"Sharlene Swartz has given us a stunning, prize-winning account of the morality of township youth. The brilliance of her ethnography marks a definitive shift in sociological studies of youth and the field of moral education by demonstrating the power of empirical research into moral formations." Professor Madeleine Arnot, University of Cambridge

Sociologist Sharlene Swartz is a senior research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council and a visiting research fellow at the University of Cambridge.

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.

Swilling (M.) ed. SUSTAINING CAPE TOWN, imagining a livable city
278 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, Stellenbosch, 2010. R364

A collection of essays that reflect on what is unsustainable about Cape Town and what options that city faces in trying to become more sustainable. The papers published here as chapters of this book were orginally commissioned by the City of Cape Town and the Sustainability Institute.

Contributions include:
"Cape Town DenCity: towards sustainable urban form" by Kathryn Ewing and Nisa Mammon
"Social Justice and Sustainable Use of Natural Resources in Cape Town" by Mazibuko Jara
"Water and Sanitation in the City of Cape Town: sustainability uncertain" by Kevin Winter
"Sustainable Energy" by Frank Spencer
"Sustainable Transport Options: passenger transport in Cape Town" by Roger Behrens and Peter Wilkinson
"Natural Space and City Growth" by Matthew Cullinan
"Governance, Housing and Sustainable Neighbourhoods" by Paul Hendler

Professor Mark Swilling is Programme Director of the Sustainable Development Programme in the School of Public Leadership, Stellenbosch University, and Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute.

Symphony Way Pavement Dwellers NO LAND! NO HOUSE! NO VOTE!, voices from Symphony Way
, Cape Town, 2011. R200

In 2007 hundreds of families living in backyard shacks in the township of Delft in Cape Town, received letters inviting them to move into new houses in the N2 Gateway Housing Project, only to be told a few months later that these letters had been sent illegally and they were to be evicted. Hundreds of these residents organised themselves into the Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign, built shacks for their families and vowed to stay on the road until the government gave them permanent housing. This publication is a collection of letters written by the people of the Symphony Way Anti-Eviction Campaign.

"The Symphony Way occupation was a real attempt at an insurgent and tenacious solidarity against an increasingly exclusionary and brutal society. It was an experiment at the outer limits of the innovative and courageous grassroots militancies that have emerged in South Africa in recent years. This book is also an experiment at the outer limits of radical publishing. All the tenacity, beauty, pain, desperation and contradictions that breathe life into any popular struggle haunt the pages of this searing book." Richard Pithouse, Department of Politics and International Struggles, Rhodes University

"These powerful and poignant testimonies that have emerged from the blockade of Symphony Way are voices ensepulchered by the South African state yet they refuse to be silenced...This is a story of horror conjugated with hope, compellingly told with a brutal directness and eloquence." Professor Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles

"A magnificent and moving account of a long and hard fought struggle" Michael Watts, Professor of Development Studies, University of California, Berkeley

Tabane (R.) & Ludman (B.) eds. THE MAIL & GUARDIAN A-Z OF SOUTH AFRICAN POLITICS, the essential handbook
290 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2009. R180

Foreword by Nic Dawes.

The fifth edition of this guide includes profiles of 120 politicians, judges, religious leaders and academics, and a guide to the major political parties and their policies.

Táíwò (O.) HOW COLONIALISM PREEMPTED MODERNITY IN AFRICA,
352 pp., paperback, Bloomington, 2010. R350

Olúfémi Táíwò claims that "colonialism aborted Africa's march toward modernity that had been inaugurated under the direction of the revolutionary missionaries of the early nineteenth century, in whose ranks Africans played a major role." He also discusses African contributions to the discourse of modernity, indicates ways that Africans might learn from their forebears, and advocates a renewed engagement with modernity

Olúfémi Táíwò is Professor of Philosophy and Global African Studies and Director of the Global African Studies Program at Seattle University.

Taljaard (R.) UP IN ARMS, pursuing accountability for the arms deal in Parliament
292 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2012. R185

In 1999, aged 26, Democratic Party MP Raenette Taljaard was the youngest woman ever to have been elected to the South African Parliament. When the "arms deal" controversy erupted, together with Andrew Feintein and Gavin Woods, she played a leading role in probing the controvery within Parliament and calling the government to account. In this book she documents the political drama and intrigue of that time, as well as her disenchantment with party politics and with the moral decline she experienced within Parliament during those years. She left Parliament and resigned from the Democratic Party in 2005.

Tatz (C.) WITH INTENT TO DESTROY, reflecting on genocide
222 pp., hardback, d.w., London, 2003. R250

"A South African, Australian Jew, Colin Tatz provides a personal yet analytical and critical account of race politics, and the termini to which related policies and practices have led in Germany, Australia and South Africa."

Colin Tatz was born and educated in South Africa. He emigrated to Australia in 1961. He is currently Director of the Australian Institute for Holocuast and Genocide Studies based at the Shalom Institute, University of New South Wales.

Tatz (C.), Arnold (P.) & Heller (G.) WORLDS APART, the re-migration of South African Jews
360 pp., maps, b/w & colour illus., paperback, (Sydney), 2007. R295

Based on interviews and responses to a detailed questionnaire, the authors - all ex-South African immigrants now living in Australia - follow the Lithuanian and Latvian-descended Jews from their homes in Europe to South Africa and then again, a century later, to Australia and New Zealand.

Thompson (J.H.) AN UNPOPULAR WAR, from afkak to bosbefok, voices of South African servicemen
238 pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2006) 2006. R140

Journalist J.H.Thompson interviewed former SANDF soldiers and Special Forces members who did military service in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Their experiences of the training, border patrols, covert operations, open combat and readjusting to ordinary life are presented in their own words.

Reprinted 7 times in 2006.

Tienda (M.) et. al. (eds.) AFRICA ON THE MOVE, African migration and urbanisation in comparative perspective
375 pp., maps, paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R180

Contributions include "Patterns and Processes of International Migration in the Twenty-First Century: lessons for South Africa" by Douglas S.Massey, "Highly Prevalent Circular Migration: households, mobility and economic status in rural South Africa" by Mark Collinson, Stephen Tollman, Kathleen Kahn, Samuel Clark and Michel Carenne, "Moving On: patterns of labour migration in post-apartheid South Africa" by Dorrit Posel and "Health Consequences of Migration: evidence from South Africa's rural north-east (Agincourt)" by Mark Collinson, Mark Lurie, Kathleen Kahn, Ari Johson and Stephen Tollman.

Trovato (B.) THE WHIPPING BOY, 2008-2011
321 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R140

A collection of journalist Ben Trovato's satirical columns and letters, previously published in the Sunday Times newspaper.

Ben Travato is the author of nine other books, including "The Ben Travato Files", "Ben Travato's Art of Survival" and "On the Run".

Turok (B.) ed. READINGS IN THE ANC TRADITION, volume I, policy and praxis
262 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R100

Volume 3 in the "Understanding the ANC Today" series, published in conjunction with the ANC Parliamentary Political Education Committee. This volume, a companion to "The Historical Roots of the ANC" (the first book in the series), provides a selection of important documents and extracts that have influenced the political and policy thinking of the ANC during the course of its history.

Turok (B.) ed. READINGS IN THE ANC TRADITION, volume II, history and ideology
212 pp., paperback, Johannesburg, 2011. R100

Volume 4 in the "Understanding the ANC Today" series, published in conjunction with the ANC Parliamentary Political Education Committee. This volume, a companion volume to "The Historical Roots of the ANC" (the first in the series), provides a selection of important documents and extracts that have influenced the political and policy thinking of the ANC and its allies during the course of their history.

van Beek (U.J.) ed. DEMOCRACY UNDER CONSTRUCTION, patterns from four continents
472 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2006. R250

Presents analysis of pre- and post-transitions to democracy in Poland, East Germany, South Korea, Chile and South Africa.

South African contributors include Hennie Kotzé, Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Stellenbosch; Bernard Lategan, Director of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study; Philp Mohr, Professor of Economics at the University of South Africa (UNISA); Pierre du Toit, Chair of the Department of Politcal Science at the University of Stellenbosch; Ursula van Beek, professor at the Department of Information Science at the University of Stellenbosch and Adam Habib, Executive Director (Democracy and Governance) of the Human Sciences Research Council and part time Research Professor in the Centre for Civil Society and the School of Development Studies at the University of Natal.

van der Spuy (E.), Parmentier (S.) & Dissel (A.) (eds.) RESTORATIVE JUSTICE, politics, policies and prospects
271 pp., paperback, Reprint, Cape Town, (2007) 2008. R360

First published as Acta Juridica 2007.

A selection of papers presented at an international conference entitled "The Politics of Restorative Justice in South Africa and Beyond", held near Cape Town in 2006.

Contributions include "Development, Social Justice and Global Governance: challenges to implementing restorative and criminal justice reform in South Africa" by Tony Roshan Samara,
"Exploring the Impact of Gated Communities on Social and Spatial Justice and its Relation to Restorative Justice and Peace-Building in South Africa" by Karina Landman,
"Back to the Future in South African Security: from intentions to effective mechanisms" by Clifford Shearing and Don Foster, and
"Tapping Indigenous Knowledge: traditional conflict resolution, restorative justice and the denunciation of crime in South Africa" by Ann Skelton.

Elrena van der Spuy is Associate Professor, Department of Criminal Justice, University of Cape Town.
Stephan Parmentier is Professor of Sociology of Law, Crime and Human Rights, Catholic University of Leuven.
Amanda Dissel is Criminal Justice Programme Manager at the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation, Johannesburg.

van der Westhuizen (C.) WHITE POWER, & the rise and fall of the National Party
364 pp., illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2007. R220

An analysis of the rise and collapse of the Nationalist Party.

"A unique lense through which to analyse the demise of the National Party: written by a woman and using class analysis - the two decisive 'missing links' in Afrikaner history-writing". Antjie Krog

Award-winning journalist Christi van der Westhuizen worked on Vrye Weekblad, Beeld and ThisDay. She is currently Inter Press Service's trade project editor for Africa and Europe and is honourary research fellow with the School of Politics, University of KwaZulu-Natal.

van Donk (M.), Swilling (M.), Pieterse (E.) & Parnell (S.) eds. CONSOLIDATING DEVELOPMENTAL LOCAL GOVERNMENT, lessons from the South African experience, an Isandla Institute Book Project
568 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2008. R299

Documents "the dynamics of local government transformation and captures the key themes of the debates about policy options, lessons and key strategic decisions".

Contributions include "Continuities and discontinuities in South African Local Government" by Jennifer Robinson,
"Local Governance and the Politics of Sustainability" by Mark Swilling,
"Reframing Urban Passenger Transport as a Strategic Priority for Developmental Local Government" by Peter Wilkinson,
"The Implications of HIV/AIDS for Local Governance and Sustainable Municipal Service Delivery" by Mirjam van Donk,
"Tools and Trade-Offs in Environmental Decision-Making" by Zarina Patel,
"The Distribution of Power: local government and electricity distribution industry reforms" by Mark Pickering,
"Political Systems and Capacity Issues" by Dominique Wooldridge,
"Democratisation with Inclusion: revisiting the role of ward committees" by Imraan Buccus and Janine Hicks, and
"Participatory Mechanisms and Community Politics: building consensus and conflict" by Sophie Oldfield.

van Niekerk (A.), Suffla (S.) & Seedat (M.) eds. CRIME, VIOLENCE AND INJURY PREVENTION IN SOUTH AFRICA, data to action
201 pp., paperback, Pretoria, 2009. R125

A biennial publication published by the South African Medical Research Council that seeks to provide a comprehensive analysis of crime, violence and injury as a public health concern. It is intended as a resource for policymakers, funders and service providers focused on translating the data into injury prevention policies and practices.

Contributions include "Adverse Driving Behaviours: the case of aggression, excessive speed and alcohol impairment" by Anesh Sukhai and Mohamed Seedat,
"Current Trends and Responses to Crime in South Africa" by Barbara Holtman and Carmen Domingo-Swarts,
"Caught Between Policy and Practice: health and justice responses to gender-based violence" by Dee Smythe, Lilian Artz, Helene Combrinck, Katherine Doolan and Lorna Martin, and
"Murder and Robbery in South Africa: a tale of two trends" by Antony Altbeker.

van Wyk (C.) ed. WE WRITE WHAT WE LIKE, celebrating Steve Biko
170 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2007. R180

A collection of essays commissioned to offer tribute to Steve Biko on the 30th anniversary of his death.

Contributions include "Steve Biko: 30 years after" by Thabo Mbeki,
"Biko's Testament of Hope" by Achille Mbembe,
"A White Man Remembers" by Duncan Innes,
"Steve Biko and the SASO/BPC Trial" by Saths Cooper and Pandelani Nefolovhodwe.
"Through Chess I Discovered Steve Biko" by Darryl Accone, and
"White Carnations and the Black Power Revolution: they tried us for our ideas" by Zithulele Cindi.

van Zyl Slabbert (F.) THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY, an anecdotal reflection on political transition in South Africa
174 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2006. R130

Frederick van Zyl Slabbert was in Parliament in opposition against the Nationalist government from 1974 to 1986, becoming leader of the opposition in 1979. He resigned from Parliament over the issue of the Tricameral Parliament.

"This is a personal reflection on a fascinating period in my life which coincided with fundamental shifts in the political life of South Africa. I was fortunate to be in a position where I knew and had access to persons of influence across the political spectrum. This is my account of their interaction with each other and mine with them" van Zyl Slabbert.

Venter (A.J.) HOW SOUTH AFRICA BUILT SIX ATOM BOMBS, and then abandoned its nuclear weapons program
233 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2008. R250

An account of how the apartheid South African government built nuclear weapons.

Journalist and writer Al Venter is the author of thirty-five books, including "War in Angola", "Africa at War", "The Chopper War: helicopter warfare in Africa" and "Coloured: profile of two million South Africans".

Villa-Vicencio (C.) WALK WITH US AND LISTEN, political reconciliation in Africa
225 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R227

Foreword by Desmond Tutu.

Charles Villa-Vicencio discusses the need for reconciliation in any successful political transition after violent conflict.

"Villa-Vicencio has written a powerful reminder to hold justice in tension with genuine reconciliation, and a challenge to well-meaning international institutions to work in partnership with countries in conflict." Alex Boraine, Chairperson, International Center for Transitional Justice

"Villa-Vicencio returns reconciliation to its rightful place at the heart of discussions of transitional justice. He shows that, far from being the purview of romantics and fantasists, reconciliation after mass atrocity entails courage, risk, leadership, and above all the space for messy dialogue. In a field increasingly dominated by templates and one-size-fits-all remedies, Villa-Vicencio's call for a form of reconciliation that is culturally relevant and politically aware is most welcome" Phil Clark, Centre for Socio-Legal Studies, University of Oxford

Charles Villa-Vocencio is a visiting research fellow at The Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University, and a senior research fellow at the Institutue for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town.

Walker (C.) LANDMARKED, land claims and land restitution in South Africa
292 pp., maps, illus., paperback, Johannesburg & Ohio, 2008. R165

Drawing on her long involvement in the investigation of forced removals and her experience as Regional Land Claims Commissioner for KwaZulu-Natal from 1995 to 2000, Charryl Walker provides an account of the programme of land restitution as a whole and assesses its successes and failures.

Cherryl Walker is Professor and Head of the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch. She is the author of "Women and Resistance in South Africa", editor of "Women and Gender in Southern Africa" and co-author of "The Surplus People".

Walker (S.) DEALING IN DEATH, Ellen Pakkies and a community's struggle with tik
236 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2009. R160

Sylvia Walker discusses the situation of Ellen Pakkies, a working mother from Lavender Hill on the Cape Flats, who strangled her son, a tik addict, in 2007, and was sentenced to community service. She also looks at the global and local drug culture and the impact of drug and alcohol abuse on those who live in poverty.

Ward (C.L.), van der Merwe (A.) & Dawes (A.) eds. YOUTH VIOLENCE, sources and solutions in South Africa
432 pp., paperback, Cape Town, 2012. R250

A collection of essays that look at the factors that influence the likelihood of young people acting aggressively and explore effective interventions.

Contributions include:
"Gender, Class, 'Race' and Violence" by Don Foster
"The Development of Youth Violence: an ecological understanding" by Amelia van der Merwe, Andrew Dawes and Catherine Ward
"The Situation of the Youth in South Africa" by Saadhna Panday, Chitra Ranchod, Busani Ngcaweni and Soraya Seedat
"School-Based Youth Violence Prevention Programmes" by Anik Gevers and Alan Flisher
"Intervening with Youths in Gangs" by Adam Cooper and Catherine Ward
"Screen Media Violence and the Socialisation of Young Viewers" by Jane Stadler
"Addressing Youth Violence in Cities and Neighbourhoods" by Margaret Shaw.

"On the one hand the book is indeed about youth violence in South Africa and does as promised focus on both likely sources and potential solutions, BUT it actually does a lot more than that...I would like to prescribe it as compulsory reading for all aspirant politicians and senior civil servants." Peter Donnelly, Professor in Public Health Medicine, University of St Andrews

Catherine L.Ward is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychology, and chairs the Safety and Violence Initiative (SaVI) at the University of Cape Town.
Amelia van der Merwe is a research psychologist who is currently completing her doctorate at the University of Stellenbosch.
Andrew Dawes is Associate Professor Emeritus in the Psychology Department at the University of Cape Town, and Associate Fellow in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at the University of Oxford.

Wasserman (H.) TABLOID JOURNALISM IN SOUTH AFRICA, true story!
218 pp., illus., paperback, Cape Town, 2010. R243

Herman Wasserman examines the success of tabloid journalism in South Africa, considers the social significance of the tabloids and the role they play in their readers' daily lives.

"Hugely important for students, journalists, policy makers, and practioners. Will contribute, both empirically and theoretically, to ongoing debates about popular culture, media globalization, and changing news discourses." Winston Mana, University of Westminster

"A much needed media history and political and social assessment of a genre that is currently very much the subject of conjecture." Sean Jacobs, University of Michigan

Herman Wasserman is Senior Lecturer in Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield and Visiting Associate Professor Extraordinary at the University of Stellenbosch. He co-edited the book, "At the End of the Rainbow".

Wegerif (M.), Russell (B.) & Grundling (I.) STILL SEARCHING FOR SECURITY, the reality of farm dweller evictions in South Africa
210 pp., illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2005. R195

This book presents the findings of a national survey of evictions from farms that occurred from 1984 to the end of 2004. The National Evictions Survey, carried out by Social Surveys in partnership with Nkuzi Development Association, has for the first time established how many farm dwellers have been evicted and the impact this has had on the livelihoods of the families affected.

A short documentary of farm dweller evictions produced by Social Surveys to accompany this publication is also available on DVD @ R295

Wiener (M.) KILLING KEBBLE, an underworld exposed
428 pp., colour illus., paperback, Revised Edition, Johannesburg, (2011) 2012. R195

In September 2005 mining magnate Brett Kebble was killed in Johannesburg in an apparent "assisted suicide". The investigation that followed revealed a sinister underworld and exposed the corrupt relationship between South Africa's Chief of Police, Jackie Selebi, and his friend, Glenn Aglioti. Journalist Mandy Wiener has been covering the Brett Kebble story for five years and has had unlimited access to the three hit-men who killed Kebble, to Glenn Aglioti, and to other role players.

"A gritty mining town tale. Stranger than fiction. And totally gripping. Superb!" Peter Harris, author of "Birth" and "In a Different Time"

"A compelling, remarkable portrait that illuminates the dark underbelly of South Africa, revealing the intertwining of business, politics and organsied crime that is one of the greatest threats to out democracy. It demonstrates the extent to which prosecutorial independence and the rule of law have been undermined by our political leaders and the resulting quagmire that is law enforcement in the country. This fascinating, racy book provides a remarkable portrait of the characters at the centre of this tragic story, in the process illuminating the dark underbelly of South Africa that is unknown to most of us" Andrew Feinstein, author of "After the Party"

Williams (J.M.) CHIEFTANCY, THE STATE, AND DEMOCRACY, political legitimacy in post-apartheid South Africa
282 pp., paperback, Bloomington, 2010. R295

J.Michael Williams looks at how the chieftaincy "seeks to establish and maintain its political legitimacy, vis-à-vis local populations as well as the state, in the post-apartheid period ". Also explores how the struggle between conflicitng worldviews about the nature of authority and the right to rule has resulted in "the mutual transformation of both the state institutions and the chieftaincy, and the blending together of the different political norms, rules, and processes associated with both." from the introduction

J.Michael Williams is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of San Diego.

Woods (K.J.) THE KEVIN WOODS STORY, in the shadow of Mugabe's gallows
304 pp. map, b/w & colour illus., hardback, d.w., Cape Town, 2007. R265

Zimbabwean Kevin Woods was a high-ranking agent in Robert Mugabe's intelligence agency while working for the apartheid government. He assisted in a South African Defence Force attack on ANC facilities in Harare in 1986. He also planned the 1988 bombing of a Bulawayo ANC facility, for which he was arrested, charged and sentenced to death for murder and sabotage. He spent 18 years in prison, five of them in solitary confinement on death row, before being pardoned by Mugabe and released in 2006.

Zuern (E.) THE POLITICS OF NECESSITY, community organising and democracy in South Africa
241 pp., map, illus., paperback, Pietermaritzburg, 2011. R224

Elke Zuern tracks the development of community organizations and social movements in South Africa's townships post-1994 and compares their experiences to those in other African and Latin American states, demonstrating how these movements offer opportunites to modern democracies to evolve into systems of rule that empower all citizens.

"A must-read. Here is an explanation of why democratic South Africa emerged, how its elites forgot the very people who brought them to power, and how these poor citizens struggle to be heard." Adam Habib, University of Johannesburg

First published by the University of Wisconsin.

Elke Zuern is associate professor of politics at Sarah Lawrence College.