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About WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS

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CATALOGUE
2012 | 2013
About WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS 1
NEW TITLES 2–51
History 2–13
Media Studies 14–16
Cultural Studies 17–20
Migration Studies 21
International Relations 22–29
Sociology 28
Psychol0gy 30
Natural Science 32
Rock Art 34
Art 36–39
Literary Studies 40–47
Biography 48–49
Theatre 50–51
Wits University Press is 90 years old this year. The University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg was born when the South
African School of Mines and Technology was awarded university status by an Act of Parliament, becoming operational on
1 March 1922. At its first Senate meeting on 27 March 1922, a proposal for the formation of ‘The University of the Witwatersrand
Press’ was accepted by then Principal, Jan H. Hofmeyr.
The Press soon became an outlet for important research carried out at the University. Many flagship journal and book
publications started their long life span here. The journal Bantu Studies (later renamed African Studies), for example, was
first published by the Council of Education, Witwatersrand in 1921, and was taken over by the fledgling Press in 1923. Other
CURRENT TITLES 52–87 important early publications include the Bantu (African) Treasury Series, the South African Journal of Medical Sciences
Cultural Studies 52–54
(according to the preface by Raymond Dart, this was ‘devoted to the purely scientific aspects of medicine’), English Studies
Urban Studies 54
in Africa and many inaugural lectures. Classics such as Tiyo Soga’s The South-Eastern Bantu (1930) and Percival Kirby’s The
Anthropology 54
Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa (1953) are still an important resource for researchers, despite their now
History 55–57
Politics 58–59 unsuitable titles.
Sociology 60–62
Psychol0gy 63 Of course, things have changed since then. The Press (since 2002 simply called ‘Wits University Press’) started publishing
Migration Studies 64 manuscripts by academic authors from around the world, and in the 1980s became renowned as a publisher of engaged
Palaeoanthropology 65 political and historical works. However, its publishing programme was much broader and included genres such as theatre,
Archaeology 66 palaeontology, archaeology, literary studies and selected textbooks. After 1994 there was a trend towards ‘cross-over’
Popular Science 67 books, which are still based on academic research and subjected to peer-review but which appeal to both academic and
Environmental Science 68 general readers.
Natural Science 69
Rock Art 70–71
The publishing boom of the early 2000s has given way to more challenging market conditions. At the same time technological
Art 72–73
innovations have opened up new possibilities for the publishing and marketing of books. And while we draw on our traditional
Literary Studies 74–76
strengths, it is vital that we embrace current and emerging business models. An exciting extension of our programme is the
Biography 77
Theatre 78–80 introduction of digital books, in both e-book and PDF formats. We are working with a number of e-retailers and distributors to
Women’s Writing 81 ensure that these digital editions become readily available to individuals, teaching institutions and libraries. Please consult our
African Treasury Series 82–83 website and social media pages for updated information as we develop this area: www.witspress.co.za
Wits P&DM Governance Series 84
Textbooks 85–87 Our 2012/2013 catalogue features current and forthcoming titles, as well as most of the titles on our backlist. Research in the
social sciences and humanities continues to flourish and we hope that our list has something to offer most readers!
BACKLIST 88–92

INDEX 93–96 Veronica Klipp (Publisher)

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(digital) One Hundred Years of the ANC
230 x 150 mm Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
384 pp
Soft cover Edited by Arianna Lissoni, Jon Soske, Natasha Erlank, Noor Nieftagodien and Omar Badsha
November 2012
On 8 January 2012, the African National Congress (ANC) of South
Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the continent,
celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic event has
been cause for celebration and has generated significant public
debate both within the ANC and South African society at large.
This centennial anniversary of the ANC is an opportune moment for
critical reflection on the ANC’s historical trajectory on the struggle
against colonialism and apartheid. This edited collection brings
together new work by a number of South African and international
scholars and seeks to open up debate around various aspects of
the ANC’s past. Covering a broad chronological and geographical
spectrum, using a diverse range of sources and multiple theoretical
frameworks, the chapters in this anthology both build upon and
extend the historiography of the ANC by offering new perspectives
CONTENTS
Arianna Lissoni obtained her BA and PhD in History from the
School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She is currently
a Postdoctoral Fellow at North-West University, Mafikeng.
Jon Soske is Assistant Professor of Modern African History in the
on a variety of themes. These include the relationship between
Department of History and Classical Studies at McGill University,
Christianity and African nationalism; political biography; language
Quebec. From 2009 to 2011, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the
and the politics of performance; the production of ideas; popular
Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) and the Wits Institute
movements; exile politics; and the complex transformation of
for Social and Economic Research (WISER), both based at the
the ANC from liberation movement to state-governing party. By
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. His most recent
moving away from utilitarian approaches to the history of the
publication is Boundaries of Diaspora: African Nationalism and
ANC that have dominated contemporary discussions around the
the Indian Diaspora in 20th Century South Africa. Natasha Erlank
centenary, the contributions published in this volume suggest that
trained as an historian at the University of Cape Town. She has
the relationship between the histories of earlier struggles and
a doctorate from Cambridge University. Noor Nieftagodien is
the present needs to be rethought in more complex terms. This
the Deputy Chair of the History Workshop and Senior Lecturer in
timely contribution will certainly challenge hegemonic narratives
the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand,
of liberation that have become an established part of the national
Johannesburg. Omar Badsha is a self-taught, award-wining artist
discourse since 1994.
and photographer. He is the founder and Director of South African
History Online, a website and publishing venture on South
African history and culture.

Introduction One hundred years of the ANC: Debating struggle history after apartheid Jon Soske, Ariannna Lissoni and Natasha Erlank
Keynote address 1. A continuing search for an identity: carrying the burden of history Joel Netshitenze
Keynote address 2. Fragmentation and cohesion in the ANC: the first 70 years Philip Bonner
Interview with Omar Badsha
Chapter 1. Religion and Resistance in Natal, 1900-1910 Norman Etherington
Chapter 2. Christianity and African Nationalism in South Africa in the First Half of the Twentieth Century Natasha Erlank
Chapter 3. Between Liberation Histories and Academic Histories Thozama April
Chapter 4. Imagining the Patriotic Worker: The Idea of ‘Decent Work’ in the ANC’s Political Discourse Franco Barchiesi
Chapter 5. Popular Movements Contentious Spaces and the ANC, 1943-1956 Noor Nieftagodien
Chapter 6. Unravelling the 1947 ‘Doctor’s Pact’: Non-European Unity and the Production of a Nationalist History Jon Soske
Chapter 7. The Politics of Language and the reporting of Chief Albert Luthuli’s funeral 30 July 1967 Liz Gunner
Chapter 8. Robben Island University Revisited Crain Soudien
Chapter 9. Shishita: A Crisis in the ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1980-1981 Hugh Macmillan
Chapter 10. Comrade Mzwai Vladimir Shubin
Chapter 11. Revisiting Sekhukhuneland: Trajectories of Former UDF Activists in Post-Apartheid South Africa Ineke van Kessel
Chapter 12. Regeneration of ANC Political Power, from the 1994 Electoral Victory to the 2012 Centenary Susan Booysen
Chapter 13. The ANC: Party Vanguard of the Black Middle Class? Roger Southall
Chapter 14. Globalisation, Recolonisation and the Paradox of Liberation in Southern Africa John S. Saul

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(digital) The People’s Paper
240 x 170 mm A Centenary History and Anthology of Abantu-Batho
592 pp
Edited by Peter Limb
Illustrated
Soft cover
September 2012 This much-awaited volume uncovers the long-lost pages of
the major African multi-lingual newspaper, Abantu-Batho.
Founded in 1912 by African National Congress convener Pixley
Seme, with assistance from the Swazi Queen, it was published
until 1931, attracting the cream of African politicians,
journalists, and poets S.E.K Mqhayi, Nontsizi Mgqwetho
and Robert Grendon. In its pages burning issues of the day
were articulated alongside cultural by-ways. Comprising
both essays on and texts from the paper, it explores the
complex movements and individuals that emerged. The essays
contribute rich, new material to provide clearer insights into
South African politics and intellectual life. The Anthology
unveils a judicious selection of never-before-published
columns from the paper spanning every year of its life, drawn
from repositories on three continents. Abantu-Batho also
CONTENTS
Preface Les Switzer
PART 1 ESSAYS
Introduction: A Centenary History of Abantu-Batho: The People’s
Paper Peter Limb
Chapter 1. ‘Only the Bolder Spirits’: Politics, Racism, Solidarity,
and War in Abantu-Batho Peter Limb
Chapter 2. ‘They Must Go to the Bantu Batho’:
Economics and Education, Religion and Gender, Love
and Leisure in the People’s Paper Peter Limb
FOUNDERS AND EDITORS
Chapter 3. Pixley Seme and Abantu-Batho Chris Saunders
Chapter 4. Queen Labotsibeni and Her Role in Abantu-Batho:
Gendering African Newspaper History Sarah Mkhonza
Chapter 5. ‘We of Abantu-Batho’: Robert Grendon’s Brief and
Controversial Editorship Grant Christison
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A fascinating and … pioneering volume. For the first time the story of
the Abantu-Batho newspaper is told here, based on a massive amount
of research. The book not only tells the story of a key newspaper, but
also sheds entirely new light on the early history of the ANC and the
hitherto largely neglected social, economic and political history of
Africans on the Rand. An important, radical voice had been missing:
had a regional and international focus, and by examining all
here it is restored. A timely and salutary reminder of the struggles in
these dynamics across boundaries and disciplines the book
the face of great odds to expose and to challenge the injustices of
transcends established historiographical frontiers to fill a
early twentieth century South Africa.
lacuna that scholars have long lamented.
— Brian Willan, Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Rhodes University
Distinguished historians and literary scholars, together
with exciting young scholars, plumb the lives and ideas of
Once this material is in the public domain, it will be impossible to
editors, writers, readers and allied movements. Sharing
write about this era of popular politics in South Africa without making
the considerable interest in the ANC centenary, this unique
reference to Abantu-Batho and the key role it played. The many gems
book will have a strong appeal and secure audience among
in this book peel away the layers in the story of the paper. It deals
all interested in history, politics, culture, literature, gender,
with a much occluded aspect of South African politics, history and
biography and journalism studies, from academics and
culture about which many scholars have commented over the years
students to a general public interested in knowing about this
but which no one has addressed.
early ANC newspaper, its people and the stories that once
— Heather Hughes, Principal Teaching Fellow, University of Lincoln
captivated South Africans.
THEMES AND CONNECTIONS
Chapter 6. Swazi Royalty, the Founding of Abantu-Batho,
and Pan-Ethnic Nationalism in the Early South
African Native National Congress Chris Lowe
Chapter 7. Abantu-Batho and the Xhosa Poets Jeff Opland
Chapter 8. African Royalty, Popular History, and Abantu-Batho
Sifiso Ndlovu & Peter Limb
Chapter 9. ‘Johannesburg in Flames’: The 1918 Shilling Campaign,
Peter Limb is Associate Professor and Africana
Abantu-Batho, and Early African Nationalism in
South Africa Paul S. Landau Bibliographer at Michigan State University. He has
Chapter 10. Garveyism, Abantu-Batho and the Radicalisation of the written widely on South African history. His recent
African National Congress during the 1920s books include A. B. Xuma’s Autobiography and
Robert Vinson Selected Essays and Correspondence (2012), The
Chapter 11. An African Newspaper in Central Johannesburg: The ANC’s Early Years (2010), Grappling with the Beast
Journalistic and Associational Context of Abantu-Bantu
(2010), and Nelson Mandela: A Biography (2008).
Peter Limb
Conclusion Assessing the Decline and Legacy of Abantu-Bantu
Peter Limb
PART 2 ANTHOLOGY
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(digital) Ekurhuleni
200 x 240 mm The Making of an Urban Region
272 pp
Illustrated Philip Bonner and Noor Nieftagodien
Soft cover
September 2012 Ekurhuleni - The Making of an Urban Region is the first academic
work to provide an historical account and explanation of the
development of this extended region to the east of Johannesburg
since its origins at the end of the nineteenth century. From the time
of the discovery of gold and coal until the turn of the twenty-first
century, the region comprised a number of distinctive towns, all
with their own histories. In 2000, these towns were amalgamated
into a single metropolitan area, but, unlike its counterparts across
the country, it does not cohere around a single identity.
Drawing on a significant body of academic work as well as
original research by the authors, the book traces and examines
some of the salient historical strands that constituted what
was formerly known as the East Rand and suggests that,
notwithstanding important differences between towns and the
racial fragmentation generated by apartheid, the region’s history
contains significant common features. Arguably, its centrality as a
major mining area and then as the country’s engineering heartland
gave Ekurhuleni an overarching distinctive economic character.
Phil Bonner is Professor of History at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg, where he holds the National Research Foundation (NRF) Chair in
Local Histories and Present Realities. He was historical consultant to and executive
producer of a six-part documentary television series entitled Soweto: A History, which
was screened on Channel 4 in Britain, on SBS in Australia and SABC TV 1 in South
Africa to considerable critical acclaim. He was co-curator of the Apartheid Museum
in Johannesburg. Bonner has published widely on urban and labour history. His most
recent book, co-authored with Noor Nieftagodien, is Alexandra: A History.
Noor Nieftagodien serves as the Deputy Chair of the History Workshop and is
Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. His most recent book is Alexandra: A History, co-authored with Phil
Bonner. He serves on the board of the South African History Archives. His primary area
of research is on liberation movements and local, urban history. He is currently writing
the histories of Orlando West (Soweto), the Vaal Triangle and the Chemical, Electricity,
Paper, Plastic and Allied Workers’ Union.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Origins and early days

Chapter 2 Class struggle
Chapter 3. Black Ekurhuleni, 1890-1927
Chapter 4. Ekurhuleni’s insubordinate women, 1918-1945
Chapter 5. Social worlds and social strains in industrialising Ekurhuleni
Chapter 6. Squatter camps and immigrant culture
Chapter 7. Politics
Chapter 8. Consolidating apartheid and the black response
Chapter 9. Making of a modern economy
Chapter 10. Reshaping the urban landscape
Chapter 11. The student movement of 1976
Chapter 12. Ekurhuleni and the struggle against apartheid
Chapter 13. A time of insurrection
Chapter 14. Politics of the stalemate
Chapter 15. The politics of transition
Chapter 16. City of fragments
Chapter 17. Informal and contentious city

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Orlando West, Soweto
240 x 210 mm An Illustrated History
200 pp
Full colour Noor Nieftagodien and Sally Gaule
photographic
section
Soft cover
Until the end of the First World War, urban growth in Johannesburg
proceeded unevenly and haphazardly, but under the impact of a
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wave of militant struggles by black workers and in the context of
the devastating impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the state
became determined to better manage the movement of Africans into
the urban areas and to place them in properly controlled locations.
The promulgation of the Native (Urban) Areas Act of 1923 was
intended to meet these objectives. The Act was a hybrid piece of
legislation. On the one hand, it espoused the principles enunciated
by the Stallard Commission of 1922, which had infamously declared
that an African ‘should only be allowed into the urban areas, which
are essentially the white man’s creation, when he is willing to enter
and minister to the needs of the white man, and should depart
therefrom when he ceases so to minister’. On the other hand,
when it empowered local authorities to set aside land for black
residential purposes, it recognised the need to create conditions
for the settlement of an urban African population in order to
provide a reliable supply of labour to secondary industry.
The growing demand for housing led the government to
establish Orlando (named after the chairman of the Native Affairs
Noor Nieftagodien serves as the Deputy Chair of the History Workshop and is
Senior Lecturer in the History Department at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. His most recent book is Alexandra: A History, co-authored with
Phil Bonner. He serves on the board of the South African History Archives. His
primary area of research is on liberation movements and local, urban history. He
is currently writing the histories of Orlando West (Soweto), the Vaal Triangle and
the Chemical, Electricity, Paper, Plastic and Allied Workers’ Union.
Sally Gaule is Senior Lecturer in the School of Architecture and Planning at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She teaches, researches and
Committee, Edwin Orlando Leake) in 1931, when thousands of practices photography. The core of her research explores the overlaps between
African families were evicted from urban slums in and around architecture, photography and urbanism. She has held photographic exhibitions
the city centre and moved there. The authorities described this on the built environment of Johannesburg and is currently working on an
as a ‘model native township’ that was supposedly planned exhibition on the demise of Johannesburg’s Top Star Drive-In. She is a member of
along the lines of a garden city. The new location, it promised, the photographic advisory board at Museum Africa.
would be characterised by tree-lined streets, business
opportunities and recreation facilities. Reflecting the views of
a somewhat conservative section of the African urban elite, the
popular African newspaper Bantu World predicted on 14 May
1932 that the new township ‘will undoubtedly be somewhat
of a paradise [that] will enhance the status of the Bantu within
the ambit of progress and civilisation.’
Orlando West, Soweto illuminates the genesis of Orlando
township and its well-known subsequent history, which is
inextricably linked with the lives of prominent South Africans
such as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, amongst many
others. A beautiful photographic essay complements the
testimony from residents, who describe the way things were,
and the way they are now, in the heart of Soweto, South
Africa’s most iconic African township.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Origins
Chapter 2. Right to the City
Chapter 3. Place of Defiance
Chapter 4. Uncertain Times
Chapter 5. Good Times
Chapter 6. Work and Education
Chapter 7. Inspired by Black Consciousness
Chapter 8. The Students Uprising
Chapter 9. Making of a Middle Class
Chapter 10. Making a Revolution
Chapter 11. Photo Essay on Vilakazi Street

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176 pp
Black and white Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign
illustrations
Soft cover War Resistance in Apartheid South Africa

June 2012 Daniel Conway

Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign

explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa’s
militarisation and analyses the defiance of compulsory military
service by individual white men, and the anti-apartheid activism of
the white men and women in the End Conscription Campaign (ECC),
the most significant white anti-apartheid movement to happen
in South Africa. Military conscription and objection to it are
conceptualised as gendered acts of citizenship and premised on
and constitutive of masculinities. Conway draws upon a range of
materials and disciplines to produce this socio-political study.
Sources include interviews with white men who objected to
military service in the South African Defence Force (SADF);
archival material, including military intelligence surveillance of
the ECC and ECC campaigning material, press reports and other
pro-state propaganda.
The analysis is informed by perspectives in sociology,
international relations, history and from work on contemporary
militarised societies such as those in Israel and Turkey. This
book also explores the interconnections between militarisation,
sexuality, race, homophobia and political authoritarianism.
This book is essential reading for scholars and students
interested in South African liberation history, militarisation,
gender, conscientious objection and peace activism. It will appeal
across disciplines of International Relations, Sociology, Politics
and History.

Daniel Conway is Lecturer in Politics at Loughborough University CONTENTS

Introduction
Chapter 1. Soldiers, citizens and strangers
Chapter 2. The militarisation of South Africa and the growth
of war resistance
Chapter 3. Performing citizenship, engendering consent:
constructing militarised
masculinities and citizenship in South Africa
Chapter 4. ‘Going the right way’: contesting conscription
Chapter 5. Breaking away: the End Conscription Campaign
Chapter 6. ‘Every coward’s choice’?: responses to
war resistance
Conclusion

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uKhahlamba Prickly Pear

Umlando wezintaba zoKhahlamba/ The Social History of a Plant in the Eastern Cape
History of the Ukhahlamba Mountains
William Beinart and Luvuyo Wotshela
John Wright and Aron Mazel
The book uses the history of one plant to traverse an exceptionally wide historical and social
terrain. Anyone curious about South African history will find the connections it makes – across
The uKhahlamba mountains have been the home of many different groups of people for a very
space and time, and between people – fascinating and remarkable.
long time. Small groups of hunter-gatherers began living in rock shelters there at least 27 000
— Jonny Steinberg, author of Midlands and Three Letter Plague
years ago. Their descendants were San people who still lived there as recently as a hundred
years ago. About 600 years ago, groups of African farmers began building their villages near the
While there are many studies of the global influence of crops and plants, this is perhaps the first
foothills and grazing their cattle into the mountains. From the 1840s, European settlers in the
social history based around a plant in South Africa. Plants are not quite historical actors in their
colony of Natal began laying out farms for sheep and cattle in the foothills of the mountains.
own right, but their properties and potential help to shape human history. In turn, the trail of
They drove out the San, and brought the African farmers under their domination. In the twentieth
prickly pear in South Africa has been profoundly affected by the plant’s biological characteristics.
century the settlers and their descendants began to use the land for purposes besides farming,
This book explains why plants such as prickly pear were not peripheral to many people in the
especially for developing tourism and leisure activities, and supplying water for industry.
Eastern Cape, and why a wild, and sometimes invasive, plant from Mexico remains important to
Africans became labourers on the farms and in South Africa’s towns and cities.
African women, such as Nowinile Ngcengele, in shacks and small towns.
UKhahlamba tells about the coming of these different peoples to the mountains, and
The central tension at the heart of this social history concerns different and sometimes
describes the different ways of life that they established, sometimes peacefully, sometimes
conflicting human views of prickly pear. Some accepted or enjoyed its presence while others
violently. It is an abbreviated version of Tracks in a Mountain Range (Wright and Mazel) and is
wished to eradicate it. The plant, as the book illustrates, became a scourge to commercial
published in dual format in English and isiZulu.
livestock farmers. But for impoverished rural and small town communities of the Eastern Cape,
it was a godsend. In some places it still provides a significant income for poor black families and
John Wright retired from lecturing in history at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in
especially for women. Debates about prickly pear have played out in unexpected ways over the
Pietermaritzburg at the end of 2005. He now lives in Johannesburg, and has honorary research 978 186814 528 7
last century and more.
posts in the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, the School of (print)
Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and the Archive and Public Culture Research
Initiative at the University of Cape Town. He is the co-editor of The James Stuart Archive of 978 1 86814 685 7
William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations and Director of Graduate Studies at the
Recorded Oral Evidence Relating to the History of the Zulu and Neighbouring Peoples (5 (digital)
African Studies Centre, St Antony’s College, Oxford University. Luvuyo Wotshela is an academic
volumes, in progress). Aron D. Mazel teaches at the International Centre for Cultural and
at the University of Fort Hare, Eastern Cape.
Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, UK. Posts he has held include Assistant Director of the 220 x 200 mm 978 1 86814 530 0
Natal Museum in Pietermaritzburg and Director of the South African Cultural History Museum in 96 pp (print)
Cape Town. Since 1979 he has undertaken extensive archaeological research into the hunter- Full colour, illustrated
gatherer history of the Thukela basin and the rock art of the Drakensberg. Other research Soft cover 978 1 86814 664 2
interests include the management and interpretation of tangible and intangible heritage (digital)
resources and the history of South African museums. May 2012
240 x 170 mm
CONTENTS 240 pp
CONTENTS Illustrated
Isandulelo Preface Soft cover
Isahluko Soku-1: Izintaba kanye nabaxoximlando Chapter 1: The mountains and the story-tellers Chapter 1. Prickly Pear, Brewing and Local Knowledge in the Eastern Cape, 2000-2006
Isahluko Sesi-2: Abazingeli-Abacosheli (kudla) kanye Chapter 2: Hunter-gatherers and farmers in the mountains Chapter 2. The Spread of Prickly Pear, 1750-1900 2011
nabalimi eziNtabeni Chapter 3: The Rock Paintings of the uKhahlamba Chapter 3. Early Debates about the Control of Prickly Pear
Isahluko Sesi-3: Imidwebo emadwaleni asoKhahlamba Chapter 4: A century of big changes: 1770s to 1870s Chapter 4. Experiments with Cactus in the Cape, a Miracle Fodder? 1900-1930
Isahluko SesiI-4: Ikhulunyaka loshintsho olukhulu, Chapter 5: The establishment of colonial rule in the mountains: Chapter 5. Eradicating an Invader: Entomologists, Cactoblastis and Cochineal, 1930-1960
iminyaka ye-1770 kuya eminyakeni ye-1870 1870 to 1900 Chapter 6. The Multi-Purpose Plant, 1950-2006
Isahluko SesiI-5: Ukuzinza komBuso wamaKoloni eziNtabeni: Chapter 6: ‘Modernisation’ comes to the mountains: Chapter 7. Scientists and the Re-evaluation of Cactus for Fodder and Fruit, 1960-2006
1870-1900 1890 to the present Chapter 8. Afrikaners and the Cultural Revival of Prickly Pear
Isahluko SesiI-6: Ukufika ‘kwempucuko’ ezintabeni, kusukela
Chapter 9. Conclusion: Back to the Brewers
ngonyaka we-1890 kuze kube yimanje

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(digital) Fight for Democracy
The African National Congress and the Media in South Africa
220 x 150 mm
304 pp
Illustrated Glenda Daniels
Soft cover
September 2012 Fight for Democracy is a penetrating and critical scrutiny of
the ANC’s treatment of the print media since the inception of
democracy in 1994. In this book, Glenda Daniels does not hide
behind a veil of detachment, but instead makes a passionate
argument for the view that newspapers and journalists play a
significant role in the deepening of democratic principles.
Daniels’ study goes to the heart of current debates and asks
why the ANC, given its stated commitment to the democratic
objectives of the Constitution, is so ambivalent about the freedom
of the media. What would be the consequences of a revised media
policy on democracy in South Africa, and at what cost to freedom
of expression?
Daniels examines the pattern of paranoia that has crept
into public discourse about the media and the ANC, and the
conflictual relationship between the two. She argues that the ANC’s
understanding of democracy, transformation and development
entails (amongst other things) the rallying of the nation behind its
leadership as the premier liberation movement and democratically
elected representative of the majority while morally coercing black
journalists and professionals into loyalty. Daniels challenges the
dominant ANC view that journalists are against transformation and
that they take instruction from the owners of the media houses; in
short that they are ‘enemies of the people’.
Fight for Democracy is a timely publication in the context of the
impending clampdown on media freedom and the twin threats of
the Protection of State Information Bill (Secrecy Bill) and the
Media Appeals Tribunal, both of which signify closures in South
Africa’s democracy.
Written in a polemical style, this is a work of activism that
will be essential reading for the informed public as well as those
working in Journalism and Media Studies. It should interest
all democrats, members of political organisations as well as
academics and Right2Know activists, locally and internationally.
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book publication. moment in South African history. The power relations between the two
institutions – media and government – are strained and require careful
THE ANC AND MEDIA IN SOUTH AFRICA examination and reflection in order for society to benefit.
This book highlights the need for critical and reflexive analysis of
CONTENTS this relationship, and its overt advocacy certainly makes for
compelling reading.
Introduction: The ANC and the Media Post-Apartheid
—Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, School of Communication, University
Chapter 1. The Relationship between the Media
and Democracy of Johannesburg
Chapter 2. Media’s Challenges: Legislation and
Commercial Imperatives In a world where the media plays such a powerful role as a watchdog,
Chapter 3. Race, Identity and ‘The Media’ guardian and disseminator of information, that not only influences
Chapter 4. Freedom of Expression: the Case of Zapiro public opinion, but in essence shapes our morality, it is essential that
Chapter 5. Social Fantasy: the ANC’s Gaze and the Media the individuals and groups who are affected be assured that this role is
Appeals Tribunal
performed with utmost integrity and full accountability. [T]o strengthen
Chapter 6. The Sunday Times: Mondli versus the former
Minister of Health, Manto and support constitutional democracy in South Africa, the need for a
Chapter 7. What is ‘Developmental Journalism’? free and independent, but accountable and responsible media, is not
Chapter 8. Concluding Reflections: Where is negotiable.
Democracy Headed? —Thuli Madonsela, Public Protector, in The Daily Maverick
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Radio in Africa Being Nuclear

Publics, Cultures, Communities Africans and the Global Uranium Trade
Edited by Liz Gunner, Dina Ligaga and Dumisani Moyo Gabrielle Hecht

Radio has been called ‘Africa’s medium’. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors,
including the liberalisation policies of the ‘third wave’ of democracy and its ability to transcend
the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low literacy
levels. This sets it apart from other media platforms in facilitating political debate, shaping
identities and assisting listeners as they negotiate the challenges of everyday life on the
continent. producing countries, to the select society of nuclear states? Does uranium itself count as a
Radio in Africa breaks new ground by bringing together essays on the multiple roles of radio
in the lives of listeners in Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone Africa. Some essays turn to
the history of radio and its part in the culture and politics of countries such as Angola and South
Africa. Others – such as the essay on Mali, gender and religion – show how radio throws up new
tensions yet endorses social innovation and the making of new publics. A number of essays
look to radio’s current role in creating listening communities that radically shift the nature of the
public sphere. Essays on the genre of the talk show in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa point to
radio’s role in creating a robust public sphere. Radio’s central role in the emergence of informed
publics in fragile national spaces is covered in essays on the Democratic Republic of Congo
and Somalia. The book also highlights radio’s links to the new media, its role in resistance to
oppressive regimes such as Zimbabwe, and points in several cases – for example in the essay on
Uganda – to the importance of African languages in building modern communities that embrace
both local and global knowledge.
Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons,
including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2002, George W. Bush claimed that Saddam
Hussein had ‘sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa’ (later specified as the
infamous ‘yellowcake from Niger’). Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium,
a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa’s other uranium-
nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for
something – a state, an object, an industry, a workplace – to be ‘nuclear’.
Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear – a state that she calls ‘nuclearity’ – lie at
the heart of today’s global nuclear order and the relationships between ‘developing nations’
(often former colonies) and ‘nuclear powers’ (often former colonisers). Nuclearity, she says, is
not a straightforward scientific classification but a contested technopolitical one.
Hecht follows uranium’s path out of Africa and describes the invention of the global uranium
market. She then enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard
of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines)
its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured?
With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in
Africa. Doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age.

Gabrielle Hecht is Professor of History at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The
Liz Gunner is Visiting Professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) Radiance of France: Nuclear Power and National Identity after World War II and the editor of
and Dina Ligaga a lecturer in the Department of Media Studies, both at the University of the 978 1 86814 550 8 Entangled Geographies: Empire and Technopolitics in the Global Cold War, both published by 978 1 86814 563 8
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Dumisani Moyo is Research and Publications Manager at the (print) MIT Press. (print)
Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa.
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Contributors: (digital) 440 pp
Wisdom J. Tettey Liz Gunner Illustrated
CONTENTS
Christopher Joseph Odhiambo Stephanie Wolters 235 x 155mm Soft cover
Dumisani Moyo Tanja Bosch 368 pp PART 1 PROLIFERATING MARKETS PART 2 NUCLEAR BODIES
Dorothea E. Schulz Maria Frahm-Arp Soft cover Chapter 1. Imperial Projections and Market Chapter 7. The Nuclear Life of Radon • June 2012
Scott Straus Stephen R. Davis Devices • 1940-1976 1940-1976
December 2011 Chapter 2. Capitalism and Colonialism • Britain, Chapter 8. Transluscent Exposures • With MIT Press
Winston Mano Marissa J. Moorman
Namibia, and South Africa, 1968-75 Madagascar & Gabon, 1952-1975
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi David Smith Rights: Southern Africa only
Chapter 3. The Price of Sovereignty • Niger and Chapter 9. Devices of Exposures • Instrumentation
David B. Coplan Monica B. Chibita With James Currey Publishers Gabon, 1970-1982 and regulation, 1975-2001
Dina Ligaga Rights: Africa only Chapter 4. Market Borders • Enframing Chapter 10. Invisible Exposures • South Africa,
International Trade, 1975-1985 1952-2001
Chapter 5. Trials and Performances • Chapter 11. Hopes for the Radiated Body •
South Africa & Namibia, 1970-1990 Namibia, 1976-2001
Chapter 6. The Yellowcake Road • Conclusion to Conclusion Uranium from Africa
Proliferating Markets

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224 pp
The AIDS Conspiracy
Soft cover Science Fights Back
May 2012 Nicoli Nattrass

With Columbia Since the early days of the AIDS epidemic, many bizarre and
University Press dangerous hypotheses have been advanced as to the origins of
Rights: Southern the disease. In this compelling book, Nicoli Nattrass explores the
Africa only social and political factors prolonging the erroneous belief that the
American government manufactured the human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV) to be used as a biological weapon, as well as the myth’s
consequences for behavior, especially within African American and
black South African communities. Nicoli Nattrass is Director of the AIDS and Society
Contemporary AIDS denialism, the belief that HIV is harmless A rigorous and illuminating investigation Research Unit at the University of Cape Town
and that antiretroviral drugs are the true cause of AIDS, is a more into the anatomy of AIDS conspiracies, and is visiting Professor at Yale University. She
insidious AIDS conspiracy theory. Advocates of this position make this book ought to be read by anybody is a recognised expert on the political economy
a ‘conspiratorial move’ against HIV science by implying its methods interested in the relationship between of antiretroviral treatment. Her research has
cannot be trusted, and that untested, alternative therapies science and ordinary people. helped change South African AIDS policy, and her
are safer than antiretrovirals. These claims are genuinely life- —Jonny Steinberg, author of Three Letter current work on AIDS denialism and conspiracy
threatening, as tragically demonstrated in South Africa when the Plague and Sizwe’s Test: A Young Man’s theories has informed the work of AIDS scientists
delay of antiretroviral treatment resulted in nearly 333,000 AIDS Journey through Africa’s AIDS Epidemic and activists across the globe. She is the author
deaths and 180,000 HIV infections that could have been prevented of Class, Race and Inequality in South Africa
– a tragedy of stunning proportion. co-authored with Jeremy Seekings and Mortal
Nattrass identifies four symbolically powerful figures ensuring Combat: AIDS Denialism and the Struggle for
the lifespan of AIDS denialism: the hero scientist (dissident Antiretrovirals in South Africa.
scientists who lend credibility to the movement), the cultropreneur
(alternative therapists who exploit the conspiratorial move as a
marketing mechanism), the living icon (individuals who claim to be
living proof of AIDS denialism’s legitimacy) and the praise-singer
(journalists who broadcast movement messages to the public).
Nattrass describes how pro-science activists have fought back by
deploying empirical evidence and political credibility to resist AIDS
conspiracy theories, which is part of the crucial project to defend
evidence-based medicine.

CONTENTS
Chapter 1. The conspiratorial move against HIV science and its consequences
Chapter 2. Aids origin conspiracy theories in the United States and South Africa
Chapter 3. Who believes AIDS conspiracy theories and why leadership matters
Chapter 4. Science, politics, and credibility: David Gilbert fights AIDS conspiracy beliefs in US prisons
Chapter 5. Science, conspiracy theory, and the South African AIDS policy tragedy
Chapter 6. Hero scientists, cultropreneurs, living icons, and praise-singers: AIDS denialism as community
Chapter 7. Defending the imprimatur of science: Duesberg and the medical hypotheses saga
Chapter 8. The conspiratorial move and the struggle for evidence-based medicine

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Sonic Spaces of the Karoo Exorcising the Demons Within

The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Community
Marie Jorritsma
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo represents a mature and intellectually aggressive treatment of a
musical and cultural soundscape rarely tackled. The author has crafted a truly unique treatment
of a musical culture that draws on deeply situated academic arguments ... [t]his book will be
widely read and will appeal to a broad intellectual audience.
—Gregory Barz, Blair School of Music
... a significant contribution not only to South African music studies but also to African
studies generally – and gender and identity studies. The book foregrounds a marginal and
disempowered community, enhancing our awareness of an area of South Africa’s cultural history
that was sorely neglected. More, it is a good ethnography, raising macro issues (politics, culture,
identity, gender, race, belief, power, ideology) out of what is essentially a micro study of a small
group of women and a limited repertoire of music.
—Christine Lucia, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Sonic Spaces of the Karoo is a pioneering study of the sacred music of three coloured people’s
church congregations in the rural town of Graaff-Reinet. Jorritsma’s fieldwork involves an
investigation of the choruses, choir music and hymns of the Karoo region to present a history of
the people’s traditional, religious and cultural identity in song. This music is examined as part
of a living archive preserved by the community in the face of a legacy of slavery and colonial as
well as apartheid oppression. Jorritsma’s findings counteract a lingering stereotype that coloured
music is inferior to European or African music and that coloured people should not or do not have
978 1 86814 548 5
a cultural identity. Sonic Spaces of the Karoo seeks to eradicate that bias and articulate a more
(print)
legitimate place for these people in the contemporary landscape of South Africa.
Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary
South Africa
Edited by Loren B. Landau
On 11 May 2008, residents of Alexandra Township turned violently on their neighbours, launching
a string of attacks that, two weeks later, left 60 dead, dozens raped and over a hundred thousand
displaced. Although not the most severe political violence in South Africa’s turbulent past, the
2008 attacks reflect an important moment in the country’s post-apartheid, post-authoritarian
existence: a moment when the government’s legitimacy and the post-apartheid order were called
into question.
It is these events and subsequent consequences for the ordering of power, population and
place that this book explores. Exorcising the Demons Within makes sense of recent anti-outsider
violence by situating it within an extended history of South African statecraft that both produced
the conditions for the attacks and has been reshaped by it. Drawing on an interdisciplinary team
of expert scholars and on new research, this is the first academic text to fully theorise the events
that made global headlines in 2008. Through its subtle, empirical and theoretically informed
analysis, the book reshapes discussion of xenophobia and violence in South Africa while injecting
local debates into global considerations of the meaning of citizenship and the post-colonial state.
Loren B. Landau is a political scientist by training and Director of the African Centre for
Migration and Society (ACMS) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is
the author of The Humanitarian Hangover: Displacement, Aid and Transformation in Western
Tanzania (2008) and has written extensively on sovereignty, humanitarianism and mobility in
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Southern and Eastern Africa.
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Marie Jorritsma completed her doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia in 2006
216 pp (digital)
and is currently a Senior Lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Her
Illustrated Loren Landau Jonathan Klaaren
research has appeared in accredited journals, African Music and South African Music Studies. Citizenship, Xenophobic Violence and Law’s Dark Side
Soft cover Introduction: Exorcising the Demons Within: Xenophobia, 235 x 155 mm
Her monograph, Sonic Spaces of the Karoo: The Sacred Music of a South African Coloured Violence, and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa
Darshan Vigneswaran 296 pp
Community (2011) is co-published with Temple University. Last year, Marie was awarded
January 2012 Tamlyn Monson and Rebecca Arian ‘Separation Anxiety’: The Historical Origins of Soft cover
the prestigious Friedel Sellschop fellowship for young researchers at the University of the
Media Memory: A Critical Reconstruction of the May Xenophobia in the SAPS
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 2008 Violence
With Temple University Press Tamlyn Monson February 2012
Rights: Southern Africa only Christine Fauvelle-Aymar and Aurelia Wa Kabwe-Segatti Making the Law; Breaking the Law; Taking the Law into
CONTENTS People, Space and Politics: An Exploration of Factors Ex- Our Own Hands: Sovereignty and Territorial Control in With United Nations
plaining the 2008 Anti-Foreigner Violence in South Africa Three South African Settlements University Press
Chapter 1. Introduction: The Challenges of Inscribing Coloured Voices
Chapter 2. Karoo People and Places Jean Pierre Misago Tara Polzer and Aurelia Wa Kabwe-Segatti Rights: Africa only
Chapter 3. Hidden Transcripts: How Hymns Reveal History Disorder in a Changing Society: Authority and the Micro- From Defending Migrant Rights to New Political Subjec-
Chapter 4. Senzeni na: Interrelationships Between the Music of Mission and Independent Politics of Violence tivities: Gauteng Migrants’ Organisations After May 2008
African Church Denominations Noor Nieftagodien Loren Landau
Chapter 5. Singing the ‘Queen’s English’: Church Choirs in Kroonvale Xenophobia’s Local Genesis: Historical Constructions Postscript: Demons and Democracy: Positive Values and
Chapter 6. Mothers of the Church: Women’s Society Music and the Politics of Gender of ‘Insiders’/‘Outsiders’ and the Politics of Exclusion in the Politics of Outsiderness in Contemporary South Africa
Chapter 7. Conclusion: Reflections on Karoo Sonic Spaces Alexandra Township

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526 pp The EU and Africa
Soft cover
From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa
June 2012
Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman
With Hurst & Co.
Rights: Southern
Africa only In the high imperial period from the nineteenth century, some in
Europe advocated the idea of ‘Eurafrique’ – a formula for putting
Africa’s resources at the disposal of Europe’s industries. After
tracing Europe’s historical attempts to remodel relations following
African independence from the 1960s and Europe’s own quest for
unity, the book examines the current strategic dimensions of the
relationship, especially the place of Africa in Europe’s own need for
global partnerships. Key issues are then analysed, from trade and
investment to the growing priorities of security and governance,
offering case histories of the role of key European players in Africa
– France, Britain, Portugal and the Nordics – within the context of
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Kaye Whiteman
PART 1 AFRICA AND EUROPE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
The Rise and Fall of Eurafrique: From the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to the Tripoli EU-Africa Summit of 2010 Kaye Whiteman
Paradise Lost and Found: The African Union and the European Union Adekeye Adebajo
PART 2 POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND STRATEGIC DIMENSIONS
Regional Integration in Africa: Lessons From Europe? Adebayo Adedeji
Europe, Africa, and Aid: Towards A Genuine Partnership Rob de Vos
South Africa and the EU: Where Lies the Strategic Partnership? Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott
The EU, the Maghreb, and the Mediterranean George Joffé
The EU and Asia: Lessons for Africa? Shada Islam
PART 3 TRADE, INVESTMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT
Global Africa: The Last Investment Frontier? Liam Halligan
An Anatomy of the Economic Partnership Agreements Mareike Meyn
Africa and Europe: Ending A Dialogue of the Deaf? Gilbert Khadiagala
A Critique of the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy Charles Mutasa
the European Union. The volume concludes by examining issues of
migration and identity, especially in view of Europe’s controversial
immigration policies and complex relations with the Maghreb
and Mediterranean, as well as perceptions of past and current
European identity.
The study concludes that Africa and Europe still appear not
to have fully escaped the burdens of history, and examines the
feasibility of elaborating and practising, in future, an ‘Afro-Europa’:
a new relationship of genuine equality, partnership, and mutual
self-interest between both continents that sheds the baggage of
the ‘Eurafrique’ past.
Adekeye Adebajo is an accomplished scholar who has authored
and edited three books on peace and conflict issues in Africa.
He is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution
(CCR), a top-rated global think-tank based in Cape Town.
Adebajo was Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School
of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Director of the
Africa Programme of the New York-based International Peace
Academy (IPA), a research and policy development institute. He
has served on UN missions to South Africa, Western Sahara and
Iraq. His most recent publication is The Curse of Berlin: Africa
After the Cold War (2010).
Kaye Whiteman is a journalist and writer specialising in
West African affairs but with wider interests in Europe-Africa
relations and international relations. A graduate in History
from the University of Oxford, he was Deputy Editor of West
Africa magazine before moving to the European Commission in
Brussels where he dealt with development issues, especially
in Africa. He is currently a London-based Editorial Adviser to
Business Day (Nigeria) and writes for numerous publications
such as The Guardian, The Annual Register, Afrique Asie and
Geopolitique Africaine. He is also a Research Associate at the
School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).

PART 4 SECURITY AND GOVERNANCE

AU/EU Security and Governance Cooperation Garth le Pere
The EU Security Role in the Great Lakes Region Aldo Ajello
The EU Security Role in Chad and the Central African Republic Winrich Kühne

PART 5 THE EU/AFRICA POLICIES OF FRANCE, BRITAIN, PORTUGAL, AND THE NORDICS
France, the EU, and Africa Douglas A. Yates
Britain, the EU, and Africa Paul D. Williams
Portugal, the EU, and Africa Alex Vines
The Nordics, the EU, and Africa Anne Hammerstad

PART 6 MIGRATION AND IDENTITY

Migration and ‘Fortress Europe’ Andrew Geddes
The Black Atlantic From Othello to Obama: In Search of A Post-Racial Society Ali A. Mazrui
Europe’s Post-Colonial Role and Identity Hartmut Mayer

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360 pp Region-building in Southern Africa
Soft cover
Progress, Problems and Prospects
April 2012
Chris Saunders, Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa and Dawn Nagar
With Zed Books
Rights: Southern How successful have southern African states been in dealing with
Africa only the major issues that have faced the region in recent years? What
can be done to produce more cohesive and effective region-
building in southern Africa?
This original and wide-ranging volume, which draws on an
interdisciplinary team of African and African-based specialists,
addresses the key political, socio-economic and security
challenges facing southern Africa today. These include HIV/AIDS,
migration and xenophobia, land grabbing and climate change,
and the role of the UN, the EU, the USA, China and other external
actors in the region. It also looks at the Southern African Customs
Union, development finance institutions, and issues of gender and
peacebuilding.
In doing so, the book goes to the heart of analysing the
effectiveness of SADC and other regional organisations, suggesting
how region-building in southern Africa may be compared with
similar attempts elsewhere in Africa and other parts of the world.
CONTENTS
Foreword Adekeye Adebajo
Introduction Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa, Dawn Nagar and Chris Saunders
PART 1 HISTORICAL LEGACY
The Southern African Development Coordination
Conference and Its Approaches to African Regionalism
Gilbert Khadiagala
The Southern African Development Community:
Between Cooperation and Development: An Insider
Perspective Kaire M. Mbuende
PART 2 GOVERNANCE AND MILITARY SECURITY
SADC’s Decision-making Architecture Chris Landsberg
Elections and Conflict Management Khabele Matlosa
Peacekeeping: From the United Nations to the SADC
Standby Force Chris Saunders
Gender and Peacebuilding Elizabeth Otitodun and
Antonia Porter
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Chris Saunders is Emeritu­s Professor in
the Historical Studies at the Unviersity of
Cape Town, and a research associate at the
Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town.
Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa is Senior Researcher
at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape
Town. Dawn Nagar is a Researcher at the
Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town
PART 3 ECONOMIC INTEGRATION
Economic Integration Dawn Nagar
The Southern African Customs Union: Promoting
Stability Through Dependence Richard Gibb
South Africa’s Development Finance Institutions
David Monyae
PART 4 HUMAN SECURITY
Food Insecurity Scott Drimie and Sithabiso Gandure
HIV/AIDS and Human Security Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa
Migration and Xenophobia Francis Nyamnjoh and
Patience Mususa
Climate Change Challenges David Simon
PART 5 EXTERNAL ACTORS
The European Union Mzukisi Qobo
The United States Nomfundo Ngwenya
China Garth le Pere
Conclusion Dawn Nagar, Chris Saunders and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
This book adds to an already strong resource base for policy-
makers, planners, business leaders and scholars. It’s a smooth and
easy read!
—Simba Makoni, First Executive Secretary of the SADC
This timely and well-researched volume enriches the existing body
of literature on regionalism in southern Africa with commendable no-
nonsense clarity. It is carefully nuanced, engages the debate at more
than one register, and ought to become a primer on this subject to
academicians and practitioners alike.
—André du Pisani, The University of Namibia
This is likely to be one of the most important books of this decade
on region-building in southern Africa. I highly recommend it.
— Margaret C. Lee, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
This volume is unique: it takes a broadly Pan-African approach,
draws together reputable analysts, offers fresh perspectives on
topical issues, and provides the basis for deeper research of key
dynamics that could propel regional integration forward.
—Siphamandla Zondi, Institute for Global Dialogue, Tshwane
There has been an urgent need for an up-to-date volume on
southern Africa as a region, and for the expansive range of the
region’s concerns to be fully and sympathetically addressed. This
book will be indispensable to all who wish to understand southern
Africa and its regional dynamics.
­—Stephen Chan, The School of Oriental and African Studies, London
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Peacebuilding, Power and Politics in Africa
Soft cover
Edited by Devon Curtis and Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa
November 2012

With Ohio Peacebuilding Power and Politics in Africa is a critical reflection The volume includes on-the-ground case study chapters on
University Press on peacebuilding efforts in Africa. The tensions and contradictions Sudan, the Great Lakes Region of Africa, Sierra Leone and Liberia,
Rights: Southern in different clusters of peacebuilding activities, including peace the Niger Delta, Southern Africa, and Somalia. The authors
Africa only negotiations; statebuilding; security sector governance; and adopt a variety of approaches, but they share a conviction that
disarmament, demobilisation, and reintegration are exposed. peacebuilding in Africa is not a script that is authored solely in
Essays also address the institutional framework for peacebuilding Western capitals and in the corridors of the United Nations. Rather,
in Africa and the ideological underpinnings of key institutions, the focus on the interaction between local and global ideas and
including the African Union, NEPAD, the African Development Bank, practices in the reconstitution of authority and livelihoods after
the Pan-African Ministers Conference for Public and Civil Service, conflict. It looks at the multiple ways in which peacebuilding ideas
the UN Peacebuilding Commission, the World Bank, and the and initiatives are reinforced, questioned, reappropriated, and
Devon Curtis is Lecturer in the Department of Politics
International Criminal Court. redesigned by different African actors.
and International Studies at the University of Cambridge,
and a Fellow of Emmanuel College. Her main research
interests and publications deal with power-sharing and
governance arrangements following conflict, African rebel
CONTENTS
movements, and critical perspectives on conflict, peace
Introduction: The Contested Politics of Peacebuilding in Africa The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission: and development. She is currently writing a book about
Devon Curtis Problems and Prospects peace-building in Burundi.
Funmi Olonisakin and Eka Ikpe
PART 1 PEACEBUILDING: THEMES AND DEBATES Financing Peace? The World Bank, Reconstruction, Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa was a Senior Researcher at the
Peace as an Incentive for War and Liberal Peacebuilding
Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR) in Cape Town.
David Keen Graham Harrison
The Politics of Negotiated Settlements in an Era The International Criminal Court: A Peacebuilder Previously, he was a lecturer in the Department
of Liberal Peacebuilding in Africa? of International Relations at the University of the
Sharath Srinivasan Sarah Nouwen Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, a visiting scholar at the
Statebuilding and Governance: The Conundrums of International Peace Research Institute, Oslo, and a
Legitimacy and Local Ownership PART 3 CASE STUDIES research officer at the Centre for Defence Studies at the
Dominik Zaum Peacebuilding in the Great Lakes Region of Africa
University of Zimbabwe, Harare.
Security Sector Governance and Peacebuilding Rene Lemarchand
Eboe Hutchful Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration in
The Limits of Disarmament, Demobilization, and Southern Africa: Namibia, Angola, and Mozambique
Reintegration Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa
Paul Omach Peacebuilding Through Statebuilding in West Africa?
The Cases of Sierra Leone and Liberia
PART 2 INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGIES Comfort Ero, International Crisis Group
The Role of the African Union, New Partnership for Building Peace in Sudan: A Daunting Task
Africa’s Development, and African Development Musifiky Mwanasali
Bank in Postconflict Reconstruction and Oil and Peacebuilding in the Niger Delta
Peacebuilding Aderoju Oyefusi
Gilbert M. Khadiagala Peacebuilding Without a State: The Somali
Postconflict Peacebuilding as Statebuilding: The Experience
Case of the Pan-African Ministers Conference for Christopher Clapham
Public and Civil Service
Chris Landsberg

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978 1 86814 625 3
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Conversations with Bourdieu
The Johannesburg Moment
220 x 150 mm
248 pp Michael Burawoy and Karl von Holdt
Soft cover
February 2012 Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of
our time. His works take in education, culture, sport, literature,
painting, class, philosophy, religion, law, media, intellectuals,
methodology, photography, universities, colonialism, kinship,
schooling and politics. Not much remains outside Bourdieu’s
sociological eye. His works are widely read across disciplines and
he was one of the most prominent public intellectuals in France.
Conversations with Bourdieu presents the first comprehensive
attempt at a critical engagement with Bourdieu’s theory as
a totality. Michael Burawoy constructs a series of imaginary
conversations between Bourdieu and his nemesis – Marxism –
from which he silently borrowed so much. Starting with Marx,
and proceeding through Gramsci, Fanon, Freire, de Beauvoir
and Mills, Burawoy takes up the challenge Bourdieu presents to
Marxism, simultaneously developing a critique of Bourdieu and a
reconstruction of Marxism.
Karl von Holdt, in turn, brings these conversations to South
Africa, showing the relevance of Bourdieu’s ideas to a country he
never visited. Armed with Bourdieu, von Holdt takes up some of the
most pressing social and political issues of contemporary South
Africa: the relation between symbolic and real violence, the place
of intellectuals in public life, the intervention of gender in politics,
the grappling with race, the critique of education, the importance
of habitus, the history and future of class mobilisation, and the
legacy of the liberation struggle.
Conversations with Bourdieu pioneers a distinctive approach to
doing social theory that is neither a combat sport nor an artificial
synthesis, but a way of pushing theory to its limits through
dialogue – dialogue between theorists and dialogue between
theory and the world it represents. The book is distinctive too in
pointing towards a new global sociology consciously rooted in a
dialogue between the social realities and theoretical perspectives
of North and South. The conversations were first presented
as Mellon Lectures at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg in 2010.
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CONV ERSATIONS
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. Sociology is a Combat Sport: Bourdieu Meets
Bourdieu
Chapter 2. Theory and Practice: Marx Meets Bourdieu
Chapter 3. Cultural Domination: Gramsci Meets Bourdieu
Chapter 4. Colonialism and Revolution: Fanon Meets Bourdieu
Chapter 5. Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Freire Meets Bourdieu
Chapter 6. Antinomies of Feminism: de Beauvoir Meets
Bourdieu
Chapter 7. Intellectuals and their Publics: Mills Meets Bourdieu
Chapter 8. Homo Ludens vs. Homo Habitus: Burawoy Meets
Bourdieu
Chapter 9. Concluding Reflections
SOCIOLOGY
Michael Burawoy is a British sociologist, best known as
the author of Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the
Labour Process under Monopoly Capitalism, a study on
work and organisations that has been translated into a
number of languages. He is a world renowned proponent
of public sociology who has engaged with Marxism
through-out his career, seeking to reconstruct it in the
light of the historical challenges of the late twentieth and
early twenty-first centuries. He is a former president of
the American Sociological Association and is Professor of
Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.
Karl von Holdt is Associate Professor in the Society, Work
and Development Institute (SWOP) at the University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He formerly worked at
the National Labour, Economic and Development Institute
(NALEDI), a research unit linked to the Congress of South
African Trade Unions (COSATU). He is former editor of the
South African Labour Bulletin and author of the ground-
breaking Transition from Below: Forging Trade Unionism
and Workplace Change in South Africa (2003). He currently
serves as a Commissioner on the National Planning
Commission of South Africa.
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978 1 86814 578 2

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978 1 86814 579 9

(digital) Psychological Assessment in South Africa
245 x 168 mm Research and Applications
512 pp
Edited by Sumaya Laher and Kate Cockcroft
Soft cover
January 2013
This book provides an overview of the research related to
psychological assessment across South Africa. The thirty-six
chapters provide a combination of psychometric theory and
practical assessment applications in order to combine the
currently disparate research that has been conducted locally
in this field. Existing South African texts on psychological
assessment are predominantly academic textbooks that explain
psychometric theory and provide brief descriptions of a few
testing instruments. Psychological Assessment in South Africa
provides in-depth coverage of a range of areas within the broad
field of psychological assessment, including research conducted
with various psychological instruments. The chapters critically
interrogate the current Eurocentric and Western cultural hegemonic
practices that dominate the field of psychological assessment. The
book therefore has the potential to function both as an academic
text for graduate students, as well as a specialist resource for
professionals, including psychologists, psychometrists, remedial
teachers and human resource practitioners.
Sumaya Laher and Kate Cockcroft are Associate Professors
in the Department of Psychology at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Laher’s research interests
are in the fields of psychological assessment, in particular
personality theory and assessment, cross-cultural issues
in relation to mental health and illness, and the interface
between religion and psychology. Cockcroft conducts
research in the field of developmental cognitive psychology,
particularly intelligence, memory and language, as well as
cognitive assessment in the South African context. Both
authors have published extensively in their fields and have
been teaching psychometrics and psychological assessment
at undergraduate and postgraduate levels for over a decade.

CONTENTS
Introduction Contextualising Psychological Assessment in South Africa Sumaya Laher
and Kate Cockcroft
SECTION 1 COGNITIVE TESTS: CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
WAIS-III Test Performance in the South African Context Ann Shuttleworth-
Edwards, E.K. Gaylard and S.E Radloff
WISC-IV Test Performance in the South African Context
A.B. Shuttleworth-Edwards, A.S. Van der Merwe, P. Van Tonder and S.E.
Radloff
Senior South African Individual Scales Revised Kate Cockcroft
Assessing School Readiness using the Junior South African Individual
Scales Linda C. Theron
School Readiness Assessment in South Africa Zaytoon Amod and Deidre
Heafield
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children Kirston Greenop, Jessica Fry
and Diana de Sousa
The Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System Zaytoon Amod
Dynamic Assessment in South Africa Zaytoon Amod and Joseph Seabi
The Learning Potential Computerised Adaptive Test (LPCAT) Marié de Beer
APIL and TRAM Learning Potential Assessment Instruments Terence Taylor
The Griffiths Mental Development Scales Lorna Jacklin and Kate Cockcroft
Neuropsychological Assessment in South Africa Marilyn Lucas
SECTION 2 PERSONALITY AND PROJECTIVE TESTS: CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL
APPLICATIONS
The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) in South Africa
René van Eeden, Nicola Taylor and Cas Prinsloo
Using the Fifteen Factor Questionnaire Plus in South Africa Nanette Tredoux
The Basic Traits Inventory Nicola Taylor and Gideon P. de Bruin
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) in South Africa Kathy Knott,
Nicola Taylor, Yvonne Nieuwoudt and Fatima Bhabha
The NEO-PI-R in South Africa Sumaya Laher
Using the Occupational Personality Profile (OPI) in South Africa
Nanette Tredoux
Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) Tina Joubert and
Nadene Venter
The Millon Inventories in South Africa Rabia Patel and Sumaya Laher
Assessment and Monitoring of Symptoms in the Treatment of
Psychological Problems Charles Young and David Edwards
Assessment in Routine Clinical and Counselling Settings David Edwards
and Charles Young
Projective Assessment of Adults and Children in South Africa Katherine
Bain, Zaytoon Amod and Renate Gericke
The Use of the Thematic Apperception Test and the Children’s Apperception
Test in South Africa Renate Gericke, Katherine Bain and Zaytoon Amod
Projective Assessment Using the Draw-A-Person (DAP) and Kinetic Family
Drawing (KFD) in South Africa Zaytoon Amod, Renate Gericke and
Katherine Bain
The Rorschach in South Africa Marita Brink
SECTION 3 ASSESSMENT APPROACHES AND METHODOLOGIES
Ethical Perspective in Assessment Nicoleen Coetzee
Using Computerised and Internet-based Testing in South Africa
Nanette Tredoux
The ImPACT Neurocognitive Screening Test A. B. Shuttleworth-Edwards,
V. J. Whitefield-Alexander and Se. E. A. Radloff
A Family Consultation Model of Child Assessment Zaytoon Amod
Qualitative Career Assessment in South Africa Mark Watson and
Mary McMahon
Psychological Assessment and Workplace Transformation in South Africa:
A Review of the Research Literature Karen Milner, Fiona Donald and
Andrew Thatcher
Assessment of Prior Learning: A South African Perspective Ruksana Osman
Large Scale Assessment Studies in South Africa: Issues in Reporting to
Teachers Anil Kanjee
Conclusion Current and Future Trends in Psychological Assessment in South Africa:
Challenges and Opportunities Sumaya Laher and Kate Cockcroft

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978 1 86814 591 1

(digital) Parrots of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands
240 x 210 mm Biology, Ecology and Conservation
400 pp
Illustrated in Mike Perrin
full colour
Hard cover
Parrots’ colour and charisma, coupled with the fact that they mimic
September 2012 human speech, make them fascinating to many people. They are
ancient birds with unique bill and foot structures that enable them
to forage on fruits in the canopy of forest trees as well as on seeds
in grasslands. Because they depend on fruits and seeds all year
round, most species are confined to the tropics or sub-tropics,
where the world’s biodiversity is at its greatest. There are over
three hundred species of parrots, of which more than one hundred
are recognised as rare, endangered, vulnerable or threatened with
extinction.
Parrots are largely distributed in tropical areas of developing
countries where economies are weak and uncertain, and where
there is great dependence on the exploitation of natural resources,
particularly hard wood evergreen forests, which are preferred
parrot habitats. Unfortunately, high levels of corruption are
common to these regions, with much illegal trade in animals and
little or no law enforcement. Collectors of parrots in the first world
pay huge sums for rare parrots. However, research, education
and conservation actions are greatly reducing illegal trade in
African parrots.
This book provides complete coverage of all aspects of the
biology of extant African, Malagasy and Mascarene parrots, and
reviews our knowledge of extinct and fossil parrots from the
region. Particular themes include the behavioural and ecological
characteristics of parrots, their species characteristics and
conservation biology. Current concepts in avian and conservation CONTENTS
biology are also discussed.
Parrots of Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands is Chapter 1. Introduction
aimed at ornithologists, conservation biologists, avian ecologists, Chapter 2. Conservation Biology Mike Perrin obtained his BSc Hons at Royal Holloway College,
Chapter 3. Systematics University of London and his PhD at Exeter University. He
academics, bird watchers and parrot fans alike. It is well illustrated,
Chapter 4. Biogeography
with high quality original photographs, and includes distribution undertook a Post-doctoral Research Fellowship in Canada and
Chapter 5. Intelligence and Communication
maps, figures and tables. Chapter 6. Breeding Biology of African Parrots his first lecturing post was at Makerere University in Uganda.
Chapter 7. Diet and Metabolism of African Parrots Having then lectured for six years at Rhodes University, he
Chapter 8. African Longtailed, Vasa and Fossil Parrots took the Chair of Zoology at the then University of Natal, where
Chapter 9. African Parrots he is now Professor Emeritus and Director of the Research
Chapter 10. African Lovebirds
Chapter 11. Case Study of the Endangered Cape Parrot Centre for African conservation. He has contributed to a dozen
Chapter 12. African Parrots in Crisis books, about 250 scientific publications and supervised many
Chapter 13. African Parrot Action Plan post-graduate students.

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978 1 86814 545 4
(print)
978 1 86814 598 0
(digital) Working with Rock Art
240 x 200 mm Recording, Presenting and Understanding Rock Art Using Indigenous Knowledge
348 pp
Illustrated Edited by Benjamin Smith, Knut Helskog and David Morris
Soft cover
with gatefolds
This volume contains cutting edge contributions that consider
September 2012 new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art;
its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the
presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited
volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather
than a technical fashion, and it therefore makes a significant
contribution to the discipline.
The volume aims to promote the sharing of new experiences
between leading researchers in the field. While the geographic
focus is truly global, there is a dominant north-south axis with
CONTENTS
ON DOCUMENTING ROCK ART
Rock art management: juggling with paradoxes and com-
promises, and how to live with them Anne-Sophie Hygen
Expressing intangibles: A recording experience with /Xam
Rock Engravings Janette Deacon
Aspects of documentation for conservation purposes
exemplified by rock art Terje Norsted
The spatial context of rock art sites: what might GIS have
to offer in the absence of a temporal resolution of rock
paintings? Thembi Russell
Rock art in context – theoretical aspects of pragmatic
data collections Tilman Lenssen-Erz
Representing southern African San rock art: a move
towards digitisation D.Winnie Mokokwe
The routine of documentation Knut Helskog
Prehistoric explorations in rock - investigations beneath
and beyond carved surfaces Trond Lødøen
ON UNDERSTANDING ROCK ART USING INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE
Politics, ethnography and prehistory: in search of an
‘informed’ approach to Finnish and Karelian rock art
Antti Lahelma
Ethnography, history, rock art: the significance of social
change in interpreting rock art David Pearce
Symbols on stone – in the footsteps of the bear in Finnish
antiquity Juha Pentikäinen
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ROCK ART
strong representation from researchers in southern Africa and
northern Europe, two leading centres for new approaches in rock
art research. Working with Rock Art opens up a long overdue
dialogue about shared experiences between these two centres,
and a number of the chapters are the first published results of new
collaborative research. Benjamin W. Smith is Director of the Rock Art Research Institute, University
Since this volume covers the recording, interpretation of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. He is President of the Pan African
and presentation of rock art, it will attract a wide audience of Archaeological Association and Research Editor of the South African
researchers, heritage managers and students, as well as anyone Archaeological Bulletin. His research interests include the herder and farmer
interested in the field of rock art studies. rock arts of Africa, the Batwa (Pygmy) rock art of central Africa, theory and
method in rock art studies and the role of rock art in modern society.
Knut Helskog is Professor of Archaeology at Tromsø University Museum,
University of Tromsø, Norway. His responsibilities include the management
Animals and humans: metaphors of representation in of the Norwegian Cultural Heritage Act, salvage archaeology, archives,
south-central African rock art Leslie Zubieta collections, museum exhibitions, popularisation and research. His research
Ways of knowing and ways of seeing: spiritual agents and interests are oriented towards hunter–fisher-gatherer populations in northern
the origins of Native American rock art David Whitley Fennoscandia with a special focus on the interpretation of rock art.
Shamanism, rock art and history: implications from a
Central Asian case study Andrzej Rozwadowski
David Morris is Head of Archaeology at the McGregor Museum in Kimberley,
South Africa. His work involves collections management, museum display,
ON PRESENTING ROCK ART
Presenting rock art through digital film Paul Taçon public archaeological site management and contract archaeology. His
Rock art at present in the past Lindsay Weiss research focus is the archaeology of South African hunter-gatherers and
The importance of Wildebeest Kuil: ‘a hill with a future, a herders with a particular focus on rock art.
hill with a past’ David Morris
Theoretical approaches and practical training for rock art
tourist guiding and management Janette Deacon and
Neville Agnew
Two related rock art conservation/education projects in
Lesotho Pieter Jolly
Scandinavian rock art in the past - the present - and the
future Gitte Kjeldsen
The presentation of rock art in South Africa: what are the
new challenges? Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu
Yellowstone, Kruger, Kakadu: nature, culture and rock-art
in three celebrated national parks Catherine Namono and
Christopher Chippindale
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978 1 86814 580 5

(print) The book is based on meticulous and thorough research. It is well-written, lucid throughout and admirably free of jargon. Elegantly
conceived ... it is a pleasure to read.
978 1 86814 581 2 — Carolyn Hamilton, NRF Chair in Archive and Public Culture, University of Cape Town
(digital)
Picturing Change
230 x 155 mm Art and Visual Culture at Universities in Post-Apartheid South Africa
256 pp
Illustrated in Brenda Schmahmann
full colour Brenda Schmahmann is Professor of Art History and Visual Culture
Soft cover at Rhodes University in Grahamstown, South Africa. She was the
Many universities in South Africa have acquired new works of art editor and primary contributor on Material Matters (2000) and
January 2013 for key spaces on their campuses. These works convey messages also the author of Through the Looking Glass: Representations of
about the advantages of cultural diversity, but recently acquired Self by South African Women Artists (2004), for which she won the
sculptures, paintings and tapestries also critically engage with Rhodes University Vice Chancellor’s Book Award.
histories of racial intolerance and conflict. A current concern
among tertiary South African institutions is the influence of British
imperialism or Afrikaner nationalism on aspects of their inherited
visual culture. Discussions from within the art world around the
curatorship of art, memorials, insignia and regalia has shed light
on these outmoded colonial value systems which universities now
wish to distance themselves from
In Picturing Change, Brenda Schmahmann explores the
implications of deploying the visual domain in the service of
transformative agendas. In other words, how do universities
reflect, through the visual objects on their campuses, on their
revisionist aims and endorsements of cultural diversity? While
most new commissions are innovative, there have been instances
in which universities in South Africa have acquired works of
art with potentially traditionalist – even backward-looking –
implications. And while imperatives to remove inherited imagery
may be underpinned by a wish to unsettle white privilege, there
have in fact been occasions in which such actions have served
to maintain the status quo. Further, while many expected that a
post-apartheid era would have freed artists from censorship, some
images produced or shown under the auspices of universities have
in fact been susceptible to proscription for supposedly articulating
hate speech. Schmahmann identifies and analyses a range of
approaches taken by universities and commissioned artists
CONTENTS
towards these ‘troublesome’ visual objects .
This study is the first to consider imagery at a range of tertiary Introduction
institutions in the country, and it is unique in its exploration of a Chapter 1. Negotiating sculptures and memorials
transformative ethos in the visual domain at universities. It will from the early twentieth century
Chapter 2 Rethinking university insignia
be invaluable to readers interested in public art and the politics
Chapter 3. New art acquisitions
of curating and collecting, and also to those concerned with the Chapter 4. Portraits of university officers
challenges involved in transforming contemporary universities into Chapter 5. Controversies
spaces welcoming of diversity in South Africa.

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 NEW TITLE
978 1 86814 547 8
(boxed set of four
volumes) Edited by Jillian Carman
Each volume:
270 x 235 mm
Visual Century
240 pp South African Art in Context 1907 – 2007
Full colour
Soft cover Gavin Jantjes (Project director) and Mario Pissarra
with gatefolds (Editor in chief )
November 2011 Visual Century is encyclopaedic in scope.
—Janet Stanley, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National
Museum of African Art
… a valuable contribution to literature on South African art.
—Brenda Schmahmann, Fine Art Department, Rhodes University
Visual Century is an ambitious four-volume publication that
reappraises South African visual art of the twentieth century
from a post-apartheid perspective. Wide-ranging and in-depth
essays by over 30 contributors, including many of South Africa’s
leading art historians, cultural commentators and artists, make it
an indispensable resource for curators, historians, students and
artists. Lavish full colour illustrations, often of rare or seldom-seen
artworks, make this collection a treasure for all art lovers with an
interest in South African art.
Given the need to construct a national archive, this work is a
stellar example of what local research can achieve as we tell our
own stories, especially against the broader movement for a more
inclusive international art history that recognises and celebrates
the contributions made in South Africa. The project was funded by
the National Department of Arts and Culture under Pallo Jordan,
and brings together a wide range of local writers and perspectives.
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Gavin Jantjes is a South African artist
currently based at Norway’s National
Museum. Mario Pissarra is the founder of
Africa South Arts Initiative (ASAI).
Contributors: Rasheed Araeen, Gabeba
Baderoon, Vonani Bila, Jillian Carman,
Christine Eyene, Federico Freschi, Hazel
Friedman, Thembinkosi Goniwe, Melanie
Hillebrand, Gavin Jantjes, Z.P. Jordan,
Sandra Klopper, Juliette Leeb-du Toit,
Nessa Leibhammer, Sarat Maharaj,
Mandisi Majavu, Emile Maurice, Sipho
Mdanda, Zayd Minty, Anitra Nettleton,
Uche Okeke, Andries Oliphant, Mario
Pissarra, Hayden Proud, Elizabeth Rankin,
Colin Richards, Lize van Robbroeck, Judy
Seidman, Ruth Simbao, Kathryn Smith,
Mgcineni Sobopha, Roger van Wyk and
M. Mduduzi Xakaza.
Visual Century Volume 1: 1907–1948
Volume one begins after the South African
(Anglo-Boer) War, at a time when efforts were
being made to unify the white ‘races’, and
ends with the coming to power of the Afrikaner
nationalists. This volume provides critical
perspectives on the ideological and institutional
frameworks for white and black artists of the
period, and the art they produced. Discussions
of public art and architecture, traditionalist
African art, and Western-style painting and sculpture are complemented
with consideration of the roles played by museums, art eduation, art
societies and exhibitions, art historical writing and patronage. Fresh
perspectives on the art of the first half of the twentieth century highlight
complexities that still resonate today.
978 1 86814 687 1 (digital)
Visual Century Volume 3: 1973–1992
Edited by Mario Pissarra
Bracketed by porous transitional moments
in the early 1970s and 1990s, this volume
covers a period characterised by a
deepening of the struggle for democracy,
at a time when historical preoccupations
with race were increasingly intertwined
with burgeoning debates on class and
gender. The essays address a multiplicity
of ways in which artists responded directly
and indirectly to the challenges of this
period, mostly as individuals, but also through organisations. Resistance
and complicity, and the spaces in between, found expression in the use of
everyday themes, biblical sources, ethnically derived themes, subtle and
extreme forms of humour, as well as through representations of conflict.
Challenging art was produced in community arts centres, universities and
in public places, at a time when the cultural boycott simultaneously united
and polarised artists, and exiles mediated the ambivalences of ‘home’.
978 1 86814 689 5 (digital)
ART
Visual Century Volume 2: 1945–1976
Edited by Lize van Robbroeck
Between the end of the Second World
War and the Soweto uprisings, South
Africa was increasingly isolated from the
international world as a result of its policies
of racial discrimination and extreme social
engineering. This volume addresses the fertile
cultural ambivalences of this period. These
include the relationship between Afrikaner
nationalism and the emergence of an ‘official’
South African art, which would come to be
challenged by the steady increase in the
number of modern black artists and new informal art centres. The impact
of white patronage, the responses of migrant workers to rapid change, and
artists’ responses to the repressive political climate of apartheid, as well
as to emerging black nationalism, are all canvassed. The allure and impact
of European and American art, along with modernist discourses, for South
African artists both at home and in exile, not least the struggles of black
and white artists to define an African identity, are also explored.
978 1 86814 688 8 (digital)
Visual Century Volume 4: 1990–2007
Edited by Thembinkosi Goniwe,
Mario Pissarra and Mandisi Majavu
The end of the Cold War and subsequent rise
of globalisation, along with the advent of
democracy in South Africa, introduced new
social and political orders, with profound
implications for South African artists. The
essays in this volume critically address
some of the most notable developments and
visible trends in post-apartheid South African
art. These include South Africa’s entry into
the international art world, its struggle to address its past, and artists’
persistent and often provocative preoccupations with individual and
collective identity. The widespread and often unsettling representation of
the human body, as well as animal forms, along with the steady increase
of new technologies and the development of new forms of public art are
also discussed. While much of the art of the period is open-ended and non-
didactic, the persistence of engagement with socially responsive themes
questions the reductive binary between resistance and post-apartheid
art that has come to dominate accounts of before and after South Africa’s
democratic election.
978 1 86814 690 1 (digital)
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(print)

South African literary criticism has been rejuvenated by an emphasis

978 1 86814 593 5
on the materiality of book production and circulation, and the
(digital) Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa historical embedding of those institutions and practices that turned
texts into ‘works’ considered worthy of our attention. This elegantly
240 x 170 mm
Edited by Andrew van der Vlies framed collection of readable, provocative essays examines the
416 pp
Illustrated relations between the production and consumption of books to
Soft cover Print, Text and Book Cultures in South Africa is a field-defining contribution to the country’s literary scholarship. Andrew van der Vlies’s present a rich social history of South African print cultures. It is
introductory essay maps the conceptual terrain in a systematic and engaging way, illustrating its relevance to South Africa’s literary indispensible reading for anyone seeking to come to terms with the

and cultural history. The essays that follow demonstrate the archival richness and liveliness of the field, while opening doors to future processes and practices, both national and transnational, that have
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research. Beyond South Africa, the book will be exemplary in showing how book histories develop under postcolonial conditions. fashioned this country’s literature and the ways in which it is read and
— David Attwell, author of J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the Politics of Writing (1993) and Rewriting Modernity: Studies in Black South understood.
African Literary History (2005), and co-editor of The Cambridge History of South African Literature (2012) — Michael Titlestad, Department of English, University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in
South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical,
bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The
essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address
a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests
over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth
century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book-
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION Print,Text, and Books in South Africa Andrew van der Vlies
SECTION 2. PRINT CULTURES AND COLONIAL PUBLIC SPHERES
Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type, and Print Culture in South African Mis-
sionary Colonialism Leon de Kock
‘Spread Far and Wide over the Surface of the Earth’: Evangelical
Reading Formations and the Rise of a Transnational Public Sphere –
The Case of the Cape Town Ladies’ Bible Association Isabel Hofmeyr SECTION 6. ORATURE, IMAGE, TEXT
Textual Circuits and Intimate Relations: A Community of Letters Across the
Indian Ocean Meg Samuelson
SECTION 3. LOCAL/GLOBAL: SOUTH AFRICAN WRITING AND GLOBAL IMAGINARIES
Deneys Reitz and Imperial Co-option John Gouws
‘Consequential changes’: Daphne Rooke’s Mittee in America and South SECTION 7. IDEOLOGICAL EXIGENCIES AND THE FATES OF BOOKS
Africa Lucy Valerie Graham
Oprah’s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering
Rita Barnard
SECTION 4. THREE WAYS OF LOOKING AT COETZEE
In—or From—the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s
Antipastoral Andrew van der Vlies
SECTION 8. NEW DIRECTIONS
Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J.M.Coetzee’s
Foe Jarad Zimbler
Limber: the Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee Patrick Denman Flanery
SECTION 5. QUESTIONS OF THE ARCHIVE AND THE USES OF BOOKS
Colin Rae’s Malaboch: The Power of the Book in the
ˆ The University as Publisher: Towards a History of South African
(Mis) Representation of Kgalusi Sekete Mmalebôhô Lize Kriel
collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean
cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African
texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material
instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship,
Thought provoking, wide ranging in its subject material, and
during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local
dynamically edited, this collection marks a turning point in the study
academic publishing; and the challenge of ‘book history’ for literary
of book cultures in South Africa. These essays, exemplars of recently
and cultural criticism in contemporary South Africa.
published work in the field, draw attention to the rich, interdisciplinary
seams of material uncovered by key exponents of South African
print culture history. The work as a whole demonstrates how one can
engage with the confluence of text, people, history, culture, and print
technology in South African contexts. It will prove one of the first ports
of call for anyone wishing to undertake further journeys in this subject
‘Send Your Books on Active Service’: The Books for Troops Scheme During
the Second World War, 1939-1945 Archie L. Dick area in the future.
From The Origin of Language to a Language of Origin: A Prologue to the — David Finkelstein, co-editor of The Book History Reader (2001) and
Grey Collect­ion Hedley Twidle The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (vol. 4, 2007), and
co-author of An Introduction to Book History (2005)
The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry Jeff Opland
Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon
Deborah Seddon
Not Western: Race, Reading, and the South African Photo Comic Lily Saint
The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid State
Peter D. McDonald
‘Deeply racist, superior and Patronising’: South African Literature
Education and the ‘Gordimer Incident’ Margriet van der Waal
Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South
African Schools Natasha Distiller
Andrew van der Vlies is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University
The Rise of the Surface: Emerging Questions for Reading and Criticism in of London, and Research Associate in the Department of English Literature at Rhodes University,
South Africa Sarah Nuttall Grahamstown. His areas of expertise include South African literatures and literary cultures, Anglophone
Sailing a Smaller Ship: Publishing Art Books in South Africa
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen
postcolonial writing, and print and book histories. He is a literary critic, historian and cultural sociologist,
and author of South African Textual Cultures (2010). He reviews regularly for various publications such as
University Presses Elizabeth le Roux the Times Literary Supplement and Art South Africa.

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(digital) Shakespeare and the Coconuts
215 x 130 mm On Post-apartheid South African Culture
256 pp
Soft cover Natasha Distiller

June 2012
“The term ‘coconut’ is one of several edible designations,
including ‘bounty’ (from the American Bounty chocolate bar),
‘topdeck’ (a South African chocolate bar) ‘apple’, ‘banana’,
and, of course, ‘oreo’ (from the American Oreo cookie), used Natasha Distiller is a writer and academic
to designate someone who, due to his or her behaviour, currently based in Berkley, California. She was,
identifications, or because they have been raised by whites, is until recently, Associate Professor of English and
‘black’ on the ‘outside’ and ‘white’ on the ‘inside’. Chief Research Officer at the Institute for the
Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at the University Distiller examines Shakespeare’s place in South Africa’s
of Cape Town. Some of her previously published education and culture without universalising the contradictory
“In South Africa, the appellation ‘coconut’ is currently in
books include Fixing Gender: Lesbian Mothers forces that have made that position controversial and is thus
extensive circulation, and is closely tied to class mobility as
and the Oedipus Complex (2011); Horace Amoris: able to provide both a fascinating account of current South
indicated through speaking a specific kind of ‘white’ English.
The Collected Poetry of Rosa Newmarch, edited African culture and a precise analytical model with which to
When used by those who are claiming access to an authentic
and with an introduction and notes by John challenge the concept of a single ‘global’ or ‘post-colonial’
blackness of whatever shade, the term has derogatory
Holmes and Natasha Distiller (2010) and Desire Shakespeare.
implications of inauthenticity, artificiality and, sometimes,
and Gender in the Sonnet Tradition (2008). —Kate McLuskie, Emeritus Professor of Shakespeare Studies,
shameful or shameless aspiration.”
The Shakespeare Institute
(From the Introduction)

Natasha Distiller, of all scholars working on ‘Shakespeare’

In this book Natasha Distiller explores historic and contemporary
uses of Shakespeare in South African society which illustrate the
complexities of colonial and post-colonial realities as they relate
to iconic Englishness. Beginning with Solomon Plaatje, the author
looks at the development of an elite group educated in English
and able to use Shakespeare to formulate South African works and
South African identities. Refusing simple or easy answers, Distiller
then explores the South African Shakespearian tradition post-
apartheid. Touching on the work of, amongst others, Can Themba,
Bloke Modisane, Antony Sher, Stephen Francis, Rico Schacherl and
Kopano Matlwa, and including the popular media as well as school
textbooks, Shakespeare and the Coconuts engages with aspects
of South Africa’s complicated, painful, fascinating political and
cultural worlds, and their intersections.
Written in an accessible style to explain current cultural theory,
Shakespeare and the Coconuts will be of interest to students,
academics and the general interested reader.
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1. Shakespeare in English, English in
South Africa
Chapter 2. ‘Through Shakespeare’s Africa’:
‘Terror and murder’?
Chapter 3. Tony’s Will: Titus Andronicus in
South Africa 1995
Chapter 4. Begging the questions: Producing
Shakespeare for post-apartheid
South African schools
Chapter 5. English and the African Renaissance
Chapter 6. Shakespeare and the coconuts
and South Africa, asks the most interesting questions. She
pushes us to think about our relationships not only to the oeuvre
of a Renaissance poet-playwright, but to race, discourses of
authenticity, national identifications, pedagogy, the institutions
of literature in the country, and the place of South Africa in the
global mediascape.
—Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary, University of London
... a fascinating book by a leading authority on Shakespeare in
South Africa ... broad and wide ranging issues that go to the
heart of debates about South African identity and politics.
—Brian Willan, Honorary Senior Research Fellow,
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240 pp Iseth unjini Yekanini Ukuzenza
Soft cover Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi Isifungo Ingwe Nengonyama Ingalo
Yomthetho
June 2012 Ifa LakwaMthethwa
African-language writing is in crisis. The conditions under which Hlala Kwabafileyo
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and extrinsic aspects at play in the composition, production and
at the University of the Witwatersrand,
literature. This work documents the vibrancy of Yekanini Ukuzen-
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Johannesburg. She teaches African-language
post-apartheid isiZulu language literary forms za Isifungo Ingwe
In African-Language Literatures, Innocentia Jabulisile Mhlambi
literatures, black film studies, popular culture,
whether the detective novel or television drama. Nengonyama
charts new directions in the study of African-language literatures
visual culture and studies in oral literature. She is
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generally, and isiZulu fiction in particular by proposing that African
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to current debates and challenges informing discourses about
of the University of the Witwatersrand’s 2010
cultural studies and isiZulu literature. This book
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expressive forms in African languages. Mhlambi shows how this
University Research Committee (URC) publication
will be of interest to all who care about cultural
politics in South Africa.
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approach brings into relationship the oral and written forms, the
award, previous winners of which include Jillian
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local and the international, elitist and popular genres, and she
places the resultant emerging, eclectic culture into its socio-
Carman, Ashlee Neser, Anitra Nettleton and Sarah Isifungo
in Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Ingwe Nengonyama Ingal
historical context. She then uses this theoretical approach to
Nuttall. This is her debut publication.
Johannesburg Yomtheth
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— Nhlanhla Maake, Faculty of Humanities,
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Yekanini Ukuzenza
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are not seated at all’ Nhlamvana’s Rewriting of Yizo Yizo’s Crime Discourse Ukuzenza
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The Disorder of Things
220 x 150 mm A Foucauldian Approach to the Work of Nuruddin Farah
280 pp
Soft cover John Masterson
March 2013
Nuruddin Farah is widely regarded as one of the most sophisticated
voices in contemporary world literature. Michel Foucault is revered
as one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century,
with his discursive legacy providing inspiration for scholars
working in a range of interdisciplinary fields. The Disorder of
Things offers a reading of the Somali novelist through the prism of
the French philosopher. The book argues that the preoccupations
that have remained central throughout Farah’s forty year career,
including political autocracy, female infibulation, border conflicts,
international aid and development, civil war, transnational
migration and the Horn of Africa’s place in a so-called ‘axis of
evil’, can be mapped onto some key concerns in Foucault’s writing
most notably Foucault’s theoretical turn from ‘disciplinary’ to
‘biopolitical’ power.
In both the colonial past and the postcolonial present,
Somalia is typically represented as an incubator of disorder:
whether in relation to internecine conflict, international terrorism
or contemporary piracy. Through his work, both fictional and
non-fictional, Farah strives to present alternative stories to an
expanding global readership. The Disorder of Things analyses
the politics and poetics that underpin this literary project,
beginning with Farah’s first fictional cycle, Variations on the
Theme of an African Dictatorship (1979-1983), and ending with
his Past Imperfect trilogy (2004-2011). Farah’s writing calls for
a more refined, substantial reading of our current geo-political
situation. As such, it both warrants and compels the kind of critical
engagement foregrounded throughout The Disorder of Things.
This book will appeal to students, academics and general
readers with an interest in the interdisciplinary study of literature.
Its engagement with theorists, drawn from postcolonial, feminist
and development studies, set against the backdrop of a host
of philosophical and sociological discourses, shows how such
intellectual cross-fertilisation can enliven a single-author study.
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... an important addition to the study of the oeuvre of Nuruddin Farah, one of this continent’s leading and most original novelists. The study will be
of great interest to scholars specialising in contemporary African literature [...] whilst being accessible to general readers with an especial interest in
Foucault; in African politics and social developments; or in assessing the contribution of an intriguing but ‘difficult’ author.
—Annie Gagiano, University of Stellenbosch
The author is ambitious; this is not a study which applies Foucault, but a study which at its best attempts to reread each figure (Foucault and Farah) in
dialogue with the other.
—Eleni Coundouriotis, University of Connecticut
John Masterson is a lecturer in the Department
of English at the University of the Witwatersrand,
South Africa. He has published work on a range
of writers, including Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie, Kiran Desai, Dave Eggers and
Abdulrazak Gurnah, and on topics, including the
Rwandan genocide and postcolonial conflict.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Taking On Foucault and Fleshing Out Farah –
Opportunities for Dialogue and Reflections on
Method
Chapter 1. Quivering at the Heart of the Variations Cycle –
Labyrinths of Loss in Sweet and Sour Milk
Chapter 2. So Vast the Prison – Agonistic Power Relations in
Sardines
Chapter 3. Through the Maze Darkly – Incarceration and
Insurrection in Close Sesame
Chapter 4. From the Carceral to the Biopolitical – The
Dialectical Turn Inwards in Maps
Chapter 5. ‘A Call to Alms’ - Gifts and the Possibilities of a
Photographs: George Hallet
Foucauldian Reading
Chapter 6. Trajectories of Implosion and Explosion – The
Politics of Blood and Betrayal in Secrets
Chapter 7. Bringing It All Back Home – Theorising Diaspora and
War in Yesterday, Tomorrow and Links
Chapter 8. A Woman Apart - Entanglements of Power,
Disintegration and Restoration in Knots
Conclusion: Pirates of the Apocalypse – Where Next?
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Lover of His People
200 x 130 mm A biography of Sol Plaatje
160 pp
Soft cover Seetsele Modiri Molema
Translated by D.S. Matjila and Karen Haire
November 2012
Seetsele Modiri Molema’s Sol T Plaatje: Morata Wabo is the
first biography of Solomon Plaatje written in his mother-tongue,
Setswana and the only book-length biography written by someone
who actually knew him. The manuscript had long been housed in the
Wits Historical Papers and was accessible only to scholars.
D. S. Matjila and Karen Haire have mined the archive to produce the
first English translation of Molema’s biography, Lover of His People:
Sol Plaatje.
In this account, Molema balances Plaatje’s public and political
persona – as a pioneer black politician and man of letters – with an
intimate account of Plaatje, the human being: his physical features,
habits, temperament, talents, personality, character, fears,
struggles, dreams and aspirations. In short, Molema illuminates
the spirit of Plaatje painting a personal portrait of this leading
South African figure and his impact not only on South Africa’s
political and cultural landscape but on the young Molema as well.
In shaping this manuscript into a book the editors and
translators have included a preface which elaborates on the
uniqueness of Molema’s biography, and on the relationship
between these two prominent Africans and the value of this
text within the broader ambit of revisioning South African
historiography. Recognising that Molema was an extraordinary
scholar, intellectual and politician in his own right, the book
includes an essay on the life and legacy of Seetsele Modiri Molema
and his contribution to South Africa’s black intellectual heritage.
This biography will be of interest to scholars and general
readers alike.
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Seetsele Modiri Molema (1891-1965) was
a doctor and surgeon by profession. After
completing his medical degree at the
University of Glasgow, Scotland in 1919,
It is high time this book was made available to a
he lived in Dublin, Ireland where he wrote
wider audience, and I congratulate both editors
and published the landmark history,
and publisher in this initiative.
Bantu Past and Present: An Ethnographic
—Brian Willan, Hon. Senior Research Fellow,
and History Study of the Native Races of
Rhodes University
South Africa (Edinburgh: Green, 1920).
He later returned to Mafikeng where he
spent most of his life treating black and
white patients alike.
D. S. Matjila is Associate Professor in
the Department of African Languages at
UNISA. Karen Haire is Senior lecturer at
the University of Johannesburg where
she teaches academic writing.
CONTENTS
Chapter 1. First encounter and acquaintance
Chapter 2. Early days and youth
Chapter 3. An unforgettable year: 1896
Chapter 4. Life’s challenges
Chapter 5. Plaatje, the career journalist
Chapter 6. Government news
Chapter 7. Conventions and writings
Chapter 8. Plaatje in his own words: English extracts
Chapter 9. Plaatje in his own words: Setswana extracts
Chapter 10. Delegations and meetings
Chapter 11. The last meetings and travels
Chapter 12. The last encounter
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Somewhere on the Border Our Lady of Benoni

Anthony Akerman
Anthony Akerman’s Somewhere on the Border is merciless. In this touching, disturbing and
meticulously researched play, each vulgar and bullying witticism reinforces the indoctrinating
brutality with which young, susceptible minds were beaten into submission. Each word is like a
razor wire pulled across the soul.
—Leon van Nierop, Artslink
Since its first staging in the early 80s, Akerman’s play has lost none of its explosive power.
Chillingly brutal and grimly humorous all at once, it detonates in the present like a long-
dormant mine.
—Ivan Vladislavić, Author
Somewhere on the Border was written by Anthony Akerman while in exile more than two
decades ago. The play was intercepted in the post and banned as a publication by the apartheid
censors because the language was considered ‘offensive’ and the portrayal of the South African
Armed Forces ‘prejudicial to the safety of the state’. This publication of a one-act version of the
play brings the Border War back into public discourse and pierces through the armour of silence,
secrecy and shame that still surrounds it. The script is complemented by an author’s preface and
an afterword by historian Gary Baines, as well as photographs of its 2011 production.
Anthony Akerman is an internationally acclaimed playwright and director. In protest against the
South African apartheid regime he went into exile in 1973 and lived in Amsterdam, working in
theatre. He returned to South Africa in 1992 and has since written several award-winning plays.
He also writes for radio and television. Dark Outsider: Three Plays (Wits University Press) won
978 1 86814 560 7
the SACPAC Drama Prize and earned its author the 1995/96 Vita Playwright of the Year Award.
(print)
Zakes Mda
Introduction by Sarah Roberts
Our Lady of Benoni teems with anecdote and incident, pulses with desire and frustration,
juxtaposes disparate cultural norms and plays exuberantly with fantasies and truths that cluster
around the subject of virginity. Its tone is zany, its subject weighty.
— Sarah Roberts, Skye Chair of Dramatic Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Zakes Mda’s satire is a kaleidoscopic display of the extremes to which men (and by implication
women) are prepared to go in terms of valuing what is ‘virginal’. Mda presents us with the
consequences of transgression: that which is seen as polluted and judged to be dangerous to
the good health and purity of a group, a society, a culture. Taboos, superstition, customs and
moral ethics become the subjects of inquiry and are, at times, subjected to ribald satire. This
play cuts into a virtuoso style of theatre that can in no way be confused with the objectives and
methods of conventional realism. Mda establishes a unique style and tone that is innovative,
entertaining and challenging. It fuses satirical elements derived from classical poetry with a
modernist sensibility that synthesises Brechtian and Absurdist features of theatricality, using
characters as types and montage. Above all, in this work there is a profound exploration of what
it means to operate in the politically charged landscape that defines post-apartheid South Africa
with its cultural pluralities and differentials in access to resources and agency.
Stylistically adventurous and unafraid to deviate from conventionally accepted norms, Mda is
iconoclastic in his handling of the ways in which attitudes to power, superstition, ethics and
sex are constructed. The cultural discourse of patriarchy and the ‘regime of truths’ regarding
ideals and taboos defining female sexuality, its obligations, and its custodianship are the focus
of this play.
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978 1 86814 596 6 Zakes Mda is a South African writer, painter and music composer. He has published nineteen 978 1 86814 594 2
(digital) books, nine of which are novels and the rest collections of plays (including the anthologies And (digital)
the Girls in their Sunday Dresses and Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating); poetry, a monograph
200 x 130 mm on the theory and practice of theatre-for-development, and an autobiography titled Sometimes 200 x 130 mm
CONTENTS 128 pp there is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider. His books have been translated into twenty languages 144 pp
Black and white photographs and have won a number of awards, including the Amstel Playwright of the Year Award, the Soft cover
Preface by Anthony Akerman
Soft cover Commonwealth Writers Prize for Africa, the M-Net Prize, the Sunday Times Literary Prize, the
Somewhere on the Border (one act) Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Legacy Award and the American Library Association Notable August 2012
January 2012 Book. He commutes between America and South Africa, working as a Professor of Creative
Afterword by Gary Baines Writing at Ohio University, a beekeeper in the Eastern Cape, and as Director of the Southern
African Multimedia AIDS Trust in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. He is also a Patron of the Market CONTENTS
Theatre in Johannesburg.
Interview with Pat Tucker
Introduction by Sarah Roberts
Glossary of terms
Our Lady of Benoni (two acts)

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978 1 86814 692 5 (digital)
220 x 150 mm, 256 pp
Soft cover, 2010
978 1 86918 499 0 (print)
978 1 86814 634 5 (digital)
240 x 170 mm, 400 pp
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Soft cover, 2009
978 1 86814 445 7 (print)
978 1 86814 626 0 (digital)
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Soft cover, 2007
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What is slavery to me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-apartheid South Africa
Pumla Dineo Gqola
… a landmark book on the role of slavery in shaping contemporary South Africa. Drawing on historical scholarship as
well as studies of slavery world­wide, Gqola delivers a brilliant new piece of literary and cultural analysis.
—Gabeba Baderoon, Pennsylvania State University
In this first full length study of South African slave memory, Pumla Gqola uses inter­disciplinary feminist and
postcolonial methodologies to analyse the recent visibility of South Africa’s slave past beyond history departments.
What does it mean for South Africans alive today to claim slave ancestry? How do works of the imagination, such as
novels, poems, creative essays, documentary films, television series, coded recipes and art installations represent this
era of South Africa’s past? In what ways does living in a democracy permit collective rethinking of what it means to
belong to a Muslim diaspora?
Pumla Dineo Gqola is Associate Professor of Literary, Media and Gender Studies at the School of Literature and
Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
The First Ethiopians The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early
Mediterranean World
Malvern van Wyk Smith
… an original and interesting contribution to the scholarship on European views on Africa.
– Stanley Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles
The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece
and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity. Inspired by curiosity
regarding the origins of racism in southern Africa, van Wyk Smith consulted a wide range of sources: from rock art to
classical travel writing; from the pre-dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilisations to Greek and
Roman perceptions of Africa; and from the geo-linguistic history of Africa to the most recent revelations regarding the
genome profile of the continent’s peoples. The research led to a startling proposition: western racism has its roots
in Africa itself, notably in late New-Kingdom Egypt as its ruling elites sought to distance Egyptian civilisation from its
African origins.
Malvern van Wyk Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of ‘the People’
Ivor Chipkin
This book provides a critical study of South African nationalism, against a broader context of African nationalism in
general. Narratives of resistance presume that ‘the people’ preceded the period of nationalist struggle. This book
explores how an African ‘people’ came into being as a collectivity organised in pursuit of a political, and not simply
cultural, end. Chipkin argues that the nation is a political community whose form is given in relation to the pursuit
of democracy and freedom, and that if democratic authority is lodged in ‘the people’, what matters is the way that
this ‘people’ is defined, delimited and produced. He argues that the nation precedes the state because it emerges in
and through the nationalist struggle for state power. Ultimately, he encourages the reader to re-evaluate knee-jerk
judgments about the failure of modernity in Africa.
Ivor Chipkin is based at the Human Sciences Research Council, and also teaches at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
978 186814 532 4 (print)
978 1 86814 557 7 (digital)
210 x 130 mm, 192 pp
Soft cover
2011
978 1 86814 538 6 (print)
978 1 86814 555 3 (digital)
235 x 155 mm, 344 pp Ocean arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the fore.
Soft cover
2011
Becoming Worthy Ancestors
CULTURAL STUDIES
Archive, Public Deliberation and Identity in South Africa
Edited by Xolela Mangcu
Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity?
And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared
sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such
conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa?
This volume takes its title from Weber’s point, elaborated on in the chapter by Benedict Anderson, that the future
asks us to be worthy ancestors to the yet unborn. It aims to reach a broad and informed reading public because the
topics of identity and citizenship are of pressing interest in contemporary public discourse. In a changed (and, some
might say, degraded) environment of public dialogue, the editor hopes to inspire a re-thinking of the very essence of
what it means to be a citizen of South Africa.
Becoming Worthy Ancestors aims to make accessible the theoretically informed work of its various contributors,
while the introductory chapter by the editor contributes to the coherence of the volume.
Xolela Mangcu is now based at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. He is Non-resident Senior
Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
South Africa and India
Shaping the Global South
Edited by Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams
… makes a significant and innovative contribution by establishing a new field of research.
—Preben Kaarsholm, Roskilde University, Denmark
Hofmeyr and Williams have assembled an impressive inter­disciplinary group of scholars to lend insights into various
historical and contemporary facets of India-South Africa relations in ways that enrich the comparative enterprise.
—Gilbert M. Khadiagala, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
South Africa’s future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries
is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and
Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. What forms of transnational political community
between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood?
The first section traces the range of historical connections between the two countries. The second section explores
unconventional comparisons that offer rich ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative book looks
to a post-American world in which the global South will become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian
Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She played
a key role in the establishment of the Centre of Indian Studies in Africa. Michelle Williams is a senior lecturer in the
Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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CULTURAL STUDIES

HISTORY
Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe
With an Afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckenridge Luka Jantjie
Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on Resistance Hero of the South African Frontier
its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanisation have cast it as an emblem
of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a Kevin Shillington
city that responds, but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such
characterisations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they An exciting tribute to one man’s courage and dignity in the face of overwhelming odds,
explore the experience of ‘city-ness’ and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a and a welcome contribution to the history of resistance to the rapacious colonial conquest
polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. of southern Africa.
978 1 86814 473 0 — Neil Parsons, University of Botswana
240 x 160 mm, 400 pp Contributors: Lindsay Bremner, David Bunn, Fred de Vries, Nsizwa Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Stefan Helgesson, Julia
Illustrated Hornberger, Jonathan Hyslop, Grace Khunou, Frédéric Le Marcis, Xavier Livermon, John Matshikiza, Achille Mbembe,
Luka Jantjie is today a largely forgotten hero of resistance to British colonialism, his place in
Soft cover, 2009 Robert Muponde, Sarah Nuttall, Tom Odhiambo, Achal Prabhala and AbdouMaliq Simone.
South African history overshadowed by events elsewhere in the region. This book attempts to
With Duke University Press Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in redress the balance by recording his remarkable story.
History and Politics, both at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), at the University of the In 1870, at the beginning of the Kimberley diamond mining boom that was to transform
URBAN STUDIES

Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
City of Extremes The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg
Martin J. Murray
… gets beneath the surface of the city’s chaotic present to discover the inertia of long-term deployments.
—Lindsay Bremner, Professor of Architecture, Temple University
City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since 1994. Murray describes
how a loose alliance of city-builders – including real estate developers, large-scale property owners and municipal
officials – has sought to remake Johannesburg in the upbeat image of a ‘world-class’ city. By creating new sites of
sequestered luxury catering to the comfort, safety and security of affluent urban residents, they have produced a new
978 1 86814 523 2 spatial dynamic of social exclusion, effectively barricading the mostly black urban poor from full participation in the
235 x 155 mm, 480 pp mainstream of urban life. This partitioning of the cityscape is enabled by an urban planning environment of limited
Soft cover, 2011 regulation of the prerogatives of real estate capital. Murray suggests that the ‘global cities’ paradigm is inadequate for
With Duke University Press understanding the historical specificity of the colonial mining town turned postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.
Martin J. Murray is Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and
Adjunct Professor at the Center for African and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan, United States.
ANTHROPOLOGY
southern Africa, Luka Jantjie was the first independent African ruler to lose his land to the
new colonialists, who promptly annexed the diamond fields. His outspoken stand against the
hypocrisy of colonial ‘justice’ earned him the epithet ‘a wild fellow who hates the English’. As
the son of an early Christian convert, Luka was brought up to respect peace and non-violence;
his boycott of rural trading stores in the early 1890s was perhaps the earliest use of non-
violent resistance in colonial South Africa. His steady refusal to bow to colonial demands of
subservience intensified the enmity of local colonists determined to ‘teach him a lesson’.
As many of his people succumbed to colonial pressures, Luka was twice forced to take up
arms to defend himself and his people from colonial attacks. His life ended in a dramatic and
heroic last stand in the ancestral sanctuary of the Langeberg mountain range, the consequences
of which stretched far into the next century.
Kevin Shillington is the author of a number of historical and contemporary works including 978 1 86814 549 2
The Colonisation of the Southern Tswana 1870-1900 (1985), Causes and Consequences of 234 x 156 mm, 320 pp
Independence in Africa (1997) and History of Africa (3rd edition 2005). 16 pp colour section
Soft cover
2011

Home Spaces, Street Styles Contesting Power and Identity in a South African City With Aldridge Press

Leslie J. Bank
… a very powerful ethnography from post-apartheid South Africa and an important contribution to the anthropology of
CONTENTS
the city.
—Thomas Hylland Eriksen, University of Oslo Chapter 1. Prologue Chapter 10. War, land and the British, 1882-1885
Chapter 2. Birth and early life, 1835-1858 Chapter 11. The land commission, 1885-1886
This book revisits and updates the classic Xhosa in Town series, which was based on research conducted in East Chapter 12. From ‘murmuring’ to boycott, British Bechuanaland,
Chapter 3. Adult responsibilities, 1858-1868
London during the 1950s. Bank returned to the areas studied in the 1950s to assess how social and political changes Chapter 4. The defence of the diamond fields, 1867-1871 1886-1895
have transformed them, in particular the apartheid reconstructions of the 1960s and 1970s, the struggle for liberation Chapter 5. The loss of the diamond fields, 1871-1876 Chapter 13. The Langeberg, rinderpest and rebellion, 1895-1896
and the post-apartheid period in the 1990s and 2000s. He offers fresh insights into the understanding of urbanism in Chapter 6. Tension and resistance in the colony, 1876-1878 Chapter 14. The gathering storm, January-April, 1897
978 1 86814 531 7 Chapter 7. Rebellion and the Battle of Kho, 1878 Chapter 15. The battle for the Langeberg, April-May, 1897
South Africa by exploring the relationship between social identities formation and the struggle for power and place
220 x 150 mm, 288 pp Chapter 8. Dithakong and capture, 1878-1879 Chapter 16. Siege and final stand, May-July, 1897
inside the city. Chapter 9. Prison, release and the new Morafe, 1879-1881 Chapter 17. The aftermath
Soft cover, 2011
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Alexandra A History
HISTORY
Philip Bonner and Noor Nieftagodien
Alexandra is a social and political history of one of South Africa’s oldest townships. It begins with the founding of the
Metal That Will Not Bend
freehold township in 1912, and traces its growth as a centre of black working class life in the heart of Johannesburg. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, 1980-1995
Declared as a location for ‘natives and coloureds’, Alexandra became home to a diverse population where home-
owners, tenants, squatters, hostel-dwellers, workers and migrants drawn from every corner of the country converged Kally Forrest
to make a life in the city. Based on scores of life history interviews, the book portrays in vivid detail the daily struggles
and tribulations of Alexandrans. A focus is the rich history of political resistance, in which civic movements and political Brilliant exposé of Numsa’s role in the liberation of our country. Aluta Continua!
organisations arranged bus boycotts, anti-removal and anti-pass campaigns, and mobilised for housing and a better —Numsa president, Cedric Gina
life for residents. But the book is not only about politics. It tells the stories of daily life, of the making of urban cultures,
of the soccer matches, church services and shebeens that vie for the attention of residents. In the 1980s there was a surge of trade union power on a scale not previously experienced in
South Africa. Numsa was a highly prominent and innovative union, and one of Cosatu’s most
Philip Bonner and Noor Nieftagodien are both based at the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand,
radical affiliates, and its story is one of astonishing achievements as its activities built workers’
Johannesburg.
rights and deeply eroded the apartheid state. Metal That Will Not Bend – a translation of the
union’s motto Insimbi ayigobi – tells that story by revisiting the formation of the powerful
modern-day union movement.
The trade union movement kept the internal struggle alive in the late 1980s when community
Riding High Horses, Humans and History in South Africa
organisations in the United Democratic Front (UDF) had been smashed. Forrest traces the themes
Sandra Swart of power, independence and workers’ control as they were practised by Numsa. A number of
small metal organisations, with at times antagonistic organisational and political strategies,
The horses introduced to the southern tip of Africa were both agents and subjects of enduring changes. They were key
were built in different ways and with different attitudes to the exiled liberation movements in
to the colonial economies, buttressing the socio-political order and inspiring contemporary imaginations. These equine
the early 1980s. They eventually unified into one powerful organisation. Workers’ struggles
colonisers not only provided power and transportation but also helped transform their new biophysical and social
built this power, and Forrest scrutinises the strategies used in the late 1980s, such as innovative
environments. In some ways Riding High is an attempt to chronicle the effects of an inter-species relationship whose
bargaining strategies, to significantly improve the conditions of impoverished workers. The
significance was vast and led to major changes in the history of leisure, transportation, trade, warfare, and agriculture.
book then progresses to examine how Numsa used its power in an attempt to insert a workers’
On another level, these stories are simply the adventures of a big gentle herbivore and a small, rogue primate. Riding
perspective into the political transition of the early 1990s.
High reinserts the horse into the broader historical narrative about southern Africa and speculates what a new kind of
history that takes animals seriously might offer us.
Sandra Swart is Associate Professor in the Department of History at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Kally Forrest was editor of the South African Labour Bulletin. She has edited and published a
number of popular books on South African trade union histories. 978 1 86814 534 8 (print)
978 1 86814 556 0 (digital)
240 x 170 mm, 576 pp
Illustrated
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Tracks in a Mountain Range Exploring the History of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg 2011
John Wright and Aron Mazel CONTENTS
Since the arrival of literate European settlers in what is now KwaZulu-Natal in the second quarter of the nineteenth Chapter 13. The Cinderella sector: 1983-1990
Chapter 1. Building local power: 1970s
century, numerous stories about the Drakensberg region have made their way into print. But for every story which Chapter 2. Power through numbers: 1980-1985 Chapter 14. Applying vision in auto and motor: 1990-1995
happens to have been written down, there are many others which have not, and which are therefore unavailable to us Chapter 3. Power in unity: 1980-1987 Chapter 15. Applying vision in engineering: 1994-1995
in our aim of wanting to establish a modern-day understanding of the history of the Drakensberg. Chapter 4. Breaking the apartheid mould: 1980-1982 Chapter 16. Independent worker movement: 1980-1986
Chapter 5. Worker action fans out: 1980-1984 Chapter 17. Beginnings of alliance politics: 1984-1986
The declaration of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park as a World Heritage Site provided an occasion for reflecting
Chapter 6. Melding institutional, campaign and bureaucratic Chapter 18. Weakening the socialist impulse: Civil war in Natal
on the history and people of the region, from the earliest known times to the present. Constructed from archaeological power: 1983-1990 1987-1994
and written sources, this book highlights the histories of the indigenous San hunter-gatherers and black farmers, as Chapter 7. Conquest of Metal Industrial Council: 1987-1988 Chapter 19. Civil war in Transvaal: 1989-1994
well as of the European colonisers. The accessible text is complemented by photographs of the landscape, rock art and Chapter 8. Auto workers take power: 1982-1989 Chapter 20. New politics: 1987-1990
archaeological finds. Chapter 9. Auto takes on the industry: 1990-1992 Chapter 21. Disinvestment: Pragmatic politics 1985-1989
Chapter 10. New directions: 1988-1991 Chapter 22. Compromising on socialism: Legacy of the Alliance
John Wright is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Aron Mazel is an Chapter 11. Defeat of Mawu strategy: 1990-1992 1989-1995
archaeologist at the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Chapter 12. Towards a new industry: 1993
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978 1 86814 651 2 (digital)
200 x 130 mm, 320 pp
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978 1 86814 518 8 (print)
978 1 86814 662 8 (digital)
220 x 150 mm, 380 pp
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978 1 86814 500 3 (print)
978 1 86814 658 1 (digital)
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Mbeki and After Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki
POLITICS
Edited by Daryl Glaser
For nearly ten years – more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode
The African National Congress and the Regeneration
South Africa’s political stage. Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in of Political Power
many fields.
If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of Susan Booysen
political system, economy and society has the former President bequeathed to the government of Jacob Zuma and
to the citizens of South Africa generally? This question is addressed head-on here by a diverse range of analysts, Few outsiders have been able to penetrate the complex world of the ANC in power as Susan
commentators and participants in the political process. Mbeki and After will be of interest to anyone wishing to Booysen has. This is a superlative and passionate work by a critical observer, researcher, analyst
understand the current political landscape in South Africa, and Mbeki’s role in shaping it. who is miles ahead of the field.
— Ronnie Kasrils, former ANC government minister
Daryl Glaser is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg.
The African National Congress (ANC) has moved light years beyond the liberation movement of
old. It is a party-movement that draws on its liberation credentials, and continuously extracts
immense power from its deep anchorage amongst the people of South Africa. Notions of trust,
tradition and caring infuse this blend. Yet, the ANC is conflicted by a multitude of weaknesses,
Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa cracks, factions and unflinching eyes on internal succession battles and chances to generate
‘patriotic’ capital. It is in charge of the state, and fuses party and state in the name of electoral
Edited by William Beinart and Marcelle C. Dawson
conquest, but it fails to bring definitive solutions to crucial matters of government. The ANC
… self-consciously attempts not to be corralled in by a nationalist framework with a strong inclination to celebrate and remains a giant … on porous legs. And, as it moves post-peak, its hands are firm around the
justify current regimes of power. By focusing their attention on popular movements and resistance the authors make an levers of power.
important contribution to the historiography on South Africa’s liberation struggle. Booysen has constructed her analysis around the framework of the ANC’s four faces of
—Noor Nieftagodien, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesbu­rg political power – the organisation, the people, political parties and elections and policy and
This volume explores some of the key features of popular politics and resistance before and after 1994. It looks at government. Based on an understanding of the struggles and achievements along with the
continuities and changes in the forms of struggle and ideologies involved, as well as the significance of post-apartheid deferred dreams, her focus is on how, since 1994, it has acted to continuously regenerate
grassroots politics. Is this a new form of politics or does it stand as a direct descendent of the insurrectionary impulses its power.
of the late apartheid era? 978 1 86814 542 3 (print)
William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations and Director of Graduate Studies at the African Studies Centre, Susan Booysen is a political analyst and commentator, and is based at Wits University’s 978 1 86814 553 9 (digital)
St Antony’s College, Oxford University. Marcelle C. Dawson is a Senior Researcher associated with the South African Graduate School of Public and Development Management (P&DM). 235 x 155 mm, 512 pp
Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. Soft cover
2011
CONTENTS
The Origins of Non-Racialism White Opposition to Apartheid in the 1950s SECTION 1 ANC movement-party in power SECTION 4 ANC power and state power
Chapter 1. Introduction: ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and Chapter 10. State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars
David Everatt regenerating political power Chapter 11. Between centralisation and centralism – the Presidency of
Chapter 2. Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung South Africa
This is a path-breaking study of the emergence of non-racialism … a painstaking insight into the Congress Movement
Chapter 12. Policy, pursuit of the ‘turn to the left’ and the paradox of continuity
and the Communist Party, then operating underground, as well as the Liberal Party, drawing on widespread oral and SECTION 2 ANC power and the power of the people
archival material. Chapter 3. The ANC and its pillars of people’s power SECTION 5 Conclusion
—Raymond Suttner, author of The ANC Underground Chapter 4. Power through the ballot and the brick Chapter 13. ANC at a critical conjuncture – movement, people, elections,
Chapter 5. Participation and power through cooperation, complicity, co-optation governance
Freedom came to South Africa far later than elsewhere on the continent – and yet it was marked by a commitment to
non-racialism. How did this come about? How did an African nationalist liberation movement resisting apartheid open SECTION 3 ANC in party politics and elections
its doors to other races, and whites in particular? This book uncovers some of the stories and hidden histories that help Chapter 6. Power through elections – serial declines, but the centre holds
Chapter 7. Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy
explain our past. It focuses on a talented, brave, but tiny minority of whites who rejected the growing racism of post-
Chapter 8. Subjugation and demise of the (New) National Party
war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black and white. Chapter 9. Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope)
David Everatt is the Executive Director of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, a joint project of the University of
Johannesburg, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Gauteng Provincial Government.
Related titles from Wits University Press: Mbeki and After, Popular Politics and Resistance Movements
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SOCIOLOGY
Reviving the tradition of critical scholarship developed in the 1970s and 1980s by the South African Review, the New South African Review is intended to be New South African Review 2
informative, discursive and accessible to a wide readership. It is not envisaged as an annual review of events, although it will seek to provide contemporary
comment, and it will engage with (indeed, seek out) current controversies.
New Paths, Old Compromises?

John Daniel is from the School of International Training (Durban); Prishan­i Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall are lecture­rs in the Department of Edited by John Daniel, Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall
Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
In this volume, the New Growth Path (NGP) adopted by the South African government in 2010
provides the basis for a debate about whether ‘decent work’ is the best possible solution to
South Africa’s problems of low economic growth and high unemployment. Rising inequality is
explored against the backdrop of the failings of Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) and Broad-
Based Black Economic Empowerment (BBBEE). The NGP’s proposals for ‘greening the economy’
are discussed, with emphasis on the creation of ‘green jobs’ and biofuels.
The volume also includes investigations into the crisis of acid mine drainage on the
New South African Review 1
Witwatersrand, and other persistent environmental challenges. Possibilities for participatory
2010: Development or Decline? forms of government are surveyed, and civil society activism is explored in relation to the South
African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) and environmental campaigns. The crisis in child care
Edited by John Daniel, Prishani Naidoo, Devan Pillay and Roger Southall in public hospitals, the difficulties that characterise attempts at building relationships between
the police and a township community, and the problems related to the absence of legislation to
On the evidence of this first volume, publication of the NSAR promises to become an exciting govern the powers of traditional authorities over land allocation (through the experience of the
event in the annual calendar, giving voice to critical research and debate about the major issues Eastern Cape) are also featured.
confronting contemporary South Africa. Asking whether the NGP reflects a set of new policies or an attempt to re-dress old (com)
—Tawana Kupe, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg promises in new clothes, this volume brings together different voices in debate about
possibilities for alternatives to neo-liberal and capitalist development in South Africa.
A much-needed, impressive analysis of South Africa sixteen years after the end of apartheid.
Essential reading for South Africa watchers and a valuable teaching resource.
—Catherine Jenkins, SOAS, University of London
CONTENTS 978 1 86814 541 6 (print)
Introduction Prishani Naidoo The Worker Cooperative Alternative in South Africa 978 1 86814 559 1 (digital)
This first volume of the NSAR offers a collection of original surveys of key issues and problems Vishwas Satgar and Michelle Williams
DOMESTIC AND REGIONAL POLITICS 240 x 170 mm, 488 pp
confronting post-apartheid South Africa. It ranges widely across the implications of the
The ANC-SACP-Cosatu Alliance and its Discontents: Contest- Street Level Policing in South Africa: A View from Gauteng Soft cover
international crisis for the economy, the threats to our fragile ecology of present economic ing the ‘National Democratic Revolution’ in the Zuma Era Knowledge Rajohane Matshedisho 2011
strategies, through to the state of the ANC and the public service, issues around service delivery, Devan Pillay BEE Reform: The Case for an Institutional Perspective
migration, HIV/AIDS, land reform, crime, the sexual behavior of our youth, and much more. The African National Congress and the Zanufication Debate Don Lindsay
Posing the provocative question of whether South Africa is embarking upon a long-term James Hamill and John Hoffman Bokfontein Amazes the Nations: Community Work
decline, the volume simultaneously argues the potential for a society premised upon social The Democratic Alliance and Opposition Politics in South Programme (CWP) Heals a Traumatised Community
Africa Neil Southern and Roger Southall Malose Langa and Karl von Holdt
equality, social coherence and sustainability.
This collection will appeal to a wide audience, national and international, interested in Democracy and Accountability: Quo Vadis South Africa? ENVIRONMENT
Paul Hoffman Above and Beyond South Africa’s Minerals-Energy Complex
engaging with the multiple dilemmas and challenges facing contemporary South Africa. Khadija Sharife and Patrick Bond
Civil Society and Participatory Policy Making in South Africa:
Gaps and Opportunities Imraan Buccus and Janine Hicks Corrosion and Externalities: The Socio-economic Impacts of
978 1 86814 516 4 (print) Acid Mine Drainage on the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Bring Back Kaiser Matanzima? Communal Land, Traditional David Fig
978 1 86814 558 4 (digital) Leaders and the Politics of Nostalgia Leslie Bank and
240 x 170 mm, 488 pp Clifford Mabhena Food versus Fuel? State, Business, Civil Society and the Bio-
fuels Debate in South Africa, 2003 to 2010 William Attwell
Soft cover South Africa and ‘Southern Africa’: What Relationship in
2010 2011? Chris Saunders MEDIA
The Print Media Transformation Dilemma Jane Duncan
ECONOMICS AND SOCIETY
‘The wages are low but they are better than nothing’: The The South African Broadcasting Corporation – The Creation
Dilemma of Decent Work and Job Creation in South Africa and Loss of a Citizenship Vision and the Possibilities for
Edward Webster Building a New One Kate Skinner
The Crisis of Childcare in South African Public Hospitals
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220 x 150 mm, 192 pp She also documents the humiliation many men feel at the loss of their role as provider, and the resulting escalation of
Soft cover, 2011
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With Palgrave Macmillan
978 186814 511 9 difficult, particularly when that behavior involves sex and sexuality.
230 x 150 mm, 272 pp
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Eating from One Pot The Dynamics of Survival in Poor South African Households Traumatic Stress in South Africa
PSYCHOLOGY
Sarah Mosoetsa
Debra Kaminer and Gillian Eagle
Sarah Mosoetsa … entered the hidden abode of household production to discover a very different world from the one
painted by the merchants of social capital and livelihood strategies. Rather than the romance of poor people struggling Given the history of political violence in South Africa, high levels of violence against women and children and the
together to survive, she found a fractious and often violent world. prevalence of violent crime, the country has the unfortunate distinction of being considered a real-life laboratory
—From the foreword by Michael Burawoy in which to study traumatic stress. Taking both a historical and contemporary perspective, this book covers the
extent of and manner in which traumatic stress manifests, including the way it impacts on people’s meaning and
This book describes how households in two different areas in KwaZulu-Natal are sites of both stability and conflict,
belief systems. Therapeutic and community strategies for addressing and healing the effects of trauma exposure are
due to the enormous burden placed on them by unemployment and unequal power relations. Many are extremely poor,
covered, as well as the particular needs of traumatised children and adolescents.
relying on a total monthly income of less than R800. However, the book also demonstrates that they are not passive
Traumatic Stress in South Africa provides an up-to-date overview of theory and practice. Attention is also paid to
victims of poverty. Women, in particular, show impressive qualities of energy and resourcefulness. Mosoetsa draws on
context related challenges, such as how trauma presentation and intervention is coloured by cultural systems and
Amartya Sen’s notion of co-operative conflict to argue that in times of crisis there is more conflict than cooperation.
class disparities.
domestic violence and alcohol abuse.
Debra Kaminer is Senior Lecturer in the Psychology Departme­nt at the University of Cape Town. Gillian Eagle is
Sarah Mosoetsa is a research associate at the Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP), University of the Professor and Head of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
978 1 86814 509 6 (print)
iKasi The Moral Ecology of South Africa’s Township Youth 978 1 86814 682 6 (digital)
Sharlene Swartz 220 x 150 mm, 232 pp
Soft cover
This book is based on a study of South African youth who live in townships (iKasi in isiZulu) and who, spared the
2010
apartheid era struggle, grew up in a moral vacuum. iKasi is an examination of how these disenfranchised youth think
about morality. Through detailed ethnographic study, Swartz describes how a group of young people construct right
and wrong, what rules govern their behaviour, how they explain the gap between what they say and what they do, and
ultimately the multiple ways in which they construct meaning from the influences in their immediate contexts (or moral
ecologies). Her main theme is the inter­relationship between poverty, morality and youth in a post-conflict context.
Contradicting Maternity
iKasi brilliantly illustrates the extent to which poverty impacts on the physical, emotional and psycho­logical aspects of HIV-positive Motherhood in South Africa
young people’s lives, including their moral functioning, growth and development.
Carol Long
Sharlene Swartz is a research specialist in the Child, Youth, Family and Social Development division of the Human
Sciences Research Council.
Drawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, Contradicting
Maternity provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother’s point of view. Whereas motherhood is often
assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing
that maternal experience is important in its own right.
Changing the Course of AIDS Peer Education in South Africa and its Lessons The book explores the situation in which two very powerful identities, those of motherhood and of being
for the Global Crisis HIV-positive, collide in the same moment. This collision takes place at the interface of complex, and often split,
David Dickinson social and personal meanings concerning the sanctity of motherhood and the anxieties of HIV. The book offers
an interpretation of how these personal and social meanings resonate with, and also fail to encompass, the
Changing the Course of AIDS is an in-depth evaluation of peer education as a way of creating the much-needed experiences surrounding HIV-positive mothers. Photographs, academic literature and the accounts of real women
behavioural change that could affect the course of the global health crisis of HIV/AIDS. After spending six years are read with both a psychodynamic and discursive eye, highlighting the contradictions within maternal experience,
researching the response of large South African companies to the epidemic, David Dickinson found that regular but also between maternal experience and the social imagination.
workers serving as peer educators can be more effective as agents of behavioral change than experts who lecture
about the facts. In this book he describes the promise of this grassroots intervention and the limitations of traditional 978 1 86814 494 5 (print) Carol Long is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a
top-down strategies. Dickinson takes us right into the workplace to show what it means when workers directly tackle 978 1 86814 624 6 (digital) practicing clinical psychologist.
the kinds of sexual, gender, religious, ethnic and broader social and political taboos that make behavior change so 220 x 150 mm, 240 pp
Soft cover
2009
David Dickinson is Professor of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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 Go Home or Die Here Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinventi­on of Difference
MIGRATION STUDIES
in South Africa
Edited by Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby • Photographs by Alon Skuy
Foreword by Bishop Paul Verryn
The 2008 xenophobic attacks caused an outcry across the world and raised some fundamental questions about a
democratic South Africa. Go Home or Die Here emanates directly from a colloquium convened by the Faculty of Humanities
at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in the weeks following the outbreak of violence. It is an attempt to
make sense of the nuances and trajectories of building a democratic society out of a deeply divided and conflictual past,
978 1 86814 487 7 hominids might have appeared and the dramatic landscapes within which they were discovered.
in the conditions of global recession, heightening inequalities and future uncertainty. With extensive photographs by
210 x 180 mm, 272 pp
award-winning photographer Alon Skuy, who covered the violence for The Times newspaper, the volume is passionate and
Full colour, illustrated
engaged, and aims to stimulate reflection, debate and activism among concerned members of a broad public.
Soft cover, 2008
Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby are all academi­cs based at the University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannes­burg.
The Humanitarian Hangover Displacement, Aid and Transformation in Western
Tanzania
Loren B. Landau
Western Tanzania has hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees living in massive refugee camps sustained by millions
of dollars of humanitarian aid. This book explores this influx of people and aid, and shows how they have transformed
the politics and governmental practices of the region. Loren Landau found that the refugee influx did not produce
the deleterious economic and environmental effects often assumed. Outside the camps, a Tanzanian population long
marginalised became incorporated into systems of power and authority which linked them to Dar es Salaam, central
Africa, Geneva, Washington and the grain farmers of the American Midwest. They became ‘Tanzanian’ as never before
by exalting the territory, the nation and a political leadership that delegated responsibility for security and services
to others: the United Nations, non-governmental organisations and the citizenry. The result was a hybridised regime
978 1 86814 455 6 of power shaped by history, contingency, self-interest and perception: a political form that questions models of rural
235 x 155 mm, 192 pp transformation and the functional basis of the modern nation-state.
Soft cover, 2008
Loren B. Landau is Director of the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersra­nd,
Johannesburg.
Selecting Immigrants National Identity and South Africa’s Immigratio­n Policies,
1910-2008
Sally Peberdy
At a time when (im)migration is at the forefront of inter­national and South African debates, this book critically
examines the relationship between changes in South Africa’s immigration policies, and shifts in the construction of
national identity by the South African State. Relating the history of the immigration policies of the South African State
between 1910 and 2005, it 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. It is in these periods that the relationships between immigration, nationalism and national identity is
most starkly revealed. In a readable, well-researched and interdisciplinary work, Peberdy provides the first history of
978 1 86814 484 6 South Africa’s immigration legislation.
220 x 150 mm, 340 pp
Sally Peberdy is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the Universit­y of
Soft cover, 2009
the Western Cape, South Africa. She is the 2007 winner of the Wits University Research Committee Publication Award.
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978 1 86814 510 2 (print)
978 1 86814 696 3 (digital)
245 x 170 mm, 296 pp
Hard cover, 2008
978 1 86814 418 1
240 x 168 mm, 420 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover with gatefolds, 2007
978 1 86814 417 4
240 x 170 mm, 606 pp
Soft cover, 2005
Caves of the Ape-Men South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site
PALEOANTHROPOLOGY
Ronald J. Clarke and Timothy C. Partridge with contributions by Kathleen Kuman
The unique fossils featured in Caves of the Ape-Men were excavated at cave sites which today are clustered within
the first World Heritage Site to be proclaimed in South Africa under the auspices of UNESCO. This full colour coffee
table book includes excellent visuals of the area, a brief account of its history and an accessible assessment of its
importance for understanding the emergence of hominids – the early creatures transitional between the great apes
and man – and, later, some of the earliest representatives of our own species. Short text boxes are interspersed
with illustrations of key fossil specimens as old as four million years. Also included are reconstructions of how these
Ron Clarke is a paleoanthropologist and the late Timothy Partridge a geologist/paleo-climatologist, both at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
A Search for Origins Science, History and South Africa’s ‘Cradle of Humankind’
Edited by Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins
Foreword by Phillip Tobias
Research based on fossils found in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (COH), as well as signs of early human
habitation, have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played
in the development of modern humans. A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH and
surrounding areas, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a non-specialist audience. This
edited volume frames the scientific advances that have been made in the COH against the intellectual and political
background out of which they emerged. It is the first systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines. The
multi-disciplinary approach is innovative and ground-breaking.
Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins are all academics based at the University of the Witwatersran­d,
Johannesburg. Bonner is a historian, Esterhuysen an archaeologist and Jenkins is a geneticist.
From Tools to Symbols From Early Hominids to Modern Humans
Edited by Francesco d’Errico and Lucinda Backwell
A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early
modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-
anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different
from those of our closest living relatives? This collection of selected papers from a South African-French conference
organised in honour of palaeoanthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study.
It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German
scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological
evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.
Francesco d’Errico is Director of Research at the Centre Nationa­l de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Resear­ch
Professor at the Department of Anthropology, George Washingto­n University, United States. Lucinda Backwell is a
Researcher in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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ARCHAEOLOGY
978 1 86814 474 7
245 x 170 mm, 296 pp
Soft cover, 2008
978 1 86814 421 1 (print)
978 1 86814 678 9 (digital)
210 x 180 mm, 64 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover, 2007
978 1 86814 408 2 (print)
978 1 86814 649 9 (digital)
210 x 180 mm, 64 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover, 2005
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Five Hundred Years Rediscovered Southern African Precedents and Prospects
Edited by Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuys­en and Philip Bonner
The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period in southern Africa’s past. In this period
key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features
of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking
place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and
its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the
homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. This book represents the first step
by a group of archaeologists and historians to collectively reframe and re-examine the last 500 years, and to challenge
current thinking about the region’s expanding internal and colonial frontiers.
Natalie Swanepoel is an archaeologist at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Amanda Esterhuysen is an
archaeologist, and Philip Bonner a historian, both at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Sterkfontein Early Hominid Site in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’
Amanda Esterhuysen
This guide to Sterkfontein is the second in a series of short books on South Africa’s World Heritage Sites. Written by
specialists and generously illustrated, the series aims to provide accurate and accessible introductions to the sites,
and to make the visit more meaningful and enjoyable for uninformed visitors. Mapungubwe was published in 2005.
Sterkfontein provides an easy-to-read overview of the geological and fossil history of the Sterkfontein Valley. The
remarkable record contained in the Sterkfontein Caves, comprising thousands of animal, plant and hominid fossils, is
simply presented and current debates are explained. The use of visual markers from Sterkfontein enables visitors to
identify essential features and formations.
Amanda Esterhuysen is an archaeologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Mapungubwe Ancient African Civilisation on the Limpopo
Thomas N. Huffman
Between AD 900 and 1300, the Shashe-Limpopo basin in Limpopo Province witnessed the development of an ancient
civilisation. Like civilisations everywhere, it consisted of a complex social organisation supported by intensive
agriculture and long-distance trade. The Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, as it is now known, was the forerunner of
the famous town of Great Zimbabwe, situated about 200 kilometres to the north, and its cultural connection to Great
Zimbabwe and the Venda people allows archaeologists to reconstruct its evolution.
This generously illustrated book tells the story of an African civilisation that began more than 1000 years ago. It is
the first in a series of accessible books written by specialists for visitors to South Africa’s World Heritage Sites.
Thomas N. Huffmann is head of Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
978 1 86814 515 7 (print)
978 1 86814 656 7 (digital)
200 x 130 mm, 208 pp
Soft cover, 2010
978 186814 447 1 (print)
978 1 86814 666 6 (digital)
245 x 190 mm, 432 pp
Soft cover, 2007
978 1 86814 410 5 (print)
978 1 86814 676 5 (digital)
240 x 180 mm, 144 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover, 2005
Nature’s Gifts Why We Are the Way We Are
POPULAR SCIENCE
Wilmot James
From genes to geology, medicine to music, bacteria to beauty, Wilmot James sheds light on a cornucopia of ideas.
At the core is the triumph of science as enlightenment and liberation, a potent force for the public good.
—Helena Cronin, London School of Economics
The modern scientific discipline of genetics has helped us to understand the nature of humanity, and Wilmot James has
played a key role in promoting a popular understanding of it. James tells some compelling stories about the genome:
why we have different skin colours, how blood tells a special story of human history, why the brain likes music, how
smell works, why kids love bugs and the teaching of evolution. He gives an account of a great South African scientist,
Eddie Roux, who was known more for his politics, and of the extraordinary naturalist Eugene Marais, who became
known more for his Afrikaans poetry.
Wilmot James is Federal Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance. He is an Honorary Professor in the Division of Human
Genetics (University of Cape Town) and a Visiting Research Professor of the Open University (United Kingdom).
Riddles in Stone Controversies, Theories and Myths about Southern Africa’s
Geological Past
Hugh Eales
Riddles in Stone covers a variety of fascinating controversies and startling differences of opinion that accompanied the
evolution of the study of Earth Sciences in southern Africa. Over the centuries, debates have raged amongst geologists,
and between geologists and biologists, physicists and theologians, on controversies such as the age of the Earth and
its lifespan; Continental Drift; the origin of ore deposits of gold, diamonds, copper and platinum; and Schwarz’s well-
meaning but forgotten Kalahari Scheme. Although scrupulously rooted in scientific literature, this book maintains an
accessible and entertaining tone and shows how consensus amongst a majority may be proof of nothing. Geologists,
challenged to interpret events that took place billions of years ago, have drawn up theories and hypotheses which may
appear either absurdly dated or, from other perspectives, as cutting edge.
Hugh Eales is Professor Emeritus of Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Stars of the Southern Skies An Astronomy Fieldguide
Edited by Mary Fitzgerald
Few books are devoted entirely to the rich skies of the southern hemisphere. Stars of the Southern Skies offers
stargazers some unique insights into the night skies in their half of the world. A practical chapter is devoted to
choosing an instrument – from binoculars to telescopes – with which to view the moon, the planets and the stars. The
beauty and romance of the worlds around our world and the myths that have been created around them are described
in one chapter; comets and meteors are detailed in another. A chapter is devoted to the Sun and Moon, a chapter to the
planets. The text is complemented by superb illustrations – star charts, photographs and graphics – making it a visual
delight. This is a book for anybody who has ever gazed in wonder at the glory of a star-filled sky, and a must for all
budding amateur astronomers.
Mary Fitzgerald is a former Director of the Planetarium, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
978 1 86814 478 5 (print)
978 1 86814 646 8 (digital)
240 x 210 mm, 268 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover with gatefolds
2009
978 1 86814 467 9 (print)
978 1 86814 620 8 (digital)
210 x 180 mm, 264 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover, 2008
978 1 86814 437 2 (print)
978 1 86814 668 0 (digital)
210 x 190 mm, 264 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover, 2006
Leonie Joubert is a freelance science writer. Scorched: South Africa’s Changing Climate and Invaded: The Biological Invasion of South Africa, were awarded
honorary Sunday Times/Alan Paton Awards. Boiling Point: People in a Changing Climate, is based on research funded by the 2007 Ruth First Fellowship.
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Invaded The Biological Invasion of South Africa
Leonie Joubert
Photography by Rodger Bosch
Invaded is a story about biological pollution – the plants and animals that have spread around the globe on the back
of human movement, those that have traversed the boundaries of natural habitats and have begun to erode their
new adopted environment. Joubert documents the grave consequences of humankind’s intended and unintended
introduction of alien species into South Africa. Working in close collaboration with the Centre for Invasion Biology at
Stellenbosch University, she brings to the general reader a scientifically sound yet accessible and important book.
Invaded is, however, not a story of despair. Instead, it encourages scientists, citizens and policy-makers to continue
with their efforts to contain and eradicate invasive alien species. It is a book for the guardians of the South African
environment.
Boiling Point People in a Changing Climate
Leonie Joubert
Climate change is the biggest moral problem of our time, as people who have contributed least to the pollution
responsible for global warming are increasingly understood to be most vulnerable to the shifting environment around
them. In Boiling Point, Joubert embarks on a journey in which she explores the lives of some South Africans affected by
this phenomenon: a rooibos tea farmer in the Northern Cape, a traditional fisherman in Lambert’s Bay, a farmer in the
centre of the Free State’s maize belt, a political refugee in Pietermaritzburg and a sangoma in Limpopo mining country.
Most of these communities live on a knife-edge because of poverty and their dependence on an already capricious
natural environment. Boiling Point considers what might happen to them as normal weather trends are amplified in a
hotter world.
Scorched South Africa’s Changing Climate
Leonie Joubert
Scorched is a vivid journey through southern Africa’s mesmerising landscapes as climate change sets in. It wanders
through the KZN Midlands to capture the last faltering calls of a rain frog that was named after the hobbit Bilbo
Baggins. The author pauses for thought following an elephant stampede to consider how savannahs might shift in
an altered climate. She trails the wading birds of the West Coast into the high Arctic tundra for their annual breeding
season before returning to a Cape which is crisping over as drought continues to grip the province. The world is shifting
its shape around these plants and animals. In places it is warming and drying, elsewhere the rains come in greater
deluges. Some are abandoned as species retreat before the onslaught of rising greenhouse gases and altered weather
patterns. Scorched ponders the morality of the changes humankind has wrought, and the future of life as we know it.
978 1 86814 508 9 (print)
978 1 86814 618 5 (digital)
240 x 170 mm, 608 pp Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Resource Management at the University of Venda;
Full colour, illustrated
Integrated cover, 2010
978 1 86814 479 2 (print)
978 1 86814 629 1 (digital)
245 x 170 mm, 645 pp
Soft cover, 2008
978 1 86814 427 3
230 x 150 mm, 374 pp
Soft cover, 2005
Bats of Southern and Central Africa A Biogeographic and Taxonomic Synthesis
NATURAL SCIENCE
Ara Monadjem, Peter John Taylor, F. P. D. (Woody) Cotterill and M. Corrie Schoeman
This full colour book includes chapters on the evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation of bats, and
provides accounts for the 116 bat species known to occur in southern and central Africa. The identification of families,
genera and species is aided by character matrices. The species accounts provide descriptions, measurements and
diagnostic characters, as well as detailed information on the distribution, habitat, roosting habits, foraging ecology,
and reproduction of each species. Photographs of the bats, including their skulls and dentition, and accurate time-
expanded echolocation call spectrograms illustrate the accounts. Species distribution maps are based on the recorded
localities of 6000 museum specimens. A comprehensive appendix lists the accession number, locality and co-ordinates
of every specimen represented on the distribution maps.
Ara Monadjem is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Swaziland; Peter
Woody Cotterill is the ERANDA Research Fellow at the Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON) and Department of
Geological Sciences at the University of Cape Town; Corrie Schoeman is a Lecturer in the School of Biological and
Conservation Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban.
Elephant Management A Scientific Assessment for South Africa
Edited by R. J. Scholes and K. G. Mennell
Elephants are among the most magnificent – but also most problematic – members of South Africa’s wildlife
population. While they are sought after by tourists, they also have a major impact on their environment. As a result,
elephant management has become a highly complex and often controversial discipline. The South African Minister
for Environmental Affairs and Tourism convened a round table, which recommended that a scientific assessment of
elephant management be undertaken to gather, evaluate and present all the relevant information on the topic. Its
main findings and recommendations are contained in this volume. Elephant Management is the first book of its kind,
combining the work of more than 60 national and international experts. Extensively reviewed by policy-makers and
other stakeholders, it is the most systematic and comprehensive review of savannah elephant populations and factors
relevant to managing them to date.
Bob Scholes is an ecologist at the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Kathleen
Mennell is a Masters student in the Ecosystem Processes and Dynami­cs Research Group at the CSIR.
Adaptive Herbivore Ecology Student Edition
From Resources to Populations in Variable Environments
Norman Owen-Smith
The adaptation of herbivore behaviour is seasonal and locational variations in vegetation quantity and quality is
inadequately modelled by conventional methods. Norman Owen-Smith innovatively links the principles of adaptive
behaviour to their consequences for population dynamics and community ecology, through the application of a
metaphysiological modelling approach. The main focus is on large mammalian herbivores occupying seasonally
variable environments such as those characterised by African savannahs, but applications to temperate zone ungulates
are also included. Issues of habitat suitability are similarly investigated. The modelling approach accommodates
various sources of environmental variability, in space and time, in a simple conceptual way and has the potential to be
applied to other consumer-resource systems.
Norman Owen-Smith is Research Professor in African Ecology and heads the Centre for African Ecology at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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ROCK ART
978 1 86814 497 6 (print)
978 1 86814 660 4 (digital)
250 x 270 mm, 400 pp
Soft cover, illustrated remains a cornerstone of our current understanding. Reprinted here in full colour, with the original artwork and
2009
978 1 86814 498 3 (print)
978 1 86814 628 4 (digital)
250 x 270 mm, 256 pp
Soft cover, illustrated
2009
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People of the Eland
Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg Bushmen as a Reflection of their Life
and Thought
Patricia Vinnicombe
First published in 1976, People of the Eland helped to lay the foundations for a new generation of research into
the meaning of prehistoric art. It was the first major step away from the outsider’s view upon San rock art that
had dominated studies of rock art for nearly a century. The book, an account of the rock art of the San of the
Drakensberg Range, was also about the mountain San themselves: their lives, their beliefs, their culture and their
history during colonisation. It quickly became clear to Vinnicombe that the art reflected the most deeply held San
beliefs and symbols and she tried to gain an insider’s view of the rock art using San understandings of the world.
This approach and this understanding have now become the standard for all those working with San rock art.
Whilst this early knowledge of San art has been built upon considerably since 1976, Vinnicombe’s contribution
photographs, People of the Eland remains a seminal work, the impact of which cannot be underestimated.
Patricia Vinnicombe was one of South Africa’s foremost rock art experts. She died in Australia in 2003.
The Eland’s People
New Perspectives in the Rock Art of the Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen
Edited by Peter Mitchell and Benjamin Smith
Only 1000 copies of People of the Eland were printed in 1976. It was neither reissued nor reprinted and has become
one of the rarest and most expensive of all books on the African past. In 2002, Vinnicombe started to explore the
possibility of republication, but she did not feel that the book could be reissued without adding additional sections
to explain how knowledge had expanded in the decades since its publication. Tragically, Pat died in March 2003.
Peter Mitchell and Benjamin Smith took up her challenge and brought together the leading scholars in the field to
write new sections to explain both how knowledge has changed since the publication of People of the Eland, and
how current research is still influenced by this landmark volume. The Eland’s People is a companion volume to
People of the Eland that aims to provide a richer appreciation of the importance of Pat’s original work, as well as
allowing readers an overview of current understandings of Drakensberg rock art.
Peter Mitchell is a Professor at the School of Archaeology, St Hugh’s College, Oxford University. Benjamin Smith is
the Director of the Rock Art Research Institute (RARI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
ROCK ART
Seeing and Knowing
Rock Art with and without Ethnography
Edited by Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale and Benjamin Smith
It is largely through the work of David Lewis-Williams that San rock art has come to be
understood so well, as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious
beliefs and practices. This volume demon­strates the depth and wide geographical impact of
Lewis-Williams’ contribution, with particular emphasis on his use of theory and methodology
drawn from ethnography.
Seeing and Knowing explores how to understand and learn from rock art with and without
ethnography. Because many of the chapters are based on solid fieldwork and ethnographic
research, they offer a new body of work that provides the evidence for differentiation between
knowing and simply seeing. The volume is unique in that it covers such a wide geographic range
of examples on this topic, from southern Africa, to Scandinavia, to the United States. Many of the
chapters explore studies in rock art regions of the world where variation and constancy can be
observed and explored across distances both in space and in time.
Geoffrey Blundell is Curator of the Origins Centre museum at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Christopher Chippindale is a reader in Archaeology and Curator
for British Collections at the Museum of Archaeol­ogy and Anthropology, Cambridge University.
Benjamin Smith is Director of the Rock Art Research Institute (RARI) at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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978 1 86814 671 0 (digital)
245 x 200 mm, 328 pp
CONTENTS Soft cover, illustrated
2010
Chapter 1. Rock art with and without ethnography Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale and Benjamin Smith With Left Coast Press
Chapter 2. Flashes of brilliance: San rock paintings of heaven’s things Sven Ouzman
Rights: Africa only
Chapter 3. Snake and veil: The rock engravings of Driekopseiland, Northern Cape, South Africa David Morris
Chapter 4. Cups and saucers: A preliminary investigation of the rock carvings of Tsodilo Hills, northern Botswana
Nick Walker
Chapter 5. Art and authorship in southern African rock art: Examining the Limpopo-Shashe Confluence Area
Edward B. Eastwood, Geoffrey Blundell and Benjamin Smith
Chapter 6. Archaeology, ethnography, and rock art: A modern-day study from Tanzania Imogene L. Lim
Chapter 7. Art and belief: The ever-changing and the never-changing in the Far West David S. Whitley
Chapter 8. Crow Indian elk love-medicine and rock art in Montana and Wyoming Lawrence L. Loendorf
Chapter 9. Layer by layer: Precision and accuracy in rock art recording and dating Johannes Loubser
Chapter 10. From the tyranny of the figures to the interrelationship between myths, rock art and their surfaces
Knut Helskog
Chapter 11. Composite creatures in European Palaeolithic art
Chapter 12. Thinking strings: On theory, shifts and conceptual issues in the study of Palaeolithic art Margaret W. Conkey
Chapter 13. Rock art without ethnography? A history of attitude to rock art and landscape at Frøysjøen, western Norway
Eva Walderhaug
Chapter 14. ‘Meaning cannot rest or stay the same’ Patricia Vinnicombe
Chapter 15. Manica rock art in contemporary society Tore Sætersdal
Chapter 16. Oral tradition, ethnography, and the practice of North American archaeology Julie E. Francis and
Lawrence L. Loendorf
Chapter 17. Beyond rock art: Archaeological interpretation and the shamanic frame Neil Price
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 Women by Women 50 Years
ART
of Women’s Photography in
South Africa
Edited by Robin Comley,
George Hallett and Neo Ntsoma
Introduction by Penny Siopis
This book celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of the 1956 women’s march on the Union
978 1 86814 441 9
Buildings. It provides a showcase of
(print)
photographic talent, from the early pioneers of
978 1 86814 695 6
social documentary to the challenging images
(digital)
created by women in South Africa today.
300 x 290 mm, 260 pp
As the struggle against apartheid gained
Full colour, illustrated
momentum in the 1970s and 1980s, women
Hard cover
photographers recorded the drama unfolding
2006
With the Department across the land. More recently, women have
begun exploring a different aesthetic and
of Arts and Culture,
developing a wide range of photographic
Republic of South Africa
practices in the worlds of fashion, journalism,
documentary and advertising.
Robin Comley is a freelance picture editor and photographic consultant.
George Hallett and Neo Ntsoma are award-winning photographers.
Uplifting the Colonial Philistine
Florence Phillips and the
Making of the Johannesburg
Art Gallery
Jillian Carman
Uplifting the Colonial Philistine is a
thoroughly researched, account of the
unusual circumstances in which early
Johannesburg came to have an art gallery
with one of the most avant-garde collections
978 1 86814 436 5
in the world. It describes the characters who
(print)
brought the Johannesburg Art Gallery to its
978 1 86814 686 4
launch in 1910: Florence Phillips, wife of one
(digital)
of the Randlord patrons, and Hugh Lane,
230 x 170 mm, 480 pp
curator. Containing 100 reproductions from
Illustrated
the original catalogue, this book unravels
Soft cover with gatefolds
the complex intertwining of personal and
2006
socio-political agendas that made up the
fabric of the founding.
Jillian Carman was a curator at the Johannesburg Art Gallery for twenty years.
She is the 2005 winner of the Wits Research Committee Publication Award.
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African Dream Machines
Style, Identity and Meaning of
African Headrests
Anitra Nettleton
African Dream Machines takes African
headrests out of the category of functional
objects and into the more rarefied category
of ‘art’ objects. Styles in African headrests
are usually defined in terms of western art
and archaeological discourses, but this book
978 1 86814 458 7 interrogates these definitions of style and
(print) demonstrates the shortcomings of defining
978 1 86814 612 3 a single formal style model as exclusive
(digital) to a single ethnic group. Anitra Nettleton’s
245 x 170 mm, 488 pp drawings of each and every headrest
Illustrated encountered are a major part of the project.
Soft cover with gatefolds
2007
Anitra Nettleton is Professor in the Wits School of Arts, University of
the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the 2006 winner of the Wits
University Research Committee Publication Award.
History after Apartheid
Visual Culture and Public
Memory in a Democratic
South Africa
Annie E. Coombes
History after Apartheid analyses how
South Africa’s visual and material culture
represented the past while at the same
time contributing to the process of social
transformation. Coombes examines how
978 1 86814 407 5 strategies for embodying different models
230 x 155 mm, 384 pp of historical knowledge and experience are
Soft cover negotiated in public culture – in monuments,
2004 museums and contemporary fine art. She
With Duke explores the dilemmas posed by a range of
University Press visual and material culture including key
South African heritage sites, and highlights
the contradictory investment in these sites
among competing constituencies.
Annie E. Coombes is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the
School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College,
University of London, United Kingdom.
978 1 86814 539 3 (print)
978 1 86814 647 5 (digital)
210 x 180 mm, 176 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover with gatefolds
2011
978 1 86814 449 5 (print)
978 1 86814 691 8 (digital)
278 x 215 mm, 232 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover with gatefolds
2007
With the Johannesburg Art Gallery
978 1 86814 442 6
300 x 240 mm, 248 pp
Full colour, illustrated
Hard cover, 2006
With the Johannesburg Art Gallery
Life of Bone Art meets Science
ART
Edited by Joni Brenner, Elizabeth Burroughs and Karel Nel
Hominid fossils touch a responsive chord in people everywhere, who seem to have an inherent drive to know their
beginnings. We want to know what the fossils have to say to us. There seems to be a magic in the fossilised bones that
transcends time ….
—Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar
Life of Bone brings into sharp relief the abutting practices of the scientific and the artistic, practices which have co-
existed since the beginning of our species. It is based on an exhibition at the Origins Centre at the University of the
Witwatersrand, which displayed the original fossil skull of the Taung child hominid alongside artworks by Joni Brenner,
Gerhard Marx and Karel Nel made specifically in response to these evolutionarily significant remains. This unique
combination prompts a range of enquiries on the nature of both artistic and scientific disciplines, and encourages a
dialogue between the very distant historic and the contemporary.
Dunga Manzi / Stirring Waters
Edited by Nessa Leibhammer
Dunga Manzi / Stirring Waters showcases some of South Africa’s most treasured heritage in the form of Tsonga and
Shangaan art and culture. It tracks the history of these cultural groups through essays and a wealth of images of
material culture and art. Divided into four sections, the book highlights the histories of the Tsonga and Shangaan,
including a personal narrative of the Makhubele family. The second section explores the magnificent beading tradition
and the third, the complex legacy of woodcarving from the late nineteenth century to contemporary times. The
historical trajectory, as well as the spectacular attire and equipment of sangomas, form the subject of the fourth and
last section.
Nessa Leibhammer is a Professor in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Dumile Feni Retrospective
Johannesburg Art Gallery • Curated and edited by Prince Mbusi Dube
My subjects are Africans because they are my people, but my message, the idea I am bringing to put across has
nothing to do with racialism.
—Dumile Feni
Dumile Feni was one of Africa’s greatest twentieth century artists – painter, sculptor, poet and nascent filmmaker too.
This lavishly illustrated, full-colour book is the most comprehensive collection of Dumile’s work to date. It honours the
artist’s work, sketches, paintings and sculptures, and provides intimate, quirky photographs of Dumile himself, essays
about him by great contemporary thinkers in the art world, poetry about him and poetry by him.
Prince Mbusi Dube is the Education Curator at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and also the Curator of the Dumile Feni
Retrospective.
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978 1 86814 489 1 (print)
978 1 86814 621 5 (digital)
230 x 155 mm, 528 pp
Soft cover, 2010
978 1 86814 506 5 (print)
978 1 86814 622 2 (digital)
220 x 150 mm, 356 pp
Soft cover, 2010
978 1 86814 476 1 (print)
978 1 86814 632 1 (digital)
220 x 150 mm, 216 pp
Illustrated
Soft cover, 2009
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Bury Me at the Marketplace Es’kia Mphahlele and Company.
Letters 1943–2006
Edited by N. Chabani Manganyi and David Attwell
Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of Mphahlele’s selected letters twenty-five years ago under the same
title. Bury Me at the Marketplace suggested the energy and magnanimity of Mphahlele the man, whose personality
and intellect as a writer and educator would carve an indelible place for him in South Africa’s public sphere. Despite the
personal nature of the letters, the further horizons of this volume are the contours of South Africa’s literary and cultural
history, the international affiliations out of which it has been formed, particularly in the diaspora that connects South
Africa to the rest of the African continent and to the black presence in Europe and the United States.
This selection of Mphahlele’s own letters has been greatly expanded; it has also been augmented by the addition of
letters from Mphahlele’s correspondents.
N. Chabani Manganyi is a clinical psychologist, biographer and non-fiction writer. David Attwell is Professor of
Modern Literature at the University of York, United Kingdom.
Bushman Letters Interpreting /Xam Narrative
Michael Wessels
The Bleek and Lloyd Collection, which represents a rare and rich record of an indigenous language and culture that no
longer exists, has exerted a fascination for anthropologists and poets alike. How does one begin reading texts that
are at once so compromised and so unique? Bushman Letters examines not only the /Xam archive but also the critical
tradition that has grown up around it, as well as the hermeneutic principles that inform that tradition. It critiques these
principles and offers alternative modes of reading. The book accomplishes two things: it shows up problems with the
ways the /Xam materials have been approached by previous critics, and it suggests what their interpretations have left
out in the course of its own detailed and poetic readings of a number of narratives.
Michael Wessels is a researcher in the English Department of the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg.
Entanglement Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid
Sarah Nuttall
… a finger-on-the-pulse report from the cultural frontline of contemporary South Africa.
—Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia
as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises post-apartheid South African life worlds. In her
readings of literature, new media forms and painting, Nuttall moves away from a persistent apartheid optic, drawing on
ideas of sameness and difference, and their limits, in order to elicit ways of living and imagining that are just starting
to take shape and for which we might not yet have a name. In the background of her investigations lies a preoccupation
with a future-oriented politics, one that builds on largely unexplored terrains of mutuality while being attentive to a
historical experience of confrontation and injury.
Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic
Research (WISER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Nuttall is the 2008 winner of the Wits
University Research Committee Publication Award.
978 1 86814 537 9 (print)
978 1 86814 679 6 (digital)
220 x 150 mm, 280 pp
Soft cover, 2011
978 1 86814 536 2 (print)
978 1 86814 650 5 (digital)
235 x 155 mm, 376 pp
Illustrated
Soft cover, 2011
978 1 86814 529 4 Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, The Netherlands.
230 x 150 mm, 272 pp
Softcover, 2010
With Koninklijke Brill NV
Stranger at Home The Praise Poet in Apartheid South Africa
LITERARY STUDIES
Ashlee Neser
This book is about the poetry, vision and context of one of South Africa’s most talented praise poets. The author of five
volumes of Xhosa poetry and performer of inspired and elegantly crafted izibongo (praise poems), Manisi saw himself
as a man of multiple allegiances and identities at a time when these markers of self were rigidly policed. He was for a
time the most famous poet in Kaiser Mathanzima’s court. He also wrote the first published poem about Nelson Mandela
in 1954, hailing him prophetically as ‘Gleaming Road’. Despite these early accomplishments, Manisi ended his career
as a lonely performer in American and South African universities. Neser examines Manisi as an inventive negotiator
of rural and urban spaces, modernity and tradition, performance and publication, the local and the foreign. In the
divided context in which he created poetry, the author argues, it was not possible for Manisi to articulate the package
of identities that defined him. The over-determined public discourse, caught in meanings dictated by apartheid politics
and the urban-centred resistance movement, distorted and isolated Manisi’s poetry.
Ashlee Neser is a Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Researc­h (WISER) at the University of the
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the 2010 winner of the Wits University Research Committee Publication Award.
Marginal Spaces Reading Ivan Vladislavić
Edited by Gerald Gaylard
Ivan Vladislavić is one of the most significant writers in South Africa today. Internationally his stature rests on his
responsiveness to the contemporary, his humour, his honed style, his articulation of the search for home within
the urban, his delicate balance between immersion and objectivity. Locally he has been positioned by critics as the
voice of the ‘now’ in post-apartheid letters for his forensic analysis of South Africa in transition from the exceptional
and marginalised to the merely marginal. This edited volume collects much of the significant and original critical
material, ranging from reviews to interviews to full length articles, so far published on Vladislavić’s individual works. In
compiling the book, Gaylard has chosen critical material of diverse opinion and form, from the scholarly to the casual
and creative, in order to indicate the wide-ranging and fertile responses that Vladislavić’s writing elicits. Moreover, he
has included examples of the initial reception of each of Vladislavić’s books upon their publication.
Gerald Gaylard is a senior lecturer in the English Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Mediations of Violence in Africa Fashioning New Futures from Contested Pasts
Edited by Lidwien Kapteijns and Annemiek Richters
This book analyses the violence of recent African wars from the perspectives of people who experienced and witnessed
them. Two of the six chapters engage with South African mediations of violence. Liz Gunner explores the ways in which
song and performance in the a capella genre of the isicathamiya mediate a complex cocktail of social and psychological
violence in post-1994 KwaZulu-Natal. Diana Gibson introduces the army kitbag (balsak) as a metaphor for the
painful and dark memories of veterans of the border war with Angola in the apartheid state, who experienced deep
psychological, social, interpersonal, political and historical disconnectedness as a result of the fighting.
Lidwien Kapteijns is Professor of History at Wellesley College, United States. Annemiek Richters, physician and
medical anthropologist, is Professor of Culture, Health and Illness at Leiden University Medical Centre and the
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978 1 86814 472 3 often difficult times his talent, dedication,
232 x 156 mm, 360 pp
Soft cover, 2008 impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas
With James Currey
Publishers (UK)
978 1 86814 462 4 (print)
978 1 86814 615 4 (digital)
220 x 150 mm, 208 pp
Soft cover, 2008
978 1 86814 492 1 (print)
978 1 86814 644 4 (digital)
220 x 150 mm, 328 pp
Soft cover, 2009
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Africa Writes Back The African Writers Series and the Launch of African Literature Sara Baartman and the Gerard Sekoto ‘I am an African’
BIOGRAPHY
James Currey Hottentot Venus N. Chabani Manganyi
The publication of Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart by Heinemann provided the impetus for the foundation of the
A Ghost Story and a Biography Foreword by Es’kia Mphahlele
African Writers Series (AWS) in 1962 with Achebe as Editorial Adviser. The AWS almost single-handedly jump-started Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully Considered increasingly as one of the earliest
the rapid surge in African literary creativity by putting into print more than 300 works in less than twenty years. The South African modernists and social realists,
Displayed on European stages from 1810 to
availability of these books throughout the world made it possible for universities and secondary schools to begin to Gerard Sekoto completed his most memorable
1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman
teach courses on African literature; in Africa itself this led to a profound transformation of the curriculum in English. work during the early and middle years of the
was one of the most famous women of her
A whole new discipline of literary studies quickly emerged. None of this would have happened so rapidily and so 1940s. When he left for Paris in 1947, he was at
day, and also one of the least known. Based
successfully had it not been for the pioneering role played by the AWS. the height of his creative powers. He spent 45
on research and interviews that span three
years as an exile in France, and during these
James Currey was the Editorial Director at Heinemann Educational Books in charge of the African Writers Series from continents, Crais and Scully reconstruct
1967 to 1984. Baartman’s life and discuss the enduring
belief in the equality of all people and, most
978 186814 488 4 978 1 86814 400 6
235 x 155 mm, 248 pp (print) of all, his identity as an African sustained him.
about women, race and sexuality. The book
Illustrated 978 1 86814 640 6 Chabani Manganyi’s biography is informed
concludes with the politics involved in
Hard cover (digital) by the discovery, after Sekoto’s death, of
returning Baartman’s remains to her home
2009 210 x 180 mm, 304 pp a ‘suitcase of treasures’, which contained
country, and connects Baartman’s story to her
The Animal Gaze Animal Subjectivities in Southern African Narratives With Princeton
descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-
Illustrated in full colour previously unknown musical compositions,
University Press Soft cover with gatefolds letters and a large quantity of notes, writings
Wendy Woodward century South Africa.
and private documents.
2004
Many humans do not regard animals as complex beings. Instead, they objectify animals, relate to them as ‘pets’, or
Clifton Crais is Professor of History and Pamela Scully is Associate N. Chabani Manganyi is a clinical psychologist, biographer and non-fiction
see them simply as spectacles of beauty or wildness. By contrast, the southern African writers whose work is explored
Professor of Women’s Studies and African Studies, both at Emory writer.
in The Animal Gaze, including Olive Schreiner, Zakes Mda, Yvonne Vera, Eugene N. Marais, J.M. Coetzee, Luis Bernardo
University, United States.
Honwana, Michiel Heyns, Marlene van Niekerk and Linda Tucker, represent animals as richly individual subjects.
The animals – including cattle, horses, birds, lions, leopards, baboons, dogs, cats and a whale – experience complex
emotions and have agency, intentionality and morality, as well as an ability to recognise and fear death. When animals Tobias in Conversation Genes, Into the Past A Memoir
are acknowledged as subjects in this way, then the animal gaze and the human response encapsulate an interspecies Fossils and Anthropology ˆ Phillip V. Tobias
communication of kinship, rather than confirming a human sense of superiority. Woodward engages with the writings
of Jacques Derrida, J.M. Coetzee, Val Plumwood and Martha C. Nussbaum, in a way that compels the reader to think Phillip V. Tobias with Goran Strkalj … not only records Phillip Tobias’s personal
differently about non-human animals and human relationships with them. and Jane Dugard journey in life, science and education, but also
the passage of our country, South Africa.
Wendy Woodward is a Professor in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Tobias in Conversation invites the reader to
—Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate (from
embark on a journey through the life and work
the foreword)
of Phillip Tobias. It is based on a collection of
interviews with the internationally acclaimed Phillip Tobias is arguably South Africa’s most
scientist. Tobias is first and foremost a human honoured and decorated scientist. Into the
The Imagination of Freedom Critical Texts and Times in Contemporary Liberalism
anatomist. Interviews range across such topics Past focuses on his early life: from his troubled
Andrew Foley as research into the physical anthropology childhood in Durban and Bloemfontein to his
978 1 86814 477 8 of living peoples; studies of mammalian 978 1 77010 015 2 student days at Wits University (where he also
At last, a view of literary studies that speaks to the real world where political conduct, social justice and individual
(print) chromosomes; an invitation from Louis and 234 x 153 mm, 320 pp taught from 1945 until 1993) and the prolific
freedom matter.
978 1 86814 680 2 Mary Leakey to describe the hominid fossils Soft cover research, correspondence and travels of his
—Laurence Wright, Rhodes University
(digital) they discovered; the identification, description 2005 early career. His dedication to the people of
Andrew Foley explores the work of a number of writers who have responded, from a liberal viewpoint, to critical 250 x 170mm, 360 pp and naming of Homo habilis; re-opening of With Pan Macmillan Africa, and his role in the fight against racism
moments when the idea of human freedom has come under threat. He presents a contextualised discussion of the Soft cover the Sterkfontein fossil site in 1966; Tobias’s during the harrowing decades of South Africa’s
work of Alan Paton, Chinua Achebe, Ken Kesey, Seamus Heaney, Fay Weldon, Athol Fugard, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ian 2008 political activism and medical ethics; and apartheid regime, are vividly recounted.
McEwan and others, in order to pursue three interrelated aims: to reassess the significance of these writers from a his personal philosophy concerning religion
contemporary perspective; to clarify their political vision as liberal writers; and to develop a case for liberalism as a and evolution.
coherent and compelling political philosophy.
Goran Strkalj is a biological anthropologist at Macquarie University,
Andrew Foley is Head of the Department of English in the School of Education at the University of the Witwaters­rand, Phillip V. Tobias is Professor Emeritus in the School of Anatomical Sciences
Sydney. Jane Dugard is a biologist who writes evolutionary materials for
Johannesburg. at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
school textbooks.
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 Tshepang The Third Testament Nothing but the Truth
THEATRE

Lara Foot Newton
In 2001 South Africa was devastated by the news of a brutal rape of a nine-month-old child who came to be known
as baby Tshepang. The media reported that she had been gang-raped by a group of six men. Later it was discovered
that the men had been wrongfully accused and that the infant had instead been raped and sodomised by her mother’s
boyfriend. Once the story of baby Tshepang hit the headlines, the scab was torn off a festering wound, and hundreds
of similar stories followed. Weaving together ‘twenty thousand stories’ (the number of reported child rapes in South
Africa each year), Tshepang tells a story of love, forgiveness and the difficulties of coming to terms with a violation of
this magnitude.
THEATRE
John Kani
Nothing but the Truth is the story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, and the
ambiguities of freedom. Nothing but the Truth (2002) was John Kani’s debut as sole playwright and was first performed
in the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. It won the 2003 Fleur du Cap Award for best actor and best new South African
play. In the same year Kani was also awarded a special Obie award for his extraordinary contribution to theatre in the
United States. This play was selected by the South African National Department of Education for study in Grade 12. A
new scholar’s edition, co-published with Macmillan South Africa, has been released which meets all requirements of
the department.

Lara Foot Newton is a South African playwright, theatre director and producer. 978 1 86814 389 4 (print) John Kani co-wrote famous plays such as The Island with Athol Fugard and Winston Ntshona. Nothing but the Truth
978 1 86814 415 1 (print)
978 1 86814 657 4 (digital) marks his debut as sole playwright.
978 1 86814 683 3 (digital)
200 x 130 mm, 64 pp 200 x 130 mm, 72 pp
Soft cover, 2005 Soft cover, 2002 Macmillan/WUP scholar’s edition: 978 1 77030 317 1, Soft cover, 2008. (Available from Macmillan South Africa,
Tel. +27 11 731 3300)

Zulu Love Letter

978 1 86814 496 9 (print)
978 1 86814 505 8
(print with DVD) Jury Prize – Best Script 2001, at the 15th Edition, Grand Prix du Meilleur Scenariste, Paris.
978 1 86814 693 2 (digital)
210 x 180 mm, 128 pp
Soft cover, illustrated, 2009
Love, Crime and Johannesburg A Musical
Bhekizizwe Peterson and Ramadan Suleman
Junction Avenue Theatre Company
Set against the backdrop of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Zulu Love Letter is a story of two mothers
Introduction by Malcolm Purkey and Carol Steinburg
in search of their daughters. Thandeka Khumalo is challenged with mending her estranged relationship with her
thirteen-year-old daughter, Simangaliso, who grew up with her grandparents because of Thandeka’s career and Love, Crime and Johannesburg is the story of Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane, a people’s poet involved in the struggle, who
political commitments. Tormented by a sense of guilt, Thandeka is compelled to confront her experiences of detention is accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his innocence, claiming to work for the ‘secret secret service’.
and torture when ghosts from the past reappear. Me’Tau, the mother of a young activist (Dineo) whose assassination Lewis, his old friend and comrade from the struggle, now owns a bank. How did this happen? The man of the struggle
Thandeka witnessed and reported, wants Thandeka to help in finding Dineo’s body so that she can be given a fitting is now a man of accounts. Added to the mix is an old-style gangster, two girlfriends, a Jewish father and a very unusual
burial. Marking the ebb-and-flow of the adults’ attempts to deal with the historical inheritances of apartheid is the Chief of Police. Described as one of the first genuine post-apartheid plays, Love, Crime and Johannesburg is a witty,
‘Love Letter’ that Simangaliso is weaving as a gift to her mother. A colourful tapestry of beads, trinkets and buttons, the light-hearted account of life in the City of Gold at the turn of the millennium. Winner of the 2000 Vita Award for best
‘Love Letter’ encapsulates the power of the arts in fostering memory-work, healing and love. The script won the Special script of a new South African Play.
978 1 86814 354 2 (print)
Bhekizizwe Peterson and Ramadan Suleman are directors of Natives At Large, a film and television production 978 1 86814 648 2 (digital)
company. Peterson is also Associate Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 200 x 130 mm, 80 pp
Soft cover, 2000

At this Stage Plays from Post-apartheid South Africa Sophiatown

978 1 86814 493 8 (print)
978 1 86814 617 8 (digital)
220 x 150 mm, 186 pp
Soft cover, illustrated, 2009
Edited by Greg Homann Junction Avenue Theatre Company
As South Africa continues to advance towards the fulfilment of its visionary constitution, significant shifts in the mode, Introduction by Malcolm Purkey
style and theme of its nation’s theatre have begun to take hold. The four plays in this collection offer insights into A truly superb production .... It is subtle, sophisticated, polished, warm, informative and much more – in short bloody
an emerging national identity in their exploration of the themes of reconciliation, matriarchy, justice, accountability, wonderful.
corruption, truth, memory and violence. Editor and theatre director Greg Homann argues that South African playwrights —Charles van Onselen, historian
have surfaced into a new period, in which the mode of representation has shifted to match a democratic society
grappling with multiple points of view. The following plays are included: Sophiatown was the ‘Chicago of South Africa’, a vibrant community that produced not only gangsters and shebeen
‘Reach!’ by Lara Foot Newton queens but leading journalists, writers, musicians and politicians, and gave urban African culture its rhythm and style.
‘Some Mothers’ Sons’ by Mike van Graan This play, based on the life history of Sophiatown, opened at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in February 1986 to
‘Shwele Bawo!’ by Motshabi Tyelele great acclaim. The play won the AA Life Vita Award for Playwright of the Year 1985/86. This edition of the play includes
978 1 86814 236 1 (print)
‘Dream of the Dog’ by Craig Higginson an introduction which sets the work in its historical context.
978 1 86814 673 4 (digital)
Greg Homann is a Lecturer in South African Theatre at the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, The Junction Avenue Theatre Company was founded in Johannesburg in the 1970s.
200 x 130 mm, 96 pp
Johannesburg. Soft cover, 1993

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 Fools, Bells and the Habit
THEATRE
of Eating
Zakes Mda
Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the
themes of the three plays in this collection:
The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with
its central character a corrupt Lesotho official,
is a grinding satire on materialism. You
Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled
study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief that
government by those who inherit a revolution
978 1 86814 377 1 is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two,
(print) hijacked by the smart operators. The Bells of
978 1 86814 639 9 Amersfoort, with its graphic portrayal of the
(digital) isolation imposed by exile, picks up on the
220 x 150 mm, 162 pp themes of the other two plays but adds to
Soft cover them the concept of ‘healing’, both of the soul
2002 and of the land.
Zakes Mda is a multiple award-winning playwright, novelist, painter,
composer and filmmaker. He currently teaches at the University of Ohio,
United States.
My Life and Valley Song
Two Plays
Athol Fugard
My Life is based on the diaries of five
South African girls who were growing into
womanhood in 1994. The perspective of
each young woman on her country and her
people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety,
exuberance, warmth and humour. A small
Karoo town provides the setting for Valley
Song, which explores the theme of youth
978 1 86814 287 3 in search of itself, and provides a lyrical
(print) metaphor for the new South Africa in which it
978 1 86814 654 3 was set, and has been termed one of Fugard’s
(digital) most endearing plays.
190 x 125 mm, 86 pp
Soft cover
1996
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Sorrows and Rejoicings
Athol Fugard
Introduction by Anthony Akerman
In an old house in a small country town three
women gather in the presence of a stinkwood
table and their powerful memories of the
man they have just buried. In Sorrows and
Rejoicings, Athol Fugard turns once more to his
beloved Karoo and to the themes of exile and
the importance of place that have permeated
so many of his plays. Anthony Akerman’s
978 1 86814 385 6 accessible introduction situates the play in the
(print) context of the body of Fugard’s work.
978 1 86814 674 1
(digital)
200 x 130 mm, 80 pp
Soft cover
2002
Athol Fugard is one of South Africa’s and the world’s finest playwrights. His
numerous plays have won many awards, been produced internationally and
made into musical works and films.
My Children! My Africa!
and Selected Shorter Plays
Athol Fugard
Edited by Stephen Gray
In his introduction to this collection, Stephen
Gray states that ‘there can be no artistic
grounds on which to uphold a belief that
“short” implies “lesser”’; he goes on to make
the point that ‘Fugard seems naturally to be
most at ease when working in compact dense
forms’ . This collection brings together all the
978 1 86814 117 3
available shorter plays by Athol Fugard not
(print)
accessible to readers and performers, and
978 1 86814 653 6
demonstrates through these plays the crucial
(digital)
stages of Fugard’s development as a great man
198 x 126 mm, 198 pp
of the theatre.
Soft cover
1990
Women Writing Africa
The contributions of African women to their respective nations have been documented for generations as letters, speeches, songs, poems and other oralities,
but never before have they been gathered together in one monumental work: The Women Writing Africa Project. This invaluable resource, originally published
by Feminist Press in the United States, seeks to elucidate voices and stories that have been long ignored and are in need of telling.
The Southern Region
Edited by M.J. Daymond,
Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes,
Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi,
Margie Orford and Nobantu Rasebotsa
Presenting voices rarely heard, some recorded
as early as the mid-nineteenth century, as
well as rediscovered gems by well-known
authors such as Bessie Head and Doris
Lessing, this landmark collection reveals a
living cultural legacy that will revolutionise
978 1 86814 394 8 the understanding of African women’s literary
235 x 155 mm, 560 pp and cultural production. The texts – ranging
Soft cover from communal songs and folktales to letters,
2003 diaries, political petitions, court records,
poems, essays, and fiction – demonstrate
the critical role played by women in cultural
continuity and resistance to oppression in six
countries in the region: Botswana, Lesotho,
Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland
and Zimbabwe.
The Eastern Region
Edited by Amandina Lihamba,
Fulata L. Moyo, Mugyabuso M.
Mulokozi, Naomi L. Shitemi
and Saida Yahya-Othman
This volume highlights twenty-three
languages and five east African countries:
Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
It focuses on the daily lives of women in
retellings of personal sufferings and triumphs,
parliamentary speeches, fiction, poetry and
978 1 86814 459 4 songs, and the roles of women in creating
235 x 155 mm, 512 pp an educated people in nations free from
Soft cover colonial rule.
2007
WOMEN’S WRITING
West Africa and the Sahel
Edited by Esi Sutherland-Addy
and Aminata Diaw
The collection encompasses an epic cultural
history through the voices of women
represented in twenty languages spoken in an
area encompassing twelve countries: Benin,
Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia,
Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Niger,
Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
978 1 86814 428 0
235 x 155 mm, 512 pp
Soft cover
2005
The Northern Region
Edited by Fatima Sadiqi,
Amira Nowaira, Azza El Kholy
and Moha Ennaji
The fourth volume in the series includes more
than 100 texts from Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania,
Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. It includes works
from 1500 BCE to the present; from an Egyptian
Queen’s marriage proposal to contem­porary
women promoting new marriage and family
laws. Many names will resonate with modern
978 186814 490 7 readers, including Leila Abou Zeid, Amina
235 x 155 mm, 636 pp Arfaoui, Salwa Bakr, Assia Djebar, Nawal
Soft cover El Saadawi and Fatima Mernissi. Important
2009 themes include polygamy, the veil, education
and political participation.
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 The African Treasury Series
AFRICAN TREAUSURY SERIES

AFRICAN TREAUSURY SERIES

The African Treasury Series is a premier collection of texts by South Africa’s pioneers of African literature and written in indigenous languages. First published
Inkondlo kaZulu Ukufa KukaShaka
in the 1940s, the series provided a voice for the voiceless and celebrated African culture, history and heritage. It continues to make a contribution by supporting
B. Wallet Vilakazi Elliot Zondi
current efforts to empower and develop the status of African languages in South Africa.
978 085494 068 4, 1935 978 085494 079 0, 1960

Abantu Besizwe Umyezo Pelong ya ka

Historical and Biographical Writings, 1902-1944 J.J.R. Jolobe S.M. Mofokeng
978 085494 069 1, 1936 978 191980 579 5, 1962
S. E. K. Mqhayi
Dintshontsho tsa bo- Juluse Kesara Ikhwezi Likazulu
Edited and translated by Jeff Opland with the assistance of Luvo Mabinza, Koliswa Moropa, Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje J.M. Sikakana
Nosisi Mpolweni and Abner Nyamende 978 085494 070 7, 1937 978 085494 081 3, 1965

S. E. K. Mqhayi (1875-1945) was born in the Eastern Cape and taught in and near East London and at Lovedale. He
helped to edit two local newspapers, Izwi labantu and Imvo zabantsundu before retiring to devote himself to social
Amavo Hayani Mazulu
upliftment schemes, to writing and translating. Mqhayi is one of the greatest figures in the history of South African
J.J.R. Jolobe Aaron Phumasilwe Myeni
literature, yet his achievement is not fully appreciated because he wrote only in isiXhosa. He was the greatest of
978 085494 072 1, 1941 978 085320 026 0, 1969
all isiXhosa praise poets, whose concern with all the people of South Africa earned him the title ‘Imbongi yesizwe
jikelele’, ‘The poet of the whole nation’. Abantu Besizwe (The Nation’s People), the first new volume of Mqhayi’s UGubudele Namazimuzimu Isoka lakwaZulu
writing to appear in over 60 years, contains 69 historical and biographical essays contributed to newspapers N.N.T. Ndebele N.J. Makahye
between 1902 and 1944 as originally published, with facing English translations. The collection will confirm his 978 085320 018 5, 1941 978 085494 103 2, 1972
status as a major South African author.
978 1 86814 501 0 (print) Inzuzo Insumansumane
978 1 86814 611 6 (digital) S.E.K. Mqhayi Elliot Zondi
230 x 150 mm, 648 pp 978 18692 511 5, 1943 978 186925 065 2, 1986
Soft cover, 2009

The Nation’s Bounty Amal’e Zulu Dipale le Ditshomo

The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho B.W. Vilakazi N.P. Maake
978 085320 016 1, 1945 978 085494 988 5, 1987
Edited and translated by Jeff Opland with the assistance of Phyllis Ntantala,
Abner Nyamende and Peter Mtuze Motswasele II Diwani ya Muyaka bin
L.D. Raditladi Haji Al-Ghassaniy
For nearly a decade Nontsizi Mgqwetho contributed poetry to a Johannesburg newspaper, Umteteli wa Bantu. Very 978 191991 110 6, 1945 W. Hichens
little is known about her life. She explodes on the scene with her urgent, confrontational poetry on 23 October 1940
1920, sends poems to the newspaper regularly from 1924 to 1926, withdraws for two years until two final poems Tseleng ya Bophelo le
appear in December 1928 and January 1929, then disappears into the shrouding silence she first burst from. The
poetry she left immediately claims for her the status of one of the greatest literary artists ever to write in isiXhosa,
Dithothokiso tse Ntjha Pambo la Lugha
an anguished voice of an urban woman confronting male dominance, ineffective leadership, black apathy, white
J.A.C.G. Mocoancoeng Shabaan Robert
978 085494 077 6, 1947
malice and indifference, economic exploitation and a tragic history of nineteenth-century territorial and cultural
dispossession. The Nation’s Bounty contains the original poems alongside English translations. Kielezo cha Insha
Senkatana Shabaan Robert
S.M. Mofokeng 1954
978 085494 078 3, 1952
978 186814 451 8 (print)
978 1 86814 655 0 (digital) Jeff Opland is Visiting Professor of African Language and Literatures at the School of Oriental and African Studies,
Titles in the African Treasury Series are also available from Macmillan South Africa
230 x 150 mm, 480 pp University of London, and Research Fellow in the Department of African Languages, University of South Africa,
Tel: +27 11 731 3300 • www.macmillan.co.za
Soft cover, 2007 Pretoria.

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 The Wits P&DM Governance Series explores the challenges and politics of governance and service delivery in unequal and limited resource contexts such as
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South and southern Africa. By focusing on public administration, institutional economics, development and good governance issues, it aims to contribute to
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The Politics of Service Delivery
Edited by Anne Mc Lennan
and Barry Munslow
Securing economic growth by ensuring that
its rewards are distributed to the poor and
marginalised through social grants and
effective delivery remains a key challenge
facing South Africa in the second decade of
democracy. This book examines the obstacles
to and, in a series of case studies, reflects on
lessons for delivery in developing countries.
978 186814 481 5
(print)
978 1 86814 661 1
(digital)
240 x 170 mm, 340 pp
Soft cover
2009
Anne Mc Lennan is an Associate Professor in the Graduate School of
Public and Development Management, University of the Witwatersrand,
Johannesburg. Barry Munslow is a Visiting Research Professor at the
Graduate School of Public and Development Management.
Security and Democracy in
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Edited by Gavin Cawthra,
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Southern Africa has embarked on one of the
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978 1 86814 453 2 of democracy and its deficits, and national
(print) security practices and perceptions of eleven
978 1 86814 670 3 southern African states. Progress will mean
(digital) building multinational institutions, entrenching
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Soft cover and integrating the southern African project
2007 with that of the African Union.
Andre du Pisani is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of
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Foreign Relations, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Professor of Strategic Studies.
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African Security Governance
Emerging Issues
Edited by Gavin Cawthra
Africa faces a range of security challenges.
This book is a result of research carried
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978 1 86814 483 9 actors in the areas of both human and state
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978 1 86814 613 0 transformation, intelligence governance,
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240 x 170 mm, 240 pp challenges of nuclear proliferation, regional
Soft cover security, peace diplomacy and peace missions,
2009 the relationship between development and
With United Nations security and new challenges in governance of
University Press the military.
Gavin Cawthra is Professor of Defence and Security Management at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
The State of the State
Institutional Transformation,
Capacity and Political Change
in South Africa
Louis A. Picard
In this book, Picard breaks new ground in his
exploration of the nature of the South African
state in the 1990s and early twenty-first
century. He argues that the structural legacies
of the apartheid state embedded in systems of
978 1 86814 419 8
government have a continuing influence on the
(digital)
success of the new democratic government in
978 1 86814 677 2
South Africa.
(digital)
240 x 170 mm, 416 pp
Soft cover
2006
Louis A. Picard is Professor in the Division of International Development,
Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh,
United States.
978 1 86814 465 5 (print)
978 1 86814 652 9 (digital)
280 x 210 mm, 518 pp
Illustrated in full colour
Soft cover, 2008
978 1 86814 503 4 (print)
978 1 86814 638 3 (digital)
295 x 210 mm, 256 pp
Soft cover, 2010
978 1 86814 519 5 (print)
978 1 86814 684 0 (digital)
240 x 170 mm, 576 pp from 1968 to 1999. He has since been a professor at Rhodes University and adjunct professor at Grand Valley State
Soft cover, 2011
Molecular Medicine for Clinicians
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The insights following the wake of the Human Genome project are radically influencing our understanding of the
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beginning to have an impact on therapeutics in a fundamental way. This book is suitable for undergraduate medical
students, as part of their basic sciences training, but is also relevant to interested under- and postgraduate science and
engineering students. It serves as an introductory text for medical registrars in virtually all specialties, and is also of
value to the General Practitioner wishing to keep up to date, especially in view of the growing, internet-assisted public
knowledge of the field. There is a special focus on the application of molecular medicine in Africa and in developing
countries elsewhere.
Barry Mendelow is Emeritus Professor, Wendy Stevens is Head of the Department of Molecular Medicine and
Haematology, Michele Ramsay is Head of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Division of Human Genetics and
Nanthakumarn Chetty is Head of the Platelet Research Unit in the Department of Molecular Medicine and
Haematology, all at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and National Health Laborato­ry Service.
The Fundamentals of Human Embryology Student Manual 2nd Edition
John Allan and Beverley Kramer
The Fundamentals of Human Embryology imparts to students a comprehensive overview of how the human embryo
forms, not only as a basis for the student of human anatomy, but also as a link to abnormalities they may encounter
in their clinical careers. Extensively illustrated with labeled line drawings, this concise manual will meet the needs of
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on the neural crest, the skull and osteogenesis, and in-depth coverage of head and neck embryology, including
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an appendix of coloured photographs of congenital abnormalities to help students form a more realistic idea of
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John Allan is Emeritus Professor of Applied and Functional Anatomy in the School of Human Sciences at the University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Beverley Kramer is Head of the School of Anatomical Sciences at the University
of the Witwatersrand, and President of the Anatomical Society of Southern Africa.
Turnaround Management and Corporate Renewal A South African Perspective
Edited by Neil Harvey
This broad definition can apply to turnarounds in almost anything – a life, an endeavour, a company, a municipality, a
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Definitions, stages of a turnaround, rapid appraisal and detailed analysis, recovery plan development and
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management and value engineering, early warning signals and managing stress are all included in the chapters. Case
studies are written by people who have led successful South African turnarounds.
Neil Harvey led fourteen successful turnarounds across a variety of industries in Africa, Europe and the United States
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Graphics The Human Body Dissected Finance for Managers Applying Psychology to the
A Drawing Workbook Jules Kieser and John Allan An Introduction, 6th Edition Workplace
Errol van der Merwe Practical Anatomy is a clearly written Colin Hartley, John Ford James Fisher, Lesley-Anne Katz,
and Charles Potter guide to dissection and an account of the and Colin Firer Karin Miller, Andrew Thatcher
biological, developmental and systematic
Engineering Graphics forms part of every An easy-to-read, integrated approach to South Africa at Work highlights some of
foundations of human anatomy. The book is
engineer’s training. This interactive workbook accounting and finance which dispels the core issues that shape South Africa’s
aimed at the second year medical, dental and
for the beginner engineer has developed much of the mystique surrounding these contemporary working environment, and
physiotherapy student. It has built on the
out of internationally acclaimed research subjects aimed at students and non-financial shows how an understanding of psychology
solid foundation of Professor Phillip Tobias’s
on spatial perception methodology, and is managers. The updated edition incorporates can assist managers in the effective running of
Man’s Anatomy, incorporating all the features 978 1 86814 429 7 978 1 86814 381 8
written to the requirements of the National changes in legislation and in attitudes organisations and the promotion of effective
978 1 86814 335 1 978 1 86814 309 2 unique to that work. (print) (print)
Qualifications Framework. towards financial analysis, the interpretation employee relations. South Africa at Work will
(print) (print) 978 1 86814 623 9 978 1 86814 675 8
of annual accounts and the use of financial help both managers and students understand
978 1 86814 645 1 978 1 86814 663 5 (digital) (digital)
rations, as well as chapters on the financial the real-life complexities of organisational life
(digital) (digital) 214 x 150 mm, 300 pp 240 x 170 mm, 224 pp
planning process, the cost of capital and in South Africa.
297 x 210 mm, 304 pp 297 x 210 mm, 416 pp Soft cover Soft cover
risk analysis.
Soft cover Soft cover 2005 2003
2000 1999
Colin Hartley is a chartered accountant and cost management accountant.
Errol van der Merwe is a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering Jules Kieser is a Lecturer at the University of Otago Dental School in New Colin Firer is Academic Director of the Graduate School of Business and Len James Fisher is a Professor of Psychology and Lesley-Anne Katz, Karin
and Charles Potter is Associate Professor of Psychology, both at the Zealand. John Allan is Emeritus Professor of Anatomy at the University of Abrahamse Chair of Business Administration in Finance at the Universi­ty of Miller and Andrew Thatcher are all Lecture­rs in Psychology at the
University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg. Cape Town. John Ford is a Lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Biology Skills General Pathology Encounters English-Zulu / Zulu-English

Second Edition
Debbie Osberg
Using the topic of biodiversity as background
content, Biology Skills is designed to teach
the most important techniques required for a
science degree, enabling the student to learn
new techniques at the same time as revising
the course work. Designed in the form of a
handy workbook, Biology Skills is interactive
and flexible enough to be used by students
in their own study groups or in more formal
978 1 86814 327 6 tutorial groups with the guidance of a tutor.
(print)
978 1 86814 619 2
(digital)
297 x 210 mm, 256 pp
Soft cover
1997
Debbie Osberg is based at the General College of Science at the University
of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Illustrated Lecture Notes An Anthology of South African Dictionary
J. J. Rippey Short Stories C. M. Doke, D. M. Malcolm,
General Pathology covers the study of Edited by David Medalie J. M. A. Sikakana, B. W. Vilakazi
pathological or disease processes in general This is the original and first Zulu-English
Among the twenty contributors to this
with particular reference to morphological dictionary to be developed in South Africa.
anthology are Nobel Laureate, Nadine
changes. The book is designed for second- It was begun in the 1940s by Wits University
Gordimer; the immortal chronicler of the Groot
and third-year pathology students in the lecturers, C. M. Doke and B. W. Vilakazi.
Marico, Herman Charles Bosman; award-
medical and paramedical fields. Topics Vilakazi, who died in 1947, was the first
winning authors Ivan Vladislavić’s, Ahmed
covered include cell injury, death and necrosis, published Zulu poet and his collection,
Essop, Mandla Langa, Dan Jacobson, Miriam
pigmentation, calcification, haemorrhage, Amal’eZulu, is listed in the Top 100 African
978 1 86814 325 2 Tlali, Christopher Hope, Mbulelo Mzamane 978 1 86814 160 9
978 1 86814 240 8 shock and oedema. Books of the twentieth century. The English-
(print) and Chris van Wyk; and the legendary icon of (print)
(print) Drum Magazine, Can Themba. Compiled and Zulu dictionary was published in 1958 by
978 1 86814 630 7 978 1 86814 631 4
978 1 86814 639 0 introduced by David Medalie, this selection Doke, Malcolm and Sikakana. The first
(digital) (digital)
(digital) ranges across time, culture and style. combined edition of the two dictionaries (i.e.
220 x 150 mm, 272 pp 210 x 150 mm, 1608 pp
Second Edition the present format) was published in 1990.
Soft cover Soft cover
243 x 169 mm, 364 pp The English-Zulu / Zulu­­–English Dictionary
1998 1990
Soft cover is still the definitive dictionary in these
1994 languages. Various revisions have been
undertaken over the years to bring the
John Rippey is a former Professor of Anatomical Pathology at the orthography up to date.
South African Institute of Medical Research, at the University of the David Medalie lectures in the English Department at the University of
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Pretoria, South Africa.

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978 1 86814 501 0 Abantu Besizwe Mqhayi 230.00 39.95 82

978 1 86814 427 3 Adaptive Herbivore Ecology Owen-Smith 250.00 39.95 69
978 1 86814 432 7 Africa on the Move Tienda et al (Eds) 230.00 32.95 88
978 1 86814 472 3 Africa Writes Back Currey 210.00 n/a 76
978 1 86814 565 2 African-Language Literatures Mhlambi 270.00 34.95 44
978 1 86814 458 7 African Dream Machines Nettleton 260.00 39.95 72
978 1 86814 542 3 African National Congress and the Regeneration Booysen 250.00 34.95 59
Still Beating the Drum Structure, Meaning and Ritual in Theatres of Struggle and the Untold Stories 978 1 86814 483 9 African Security Governance Cawthra (Ed) 240.00 n/a 84
Critical Perspectives on Lewis Nkosi the Narratives of the Southern San End of Apartheid Economics and Busines­s
Roger Hewitt Belinda Bozzoli 978 1 86814 424 2 After Colonialism Gaylard 220.00 37.95 88
Edited by Liz Gunner and Lindy Stiebel Journalism in African Media
Edited by Peter Kariethi
978 1 86814 562 1 AIDS Conspiracy, The Nattrass 220.00 n/a 18
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2008 2004 and Nixon Kariithi 978 1 86814 480 8 Alexandra: A History Bonner, Nieftagodien 220.00 39.95 56
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With Rodopi (The Netherlands) With James Currey (UK), With Edinburgh Universit­y 978 1 86814 414 3 978 1 86814 460 0 Ambiguities of Witnessing Sanders 220.00 n/a 88
Weaver Press (Zimbabwe) and Press (UK) 2005 978 1 86814 222 4 And the Girls in their Sunday Dresses Mda 90.00 n/a 88
Ohio University Press (US) 978 1 86814 462 4 Animal Gaze, The Woodward 230.00 34.95 76
978 1 86814 264 4 At the Junction Junction Avenue Theatre 95.00 39.95 88
978 1 86814 493 8 At this Stage Homann (Ed.) 190.00 24.95 78
978 1 86814 508 9 Bats of Southern and Central Africa Monadjem et al 590.00 69.95 69
978 1 86814 532 4 Becoming Worthy Ancestors Mangcu (Ed) 240.00 34.95 53
978 1 86814 563 8 Being Nuclear Hecht 250.00 n/a 17
978 1 86814 446 4 Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Eilersen 230.00 34.95 88
978 1 86814 425 9 Big African States Clapham et al (Eds) 230.00 34.95 88
978 1 86814 327 6 Biology Skills Osberg 230.00 19.95 86
978 1 86814 333 7 Bleakness and Light Morris 210.00 34.95 88
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978 1 86814 397 9 Boy from Bethulie Mynhardt 190.00 39.95 88
The War Against Ourselves We Write What We Like Wits Worlds of Power 978 1 86814 489 1 Bury me at the Marketplace Manganyi, Attwell 240.00 39.95 74
Nature, Power and Justice Celebrating Steve Biko The ‘Open’ Years Religious Thought and Political
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Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter Haar 978 1 86814 429 7 Business Accounting and Finance Hartley, Firer, Ford 240.00 n/a 87
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2004 978 1 86814 423 5 Buttons and Breakfasts Orr et al (Eds) 240.00 29.95 88
With Christopher Hurst (UK) 978 1 86814 059 5 Caught Behind Murray, Merrett 180.00 n/a 88
978 1 86814 510 2 Caves of the Ape-Men Clarke, Partridge 390.00 60.00 65
978 1 86814 416 7 Celebrating Bosman Mynhardt 140.00 24.95 89
978 1 86814 384 9 Change of Pace Bruggemans 210.00 29.95 89
978 1 86814 511 9 Changing the Course of AIDS Dickinson 220.00 n/a 62
978 1 86814 275 0 Children of Bondage Shell 190.00 n/a 89
978 1 86814 523 2 City of Extremes Murray 250.00 n/a 54
978 1 86814 388 7 Closest of Strangers, The Coullie (Ed) 220.00 29.95 89
978 1 86814 358 0 Commissioning the Past Posel, Simpson (Eds) 220.00 29.95 89
978 1 86814 456 3 Composing Apartheid Olwage (Ed) 230.00 34.95 89
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Young Warriors 978 1 86814 540 9 Conversations with Bourdieu Burawoy, Von Holdt 240.00 29.95 28
Youth Politics, Identity and
Violence in South Africa 978 1 86814 326 9 Culture and Commonplace McAllister (Ed) 140.00 n/a 89
Monique Marks 978 1 86814 399 3 Customs and Beliefs of the /Xam Hollmann (Ed) 290.00 n/a 89
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978 1 86814 452 5 District Six Revisited Hallett et al (Eds) 300.00 49.95 89
978 1 86814 445 7 Do South Africans Exist? Chipkin 220.00 32.95 52
978 1 86814 442 6 Dumile Feni Retrospective Dube (Ed) 400.00 79.95 73
978 1 86814 449 5 Dunga Manzi Leibhammer (Ed) 310.00 48.95 73
978 1 86814 533 1 Eating from One Pot Mosoetsa 240.00 34.95 62
978 1 86814 543 0 Ekurhuleni Bonner, Nieftagodien 289.00 39.95 6
978 1 86814 498 3 Eland’s People, The Smith (Ed.) 400.00 60.00 70
978 1 86814 479 2 Elephant Management Scholes, Mennell (Eds) 490.00 79.95 69
978 1 86814 325 2 Encounters Medalie (Ed.) 150.00 n/a 87
978 1 86814 160 9 English-Zulu / Zulu-English Dictionary Doke et al 270.00 44.95 87
978 1 86814 476 1 Entanglement Nuttall 230.00 34.95 74
978 1 86814 289 7 Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice Bickford-Smith 140.00 n/a 89
978 1 86814 575 1 EU and Africa, The Adebajo, Whiteman (Ed) 250.00 n/a 22
978 1 86814 535 5 Exorcising the Demons Within Landau (Ed) 250.00 n/a 21
978 1 86814 568 3 Fight for Democracy Daniels 270.00 34.95 14
978 1 86814 499 0 First Ethiopians, The Van Wyk Smith 250.00 39.95 52
978 1 86814 474 7 Five Hundred Years Rediscovered Swanepoel et al (Eds) 250.00 39.95 66
978 1 86814 377 1 Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating Mda 150.00 24.95 80
978 1 86814 469 3 Fred de Vries Interviews, The De Vries 210.00 34.95 89
978 1 86814 450 1 From Africa to Afghanistan Mills 220.00 34.95 90
978 1 86814 417 4 From Tools to Symbols d’Errico, Backwell 290.00 39.95 65
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978 1 86814 361 0 Gandhi’s Johannesburg Itzkin 210.00 29.95 90
978 1 86814 471 6 Gangs, Politics and Dignity Jensen 230.00 n/a 90
978 1 86814 240 8 General Pathology Rippey 210.00 19.95 86
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978 1 86814 478 5 Invaded Joubert 300.00 39.95 68
978 1 86814 485 3 Investment Choices for South African Education Bloch et al (Eds) 210.00 34.95 90
978 1 86814 473 0 Johannesburg Nuttall, Mbembe (Eds) 240.00 n/a 54
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978 1 86814 539 3 Life of Bone Brenner et al (Eds) 350.00 50.00 73
978 1 86814 354 2 Love, Crime and Johannesburg Junction Avenue Theatre 70.00 39.95 79
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978 1 86814 549 2 Luka Jantjie Shillington 250.00 n/a 55
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978 1 86814 536 2 Marginal Spaces Gaylard (Ed) 250.00 34.95 75
978 1 816814 564 5 Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conway 250.00 n/a 10
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978 1 86814 529 4 Mediations of Violence Kapteins (Ed) 240.00 n/a 75
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978 1 86814 252 1 Mfecane Aftermath, The Hamilton (Ed) 270.00 34.95 90
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978 1 86814 515 7 Nature’s Gifts James 210.00 34.95 67
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978 1 86814 309 2 Practical Anatomy Kieser, Allan 300.00 39.95 86
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978 1 86814 437 2 Scorched Joubert 210.00 29.95 68
978 1 86814 444 0 Scots in South Africa, The MacKenzie, Dalziel 220.00 n/a 91
978 1 86814 418 1 Search for Origins, A Bonner et al (Eds) 290.00 49.95 65
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