Wits University Press
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Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature
$30 Paper
Date: 11/01/2018
ISBN: 9781776142187
Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them
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$80 Paper
Date: 11/01/2018
ISBN: 9781776142262
This collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes focuses on myth and ritual in San rock art.
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I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis
$35 Paper
Date: 08/01/2018
ISBN: 9781776142217
Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg.
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Shadow State: The Politics of State Capture
$35 Paper
Date: 07/01/2018
ISBN: 9781776142125
A powerful analysis of events that helped galvanise resistance across civil society.
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Climate Crisis: South African And Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives
$40 Paper
Date: 02/20/2018
ISBN: 9781776140541
An investigation of emerging eco-socialist alternatives.
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New South African Review 6: The Crisis Of Inequality
$35 Paper
Date: 01/29/2018
ISBN: 9781776140558
Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy.
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Organise or Die?: Democracy and Leadership in South Africa?s National Union of Mineworkers
$35 Paper
Date: 12/20/2017
ISBN: 9781776142040
The story of one of the leading trade unions in South Africa, the National Union of Mineworkers, and its role in the struggle against white minority rule.
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$30 Paper
Date: 11/30/2017
ISBN: 9781776141746
Scrutinizes the experience, complexities and paradoxes German mission society education.
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State of Secularism: Religion, Tradition And Democracy In South Africa
$30 Paper
Date: 10/13/2017
ISBN: 9781776140572
A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa.
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Memory Against Forgetting: Memoir Of A Time In South African Politics 1938 - 1964
$35 Paper
Date: 10/06/2017
ISBN: 9781776141548
This classic text, first published in 1999, is Rusty Bernstein’s remarkable memoir of a life in South African resistance politics
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Race Otherwise: Forging A New Humanism For South Africa
$30 Paper
Date: 08/30/2017
ISBN: 9781776140589
Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race.
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$40 Paper
Date: 07/04/2017
ISBN: 9781776140909
A critical assessment of the efficacy of the competition and economic regulation frameworks, including the impact of a number of the regional competition authorities in a range of sector
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Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping The Rupture In South Africa's Labour Landscape
$35 Paper
Date: 07/01/2017
ISBN: 9781776140534
Rebellions and conflicts in the trade unions, and rivalries between Cosatu affiliates in South Africa.
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$20 Paper
Date: 06/15/2017
ISBN: 9781776141593
A collection of six plays by South Africa’s leading playwright and actor featuring works written between 1984 and 1993.
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$20 Paper
Date: 06/01/2017
ISBN: 9781776140923
A smouldering dark comedy that suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination.
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Healing the Exposed Being: The Ngoma Healing Tradition In South Africa
$30 Paper
Date: 05/01/2017
ISBN: 9781776140183
The Ngoma healing tradition as practiced in eastern Mpumalanga, South Africa through political, economic, interpretive and environmental lenses.
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Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication: A South African Perspective
$35 Paper
Date: 05/01/2017
ISBN: 9781776140268
An in-depth look at the changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society.
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Backroom Boy: Andrew Malengeni's Story
$30 Paper
Date: 04/04/2017
ISBN: 9781776140862
The story of an ANC elder and a well-researched historical record overlaid with intensely personal reflections which intersect with the political narrative.
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Remains of the Social: Desiring The Post-Apartheid
$35 Paper
Date: 03/01/2017
ISBN: 9781776140305
An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid.
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Unresolved National Question in South Africa: Left Thought Under Apartheid And Beyond
$35 Paper
Date: 03/01/2017
ISBN: 9781776140220
This volume examines the way in which various strands of left thought have addressed the National Question.
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$30 Paper
Date: 12/01/2016
ISBN: 9781776140343
Identity, interaction, and the need to balance cultural heritage management and sustainable development in the face of social inequalities and crippling poverty.
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Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward A Theory Of Emancipatory Politics
$40 Paper
Date: 12/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868148660
Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’.
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$18 Paper
Date: 11/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149742
A brief, intense work with the protagonist as narrator, this play explores Bram Fischer’s uncompromising political beliefs and commitment to a non-racial democracy.
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Ties that Bind: Race And The Politics Of Friendship In South Africa
$35 Paper
Date: 11/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149681
Intimacies of friendship create vital spaces for practices of power and resistance within the histories of apartheid and colonialism.
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We, the People: Insights Of An Activist Judge
$26 Paper
Date: 11/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149988
A stirring collection of public talks and essays by an activist and former judge offers an intimate insider’s view of South Africa’s Constitution.
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Fees Must Fall: Student Revolt, Decolonisation And Governance In South Africa
$35 Paper
Date: 10/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149858
Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt.
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Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past And Present
$35 Paper
Date: 10/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149810
Sheds new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and reflects on how to read it in South Africa’s heightened challenges today.
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$20 Paper
Date: 10/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149728
Through a lyrical script and the creative use of lighting and sound, one woman, the Narrator, succeeds in evoking a host of characters as this allegorical tale of oppression and liberation plays itself out.
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Losing the Plot: Crime, Reality And Fiction In Postapartheid South African Writing
$30 Paper
Date: 09/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149643
A well-known scholar and writer’s lively and wide-ranging analysis of postapartheid South African writing.
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Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism And Animal Studies In Contemporary Cultural Forms
$35 Paper
Date: 06/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149131
One of the first edited volumes to encompass transdisciplinary approaches to a number of cultural forms, including fiction, non-fiction, oral expression and digital media.
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Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle In South Africa Before And Beyond Soweto '76
$35 Paper
Date: 06/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149193
A detailed account of the incredibly influential Soweto Student Uprising of 1976.
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Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir
$30 Paper
Date: 05/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868148622
Manganyi’s life story traces the twists and turns of his journey from humble beginnings in Limpopo, to Yale University.
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Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession And Resistance In The Northern Cape, 1800-1990
$35 Paper
Date: 04/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868149544
Accounts of family histories, resistance to colonisation, and the imposition of racial segregation and land dispossession in the Gordonia region of the Northern Cape.
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Dorothea Bleek: A Life Of Scholarship
$30 Paper
Date: 03/01/2016
ISBN: 9781868148790
An examination of the life and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek.
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Climate Change: Briefings From Southern Africa
$35 Paper
Date: 11/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868149186
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New South African Review 5: Beyond Marikana
$35 Paper
Date: 11/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868148745
A series of essays explaining the impact of the events at Marikana upon the South African perspective of police and the keeping of order.
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Capitalism's Crises: Class Struggles In South Africa And The World
$35 Paper
Date: 10/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868149209
The second volume in the Democratic Marxism provides compelling analyses of the complexity and depth of the worldwide economic crisis.
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Dominance and Decline: The Anc In The Time Of Zuma
$30 Paper
Date: 10/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868148844
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Colour of Our Future: Does Race Matter In Post-Apartheid South Africa?
$35 Paper
Date: 07/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868145690
Highlights the need for a race-transcendent vision that moves beyond the festival of negatives embodied in concepts such as non-racialism, non-sexism, anti-colonialism and anti-apartheid.
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$20 Paper
Date: 07/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868148899
Story of conspiracies, lies, back stabbing and disappointments. Robert and his family are faced with the challenges of a South Africa that has changed radically from the one he remembers from more than thirty years ago.
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Gaze Regimes: Film And Feminisms In Africa
$35 Paper
Date: 06/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868148561
A collection of essays about the experience of women in film through the lenses of gender studies, postcolonial theory, and film theory.
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Place of Thorns: Black Political Protest In Kroonstad Since 1976
$30 Paper
Date: 06/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868146871
Based on scores of life-history interviews, the book illustrates a shift in the political mood from 1976 onwards.
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Visual Century Volume Four: 1990-2007: South African Art In Context
$80 Paper
Date: 05/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868145270
In the final installment of the Visual Century Collection, the impact of the end of the apartheid and the emergence of globalization upon South African artists is discussed.
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Visual Century Volume One: 1907-1948: South African Art In Context
$80 Paper
Date: 05/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868145249
In the opening installment of the Visual Century Collection, the division of South African culture is shown through the polarization of art forms within South Africa.
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Visual Century Volume Three: 1972-1993: South African Art In Context
$80 Paper
Date: 05/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868145263
In the third volume of the Visual Century Collection, the national struggle for democracy is juxtaposed with the challenging art of the time period.
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Visual Century Volume Two: 1945-1976: South African Art In Context
$80 Paper
Date: 05/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868145256
In the second installment of the Visual Century Collection, the political and artistic search for national identity is explored.
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Termites of the Gods: San Cosmology In Southern African Rock Art
$30 Paper
Date: 03/01/2015
ISBN: 9781868147762
Siyakha Mguni’s personal journey, over many years, to discover the significance of a hitherto enigmatic theme in San rock paintings known as formlings.
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Forgotten World: The Stone-Walled Settlements Of The Mpumalanga Escarpment
$30 Paper
Date: 11/01/2014
ISBN: 9781776140404
Through extensive archaeological research and beautiful pictures, Forgotten World gives new insights into the elaborate stone civilization of the Koni people.
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Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid
$40 Cloth
Date: 10/01/2014
ISBN: 9781868147656
A richly illustrated and detailed empirical analysis of changes in the city’s physical space and and the social identities forged within specific neighborhoods.
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In the Shadow of Policy: Everyday Practices In South African Land And Agrarian Reform
$30 Paper
Date: 09/01/2014
ISBN: 9781868147458
A detailed history of how agrarian reform has manifested in South Africa and how it will progress into the future.