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Governance and the Postcolony: Views from Africa

Edited by David Everatt

$35 Paper

Date: 08/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776143443

Civilising Grass: The Art of the Lawn in the South African Highveld

Jonathan Cane

$30 Paper

Date: 07/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776143108

The Cape Radicals: Intellectual and political thought of the New Era Fellowship, 1930s to 1960s

Edited by Crain Soudien

$30 Paper

Date: 06/03/2019

ISBN: 9781776143177

Conspicuous Consumption in Africa:

Edited by Deborah Posel

and Ilana van Wyk

$35 Paper

Date: 05/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776143641

Like Family: Domestic Workers in South African History and Literature

By Ena Jansen

$35 Paper

Date: 04/15/2019

ISBN: 9781776143511

Dance of the Dung Beetles: Their role in a changing world

By Marcus Bryne

and Helen Lunn

$30 Paper

Date: 04/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776142347

Decolonisation in Universities: The politics of curriculum

Edited by Jonathan Jansen

$35 Paper

Date: 04/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776143351

Power in Action: Democracy, Citizenship and Social Justice

Steven Friedman

$35 Paper

Date: 03/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776143023

Racism after Apartheid: Challenges for Marxism and anti-racism

Edited by Vishwas Satgar

$35 Paper

Date: 03/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776143061

Transforming Research Methods in the Social Sciences: Case studies from South Africa

Edited by Sumaya Laher

, Angelo Flynn

and Sherianne Kramer

$40 Paper

Date: 03/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776142750

Visionary Animal: Rock Art from Southern Africa

By Renaud Ego

$80 Cloth

Date: 03/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776142262

This collection of essays on themes such as rain animals and therianthropes focuses on myth and ritual in San rock art.

Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa

Edited by Jay Pather

and Catherine Boulle

$50 Paper

Date: 02/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776142798

Lie on Your Wounds: The Prison Correspondence of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe

Edited by Derek Hook

By Robert Sobukwe

$35 Paper

Date: 02/01/2019

ISBN: 9781776142408

Death and Compassion: The Elephant in Southern African Literature

By Dan Wylie

$30 Paper

Date: 11/01/2018

ISBN: 9781776142187

Examines what literature reveals about human attitudes towards elephants and who shows compassion towards them

Dress as Social Relations: An interpretation of Bushman dress

Vibeke Maria Viestad

$30 Paper

Date: 10/01/2018

ISBN: 9781776141913

I Want to Go Home Forever: Stories of Becoming and Belonging in South Africa’s Great Metropolis

Edited by Loren B Landau

and Tanya Pampalone

$35 Paper

Date: 10/01/2018

ISBN: 9781776142217

Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg.

Stopping the Spies: Constructing and resisting the surveillance state in South Africa

Jane Duncan

$30 Paper

Date: 10/01/2018

ISBN: 9781776142156

Ulwembu: Empatheatre and The Big Brotherhood

By Neil Coppen

, Mpume Mthombeni

, Dylan McGarry

and The Big Brotherhood

$20 Paper

Date: 10/01/2018

ISBN: 9781776141951

Climate Crisis: South African And Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives

Edited by Vishwas Satgar

With contributions by Vishwas Satgar

, Mateo Martinez Abarca

, Alberto Acosta

and Brian Ashley

$40 Paper

Date: 02/20/2018

ISBN: 9781776140541

An investigation of emerging eco-socialist alternatives.

New South African Review 6: The Crisis Of Inequality

Edited by Gilbert M Khadiagala

, Sarah Mosoetsa

, Devan Pillay

, Roger Southall

and Samuel Kariuki

$35 Paper

Date: 01/29/2018

ISBN: 9781776140558

Wide-ranging essays demonstrate how the consequences of inequality extend throughout society and the political economy.

Organise or Die?: Democracy and Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers

By Raphaël Botiveau

$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.

Between Worlds: German Missionaries And The Transition From Mission To Bantu Education In South Africa

By Linda Chisholm

$30 Paper

Date: 11/30/2017

ISBN: 9781776141746

Scrutinizes the experience, complexities and paradoxes German mission society education.

State of Secularism: Religion, Tradition And Democracy In South Africa

By Dhammamegha Annie Leatt

$30 Paper

Date: 10/13/2017

ISBN: 9781776140572

A history of global political secularism comparing religion and traditional authority in apartheid South Africa.

Memory Against Forgetting: Memoir Of A Time In South African Politics 1938 - 1964

By Rusty Bernstein

$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

Race Otherwise: Forging A New Humanism For South Africa

By Zimitri Erasmus

$30 Paper

Date: 08/30/2017

ISBN: 9781776140589

Three tensions to consider in the making and unmaking of race.

Competition Law and Economic Regulation in Southern Africa: Addressing Market Power In Southern Africa

Edited by Jonathan Klaaren

, Simon Roberts

and Imraan Valodia

With contributions by Anthea Paelo

and Genna Robb

$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

Labour Beyond Cosatu: Mapping The Rupture In South Africa's Labour Landscape

Edited by Andries Bezuidenhout

, Malehoko Tshoaedi

, Andries Bezuidenhout

, Malehoko Tshoaedi

and Christine Bischoff

$35 Paper

Date: 07/01/2017

ISBN: 9781776140534

Rebellions and conflicts in the trade unions, and rivalries between Cosatu affiliates in South Africa.

Mooi Street and Other Moves

By Paul Slabolepszy

$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.

Suddenly the Storm

By Paul Slabolepszy

$20 Paper

Date: 06/01/2017

ISBN: 9781776140923

A smouldering dark comedy that suddenly leads to startling revelations, rage and recrimination.

Healing the Exposed Being: The Ngoma Healing Tradition In South Africa

By Robert Thornton

$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.

Multilingualism and Intercultural Communication: A South African Perspective

Edited by Russell H Kaschula

, Pamela Maseko

, H. Ekkehard Wolff

, Christine Anthonissen

and Bassey E Antia

$35 Paper

Date: 05/01/2017

ISBN: 9781776140268

An in-depth look at the changing sociolinguistic dynamics that have influenced South African society.

Backroom Boy: Andrew Malengeni's Story

By Mandla Mathebula

$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.

Remains of the Social: Desiring The Post-Apartheid

Edited by Maurits Bever Donker

, Ross Truscott

, Premesh Premesh Lalu

, Gary Minkley

and Maurits Bever Donker

$35 Paper

Date: 03/01/2017

ISBN: 9781776140305

An interdisciplinary volume of essays that engages with what ‘the social’ might mean after apartheid.

Unresolved National Question in South Africa: Left Thought Under Apartheid And Beyond

Edited by Edward Webster

, Edward Webster

, John Mawbey

and Jeremy Cronin

$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.

African Archaeology Without Frontiers: Papers From The 2014 Panafrican Archaeological Association Congress

Edited by Chapurukha M Kusimba

, Santores Tchandeu

, Dirk Seidensticker

, Adrianne Daggett

and Marilee Wood

$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.

Thinking Freedom in Africa: Toward A Theory Of Emancipatory Politics

By Michael Neocosmos

$40 Paper

Date: 12/01/2016

ISBN: 9781868148660

Thinking Freedom in Africa conceives an emancipatory politics beginning from the axiom that ‘people think’.

Bram Fischer Waltz: A Play

By Harry Kalmer

$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.

Ties that Bind: Race And The Politics Of Friendship In South Africa

Edited by Shannon Walsh

and Jon Soske

$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.

We, the People: Insights Of An Activist Judge

By Albie Sachs

$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.

Fees Must Fall: Student Revolt, Decolonisation And Governance In South Africa

Edited by Susan Booysen

With contributions by Susan Booysen

, Gillian Godsell

, Rekgotsofetse Chikane

and Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh

$35 Paper

Date: 10/01/2016

ISBN: 9781868149858

Maps the student discontent a year after the start of the #FeesMustFall revolt.

Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa: Past And Present

Edited by Janet Remmington

, Brian Willan

, Bhekizizwe Peterson

, Janet Remmington

and Brian Willan

$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.

Tin Bucket Drum: A Play

By Neil Coppen

$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.

Losing the Plot: Crime, Reality And Fiction In Postapartheid South African Writing

By Leon de Kock

$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.

Natures of Africa: Ecocriticism And Animal Studies In Contemporary Cultural Forms

Edited by F. Fiona Moolla

With contributions by F. Fiona Moolla

, Byron Caminero-Santangelo

, Sule Emmanuel Egya

and Jonathon Bishop Highfield

$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.

Students Must Rise: Youth Struggle In South Africa Before And Beyond Soweto '76

Edited by Anne Heffernan

, Noor Nieftagodien

, Anne Heffernan

, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

and Bhekizizwe Peterson

$35 Paper

Date: 06/01/2016

ISBN: 9781868149193

A detailed account of the incredibly influential Soweto Student Uprising of 1976.

Apartheid and the Making of a Black Psychologist: A Memoir

By N Chabani Manganyi

$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.

Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession And Resistance In The Northern Cape, 1800-1990

By Martin Legassick

$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.