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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

Visionary Animal

By Renaud Ego

$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.

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: 08/01/2018

ISBN: 9781776142217

Thirteen true stories about xenophobia and belonging in Johannesburg.

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.

Dorothea Bleek: A Life Of Scholarship

By Jill Weintroub

$30 Paper

Date: 03/01/2016

ISBN: 9781868148790

An examination of the life and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek.

Climate Change: Briefings From Southern Africa

By Mary Scholes

, Robert (Bob) Scholes

and Mike Lucas

$35 Paper

Date: 11/01/2015

ISBN: 9781868149186

New South African Review 5: Beyond Marikana

Edited by Gilbert M Khadiagala

, Prishani Naidoo

, Devan Pillay

, Roger Southall

and Prishani Naidoo

$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.

Capitalism's Crises: Class Struggles In South Africa And The World

Edited by Vishwas Satgar

With contributions by William K. Carroll

, Leah Hunt-Hendrix

, Isham Christie

and Vishwas Satgar

$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.

Dominance and Decline: The Anc In The Time Of Zuma

By Susan Booysen

$30 Paper

Date: 10/01/2015

ISBN: 9781868148844

Missing: A Play

By John Kani

$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.

The Colour of Our Future: Does Race Matter In Post-Apartheid South Africa?

Edited by Xolela Mangcu

With contributions by Xolela Mangcu

, Nina G. Jablonski

, Lawrence Blum

and Steven Friedman

$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.

Gaze Regimes: Film And Feminisms In Africa

Edited by Jyoti Mistry

, Antje Schuhmann

, Max Annas

, Beti Ellerson

and Henriette Gunkel

$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.

Place of Thorns: Black Political Protest In Kroonstad Since 1976

By Tshepo Moloi

$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.

Visual Century Volume Four: 1990-2007: South African Art In Context

Edited by Gavin Jantjes

With contributions by Mario Pissarra

, Mandisis Majavu

, Gavin Jantjes

and Colin Richards

$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.

Visual Century Volume One: 1907-1948: South African Art In Context

By Gavin Jantjes

$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.

Visual Century Volume Three: 1972-1993: South African Art In Context

By Gavin Jantjes

$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.

Visual Century Volume Two: 1945-1976: South African Art In Context

By Gavin Jantjes

$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.

Termites of the Gods: San Cosmology In Southern African Rock Art

By Siyakha Mguni

$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.

Forgotten World: The Stone-Walled Settlements Of The Mpumalanga Escarpment

By Peter Delius Delius

, Tim Maggs

and Alex Schoeman

$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.

Changing Space, Changing City: Johannesburg After Apartheid

Edited by Peter Ahmad

, Graeme Gotz

, Alison Todes

and Chris Wray

With contributions by Peter Ahmad

$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.