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Press’ was accepted by then Principal, Jan H. Hofmeyr.
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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
About WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS 1 CURRENT TITLES 52–87 important early publications include the Bantu (African) Treasury Series, the South African Journal of Medical Sciences
Cultural Studies 52–54
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in Africa and many inaugural lectures. Classics such as Tiyo Soga’s The South-Eastern Bantu (1930) and Percival Kirby’s The
History 2–13 Anthropology 54
Musical Instruments of the Native Races of South Africa (1953) are still an important resource for researchers, despite their now
Media Studies 14–16 History 55–57
Cultural Studies 17–20 Politics 58–59 unsuitable titles.
Migration Studies 21 Sociology 60–62
International Relations 22–29 Psychol0gy 63 Of course, things have changed since then. The Press (since 2002 simply called ‘Wits University Press’) started publishing
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Rock Art 34 Popular Science 67 books, which are still based on academic research and subjected to peer-review but which appeal to both academic and
Art 36–39 Environmental Science 68 general readers.
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Biography 48–49 Rock Art 70–71
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Theatre 50–51 Art 72–73
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Literary Studies 74–76
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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!
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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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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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Black and white Masculinities, Militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign
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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
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democracy in 1994. In this book, Glenda Daniels does not hide career at the then Weekly Mail in 1990. She has
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behind a veil of detachment, but instead makes a passionate just ended her term as advocacy co-ordinator
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significant role in the deepening of democratic principles. Journalism), where she defended the space
Daniels’ study goes to the heart of current debates and asks for investigative journalists to do their work.
why the ANC, given its stated commitment to the democratic She gives talks and presentations throughout
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objectives of the Constitution, is so ambivalent about the freedom South Africa on media freedom and access to
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policy on democracy in South Africa, and at what cost to freedom Right2Know leadership structures, and has just
of expression? taken up a new challenge at Wits Journalism, a
Daniels examines the pattern of paranoia that has crept research project on the State of the Newsroom
into public discourse about the media and the ANC, and the in South Africa. Fight for Democracy is her first This is an exciting and pertinent topic that comes at a watershed
conflictual relationship between the two. She argues that the ANC’s book publication. moment in South African history. The power relations between the two
understanding of democracy, transformation and development institutions – media and government – are strained and require careful
entails (amongst other things) the rallying of the nation behind its THE ANC AND MEDIA IN SOUTH AFRICA examination and reflection in order for society to benefit.
leadership as the premier liberation movement and democratically This book highlights the need for critical and reflexive analysis of
CONTENTS this relationship, and its overt advocacy certainly makes for
elected representative of the majority while morally coercing black
journalists and professionals into loyalty. Daniels challenges the compelling reading.
Introduction: The ANC and the Media Post-Apartheid
dominant ANC view that journalists are against transformation and —Nathalie Hyde-Clarke, School of Communication, University
Chapter 1. The Relationship between the Media
that they take instruction from the owners of the media houses; in and Democracy of Johannesburg
short that they are ‘enemies of the people’. Chapter 2. Media’s Challenges: Legislation and
Commercial Imperatives In a world where the media plays such a powerful role as a watchdog,
Fight for Democracy is a timely publication in the context of the
Chapter 3. Race, Identity and ‘The Media’ guardian and disseminator of information, that not only influences
impending clampdown on media freedom and the twin threats of
Chapter 4. Freedom of Expression: the Case of Zapiro public opinion, but in essence shapes our morality, it is essential that
the Protection of State Information Bill (Secrecy Bill) and the Chapter 5. Social Fantasy: the ANC’s Gaze and the Media the individuals and groups who are affected be assured that this role is
Media Appeals Tribunal, both of which signify closures in South Appeals Tribunal
performed with utmost integrity and full accountability. [T]o strengthen
Africa’s democracy. Chapter 6. The Sunday Times: Mondli versus the former
Minister of Health, Manto and support constitutional democracy in South Africa, the need for a
Written in a polemical style, this is a work of activism that
Chapter 7. What is ‘Developmental Journalism’? free and independent, but accountable and responsible media, is not
will be essential reading for the informed public as well as those
Chapter 8. Concluding Reflections: Where is negotiable.
working in Journalism and Media Studies. It should interest
Democracy Headed? —Thuli Madonsela, Public Protector, in The Daily Maverick
all democrats, members of political organisations as well as
academics and Right2Know activists, locally and internationally.
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Radio has been called ‘Africa’s medium’. Its wide accessibility is a result of a number of factors, Uranium from Africa has long been a major source of fuel for nuclear power and atomic weapons,
including the liberalisation policies of the ‘third wave’ of democracy and its ability to transcend including the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. In 2002, George W. Bush claimed that Saddam
the barriers of cost, geographical boundaries, the colonial linguistic heritage and low literacy Hussein had ‘sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa’ (later specified as the
levels. This sets it apart from other media platforms in facilitating political debate, shaping infamous ‘yellowcake from Niger’). Africa suddenly became notorious as a source of uranium,
identities and assisting listeners as they negotiate the challenges of everyday life on the a component of nuclear weapons. But did that admit Niger, or any of Africa’s other uranium-
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 nuclear thing? In this book, Gabrielle Hecht lucidly probes the question of what it means for
in the lives of listeners in Anglophone, Lusophone and Francophone Africa. Some essays turn to something – a state, an object, an industry, a workplace – to be ‘nuclear’.
the history of radio and its part in the culture and politics of countries such as Angola and South Hecht shows that questions about being nuclear – a state that she calls ‘nuclearity’ – lie at
Africa. Others – such as the essay on Mali, gender and religion – show how radio throws up new the heart of today’s global nuclear order and the relationships between ‘developing nations’
tensions yet endorses social innovation and the making of new publics. A number of essays (often former colonies) and ‘nuclear powers’ (often former colonisers). Nuclearity, she says, is
look to radio’s current role in creating listening communities that radically shift the nature of the not a straightforward scientific classification but a contested technopolitical one.
public sphere. Essays on the genre of the talk show in Ghana, Kenya and South Africa point to Hecht follows uranium’s path out of Africa and describes the invention of the global uranium
radio’s role in creating a robust public sphere. Radio’s central role in the emergence of informed market. She then enters African nuclear worlds, focusing on miners and the occupational hazard
publics in fragile national spaces is covered in essays on the Democratic Republic of Congo of radiation exposure. Could a mine be a nuclear workplace if (as in some South African mines)
and Somalia. The book also highlights radio’s links to the new media, its role in resistance to its radiation levels went undetected and unmeasured?
oppressive regimes such as Zimbabwe, and points in several cases – for example in the essay on With this book, Hecht is the first to put Africa in the nuclear world, and the nuclear world in
Uganda – to the importance of African languages in building modern communities that embrace Africa. Doing so, she remakes our understanding of the nuclear age.
both local and global knowledge.
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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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
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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.
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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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526 pp The EU and Africa
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From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa
June 2012
Edited by Adekeye Adebajo and Kaye Whiteman
With Hurst & Co.
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Africa only In the high imperial period from the nineteenth century, some in the European Union. The volume concludes by examining issues of
Europe advocated the idea of ‘Eurafrique’ – a formula for putting migration and identity, especially in view of Europe’s controversial Adekeye Adebajo is an accomplished scholar who has authored
Africa’s resources at the disposal of Europe’s industries. After immigration policies and complex relations with the Maghreb and edited three books on peace and conflict issues in Africa.
tracing Europe’s historical attempts to remodel relations following and Mediterranean, as well as perceptions of past and current He is Executive Director of the Centre for Conflict Resolution
African independence from the 1960s and Europe’s own quest for European identity. (CCR), a top-rated global think-tank based in Cape Town.
unity, the book examines the current strategic dimensions of the The study concludes that Africa and Europe still appear not Adebajo was Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School
relationship, especially the place of Africa in Europe’s own need for to have fully escaped the burdens of history, and examines the of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and Director of the
global partnerships. Key issues are then analysed, from trade and feasibility of elaborating and practising, in future, an ‘Afro-Europa’: Africa Programme of the New York-based International Peace
investment to the growing priorities of security and governance, a new relationship of genuine equality, partnership, and mutual Academy (IPA), a research and policy development institute. He
offering case histories of the role of key European players in Africa self-interest between both continents that sheds the baggage of has served on UN missions to South Africa, Western Sahara and
– France, Britain, Portugal and the Nordics – within the context of the ‘Eurafrique’ past. Iraq. His most recent publication is The Curse of Berlin: Africa
After the Cold War (2010).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction Kaye Whiteman Kaye Whiteman is a journalist and writer specialising in
PART 1 AFRICA AND EUROPE IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
West African affairs but with wider interests in Europe-Africa
The Rise and Fall of Eurafrique: From the Berlin Conference of 1884-1885 to the Tripoli EU-Africa Summit of 2010 Kaye Whiteman relations and international relations. A graduate in History
Paradise Lost and Found: The African Union and the European Union Adekeye Adebajo from the University of Oxford, he was Deputy Editor of West
PART 2 POLITICAL, ECONOMIC, AND STRATEGIC DIMENSIONS Africa magazine before moving to the European Commission in
Regional Integration in Africa: Lessons From Europe? Adebayo Adedeji Brussels where he dealt with development issues, especially
Europe, Africa, and Aid: Towards A Genuine Partnership Rob de Vos in Africa. He is currently a London-based Editorial Adviser to
South Africa and the EU: Where Lies the Strategic Partnership? Talitha Bertelsmann-Scott
The EU, the Maghreb, and the Mediterranean George Joffé Business Day (Nigeria) and writes for numerous publications
The EU and Asia: Lessons for Africa? Shada Islam such as The Guardian, The Annual Register, Afrique Asie and
PART 3 TRADE, INVESTMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT
Geopolitique Africaine. He is also a Research Associate at the
Global Africa: The Last Investment Frontier? Liam Halligan School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS).
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
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
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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- This book adds to an already strong resource base for policy-
building in southern Africa? makers, planners, business leaders and scholars. It’s a smooth and
This original and wide-ranging volume, which draws on an easy read!
interdisciplinary team of African and African-based specialists, Chris Saunders is Emeritus Professor in —Simba Makoni, First Executive Secretary of the SADC
addresses the key political, socio-economic and security the Historical Studies at the Unviersity of
challenges facing southern Africa today. These include HIV/AIDS, Cape Town, and a research associate at the This timely and well-researched volume enriches the existing body
migration and xenophobia, land grabbing and climate change, Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town. of literature on regionalism in southern Africa with commendable no-
and the role of the UN, the EU, the USA, China and other external Gwinyayi A. Dzinesa is Senior Researcher nonsense clarity. It is carefully nuanced, engages the debate at more
actors in the region. It also looks at the Southern African Customs at the Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape than one register, and ought to become a primer on this subject to
Union, development finance institutions, and issues of gender and Town. Dawn Nagar is a Researcher at the academicians and practitioners alike.
peacebuilding. Centre for Conflict Resolution in Cape Town —André du Pisani, The University of Namibia
In doing so, the book goes to the heart of analysing the
effectiveness of SADC and other regional organisations, suggesting This is likely to be one of the most important books of this decade
how region-building in southern Africa may be compared with on region-building in southern Africa. I highly recommend it.
similar attempts elsewhere in Africa and other parts of the world. — Margaret C. Lee, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Peacebuilding, Power and Politics in Africa
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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
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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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Introduction Contextualising Psychological Assessment in South Africa Sumaya Laher Occupational Personality Questionnaire (OPQ) Tina Joubert and
and Kate Cockcroft Nadene Venter
The Millon Inventories in South Africa Rabia Patel and Sumaya Laher
SECTION 1 COGNITIVE TESTS: CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS Assessment and Monitoring of Symptoms in the Treatment of
WAIS-III Test Performance in the South African Context Ann Shuttleworth- Psychological Problems Charles Young and David Edwards
Edwards, E.K. Gaylard and S.E Radloff Assessment in Routine Clinical and Counselling Settings David Edwards
WISC-IV Test Performance in the South African Context and Charles Young
A.B. Shuttleworth-Edwards, A.S. Van der Merwe, P. Van Tonder and S.E. Projective Assessment of Adults and Children in South Africa Katherine
Radloff Bain, Zaytoon Amod and Renate Gericke
Senior South African Individual Scales Revised Kate Cockcroft The Use of the Thematic Apperception Test and the Children’s Apperception
Assessing School Readiness using the Junior South African Individual Test in South Africa Renate Gericke, Katherine Bain and Zaytoon Amod
Scales Linda C. Theron Projective Assessment Using the Draw-A-Person (DAP) and Kinetic Family
School Readiness Assessment in South Africa Zaytoon Amod and Deidre Drawing (KFD) in South Africa Zaytoon Amod, Renate Gericke and
Heafield Katherine Bain
Kaufman Assessment Battery for Children Kirston Greenop, Jessica Fry The Rorschach in South Africa Marita Brink
and Diana de Sousa
The Das-Naglieri Cognitive Assessment System Zaytoon Amod SECTION 3 ASSESSMENT APPROACHES AND METHODOLOGIES
Dynamic Assessment in South Africa Zaytoon Amod and Joseph Seabi Ethical Perspective in Assessment Nicoleen Coetzee
The Learning Potential Computerised Adaptive Test (LPCAT) Marié de Beer Using Computerised and Internet-based Testing in South Africa
APIL and TRAM Learning Potential Assessment Instruments Terence Taylor Nanette Tredoux
The Griffiths Mental Development Scales Lorna Jacklin and Kate Cockcroft The ImPACT Neurocognitive Screening Test A. B. Shuttleworth-Edwards,
Neuropsychological Assessment in South Africa Marilyn Lucas V. J. Whitefield-Alexander and Se. E. A. Radloff
A Family Consultation Model of Child Assessment Zaytoon Amod
SECTION 2 PERSONALITY AND PROJECTIVE TESTS: CONCEPTUAL AND PRACTICAL Qualitative Career Assessment in South Africa Mark Watson and
APPLICATIONS Mary McMahon
The Sixteen Personality Factor Questionnaire (16PF) in South Africa Psychological Assessment and Workplace Transformation in South Africa:
René van Eeden, Nicola Taylor and Cas Prinsloo A Review of the Research Literature Karen Milner, Fiona Donald and
Using the Fifteen Factor Questionnaire Plus in South Africa Nanette Tredoux Andrew Thatcher
The Basic Traits Inventory Nicola Taylor and Gideon P. de Bruin Assessment of Prior Learning: A South African Perspective Ruksana Osman
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator® (MBTI®) in South Africa Kathy Knott, Large Scale Assessment Studies in South Africa: Issues in Reporting to
Nicola Taylor, Yvonne Nieuwoudt and Fatima Bhabha Teachers Anil Kanjee
The NEO-PI-R in South Africa Sumaya Laher Conclusion Current and Future Trends in Psychological Assessment in South Africa:
Using the Occupational Personality Profile (OPI) in South Africa Challenges and Opportunities Sumaya Laher and Kate Cockcroft
Nanette Tredoux
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978 1 86814 547 8 Visual Century Volume 1: 1907–1948 Visual Century Volume 2: 1945–1976
(boxed set of four
volumes) Edited by Jillian Carman Edited by Lize van Robbroeck
Each volume:
270 x 235 mm
Visual Century Volume one begins after the South African Between the end of the Second World
(Anglo-Boer) War, at a time when efforts were War and the Soweto uprisings, South
240 pp South African Art in Context 1907 – 2007 being made to unify the white ‘races’, and Africa was increasingly isolated from the
Full colour
ends with the coming to power of the Afrikaner international world as a result of its policies
Soft cover Gavin Jantjes (Project director) and Mario Pissarra nationalists. This volume provides critical of racial discrimination and extreme social
with gatefolds (Editor in chief ) perspectives on the ideological and institutional engineering. This volume addresses the fertile
frameworks for white and black artists of the cultural ambivalences of this period. These
November 2011 Visual Century is encyclopaedic in scope. period, and the art they produced. Discussions include the relationship between Afrikaner
—Janet Stanley, Smithsonian Institution Libraries, National of public art and architecture, traditionalist nationalism and the emergence of an ‘official’
Museum of African Art African art, and Western-style painting and sculpture are complemented South African art, which would come to be
with consideration of the roles played by museums, art eduation, art challenged by the steady increase in the
… a valuable contribution to literature on South African art. societies and exhibitions, art historical writing and patronage. Fresh number of modern black artists and new informal art centres. The impact
—Brenda Schmahmann, Fine Art Department, Rhodes University perspectives on the art of the first half of the twentieth century highlight of white patronage, the responses of migrant workers to rapid change, and
complexities that still resonate today. artists’ responses to the repressive political climate of apartheid, as well
Visual Century is an ambitious four-volume publication that as to emerging black nationalism, are all canvassed. The allure and impact
reappraises South African visual art of the twentieth century 978 1 86814 687 1 (digital) of European and American art, along with modernist discourses, for South
from a post-apartheid perspective. Wide-ranging and in-depth African artists both at home and in exile, not least the struggles of black
essays by over 30 contributors, including many of South Africa’s and white artists to define an African identity, are also explored.
leading art historians, cultural commentators and artists, make it
an indispensable resource for curators, historians, students and 978 1 86814 688 8 (digital)
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. Gavin Jantjes is a South African artist Visual Century Volume 3: 1973–1992 Visual Century Volume 4: 1990–2007
Given the need to construct a national archive, this work is a currently based at Norway’s National
Edited by Mario Pissarra Edited by Thembinkosi Goniwe,
stellar example of what local research can achieve as we tell our Museum. Mario Pissarra is the founder of
own stories, especially against the broader movement for a more
Mario Pissarra and Mandisi Majavu
Africa South Arts Initiative (ASAI). Bracketed by porous transitional moments
inclusive international art history that recognises and celebrates in the early 1970s and 1990s, this volume The end of the Cold War and subsequent rise
the contributions made in South Africa. The project was funded by Contributors: Rasheed Araeen, Gabeba covers a period characterised by a of globalisation, along with the advent of
the National Department of Arts and Culture under Pallo Jordan, Baderoon, Vonani Bila, Jillian Carman, deepening of the struggle for democracy, democracy in South Africa, introduced new
and brings together a wide range of local writers and perspectives. Christine Eyene, Federico Freschi, Hazel at a time when historical preoccupations social and political orders, with profound
Friedman, Thembinkosi Goniwe, Melanie with race were increasingly intertwined implications for South African artists. The
Hillebrand, Gavin Jantjes, Z.P. Jordan, with burgeoning debates on class and essays in this volume critically address
Sandra Klopper, Juliette Leeb-du Toit, gender. The essays address a multiplicity some of the most notable developments and
Nessa Leibhammer, Sarat Maharaj, of ways in which artists responded directly visible trends in post-apartheid South African
Mandisi Majavu, Emile Maurice, Sipho and indirectly to the challenges of this art. These include South Africa’s entry into
Mdanda, Zayd Minty, Anitra Nettleton, period, mostly as individuals, but also through organisations. Resistance the international art world, its struggle to address its past, and artists’
Uche Okeke, Andries Oliphant, Mario and complicity, and the spaces in between, found expression in the use of persistent and often provocative preoccupations with individual and
Pissarra, Hayden Proud, Elizabeth Rankin, everyday themes, biblical sources, ethnically derived themes, subtle and collective identity. The widespread and often unsettling representation of
Colin Richards, Lize van Robbroeck, Judy extreme forms of humour, as well as through representations of conflict. the human body, as well as animal forms, along with the steady increase
Seidman, Ruth Simbao, Kathryn Smith, Challenging art was produced in community arts centres, universities and of new technologies and the development of new forms of public art are
Mgcineni Sobopha, Roger van Wyk and in public places, at a time when the cultural boycott simultaneously united also discussed. While much of the art of the period is open-ended and non-
M. Mduduzi Xakaza. and polarised artists, and exiles mediated the ambivalences of ‘home’. didactic, the persistence of engagement with socially responsive themes
questions the reductive binary between resistance and post-apartheid
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democratic election.
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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 collecting and libraries; print and transnationalism; Indian Ocean
South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives—historical, cosmopolitanisms; books in war; how the fates of South African
bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The texts, locally and globally, have been affected by their material
essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address instantiations; photocomics and other ephemera; censorship,
Thought provoking, wide ranging in its subject material, and
a range of topics as varied as: the role of print cultures in contests during and after apartheid; books about art and books as art; local
dynamically edited, this collection marks a turning point in the study
over the nature of the colonial public sphere in the nineteenth academic publishing; and the challenge of ‘book history’ for literary
of book cultures in South Africa. These essays, exemplars of recently
century; orthography; iimbongi, orature and the canon; book- 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
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engage with the confluence of text, people, history, culture, and print
INTRODUCTION Print,Text, and Books in South Africa Andrew van der Vlies 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
SECTION 2. PRINT CULTURES AND COLONIAL PUBLIC SPHERES ‘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.
Metonymies of Lead: Bullets, Type, and Print Culture in South African Mis-
sionary Colonialism Leon de Kock 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
‘Spread Far and Wide over the Surface of the Earth’: Evangelical Grey Collection Hedley Twidle The Edinburgh History of the Book in Scotland (vol. 4, 2007), and
Reading Formations and the Rise of a Transnational Public Sphere – co-author of An Introduction to Book History (2005)
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 The Image of the Book in Xhosa Oral Poetry Jeff Opland
Indian Ocean Meg Samuelson Written Out, Writing In: Orature in the South African Literary Canon
Deborah Seddon
SECTION 3. LOCAL/GLOBAL: SOUTH AFRICAN WRITING AND GLOBAL IMAGINARIES Not Western: Race, Reading, and the South African Photo Comic Lily Saint
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 The Politics of Obscenity: Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the Apartheid State
Oprah’s Paton, or South Africa and the Globalisation of Suffering Peter D. McDonald
Rita Barnard ‘Deeply racist, superior and Patronising’: South African Literature
Education and the ‘Gordimer Incident’ Margriet van der Waal
SECTION 4. THREE WAYS OF LOOKING AT COETZEE Begging the Questions: Producing Shakespeare for Post-apartheid South
In—or From—the Heart of the Country: Local and Global Lives of Coetzee’s African Schools Natasha Distiller
Antipastoral Andrew van der Vlies
SECTION 8. NEW DIRECTIONS Andrew van der Vlies is Senior Lecturer in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary, University
Under Local Eyes: The South African Publishing Context of J.M.Coetzee’s
Foe Jarad Zimbler 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,
Limber: the Flexibilities of Post-Nobel Coetzee Patrick Denman Flanery 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,
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 and author of South African Textual Cultures (2010). He reviews regularly for various publications such as
(Mis) Representation of Kgalusi Sekete Mmalebôhô Lize Kriel University Presses Elizabeth le Roux the Times Literary Supplement and Art South Africa.
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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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What is slavery to me? Postcolonial/Slave Memory in Post-apartheid South Africa Becoming Worthy Ancestors
CULTURAL STUDIES
CULTURAL STUDIES
Pumla Dineo Gqola Archive, Public Deliberation and Identity in South Africa
… a landmark book on the role of slavery in shaping contemporary South Africa. Drawing on historical scholarship as
Edited by Xolela Mangcu
well as studies of slavery worldwide, Gqola delivers a brilliant new piece of literary and cultural analysis.
—Gabeba Baderoon, Pennsylvania State University
Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity?
In this first full length study of South African slave memory, Pumla Gqola uses interdisciplinary feminist and And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared
postcolonial methodologies to analyse the recent visibility of South Africa’s slave past beyond history departments. sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups have multiple identities? And how can such
What does it mean for South Africans alive today to claim slave ancestry? How do works of the imagination, such as conversations be given relevance in public discussions of reconciliation and development in South Africa?
novels, poems, creative essays, documentary films, television series, coded recipes and art installations represent this This volume takes its title from Weber’s point, elaborated on in the chapter by Benedict Anderson, that the future
era of South Africa’s past? In what ways does living in a democracy permit collective rethinking of what it means to asks us to be worthy ancestors to the yet unborn. It aims to reach a broad and informed reading public because the
978 1 86814 507 2 (print)
belong to a Muslim diaspora? topics of identity and citizenship are of pressing interest in contemporary public discourse. In a changed (and, some
978 1 86814 692 5 (digital)
might say, degraded) environment of public dialogue, the editor hopes to inspire a re-thinking of the very essence of
220 x 150 mm, 256 pp Pumla Dineo Gqola is Associate Professor of Literary, Media and Gender Studies at the School of Literature and
what it means to be a citizen of South Africa.
Soft cover, 2010 Language Studies, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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.
The First Ethiopians The Image of Africa and Africans in the Early
Xolela Mangcu is now based at the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town. He is Non-resident Senior
Mediterranean World 978 186814 532 4 (print) Fellow at the Brookings Institution, Washington D.C.
Malvern van Wyk Smith 978 1 86814 557 7 (digital)
210 x 130 mm, 192 pp
… an original and interesting contribution to the scholarship on European views on Africa. Soft cover
– Stanley Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles 2011
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
South Africa and India
classical travel writing; from the pre-dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilisations to Greek and Shaping the Global South
Roman perceptions of Africa; and from the geo-linguistic history of Africa to the most recent revelations regarding the
978 1 86918 499 0 (print) Edited by Isabel Hofmeyr and Michelle Williams
genome profile of the continent’s peoples. The research led to a startling proposition: western racism has its roots
978 1 86814 634 5 (digital)
in Africa itself, notably in late New-Kingdom Egypt as its ruling elites sought to distance Egyptian civilisation from its
240 x 170 mm, 400 pp … makes a significant and innovative contribution by establishing a new field of research.
African origins.
Illustrated in full colour —Preben Kaarsholm, Roskilde University, Denmark
Soft cover, 2009 Malvern van Wyk Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Hofmeyr and Williams have assembled an impressive interdisciplinary group of scholars to lend insights into various
Do South Africans Exist? Nationalism, Democracy and the Identity of ‘the People’ historical and contemporary facets of India-South Africa relations in ways that enrich the comparative enterprise.
—Gilbert M. Khadiagala, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Ivor Chipkin
This book provides a critical study of South African nationalism, against a broader context of African nationalism in South Africa’s future is increasingly tied up with that of India. While trade and investment between the two countries
general. Narratives of resistance presume that ‘the people’ preceded the period of nationalist struggle. This book is intensifying, they share long-standing historical ties and have much in common: apart from cricket, colonialism and
explores how an African ‘people’ came into being as a collectivity organised in pursuit of a political, and not simply Gandhi, both countries are important players in the global South. What forms of transnational political community
cultural, end. Chipkin argues that the nation is a political community whose form is given in relation to the pursuit between these two regions have yet to be researched and understood?
of democracy and freedom, and that if democratic authority is lodged in ‘the people’, what matters is the way that The first section traces the range of historical connections between the two countries. The second section explores
this ‘people’ is defined, delimited and produced. He argues that the nation precedes the state because it emerges in 978 1 86814 538 6 (print) unconventional comparisons that offer rich ground on which to build original areas of study. This innovative book looks
and through the nationalist struggle for state power. Ultimately, he encourages the reader to re-evaluate knee-jerk 978 1 86814 555 3 (digital) to a post-American world in which the global South will become ever more important. Within this context, the Indian
judgments about the failure of modernity in Africa. 235 x 155 mm, 344 pp Ocean arena itself and South Africa and India in particular move to the fore.
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978 1 86814 445 7 (print) Ivor Chipkin is based at the Human Sciences Research Council, and also teaches at the University of the 2011 Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor of African Literature at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She played
978 1 86814 626 0 (digital) Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. a key role in the establishment of the Centre of Indian Studies in Africa. Michelle Williams is a senior lecturer in the
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Department of Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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Johannesburg The Elusive Metropolis
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. 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
City of Extremes The Spatial Politics of Johannesburg 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;
Martin J. Murray his boycott of rural trading stores in the early 1890s was perhaps the earliest use of non-
… gets beneath the surface of the city’s chaotic present to discover the inertia of long-term deployments. violent resistance in colonial South Africa. His steady refusal to bow to colonial demands of
—Lindsay Bremner, Professor of Architecture, Temple University 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
City of Extremes is a powerful critique of urban development in greater Johannesburg since 1994. Murray describes
arms to defend himself and his people from colonial attacks. His life ended in a dramatic and
how a loose alliance of city-builders – including real estate developers, large-scale property owners and municipal
heroic last stand in the ancestral sanctuary of the Langeberg mountain range, the consequences
officials – has sought to remake Johannesburg in the upbeat image of a ‘world-class’ city. By creating new sites of
of which stretched far into the next century.
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
Kevin Shillington is the author of a number of historical and contemporary works including 978 1 86814 549 2
Soft cover, 2011 regulation of the prerogatives of real estate capital. Murray suggests that the ‘global cities’ paradigm is inadequate for
The Colonisation of the Southern Tswana 1870-1900 (1985), Causes and Consequences of 234 x 156 mm, 320 pp
With Duke University Press understanding the historical specificity of the colonial mining town turned postcolonial megacity of Johannesburg.
Independence in Africa (1997) and History of Africa (3rd edition 2005). 16 pp colour section
Martin J. Murray is Professor of Urban Planning at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, and Soft cover
Adjunct Professor at the Center for African and African-American Studies at the University of Michigan, United States. 2011
ANTHROPOLOGY
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
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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
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With Pluto Press Leslie J. Bank is Professor and Director at the Fort Hare Institute of Social and Economic Research.
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Alexandra A History
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,
978 186814 480 8 (print) 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
978 1 86814 614 7 (digital) 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,
210 x 180 mm, 526 pp radical affiliates, and its story is one of astonishing achievements as its activities built workers’
Johannesburg.
Illustrated rights and deeply eroded the apartheid state. Metal That Will Not Bend – a translation of the
Soft cover, 2008 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.
978 1 86814 514 0 (print)
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
978 1 86814 667 3 (digital)
number of popular books on South African trade union histories. 978 1 86814 534 8 (print)
220 x 150 mm, 360 pp
Illustrated 978 1 86814 556 0 (digital)
Soft cover, 2010 240 x 170 mm, 576 pp
Illustrated
Soft cover
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
978 1 86814 409 9 (print) 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
978 1 86814 681 9 (digital)
archaeological finds. Chapter 9. Auto takes on the industry: 1990-1992 Chapter 21. Disinvestment: Pragmatic politics 1985-1989
210 x 180 mm, 176 pp Chapter 10. New directions: 1988-1991 Chapter 22. Compromising on socialism: Legacy of the Alliance
Full colour, illustrated 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
Soft cover with gatefolds archaeologist at the International Centre for Cultural and Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. Chapter 12. Towards a new industry: 1993
2007
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Mbeki and After Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki
POLITICS
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.
978 1 86814 502 7 (print) — Ronnie Kasrils, former ANC government minister
Daryl Glaser is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand,
978 1 86814 651 2 (digital)
Johannesburg.
200 x 130 mm, 320 pp The African National Congress (ANC) has moved light years beyond the liberation movement of
Soft cover, 2010 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)
978 1 86814 518 8 (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)
978 1 86814 662 8 (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
220 x 150 mm, 380 pp
Research Chair in Social Change at the University of Johannesburg. Soft cover
Soft cover, 2010
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
978 1 86814 500 3 (print) 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
978 1 86814 658 1 (digital) war South Africa and worked to breach the dividing line between black and white. Chapter 9. Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope)
220 x 150 mm, 240 pp David Everatt is the Executive Director of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, a joint project of the University of
Soft cover, 2009 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
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
Haroon Saloojee
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Eating from One Pot The Dynamics of Survival in Poor South African Households Traumatic Stress in South Africa
SOCIOLOGY
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
978 1 86814 533 1 (print) 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
978 1 86814 627 7 (digital) Amartya Sen’s notion of co-operative conflict to argue that in times of crisis there is more conflict than cooperation.
class disparities.
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 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.
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Go Home or Die Here Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference Caves of the Ape-Men South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site
MIGRATION STUDIES
PALEOANTHROPOLOGY
in South Africa Ronald J. Clarke and Timothy C. Partridge with contributions by Kathleen Kuman
Edited by Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby • Photographs by Alon Skuy The unique fossils featured in Caves of the Ape-Men were excavated at cave sites which today are clustered within
Foreword by Bishop Paul Verryn 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
The 2008 xenophobic attacks caused an outcry across the world and raised some fundamental questions about a
importance for understanding the emergence of hominids – the early creatures transitional between the great apes
democratic South Africa. Go Home or Die Here emanates directly from a colloquium convened by the Faculty of Humanities
and man – and, later, some of the earliest representatives of our own species. Short text boxes are interspersed
at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg in the weeks following the outbreak of violence. It is an attempt to
with illustrations of key fossil specimens as old as four million years. Also included are reconstructions of how these
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 978 1 86814 510 2 (print)
award-winning photographer Alon Skuy, who covered the violence for The Times newspaper, the volume is passionate and Ron Clarke is a paleoanthropologist and the late Timothy Partridge a geologist/paleo-climatologist, both at the
Full colour, illustrated 978 1 86814 696 3 (digital)
engaged, and aims to stimulate reflection, debate and activism among concerned members of a broad public. University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Soft cover, 2008 245 x 170 mm, 296 pp
Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby are all academics based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Hard cover, 2008
Johannesburg.
The Humanitarian Hangover Displacement, Aid and Transformation in Western A Search for Origins Science, History and South Africa’s ‘Cradle of Humankind’
Tanzania
Edited by Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins
Loren B. Landau Foreword by Phillip Tobias
Western Tanzania has hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees living in massive refugee camps sustained by millions
Research based on fossils found in the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (COH), as well as signs of early human
of dollars of humanitarian aid. This book explores this influx of people and aid, and shows how they have transformed
habitation, have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played
the politics and governmental practices of the region. Loren Landau found that the refugee influx did not produce
in the development of modern humans. A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH and
the deleterious economic and environmental effects often assumed. Outside the camps, a Tanzanian population long
surrounding areas, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a non-specialist audience. This
marginalised became incorporated into systems of power and authority which linked them to Dar es Salaam, central
edited volume frames the scientific advances that have been made in the COH against the intellectual and political
Africa, Geneva, Washington and the grain farmers of the American Midwest. They became ‘Tanzanian’ as never before
background out of which they emerged. It is the first systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines. The
by exalting the territory, the nation and a political leadership that delegated responsibility for security and services
multi-disciplinary approach is innovative and ground-breaking.
to others: the United Nations, non-governmental organisations and the citizenry. The result was a hybridised regime 978 1 86814 418 1
978 1 86814 455 6 of power shaped by history, contingency, self-interest and perception: a political form that questions models of rural Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins are all academics based at the University of the Witwatersrand,
240 x 168 mm, 420 pp
235 x 155 mm, 192 pp transformation and the functional basis of the modern nation-state. Johannesburg. Bonner is a historian, Esterhuysen an archaeologist and Jenkins is a geneticist.
Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover, 2008
Loren B. Landau is Director of the African Centre for Migration and Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, Soft cover with gatefolds, 2007
Johannesburg.
Selecting Immigrants National Identity and South Africa’s Immigration Policies, From Tools to Symbols From Early Hominids to Modern Humans
1910-2008 Edited by Francesco d’Errico and Lucinda Backwell
Sally Peberdy A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and early
At a time when (im)migration is at the forefront of international and South African debates, this book critically modern human populations in an attempt to understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, palaeo-
examines the relationship between changes in South Africa’s immigration policies, and shifts in the construction of anthropology and genetics tell us how and when human cultures developed the traits that make our societies different
national identity by the South African State. Relating the history of the immigration policies of the South African State from those of our closest living relatives? This collection of selected papers from a South African-French conference
between 1910 and 2005, it explores the synergy between periods of significant change in state discourses and policies organised in honour of palaeoanthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary overview of this field of study.
of migration, and those historical moments when South Africa was reinvented politically or was in the process of active It is based on collaborative research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, French, American and German
nation building. It is in these periods that the relationships between immigration, nationalism and national identity is scholars in the last twenty years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the palaeontological and archaeological
most starkly revealed. In a readable, well-researched and interdisciplinary work, Peberdy provides the first history of evidence of the last five million years of human evolution.
978 1 86814 484 6 South Africa’s immigration legislation. 978 1 86814 417 4 Francesco d’Errico is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Research
220 x 150 mm, 340 pp 240 x 170 mm, 606 pp Professor at the Department of Anthropology, George Washington University, United States. Lucinda Backwell is a
Sally Peberdy is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of
Soft cover, 2009 Soft cover, 2005 Researcher in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
the Western Cape, South Africa. She is the 2007 winner of the Wits University Research Committee Publication Award.
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Five Hundred Years Rediscovered Southern African Precedents and Prospects Nature’s Gifts Why We Are the Way We Are
ARCHAEOLOGY
POPULAR SCIENCE
Edited by Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen and Philip Bonner Wilmot James
The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period in southern Africa’s past. In this period From genes to geology, medicine to music, bacteria to beauty, Wilmot James sheds light on a cornucopia of ideas.
key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features At the core is the triumph of science as enlightenment and liberation, a potent force for the public good.
of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking —Helena Cronin, London School of Economics
place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and
The modern scientific discipline of genetics has helped us to understand the nature of humanity, and Wilmot James has
its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the
played a key role in promoting a popular understanding of it. James tells some compelling stories about the genome:
homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. This book represents the first step
why we have different skin colours, how blood tells a special story of human history, why the brain likes music, how
by a group of archaeologists and historians to collectively reframe and re-examine the last 500 years, and to challenge
smell works, why kids love bugs and the teaching of evolution. He gives an account of a great South African scientist,
current thinking about the region’s expanding internal and colonial frontiers.
Eddie Roux, who was known more for his politics, and of the extraordinary naturalist Eugene Marais, who became
978 1 86814 474 7 978 1 86814 515 7 (print)
Natalie Swanepoel is an archaeologist at the University of South Africa, Pretoria. Amanda Esterhuysen is an known more for his Afrikaans poetry.
245 x 170 mm, 296 pp 978 1 86814 656 7 (digital)
archaeologist, and Philip Bonner a historian, both at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Soft cover, 2008 200 x 130 mm, 208 pp Wilmot James is Federal Chairperson of the Democratic Alliance. He is an Honorary Professor in the Division of Human
Soft cover, 2010 Genetics (University of Cape Town) and a Visiting Research Professor of the Open University (United Kingdom).
Sterkfontein Early Hominid Site in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ Riddles in Stone Controversies, Theories and Myths about Southern Africa’s
Amanda Esterhuysen
Geological Past
This guide to Sterkfontein is the second in a series of short books on South Africa’s World Heritage Sites. Written by
Hugh Eales
specialists and generously illustrated, the series aims to provide accurate and accessible introductions to the sites, Riddles in Stone covers a variety of fascinating controversies and startling differences of opinion that accompanied the
and to make the visit more meaningful and enjoyable for uninformed visitors. Mapungubwe was published in 2005. evolution of the study of Earth Sciences in southern Africa. Over the centuries, debates have raged amongst geologists,
Sterkfontein provides an easy-to-read overview of the geological and fossil history of the Sterkfontein Valley. The and between geologists and biologists, physicists and theologians, on controversies such as the age of the Earth and
remarkable record contained in the Sterkfontein Caves, comprising thousands of animal, plant and hominid fossils, is its lifespan; Continental Drift; the origin of ore deposits of gold, diamonds, copper and platinum; and Schwarz’s well-
978 1 86814 421 1 (print) simply presented and current debates are explained. The use of visual markers from Sterkfontein enables visitors to meaning but forgotten Kalahari Scheme. Although scrupulously rooted in scientific literature, this book maintains an
978 1 86814 678 9 (digital) identify essential features and formations. accessible and entertaining tone and shows how consensus amongst a majority may be proof of nothing. Geologists,
210 x 180 mm, 64 pp challenged to interpret events that took place billions of years ago, have drawn up theories and hypotheses which may
Full colour, illustrated Amanda Esterhuysen is an archaeologist at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 978 186814 447 1 (print) appear either absurdly dated or, from other perspectives, as cutting edge.
Soft cover, 2007 978 1 86814 666 6 (digital)
245 x 190 mm, 432 pp Hugh Eales is Professor Emeritus of Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa.
Soft cover, 2007
NATURAL SCIENCE
Leonie Joubert Ara Monadjem, Peter John Taylor, F. P. D. (Woody) Cotterill and M. Corrie Schoeman
Photography by Rodger Bosch 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,
Invaded is a story about biological pollution – the plants and animals that have spread around the globe on the back
genera and species is aided by character matrices. The species accounts provide descriptions, measurements and
of human movement, those that have traversed the boundaries of natural habitats and have begun to erode their
diagnostic characters, as well as detailed information on the distribution, habitat, roosting habits, foraging ecology,
new adopted environment. Joubert documents the grave consequences of humankind’s intended and unintended
and reproduction of each species. Photographs of the bats, including their skulls and dentition, and accurate time-
introduction of alien species into South Africa. Working in close collaboration with the Centre for Invasion Biology at
expanded echolocation call spectrograms illustrate the accounts. Species distribution maps are based on the recorded
Stellenbosch University, she brings to the general reader a scientifically sound yet accessible and important book.
978 1 86814 478 5 (print) localities of 6000 museum specimens. A comprehensive appendix lists the accession number, locality and co-ordinates
Invaded is, however, not a story of despair. Instead, it encourages scientists, citizens and policy-makers to continue
978 1 86814 646 8 (digital) of every specimen represented on the distribution maps.
with their efforts to contain and eradicate invasive alien species. It is a book for the guardians of the South African 978 1 86814 508 9 (print)
240 x 210 mm, 268 pp environment. 978 1 86814 618 5 (digital) Ara Monadjem is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Swaziland; Peter
Full colour, illustrated 240 x 170 mm, 608 pp Taylor is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ecology and Resource Management at the University of Venda;
Soft cover with gatefolds Full colour, illustrated Woody Cotterill is the ERANDA Research Fellow at the Africa Earth Observatory Network (AEON) and Department of
2009 Integrated cover, 2010 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.
Boiling Point People in a Changing Climate
Leonie Joubert Elephant Management A Scientific Assessment for South Africa
Climate change is the biggest moral problem of our time, as people who have contributed least to the pollution
Edited by R. J. Scholes and K. G. Mennell
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 Elephants are among the most magnificent – but also most problematic – members of South Africa’s wildlife
this phenomenon: a rooibos tea farmer in the Northern Cape, a traditional fisherman in Lambert’s Bay, a farmer in the population. While they are sought after by tourists, they also have a major impact on their environment. As a result,
centre of the Free State’s maize belt, a political refugee in Pietermaritzburg and a sangoma in Limpopo mining country. elephant management has become a highly complex and often controversial discipline. The South African Minister
Most of these communities live on a knife-edge because of poverty and their dependence on an already capricious for Environmental Affairs and Tourism convened a round table, which recommended that a scientific assessment of
natural environment. Boiling Point considers what might happen to them as normal weather trends are amplified in a elephant management be undertaken to gather, evaluate and present all the relevant information on the topic. Its
978 1 86814 467 9 (print)
hotter world. main findings and recommendations are contained in this volume. Elephant Management is the first book of its kind,
978 1 86814 620 8 (digital)
combining the work of more than 60 national and international experts. Extensively reviewed by policy-makers and
210 x 180 mm, 264 pp
other stakeholders, it is the most systematic and comprehensive review of savannah elephant populations and factors
Full colour, illustrated
relevant to managing them to date.
Soft cover, 2008 978 1 86814 479 2 (print)
978 1 86814 629 1 (digital) Bob Scholes is an ecologist at the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Kathleen
245 x 170 mm, 645 pp Mennell is a Masters student in the Ecosystem Processes and Dynamics Research Group at the CSIR.
Scorched South Africa’s Changing Climate Soft cover, 2008
Leonie Joubert
Scorched is a vivid journey through southern Africa’s mesmerising landscapes as climate change sets in. It wanders Adaptive Herbivore Ecology Student Edition
through the KZN Midlands to capture the last faltering calls of a rain frog that was named after the hobbit Bilbo From Resources to Populations in Variable Environments
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
Norman Owen-Smith
season before returning to a Cape which is crisping over as drought continues to grip the province. The world is shifting The adaptation of herbivore behaviour is seasonal and locational variations in vegetation quantity and quality is
its shape around these plants and animals. In places it is warming and drying, elsewhere the rains come in greater inadequately modelled by conventional methods. Norman Owen-Smith innovatively links the principles of adaptive
978 1 86814 437 2 (print) deluges. Some are abandoned as species retreat before the onslaught of rising greenhouse gases and altered weather behaviour to their consequences for population dynamics and community ecology, through the application of a
978 1 86814 668 0 (digital) patterns. Scorched ponders the morality of the changes humankind has wrought, and the future of life as we know it. metaphysiological modelling approach. The main focus is on large mammalian herbivores occupying seasonally
210 x 190 mm, 264 pp variable environments such as those characterised by African savannahs, but applications to temperate zone ungulates
Full colour, illustrated are also included. Issues of habitat suitability are similarly investigated. The modelling approach accommodates
Soft cover, 2006 various sources of environmental variability, in space and time, in a simple conceptual way and has the potential to be
978 1 86814 427 3 applied to other consumer-resource systems.
Leonie Joubert is a freelance science writer. Scorched: South Africa’s Changing Climate and Invaded: The Biological Invasion of South Africa, were awarded 230 x 150 mm, 374 pp Norman Owen-Smith is Research Professor in African Ecology and heads the Centre for African Ecology at the
honorary Sunday Times/Alan Paton Awards. Boiling Point: People in a Changing Climate, is based on research funded by the 2007 Ruth First Fellowship. Soft cover, 2005 University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
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People of the Eland
ROCK ART
ROCK ART
Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg Bushmen as a Reflection of their Life
and Thought Seeing and Knowing
Rock Art with and without Ethnography
Patricia Vinnicombe
Edited by Geoffrey Blundell, Christopher Chippindale and Benjamin Smith
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 It is largely through the work of David Lewis-Williams that San rock art has come to be
had dominated studies of rock art for nearly a century. The book, an account of the rock art of the San of the understood so well, as a complex symbolic and metaphoric representation of San religious
Drakensberg Range, was also about the mountain San themselves: their lives, their beliefs, their culture and their beliefs and practices. This volume demonstrates the depth and wide geographical impact of
history during colonisation. It quickly became clear to Vinnicombe that the art reflected the most deeply held San Lewis-Williams’ contribution, with particular emphasis on his use of theory and methodology
978 1 86814 497 6 (print) beliefs and symbols and she tried to gain an insider’s view of the rock art using San understandings of the world. drawn from ethnography.
978 1 86814 660 4 (digital) This approach and this understanding have now become the standard for all those working with San rock art. Seeing and Knowing explores how to understand and learn from rock art with and without
250 x 270 mm, 400 pp Whilst this early knowledge of San art has been built upon considerably since 1976, Vinnicombe’s contribution ethnography. Because many of the chapters are based on solid fieldwork and ethnographic
Soft cover, illustrated remains a cornerstone of our current understanding. Reprinted here in full colour, with the original artwork and research, they offer a new body of work that provides the evidence for differentiation between
2009 photographs, People of the Eland remains a seminal work, the impact of which cannot be underestimated. 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
Patricia Vinnicombe was one of South Africa’s foremost rock art experts. She died in Australia in 2003. 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.
The Eland’s People 978 1 86814 513 3 (print)
New Perspectives in the Rock Art of the Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen 978 1 86814 671 0 (digital)
245 x 200 mm, 328 pp
Edited by Peter Mitchell and Benjamin Smith CONTENTS Soft cover, illustrated
2010
Only 1000 copies of People of the Eland were printed in 1976. It was neither reissued nor reprinted and has become 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
one of the rarest and most expensive of all books on the African past. In 2002, Vinnicombe started to explore the Rights: Africa only
Chapter 3. Snake and veil: The rock engravings of Driekopseiland, Northern Cape, South Africa David Morris
possibility of republication, but she did not feel that the book could be reissued without adding additional sections Chapter 4. Cups and saucers: A preliminary investigation of the rock carvings of Tsodilo Hills, northern Botswana
to explain how knowledge had expanded in the decades since its publication. Tragically, Pat died in March 2003. Nick Walker
Peter Mitchell and Benjamin Smith took up her challenge and brought together the leading scholars in the field to Chapter 5. Art and authorship in southern African rock art: Examining the Limpopo-Shashe Confluence Area
write new sections to explain both how knowledge has changed since the publication of People of the Eland, and Edward B. Eastwood, Geoffrey Blundell and Benjamin Smith
Chapter 6. Archaeology, ethnography, and rock art: A modern-day study from Tanzania Imogene L. Lim
how current research is still influenced by this landmark volume. The Eland’s People is a companion volume to Chapter 7. Art and belief: The ever-changing and the never-changing in the Far West David S. Whitley
978 1 86814 498 3 (print)
People of the Eland that aims to provide a richer appreciation of the importance of Pat’s original work, as well as Chapter 8. Crow Indian elk love-medicine and rock art in Montana and Wyoming Lawrence L. Loendorf
978 1 86814 628 4 (digital)
allowing readers an overview of current understandings of Drakensberg rock art. Chapter 9. Layer by layer: Precision and accuracy in rock art recording and dating Johannes Loubser
250 x 270 mm, 256 pp Chapter 10. From the tyranny of the figures to the interrelationship between myths, rock art and their surfaces
Soft cover, illustrated Knut Helskog
Peter Mitchell is a Professor at the School of Archaeology, St Hugh’s College, Oxford University. Benjamin Smith is
2009 Chapter 11. Composite creatures in European Palaeolithic art
the Director of the Rock Art Research Institute (RARI) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. 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 African Dream Machines Life of Bone Art meets Science
ART
ART
of Women’s Photography in Style, Identity and Meaning of Edited by Joni Brenner, Elizabeth Burroughs and Karel Nel
South Africa African Headrests Hominid fossils touch a responsive chord in people everywhere, who seem to have an inherent drive to know their
Edited by Robin Comley, Anitra Nettleton beginnings. We want to know what the fossils have to say to us. There seems to be a magic in the fossilised bones that
George Hallett and Neo Ntsoma transcends time ….
African Dream Machines takes African
—Donald Johanson and Blake Edgar
Introduction by Penny Siopis headrests out of the category of functional
objects and into the more rarefied category Life of Bone brings into sharp relief the abutting practices of the scientific and the artistic, practices which have co-
This book celebrated the fiftieth anniversary
of ‘art’ objects. Styles in African headrests existed since the beginning of our species. It is based on an exhibition at the Origins Centre at the University of the
of the 1956 women’s march on the Union
978 1 86814 441 9 978 1 86814 539 3 (print) Witwatersrand, which displayed the original fossil skull of the Taung child hominid alongside artworks by Joni Brenner,
Buildings. It provides a showcase of are usually defined in terms of western art
(print) 978 1 86814 647 5 (digital) Gerhard Marx and Karel Nel made specifically in response to these evolutionarily significant remains. This unique
photographic talent, from the early pioneers of and archaeological discourses, but this book
978 1 86814 695 6 210 x 180 mm, 176 pp combination prompts a range of enquiries on the nature of both artistic and scientific disciplines, and encourages a
social documentary to the challenging images 978 1 86814 458 7 interrogates these definitions of style and
(digital) Full colour, illustrated dialogue between the very distant historic and the contemporary.
created by women in South Africa today. (print) demonstrates the shortcomings of defining
300 x 290 mm, 260 pp Soft cover with gatefolds
As the struggle against apartheid gained 978 1 86814 612 3 a single formal style model as exclusive
Full colour, illustrated 2011
momentum in the 1970s and 1980s, women (digital) to a single ethnic group. Anitra Nettleton’s
Hard cover
photographers recorded the drama unfolding 245 x 170 mm, 488 pp drawings of each and every headrest
2006
With the Department across the land. More recently, women have Illustrated encountered are a major part of the project. Dunga Manzi / Stirring Waters
begun exploring a different aesthetic and Soft cover with gatefolds
of Arts and Culture, Edited by Nessa Leibhammer
developing a wide range of photographic 2007
Republic of South Africa
practices in the worlds of fashion, journalism, Dunga Manzi / Stirring Waters showcases some of South Africa’s most treasured heritage in the form of Tsonga and
documentary and advertising. Shangaan art and culture. It tracks the history of these cultural groups through essays and a wealth of images of
Anitra Nettleton is Professor in the Wits School of Arts, University of
material culture and art. Divided into four sections, the book highlights the histories of the Tsonga and Shangaan,
Robin Comley is a freelance picture editor and photographic consultant. the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the 2006 winner of the Wits
including a personal narrative of the Makhubele family. The second section explores the magnificent beading tradition
George Hallett and Neo Ntsoma are award-winning photographers. University Research Committee Publication Award.
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
Uplifting the Colonial Philistine History after Apartheid last section.
978 1 86814 449 5 (print)
Florence Phillips and the Visual Culture and Public 978 1 86814 691 8 (digital) Nessa Leibhammer is a Professor in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Making of the Johannesburg Memory in a Democratic 278 x 215 mm, 232 pp
Art Gallery South Africa Full colour, illustrated
Soft cover with gatefolds
Jillian Carman Annie E. Coombes 2007
Uplifting the Colonial Philistine is a History after Apartheid analyses how With the Johannesburg Art Gallery
thoroughly researched, account of the South Africa’s visual and material culture
unusual circumstances in which early represented the past while at the same
Johannesburg came to have an art gallery time contributing to the process of social Dumile Feni Retrospective
with one of the most avant-garde collections transformation. Coombes examines how
978 1 86814 436 5 Johannesburg Art Gallery • Curated and edited by Prince Mbusi Dube
in the world. It describes the characters who 978 1 86814 407 5 strategies for embodying different models
(print)
brought the Johannesburg Art Gallery to its 230 x 155 mm, 384 pp of historical knowledge and experience are My subjects are Africans because they are my people, but my message, the idea I am bringing to put across has
978 1 86814 686 4
launch in 1910: Florence Phillips, wife of one Soft cover negotiated in public culture – in monuments, nothing to do with racialism.
(digital)
of the Randlord patrons, and Hugh Lane, 2004 museums and contemporary fine art. She —Dumile Feni
230 x 170 mm, 480 pp
curator. Containing 100 reproductions from With Duke explores the dilemmas posed by a range of
Illustrated Dumile Feni was one of Africa’s greatest twentieth century artists – painter, sculptor, poet and nascent filmmaker too.
the original catalogue, this book unravels University Press visual and material culture including key
Soft cover with gatefolds This lavishly illustrated, full-colour book is the most comprehensive collection of Dumile’s work to date. It honours the
the complex intertwining of personal and South African heritage sites, and highlights
2006 artist’s work, sketches, paintings and sculptures, and provides intimate, quirky photographs of Dumile himself, essays
socio-political agendas that made up the the contradictory investment in these sites
978 1 86814 442 6 about him by great contemporary thinkers in the art world, poetry about him and poetry by him.
fabric of the founding. among competing constituencies.
300 x 240 mm, 248 pp
Prince Mbusi Dube is the Education Curator at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and also the Curator of the Dumile Feni
Jillian Carman was a curator at the Johannesburg Art Gallery for twenty years. Annie E. Coombes is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Full colour, illustrated
Retrospective.
She is the 2005 winner of the Wits Research Committee Publication Award. School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, Hard cover, 2006
University of London, United Kingdom. With the Johannesburg Art Gallery
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Bury Me at the Marketplace Es’kia Mphahlele and Company. Stranger at Home The Praise Poet in Apartheid South Africa
LITERARY STUDIES
LITERARY STUDIES
Letters 1943–2006 Ashlee Neser
Edited by N. Chabani Manganyi and David Attwell This book is about the poetry, vision and context of one of South Africa’s most talented praise poets. The author of five
Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of Mphahlele’s selected letters twenty-five years ago under the same volumes of Xhosa poetry and performer of inspired and elegantly crafted izibongo (praise poems), Manisi saw himself
title. Bury Me at the Marketplace suggested the energy and magnanimity of Mphahlele the man, whose personality as a man of multiple allegiances and identities at a time when these markers of self were rigidly policed. He was for a
and intellect as a writer and educator would carve an indelible place for him in South Africa’s public sphere. Despite the time the most famous poet in Kaiser Mathanzima’s court. He also wrote the first published poem about Nelson Mandela
personal nature of the letters, the further horizons of this volume are the contours of South Africa’s literary and cultural in 1954, hailing him prophetically as ‘Gleaming Road’. Despite these early accomplishments, Manisi ended his career
history, the international affiliations out of which it has been formed, particularly in the diaspora that connects South as a lonely performer in American and South African universities. Neser examines Manisi as an inventive negotiator
Africa to the rest of the African continent and to the black presence in Europe and the United States. of rural and urban spaces, modernity and tradition, performance and publication, the local and the foreign. In the
This selection of Mphahlele’s own letters has been greatly expanded; it has also been augmented by the addition of divided context in which he created poetry, the author argues, it was not possible for Manisi to articulate the package
978 1 86814 489 1 (print) 978 1 86814 537 9 (print) of identities that defined him. The over-determined public discourse, caught in meanings dictated by apartheid politics
letters from Mphahlele’s correspondents.
978 1 86814 621 5 (digital) 978 1 86814 679 6 (digital) and the urban-centred resistance movement, distorted and isolated Manisi’s poetry.
230 x 155 mm, 528 pp N. Chabani Manganyi is a clinical psychologist, biographer and non-fiction writer. David Attwell is Professor of 220 x 150 mm, 280 pp
Modern Literature at the University of York, United Kingdom. Ashlee Neser is a Researcher at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) at the University of the
Soft cover, 2010 Soft cover, 2011
Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the 2010 winner of the Wits University Research Committee Publication Award.
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
978 1 86814 472 3 often difficult times his talent, dedication,
1967 to 1984. Baartman’s life and discuss the enduring
232 x 156 mm, 360 pp belief in the equality of all people and, most
978 186814 488 4 978 1 86814 400 6
Soft cover, 2008 impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas
235 x 155 mm, 248 pp (print) of all, his identity as an African sustained him.
With James Currey about women, race and sexuality. The book
Illustrated 978 1 86814 640 6 Chabani Manganyi’s biography is informed
Publishers (UK) 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
978 1 86814 462 4 (print) differently about non-human animals and human relationships with them. and Jane Dugard journey in life, science and education, but also
978 1 86814 615 4 (digital) 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
220 x 150 mm, 208 pp —Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate (from
embark on a journey through the life and work
Soft cover, 2008 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.
978 1 86814 492 1 (print) coherent and compelling political philosophy.
978 1 86814 644 4 (digital) 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
220 x 150 mm, 328 pp Sydney. Jane Dugard is a biologist who writes evolutionary materials for
Johannesburg. at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Soft cover, 2009 school textbooks.
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Tshepang The Third Testament Nothing but the Truth
THEATRE
THEATRE
Lara Foot Newton John Kani
In 2001 South Africa was devastated by the news of a brutal rape of a nine-month-old child who came to be known Nothing but the Truth is the story of two brothers, of sibling rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, and the
as baby Tshepang. The media reported that she had been gang-raped by a group of six men. Later it was discovered ambiguities of freedom. Nothing but the Truth (2002) was John Kani’s debut as sole playwright and was first performed
that the men had been wrongfully accused and that the infant had instead been raped and sodomised by her mother’s in the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. It won the 2003 Fleur du Cap Award for best actor and best new South African
boyfriend. Once the story of baby Tshepang hit the headlines, the scab was torn off a festering wound, and hundreds play. In the same year Kani was also awarded a special Obie award for his extraordinary contribution to theatre in the
of similar stories followed. Weaving together ‘twenty thousand stories’ (the number of reported child rapes in South United States. This play was selected by the South African National Department of Education for study in Grade 12. A
Africa each year), Tshepang tells a story of love, forgiveness and the difficulties of coming to terms with a violation of new scholar’s edition, co-published with Macmillan South Africa, has been released which meets all requirements of
this magnitude. 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)
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Fools, Bells and the Habit Sorrows and Rejoicings Women Writing Africa
THEATRE
WOMEN’S WRITING
of Eating Athol Fugard The contributions of African women to their respective nations have been documented for generations as letters, speeches, songs, poems and other oralities,
Zakes Mda Introduction by Anthony Akerman 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.
Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the In an old house in a small country town three
themes of the three plays in this collection: women gather in the presence of a stinkwood
The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with table and their powerful memories of the
its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, man they have just buried. In Sorrows and The Southern Region West Africa and the Sahel
is a grinding satire on materialism. You Rejoicings, Athol Fugard turns once more to his
beloved Karoo and to the themes of exile and Edited by M.J. Daymond, Edited by Esi Sutherland-Addy
Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled
study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief that the importance of place that have permeated Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, and Aminata Diaw
government by those who inherit a revolution so many of his plays. Anthony Akerman’s Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, The collection encompasses an epic cultural
978 1 86814 377 1 is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two, 978 1 86814 385 6 accessible introduction situates the play in the Margie Orford and Nobantu Rasebotsa history through the voices of women
(print) hijacked by the smart operators. The Bells of (print) context of the body of Fugard’s work. represented in twenty languages spoken in an
Presenting voices rarely heard, some recorded
978 1 86814 639 9 Amersfoort, with its graphic portrayal of the 978 1 86814 674 1 as early as the mid-nineteenth century, as area encompassing twelve countries: Benin,
(digital) isolation imposed by exile, picks up on the (digital) well as rediscovered gems by well-known Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia,
220 x 150 mm, 162 pp themes of the other two plays but adds to 200 x 130 mm, 80 pp authors such as Bessie Head and Doris Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Niger,
Soft cover them the concept of ‘healing’, both of the soul Soft cover Lessing, this landmark collection reveals a Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.
2002 and of the land. 2002 living cultural legacy that will revolutionise
978 1 86814 394 8 the understanding of African women’s literary 978 1 86814 428 0
Zakes Mda is a multiple award-winning playwright, novelist, painter, Athol Fugard is one of South Africa’s and the world’s finest playwrights. His 235 x 155 mm, 560 pp and cultural production. The texts – ranging 235 x 155 mm, 512 pp
composer and filmmaker. He currently teaches at the University of Ohio, numerous plays have won many awards, been produced internationally and Soft cover from communal songs and folktales to letters, Soft cover
United States. made into musical works and films. 2003 diaries, political petitions, court records, 2005
poems, essays, and fiction – demonstrate
the critical role played by women in cultural
continuity and resistance to oppression in six
My Life and Valley Song My Children! My Africa! countries in the region: Botswana, Lesotho,
Two Plays and Selected Shorter Plays Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland
and Zimbabwe.
Athol Fugard Athol Fugard
My Life is based on the diaries of five Edited by Stephen Gray
South African girls who were growing into In his introduction to this collection, Stephen
womanhood in 1994. The perspective of
The Eastern Region The Northern Region
Gray states that ‘there can be no artistic
each young woman on her country and her grounds on which to uphold a belief that Edited by Amandina Lihamba, Edited by Fatima Sadiqi,
people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety, “short” implies “lesser”’; he goes on to make Fulata L. Moyo, Mugyabuso M. Amira Nowaira, Azza El Kholy
exuberance, warmth and humour. A small the point that ‘Fugard seems naturally to be Mulokozi, Naomi L. Shitemi and Moha Ennaji
Karoo town provides the setting for Valley most at ease when working in compact dense and Saida Yahya-Othman
Song, which explores the theme of youth The fourth volume in the series includes more
forms’ . This collection brings together all the
978 1 86814 287 3 in search of itself, and provides a lyrical 978 1 86814 117 3 This volume highlights twenty-three than 100 texts from Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania,
available shorter plays by Athol Fugard not
(print) metaphor for the new South Africa in which it (print) languages and five east African countries: Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. It includes works
accessible to readers and performers, and
978 1 86814 654 3 was set, and has been termed one of Fugard’s 978 1 86814 653 6 Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. from 1500 BCE to the present; from an Egyptian
demonstrates through these plays the crucial
(digital) most endearing plays. (digital) It focuses on the daily lives of women in Queen’s marriage proposal to contemporary
stages of Fugard’s development as a great man
190 x 125 mm, 86 pp 198 x 126 mm, 198 pp retellings of personal sufferings and triumphs, women promoting new marriage and family
of the theatre.
Soft cover Soft cover parliamentary speeches, fiction, poetry and laws. Many names will resonate with modern
1996 1990 978 1 86814 459 4 songs, and the roles of women in creating 978 186814 490 7 readers, including Leila Abou Zeid, Amina
235 x 155 mm, 512 pp an educated people in nations free from 235 x 155 mm, 636 pp Arfaoui, Salwa Bakr, Assia Djebar, Nawal
Soft cover colonial rule. Soft cover El Saadawi and Fatima Mernissi. Important
2007 2009 themes include polygamy, the veil, education
and political participation.
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The African Treasury Series
AFRICAN TREAUSURY SERIES
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
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978 1 86814 519 5 (print)
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