CATALOGUE 2009 | 2010 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS is strategically placed at the crossroads of African and global knowledge productio n and dissemination. We are committed to publishing well- researched, innovative books for both academic and general readers. Our areas of focus include art and heritage, popular scien ce, history and politics, biography, literary studies, women’s writing and select textbooks.

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Politics 2 Migration Studies 6 Cultural Studies 9 Environmental Studies 14 Social Sciences 16 Biography 18 Heritage Studies 21 Historical Archaeology 23 History 24 Anthropology 26 Rock Art 28 Wits P&DM Series 30 Literary Studies 32 Popular Culture 35 Film/Theatre 36 Education 41 African Treasury Series 42 Women’s Writing 44 Art/Photography 48 Popular Science 52 Natural Sciences 53 Textbooks 54 Backlist 58 Index 61 POLITICS

NEW Mbeki and After TITLE Reflections on the Legacy of Thabo Mbeki

Edited by Daryl Glaser

For nearly ten years – indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela’s presidency – Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa’s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South Africa’s new democracy, one who left a huge mark in many fields, perhaps most controversially in state and party management, economic policy, public health intervention, foreign affairs and race relations. If we wish to understand the character and fate of post-1994 South Africa, we must therefore ask: What kind of 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, commentators and participants in the political process. Amongst the specific questions they seek to answer: What is Mbeki’s legacy for patterns of inclusion and exclusion based on race, class and gender? How, if at all, did his presidency reshape relations within the state, Photograph: Eric Miller/africanpictures.net between the state and the ruling party and between the state and society? How did he reposition South Africa on the continent and in the world? This book will be of interest to anyone wishing to understand the current political landscape in South Africa, 978 1 86814 502 7 (PB) and Mbeki’s role in shaping it. 220 x 150 mm, 256 pp November 2009 List of Contributors: Zackie Achmat, Richard Calland, Jane Duncan, Steven Friedman, Mark Gevisser, Mark Heywood, Chris Landsberg, Garth Le Pere, Achille Mbembe, Eusebius McKaiser and Peter Vale.

Daryl Glaser is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesb urg.

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Paper Wars NEW Access to Information in South Africa TITLE

Edited by Kate Allan

Paper Wars goes beyond being a valuable repository of freedo m of information lore. It reflects upon the ‘multiple faces of information governance’ and indeed upon secrecy itself. The volume presents new evidence and fresh thinking on this increasingly vital and global topic. —Jonathan Klaaren, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg

At the very start of South Africa’s constitutional democracy, openness and transparency had a special place. Reacting against the secrecy of apartheid, the veils would be lifted in a newly open society. And indeed South Africa’s access to information law – the Promotion of Access to Information Act, a direct result of the constitutional negotiations – is without parallel in the world. But bureaucracies and their cultures do not change easily. Habits of secrecy die hard and perhaps hardest where institutional capacity is low and organisational resources are scarce. Working against such obstacles, a few valiant organi - sations including the South African History Archive (SAHA) have been working to push back the entrenched modes of secrecy and instantiate the realm of open democracy. This book, edited by Kate Allan, tells and reflects upon that story. Drawing on the experience of SAHA, the chapters of Paper Wars will be the place to start for any serious scholar or dedicated activist seeking to understand the experience 978 1 86814 491 4 (PB) and place of South Africa in the global diffusion of freedom of 240 x 170 mm, 304 pp information regimes. Despite having the law on their side, June 2009 this book details the difficulties the information activists and requesters have encountered as they have attempted to put South Africa’s constitutional right of access to information into practice. Containing essays and case studies, the volume will stand as the record of the initial implementation (or lack thereof) of South Africa’s right to know law. Kate Allan is a human rights lawyer. She completed a Masters of Law at Harvard Universit y in 2009. From 2005 to 2007 she was the coordinator of the Freedo m of Information Programme at the South African History Archive (SAHA).

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Chapter 1. Illuminating the Politics and the Practice Chapter 4. The Nuclear Weapons History Project of Access to Information in South Africa Chandré Gould Richard Calland Chapter 5. Unlocking South Africa’s Military Archives Chapter 2. Accessing the Records of the Truth Laura Pollecut and Reconciliation Commission Chapter 6. Applying PAIA: Legal, Political and Contextual Piers Pigou Issues Kate Allan Chapter 3. In the Dark: Seeking Information about South Africa’s Nuclear Energy Programme Chapter 7. Conclusion: From Gatekeeping to Hospitality David Fig Verne Harris

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We Write What We Like Big African States Celebrating Steve Biko Angola, DRC, Ethiopia, Nigeria,

Edited by Chris van Wyk South Africa, Sudan Edited by Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst What the book brings forth brilliantly, amongst other things, is a picture of the same man seen through different eyes … and Greg Mills both this book and Biko’s own I Write What I Like should form part of any history syllabus. … A very important and well-structured contribution to a —Kgomotso Moncho, Pretoria News governance and state capacity problem that has thus far escap ed analytical and empirical consideration. Steve Biko, father of the Black Consciousness philosophy, —Garth le Pere (Institute for Global Dialogue), New Agenda was killed in prison on 12 September 1977. Biko was only thirty years old, but his ideas and political activities Western notions of statehood have tended to influence the changed the course of South African history and helped analysis of the viability of states in Africa, particularly the hasten the end of apartheid. view that larger states have the greater potential to sustain The year 2007 saw the thirtieth anniversary of Biko’s economic viability. Yet, against a background of much recent death. To mark the occasion, the then Minister of Science progress on the African continent in terms of economic and Technology, Dr Mosibudi Mangena, commissioned Chris development and improvements in governance, it is the larger van Wyk to compile an anthology of essays as a tribute to African states which have persistently disappointed – both in the great South African son. terms of their own economic and political development and in Among the contributors are Minister Mangena himself, terms of their ability to exert a positive influence on the ex-President Thabo Mbeki, writer Darryl Accone, journalists region in which they are located. In this study of six African Lizeka Mda and Bokwe Mafuna, academics Jonathan Jansen, ‘big states’, specialists across a range of disciplines analyse Mandla Seleoane and Saths Cooper, a friend of Biko’s and both the country-specific factors which have led to all but one former president of Azapo. of these states being described as dysfunctional, as well as We Write What We Like proudly echoes the title of Biko’s cross-cutting issues which affect all of the big states in Africa seminal work, I Write What I Like. It is a gift to a new and which may have contributed to ‘dysfunctionality’. generation which enjoys freedom, from one that was there List of Contributors: Christopher Clapham, Jeffrey Herbst, when this freedom was being fought for. And it celebrates Greg Mills, Jack Kalpakian, Daniel C Bach, Claude Kabemba, the man whose legacy is the freedom to think and say and Tim Hughes, Marina Ottaway, Nicolas van de Walle, Gail write what we like. Wannenberg, Joseph Ayee and Garth Abraham

Chris van Wyk is a full-time writer. Christopher Clapham is an associate of the Centre of African Studies, Cambridge University, United Kingdom. Jeffrey Herbst is Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs at Miami University, United States. Greg Mills is Directo r of the Brenthurst Foundation, Johannesburg .

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The Origins of Non-Racialism NEW White Opposition to Apartheid in TITLE the 1950 s

David Everatt

This book is a path-breaking study of the emergence of non- raciali sm, considering a range of strands: some pursing liber al paths, others working for national liberation or comm unism. It is a painstaking insight into the Congress Movement and the Communist Party, then operating under - ground, as well as the Liberal Party, drawing on widespread oral and archival material. —Raymond Suttner, University of South Africa, and author of The ANC Underground

The Constitution of post-apartheid South Africa declares the Republic to be ‘a sovereign, democratic state’ founded on ‘human dignity, the achievement of equality and the advance - ment of human rights and freedoms; non-racialism and non- sexism.’ After centuries of white domination and decades of increasingly savage repression, freedom came to South Africa far later than elsewhere in the continent – and yet was marked by a commitment to non-racialism. Nelson Mandela’s Cabinet and government was made up of women and men of all races, and many spoke of the birth of a new ‘Rainbow Nation’.

How did this come about? How did an African nationalist Tens of thousands of mainly white South Africans protest the removal of the liberation movement resisting apartheid – a universally coloured franchise. Photograph: Campbell Collection, UKZN denounced violent expression of white supremacy – open its doors to other races – and whites, in particular? At what cost to itself? And what did non-racialism mean – why could whites, coloureds and Indians not join the African National Congress (ANC) until after 1990, when the ANC was unbanned, but had 978 1 86814 500 3 (PB) to remain in racially discrete ‘partners’ – while fighting for a 220 x 150 mm, 240 pp non-racial future? Why could members of all races join the September 2009 Communist Party and the Liberal Party – but not the ANC? This book uncovers some of the stories and hidden histories that help explain our past. It focuses on a talented, brave, but tiny minority of whites – liberals, radicals, communists, Trotskyists, humanists, Christians, idealists – David Everatt is the Executive Director of the Gauteng City-Region Observatory, a joint project of the University of Johannesburg, the who rejected the growing racism of post-war South Africa University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg and Gauteng and worked to breach the dividing line between black and Provincial Government. white. From the Torch Commando, which could mobilise tens of thousands of whites at the beginning of the 1950s, to the Liberal Party and Congress of Democrats, which could boast only a few hundred members by the end of the decade, CONTENTS white activists fought to maintain the vision of racial equality in an increasingly divided society. Their African Chapter 1. Whites and the ANC Chapter 5. The South African Congress nationalist allies fought a harder battle within the ANC and 1945-1950 of Democrats other organisations, under growing pressure from Chapter 2. The Emergence of White Chapter 6. The Liberal Party of South Africa Africanists and others, to keep alive the notion that black Opposition to Apartheid, and white could struggle together and could live peacefully 1950-1952 Chapter 7. Overhauling Liberalism side by side. Together, black and white activists developed a theory of struggle and ways of mobilising that somehow Chapter 3. Multiracialism: Communist Chapter 8. Whites and the Congress kept alive the ideal of a non-racial South Africa. The Plot or Anti-Communist Ploy? of the People democratic state ushered in after 1994 can be traced back directly to the work they undertook in the 1950s and after. Chapter 4. From CPSA to SACP via CST: Chapter 9. The Freedom Charter and the Socialist Responses to Politics of Non-racialism, African Nationalism, 1952-1954 1956-1960

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NEW Go Home or Die Here TITLE Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinventi on of Difference in South Africa

Edited by Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby Photographs by Alon Skuy

Foreword by Bishop Paul Verryn

It is a useful book, better than the myriad talk shops that followed the senseless violence ... if this column rated books, this one would get a 9 out of 10. —Don Makatile, The Sowetan

The xenophobic attacks that started in Alexandra, Johannesburg in May 2008 before quickly spreading around the country caused an outcry across the world and raised many fundamental questions: Of what profound social malaise is xenophobia—and the violence that it inspires—a symptom? Have our economic and political choices created new forms of exclusion that fuel anger and distrust? What consequences does the emergence of xenophobia hold for the idea of an equal, non-racial society as symbolised by a democratic South Africa? On 28 May 2008 the Faculty of Humanities in the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg convened an urgent colloquium that focused on searching for short and long term solutions. Nearly twenty individuals— mostly Wits academics from a variety of disciplines, but 978 1 86814 487 7 (PB) also two student leaders, a journalist and a bishop— 210 x 180 mm, 272 pp addressed the unfolding violence in ways that were Full colour, illustrated conversant with the moment, yet rooted in scholarship and 2008 ongoing research. Go Home or Die Here emanates directly from the colloquium. It hopes to make sense of the nuances and trajectories of building a democratic society out of a deeply divided and conflictual past, in the conditions of global recession, heightening inequalities and future uncertainty. The authors hoped to pose questions that Shireen Hassim, Tawana Kupe and Eric Worby are all academics based at would lead both to research and to more informed, the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. reflective forms of public action. With extensive photographs by award-winning photographer Alon Skuy, who covered the violence for The Times newspaper, the volume is passionate and engaged, and aims to stimulate reflection, debate and activism among concerned members of a broad public.

List of Contributors: Bishop Paul Verryn, Alex Eliseev, Rolf Maruping, Daryl Glaser, Noor Nieftagodien, Stephen Gelb, Devan Pillay, Loren Landau, David Coplan, Julia Hornberger , Melinda Silverman, Tanya Zack, Anton Harber, Cathi Albertyn, Andile Mngxitama, Pumla Dineo Gqola and Veronique Tadjo.

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Selecting Immigrants NEW National Identity and South Africa’s TITLE Immigratio n Policies, 1910-2008

Sally Peberdy

Through careful archival study, Peberdy has written a path- breaking account of what it is to be a South African. This is the first analysis and periodisation of South Africa’s immi - gration laws, and without it one cannot claim to understand the vexed issue of South African identity. —Peter Alexander, Director, Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg

At a time when (im)migration is at the forefront of inter - national and South African debates, this book critically examines the relationship between changes in South Africa’s immigration policies, and shifts in the construction of national identity by the South African State. Relating the history of the immigration policies of the South African State between 1910 and 2005, it explores the synergy between periods of significant change in state discourses and policies of migration, and those historical moments when South Africa was reinvented politically or was in the process of active nation building. It is in these periods that the relationships between immigration, nationalism and national identity is most starkly revealed. In a readable, well-researched and interdisciplinary work, Peberdy provides the first history of South Africa’s immigration legislation. It will be of local and international interest not only to academic readers but also those working 978 1 86814 484 6 (PB) on immigration policy or interested in South African history 220 x 150 mm, 340 pp and identity. June 2009

Sally Peberdy is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. She was the 2007 winner of the Wits University Research Committee Publication Award, which is made each year to enable outstanding research by a member of the university to be published.

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Chapter 1. Introduction: Establishing the Territory Chapter 7. Democratic South Africa: Inclusive Identities and Exclusive Immigration Policies Chapter 2. Immigration, Nations and National Identity Chapter 8. Conclusion: Nationalisms, National Identities Chapter 3. ‘A White Man’s Land’: Indian Immigration and the and South Africa’s Immigration Policies 1913 Immigrants Regulation Act Appendix 1. Total, immigration and emigration, and net Chapter 4. Not White Like Us: Preserving the ‘Original Stocks’ gain/loss in migration, by sex, 1924–2004 and the Exclusion of Jewish Immigrants Appendix 2. Immigration by country of previous permanent Chapter 5. Building an Unhyphenated Nation: British residence, birth and citizenship, 1924–2004 Immigration and Afrikaner Nationalism

Chapter 6. One (White) Nation, One Fatherland: Republicanism, Assisted Immigration and the Metaphysical Body

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The Humanitarian Hangover Africa on the Move Displacement, Aid and Transformation African Migration and Urbanisation in in Western Tanzania Comparative Perspective

Loren B Landau Edited by Marta Tienda, Sally E Findley, Stephen Tollman and Eleanor Preston-Whyte Since the mid-1990s, Western Tanzania has hosted hundreds of thousands of refugees living in massive refugee camps Migration is changing Africa – its living arrangements, sustained by millions of dollars of humanitarian aid. This family relationships, health, economy. A multidisciplinary book explores the anomalous spaces and practices and multicontinent set of authors illuminates, in this generated by this influx of people and aid, and shows how volume, the forces that shape migration and urbanisation in they have transformed the politics and governmental the region today. practices of the region. —Jane Menken, University of Colorado, United States In more than fourteen months of research, Loren Landau found that the refugee influx did not produce the deleterious This thirteen-chapter volume describes and compares patterns economic and environmental effects often assumed. Outside of internal, regional and international migration in Africa, with the camps, a Tanzanian population long at the margins of comparative insights from Asia and Latin America. It strives to their own country’s economics and politics became evaluate how migration and urban living influence well-being incorporated into systems of power and authority which among movers and stayers in the context of the rapid social, linked them to Dar es Salaam, central Africa, Geneva, economic and political change that characterises most African Washington and the grain farmers of the American Midwest. nations. The comparative focus highlights similarities across Amidst the violence and conflict surrounding the camps, they diverse contexts in order to bring place-specific processes into became ‘Tanzanian’ as never before by exalting the territory, sharper relief. Africa on the Move challenges certain the nation and a political leadership that delegated traditional notions about migration, revisits notions of the responsibility for security and services to others: the United urban and rural and explores how communication technology Nations, nongovernmental organisations and the citizenry. influences movement. The international author team pushes The result was a hybridised regime of power shaped by the frontiers of ongoing African migration and urbanisation history, contingency, self-interest and perception: a political research and strives for an original synthesis of insights. form that questions models of rural transformation and the functional basis of the modern nation-state. Marta Tienda is Professor in Demographic Studies, and The Humanitarian Hangover is a valuable resource for Sociolo gy and Public Affairs at Princeton University, United scholars of displacement, political scientists and States; Sally Findley is Professor of Clinical Population and sociologists concerned with how displacement and Family Health at the Mailman School of Public Health, Colum bia University, United States ; Stephen Tollman heads humanitarianism can serve as primary catalysts for social, the School of Public Health’s Health & Population Division political and economic change. at the University of the Witwatersr and, Johannesburg; Eleanor Preston-Whyte holds a research professorship in Loren B Landau is Director of the Forced Migration Studies the School of Development Studies at the University of Programme at the University of the Witwatersrand, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Johannesburg. 978 1 86814 455 6 (PB) 978 1 86814 432 7 (PB) 235 x 155 mm, 192 pp 245 x 170 mm, 384 pp 2008 2006

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The First Ethiopians NEW The Image of Africa and Africans in the TITLE Early Mediterranean World

Malvern van Wyk Smith

… an original and interesting contribution to the scholarship on European views on Africa. Particularly valuable is its detai led discussion of Egyptian and Classical texts dealing with north-east Africa and their relationship to later European racial discourse. The book is well written and likely to appeal to a broad academic and non-academic audience. – Stanley Burstein, California State University, Los Angeles

The First Ethiopians explores the images of Africa and Africans that evolved in ancient Egypt, in classical Greece and imperial Rome, in the early Mediterranean world, and in the early domains of Christianity.

Inspired by curiosity regarding the origins of racism in Aryballos cup of Scythian and Ethiopian figures contrasted, c 470-450 BC. southern Africa, Malvern van Wyk Smith consulted a wide Photograph by Malvern van Wyk Smith range of sources: from rock art to classical travel writing; from the pre-dynastic African beginnings of Egyptian and Nubian civilisations to Greek and Roman perceptions of Africa; from Khoisan cultural expressions to early Christian 978 1 86918 499 0 (PB) conceptions of Africa and its people as ‘demonic’; from 240 x 170 mm, 400 pp Aristotelian climatology to medieval cartography; and from Full colour, illustrated the geo-linguistic history of Africa to the most recent October 2009 revelations regarding the genome profile of the continent's peoples. The research led to a startling proposition: western racism has its roots in Africa itself, notably in late New- Kingdom Egypt as its ruling elites sought to distance Egyptian civilisation from its African origins. Malvern van Wyk Smith is Professor Emeritus in the Department of English at Rhodes University, South Africa. Kushite Nubians, founders of Napata and Meroe who, in the eighth century BC, furnished the Black rulers of the twenty-fifth Dynasty in Egypt, adopted and adapted such dynastic discriminations in order to differentiate their own ‘superior’ Meroitic civilisation from the world of ‘other Ethiopians’. In due course, Archaic Greeks, who began to arrive in the Nile Delta in the seventh century BC, internalised these distinctions in terms of Homer’s identification of ‘two Ethiopias’, an eastern and a western, to create a racialised (and racist) discourse of ‘worthy’ and ‘savage Ethiopians’. Such conceptions would inspire CONTENTS virtually all subsequent Roman and early medieval thinking Chapter 1. Ethiopia, Egypt and the Chapter 7. Africa in Egypt: about Africa and Africans, and become foundational in Question of Africa Later Dynastic Encounters European thought. The book is richly illustrated and concludes with a Chapter 2. Who were the Egyptians? Chapter 8. The First Ethiopians survey of the special place that Aksumite Ethiopia – later Abyssinia – has held in both European and African Chapter 3. The Egypt of Africa: African Chapter 9. Ethiopians in the Greek conceptual worlds as the site of ‘worthy Ethiopia’, as well as Resonances in Predynastic and Ptolemaic World in the wider context of discourses of ethnicity and race. Egypt Chapter 10. Ethiopians in the Roman Chapter 4. The Egypt of the Rock Artists World

Chapter 5. Africa in Egypt: Proto- and Chapter 11. The ‘Ethiopia’ of the Early Early-Dynastic Manifestations Christian World

Chapter 6. Africa in Egypt: Chapter 12. The ‘Real’ Ethiopians Dynastic Responses

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NEW Johannesburg TITLE The Elusive Metropolis

Edited by Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe With an Afterword by Arjun Appadurai and Carol A Breckenridge

Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on 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 city that responds to 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 explore the experience of ‘city-ness’ and urban life in post- apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. Turning its back on rigid rationalities of planning and racial separation, Johannesburg has become a place of intermingling and improvisation, a city that is fast developing its own brand of cosmopolitan culture.

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With Duke University Press (US)

Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and Achille Mbembe is Research Professor in History and Politics, both at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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Introduction. Afropolis The Arrivants Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall Tom Odhiambo and Robert Muponde Chapter 1. Aesthetics of Superfluity Johannesburg, Metropolis of Mozambique Achille Mbembe Stefan Helgesson Chapter 2. People as Infrastructure Sounds in the City Abdoumaliq Simone Xavier Livermon Chapter 3. Stylizing the Self Nocturnal Johannesburg Sarah Nuttall Julia Hornberger Chapter 4. Gandhi, Mandela and the African Modern Megamalls, Generic City Jonathan Hyslop Fred de Vries Chapter 5. Art Johannesburg and its Objects Yeoville Confidential David Bunn Achal Prabhala Chapter 6. The Suffering Body of the City From the Ruins Frédéric Le Marcis Mark Gevisser Chapter 7. Literary City Reframing Township Space Sarah Nuttall Lindsay Bremner Voice Lines Afterword. The Risk of Johannesburg Instant City Arjun Appadurai and Carol A. Breckinridge John Matshikiza Soweto Now Achille Mbembe, Nsizwa Dlamini and Grace Khunou

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Entanglement NEW Literary and Cultural Reflections on TITLE Post-apartheid

Sarah Nuttall

… a finger-on-the-pulse report from the cultural frontline of contemporary South Africa. Elegantly and lucidly written, it offers a penetrating and unique analysis of the complex and paradoxical forms of culture emerging in South Africa now. —Isabel Hofmeyr, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

This original book is a much needed and far reaching exploration of post-apartheid South African life worlds. Entanglement aims to capture the contradictory mixture of innovation and inertia, of loss, violence and xenophobia as well as experimentation and desegregation, which characterises the present. The author explores the concept of entanglement in relation to readings of literature, new media forms and painting. In the process, she moves away from a persistent apartheid optic, drawing on ideas of sameness and difference, and their limits, in order to elicit ways of living and imagining that are just starting to take shape and for which we might not yet have a name. In the background of her investigations lies a preoccupation with a future-oriented politics, one that builds on largely unexplored terrains of mutuality while being attentive to a historical experience of confrontation and injury.

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Sarah Nuttall is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Nuttall is the 2008 winner of the Wits University Research Committee Publication Award, which is made each year to enable outstanding research by a member of the university to be published.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Entanglement

Chapter 2. Literary City

Chapter 3. Secrets and Lies

Chapter 4. Surface and Underneath

Chapter 5. Self-Styling

Chapter 6. Girl Bodies

Artwork by Penny Siopis

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Do South Africans Exist? Ambiguities of Witnessing Nationalism, Democracy and the Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Identity of ‘the People’ Commission

Ivor Chipkin Mark Sanders

This book is a major contribution to political theory, of This book is superbly written, treating a very serious and democracy and of nationalism, drawing upon a perceptive theoretically challenging topic with great care and analysis of South African experience. circumspecti on. It is both solidly informed and innovative —Goran Therborn, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom on all levels of scholarship. —Werner Hamacher, Goethe University, Germany Do South Africans Exist? addresses a gap in contemporary studies of nationalism and the nation, providing a critical The first book to explore the complex relationship between study of South African nationalism, against a broader law and literature in crimes of apartheid brought before context of African nationalism in general. Narratives of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, resistance, telling of African peoples oppressed and Ambiguities of Witnessing analyses key individual exploited, presume that ‘the people ’ preceded the period of testimonies. Whereas most existing books on this and other nationalist struggle. This book explores how an African truth commissions are weighed down by abstract legal and ‘people’ came into being in the first place, particularly in the philosophical discussion, this book does justice to South African context, as a collectivity organised in pursuit witnesses’ public testimony in a fascinating and of a political, and not simply cultural, end. The author theoretically sophisticated investigation of questions of argues that the nation is a political community whose form human rights, mourning, forgiveness and reparation. Framed is given in relation to the pursuit of democracy and freedom, by the personal, Ambiguities of Witnessing also meditates and that if democratic authority is lodged in ‘the people ’, on what it means for the writer to respond to this epochal what matters is the way that this ‘people ’ is defined, event in the history of post-apartheid South Africa. delimited and produced. He argues that the nation precedes the state, not because it has always existed, but because it Mark Sanders is Associate Professor of Comparative emerges in and through the nationalist struggle for state Literatur e at New York University, United States. power. Ultimately, he encourages the reader to re-evaluate knee-jerk judgments about the failure of modernity in Africa.

Ivor Chipkin is based at the Human Sciences Research Council, and also teaches at the Universit y of the Witwaters rand, Johannesburg.

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Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town Mourning Becomes …

Steffen Jensen Post/memory, commemoration and the concentration camps of the Gangs, Politics and Dignity in Cape Town is a valuable South African War contributio n to understanding the Cape Flats battles for surviv al amid poverty and racial denigration; and the Liz Stanley broader, chronic struggles for existence among its residents, and among coloureds – and poor people – in SA. The recent centenary commemoration of the South African War —Saint Molakeng, The Weekender of 1899-1902 sparked a veritable flood of publications on the conflict … [but] only a handful of analyses opened up significant This is a vivid study of the day-to-day experience of living in new perspectives. Liz Stanley, a sociologist from Edinburgh a working class neighbourhood on the Cape Flats. It deals University, was alive to the possibility and has produced a with issues of criminality and the search for dignity in a book which, if not the final word on the subject, will certainly harsh, economically depressed urban landscape. be an essential starting point for all future scholars. Gangs are the main focus of the study, but gang —Albert Grundlingh, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa members are presented on a broader canvas as family members, neighbourhood friends, members of sports clubs, This fascinating work challenges many of the accepted facts employees. Within this intensely claustrophobic world about the concentration camps run by the British during the devout Christians and Muslims, drug dealers, cops, South African War. The author demonstrates that much of gangsters and welfare workers all rub shoulders. Mothers, what we have traditionally understood about these camps despite being disempowered in many ways, are hugely originates from the testimony which was solicited, selected important figures in ‘the courts’, commanding respect within and published by key women activists within Boer proto- the family and even from gangsters. Criminality is a blurred nationalist circles. Using detailed archival evidence, Stanley concept in the township, where alternative and competing shows that much of the history of the camps results from a moral codes have emerged. Central to this analysis is the deliberate imposition of ‘post/memory’ – a process by which complicated and diverse concept of dignity. How is it what was ‘remembered’ was shaped and reshaped to support constructed? What is its basis? How does it differ among the the development of a racialised nationalist framework. various protagonists of the township? Many of the camps’ occupants died from successive epidemics rather than deliberate ill-treatment, yet the book Steffen Jensen is Assistant Professor in International Devel - shows how mourning for those who died was overridden by opment Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. state commemorative activities concerned with promoting pan-Boer nationalist aspirations. The innovative approach of the author invites the reader to explore the commemorative sites passed by nationalist land acts, which still powerfully mark the South African landscape.

Liz Stanley is Professor of Sociology at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

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Boiling Point Scorched People in a Changing Climate South Africa’s Changing Climate

Leonie Joubert Leonie Joubert

Passionate environmentalist and science writer Leonie Joubert Scorched is a stimulating read, mostly because of the illustrates the impact of global warming through the life author’s metaphoric and often poetic style of writing … storie s of ordinary, vulnerable South Africans … she writes More importantly, it makes you want to do something with knowledge and an energy that could move mountains. about global warming. —Nancy Richards, Country Life Magazine —Don Pinnock, Getaway Magazine

When you tug on a single thing in nature, said the Scorched is a vivid journey through southern Africa’s conservationist John Muir, you find it attached to the rest of mesmerising landscapes as climate change sets in. It the world. Nowhere is this more evident than in the climate wanders through the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands to capture the crisis. Tugging on a thread of our shared atmosphere in last faltering calls of a rain frog that was named after the China or the USA, for example, by shunting pollution into hobbit Bilbo Baggins. The author pauses for thought the skies, causes the fabric of local weather patterns to following an elephant stampede to consider how savannahs unravel half a world away. might shift in an altered climate. She trails the wading birds Climate change is the biggest moral problem of our time, of the West Coast into the high Arctic tundra for their annual as people who have contributed least to the pollution breeding season before returning to a Cape which is crisping responsible for global warming are increasingly understood over as drought continues to grip the province. to be most vulnerable to the shifting environment around Another world exists somewhere beyond the global them. In Boiling Point , Leonie Joubert embarks on a journey politicking of superpowers and petrostates. This is the place in which she explores the lives of some South Africans where a solitary bee continues to pollinate the pale, demure affected by this phenomenon: a rooibos tea farmer in the flower of an orchid near Darling, or where the limey coral Northern Cape, a traditional fisherman in Lambert’s Bay, a skeleton hosts its colourful algae on a Sodwana reef. These farmer in the centre of the Free State’s maize belt, a political plants and animals – many of which are unique to the region refugee in Pietermaritzburg and a sangoma in Limpopo – continue to do what their ancestors have done for millions mining country. of years. Yet the world is shifting its shape around them. In Most of these communities live on a knife-edge because places it is warming and drying, elsewhere the rains come in of poverty and their dependence on an already capricious greater deluges. Some are abandoned by the other plants natural environment. Boiling Point considers what might and animals with which they have cohabited, as species happen to them as normal weather trends are amplified in a retreat before the onslaught of rising greenhouse gases and hotter world. altered weather patterns. Scorched gives powerful local colour to a global problem. It ponders the morality of the changes humankind has wrought, and the future of life as we know it.

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Invaded NEW The Biological Invasion of South Africa TITLE

Leonie Joubert Photography by Rodger Bosch

Invaded is a story about pollution … but not the more commonly reported oil spills, litter or filthy smoke-stacks. Invaded is about biological pollution – the plants and animals that have spread around the globe on the back of human movement, those that have traversed the boundaries of natural habitats and have begun to erode their new adopted environment. In telling the story of biological pollution, Leonie Joubert documents the grave consequences of humankind’s intended and unintended introduction of alien species into South Africa. While some rivers have lost their natural fish populations, the west coast is choked over with mussels from a far-off country; the Cape Floral Kingdom’s rare plants have come under increasing threat; sensitive renosterveld has been reduced to a few isolated islands of resistance; dams and lakes have been taken over by an umbrella of aquatic plants; and water is being consumed voraciously by thirsty alien trees. Working in close collaboration with the Centre for Invasion Biology at Stellenbosch University, Leonie Joubert brings the general reader a scientifically sound yet accessible and important book. Invaded is, however, not a story of despair. Instead, it encourages scientists, citizens and policy-makers to continue with their efforts to contain and eradicate invasive alien species. It is a book for the 978 1 86814 478 5 (PB) guardians of the South African environment. 240 x 210 mm, 268 pp Full colour, illustrated June 2009

Leonie Joubert is a freelance science writer. She is the author of Scorched: South Africa’s Changing Climate (2006), which was awarded an honorar y Sunday Times /Alan Paton Award, and Boiling Point: People in a Changing Climate (2008), which is based on research funded by the 2007 Ruth First Fellowship, both published by Wits University Press, Johannesburg.

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS 15 SOCIAL SCIENCES SOCIAL SCIENCES

Decolonization and Empire The War Against Ourselves Contesting the Rhetoric and Reality Nature, Power and Justice of Resubordination in Southern Africa Jacklyn Cock and Beyond For many people ‘nature’ means wilderness and wild John S Saul animals. It is experienced indirectly through magazines and television programmes or through visiting the highly In this book John Saul examines the grim reality of managed environments of national parks. Nature, however, postliberation southern Africa and also the forms of is not external, separate from the world of people – we live resistance that the resubordination of the continent now in nature and interact with it daily. calls for. In the process he exposes and contests the rhetoric In this book, Jacklyn Cock describes how these intricate that serves as apologia for the ‘Empire of Capital,’ and and complex interconnections, seen and unseen, are often shows the linkages between inequalities and injustices ignored. Each of the ten chapters examines an aspect of our reinforced by the ‘free’ market on the one hand and, on the relationship with nature: ignoring, understanding, enjoying, other, by the assertive religiosity and ethnic messianism imitating, privatising, polluting, abusing, protecting as well that the ‘Empire’ helps to emerge and then uses as as organising for nature. The concluding chapter deals with ‘justification’ for renewed imperialist intervention. His book the growing inequality between the North and the South. makes a significant contribution to the discussion on The War Against Ourselves compels us to re-examine our imperialism and resistance to it in the present day. relationship with nature, to change our practices and John Saul tells this story forcefully with reference to dissolve present binary divisions such as people vs. southern Africa and ‘its struggle against white colonial animals, economic growth vs environmental protection, overlordship and authoritarian capitalist imposition.’ The ‘nature’ vs ‘culture’. It demonstrates the need for an first part evokes both the decolonization of southern Africa inclusive politics which brings together peace, social and and its grim recolonization. The book then moves on to environmental justice activists who believe that another critique the ideologues of empire and to mark the world is both possible and necessary. emergence of new struggles against the new subordination in southern Africa and elsewhere, to discuss their contours Jacklyn Cock is Professor Emeritus in the Department of and assess their possibilities. The book asserts the Sociolo gy, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. relevance of socialism as the only real alternative to the She is also an Honorary Resear ch Professor in the Sociology logic of empire and the marketplace. of Work Unit (SWOP).

John S Saul is Profesor Emeritus of Social and Political Scienc e at Toronto’s York University, Canada.

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Contradicting Maternity NEW HIV-positive Motherhood in South Africa TITLE

Carol Long

Drawing on rich and poignant interviews with mothers who have been diagnosed HIV-positive, Contradicting Maternity provides a rare perspective of motherhood from the mother’s point of view. Whereas motherhood is often assumed to be a secondary identity compared to the central figure of the child, this book reverses the focus, arguing that maternal experience is important in its own right. The book explores the situation in which two very powerful identities, those of motherhood and of being HIV- positive, collide in the same moment. This collision takes place at the interface of complex, and often split, social and personal meanings concerning the sanctity of motherhood and the anxieties of HIV. The book offers an interpretation of how these personal and social meanings resonate with, and also fail to encompass, the experiences surrounding HIV- positive mothers. Photographs, academic literature and the accounts of real women are read with both a psychodynamic and discursive eye, highlighting the contradictions within maternal experience, but also between maternal experience and the social imagination. Contradicting Maternity will appeal to scholars, students and practitioners in psychology, the social sciences and the health professions. The sensitive and readable analysis will also be of interest to mothers, whether HIV-positive or not.

978 1 86814 494 5 (PB) 220 x 150 mm, 240 pp July 2009

Carol Long is an Associate Professor in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and a practicing clinical psychologist.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 6. Mother’s Mind

Chapter 2. Facing the HIV-positive Mother Chapter 7. Mother’s Body

Chapter 3. The Joys of Motherhood Chapter 8. Thula Mama

Chapter 4. Finding the HIV-positive mother Chapter 9. Contradicting Maternity

Chapter 5. Minding Baby’s Body Appendix 1. Interview Schedule

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Bessie Head: Thunder Behind her Ears Her Life and Writing Gillian Stead Eilersen

Monumental … a wonderful read. —Stephen Gray, Mail & Guardian

In July 2007, the acclaimed writer Bessie Head would have turned 70 years old. Her friends, colleagues and literary critics honoured her with a series of conferences, new books and theses and the founding of a permanent Bessie Head Heritage Trust to guarantee the future of her house and literary papers. Wits University Press took the opportunity to repackage and republish this excellent biography and it appears with new – never before published – photographs of Bessie Head’s life.

Gillian Stead Eilersen studied at the former University of Natal and Odense University, Denmark, where she now lectures in the Department of English. 978 1 86814 446 4 (PB) 230 x 150 mm, 352 pp 2007

Imaginative Trespasser Letters between Bessie Head, Patrick and Wendy Cullinan 1963-1977

Compiled by Patrick Cullinan with a personal memoir

During her exile in Botswana, Bessie Head conducted a correspondence with the South African poet and publisher Patrick Cullinan and his wife, Wendy, that became a record of her struggle to survive her isolation, and that traces Head’s discovery of her powers as a writer. The Cullinans were among her few constant sources of moral, and sometimes material, support, and in the warm exchange of letters that passed between them, a picture emerges of the period during which so many South African writers and activists faced the challenge of exile. Cullinan’s commentary on Head’s letters is trenchant and engaging, and he uses his own considerable skills as a writer to construct a narrative that is both absorbing and illuminating. Imaginative Trespasser is a poignant account of a friendship that grew in and through letters, survived the pressures of exile, and yet was deeply damaged by the demons that Bessie Head carried within her during the difficult years of her life in Botswana. 1 86814 413 5 (PB) 230 x 150 mm, 288 pp Patrick Cullinan is a poet and writer living in Cape Town. 2005

Gerard Sekoto ‘I am an African’

N Chabani Manganyi Foreword by Es’kia Mphahlele

All my paintings searched to rediscover an identity common to all people of different origins, to the quest for the common relation between beings. —Gerard Sekoto

Gerard Sekoto is without doubt one of South Africa’s major painters of the twentieth century. Considered increas - ingly as one of the earliest South African modernists and social realists, he completed his most memorable work during the early and middle years of the 1940s. When he left for Paris in 1947, he was at the height of his creative 1 86814 400 3 (PB) powers. He spent forty-five years as an exile in France, and during these often difficult times his talent, dedication, 210 x 180 mm, 304 pp belief in the equality of all people and, most of all, his identity as an African sustained him. 2004 Chabani Manganyi’s biography is informed by the discovery, after Sekoto’s death, of a ‘suitcase of treasures’, which contained previously unknown musical compositions, letters and a large quantity of notes, writings and private documents. Photographs and full colour plates of previously unpublished and significant paintings are included.

Chabani Manganyi is a clinical psychologist, biographer and non-fiction writer.

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Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus NEW A Ghost Story and a Biography TITLE Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully

Finally, an authoritative account of the mythologised life of Sara Baartman. The meticulously researched subject comes to life in the hands of historians Crais and Scully, who skilfully negotiate the pitfalls of writing historical biogra phy. The authors make a delicate distinction betwee n the woman, Sara Baartman, and the iconic Hottent ot Venus, in this elegantly written, passionate, compassionate and carefully contextualised study, in which their findings are nevertheless unflinchingly pre - sented. Magnificent – an outstanding contribution to South African culture, past and present. —Zoë Wicomb, author of You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town and David’s Story

Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus offers the authoritative account of one woman's life and reinstates her to the full complexity of her history. Displayed on European stages from 1810 to 1815 as the Hottentot Venus, Sara Baartman was one of the most famous women of her day, and also one of the least known. As the Hottentot Venus, she was seen by Westerners as alluring and primitive, a reflection of their fears and suppressed desires. But who was Sara Baartman? Who was the woman who became the Hottentot Venus? Based on research and interviews that span three continents, Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus tells the entwined histories of an elusive life and a 978 186814 488 4 (HB) famous icon. In doing so, the book raises questions about 235 x 155 mm, 248 pp the possibilities and limits of biography for understanding Illustrated those who live between and among different cultures. January 2009 In reconstructing Baartman's life, the book traverses With Princeton University Press (US) the South African frontier and its genocidal violence, cosmopolitan Cape Town, the ending of the slave trade, the Industrial Revolution, the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars, London and Parisian high society and the rise of racial science. The authors discuss the ramifications of discovering that when Baartman went to Clifton Crais is Professor of History at Emory University, United States. Pamela Scully is Associate Professor of Women's Studies London, she was older than originally assumed, and they and African Studies at Emory University. explore the enduring impact of the Hottentot Venus on ideas about women, race and sexuality. The book concludes with the politics involved in returning Baartman's remains to her home country, and connects Baartman's story to her descendants in nineteenth- and twentieth-century South Africa.

CONTENTS

Introduction Chapter 5. Lost, and Found

Chapter 1. Winds of the Camdeboo Chapter 6. Paris, City of Light

Chapter 2. Cape of Storms Chapter 7. Ghosts of Sara Baartman

Chapter 3. London Calling Epilogue. Family

Chapter 4. Before the Law

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Tobias in Conversation Into the Past Genes, Fossils and Anthropology A Memoir

Phillip V Tobias with Goran Štrkalj Phillip V Tobias and Jane Dugard Foreword by Sydney Brenner

It’s [his] modest demeanour, combined with an affability [Into the Past] lucidly and inspiringly … not only records and a raconteur’s skill when relating the accumulated Phillip Tobias’s personal journey in life, science and education, anecdote s of his eighty-odd years, that makes Prof. Tobias but also the passage of our country, South Africa …. such an engaging conversationalist …. For those who have —Sydney Brenner, Nobel Laureate not had the privilege of talking to the great man, Tobias in Conversati on is the next best thing. Phillip Valentine Tobias is arguably South Africa’s most —Chris Thurman, The Weekender honoured and decorated scientist. Into the Past f ocuses on the first forty years of Tobias’s life: from his troubled Tobias in Conversation invites the reader to embark on a childhood in Durban and Bloemfontein to his intense journey beyond time, often far beyond a human lifetime into student days at Wits University (where he also taught from the past, a journey through the life and work of Professor 1945 until 1993) and the prolific research, correspondence Phillip Tobias. It is based on a collection of interviews with and travels of his early career. He vividly recounts his the internationally acclaimed scientist, conducted and interactions with some of the great names in twentieth recorded over a period of six years. century science. Through his dedication to the people of Tobias is first and foremost a human anatomist, and an Africa, Tobias opens windows on the San (or Bushmen) of important theme is his astonishingly broad-based approach Botswana, the Tonga of Zambia and he recounts his role in to the teaching of anatomy. Other interviews range across the fight against racism during the harrowing decades of such topics as research into the physical anthropology of South Africa’s apartheid regime. living peoples; studies of mammalian chromosomes; an invitation from Louis and Mary Leakey to describe all the Phillip V Tobias is Professor Emeritus and Honorary hominid fossils they discovered; the identification, Professoria l Research Fellow in the School of Anatomical Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. description and naming of Homo habilis ; re-opening of the Sterkfontein fossil site in 1966; Tobias’s political activism and medical ethics; and his personal philosophy concerning religion and evolution.

Goran Štrkalj is a biological anthropologist working in the Department of Health and Chiropractic at Macquarie Universit y, Sydney . Jane Dugard is a Cambridge-trained biolo gist who writes evolutionary materials for school textbooks.

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20 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS HERITAGE STUDIES HERITAGE STUDIES

Tracks in a Mountain Range A Search for Origins Exploring the History of the Science, History and South Africa’s uKhahlamba-Drakensberg ‘Cradle of Humankind’

John Wright and Aron Mazel Edited by Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins Since the arrival of literate European settlers in what is now KwaZulu-Natal in the second quarter of the nineteenth Foreword by Phillip Tobias century, numerous stories about the Drakensberg region have made their way into print. But for every story which The ‘Cradle of Humankind’ (COH), bordering Gauteng and the happens to have been written down, there are many others North-West Province, was declared a World Heritage Site for which have not, and which are therefore unavailable to us in the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. our aim of wanting to establish a modern-day understanding Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of of the history of the Drakensberg. This applies especially to early human habitation have shed new light on the evolution the stories told by the unlettered San hunter-gatherers and of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa their forebears during the several thousand years for which played in the development of modern humans. they inhabited these mountains, and by the isiNtu-speaking A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the black farmers who have lived in the neighbouring uplands history of the COH, and of the important discoveries that have for the past thousand years or so. But it also applies to the been made there, for a non-specialist audience. A number of unwritten stories told by European colonisers and their general accounts have been written which have concentrated descendants over the last century and a half. on the palaeontological discoveries made there. No systematic The declaration of the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg Park as account written by specialists in their disciplines has, however, a World Heritage Site provided an occasion for reflecting on been published about the wider history of the COH and the history and people of the region, from the earliest surrounding areas. In particular, no overview spanning the known times to the present. Constructed from evolution of early plant and animal life, human development archaeological and written sources, this book highlights the and recent and colonial history as reflected in discoveries histories of the indigenous San hunter-gatherers and black linked to the COH, has been attempted. farmers, as well as of the European colonisers. The This edited volume frames the scientific advances that accessible text is complemented by photographs of the have been made in the COH against the intellectual and landscape, rock art and archaeological finds. political background out of which they emerged. The multi- disciplinary approach – from a wide range of specialists – is John Wright is an Emeritus Professor of History at the innovative and ground-breaking. Univers ity of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Aron Mazel is an archaeologist at the International Centre for Cultural and Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins are Heritage Studies, Newcastle University, United Kingdom. all academics based at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Bonner is a historian, Esterhuysen an archaeolo gist and Jenkins is a geneticist.

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Sterkfontein Mapungubwe Early Hominid Site in the Ancient African Civilisation ‘Cradle of Humankind’ on the Limpopo

Amanda Esterhuysen Thomas N Huffman

This guide to Sterkfontein is the second in a series of short Between AD 900 and 1300, the Shashe-Limpopo basin in books on South Africa's World Heritage Sites. Written by Limpopo Province witnessed the development of an ancient specialists and generously illustrated, the series aims to civilisation. Like civilisations everywhere, it consisted of a provide accurate and accessible introductions to the sites, complex social organisation supported by intensive and to make the visit more meaningful and enjoyable for agriculture and long-distance trade. The Mapungubwe uninformed visitors. Mapungubwe was published in 2005. Cultural Landscape, as it is now known, was the forerunner Sterkfontein provides an easy-to-read overview of the of the famous town of Great Zimbabwe, situated about 200 geological and fossil history of the Sterkfontein Valley. The kilometres to the north, and its cultural connection to Great remarkable record contained in the Sterkfontein Caves, Zimbabwe and the Venda people allows archaeologists to comprising thousands of animal, plant and hominid fossils, reconstruct its evolution. is simply presented and current debates are explained. The This generously illustrated book tells the story of an use of visual markers from Sterkfontein enables visitors to African civilisation that began more than 1000 years ago. It identify essential features and formations. is the first in a series of accessible books written by Wits University Press will be publishing iSterkfontein in specialists for visitors to South Africa’s World Heritage Sites. isiZulu translation in 2009. Thomas Huffmann is head of Archaeology in the School of Amanda Esterhuysen is an archaeologist at the University Archaeology, Geography and Environmental Studies at the of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Sterkfontein and Mapungubwe are the first two publications in a series of short books on South Africa’s World Heritage Sites. Written by specialists and generously illustrated, the series aims to provide accurate and accessible introductions to the sites, and to make visits more meaningful and enjoyable for visitors.

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22 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY

Five Hundred Years Rediscovered Southern African Precedents and Prospects

Edited by Natalie Swanepoel, Amanda Esterhuysen and Philip Bonner

In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. This period is one the most formative in relation to southern Africa’s past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 978 1 86814 474 7 (PB) years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier 245 x 170 mm, 296 pp research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking 2008 about the region’s expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africa’s Natalie Swanepoel is an archaeologist at the University of colonial past. South Africa, Pretoria. Amanda Esterhuysen is an archaeologist, and Philip Bonner a historian, both at the University of the Witwaters rand, Johannesburg.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Introduction PL Bonner, AB Esterhuysen, MH Schoeman, NJ Swanepoel Chapter 8. Revisiting Bokoni: Populating the Stone Ruins of the and JB Wright Mpumalanga Escarpment P Delius and MH Schoeman Section 1 Disciplinary Identities: Methodological Considerations Chapter 9. The Mpumalanga Escarpment Settlements: Some Answers, Many Questions Chapter 2. Historical Archaeologies of Southern Africa: Precedents T Maggs and Prospects J Behrens and N Swanepoel Chapter 10. Post-European Contact Glass Beads from the Southern African Interior: A Tentative Look at Trade, Consumption and Identities Chapter 3. South Africa in Africa More than Five Hundred Years ago: M Wood Some Questions N Parsons Chapter 11. Ceramic Alliances: Pottery and the History of the Kekana Ndebele in the Old Transvaal Chapter 4. Towards an Outline of the Oral Geography, Historical Identity AB Esterhuysen and Political Economy of the Late Precolonial Tswana in the Rustenburg Region Section 3 S Hall, M Anderson, J Boeyens and F Coetzee ‘Troubled Times’: Warfare, State Formation and Migration in the Interior Chapter 5. Metals Beyond Frontiers: Exploring the Production, Distribution and use of Metals in the Free State Grasslands, Chapter 12. Rediscovering the Ndwandwe Kingdom South Africa JB Wright S Chirikure, S Hall and T Maggs Chapter 13. Swazi Oral Tradition and Northern Nguni Historical Archaeology Chapter 6. deTuin, a 19th-Century Mission Station in the Northern Cape P Bonner AG Morris Chapter 14. Mfecane Mutation in Central Africa: A Comparison of the Chapter 7. Reinterpreting the Origins of Dzata: Archaeology and Legends Makololo and the Ngoni in Zambia, 1830s-1898 E Hanisch A Kanduza Section 2 Material Identities

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The Scots in South Africa Children of Bondage Ethnicity, Identity, Gender and Race, A Social History of the Slave Society at 1772–1914 the Cape of Good Hope, 1652-1838

John M MacKenzie with Nigel R Dalziel Robert C -H Shell

An outstanding piece of scholarly research, written in a style In every chapter Shell casts light on neglected topics – such which will make it accessible to the general reader. as the architectural, linguistic, theological, sexual and —Jonathan Hyslop, University of the Witwatersrand, psy cholo g ical aspects of Cape slavery – or rethinks old ones, Johannesburg like the origins of the slaves or the economic basis of South African slavery. A product of massive research and careful The Scots have made a distinctive contribution to South reflecti on, this study will quickly assume a dominating Africa’s history. As in North America and Australasia, they positio n in the historiography of early South Africa. constituted an important element in the patterns of white —Richard Elphick, History Department, Wesleyan University settlement. They were already present in the area of Dutch East Company rule and, after the first British occupation of The Dutch East India Company’s introduction of the first the Cape in 1795, their numbers rose dramatically. They were slave into the Cape of Good Hope in 1653 established an exceptionally active in areas such as exploration, botanical institution whose legal status ended in 1838 but whose and scientific endeavour, military campaigns, the emergence social and political reverberations are still felt today. of Christian missions, Western education, intellectual Children of Bondage is the story of the social, cultural and institutions, the professions, as well as enterprise and biological progeny of that first society. In a work which technical developments, business, commerce and journalism. represents a major contribution to the historiography of This book is the first full-length study of their role from Cape slavery, Shell examines the complex and highly the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. It highlights the stratified hierarchies that evolved in South Africa, and interaction of Scots with African peoples, the manner in outlines how its multiracial system of slavery was distinct which missions and schools were credited with producing from the biracial system that arose in the New World. ‘black Scotsmen’ and the ways in which they pursued many He argues that while frontier and class interests were distinctive policies. It also deals with the inter-weaving of significant factors in South Africa’s racial and political philo - issues of gender, class and race as well as with the means sophies, these influences were secondary manifestations of a by which Scots clung to their ethnicity through founding more universal force, namely the family as the fundamental various social and cultural societies. The book offers a major unit of subordination. He also explores the history of oceanic contribution to both Scottish and South African history. and domestic slave trades, sexual and gender relations within the slave hierarchy and political identity among slaves, and John MacKenzie is Professor Emeritus at Lancaster University, the promises and realities of manumission. Hon. Professor at St Andrews, Aberdeen and Stirling Universiti es, and Hon. Fellow at Edinburgh University, Robert C -H. Shell is Extraordinary Professor of Historical United Kingdom. Nigel Dalziel is a freelance writer and Demography in the Statistics Department at the University researc her who holds a doctorate from Lancaster University, of the Western Cape, South Africa. United Kingdom.

978 186814 444 0 (PB) 978 1 86814 275 0 (PB) With Manchester 245 x 170 mm, 280 pp With Wesleyan 220 x 150 mm, 546 pp University Press (UK) 2007 University Press (US) 1997 reprint

24 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS HISTORY

Alexandra A History

Philip Bonner and Noor Nieftagodien

Alexandra: A History is a social and political history of one of South Africa’s oldest townships. It begins with the founding of Alexandra as a freehold township in 1912, and traces its growth as a centre of black working class life in the heart of Johannesburg, to the post-apartheid era. 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 to make a life in the city. The stories of ordinary people are at the core of the township’s history. Based on scores of life history interviews, the book portrays in vivid detail the daily struggles and tribulation of Alexandrans. A focus point is the rich history of political resistance, in which civic movements and political organisations – such as the ANC, Communist Party and socialist organisations like the Movement for Democracy of Content – organised bus boycotts, anti- removal and anti-pass campaigns, and mobilised for housing and a better life for residents. But the book is not only about politics. It tells the stories of daily life, of the making of urban cultures and of the infamous Spoilers and Msomi gangs. Over weekends Alexandra comes alive as soccer matches, church services and shebeens vie for the attention of residents. Alexandra: A History highlights the social complexities of the township, which at times cause tension between different 978 186814 480 8 (PB) segments of the population, such as between the ‘bona fides’ 210 x 180 mm, 526 pp and amagoduka, stand-owners and tenants or hostel-dwellers 2008 and township residents. Above all else the community spirit of the people of Alexandra, expressed in a fiercely loyal love for the place, has repeatedly triumphed and endured.

Philip Bonner and Noor Nieftagodien are researchers based at the History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Settling on Alexandra Chapter 9. Student Uprising and Reprieve

Chapter 2. ‘Nobody’s Baby’ Chapter 10. From Reprieve to Civic Crisis

Chapter 3. The Fight for Survival in Alexandra, 1938-45 Chapter 11. Mzabalazo! Struggle for People’s Power

Chapter 4. The Inner Life of Alexandra, 1938-47 Chapter 12. Fighting for the Hearts and Minds of Alex

Chapter 5. Reaping the Whirlwind, 1948-58 Chapter 13. From Defiance to Government

Chapter 6. Political Culture in Alexandra, 1948-60 Chapter 14. Civil War

Chapter 7. Taking Time off in Alexandra Chapter 15. The Promise of Democracy, 1994-2008

Chapter 8. The Perils of Peri-Urban: Permits, Protests and Removals, 1958-75

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Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Customs and Beliefs of the /Xam Bushmen

Narratives of the Southern San Edited by Jeremy C Hollmann Roger Hewitt More than 125 years ago, at the height of the colonial era in South Africa, a group of people came together in Cape Town Structure, Meaning and Ritual in the Narratives of the under remarkable circumstances. The project upon which Southern San analyses texts drawn from the Bleek and they embarked involved nothing less than the writing down Lloyd Archive – arguably one of the most important of the language and beliefs of the /Xam people, a Bushman collections for the understanding of South African cultural group that once lived their traditional way of life over much heritage and in particular the traditions of the /Xam, South of what is now South Africa. The significance and value of the Africa’s ‘first people’. Initially appearing in a now rare 1986 labours of Wilhelm Bleek, Lucy Lloyd and their /Xam edition and here re-issued for the first time, the doctoral teachers are now well-known, but not all of the fascinating thesis on which the book is based became the catalyst for material, particularly /Xam testimony about their beliefs, are much scholarly research. readily available. The book offers an analysis of the entire corpus of /Xam Customs and Beliefs of the /Xam Bushmen brings a wide narratives found in the Bleek and Lloyd collection, focusing range of /Xam beliefs together in one volume, together with particularly on the cycle of narratives concerning the notes and introductory comments. We learn about the trickster /Kaggen (Mantis). These are examined on three unseen world of the /Xam, and the work of the !giten, /Xam levels from the ‘deep structures’ with resonances in other ritual specialists that could heal and kill, control the weather areas of /Xam culture and supernatural belief, through the and game. We learn about !Khwa, the personification of the recurring patterns of narrative composition apparent across rain, and the special relationship that women had with him, the cycle and finally touching on the observable differences and we return to the mythological time when animals were in the performances by the various /Xam collaborators. people and spoke their own species-specific dialect of the Hewitt’s text remains the only comprehensive and /Xam language. detailed study of /Xam narrative, and it has become itself This book is based on the articles published in the 1930s the object of study by researchers and PhD candidates in by Dorothea Bleek in the journal Bantu Studies , and South Africa, the United Kingdom, Canada and elsewhere. includes a grammar of the /Xam language. Maps, original This new edition at last makes Hewitt’s important work drawings by the informants and photographs taken in the more widely available. It will be a welcome addition to the early twentieth Century by Dorothea Bleek of the destitute recently burgeoning literature on the place of the /Xam descendants of the informants, will make the book attractive hunter-gatherers in the complex history of South African and accessible to a non-specialist audience. culture and society.

Roger Hewitt is Professor of Sociology and Deputy Director at Jeremy Hollmann is a researcher at the Rock Art Research the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. University of London, United Kingdom.

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Butterflies and Barbarians From Tools to Symbols Swiss Missionaries and Systems of From Early Hominids to Modern Humans Knowledge in South-East Africa Edited by Francesco d’Errico and Lucinda Backwell Patrick Harries A number of researchers have tried to characterise the anatomy and behavioural systems of early hominid and Patrick Harries ’s Butterflies and Barbarians fills an impor - early modern human populations in an attempt to tant gap … by detailing Swiss missionaries’ part in creating understand how we became what we are. Can archaeology, European knowledge about south-eastern Africa in the late palaeo-anthropology and genetics tell us how and when nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. human cultures developed the traits that make our societies —Elizabeth Green Musselman, Journal of Southern African different from those of our closest living relatives? In which Studies cases are these differences substantial, and when do they simply reflect our definitions of culture, species, the image Swiss missionaries played an important role in explaining we have of their evolution or of ourselves? Africa to the literate (European) world in the late nineteenth From Tools to Symbols , a collection of twenty-seven and early twentieth centuries. This book emphasises how selected papers from a South African-French conference these European intellectuals, brought to deep rural areas of organised in honour of the well-known palaeo- south-eastern Africa by their vocation, formulated and anthropologist Phillip Tobias, provides a multidisciplinary ordered knowledge about the continent. overview of this field of study. It is based on collaborative Patrick Harries examines how local people absorbed research conducted in sub-Saharan Africa by South African, imported ideas into their own body of knowledge. Through a French, American and German scholars in the last twenty process of interchange and compromise, Africans adapted years, and represents an excellent synthesis of the foreign ways of seeing and doing things, and rapidly made palaeontological and archaeological evidence of the last five them their own. This is a history of new ideas and practices million years of human evolution. that shook African societies before and during the early years of colonialism. It is equally a history of ordinary Francesco d'Errico is Director of Research at the Centre people and their ability to adapt and subvert these ideas. Nationa l de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Research Professor at the Department of Anthropology, George Patrick Harries is Professor of History at the University of Washingto n University, United States. Lucinda Backwell is a Basel, Switzerland. Researcher in the School of Geosciences at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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NEW People of the Eland TITLE Rock Paintings of the Drakensberg Bushmen as a Reflection of their Life and Thought

Patricia Vinnicombe

My main aim has been to demonstrate that the Bushman rock paintings are concerned not so much with the commonpla ce, material aspects of life, but with the deeper philosophies which govern relationships between man and the world he lives in, between man and man, and betwee n man and the Creator Spirit. —Patricia Vinnicombe, 1976.

First published in 1976, People of the Eland was the first major step away from the outsider’s view upon San rock art that had dominated studies of rock art for nearly a century. The book, an account of the rock art of the San of the Drakensberg Range, was also about the mountain San themselves: their lives, their beliefs, their culture and their history during colonisation. The book not only brought an extraordinary and dynamic body of art to the attention of a global audience, but also helped to lay the foundations for a new generation of research into the 978 1 86814 497 6 (PB) meaning of prehistoric art. 250 x 270 mm, 400 pp People of the Eland aimed to gain an insider’s view of the Illustrated rock art using San understandings of the world. While October 2009 following this approach, it quickly became clear to Vinnicombe that the art was very far from simple depictions of daily life as had once seemed likely, but instead reflected the most deeply held San beliefs and symbols. This approach and this understanding has now become the standard for all those working with San rock art. Whilst this early knowledge of San art has been built upon considerably since 1976, People of the Eland remains a cornerstone of our current understanding. Patricia Vinnicombe was born in 1932 in Underberg, KwaZulu-Natal, and Reprinted here in full colour, with the original artwork was one of South Africa’s foremost rock art experts. An innovative and and photographs, People of the Eland r emains a seminal groundbreaking researcher, Vinnicombe was highly influential in the way work, the impact of which cannot be underestimated. that rock art came to be interpreted. She died in Australia in 2003.

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The Eland’s People NEW New Perspectives in the Rock Art of the TITLE Maloti-Drakensberg Bushmen

Edited by Peter Mitchell and Ben Smith

Only 1000 copies of People of the Eland were printed in 1976. It was neither reissued nor reprinted. It has become one of the rarest and most expensive of all books on the African past. One of the things that most disturbed Patricia Vinnicombe while she was working at the Rock Art Research Institute at Wits University in the early 2000 s was that students could not access her book. As in many libraries, Wits University locks People of the Eland away in its rare and valuable book section. In 2002, Pat started to explore the possibility of republication. But, she did not feel that the book could be reissued without adding additional sections to explain how knowledge had expanded in the decades since the publication of the book. Tragically, Pat died in March 2003 before she could start work on the new sections. Peter Mitchell and Ben Smith have taken up this challenge and brought together the leading scholars in the field to write 978 1 86814 498 3 (PB) new sections to explain both how knowledge has changed 250 x 270 mm, 256 pp since the publication of People of the Eland, and how October 2009 current research is still influenced by this landmark volume. The Eland’s People is thus intended as a companion volume to People of the Eland and it is hoped that this new Peter Mitchell is a Professor at the School of Archaeology, St Hugh’s volume will provide a richer appreciation of the importance Colleg e, Universit y of Oxford, United Kingdom. Benjamin Smith is the of Pat’s original work, as well as allowing readers an Direct or of the Rock Art Resea rch Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, overview of current understandings of Drakensberg rock art. Johannesburg.

CONTENTS

Chapter 1. Introducing The Eland's People Chapter 6. Images in Time: Advances in the Dating of Maloti- Drakensberg Peter Mitchell and Ben Smith Rock Art since the 1970s Aron Mazel Chapter 2. Patricia Vinnicombe: a Memoir David Lewis-Williams Box Seven: The Early History of Rock Art Research in the Maloti- Drakensberg Mountains Box One: The Vinnicombe Archive at the Rock Art Research John Hobart Institute, University of the Witwatersrand Justine Olofsson Chapter 7. Gathering Together a History of the People of the Eland: Towards Archaeology of Maloti-Drakensberg Hunter-Gatherers Box Two: The Vinnicombe collections at Natal Museum Peter Mitchell Jeremy Hollmann and Val Ward Box Eight: Taking the Reins: the Introduction of the Horse in the Chapter 3. Contextualising People of the Eland Nineteenth-Century Maloti-Drakensberg Lynn Meskell Sam Challis

Box Three: The Sociopolitics of Rock Art Chapter 8. ‘Their Village is Where They Kill Game’: Nguni interactions Shiona Moodley with the San Chapter 4. Originals and Copies: a Phenomenological Difference Gavin Whitelaw Nessa Liebhammer Box Nine: Can Rock Art Conservation be Legislated? Box Four: Vinnicombe's Tracing and Colour Rendering Technique Janette Deacon Justine Olofsson Chapter 9. Basotho Oral Knowledge: the Last Bushman Inhabitants of the Chapter 5. Meaning Then, Meaning Now: Changes in the Interpretative Mashai District, Lesotho Process in San Rock Art Studies Patricia Vinnicombe (with additional comments by Peter Mitchell) David Pearce, Catherine Namono and Lara Mallen Box Ten: Protecting rock art in Lesotho Box Five: The presentation of Bushman rock art in the Peter Mitchell uKhahlamba- Drakensberg Chapter 10. Rereading People of the Eland Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu David Whitley

Box Six: Visitor Attractions in the uKhahlamba-Drakensberg: Chapter 11. List of Publications by Patricia Vinnicombe on Africa Main Caves, Kamberg and Didima Aron Mazel

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The State of the State Security and Democracy in Institutional Transformation, Capacity Southern Africa

and Political Change in South Africa Edited by Gavin Cawthra, Andre du Pisani and Louis A Picard Abillah Omari

The State of the State breaks new ground in its exploration of Southern Africa has embarked on one of the world’s most the nature of the South African state in the 1990s and early ambitious security co-operation initiatives, seeking to roll twenty-first century. Louis A Picard argues that the structural out the principles of the United Nations at regional levels. legacies of the apartheid state embedded in systems of This book examines the triangular relationship between government have a continuing influence on the success of democratisation, the character of democracy and its deficits the new democratic government in South Africa. By focusing and national security practices and perceptions of eleven in particular on issues such as affirmative action, patronage southern African states. and corruption, the author examines the nature of political Based on national studies conducted by African and bureaucratic institutions in apartheid and post-apartheid academics and security practitioners over three years, it South Africa. He concludes that there is much to be learnt includes an examination of the way security is conceived about the current state of the state from past practices. and managed, as well as a comparative analysis of regional The State of the State is the first publication in the Wits security co-operation in the developing world. P&DM Governance Series, which explores the challenges and The study concludes that democratisation is ambiguous politics of governance and service delivery in unequal and and uncertain and can in some cases generate violent limited resource contexts such as South and southern Africa. conflict. Building a common security regime in southern By focusing on public administration, institutional economics, Africa will require moving beyond regime solidarity. In development and good governance issues, it aims to particular, progress will mean building multinational contribute to the development of a knowledge base that institutions, entrenching democratic practices, drawing on informs governance policies and practices in southern Africa. civil society and integrating the southern African project with that of the African Union. The authors conclude with a Louis A Picard is Professor in the Division of International set of policy recommendations that aim to strengthen both Development, Graduate School of Public and International states and civil society within the framework of an emerging Affairs, University of Pittsburgh, United States. common security system.

Andre du Pisani is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Namibia. Gavin Cawthra is Director of the Centr e for Defence and Security Management at the Universi ty of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Abillah Omari is Directo r of the Mozambique/Tanzania Centre for Foreign Relations, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Professor of Strategic Studies.

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NEW NEW TITLE TITLE

African Security Governance The Politics of Service Delivery

Emerging Issues Edited by Anne Mc Lennan and Barry Munslow Edited by Gavin Cawthra Securing economic growth by ensuring that its rewards are distributed to the poor and marginalised through social Africa faces a seemingly ever-increasing range of security grants and effective delivery, remains a key challenge facing challenges. The traditional threats of civil and border South Africa in the second decade of democracy. The Politics conflicts, crises of governance and military coups may have of Service Delivery examines the obstacles to effective receded but they remain active. Meanwhile, other issues service delivery and, in a series of case studies, reflects on have risen to prominence, such as globalisation, security lessons for delivery in developing countries. sector reform, terrorism, private security actors, peace- The book shows that decentralisation and participation keeping and peace-building and the proliferation of can sometimes impede provision if lower levels of weapons of mass destruction. government lack capacity and resources. If this is the case, This book is a result of research carried out over a how can growth be maintained whilst addressing the need number of years by the Southern African Defence and for redistribution to the poor? Can South Africa create a Security Management Network (SADSEM) on many of these developmental state with limited administrative capacity? Is new and emerging security issues, in co-operation with the it time to rethink delivery strategies in the cold light of Danish Institute for International Studies and the Friedrich- experiences gained thus far? Ebert-Stiftung. South Africa can boast many achievements since the The broad focus is on security governance – the role of beginning of majority rule, but there are also some state and a wide range of social actors in the areas of both countervailing trends. These reflect the tensions implicit in human and state security. It deals with a range of sectors, the transition from the apartheid system to one that themes and national case studies and makes an important promises democracy and development. The Politics of contribution to debates on security sector reform. Service Delivery explores these tensions from different The topics covered include policing transformation, angles, and looks forward to a period where issues are intelligence governance, regulation of private security defined less by legacy and more by policy. actors, challenges of nuclear proliferation, regional security, peace diplomacy and peace missions, the relationship Anne Mc Lennan is an Associate Professor in the Graduate between development and security and new challenges in School of Public and Development Management, University governance of the military. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Barry Munslow is a Written by scholars as well as practitioners, and African Visiting Research Professor at the Graduate School of Public as well as international researchers, it brings a variety of and Development Management. insights to new as well as traditional security concerns.

Gavin Cawthra is Professor of Defence and Security Manageme nt at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

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NEW Bury Me at the Marketplace TITLE Es'kia Mphahlele and Company. Letters 1943-2006

Edited by N Chabani Manganyi and David Attwell

When Chabani Manganyi published the first edition of selected letters twenty-five years ago as a companion volume to Exiles and Homecomings: A Biography of Es’kia Mphahlele , the idea of Mphahlele’s death was remote and poetic. The title, Bury Me at the Marketplace , suggested that immortality of a kind awaited Mphahlele, in the very coming and going of those who remember him and whose lives he touched. It suggested, too, the energy and magnanimity of Mphahlele, the man, whose personality and intellect as a writer and educator would carve an indelible place for him in South Africa’s public sphere. That death has now come and we mourn it. Manganyi’s words at the time have acquired a new significance: in the symbolic marketplace, he noted, ‘the drama of life continues relentlessly and the silence of death is unmasked for all time’. The silence of death is certainly unmasked in this volume, in its record of Mphahlele’s rich and varied life: his private words, his passions and obsessions, his arguments, his loves, hopes, achievements, and yes, even some of his failures. Here the reader will find many facets of the private man translated Portrait by M. Pemba back into the marketplace of public memory. Despite the personal nature of the letters, the further horizons of this volume are the contours of South Africa’s 978 1 86814 489 1 (PB) literary and cultural history, the international affiliations out 235 x 155 mm, 256 pp of which it has been formed, particularly in the diaspora that November 2009 connects South Africa to the rest of the African continent and to the black presence in Europe and the United States. This selection of Mphahlele’s own letters has been greatly expanded; it has also been augmented by the addition of letters from Mphahlele’s correspondents, Chabani Manganyi is a clinical psychologist, biographer and non-fiction among them such luminaries as Langston Hughes and writer. David Attwell is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of Nadine Gordimer. It seeks to illustrate the networks that York, United Kingdom. shaped Mphahlele’s personal and intellectual life, the circuits of intimacy, intellectual inquiry, of friendship, scholarship and solidarity that he created and nurtured over the years. The letters cover the period from November 1943 to April 1987, forty-four of Mphahlele’s mature years and most of his active professional life. The correspondence is supplemented by introductory essays from the two editors, by two interviews conducted with Mphahlele by Manganyi and by Attwell’s insightful explanatory notes. LIST OF CORRESPONDENTS

Lionel Abrahams, Chinua Achebe, Houston A Baker Jr, Ursula A Barnett, Gunnar Boklund, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, Andre Brink, Sonia Bronstein, Guy Butler, Gwendolen Carter, Gerald Chapman, Syl Cheney-Coker, Jack Cope, Tim Couzens, Adrian Donker, C J (Jonty) Driver, Ian Glenn, Nadine Gordimer, Andrew Gurr, Norman Hodge, Langston Hughes, Stuart James, Martin Jarrett-Kerr CR, Edward A Lindell, Chabani Manganyi, Teresa Mphahlele, Khabi Mngoma, Njabulo Ndebele, Isidore Okpewho, James Olney, William Plomer, Robert D Richardson, Makhudu Rammopo, Richard Rive, Sonia Sanchez, Sipho Sepamla, Jenny Stein, Sylvester Stein, Peter Thuynsma, Norah Taylor, Phillip Tobias, Charles van Onselen and Nick Visser.

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The Imagination of Freedom NEW Critical Texts and Times TITLE in Contemporary Liberalism

Andrew Foley

The Imagination of Freedom is a breath of fresh air. At last, a view of literary studies that speaks to the real world where political conduct, social justice and individual freedom matter. Broad in scope, theoretically and philosophically astute, up-to -date, yet written clearly and accessibly, Andrew Foley’s scholarship maps out a path which not only suggests a possible future for literary studies, but may restore to them some of the profound challenge they once held for those who recognise that shaping a better society is what human life is about. —Laurence Wright, Rhodes University, South Africa

The political history of humankind in modern times can be characterised essentially as the struggle for freedom. Concom itant ly, much of the most significant contemporary literature has concerned itself with the idea of human freedom. In The Imagination of Freedom , Andrew Foley explores the work of a number of writers who have responded, from a liberal viewpoint, to critical moments in contemporary political history when such freedom has come under severe threat. These writers have used the power of the creative imagination to provide a critique of the illiberal practices of their times and to reassert an alternative vision of a free and 978 1 86814 492 1 (PB) open society, founded upon the ideals of individual liberty 220 x 150 mm, 328 pp and social justice. The Imagination of Freedom thus refers May 2009 both to the writers’ critically independent analyses of the wrongs of their social contexts, as well as to their ability to imagine and describe a more just and equitable social order. Foley presents a detailed, contextualised discussion of Andrew Foley is Professor and Head of the Department of English in the the work of Alan Paton, Chinua Achebe, Ken Kesey, Seamus School of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Heaney, Fay Weldon, Athol Fugard, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ian McEwan and others, in order to pursue three interrelated aims: to reassess the significance of the work of these writers from a contemporary perspective; to clarify their political vision as liberal writers; and more generally to develop a case for liberalism as a coherent and compelling political philosophy.

Among the works that are discussed in The Imagination of Freedom: Critical Texts and Times in Contemporary Liberalism are: • Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country • Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart • Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest • Seamus Heaney’s North • Fay Weldon’s Praxis • Athol Fugard’s My Children! My Africa! • Mario Vargas Llosa’s The Feast of the Goat • Ian McEwan’s Saturday

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Africa Writes Back The Animal Gaze The African Writers Series and the Animal Subjectivities in Southern Launch of African Literature African Narratives

James Currey Wendy Woodward

The launch of African Literature? James Currey’s compulsively Many humans do not regard animals as complex beings. readable account justifies the claim … This review has Instead, they objectify animals, relate to them as ‘pets’, or scarcely given a glimpse of the teeming mass of authors see them simply as spectacles of beauty or wildness. By whose lives, works and characters Currey illuminates. contrast, the southern African writers whose work is —Randolph Vigne, The Sunday Independent explored in The Animal Gaze , including Olive Schreiner, Zakes Mda, Yvonne Vera, Eugene N. Marais, J.M. Coetzee, 17 June 2008 was the fiftieth anniversary of the publication Luis Bernardo Honwana, Michiel Heyns, Marlene van of Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart by Heinemann. This Niekerk and Linda Tucker, represent animals as richly provided the impetus for the foundation of the African individual subjects. The animals – including cattle, horses, Writers Series (AWS) in 1962 with Chinua Achebe as the birds, lions, leopards, baboons, dogs, cats and a whale – Editorial Adviser. experience complex emotions and have agency, The African Writers Series almost single-handedly jump- intentionality and morality, as well as an ability to recognise started the rapid surge in African literary creativity by and fear death. putting into print more than 300 works in less than twenty When animals are acknowledged as subjects in this way, years. Almost all this writing was new and it came from then the animal gaze and the human response encapsulate nearly every corner of the continent. The availability of these an interspecies communication of kinship, rather than books throughout the world made it possible for universities confirming a human sense of superiority. This volume goes and secondary schools to begin to teach courses on African beyond Jacques Derrida’s notion of the animal gaze which literature; in Africa itself this led to a profound still has animals as the ‘absolute other’, and suggests a transformation of the curriculum in English. A whole new re-concept ualising of animals as ‘anothers’. The Animal discipline of literary studies quickly emerged. None of this Gaze engages with the writings of Jacques Derrida, J.M. would have happened so rapidily and so successfully had it Coetzee, Val Plumwood and Martha C. Nussbaum, as it not been for the pioneering role played by AWS. brings together Literary Studies, Ethics, Animal Studies and African traditional thought, including shamanism, in a way James Currey was the Editorial Director at Heinemann that compels the reader to think differently about nonhuman Educatio nal Books in charge of the African Writers Series animals and human relationships with them. from 1967 to 1984. Wendy Woodward is a Professor in the English Department at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

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The Fred de Vries Interviews Composing Apartheid From Abdullah to Zille Music For and Against Apartheid

Fred de Vries Edited by Grant Olwage

Fred de Vries ’s voice – his preoccupations, frame of reference This is one of the best books to have emerged from South and intellectual demeanour – are those of an inside-outsider. African musicology in the last decade ... It opens up a new level He has lived in South Africa for years, but maintains a vital of discourse about music during the apartheid era: a level on distance from a country on which so many of us battle to which the theoretical, the ethical, the historical and the keep perspective. It is the unique place from which he aestheti c play against each other in newly meaningful ways. speaks that makes his writing so important, persuasive —Roger Parker, King’s College, University of London and endlessly intriguing. —Michael Titlestad, Wits Institute of Social and Economic Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the Research (WISER) musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced Fred de Vries – bilingual travel writer, journalist, published through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid’s author, music fundi and coffee shop intellectual – has set a social and political topography, as well as how music and precedent with his interviews, which open up a musicians contested and even helped to conquer apartheid. kaleidoscope of the brave and colourful in the arts, media, The collection of essays is intentionally broad, and the politics and literature. The artists, writers, musicians, contributors include historians, sociologists and activists and entrepreneurs interviewed are representative anthropologists, as well as ethnomusicologists, music of the cultural scene, emerging and mainstream, of post- theorists and historical musicologists. apartheid South Africa in the early ‘noughties’. Features the following interviewees, complete with Grant Olwage, editor and contributor, is a Senior Lecturer in photos: Abdullah Ibrahim, Gabeba Baderoon, Vusi Music in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Beauchamp, Nikiwe Bikitsha, Bok van Blerk, Jeanetta Witwatersran d, Johannesburg. Blignaut, Chris Chameleon, Kudzanai Chiurai, Toast Coetzer, Contributors: Lara Allen, Wits Institute of Social and Melinda Ferguson, Fokofpolisiekar, Karl Gietl, Steve Economi c Research, University of the Witwatersrand, Hofmeyr, Japan and I, Jaxon Rice, June Josephs, Ronelda Johannesbu rg; Gary Baines, Rhodes University; Ingrid Byerly , Kamfer, Anton Kannemeyer, DJ Kenzhero, Adam Levin, Eric Duke University; Christopher Cockburn, University of Mafuna, Rian Malan, Maja Maljevic, Danie Marais, Lodi KwaZulu- Natal; David Coplan, University of the Witwatersrand , Matsetela, Benjy Mudie, Jim Neversink, Herman Niebuhr, Johannesb urg; Michael Drewett, Rhodes University; Shirli Marlene Van Niekerk, Prinses Petro, Warren Siebrits, Elinor Gilbert, University of Southampton; Christine Lucia, University of the Witwaters ran d, Johannesburg; Carol A. Muller, Sisulu, Yabadaka Shamah, Henri Vergon, Ivan Vladislavi ć, Universit y of Pennsylvania; Stephanus Muller, University Ingrid Winterbach and Helen Zille. of Stellenbosch; Brett Pyper, New York University; Martin Scherzinger, Eastman School of Music.

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NEW At this Stage TITLE Plays from Post-apartheid South Africa

Edited by Greg Homann

As South Africa continues to advance towards the fulfilment of its visionary constitution, significant shifts in the mode, style, and theme of its nation’s theatre have begun to take hold. The four plays in this collection, by Lara Foot Newton, Mike van Graan, Motshabi Tyelele and Craig Higginson, offer insights into an emerging national identity. The primary themes explored in the four texts – reconciliation, matriarchy, justice, accountability, corruption, truth, memory, and violence – reflect on the challenges and questions South Africans are confronted with in their nascent democratic state. In the two essays that complement this anthology, theatre director Greg Homann argues that South African theatre and her playwrights have surfaced into a new period, one that signals new themes and challenges. The mode of representation has shifted and the monological form we came to both loathe and love has dissipated to match a democratic society grappling with multiple points of view. Reach! (Lara Foot Newton) is a story of trying to connect. Two South Africans from different generations reach out across conflicting experiences and racial lines in an attempt to reconcile their shared past. Some Mothers’ Sons (Mike van Graan) questions the success and failure of the South African criminal and justice system. Vusi and Braam, two lawyers and friends, 978 1 86814 493 8 (PB) negotiate their experiences of apartheid violence and 220 x 150 mm, 186 pp post-apartheid criminality. Illustrated Shwele Bawo! (Motshabi Tyelele) is a one-woman play May 2009 detailing how wife and mother, Dikeledi Nkabinde, has found herself locked-up for the murder of her Black Economic Empowered husband. Dream of the Dog (Craig Higginson) is set on the eve of Richard and Patricia Wiley’s departure from their KwaZulu- Natal farm. A series of interactions that challenge notions Greg Homann is a Lecturer in South African Theatre at the Wits School of truth, revenge, memory, and justice unfold when a of Arts (WSOA), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. familiar visitor arrives.

Photographs by Ruphin Coudyzer

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Zulu Love Letter NEW TITLE Bhekizizwe Petersen and Ramadan Suleman

Zulu Love Letter is an extraordinary film for a number of reason s. It creates a local narrative with national resonances; centralises women and their experiences; engages an African aesthetics rooted in an African spirituality while sustaining an identifiable contemporary look and feel .... It strives to expos e truth and reveals the impossibility of ever fully knowin g it. Yet, there have been terrible abuses towards humani ty exacte d under apartheid that the film is in a positio n to visuali se on behalf of those who survive them. Zulu Love Lette r has bravely created a new cinematic space for representing historical truths. —Jacqueline Maingard, University of Bristol, United Kingdom

Set against the backdrop of the success of the first democratic elections and the launch of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa, Zulu Love Letter is a story of two mothers in search of their daughters. Thandeka Khumalo is challenged with mending her estranged relationship with her thirteen-year-old daughter, Simangaliso, who grew up with her grandparents because of Thandeka’s career and political commitments. Tormented by a sense of guilt and grief that refuses to wane, Thandeka is battling to adjust to the changes around her. Her melancholy soul is compelled to confront her experiences of detention and torture when ghosts from the past reappear. Me’Tau, the mother of a young activist (Dineo) whose assassination Thandeka witnessed and reported, wants Thandeka to help in finding Dineo’s body so that she can be given a fitting 978 1 86814 496 9 (PB) burial. For mourning to end and for healing to take place, 978 1 86814 505 8 (with DVD) the psychic demons that haunt the present must be 210 x 180 mm, 128 pp recognised and exorcised. Illustrated Marking the ebb-and-flow of the adults’ attempts to deal July 2009 with the historical inheritances of apartheid, is the ‘Love Letter’ that Simangaliso is weaving as a gift to her mother. A colourful tapestry of beads, trinkets and buttons, the ‘Love Letter’ encapsulates the power of the arts in fostering memory-work, healing and love. Bhekizizwe Peterson and Ramadan Suleman are directors of Natives At The script of Zulu Love Letter won the Special Jury Prize – Large , a film and television production company that produced the feature Best Script 2001, France, 15th Edition, Grand Prix du Meilleur films Fools and Zulu Love Letter. Peterson is also Associate Professor of African Literature, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Scenariste, 29 October 2001, Paris. The film has won ten prestigious international awards and it received over a dozen official invitations to premier at international film festivals including the Venice International Film Festival (Venezia 61 orrizonti), 2004; Toronto International Film Festival, 2004; Fespaco (Burkina Faso), 2005; and the American Film Institute Los Angeles Festival, 2005.

Photographs by Tucha Basto

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Sophiatown Love, Crime and Johannesburg

Junction Avenue Theatre Company A Musical Introduction by Malcolm Purkey Junction Avenue Theatre Company Introduction by Malcolm Purkey and Carol Steinburg … A truly superb production … achieves in two hours what it would take a team of ten social historians 200 years to achieve. It is subtle, sophisticated, polished, warm, ‘Why bother to rob a bank, when you can own a bank?’ asked informative and much more – in short bloody wonderful. Bertold Brecht. The question is reiterated in the very Brechtian —Charles van Onselen Love, Crime and Johannesburg , the story of Jimmy ‘Long Legs’ Mangane, a people’s poet involved in the struggle, who is Sophiatown was the ‘Chicago of South Africa’, a vibrant accused of robbing a bank. He passionately asserts his community that produced not only gangsters and shebeen innocence, claiming to work for the ‘secret secret service’. queens but leading journalists, writers, musicians and Lewis, his old friend and comrade from the struggle, now politicians, and gave urban African culture its rhythm and owns a bank. How did this happen? The man of the struggle style. This play, based on the life history of Sophiatown, is now a man of accounts. A man of the nineties. Part of the opened at the Market Theatre in Johannesburg in February cellphone generation. Added to the mix is an old-style 1986 to great acclaim. The play won the AA Life Vita Award gangster, two girlfriends, a Jewish father and a very unusual for Playwright of the Year 1985/86. This new edition of the Chief of Police. play includes an introduction which sets the work in its Described as one of the first genuine post-apartheid historical context. plays, Love, Crime and Johannesburg is a witty, light-hearted account of life in the City of Gold at the turn of the millennium. A must for all students of South African theatre. Winner of the 2000 Vita Award for best script of a new South African Play.

The Junction Avenue Theatre Company was a theatre workshop company founded in Johannesburg in the 1970s.

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Nothing But the Truth Tshepang The Third Testament John Kani Lara Foot Newton It is still necessary to talk about the past, because the past will always be a powerful presence in the present …. We In 2001 South Africa was devastated by the news of a brutal must never forget, but this does not mean that we must rape of a nine-month-old child who came to be known as cling to the past, and wrap it around us, and live for it. baby Tshepang. The media reported that she had been gang- We only look back in the past in order to have a better raped by a group of six men. Later it was discovered that the understanding of our present. This is one of the greatest men had been wrongfully accused and that the infant had lessons of Nothing but the Truth. instead been raped and sodomised by her mother’s —From the Introduction by Zakes Mda boyfriend. Once the story of baby Tshepang hit the headlines, the scab was torn off a festering wound, and Nothing but the Truth is the story of two brothers, of sibling hundreds of similar stories followed. rivalry, of exile, of memory and reconciliation, and the Weaving together ‘twenty thousand stories’ (the number ambiguities of freedom. Nothing but the Truth (2002) was of reported child rapes in South Africa each year), Tshepang John Kani’s debut as sole playwright and was first performed tells a story of love, forgiveness and the difficulties of in the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. It won the 2003 Fleur coming to terms with a violation of this magnitude. du Cap Award for best actor and best new South African play. In the same year Kani was also awarded a special Obie award Lara Foot Newton , one of six winners in the international for his extraordinary contribution to theatre in the USA. Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, is a South African This play has been selected by the South African National playwright, theatre director and producer. Department of Education for study in Grade 12. A new scholar’s edition, co-published with Macmillan South Africa, has been released which meets all requirements of the department. It contains the following innovative features: • a biography of John Kani • notes on the play, which provide background information and creative ideas for individual, pair, group and class work, portfolios and further research • a glossary, which provides definitions of difficult words and non-English words and phrases • exam-style questions on the play, with suggested answers • suggestions for further reading.

Wits University Press Macmillan/WUP scholar’s edition: edition: 978 1 86814 389 4 (PB) 978 1 77030 317 1 (PB) 1 86814 415 1 (PB) 200 x 130 mm, 72 pp 2008 200 x 130 mm, 64 pp 2002 (Available from Macmillan South Africa, Tel. +27 11 731 3300) 2005

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Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating

Zakes Mda

Cupidity, corruption and conciliation are the themes of the three plays in this collection: The Mother of all Eating, a one-hander, with its central character a corrupt Lesotho official, is a grinding satire on materialism in which the protagonist gets his come-uppance. You Fool, How Can the Sky Fall? is an unbridled study in grotesquerie, reflecting a belief, traceable throughout Mda’s work, that government by those who inherit a revolution is almost inevitably, in the first decade or two, hijacked by the smart operators. The Bells of Amersfoort , with its graphic portrayal of the isolation imposed by exile, picks up on the themes of the other two plays but adds to them the concept of ‘healing’, both of the soul and of the land. 1 86814 377 5 (PB) 220 x 150 mm, 162 pp Zakes Mda is a multiple award-winning playwright, novelist, painter, composer and filmmaker. He currently teaches at the University of Ohio. 2002

My Children! My Africa! and Selected Shorter Plays

Athol Fugard Edited by Stephen Gray

In his introduction to this collection, Stephen Gray states that ‘there can be no artistic grounds on which to uphold a belief that “short” implies “lesser”’; he goes on to make the point that ‘Fugard seems naturally to be most at ease when working in compact dense forms’. This collection brings together all the available shorter plays by Athol Fugard not accessible to readers and performers, and demonstrates through these plays the crucial stages of Fugard’s development as a great man of the theatre. 1 86814 117 9 (PB) 198 x 126 mm, 198 pp Athol Fugard is one of South Africa’s and the world’s finest playwrights. His numerous plays have won many 1990 awards, been produced internationally and made into musical works and films.

My Life and Valley Song Two Plays

Athol Fugard

My Life is based on the diaries of five South African girls who were growing into womanhood in 1994. The perspective of each young woman on her country and her people is conveyed with a mixture of naivety, exuberance, warmth and humour. A small Karoo town provides the setting for Valley Song , which explores the theme of youth in search of itself, and provides a lyrical metaphor for the new South Africa in which it was set, and has been termed one of Fugard’s most endearing plays.

978 1 86814 287 3 (PB) 190 x 125 mm, 86 pp 1996

Sorrows and Rejoicings

Athol Fugard Introduction by Anthony Akerman

In an old house in a small country town three women gather in the presence of a stinkwood table and their powerful memories of the man they have just buried. In Sorrows and Rejoicings , Athol Fugard turns once more to his beloved Karoo and to the themes of exile and the importance of place that have permeated so many of his plays. Anthony Akerman’s accessible introduction situates the play in the context of the body of Fugard’s work.

1 86814 385 6 (PB) 200 x 130 mm, 80 pp 2002

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Investment Choices for South African NEW Education TITLE

Edited by Graeme Bloch, Linda Chisholm, Brahm Fleisch and Mahlubi Mabizela

Investment Choices for South African Education was conceived between 2003 and 2007, the heady days of high economic growth in South Africa. However, since 2008, new trends have been set in motion by the global economic slowdown. The threat of slower growth compounded by the brake that South Africa’s earlier under-investment in infrastructure placed on development are likely to make investment choices in education and skills development that much more complex. This presents a conundrum to South African policy-makers: neglect education, the foundation of a highly-skilled population, and set in place long-term conditions for broader social and economic failure. Or set in place stronger investment patterns in education, alongside infrastructural investment, and provide for the preconditions of long-term sustainable growth and development. This book is a plea not only for more thought to be given to these questions, but also more investment in education to encourage sustainable development. In a set of thoughtful and well-researched essays and reflections, Investment Choices for South African Education opens the issues for discussion and debate.

978 1 86814 485 3 (PB) 235 x 155 mm, 142 pp 2008

Graeme Bloch is Education Specialist at the DBSA (Development Bank of Southern Africa). Linda Chisholm is Director of the Education, Science and Skills Development research programme, Human Sciences Research Council in Pretoria and Visiting Professor of Education at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Brahm Fleisch is an Associate Professor in the Division of Education Leadership and Policy Studies at Wits School of Education, Johannesburg. Mahlubi Mabizela currently works in the Directorate, Higher Education Policy and Development in the Department of Education.

CONTENTS

Introduction. Brahm Fleisch

Chapter 1. Lessons from the past two decades: Chapter 4. South African education investment: Investment choices for education and growth A rights and skills agenda? Martin Carnoy Luis Crouch and Firoz Patel

Chapter 2. Education, growth and the ‘new’ public finance Chapter 5. Education and investment choices for Andrew Donaldson vulnerable children in South Africa Linda Richter and Upjeet Chandan Chapter 3. South African student performance in regional context Servaas van den Berg and Megan Louw

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The Nation’s Bounty Inkondlo kaZulu Ukufa KukaShaka The Xhosa Poetry of Nontsizi Mgqwetho B. Wallet Vilakazi Elliot Zondi 978 085494 068 4, 1935 978 085494 079 0, 1960 Edited and translated by Jeff Opland Umyezo Pelong ya ka JJR Jolobe SM Mofokeng For nearly a decade Nontsizi Mgqwetho contributed poetry 978 085494 069 1, 1936 978 191980 579 5, 1962 to a Johannesburg newspaper, Umteteli wa Bantu , the first and only female poet to produce a substantial body of work Dintshontsho tsa bo- Ikhwezi Likazulu in isiXhosa. Apart from what is revealed in these writings, Jul u se Kesara JM Sikakana very little is known about her life. She explodes on the scene Solomon Tshekiso Plaatje 978 085494 081 3, 1965 with her swaggering, urgent, confrontational woman’s 978 085494 070 7, 1937 poetry on 23 October 1920, sends poems to the newspaper Hayani Mazulu regularly throughout the three years from 1924 to 1926, Amavo Aaron Phumasilwe Myeni withdraws for two years until two final poems appear in JJR Jolobe 978 085320 026 0, 1969 December 1928 and January 1929, then disappears into the 978 085494 072 1, 1941 shrouding silence she first burst from. Nothing more is Isoka lakwaZulu heard from her, but the poetry she left immediately claims UGubudele Namaz - NJ Makahye for her the status of one of the greatest literary artists ever imuzimu 978 085494 103 2, 1972 to write in isiXhosa, an anguished voice of an urban woman NNT Ndebele confronting male dominance, ineffective leadership, black 978 085320 018 5, 1941 Insumansumane apathy, white malice and indifference, economic exploitation Elliot Zondi and a tragic history of nineteenth-century territorial and Inzuzo 978 186925 065 2, 1986 cultural dispossession. SEK Mqhayi The Nation ’s Bounty contains the original poems 978 18692 511 5, 1943 Dipale le Ditshomo alongside English translations by Jeff Opland. It was the first NP Maake of a number of new titles planned for release in the African Amal’e Zulu 978 085494 988 5, 1987 Treasury Series, a premier collection of texts by South BW Vilakazi Africa’s pioneers of African literature and written in 978 085320 016 1, 1945 Diwani ya Muyaka bin indigenous languages. First published by Wits University Haji Al-Ghassaniy Press in the 1940s, the series provided a voice for the Motswasele II W Hichens voiceless and celebrated African culture, history and LD Raditladi 1940 heritage. It continues to make a contribution by supporting 978 191991 110 6, 1945 current efforts to empower and develop the status of African Pambo la Lugha languages in South Africa. Tseleng ya Bophelo le Shabaan Robert Dithothokiso tse Ntjha (no info) JACG Mocoancoeng Kielezo cha Insha 978 085494 077 6, 1947 Shabaan Robert 1954 1 86814 451 8 (PB) Senkatana 230 x 150 mm, 480 pp SM Mofokeng Titles in the African Treasury 2007 978 085494 078 3, 1952 Series are also available from 978 186814 451 8 Macmillan South Africa Tel: +27 11 731 3300

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Abantu Besizwe NEW Historical and Biographical Writings, TITLE 1902-1944

S E K Mqhayi Edited and translated by Jeff Opland

Samuel Edward Krune Mqhayi (1875-1945) was born in the Eastern Cape. He was educated formally at Lovedale, but absorbed the traditions of his people under his grandfather’s uncle Nzanzana in rural Centane. Under the patronage of Walter Benson Rubusana, he taught in and near East London, and at Lovedale, and helped to edit two local newspapers, Izwi labantu and Imvo zabantsundu before retiring to devote himself to social upliftment schemes, to writing and translating. Prominent in literary, educational and political circles, Mqhayi was familiar with many of the leading African intellectuals of the previous generation. S E K Mqhayi is one of the greatest figures in the history of South African literature, yet his achievement is not fully appreciated because he wrote only in isiXhosa. He was the greatest of 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’. A few of his published works are among the most popular in the Xhosa language, yet many more are out of print, obscure, unpub - lished or lost. Abantu Besizwe , The Nation’s People, the first new volume of Mqhayi’s writing to appear in over 60 years, is the twenty-third volume in Wits University Press’s African Treasury Series. It contains 69 historical and biographical essays contributed to newspapers between 1902 and 1944 as 978 1 86814 501 0 (PB) originally published, with facing English translations. 230 x 150 mm, 648 pp The essays, many of them enhanced by Mqhayi’s October 2009 incomparable poetry, present South African personalities and events ranging from the early nineteeth to the mid- twentieth century, recording climactic battles and intimate conversations, the growth of national movements and the lives of lifelong friends. Here you will find Mqhayi’s humane and incisive portraits of men and women, royalty and Jeff Opland is Visiting Professor of African Language and commoners, the great and the obscure, black and white, Literature s at the School of Oriental and African Studies, isiXhosa, isiZulu, SeSotho and Setswana. This collection of Univers ity of Londo n, and Research Fellow in the Department largely unrecognised material will necessitate a of African Langua ges, University of South Africa, Pretoria. reassessment of the history of the isiXhosa-speaking peoples, establish Mqhayi’s reputation as a significant South African historian, and confirm his status as a major South African author.

‘Our Shakespeare! Our Laureate!’ eulogized former ANC President Alfred Xuma when he unveiled S.E.K. Mqhayi’s tombstone in 1951. And the young Nelson Mandela, seeing Mqhayi in action at Healdtown in 1938, compared the experience to ‘a comet streaking through the night sky’.

Unbeknownst … to almost everybody, substantial fragments of Mqhayi’s history survived for decades hidden deep within innumerable reams of old newsprint, buried in obscure locatio ns at home and abroad. Jeff Opland has performed an immense task of rescue and recovery, akin to digging through the rubble with a toothpick in search of earthquake survivo rs. His diligence has been rewarded by the discovery of warm bodies, still very much alive and just as vigorous and articulate as they were on the day that they disappeared. Mqhayi qualifies not only as a great literary figure but also as a great historian.

From the Preface by Jeff Peires, historian.

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Women Writing Africa

The Southern Region

Edited by MJ Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford, Nobantu Rasebotsa

Presenting voices rarely heard, some recorded as early as the mid-nineteenth century, as well as rediscovered gems by well-known authors such as Bessie Head and Doris Lessing, this landmark collection reveals a living cultural legacy that will revolutionise the understanding of African women's literary and cultural production. The texts – ranging from communal songs and folktales to letters, diaries, political petitions, court records, poems, essays, 1 86814 394 5 (PB) and fiction – demonstrate the critical role played by 235 x 155 mm, 560 pp women in cultural continuity and resistance to oppression 2003 in six countries in the region: Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland and Zimbabwe. With Feminist Press (US)

West Africa and the Sahel

Edited by Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw

The collection encompasses an epic cultural history through the voices of women represented in twenty languages spoken in an area encompassing twelve countries: Benin, Burkina Faso, Cote d’Ivoire, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea-Conakry, Liberia, Mali, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

1 86814 428 3 (PB) 235 x 155 mm, 512 pp 2005 With Feminist Press (US)

The Eastern Region

Edited by Amandina Lihamba, Fulata L Moyo, Mugyabuso M Mulokozi, Naomi L Shitemi and Saida Yahya-Othman

This volume highlights twenty-three languages and five east African countries: Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. It focuses on the daily lives of women in retellings of personal sufferings and triumphs, parliamentary speeches, fiction, poetry and songs, and the roles of women in creating an educated people in nations free from colonial rule. 978 1 86814 459 4 (PB) 235 x 155 mm, 512 pp 2007 With Feminist Press (US)

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Women Writing Africa NEW The Northern Region TITLE

Edited by Fatima Sadiqi, Amira Nowaira, Azza El Kholy and Moha Ennaji

The contributions of African women to their respective nations have been documented for generations as letters, speeches, songs, poems and other oralities, but never before have they been gathered together in one monumental work: The Women Writing Africa Project. This invaluable resource is the result of over ten years of dedicated research by the editors, and seeks to elucidate voices and stories that have been long ignored and are in need of telling. The fourth volume in the series includes more than 100 texts from Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia. It includes works from 1500 BCE to the present; from an Egyptian Queen's marriage proposal to contem porary women promoting new marriage and family laws. Many names will resonate with modern readers, including Leila Abou Zeid, Amina Arfaoui, Salwa Bakr, Assia Djebar, Nawal El Saadawi and Fatima Mernissi. Important themes include polygamy, the veil, education and political participation. Women Writing Africa, a project of cultural reconstruction, aims to restore African women’s voices to the public sphere. Through the publication of a series of regional anthologies, each collecting oral and written narratives as well as a variety of historical and literary texts, the project will make visible the oral and written literary expression of African women. The definition of ‘writing’ has been deliberately broadened to include songs, praise 978 186814 490 7 (PB) poems, and significant oral texts, as well as short fiction, 235 x 155 mm, 636 pp poetry, letters, journals, journalism and historical January 2009 documents. The publication of these texts will allow for new readings of African women’s history. The first of these With Feminist Press (US) regional anthologies, subtitled The Southern Region , was first published in 2003. The second volume, subtitled West Africa and the Sahel, was published in 2005, the third volume, The Eastern Region , was published in 2007.

CONTENTS

Section 1. The Ancients: Fifteenth Century BCE Section 4. Mid-Twentieth Century to Fourth Century CE Section 5. Late Twentieth Century Section 2. Islam: Seventh century to Eighteenth Century Section 6. The New Century Section 3. Nineteenth Century to Early Twentieth Century

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The Closest of Strangers Paradise, the Castle and the Vineyard South African Women’s Life Writing Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape Diaries

Edited by Judith Lütge Coullie Edited by Margaret Lenta

The Closest of Strangers immerses the reader in the dramatic Lady Anne Barnard lived in South Africa from 1797 to 1802, history of twentieth century South Africa. The short, carefully and she recorded life in the Cape and its hinterland with chosen excerpts – by black women, new migrants, activists, more interest and detail than any other writer of the period. English and Afrikaner settlers – make up a breathtaking She was official hostess of the colonial administration for array of gripping, surprising, at times unbelievable stories the first two years, after which she continued to play an that attest to the reckless tenacity of the human will. Coullie's important role in the social life of Cape Town. Paradise, the text is certain to become a classic. Castle and the Vineyard is an abridged version of her diaries, —Kay Schaffer, University of Adelaide, Autsralia and it is beautifully illustrated with her own drawings, paintings and handwriting as well as pictures of the The experiences of women from all race groups, classes and landmark homes she resided in (referred to in the title). political persuasions are brought to life in this compelling Annotations provide contextual and historical information, collection of extracts. Living in close proximity, but often in anecdotes and insights into Lady Anne’s thoughts and vastly different realities, South African women were, in many comments, providing the reader with a deeper ways, ‘the closest of strangers’ to each other, and their understanding of her life, times and the people with whom relationships were marked by both intimacy and alienation. she interacted. The selection draws on a large number of autobio - The diaries are full of witty and insightful observations graphical texts by both ordinary and extraordinary women about the life and people of the Cape, including the plight of such as Sarah Raal, Emily Hobhouse, Pauline Smith, Phyllis slaves (usually censored out of writings from the era) and Ntantala, Dr Goonam, Katie Makanya, Pauline Podbrey, the governor and his quarrelsome household. Lady Anne Norma Kitson, Bertha Solomon, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, also frankly describes her own life, including her happy Helen Joseph, Ruth First, Helen Suzman, Bessie Head, marriage to a man twelve years her junior, and the political Mamphela Ramphele, Selestina Ngubane, Emma Mashinini, upheavals, shipwrecks and travels into rural areas. A Marike de Klerk, Antjie Krog, Charlene Smith and Maria generous introduction situates the diary in its historical and Ndlovu. Together, these texts demonstrate the courage and social context, and in the continuum of Lady Anne’s life. strength of spirit with which South African women Margaret Lenta is Emeritus Professor and Senior Researcher responded to personal and political circumstances in the at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. twentieth century.

Judith Lütge Coullie lectures in English at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

1 86814 388 0 (PB) 978 1 86814 390 0 (PB) 230 x 150 mm, 404 pp 210 x 180 mm, 320 pp 2004 2006

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Shakti Buttons and Breakfasts Stories of Indian Women The Wits WonderWomen Book

Compiled by Alleyn Diesel Edited by Margaret Orr, Mary Rorich and Finuala Dowling The word ‘Shakti’ means the power or energy of women as personified and expressed by divine females, the alter egos The Wits WonderWomen are a group of academics at the of every woman. ‘Shakti’ is amply portrayed in these University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Buttons and women’s accounts of their experiences. Breakfasts is a collection of their writings and reflections on The stories collected here record the lives of Indian growing up in a man’s world, and working in an environment women from Hindu, Muslim and Christian backgrounds living peopled by male professors. There are journeys here from in the Pietermaritzburg area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, dusty township to dental school, from dropout to doctorate. and they demonstrate the pride these women have in their There are testimonies of careers kept aloft through sexual ancient cultures as well as their strength and determination harassment cases, pregnancies, cancer, marital breakup and in adversity. The value of this collection does not merely lie in personal despair. its ability to entertain; the stories reveal the women’s sense In these pages, the secret lives of women academics of their own worth in an at times hostile society, as wives, come to light – the sacrifices they’ve made in their teachers, political activists, professionals and religious passionate commitment to their chosen discipline and to leaders. Fascinating aspects of local history are portrayed, their students. Sometimes profoundly solitary, sometimes such as life in the vibrant Edendale/Plessislaer community to bolstered by the sisterhood, sometimes warrior-like and the south of Pietermaritzburg before the apartheid forced sometimes weeping, they’ve crossed borders and removal policy destroyed the largely secure and comfortable boundaries of the academic and personal unknown. From lives these people had established, and the founding of the moving tales of grandmothers and mothers to irreverent Indian Women’s Association which worked to improve the satires of university life, the pieces in this book offer an lives of women during the apartheid years. explicit counter-narrative. There is an urgent need to appreciate and celebrate the The collection is eclectic and quirky; it is a book to dip religious and cultural beliefs and practices of others. In into and savour in fragments. It will offer resonance for other recent years, stories of people in ‘previously disadvantaged’ academic women, cautionary and inspirational tales for communities have tended to overlook the experiences of young women planning a career, and some startling insights Indian women. Shakti: Stories of Indian Women attempts to for men who wonder what women are really thinking. The give expression to voices that represent a vibrant and vital collection includes a number of illustrations (including an section of this county’s diverse population. academic board game) and a photo-essay capturing the mysterious and unseen spaces of university life. Alleyn Diesel taught Religious Studies at the then University of Natal during the 1990s, concentrating on the place of Margaret Orr and Mary Rorich are Professors at the University India n women in Hinduism in Natal. of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Finuala Dowling is a published poet and author of the novel What Poets Need.

978 1 86814 454 2 (PB) 1 86814 423 2 (PB) 240 x 170 mm, 260 pp 210 x 250 mm, 184 pp 2007 2006

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Women by Women Dumile Feni Retrospective 50 Years of Women’s Photography in Johannesburg Art Gallery South Africa Curated and edited by Prince Mbusi Dube Edited by Robin Comley, George Hallett My subjects are Africans because they are my people, but and Neo Ntsoma my message, the idea I am bringing to put across has nothing Introduction by Penny Siopis to do with racialism. —Dumile Feni This book celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the 1956 women’s march on the Union Buildings. It provides a Dumile Feni was one of Africa’s greatest twentieth century dramatic and unprecedented showcase of photographic artists – painter, sculptor, poet and nascent filmmaker too. He talent, from the early pioneers of social documentary, left South Africa in his mid-twenties, already successful as an including Anne Fischer and Constance Stuart Larrabee, to the artist, and lived in exile in London and New York, exhibiting challenging images created by women in South Africa today. his paintings and sculptures widely, in both solo and group As the struggle against apartheid gained momentum in exhibitions. Dumile travelled and exhibited in China, Nigeria, the 1970s and 1980s, women photographers recorded the the USA and the UK. His work often conveyed human drama unfolding across the land. More recently, women emotion – suffering and pain, including people contorted with have begun exploring a different aesthetic and developing a anguish, as well as great tenderness and dignity. His death in wide range of photographic practices in the worlds of exile was a great loss to African art and ill-timed, as he never fashion, journalism, documentary and advertising. returned to South Africa to experience its freedom. Commissioned by the Ministry of Arts and Culture, this This lavishly illustrated, full-colour book is the most publication is the first to recognise and promote the positive comprehensive collection of Dumile’s work to date. It honours contribution made by women to the art of photography and the artist’s work, sketches, paintings and sculptures, and the advancement of humanity in this country. Seventy-five provides intimate, quirky photographs of Dumile himself, photo graphers and almost 400 images are included. essays about him by great contemporary thinkers in the art world, poetry about him and poetry by him. Robin Comley is a freelance picture editor and photographic The work pays tribute to five periods of his life: Before consultant. George Hallett and Neo Ntsoma are award- Exile; the London Period, which represents a major turning winnin g photographers. point in his career; the USA Period, highlighting further development of his technique, including his sculpture; the Johannesburg Art Gallery Collection, which consists of over 100 of Dumile’s drawings and two bronze sculptures; and the Erotica period, which conveys his intense exploration of anatomy and sexuality.

Prince Mbusi Dube is the Education Curator at the Johannesbur g Art Gallery and also the Curator of the Dumile Feni Retrospec tive. 978 1 86814 441 9 (HB) 978 1 86814 442 6 (HB) 300 x 290 mm, 260 pp 300 x 240 mm, 248 pp With the Department Full colour, illustrated With the Johannesburg Full colour, illustrated of Arts and Culture 2006 Art Gallery 2006

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Dunga Manzi African Dream Machines Stirring Waters Style, Identity and Meaning

Edited by Nessa Leibhammer of African Headrests Anitra Nettleton Tsonga and Shangaan headrests, staffs, figures, puppets, medicine gourds, healers’ attire and snuff containers are African Dream Machines is a tour de force for Anitra some of the finest heritage objects this country has to offer. Nettleto n …. The breadth of focus in this book is astounding. They are the material record of a complex and dynamic —Robyn Sassen, Art South Africa period in South Africa’s past. Originating largely in Mozambique, and consolidating themselves in response to African Dream Machines takes African headrests out of the the mining industry and to the homeland policy of the category of functional objects and into the more rarefied apartheid government, Tsonga and Shangaan people category of ‘art’ objects. Styles in African headrests are mobilised in difficult political, economic and social usually defined in terms of western art and archaeological circumstances to form a distinct identity and artistic style. discourses, but this book interrogates these definitions of Dunga Manzi / Stirring Waters features Tsonga and style and demonstrates the shortcomings of defining a single Shangaan art, culture and heritage, and accompanies an formal style model as exclusive to a single ethnic group. exhibition of the same name at the Johannesburg Art Among the artefacts made by southern African peoples, Gallery. It tracks the history of these cultural groups through headrests were the best known. Anitra Nettleton’s study of essays and a wealth of images of material culture and art. the uses and forms of headrests opened up a number of art- Divided into four sections, the catalogue first highlights the historical methodologies in the attempt to gain histories of the Tsonga and Shangaan, including a personal understanding of form, style and content in African objects. narrative of the Makhubele family. The second explores the Her drawings of each and every headrest encountered magnificent beading tradition and the third, the complex became a major part of the project. legacy of woodcarving from the late nineteenth century to contemporary times. The historical trajectory, as well as the Anitra Nettleton is Professor in the Wits School of Arts, spectacular attire and equipment of sangomas, also known Univers ity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is as traditional healers and diviners, form the subject of the the 2006 winner of the University Research Committee fourth and last section. publicatio n award. This full-colour book showcases some of South Africa’s most treasured heritage, aiming to make readers aware of the high degree of artistic skill that exists in South Africa today – as it did in the past.

Nessa Leibhammer is a Professor in the Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

978 1 86814 449 5 (PB) 978 1 86814 458 7 (PB) 278 x 215 mm, 232 pp 245 x 170 mm, 488 pp With the Johannesburg Full colour, illustrated Illustrated Art Gallery 2007 2007

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS 49 ART | PHOTOGRAPHY ART | PHOTOGRAPHY

History after Apartheid Uplifting the Colonial Philistine Visual Culture and Public Memory in a Florence Phillips and the Making of the Democratic South Africa Johannesburg Art Gallery

Annie E Coombes Jillian Carman

The democratic election of Nelson Mandela as president of Carman ’s book represents a valuable addition to South South Africa in 1994 marked the demise of apartheid and African art history. Her coverage of the founding of the the beginning of a new struggle to define the nation’s past. Johannesburg Gallery is comprehensive and thorough … History after Apartheid analyses how, in the midst of the the book is beautifully illustrated. momentous shift to an inclusive democracy, South Africa’s —Paul Maylam, De Arte visual and material culture represented the past while at the same time contributing to the process of social Uplifting the Colonial Philistine is a thoroughly researched, transformation. Considering the attempts to invent and fascinating account of the unusual circumstances in which recover historical icons and narratives, art historian Annie E. early Johannesburg, then a budding mining town, came to Coombes examines how strategies for embodying different have an art gallery with one of the most avant-garde models of historical knowledge and experience are collections in the world. It describes the larger-than-life negotiated in public culture – in monuments, museums and characters who brought the Johannesburg Art Gallery to its contemporary fine art. grand launch in November 1910: Florence Phillips, wife of one History after Apartheid explores the dilemmas posed by of the Randlord patrons, and Hugh Lane, curator. Containing a wide range of visual and material culture including key 100 reproductions from the original catalogue, this book South African heritage sites. How prominent should Nelson unravels the complex intertwining of personal and socio- Mandela and the African National Congress be in the political agendas that made up the fabric of the founding. museum at the infamous political prison on Robben Island? How should the post-apartheid government deal with the Jillian Carman was a curator at the Johannesburg Art Voortrekker Monument mythologising the Boer Trek of Gallery for twenty years. In 2005 she received the University of the Witwatersrand Research Committee publication 1838? Coombes highlights the contradictory investment in award for this work. these sites among competing constituencies and the tensions involved in the rush to produce new histories for the ‘new’ South Africa.

Annie E Coombes is Professor and Director of Graduate Stud - ies in the School of History of Art, Film and Visual Media at Birkbeck College, University of London, United Kingdom.

978 1 86814 436 5 (PB) 1 86814 407 0 (PB) 230 x 170 mm, 480 pp With Duke University 230 x 155 mm, 384 pp Illustrated Press (US) 2004 2006

50 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS ART | PHOTOGRAPHY ART | PHOTOGRAPHY

District Six Revisited Portraits of African Writers

Photographs by George Hallett, Clarence Coulson, George Hallett Jackie Heyns, Wilfred Paulse and Gavin Jantjes Foreword by Keorapetse Kgositsile Edited by George Hallett and Peter McKenzie While printing these photographs of African writers – dating In the varied architectural landscape of District Six in Cape from the late sixties, through my years in exile and right up Town lived a close-knit community of artists, musicians, to the present – for this publication, I realised that I was writers, politicians, priests, sheikhs, workers, gangsters, retracin g a journey that originated in the fishing village of sportsmen, housewives and business people. Hout Bay, where I grew up in the fifties. My high school When, in February 1966, the National Party government Englis h teacher was Richard Rive, and he brought drama announced that District Six was to be razed to the ground in into the classroom. Walking around, constantly clutching order to make space for a new ‘white area’, the poet James a paperbac k by some renowned writer from Russia, Europe, Matthews suggested to George Hallett and Clarence the States and South Africa, seemed so cool and with it. … Coulson that they photograph the area before the This is not a catalogue of writers; rather a shared journey bulldozers came in. As young students of photography they with some and brief encounters with others, but always produced an intimate portrait of District Six under the inspire d by the printed word. guidance of Peter Clarke and Sakkie Misbach, who also —George Hallett provided Hallett with film for the project. In the 1960s, Jackie Heyns ran a weekly column in the This is a stunning collection of more than 100 portraits, in Golden City Post called ‘Aunt Sammy’s’, which he illustrated black and white, of writers from Africa and, in particular, with his own photographs. The columns – three of which are South Africa. The chronological arrangement reveals the reproduced here – were based on the real Aunty Sammy, a changing conditions and roles of writers from the 1960s to the shebeen owner living in District Six with her white husband present. While the early pictures were mostly taken in exile, and a rich source of local stories. there is a distinct shift as writers came back to South Africa in Gavin Jantjes was a student at Michaelis Art School who the early nineties. The most recent photographs were taken lived in District Six with his parents; his pictures were taken after the Pretoria Writers’ Conference in 2002, which provided during his wanderings in the area. landmark debates around the identity and role of writers Finally Wilfred Paulse , a freelance photographer, currently living in South Africa. A foreword by Keorapetse covered the district shortly before its destruction, along with ‘Willie’ Kgositsile reflects on the early times, while short texts the bleak new developments on the Cape Flats where most by some of the more recent writers reflect the diversity of of the inhabitants ended up against their will. views held by writers living in contemporary South Africa. District Six Revisited is set to become the definitive collection George Hallett is a Cape Town-based photographer who has of photographs of this vibrant suburb. It attempts to reconstruct exhibited internationally. the spirit of the place from important historic photographs, some of which are published here for the first time.

978 186814 452 5 (HB) 978 1 86814 386 3 270 x 260 mm, 112 pp 270 x 260 mm, 160 pp Black & white photography Black & white photography 2007 2006

WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS 51 POPULAR SCIENCE POPULAR SCIENCE

Riddles in Stone Stars of the Southern Skies Controversies, Theories and Myths An Astronomy Fieldguide

about Southern Africa’s Geological Past Edited by Mary Fitzgerald Hugh Eales Many fieldguides and popular books on amateur astronomy have been written, but few are devoted entirely to the rich This is science as story and research as adventure. If this skies of the southern hemisphere. book had been around when I started exploring my Stars of the Southern Skies draws on the knowledge of surroundin gs, I'd probably have ended up a geologist. South African experts to offer stargazers some unique —Don Pinnock, adventurer and natural history writer insights into the night skies in their half of the world. A practical chapter is devoted to choosing an instrument – Riddles in Stone covers a variety of fascinating controversies from binoculars to telescopes – with which to view the and startling differences of opinion that accompanied the moon, the planets and the stars. evolution of the study of Earth Sciences in southern Africa. The beauty and romance of the worlds around our world Over the centuries, debates have raged amongst geologists, and the myths that have been created around them are and between geologists and biologists, physicists and described in one chapter; comets and meteors are detailed theologians, on controversies such as the age of the Earth in another. A chapter is devoted to the Sun and Moon, a and its lifespan; the Apocalypse; Noah’s Flood as myth or chapter to the planets. A useful appendix details fact; Continental Drift; the origin of ore deposits of gold, observatories, societies and planetariums where star-lovers diamonds, copper and platinum; and Schwarz’s well- can pursue their interest. meaning but forgotten Kalahari Scheme. The text is complemented by superb illustrations – star This encyclopaedic book is the result of a lifetime’s charts, photographs and graphics – making it a visual work. Although scrupulously rooted in scientific literature, delight. This is a book for anybody who has ever gazed in it main tains an accessible and entertaining tone and shows wonder at the glory of a star-filled sky, a must for all how con sensus amongst a majority may be proof of nothing. budding amateur astronomers, and an interesting addition Geologists, challenged to interpret events that took place to the shelves of the experts. billions of years ago, often beneath the Earth’s surface, have drawn up theories and hypotheses which may appear either Mary Fitzgerald is a former Director of the Planetarium, absurdly dated or, from other perspectives, as cutting edge. Univers ity of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. The introduction of fresh ideas (as in the Plate Tectonic model) or new techniques (as in the dating of rocks using radioactive decay) can re-align the thrust of science, leading to the aban - donin g of traditional ideas and the embracing of new ones.

Hugh Eales is Professor Emeritus of Geology at Rhodes Univers ity, South Africa.

1 86814 410 0 (PB) Second edition 978 186814 447 (PB) 240 x 180 mm, 144 pp 245 x 190 mm, 432 pp Full colour, illustrated 2007 2005

52 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS NATURAL SCIENCES NATURAL SCIENCES

Adaptive Herbivore Ecology Elephant Management Student Edition A Scientific Assessment for South Africa From Resources to Populations in Variable Environments Edited by RJ Scholes and KG Mennell

Norman Owen-Smith Elephants are among the most magnificent – but also most problematic – members of South Africa's wildlife population. While they are sought after by South African and foreign The adaptation of herbivore behaviour is seasonal and tourists alike, they also have a major impact on their locational variations in vegetation quantity and quality is environment. As a result, elephant management has become inadequately modelled by conventional methods. Norman a highly complex and often controversial discipline. Owen-Smith innovatively links the principles of adaptive The information needed to underpin vital decisions behaviour to their consequences for population dynamics about elephant management has largely been unavailable to and community ecology, through the application of a decision-makers, contested by experts or simply unknown. metaphysiological modelling approach. As a result, the South African Minister for Environmental The main focus is on large mammalian herbivores Affairs and Tourism convened a round table to advise him on occupying seasonally variable environments such as those this issue. The round table recommended that a scientific characterised by African savannahs, but applications to assessment of elephant management be undertaken to temperate zone ungulates are also included. Issues of gather, evaluate and present all the relevant information on habitat suitability are similarly investigated. The modelling this topic. Its main findings and recommendations are approach accommodates various sources of environmental contained in this volume. variability, in space and time, in a simple conceptual way Elephant Management is the first book of its kind, and has the potential to be applied to other consumer- combining the work of more than 60 national and international resource systems. experts. Extensively reviewed by policy-makers and other Norman Owen-Smith is Research Professor in African Ecology stakeholders, it is the most systematic and comprehensive and heads the Centre for African Ecology at the University of review of savannah elephant populations and factors relevant the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. to managing them to date. As such it is of interest to a broad spectrum of readers in South Africa and elsewhere. Above all, it is aimed at helping conservation policy-makers and practitioners to choose the best possible options for the sustainable preservation of these iconic animals.

Bob Scholes is an ecologist at the South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). Kathleen Mennell is a Masters student in the Ecosystem Processes and Dynami cs Research Group at the CSIR.

1 86814 427 5 (PB) 978 1 86814 479 2 (PB) 230 x 150 mm, 374 pp 245 x 170 mm, 645 pp 2005 2008

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Fundamentals of Human Embryology A Student Manual

John Allan and Beverley Kramer

Fundamentals of Human Embryology covers embryonic development, with a unique focus on adult anatomy. Its goal is to impart to students a comprehensive overview of how the human embryo forms. Extensively illustrated with labelled line drawings, this concise manual will meet the needs of both undergraduate and postgraduate students in the Human Sciences.

John Allan is Emeritus Professor of Applied and Functional Anatomy and Beverley Kramer is Head of the School of Anatomical Sciences, both at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg.

978 186814 503 4 (PB) Second edition 295 x 210 mm, 256 pp October 2009

General Pathology Illustrated Lecture Notes

JJ Rippey

General Pathology covers the study of pathological or disease processes in general with particular reference to morphological changes. The book is designed for second- and third-year pathology students in the medical and paramedical fields. Topics covered include cell injury, death and necrosis, pigmentation, calcification, haemorrhage, shock and oedema.

John Rippey is a former Professor of Anatomical Pathology at of the South African Institute of Medical Research, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

1 86814 240 X (PB) Second Edition 243 x 169 mm, 364 pp 1994

Practical Anatomy The Human Body Dissected

Jules Kieser and John Allan

Practical Anatomy is a clearly written guide to dissection and an account of the biological, developmental and systematic foundations of human anatomy. The book is aimed at the second year medical, dental and physiotherapy student. It has built on the solid foundation of Professor Phillip Tobias’s Man ’s Anatomy , incorporating all the features unique to that work.

Jules Kieser is a Lecturer at the University of Otago Dental School in New Zealand. John Allan is Emeritus Profes - sor of Anatomy at the University of the Witwatersrand Medical School, Johannesburg.

1 86814 309 0 (PB) 297 x 210 mm, 416 pp 1999

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Molecular Medicine for Clinicians

Edited by Barry Mendelow, Michele Ramsay, Nanthakumarn Chetty and Wendy Stevens

I am sure that this book will enrich the understandings and professional competence of many students and clinicians, opening gates to research careers and to improved health care at both individual and population levels. As an education al tool, it has the potential to be associated with many life-changing ‘Damascus’ experiences, for teachers and students alike, a macroscopic catalyst for sub-microscopic (molecular) insights into the human condition. — Prof Wieland Gevers, Emeritus Professor of Medical Biochemistry, University of Cape Town and former President, South African Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

The insights following the wake of the Human Genome project are radically influencing our understanding of the molecular basis of life, health and disease. The improved accuracy and precision of clinical diagnostics is also beginning to have an impact on therapeutics in a fundamental way. This book is suitable for undergraduate medical students, as part of their basic sciences training, but is also relevant to interested under- and postgraduate science and engineering students. It serves as an introductory text for medical registrars in virtually all specialties, and is also of value to the General Practitioner wishing to keep up to date, especially in view of the growing, internet-assisted public knowledge of the field. 978 1 86814 465 5 (PB) There is a special focus on the application of molecular 280 x 210 mm, 518 pp medicine in Africa and in developing countries elsewhere. 2008

• Full colour • Highly illustrated Barry Mendelow is Emeritus Professor, Wendy Stevens is Head of the Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology, Michele Ramsay • Chapter summaries and conclusions is Head of the Molecular Genetics Laboratory, Division of Human • Topical keynote essays Genetic s and Nanthakumarn Chetty is Head of the Platelet Research • Colour-coded sections for easy navigation Unit in the Department of Molecular Medicine and Haematology in the • Source material and recommended reading Wits School of Pathology. All are at the University of the Witwatersrand, • Glossary Johannesburg and National Health Laboratory Service. • Comprehensive index • Suitable for medical students and qualified practitioners

Section 1: Principles of Cellular and Molecular Biology Section 2: Molecular Pathology Section 3: Molecular Therapeutics Section 4: Research and the Continuing Evolution of Molecular Medicine

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English-Zulu / Zulu-English Dictionary

CM Doke, DM Malcolm, JMA Sikakana, BW Vilakazi

This is the original and first Zulu-English dictionary to be developed in South Africa. The originators of the dictionary were all leading academics and writers. The development of the Zulu-English dictionary was begun in the 1940s by Wits University lecturers, CM Doke and BW Vilakazi. Vilakazi, who died in 1947, was the first published Zulu poet and his collection, Amal ’eZulu, is listed in the Top 100 African Books of the twentieth century. The English-Zulu dictionary was published in 1958 by Doke, Malcolm and Sikakana. The first combined edition of the two dictionaries (i.e. the present format) was published in 1990. The English-Zulu / Zulu English Dictionary is still the definitive dictionary in these languages. Various revisions have been undertaken over the years to bring the orthography up to date. A new preface was added in 1990. Written by Prof. J Khumalo, it provides an update to the phonological tone markings originally indicated by Vilakazi. 1 86814 160 8 (PB) 210 x 150 mm, 1608 pp 1990

Encounters An Anthology of South African Short Stories

Edited by David Medalie

Among the twenty contributors to this anthology are Nobel Laureate, Nadine Gordimer; the immortal chronicler of the Groot Marico, Herman Charles Bosman; award-winning authors Ivan Vladislavi c´, Ahmed Essop, Mandla Langa, Dan Jacobson, Miriam Tlali, Christopher Hope, Mbulelo Mzamane and Chris van Wyk; and the legendary icon of Drum Magazine , Can Themba. Compiled and introduced by David Medalie, this selection ranges across time, culture and style.

David Medalie lectures in the English Department at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

1 86814 325 2 (PB) 220 x 150 mm, 272 pp 1998

South Africa at Work Applying Psychology to the Workplace

James Fisher, Lesley-Anne Katz, Karin Miller, Andrew Thatcher

South Africa at Work highlights some of the core issues that shape South Africa’s contemporary working environment, and shows how an understanding of psychology can assist managers in the effective running of organisations and the promotion of effective employee relations. South Africa at Work will help both managers and students understand the real-life complexities of organisational life in South Africa.

James Fisher is a Professor of Psychology and Lesley-Anne Katz , Karin Miller and Andrew Thatcher are all Lecturers in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

1 86814 381 3 (PB) 240 x 170 mm, 224 pp 2003

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Business Accounting and Finance for Managers An Introduction

Colin Hartley, John Ford and Colin Firer

An easy-to-read, integrated approach to accounting and finance which dispels much of the mystique surrounding these subjects aimed at students and non-financial managers. The updated sixth edition incorporates changes in legislation and in attitudes towards financial analysis, the interpretation of annual accounts and the use of financial rations, as well as chapters on the financial planning process, the cost of capital and risk analysis.

Colin Hartley is a chartered accountant and cost management accountant. Colin Firer is Academic Director of the Graduate School of Business and Len Abrahamse Chair of Business Administration in Finance at the University of Cape Town. John Ford is a Lecturer at the Gordon Institute of Business Science. 1 86814 429 1 (PB) Fifth Edition 214 x 150 mm, 300 pp 2005

Biology Skills Second Edition

Debbie Osberg

Using the topic of biodiversity as background content, Biology Skills is designed to teach the most important techniques required for a science degree, enabling the student to learn new techniques at the same time as revising the course work. Designed in the form of a handy workbook, Biology Skills is interactive and flexible enough to be used by students in their own study groups or in more formal tutorial groups with the guidance of a tutor.

Debbie Osberg is based at the General College of Science at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

1 86814 327 9 (PB) 297 x 210 mm, 256 pp 1997

Introduction to Engineering Graphics A Drawing Workbook

Errol van der Merwe and Charles Potter

Engineering Graphics forms part of every engineer’s training. This interactive workbook for the beginner engineer has developed out of internationally acclaimed research on spatial perception methodology, and is written to the requirements of the National Qualifications Framework.

Errol van der Merwe is a Lecturer in the School of Mechanical Engineering and Charles Potter is Associate Professor of Psychology, both at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

1 86814 335 X (PB) 297 x 210 mm, 304 pp 2000

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After Colonialism Art Routes At the Junction Between Anger and Hope African Postmodernism A Guide to South African Four Plays by The Junction South Africa’s Youth and and Magical Realism Art Collections Avenue Theatre Company the Truth and Reconcilia - Gerald Gaylard Edited by Rochelle Keene and Edited and Introduced tion Commission Rayda Becker by Martin Orkin Edited by Karin Chubb and Lutz van Dijk

978 1 86814 424 2 (PB) 1 86814 349 X (PB) 1 86814 264 7 (PB) 1 86814 363 5 (PB) 2006 2000 1995 2001

Bleakness and Light Book of Songs Boy from Bethulie Caught Behind Inner-City Transition in Shabbir Banoobhai An Autobiography Race and Politics in Hillbrow, Johannesburg Springbok Cricket Photographs by John Cleare Patrick Mynhardt Alan Morris Bruce Murray and Christopher Merrett

1 86914 054 0 (PB) 1 86814 333 3 (PB) 1 86814 398 8 (PB) 1 86814 397 X (PB) 2004 1999 2005 2003 With University of KwaZulu- Natal Press (SA)

Celebrating Bosman Change of Pace Commissioning the Past Crime Wave A Centenary Selection South Africa’s Economic Understanding South The South African of Herman Charles Revival Africa’s Truth and Recon - Underworld and its Foes Bosman’s Stories Cees Bruggemans ciliation Commission Edited by Johnny Steinberg Compiled by Patrick Mynhardt Edited by Deborah Posel and Graeme Simpson

1 86814 416 X (PB) 1 86814 384 8 (PB) 1 86814 358 9 (PB) 1 86814 368 6 (PB) 2004 2003 2002 2001

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Culture and Commonplace Ethnic Pride and Racial From Africa to Gaining Ground? Anthropological Essays Prejudice in Victorian Afghanistan: Rights and Property in in Honour of David Cape Town With Richards and NATO South African Land Reform Hammond-Tooke Group Identity and Social to Kabul Practice 1875-1902 Deborah James Edited by Patrick McAllister Greg Mills Vivian Bickford-Smith Foreword by Rory Stewart

1 86814 289 2 (PB) 1 86814 326 0 (PB) 1995 978 1 86814 450 1 (PB) 978 1 86814 450 1 (PB) 1998 With Cambridge Universi ty 2007 2007 Press (UK)

Gandhi’s Johannesburg Hyperactivity and ADD Improving Teaching and Law and Sacrifice Birthplace of Satyagraha Caring and Coping Learning Towards a Post-apartheid Eric Itzkin Heather Picton Edited by Sinfree Makoni Theory of Law Johan van der Walt

1 86814 433 X (PB) 1 86814 361 9 (PB) 1 86814 383 X (PB) 1 86814 350 3 (PB) 2006 2000 2005 (Third Edition) 2000 With Birkbeck Law Press (UK)

Material Matters The Mfecane Aftermath Our Gendered Past Papwa Sewgolum Appliqués by the Weya Reconstructive Debates in Archaeological Studies of From Pariah to Legend Women of Zimbabwe and Southern African History Gender in Southern Africa Christopher Nicholson Needlework by South Edited by Carolyn Hamilton Edited by Lynn Wadley African Collectives Edited by Brenda Schmahmann

1 86814 352 X (PB) 1 86814 252 3 (PB) 1 86814 320 1 (PB) 1 86814 411 9 (PB) 2000 1995 1997 2005

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Permanent Removal The Portable Bunyan The Security Intersection Seeking Mandela Who Killed the Cradock A Transnational History of The Paradox of Power in Peacemaking between Four? The Pilgrim’s Progress an Age of Terror Israelis and Palestinians Christopher Nicholson Isabel Hofmeyr Greg Mills Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley

1 86814 426 7 (PB) 1 86814 403 8 (PB) 2005 1 86814 401 1 (PB) With Princeton University 1 86814 412 7 (PB) With Temple University 2004 Press (US) 2004 Press (US)

Sol Plaatje Still Beating the Drum Theatres of Struggle and Untold Stories Selected Writings Critical Perspectives on the End of Apartheid Economics and Business Edited by Brian Willan Lewis Nkosi Belinda Bozzoli Journalism in African Edited by Liz Gunner and Lindy Media Stiebel Edited by Peter Kariethi and 1 86814 406 2 (PB) Nixon Kariithi 1 86814 303 1 (PB) 978 1 86184 435 8 (PB) 2004 1996 2006 With Edinburgh University 1 86814 414 3 (PB) With Ohio University With Rodopi (The Netherlands) Press (UK) 2005 Press (US)

Wits Worlds of Power Young Warriors Youth2Youth The ‘Open’ Years Religious Thought and Youth Politics, 30 Years after Soweto ’76 Bruce Murray Political Practice in Africa Identity and Violence Edited by George Hallett Stephen Ellis and Gerrie ter in South Africa Haar Monique Marks

978 1 86814 438 9 (PB) 1 86814 405 4 (PB) 2006 1 86814 314 7 (PB) 2004 1 86814 370 8 (PB) With the Department of Arts 1997 With Christopher Hurst (UK) 2001 and Culture

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978 1 86814 501 0 Abantu Besizwe Mqhayi 220.00 32.95 43 1 86814 427 5 Adaptive Herbivore Ecology Owen-Smith 250.00 39.95 53 978 1 86814 432 7 Africa on the Move Tienda et al (Eds) 210.00 32.95 8 978 1 86814 472 3 Africa Writes Back Currey 190.00 34 978 1 86814 458 7 African Dream Machines Nettleton 240.00 39.95 49 978 1 86814 483 9 African Security Governance Cawthra (Ed.) 220.00 31 1 86814 424 0 After Colonialism Gaylard 210.00 37.95 58 978 1 86814 480 8 Alexandra: A History Bonner, Nieftagodien 190.00 39.95 25 978 1 86814 460 0 Ambiguities of Witnessing Sanders 220.00 12 978 1 86814 462 4 Animal Gaze, The Woodward 220.00 34.95 34 1 86814 349 X Art Routes Keene, Becker (Eds) 175.00 49.95 58 1 86814 264 7 At the Junction Junction Avenue Theatre Company 95.00 49.95 58 978 1 86814 493 8 At this Stage Homann (Ed.) 180.00 29.95 36 978 1 86814 446 4 Bessie Head: Thunder Behind Her Ears Eilersen 220.00 34.95 18 1 86814 363 5 Between Anger and Hope Chubb, van Dijk 160.00 24.95 58 978 1 86814 425 9 Big African States Clapham, Herbst, Mills (Eds) 210.00 34.95 4 1 86814 327 9 Biology Skills Osberg 210.00 19.95 57 1 86814 333 3 Bleakness and Light Morris 190.00 34.95 58 978 1 86814 467 9 Boiling Point Joubert 190.00 34.95 14 1 86814 398 8 Book of Songs Banoobhai 150.00 24.95 58 1 86814 397 X Boy from Bethulie Mynhardt 190.00 39.95 58 978 1 86814 489 1 Bury me at the Marketplace Manganyi, Attwell (Eds) 220.00 34.95 32 1 86814 429 1 Business Accounting and Finance Hartley, Firer, Ford 220.00 57 978 1 86184 448 8 Butterflies and Barbarians Harries 220.00 27 978 1 86814 423 5 Buttons and Breakfasts Orr et al (Eds) 210.00 29.95 47 1 86914 054 0 Caught Behind Murray, Merrett 180.00 58 1 86814 416 X Celebrating Bosman Mynhardt (Ed.) 140.00 24.95 58 1 86814 384 8 Change of Pace Bruggemans 210.00 29.95 58 0 81955 273 9 Children of Bondage Shell 180.00 24 1 86814 388 0 Closest of Strangers, The Coullie (Ed.) 210.00 29.95 46 1 86814 358 9 Commissioning the Past Posel, Simpson (Eds) 210.00 29.95 58 978 1 86814 456 3 Composing Apartheid Olwage (Ed.) 220.00 34.95 35 978 1 86814 494 5 Contradicting Maternity Long 220.00 34.95 17 1 86814 368 6 Crime Wave Steinberg (Ed.) 170.00 24.95 58 1 86814 326 0 Culture and the Commonplace McAllister (Ed.) 140.00 59 1 86814 399 6 Customs and Beliefs of the /Xam Bushmen Hollmann (Ed.) 275.00 26 978 1 86814 468 6 Decolonization and Empire Saul 220.00 16 978 1 86814 452 5 District Six Revisited Hallett et al (Eds) 290.00 49.95 51 978 1 86814 445 7 Do South Africans Exist? Chipkin 210.00 32.95 12 978 1 86814 442 6 Dumile Feni Retrospective Dube (Ed.) 400.00 79.95 48 978 1 86814 449 5 Dunga Manzi Leibhammer (Ed.) 290.00 48.95 49 978 1 86814 498 3 Eland’s People, The Smith (Ed.) 250.00 39.95 29

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WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS 61 INDEX

ISBN Title Author(s) SA Price Intl Price Page (ZAR) (US$)

978 1 86814 479 2 Elephant Management Scholes, Mennell (Eds) 490.00 79.95 53 1 86814 325 2 Encounters Medalie (Ed.) 140.00 56 1 86814 160 8 English-Zulu / Zulu-English Dictionary Doke et al 250.00 44.95 56 978 1 86814 476 1 Entanglement Nuttall 220.00 34.95 11 1 86814 289 2 Ethnic Pride and Racial Prejudice Bickford-Smith 140.00 59 978 1 86814 499 0 First Ethiopians, The van Wyk Smith 240.00 39.95 9 978 1 86814 474 7 Five Hundred Years Rediscovered Swanepoel, Esterhuysen, 250.00 39.95 23 Bonner (Eds.) 1 86814 377 5 Fools, Bells and the Habit of Eating Mda 140.00 24.95 40 978 1 86814 469 3 Fred de Vries Interviews, The de Vries 190.00 34.95 35 978 1 86814 450 1 From Africa to Afghanistan Mills 210.00 34.95 59 1 86814 417 8 From Tools to Symbols (PB) d’Errico, Backwell (Eds.) 270.00 39.95 27 1 86814 434 8 From Tools to Symbols (HB) d’Errico, Backwell (Eds.) 295.00 59.95 27 978 1 86814 503 4 Fundamentals of Human Embryology 2 nd ed Allan, Kramer 270.00 39.95 54 978 1 86814 443 3 Gaining Ground? James 210.00 59 1 86814 361 9 Gandhi’s Johannesburg Itzkin 190.00 29.95 59 978 1 86814 471 6 Gangs, Politics and Dignity Jensen 220.00 13 1 86814 240 X General Pathology Rippey 190.00 19.95 54 1 86814 400 3 Gerard Sekoto: ‘I am an African’ Manganyi 240.00 39.95 18 978 1 86814 487 7 Go Home or Die Here Hassim, Kupe, Worby (Eds) 170.00 34.95 6 1 86814 407 0 History after Apartheid Coombes 220.00 50 978 1 86814 455 6 Humanitarian Hangover, The Landau 220.00 34.95 8 1 86814 383 X Hyperactivity and ADD Picton 180.00 24.95 59 978 1 86814 492 1 Imagination of Freedom, The Foley 220.00 34.95 33 1 86814 413 5 Imaginative Trespasser Cullinan 210.00 34.95 18 1 86814 350 3 Improving Teaching and Learning Makoni 175.00 59 1 77010 015 6 Into the Past Tobias 180.00 20 1 86814 335 X Introduction to Engineering Graphics van der Merwe, Potter 240.00 24.95 57 978 1 86814 478 5 Invaded Joubert 295.00 49.95 15 978 1 86814 485 3 Investment Choices for South African Bloch et al (Eds) 190.00 34.95 41 Education 978 1 86814 473 0 Johannesburg Nuttall, Mbembe (Eds) 220.00 10 1 86814 433 X Law and Sacrifice van der Walt 210.00 59 1 86814 354 6 Love, Crime and Johannesburg Junction Avenue Theatre Company 75.00 39.95 38 1 86814 408 9 Mapungubwe Huffman 110.00 19.95 22 1 86814 352 X Material Matters Schmahmann (Ed.) 175.00 34.95 59 978 1 86814 502 7 Mbeki and After Glaser (Ed.) 220.00 34.95 2 1 86814 252 3 Mfecane Aftermath, The Hamilton (Ed.) 250.00 34.95 59 978 1 86814 465 5 Molecular Medicine for Clinicians Mendelow et al (Eds) 490.00 79.95 55 978 1 86814 475 4 Mourning Becomes … Stanley 220.00 13 1 86814 117 9 My Children! My Africa! Fugard 75.00 40 978 1 86814 287 3 My Life and Valley Song Fugard 75.00 40

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62 WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS INDEX

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978 1 86814 451 8 Nation’s Bounty, The Opland (Ed.) 210.00 32.95 42 978 1 86814 389 4 Nothing but the Truth Kani 95.00 19.95 39 978 1 77030 317 1 Nothing but the Truth (Scholar’s Edition) Kani 79.95 39 978 1 86814 500 3 Origins of Non-Racialism, The Everatt 220.00 34.95 5 1 86814 320 1 Our Gendered Past Wadley (Ed.) 175.00 34.95 59 978 1 86814 491 4 Paper Wars Allan (Ed.) 190.00 34.95 3 1 86814 411 9 Papwa Sewgolum Nicholson 190.00 29.95 59 978 1 86814 390 0 Paradise, the Castle and the Vineyard Lenta (Ed.) 210.00 34.95 46 978 1 86814 497 6 People of the Eland Vinnicombe 450.00 80.00 28 1 86814 401 1 Permanent Removal Nicholson 190.00 29.95 60 978 1 86814 481 5 Politics of Service Delivery, The Mc Lennan, Munslow (Eds) 220.00 34.95 31 1 86814 403 8 Portable Bunyan, The Hofmeyr 210.00 60 978 1 86814 386 3 Portraits of African Writers Hallett 290.00 44.95 51 1 86814 309 0 Practical Anatomy Kieser, Allan 290.00 39.95 54 978 1 86814 447 1 Riddles in Stone Eales 220.00 39.95 52 978 1 86814 488 4 Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus Crais, Scully 250.00 19 978 1 86814 437 2 Scorched Joubert 190.00 29.95 14 978 1 86814 444 0 Scots in South Africa, The MacKenzie, Dalziel 220.00 24 978 1 86814 418 1 Search for Origins, A Bonner, Esterhuysen, Jenkins (Eds) 280.00 49.95 21 978 1 86814 453 2 Security and Democracy in Southern Africa Cawthra, Du Pisani, Omari (Eds) 220.00 39.95 30 1 86814 412 7 Security Intersection, The Mills 210.00 29.95 60 1 86814 426 7 Seeking Mandela Adam, Moodley 210.00 60 978 1 86814 484 6 Selecting Immigrants Peberdy 220.00 34.95 7 978 1 86814 454 9 Shakti Diesel (Ed.) 190.00 32.95 47 1 86814 303 1 Sol Plaatje: Selected Writings Willan (Ed.) 210.00 60 1 86814 236 1 Sophiatown Junction Avenue Theatre Company 75.00 19.95 38 1 86814 385 6 Sorrows and Rejoicings Fugard 95.00 40 1 86814 381 3 South Africa at Work Fisher et al 210.00 29.95 56 1 86814 351 1 Stars of the Southern Skies Fitzgerald 190.00 39.95 52 1 86814 419 4 State of the State, The Picard 210.00 34.95 30 978 1 86814 421 1 Sterkfontein Esterhuysen 110.00 19.95 22 978 1 86814 504 1 iSterkfontein Esterhuysen 110.00 22 978 1 86814 435 8 Still Beating the Drum Stiebel, Gunner (Eds) 210.00 60 978 1 86814 470 9 Structure, Meaning and Ritual Hewitt 220.00 39.95 26 1 86814 406 2 Theatres of Struggle Bozzoli 220.00 60

978 1 86814 477 8 Tobias in Conversation Tobias, Štrkalj, Dugard 190.00 34.95 20 978 1 86814 409 9 Tracks in a Mountain Range Wright, Mazel 190.00 32.95 21 1 86814 415 1 Tshepang Foot Newton 95.00 39 1 86814 414 3 Untold Stories Kariithi, Kareithi (Eds) 190.00 29.95 60 978 1 86814 436 5 Uplifting the Colonial Philistine Carman 210.00 34.95 50 978 1 86814 457 0 War Against Ourselves, The Cock 210.00 34.95 16

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WITS UNIVERSITY PRESS 63 INDEX

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978 1 86814 464 8 We Write What We Like Van Wyk (Ed.) 190.00 4 1 86814 314 7 Wits: The ‘Open’ Years Murray 140.00 29.95 60 978 1 86814 441 9 Women by Women Comley et al (Eds) 400.00 60.00 48 978 1 86814 459 4 Women Writing Africa: Lihamba et al (Eds) 250.00 44 The Eastern Region 978 1 86814 490 7 Women Writing Africa: Sadiqi et al (Eds) 250.00 45 The Northern Region 1 86814 394 5 Women Writing Africa: Daymond et al (Eds) 250.00 44 The Southern Region 1 86814 428 3 Women Writing Africa: Sutherland-Addy, Diaw (Eds) 250.00 44 West Africa and the Sahel 1 86814 405 4 Worlds of Power Ellis, Ter Haar 210.00 60 1 86814 370 8 Young Warriors Marks 175.00 24.95 60 978 1 86814 438 9 Youth2Youth Hallett (Ed.) 190.00 24.95 60 978 1 86814 496 9 Zulu Love Letter Peterson, Suleiman 180.00 29.95 37 978 186814 505 8 Zulu Love Letter (with DVD) Peterson, Suleiman 300.00 37

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