This collection of 26 new short stories by well-known as well as new South African writers focuses on the world of young people entering adulthood amidst the wide-ranging changes in South Africa in the 1990s. The stories range from serious to light-hearted, some dealing with politics, others with personal experiences like being in love. Together the stories portray a wide variety of the experiences of young people before, during, and after the crucial elections of April 1994. The stories are organized chronologically according to the time in which they are set.

Crossing over: New Writing for a New South Africa

Linda Rode

Reference

Kwela Books

In the course of 27 short chapters, Linda Fortune draws a vivid picture of a place, time and lifestyle that no longer exist. This book never gets bogged down in politics. Instead, it succeeds in recreating a specific time and specific place with its focus firstly on one family in particular, warts and all. A bigger picture also emerges, that of a whole community: people teachers, shop-keepers, barbers, entertainers and specific places movie-houses, shops, streets and lanes still recalled by many who lived there. Eighteen black and white photographs by photographers such as Cloete Breytenbach, J H Greshoff, George Hallet and Noor Ebrahim, and family snapshots from Linda s own collection, adds to the value of The House in Tyne Street as a recreation of and testament to the District.

The House in Tyne Street: Childhood Memories of District Six

Biographies & Memoirs

Fortune, Linda

Memoirs

Tremors of the jungle

Kayira, BMC

Set in the desolate landscape of the interior of the Cape in the late eighteenth century, Eyes of the Sky is a South African saga about identity, betrayal, forbidden love, and the coming together of diverse cultures vying for the scant resources of an arid land. The novel takes us into the hearts of the early people of the Cape - the settlers who had to be rough and tough to bend the wilderness to their will, and the brown-skinned people who found themselves "almost pushed off teh end of the earth".

Eyes of the Sky

Literature & Fiction

Jacobs, Rayda

Contemporary

Kafka's curse: A novella & three other stories

Dangor, Achmat

This book pays tribute to the women who have made South African music great. In the introduction, musicologist Lara Allen gives a history of black South African women singers over the last hundred years. Informal interviews with singers grant insight into the private world of the performers at a time when it was not socially acceptable for women to be entertainers and the political situation made it extremely difficult for black musicians to perform. The singers featured include Dolly Rathebe, Miriam Makeba, Letta Mbulu, Thandie Klaasen, Yvonne Chaka Chaka and Brenda Fassie.

A Common Hunger to Sing: Tribute to South Africa's Black Women of Song 1950-1990

Molefe, Z B.

Mzileni, Mike

Arts & Literature

Teaching Creative Dance: A Handbook

Arts & Photography

Sharon Friedman

Jennifer van Papendorp

Performing Arts

The stories of violence, heartache, hope and humanity in South Africa's transitional years are often told through photographs. This book includes many of the images captured through the lens of Ken Oosterbroek's camera before the elections of 1994.

The Invisible Line: Life And Photography of Ken Oosterbroek

Nicol, Michael

Individual Artists

Wilfred Cibane grew up in rural Zululand, ran away to Durban to make his fortune, and then fled to London to avoid the regulations of Apartheid. With the coming of democracy, he has returned to his native South Africa.'

Man of two worlds: An autobiography

Cibane, Wilfred

The Slave Book

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

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