When a Crocodile Eats the Sun

Biographies & Memoirs

Peter Godwin

Professionals & Academics

Picador Africa

Mr. Cohen tells how crime is the one big growth area in South Africa 10 years after apartheid. His does a study of 2 businesses on Jules Street. He tells how the new 2 owners have to use humor, cunning and salesmen's instincts to counter the criminals who threaten their business and lives.

People Who Have Stolen From Me

DAVID COHEN

Shirley, Goodness & Mercy: A Childhood Memoir

Chris van Wyk

"When Alexandra 'Bo' Fuller returns to her parents' farm in Zambia, she meets their charismatic neighbor, 'K', a hauntingly beautiful creature with a violent talent for survival. Helplessly fascinated by this man of extremes, she becomes enmeshed in the stories of his life and recklessly curious about his scars, both physical and emotional. Bo and K embark on a journey together, each searching for the answers that might offer some kind of relief from the constant sting of their shared history. This is their story - an exploration of life and death and the fear of living and dying and the difficulty of separating love and judgement from passion and duty.

Scribbling the Cat

Fuller, Alexandra

I Write What I Like

History

Steve Biko

Africa

First published in 1959, Down Second Avenue is Nobel Prize nominee Es'kia Mphahlele's autobiography of his South African childhood and his struggle against discrimination. The memoir tells of Es'kia's childhood in Maupaneng, a small village outside Pietersburg, and Marabastad, a location in Pretoria. Here he showed academic promise. This resulted in a career as a teacher. After a number of years, though, he was barred from teaching because of his vocal opposition to the segregation and discrimination occurring in schools. Mphahlele then worked for Drum magazine in various capacities. The biography culminates in his exile from South Africa in 1957.Down Second Avenue is Mphahlele's personal account of his struggle for identity and dignity in the face of the growing discriminatory policies of the South African government. It is a compelling mix of humour and pathos.Es'ka Mphahlele was born in 1919. He qualified as a teacher at Adam's College in Natal, and from 1945-1952 taught at Orlando High School. He later joined the staff of Drum magazine. Meanwhile, he continued to study part-time and in 1956 was awarded his master's degree by the University of South Africa.In 1957 he left South Africa and would remain in exile until 1977. He lived in Nigeria, Paris and the USA and lectured at various universities as well as serving as director of Congress of Cultural Freedom in Paris. He received a Ph.D. at the University of Denver. After returning to South Africa, Mphahlele joined the University of the Witwatersrand as professor of African Literature. He retired in 1987.Mphahlele was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novel "The Wanderers" (1968).

Down Second Avenue

Ezekiel Mphahlele

Es'kia Mphahlele

Mukiwa

Literature & Fiction

Essays & Correspondence

Focuses on the first 40 years of author's life: from his troubled childhood in Durban and Bloemfontein to his intense student days at Wits University and the prolific research, correspondence and travels of his early career. He recounts his role in the fight against racism during the harrowing decades of South Africa's apartheid regime.

Into the Past

Phillip V. Tobias

The Power of Governance: Enhancing the Performance of State-Owned Enterprises

Reuel J. Khoza

In 1962, at the age of five, Chris van Wyk went to school for the first time. Within days he learned to recite Psalm 23. Bursting with pride, he rushed home to show off his newly acquired knowledge to his mother, Shirley. She was so taken was she with his accomplished delivery, she burst into fits of laughter. Soon others were accorded the privilege of listening to himagain and again. And every time they responded as his mother had. So he carried on Shirley, goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. The malapropism aptly reflects the tone of this heartwarming childhood memoir.

Van Wyk, Chris

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