, 120 pages, with black & white illustrations throughout

The mantis and the moon: Stories for the children of Africa

Poland, Marguerite

Ravan

To Kill A Mans Pride: And Other Stories From S. Africa

Literature & Fiction

Hodge, Norman

History & Criticism

Surplus People: Forced Removals In South Africa

Politics & Social Sciences

Platzky, Laurine

Social Sciences

Place In City: People'S History Of South Africa, Volume 3

History

Callinicos, Luli

Africa

Most South Africans don’t have the faintest idea what happened at Codesa, or is happening at subsequent multiparty negotiations. Plenaries, working groups, subgroups, independent election commissions, transitional executive councils, government of national unity… it’s incomprehensible to almost everyone who hasn’t been involved, and probably quite a few who have. The Long Journey — South Africa’s Quest for a Negotiated Settlement seeks to penetrate the fog. Written by a team of analysts associated with the Johannesburg-based Centre for Policy Studies, it outlines events that led up to constitutional negotiations, recounts the history of Codesa and its aftermath, and, most important, attempts to draw out the implications for our political future. This work is remarkable because it is both very comprehensive and very clear. It examines the workings of Codesa in great depth; there are detailed accounts of closed proceedings within the four working groups, based on interviews with prominent participants and confidential records of proceedings It graphically recounts events after Codesa’s collapse, and the processes which led the parties back to the negotiating table. In mapping out the most probable political development paths, its clarifies the options open to the parties involved in negotiations and likely to govern South Africa in future. However, all this is presented in refreshingly pity and easily assimilable prose. The themes identified by The Long Journey will remain vital to the country’s future into the next decade. It is richly illustrated with photographs, which in themselves provide a valuable record of this period.

Long Journey: South Africa'S Quest For A Negotiated Settlement

Friedman, Steven

A burning house. Nsato the python. The symbols of destruction and of sexual power gone mad are two of the many and varied themes in Es'kia Mphahlele's second novel, originally published in 1979.Chimba Chirundu, ex-schoolmaster and now Minister of Transport and Public Works in a newly-independent African country, is brought to trial on a charge of bigamy laid by his wife Tirenje. Arrogant and power-hungry, wilful and morally ambiguous, Chirundu has to grapple with two sets of values: those of the traditional way of life in Africa, and those imposed by his country's erstwhile colonial rulers.A chorus of other voices illuminate this powerful story of corruption and conflict: Tirenje, Chirundu's country wife, whose moral strength derives from her rural roots; the worldly Monde, his town wife; Moyo, his idealistic nephew and the leader of a strike by transport workers; and the cynical Pitso and Letanka, jailed South African refugees.In often pungent language, and in an unmistakeably African idiom, Es'kia Mphahlele reveals the complexities and ambiguities of the post-colonial situation.

Chirundu

Mphahlele, Es'Kia

United States

Youth are more talked about than listened to or understood. Black youth, in particular, have become a modern South African bogey, presented as an uncontrollable and unpredictable factor that might destroy the process of transition and reconstruction. Since the 1980s youth have been alternately presented as the 'Young Lions' or the 'Lost Generation'. In neither case were they merely people - emerging adults, still beset by the self-consciousness and awkwardness of teenagers, while also citizens of a society in transition, aware of and buffeted by the waves of political change sweeping the country. Creating a Future sets out the parameters of youth development and its guiding principles and strategic recommendations, which were adopted by the second National Conference on Marginalised Youth and the National Youth Development Forum. The key issues dealt with are: AIDS, education and its relationship to the world of work, employment creation, and violence and the broad social context. Two continental comparative chapters analyse the brigades of Botswana and youth development initiatives in Kenya and Uganda. Creating a Future is part of a multi-faceted youth research project undertaken by the Community Agency for Social Enquiry (CASE), and commissioned by the Joint Enrichment Project (JEP). Creating a Future is essential reading for young people themselves, people concerned about youth, and those interested in the broader issues of development.

Creating A Future: Youth Policy For South Africa

Everatt, David

Jurgen has edited and published several photographic books including "The Finest Photos from the Old Drum", "The Fifties People of South Africa", "Mandela & The Rise of the ANC", "Voices from Robben Island", "Sof'town Blues", and three new books in 2002 "The Black & White Fifties", "The San of the Kalahari" & "Soweto Today". "Witness - 52 years of pointing lenses at Life" was published in 2004 and in 2006 "Voices from the Land" . In 2007 he published "Jazz, Swing & Blues - 56 years of SA Jazz" and "Tales from Jozi - new colour work of Johannesburg today. Together with his producer wife Claudia Jurgen established The Schadeberg Movie Company to produce a series of some 15 documentaries about South African social, cultural and political history. Jurgen Schadeberg, sometimes known as "The Father of South African Photography", is a principle figure in South African and World Photography. His major body of work, which spans 60 years and incorporates a collection of some 100,000 negatives, captures a wealth of timeless and iconic images.

Voices From Robben Island

Schadeberg, Jürgen

Who's Who in South African Politics, No. 5

Biographies & Memoirs

Gastrow, Shelagh

Community & Culture

Mzala - as the name implies - is everybody's cousin. He is the country boy who comes to town - to the bright lights of Jo'burg, and the dark, dangerous streets of the city's black townships.In an environment where only the strong survive, he adapts at a pace which first astounds and then alarms his relatives. Robust, strong and cunning, he is more than a match for his adversaries - and less than a blessing to his friends.Mzamane's evocation of township experience is richly comic, but shot through with an underlying seriousness that gives a penetrating insight into the life of South Africa's shadow cities.

Mzala: Ravan Writers Series

Mzamane, Mbulelo

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