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Highlights currently in stock


  • Albert Luthuli
    Let My People Go
    - Tafelberg
    - ISBN: 0624044408
    Price (South African Rands, incl. VAT, excl. postage): R160.00
    Let My People Go bears witness to Luthuli's unfailing humility, perseverance, and passionate commitment to the values of nonracialism and nonsexism. This Nobel Prize Winner's vision, crucial to the shaping of the South Adrica we live in today, continues to move and inspire.
  • Njabulo S. Ndebele
    Fine Lines from the Box
    - Random House
    Price (South African Rands, incl. VAT, excl. postage): R175.00
    This collection challenges, entreats, cajoles and prods one into understanding a range of issues - the loss of innocence in achieving a 'new South Africa', the President and the AIDS question, higher education and the liberal tradition, the place of English in modern South Africa, that African icon Brenda Fassie, the vagaries of journalism, and the time in the life of a country when the oppressed must free the oppressor. Covering a span of eighteen years from 1987 to 2006, these pieces cut to the nation's quick. They provide a sane view of our recent past and explain much about what often seems to be a baffling present. Njabulo S. Ndebele has been vice-chancellor of the University of Cape Town since July 2000.
  • Johann Broodryk
    Understanding South Africa
    - uBuntu School of Philosophy
    - ISBN: 0620379715
    Price (South African Rands, incl. VAT, excl. postage): R219.45
    In this exciting and informative book uBuntu (the Zulu word for humanness) is exposed as a unique life style, an understanding and application of which could contribute to better intercultural human relations and even the creation of a new global moral order!
  • Paul Kivel
    Uprooting Racism
    - New Society
    - ISBN: 0865714592
    Price (South African Rands, incl. VAT, excl. postage): R237.00
    Uprooting Racism is a uniquely sensitive, wise, practical guide for the white people, especially those in the United States, struggling with their feelings about race. Howard Zinn, author of A People’s History of the United States.
  • Terry Crawford-Browne
    Eye on the Money
    - Umuzi
    - ISBN: 1415200211
    Price (South African Rands, incl. VAT, excl. postage): R175.00
    With considerable courage, the man who acted for Archbishop Desmond Tutu during the banking sanctions campaign of the 1980s has taken on the post-apartheid government for its betrayal of the struggle against apartheid. In a poignant, telling account he describes the ANC’s slide from the moral high ground of the sanctions campaign to the corrupted lowlands where weapons of war are traded, as he challenges their integrity when awarding major South African Arms contracts.
  • Tom Lodge
    Mandela - A Critical Life
    - Oxford University Press
    - ISBN: 0192805681
    Price (South African Rands, incl. VAT, excl. postage): R220.00
    ‘Unquestionably the most analytically incisive and discerning of the Nelson Mandela biographies’ Tom Lodge is professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Limerick Univerity in Ireland.
  • Zarina Maharaj
    Dancing to a Different Rhythm
    - Zebra Press
    - ISBN: 1770071083
    Price (South African Rands, incl. VAT, excl. postage): R139.95
    Dancing to a Different Rhythm is not only an eyewitness account of life with the ANC-in-exile, but a bittersweet love story set against almost insurmountable odds, as she tried to free her husband Mac Maharaj, and a testimony to the fact that in liberation, freedom can remain as elusive as ever. Above all, it is the story of a woman who, despite numerous sacrifices and continuing adversity, always dances to a rhythm of her own.
  • Sihle Khumalo
    Dark Continent My Black Arse
    - Umuzi
    - ISBN: 141520036X
    Price (South African Rands, incl. VAT, excl. postage): R130.00
    Hoo boy! African travel writing will never be the same again after Sihle’s humorous, insightful, tongue-in-cheek account of his overland, public-transport Cape to Cairo trip. He is politically and gender incorrect, honest and open, mind-blowingly frank, perspective changing, vroubefok and, being an African and an optimist, also a plausible commentator on what is right and wrong with Africa – By Mark Copeland.

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