New Books at Special Collections: 2023 Archive

Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2023.

BLURB: “One of the most celebrated political leaders of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie.

During his years in prison, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers frozen in time. But Winnie, every bit his political equal, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband's politics. Behind his back, she was trying to orchestrate an armed seizure of power, a path he feared would lead to an endless civil war.

Jonny Steinberg tells the tale of this unique marriage—its longings, its obsessions, its deceits—turning the course of South African history into a page-turning political biography. Winnie & Nelson is a modern epic in which trauma doesn't just affect the couple at its centre, but an entire nation.

It is also a Shakespearean drama in which bonds of love and commitment mingle with timeless questions of revolution, such as whether to seek retribution or a negotiated peace. Told with power and tender emotional insight, Steinberg reveals how far these forever entwined leaders would go for one another, and also, where they drew the line. For in the end both knew theirs was not simply a marriage, but a contest to decide how apartheid should be fought.”

Jonny Steinberg is the author of several books about everyday life in the wake of South Africa's transition to democracy. He is a two-time winner of South Africa's premier nonfiction prize, the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award, and an inaugural winner of the Donald Windham-Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes.

Until 2020, he was professor of African Studies at Oxford University. He currently teaches part-time at the Council on African Studies at Yale University's MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies and is visiting professor at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) in Johannesburg.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1380653098

2023-12-27

Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2023.

BLURB: “Three Wise Monkeys explores some of the contradictions, silences and oversights, and working misunderstandings, that arose when an Anglophone, Protestant, industrial and urbanising state—South Africa—developed side by side with a Lusophone, Catholic, commercial and rural colony—Mozambique.

The trilogy presents a striking new way of viewing the entangled, often hidden, economic, political and social dynamics that informed the rise of 20th-century South Africa, often at the expense of neighbouring Mozambique. It is a history that transcends state boundaries to take the reader into previously uncharted domains of the recent past.”

Charles van Onselen is the author of several award-winning books, including The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders, The Night Trains and The Seed is Mine, which was voted one of the hundred best books to come out of Africa in the 20th century. He has held visiting fellowships at Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford and Yale universities and has been Research Professor in the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) at the University of Pretoria for the past two decades.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1379358238

2023-12-20

Published by Routledge, 2008.

BLURB: “Focus: Music of South Africa provides an in-depth look at the full spectrum of South African music, a musical culture that epitomizes the enormous ethnic, religious, linguistic, class, and gender diversity of the nation itself. Drawing on extensive field and archival research, as well as her own personal experiences, noted ethnomusicologist and South African native Carol A. Muller looks at how South Africans have used music to express a sense of place in South Africa, on the African continent, and around the world.”

Carol A. Muller is Professor of Music (Ethnomusicology) at the University of Pennsylvania.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/192134488

2023-12-13

Published by The University of Alberta Press, 2008.

BLURB: “All True Things is a critical History of the genesis and evolution of the University of Alberta to mark the University’s centennial. Rod Macleod relates the University’s coming of age against the parallel history of the Province of Alberta’s remarkable growth. What emerges is an enduring narrative of an institutional will to thrive and become a vibrant centre of learning. As the University embarks on its second century, this definitive source of information and reflection on institutional history and governance will inspire future leaders and policy makers and reach out to the University of Alberta’s many friends and alumni.”

Rod Macleod  was professor of History and Classics at the University of Alberta from 1969 until he retired in 2002. He has written extensively on the history of western Canada as as Canadian legal and military history. He has also served as the Alberta representative on the Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/231879807

2023-12-06

Published by MaThoko's Books, 2017.

BLURB: “"In Queer Africa 2: New Stories, the 26 stories by writers from Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Uganda and the USA present exciting and varied narratives on life. There are stories on desire, disruption and dreams; others on longing, lust and love. The stories are representative of the range of human emotions and experiences that abound in the lives of Africans and those of the diaspora, who identify variously along the long and fluid line of the sexuality, gender and sexual orientation spectrum in the African continent. Centred in these stories and in their attendant relationships is humanity. The writers showcase their artistry in storytelling in thought-provoking and delightful ways."

Karen Martin is a writer, artist and editor. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from Syracuse University. Through her Highveld Reading and Writing Studios she provides mentoring to other writers and teaches literary craft. Karen has initiated and developed several projects for Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA), including the award-winning Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction.

Makhosazana Xaba co-edited the first anthology Queer Africa: New and Collected Fiction (2013) which won the 26^th Lambda Literary Award for the fiction anthology category in 2014. She is also the author of Running & other stories (2013), which won the SALA Nadine Gordimer Short Story Award in 2014 and two poetry collections: these hands (2005 and 2017) and Tongues of their Mothers (2008). She is currently working at GALA on several book projects while pursuing her PhD at Rhodes University as a Mellon Scholar.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/999091779

2023-11-29

Published by Juta, 2022.

INTRODUCTION: “South Africa's history has been marked by deep divisions between its indigenous people and those of European extraction. A European settlement was first established at the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company in 1652, for the provisioning of its ships bound for the East. As the settlement grew into a colony and expanded northwards, bringing the colonists into conflict with the indigenous population, European dominance was gradually extended and entrenched. During the centuries that followed, black people were mostly excluded from representative government and from many of the rights and privileges enjoyed by the country's white inhabitants.

In the last decade of the 20th century, after a long struggle to achieve equal rights for all, this changed. In a historic speech at the opening of Parliament on 2 February 1990, President F W de Klerk announced the unbanning of the principal liberation movements, including the African National Congress (ANC), the Pan Africanist Congress and the South African Communist Party, and the release from prison of ANC leader Nelson Mandela. In 1994 the country's first democratic Parliament was convened. A new Constitution was drafted that was based on a rejection of the unrestrained power of the apartheid state and a desire to create a state system in which power was directed by law and constrained by law. A brief overview is given […] of the process that led to the adoption of the Constitution which is today the cornerstone of South African democracy, and which is reproduced in this book.” (From chapters 1 and 2 (by Heinz Klug) in I Currie & J de Waal The New Constitutional and Administrative Law Volume 1: Constitutional Law (2001) Juta & Co, Ltd.)

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1338642586

2023-11-22

Published by Die Erfenisstigting, 2017.

BLURB: “Die Rebellie (1914-1915) is 'n omstrede en ingewikkelde onderwerp. Uit die publikasies wat reeds daaroor verskyn het, is dit duidelik dat die Rebellie 'n ingrypende gebeurtenis in die geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika, maar meer spesifiek in die geskiedenis van die Afrikaner was. Broer het teen broer geveg en eertydse goeie vriende en strydmakkers tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog (1899-1902) het dikwels oor geweerlope na mekaar gekyk.

Hierdie publikasie gee nie voor om nog 'n geskiedenis van die Rebellie of 'n volledige beskrywing van genl. Manie Maritz se aandeel daarin te wees nie. Hierdie klein studie handel oor die wel en wee van daardie enkele Rebelle wat saam met Maritz geweier het om hulle aan die Regeringstrope oor te gee, maar besluit het om na Duits-Suidwes-Afrika uit te wyk, later gedwing was om Angola onwettig binne te gaan en uiteindelik as geïnterneerdes in Portugal en as staatloses in ander Europese lande te beland. Hierdie is 'n brokkie afloopgeskiedenis van die Rebellie waaraan in die verlede weinig aandag gegee is.

Die hoofspelers in hierdie redelik onbekende klein drama is ongetwyfeld genl. Manie Maritz en sy adjudant, Koos de Klerk. Hulle deelname aan die Rebellie en hulle weiering om oor te gee, het hulle avonture laat beleef wat hulle lewens verryk en onherroeplik in bepaalde rigtings gestuur het, maar hulle lewens was nie net een groot avontuur nie, want daar was ook swaarkry, hartseer, verlange en tragiese uiteindes. Veral die lewensloop van Koos de Klerk is vol romantiek, maar het teen die einde al die elemente van 'n tragedie.

Ockert Jacobus Olivier Ferreira was an honorary professor in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria. He wrote and edited numerous books and articles, and was particularly interested in the relationship between Portugal and South Africa. O.J.O Ferreira served as an executive member of the Historical Association of S.A. (1990-1994); secretary of the S.A. Historical Society (1995-1997); chairman of the S.A. Society for Cultural History (1988-1990); member of the Boards of Control of the National Cultural History Museum, Pretoria (1988-1996); the S.A. Council of Heraldry (1989-1997); and the Sociedade de Geografia de Lisboa in Portugal (since 2010). He was awarded the Prestige Prize for the Advancement of History by the Federasie van Afrikaanse Kultuurvereniginge (1994); and three medals of honour for his contribution to Cultural History from the S.A. Academy for Science and Art (1994), the Genootskap vir Afrikaanse Volkskunde (1998) and the S.A. Society for Culural History (1999). In 2004 he was awarded a second medal of honour by the S.A. Academy for Science and Art for his contribution to the recording of the history of the connection between South Africa and Portugal.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1002418413

2023-11-15

Published by Adamastor, 2010.

UIT DIE VOORWOORD: “Hierdie versameling artikels, essays, sketse, verhale, gedigte, tekeninge, fotos en skilderye, geskrywe en gemaak deur vriende, kollegas en kennisse, bring hulde aan O.J.O. (Cobus) Ferreira en sy werk op sy sewentigste verjaardag.”

Roger C. Fisher is an architect and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria. As a heritage practitioner he has been engaged in various surveys and documentations of heritage places and sites, most recently the built residue of the NZASM railway lines in South Africa. He has acted as editor and author of publications on the history and culture of the South African built environment, where his interest is in cultural hybridity as well as shared heritage and assimilation. He currently acts as editor and content curator for the website artefacts.co.za which focuses on the South African built environment.

Schalk W. le Roux is ‘n buitegewone professor verbonde aan die Universiteit van Pretoria, waar hy eens hoof van die Department Argitektuur was.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/865565861

2023-11-08

Published by Routledge, 2023.

BLURB: “This comprehensive, multidisciplinary and expert-led book provides insight into the most current and insightful topics within food and beverage tourism practice and research, elaborated by leading researchers and practitioners in the field.

The relationships between food and tourism have not only been at the core of recent tourism experiences, but they are expected to be crucial in the transformation of tourism futures. International in approach, this book analyzes the food tourism phenomenon from supply and demand perspectives, from health and politics to high-touch and high-tech, and brings together the relevant issues that inform these contemporary advances in food tourism research and practice. Providing a holistic approach to recent and future trends, the book is divided into 16 carefully selected and specially commissioned chapters that discuss the significance of food tourism research, the management and marketing of contemporary food and beverage experiences, the role of responsibility in the production and consumption of food tourism and the anticipation of future trends in food and beverage tourism. This volume combines academic research with practitioner experience, allowing the authors to explore, debate and analyze our industry's future challenges and solutions.

This book is essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in food tourism, as well as practitioners.”

Francesc Fusté-Forné is a professor and researcher at the Department of Business, University of Girona. He holds a PhD in Tourism (University of Girona) and a PhD in Communication (Ramon Llull University). His research is focused on food and rural marketing and tourism. Particularly, he has studied the connections between authenticity, food heritages and identities, landscapes and landscapers, regional development, rural activities, street food and tourist experiences. He also conducts applied research on the role of gastronomy in relation to mass media and as a driver of social change. He has extensively published about these topics.

Erik Wolf is the founder of the culinary travel trade industry and Executive Director of the World Food Travel Association, the world's leading authority on food and beverage tourism. He is the publisher of Have Fork Will Travel (a practical handbook for our industry), author of Culinary Tourism: The Hidden Harvest and is also a highly sought strategist and speaker around the world on gastronomy tourism. He has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, Forbes, and on CNN, Sky TV, the BBC, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, PeterGreenberg.com and other leading media outlets.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1343246869

2023-11-01

Published by the National Publicity Co., 1925.

From the Introduction: “It is hoped that the publication of this volume will serve as yet another inducement to South Africans to “see their own Country first.” South Africans who have been born and bred in the large towns and cities and who know nothing of the interior o this vast and beautiful country have indeed missed a great joy. The work in connection with the compilation and collection of data has necessitated a twelve month of hard unremitting labour, and while we have exercised the utmost care and taken the greatest pains to ensure accuracy, we must crave our readers’ indulgence for any omission or error that may be discovered.

In order to obtain first hand and reliable information it has been necessary for us to make a 6,000 mile motor tour, by the famous Nash touring car, through practically every town in the Cape Province.

The hospitality of the South African in the country is, of course, proverbial, but one must add to this the outstanding courtesy and gentlemanly conduct of these people who live many hundreds of miles away from the so-called educational and refining facilities of the large towns.”

This book was donated to Special Collections by Prof Alexander Duffey.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1017231875

2023-10-25

Published by S. Karger, 2022.

From the Introduction: “The purpose of this book is to offer medical, health, and social care professionals who work in acute, medical, long-term, or community care settings insights into the impact of dementia on an individual’s communication interactions and how augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) strategies could enhance these interactions. The first half of the text sets the scene for understanding the nature of dementia and its impact particularly on an individual’s social and emotional life and their language and communication; the second half introduces AAC and what it offers as a set of techniques to support and maintain conversational autonomy in those living with dementia.”

Janice Murray PhD, is Professor of Communication Disability at Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. She is the current Chair of the Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) Committee for the International Association of Communication Sciences and Disorders (IALP). She has previously managed speech and language therapy undergraduate and postgraduate education programmes, been Chair of Council for the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC), and led scientific programmes development for national and international symposia. Her AAC research has focussed on clinical decision-making, AAC assessment, language acquisition using aided communication and AAC, and literacy. She currently leads a team of AAC researchers.

Shakila Dada PhD, is a Professor at the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is currently the Director of the CAAC. She is a speech and language therapist with extensive experience in research and teaching in the field of AAC. She utilises a zoom lens approach to implementing AAC interventions focussing on the person and the AAC system, but also zooming out to take broader, systemic issues into account—for example, the involvement of the person who uses AAC in the family and the role of professionals (healthcare professionals and teachers) and policies in selecting and implementing AAC, thereby enhancing the participation and inclusion of persons that require AAC.

Adele May holds a PhD in Augmentative and Alternative Communication from the CAAC at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. In her doctoral study, she developed an AAC intervention package for interpersonal interaction in persons with dementia. As a speech and language pathologist, she has a special interest in developing interventions that focus on functional, real-life outcomes for persons with communication disability. In particular, her research interest lies in interventions that are not only person-centred and evidence-based but also include the application of participatory and inclusive research methods.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1342804347

2023-10-18

Published by LM Publishers, 2021.

BLURB: “The richness and diversity of Dutch contributions to the built environment of South Africa remain little-known in the study of twentieth-century architectural history. Between 1902 and 1961 more than seventy Dutch-born émigré architects were active from the Cape to the Highveld, both in major towns and remote areas, and they designed hundreds of buildings and neighbourhoods.

As sequel to the acclaimed Eclectic ZA Wilhelmiens: A Shared Dutch Built Heritage in South Africa, Common Ground reveals the great variety of styles and building types from this period, ranging from buildings for communities, religious practice, banking, industry, and civil infrastructure to the evolution of the Pretoria dwelling and low-cost housing. These contributions are also contentious as they relate to the time of the entrenchment of apartheid. Yet these architects' extant work is an undeniable part of South Africa today and often still in daily service.”

Nicholas J. Clarke is an architect and lecturer at the Delft University of Technology in the Department of Heritage & Architecture, where he obtained his PhD in 2021. A graduate of both University of Pretoria and Cambridge University, he practiced as architect and built heritage specialist while lecturing at the University of Pretoria in South Africa before relocating to the Netherlands. He is actively involved in built heritage management and documentation in South Africa and has completed a number of awarded studies and books on shared South African-Dutch built heritage (with Roger Fisher and Marieke Kuipers). Nicholas is a World Heritage advisor to ICOMOS International and serves on commissions for scientific and cultural institutions in both South Africa and the Netherlands.

Roger C. Fisher is an architect and Emeritus Professor in the Department of Architecture, University of Pretoria, where he was awarded a PhD in 1993. As heritage practitioner he has been engaged in various surveys and documentations of heritage places and sites, most recently the built residue of the NZASM railway lines in South Africa. He has acted as editor and author of publications on the history and culture of the South African built environment, where his interest is in cultural hybridity as well as shared heritage and assimilation. He currently acts as editor and content curator for the website artefacts.co.za which focuses on the South African built environment.

Marieke C. Kuipers is Emeritus Professor of Cultural Heritage at Delft University of Technology and Maastricht University and has also worked as a specialist in 'young' built heritage with the Netherlands Cultural Heritage Agency and its predecessors (1977-2018). She obtained a PhD at the State University Groningen in 1987 for a study on experiments in concrete housing. She has widely lectured and published about the identification, valuation and conservation of architectural heritage, and has led various missions related to shared built heritage in Russia and South Africa. Currently she is internationally active as an expert in C20 heritage, Shared Heritage and World Heritage (ICOMOS, DOCOMOMO).

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1245578844

2023-10-04

Published by CSA & G Press, 2018.

BLURB: “In (Un)knowing Men Sakhumzi Mfecane shares his critical reflections on research on men and masculinities in South Africa. In South Africa, he argues, there seems to be an impasse in scholarly accounts of men and masculinities. Old theories do not provide new answers; violence against women, homicide, rape of women and children, and homophobia persist despite heavy financial investments by the government and international NGOs in research, education and activism that seek to end all forms of gender inequality in South Africa. Research and interventions, Mfecane points out, centre on the same goal of subverting patriarchy without putting patriarchy in proper social and historical context.

Weaving together Mfecane's own research and writings on Xhosa masculinities with colonial historiographies of gender and masculinities, (Un)knowing Men argues for the importance of taking into account local contexts, idioms, and meanings when theorising about masculinities in South Africa."

Sakhumzi Mecane is an associate professor at the University of the Western Cape. He specialises in medical anthropology, with his research and academic publications concerned particularly with men's health and masculinities. Previously Sakhumzi worked for Human Sciences Research Council as a Senior Researcher in 'Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS' Unit, and for Centre for AIDS Development, Research and Evaluation (CADRE). He also served as a research consultant for several non-governmental organisations and research institutions concerned with HIV and health in South Africa. His academic engagements for the past year have focused on developing African-centered theories of masculinity. This work aims to encourage locally grounded ways of theorising gender and masculinity; it also serves as a critique of western gender theories that tend to dominate research and intervention programmes with African men. This work draws largely from African philosophies as they provide a solid basis to problematise all forms of social inequality and oppression, and also help us to develop intervention programmes that resonate with value systems of African societies.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1054570988

2023-09-27

Published by Friedel Hansen, 2018.

Following on the success of Pretoria - A Photo Journey (2016), Nostalgic Pretoria casts a much wider net and includes 474 photographs of Pretoria dating from the 1860s up to 1975.

Friedel Hansen has worked on radio and television for more than 40 years, and is the author of several articles, short stories and books.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1195539804

2023-09-20

Published by the Pretoria University Law Press (PULP), 2017.

BLURB: “The UN Migrant Workers Convention is the most comprehensive international treaty in the field of migration and human rights. Adopted in 1990 and in force since 2003, it establishes the minimum standards of human rights protection to which migrant workers and members of their families are entitled. However, it is the least well known of the core international human rights instruments and has so far been ratified by only 51 states.

This volume shines new light on obstacles and opportunities facing the Convention, its added value in international human rights law and its application in selected state parties. It combines the expertise of academics and practitioners, with the contributions of the latter informed by work on policy and advocacy in NGOs, international organisations and specialised agencies.”

Alan Desmond is a lecturer in law at the University of Leicester. Before joining Leicester Law School in September 2016 he worked at third-level institutions in Ireland, Italy and Poland. He has published on the topic of migrants' rights in the European Journal of Migration and Law, Human Rights Law Review and the European Journal of International Law. He has been a Visiting Researcher at Harvard Law School and UCLA School of Law and has delivered presentations on the Migrant Workers Convention in Armenia, Ireland, Italy, Russia and the UK. Before entering legal academia, Alan worked as a freelance print and broadcast journalist in Poland and wrote a number of award-winning Irish language books.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1026487451

2023-09-13

Published by ESI Press, 2021.

BLURB: “Hierdie skrywe vat die werke van Professor P.S. Groenwald saam. Hy is sedert 1957 betrokke by die Department Afrikatale an die Universiteit van Pretoria. Hy is aangewys as die eerste hoofredakteur van die Suid-Afrikaanse tydskrif vir Afrikatale. Hy dien op die adviseurspaneel van die "Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century" (New York). Vanaf 1976 is hy lid van die Sepeditaalraad en in 1989 is hy die ondervoorsitter en lid van die hoofbestuur verkies. Hy het ook 'n verskeideneid van publikasies oor die ontwikkeling, letterkunde en literatur van die Sepedi taal geskryf. In 1996 ontvang hy die Stals-prys (Afrikatale) van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns en in 2012 ontvang hy die graad Doctor litterarum (honoris cause) van die Universiteit van Pretoria.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1327845133

2023-09-06

Published by ESI Press, 2020.

BLURB: “This book compares the progress ten select countries, all former colonies of Britain, have made towards the practice of democracy. The authors assess a range of indicators including the quality of elections, the impact of voter turnout, the importance of term limits, civil society's various responsibilities, the presence of media freedoms, the impact of youth participation, accountability and the rising role of social media. These findings help illustrate the various periods within each country's democracy from the immediate post-colonial experience, to the emergence of one-party states, to the surge of multi-party elections that are being influenced by key political figures and technology.

This book will be of great interest to a broad readership including students of politics, international relations and history at tertiary educational institutions as well as the wider readership that is keen to understand what has shaped the post-colonial political experience of some key Anglophone African countries.”

Heather A. Thuynsma is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences and Communications Manager for the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1250302693

2023-08-30

Published by Langaa RPCIG, 2022.

BLURB: “In this book, Ilana van Wyk and Jimmy Pieterse interrogate the question of political subjectivity and its role in the making of anthropology and anthropologists by revisiting the pitched battles between so-called liberal social anthropologists and conservative, nationalist volkekundiges in South Africa. They pay particular attention to the social and cultural lives of two men who were central proponents of South African anthropology's 'two tales'; Kees van der Waal, a former volkekundige, and John Sharp, once one of volkekunde's fiercest critics. Through a series of conversations with Kees and John, they show that the issues that once divided a local field still animate the ways in which centres and peripheries of global anthropology relate to one another and to foundational questions about the discipline's epistemology and political positionality.”

Ilana van Wyk is an associate professor in Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University. She gained her PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London and has taught at the London School of Economics and Political Science, SOAS, at the University of Pretoria, and at the University of Cape Town (UCT). Ilana has published widely on Pentecostal Charismatic Christianity and gambling. She is the author of The Universal Church of the Kingdom of God in South Africa: A church of strangers (Cambridge University Press, 2014) and co-edited Conspicuous Consumption in Africa with Deborah Posel (Wits University Press, 2019). Ilana is the former editor-in-chief of Anthropology Southern Africa and the former director of the Institute for Humanities in Africa at UCT. She currently works on the South African Lottery and on precolonial finance.

Jimmy Pieterse is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Pretoria. His current research focuses on aspects of work and leisure in Pretoria's historically white working-class suburbs. His work has been published in journals such as the Journal of Southern African Studies, Social Dynamics, Anthrozoös, Anthropology Southern Africa, the Nordic Journal of African Studies, the South African Historical Journal and Historia. Jimmy is also the co-author of the book, What's Cooking: AIDS Review 2005 (University of Pretoria).

Our copy was donated to Special Collections by author, Jimmy Pieterse.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1296942919

2023-08-23

Published by Oxford University Press, 2018.

BLURB: “Honey bees have been described as exceptionally clever, well-organized, mutualistic, collaborative, busy, efficient–in short a perfect society. While the colony is indeed a marvel of harmonious, efficient organization, it also has a considerable dark side. Authors Robin Moritz and Robin Crewe write about the life history of the honey bee, Apis mellifera, highlighting conflict rather than harmony, failure rather than success, from the perspective of the individual worker in the colony. When one looks carefully, the honey bee colony is far from being perfect. As with any complex social system, honey bee societies are prone to error, robbery, cheating, and social parasitism. Nevertheless, the hive gets by remarkably well in spite of many seemingly odd biological features.

The perfection that is perceived to exist in the honey bee's social organization is the function of a focus on the colony as a whole rather than exploring the idiosyncrasies of its individual members. The Dark Side of the Hive thus focuses on the role of the individual rather than that of the collective. Moritz and Crewe dissect the various careers that individual male and female honey bees can take and their role in colony organization. Competition between individuals using both physical and chemical force drives colonial organization. This book deals with individual mistakes, maladaptations and evolutionary dead-ends that are also part of the bees' life. The story told about these dark sides of the colony spans the full range of biological disciplines ranging from genomics to systems biology.”

Robin Moritz is Emeritus Professor of Molecular Ecology at the Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. He got hooked on bee research during his last year of studying Biology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt/ Main in 1976. His career has brought him as academic teacher to many different universities in Germany, South Africa, the US and Romania, with his main research focus being on the evolutionary genetics of the honey bee.

Robin Crewe is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, and was a Vice-principal of the University from 2003 until his retirement from this position in June 2013. Prof Crewe expanded his interests from work on ants to a fascination with bees during a postdoctoral period spent at Utrecht University in the Netherlands. The main focus of his work has been on the chemistry of pheromonal communication and its expression in the two female honey bee castes.

Our copy was donated to Special Collections by Prof Crewe.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1031054471

2023-08-16

Published by CSA & G Press, 2018.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: “This Handbook builds on the work of a longer term project on justice and governance practices at community level during periods of transition. This project is being undertaken by a team at the University of Pretoria led by Dr Chris Nshimbi, the director of the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation, and I. In this project, we are particularly interested in the burgeoning endeavour to incorporate community justice practices into transitional justice interventions after mass violence. One of the issues which we became aware of is that there seems to be a knee-jerk reaction to community justice practices, including the response that such practices are 'patriarchal' and 'gender-biased', and thus that they need to be abolished. This project, supported by the Centre for Sexualities, Aids and Gender, is an attempt to explore some of the evidence for and against such an assumption.

Our work coincided with the commitment of the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender to work with non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Southern Africa to understand better issues of gender justice at the community level. Our shared position is that we need to understand gender dynamics at the community level in its own terms, and not necessarily through a 'western feminist' lens. Drawing on the work of feminist scholar Kimberley Crenshawe, our starting point is that the intersection between locality, race, class, and the colonial experience shape the gendered experience differently.

In this Handbook, we explore these intersections specifically in relation to how communities meet their justice needs. Again we seek to understand 'justice' from the perspective of the community, and to define it broadly to include the general well-being and harmony of the community. In our exploration of justice practices, we find that women play a central role. We believe this may be a starting point in bringing nuance and complexity to the knee-jerk assumptions that justice practices in Southern Africa are oppressive to women, and that women have no agency in shaping their own society.

Our hope is that what we find will begin to challenge some of the assumptions made by government and non-governmental actors in some of the interventions made in communities. The human and relational resources in these communities are astounding; the starting point for any intervention needs to be a full understanding and appreciation of the resources already present before introducing any additional resources.”

~ Dr Cori Wielenga

Dr Cori Wielenga is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria and a research associate in the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation. Her research interest is in the intersection of local, national and international justice and governance systems in Africa. To this end, she has spent time in Rwanda, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria and South Africa to understand the impact of these intersecting systems of justice and governance on people 'on the ground'. Dr Wielenga has published her work in numerous journals on Africa including African Insight and African Journal on Conflict Resolution.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1055763871

2023-08-09

Published by Modjaji Books, 2019.

BLURB: “Seeking adventure during the school holidays, five teenagers from the Indian suburb of Lenasia accidentally witness a violent crime that has a lasting impact on their lives.

Starting in June of 1993, the novel follows the Five through the next decade as they confront, both as individuals and as a group, questions of who they are, who they are allowed to be, and who they are expected to be in the New South Africa. They must query what role they will allow tradition, ancestry, sexuality, skin colour, love, money and culture to play in their lives as they attempt to forge new paths, sometimes stumbling along the way, but always willing to give one another a helping hand.”

Nedine Moonsamy grew up in Mosquito Valley, Lenasia and has lived in places as far flung as Helsinki, Poona and Grahamstown since then. Currently, she lives and works in Pretoria, where she lectures on postcolonial literature in the English Department at the University of Pretoria. By day she also researches contemporary South African literature and science fiction in Africa.

The Unfamous Five is her debut novel.

Our copy was donated by Dr Moonsamy.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1113864646

2023-08-02

Published by Pretoria University Press Law (PULP), 2019.

BLURB: “This book addresses core issues of personal property law in Nigeria from a comparative perspective. It offers a detailed account of the laws governing personal property and the different lightweight reforms undertaken mainly through case law before the enactment of the Secured Transactions in Movable Assets Act in 2017. The book draws insights from the United States UCC article 9, being unarguably the first law that introduced the concept of modern secured transactions law, and was influential to many common and civilian law systems in reforming their personal property laws.

Given that personal property law is fairly new in Nigeria, and also in Africa in general, the main aim of the book is to provide judges and academic researchers with a rich collection of tested solutions from jurisdictions that have experimented with modern secured transactions law for several decades. The primary and secondary works that were referenced in the book have tracked the different epochal shifts in legal thinking and their significances. This may assist scholars and judges in Nigeria to come up with bespoke interpretations of the Act and solutions to underlying problems on credit and security, that will satisfy the local conditions as opposed to copying the unaltered solutions from the United States and other advanced systems.”

Mike A.A. Ozekhome is a lawyer and human rights activist, holding the rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. He is known for his work as a constitutional lawyer.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1144914480

2023-07-26

Published by ESI Press, 2021.

BLURB: “Land remains one of the most political and contested elements of South Africa's past and present. From the first encounters between indigenous inhabitants to later colonialists, segregationists and the more recent democrats, land has been used to divide the country and her people. But it has also drawn her people closer to her, enfolding them in a very sacred embrace. In this pristine collection of visuals, Paul Weinberg takes us to this side of the continuum elevating the meaning of land to this higher, more spiritual plane.”

Paul Weinberg is a photographer, curator, filmmaker, writer, educationist and archivist. He began his career in the early 1980s by working for South African NGOs and photographing current events for news agencies and foreign newspapers.

He was a founder member of Afrapix and South, the collective photo agencies that gained local and international recognition for their uncompromising role in documenting apartheid, and popular resistance to it. From 1990 onwards he increasingly concentrated on feature and in-depth project based photography.

He has produced 19 books as a photographer and author in his own right and been published in many anthologies and group projects. Weinberg has exhibited widely, locally and internationally.

He taught photography at the Centre of Documentary Studies at Duke University in the United States and holds a master's degree from the same university. Weinberg lectured in Documentary Arts and Visual Anthropology at UCT and is currently a research associate at the South African Research Chair in South African Art and Visual Culture, University of Johannesburg.

Together with David Goldblatt, he founded the Ernest Cole Award for creative photography in South Africa. He has worked extensively in the field of photographic archives and presently works as the curator for the Photography Legacy Project.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1315743571

2023-07-19

Published by BAR Publishing, 2022.

BLURB: “This book interrogates the context, primary literature and silent gaps in the Mapungubwe Archive held at the University of Pretoria. It examines the multiple narratives and ignored Indigenous histories of Mapungubwe in South Africa, prior to the scientific gold discovery of 1933. Using postmodern notions of archival theory and science as a central argument, the author demonstrates how the Mapungubwe Archive needs to be questioned, not only as a historical source, but as point of contemporary discourse within global trends of the archival turn and lack of knowledge, specifically on African archives. The book elucidates the origins, research control, powers and authoritative trajectory of Mapungubwe's colonial and nationalist past, through the institutional lens of the Archaeology Committee. Contestation is focused on Mapungubwe's controlled history as a 'treasure trove’ in 1933 under the State and how later, research mirrors present legal heritage debates on reversionary rights of ownership versus responsible rights of stewardship. Using the conceptual notion of history as an imperfect past, the author contends that Mapungubwe's contested past is inherently unfinished and flawed, because the past constantly challenges ideas of the present.”

This book is part of the BAR International Series 3080, African Archaeology, volume 96.

Sian Tiley-Nel is the Head of the University of Pretoria Museums in South Africa and is the Curator of the Mapungubwe Collection and Head of the Mapungubwe Archive for over 22 years. She serves as the specialist on the Mapungubwe Collection under the stewardship of the University of Pretoria.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1322096952

2023-07-12

Published by the University of Alberta Libraries, 2012.

BLURB: “The Spacious Margin: Eighteenth-Century Printed Books and the Traces of their Readers draws from the holdings of the Bruce Peel Special Collections Library at the University of Alberta, presenting an array of readerly interactions with books in the form of annotations, improvements, corrections, ornamentation, and suggestive wear-and-tear. In this scholarly catalogue, Brown and Considine describe and contextualize the notable physical traces of readership and circulation for each of the 62 items displayed in the accompanying exhibition (The Spacious Margin, Bruce Peel Special Collections Library, 5 October 2012 - 15 February 2013). The result is a snapshot of the life of books and readers in the eighteenth century: in the British Isles and beyond, from the modestly literate users of well-thumbed dictionaries to learned critics of canonical poets and contemporary philosophers.”

Sylvia Brown is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta. Her areas of research include women's writing and gender in the early modern period, Milton, Bunyan, and early modern print culture. The author and editor of several articles and books, she is currently working toward the completion of a monograph entitled Household Reformations: Women, Textual Culture, and the Survival of Protestantism.

John Considine is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, specializing in lexicography, the history of the English language, early modern British literature and culture, and the history of the book. Among his recent publications is Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and Making Heritage. He is currently at work on a sequel.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/809408660

2023-07-05

Published by Pretoria University Press Law (PULP), 2019.

BLURB: “Why are tax systems so complex and what are the causes and consequences of such complexity? The simplification of tax systems is one of the most important issues faced today in worldwide efforts to modernise and strengthen government finance and revenue raising capacities. Nowhere is it more important than throughout the rapidly emerging economies of the dynamic African region.

This volume brings together contributions in this field from a conference held in South Africa in October 2018 and provides a unique synthesis of knowledge and understanding gained from the specialist expertise and diverse backgrounds brought to the tax simplification debate by those authors.

The volume will be an essential reference for researchers and others interested in the field from academia, government, legal and accounting practice and public policy organisations in African and other countries worldwide.”

Chris Evans is a part time professor of taxation at UNSW Sydney and also a part time extraordinary professor at the University of Pretoria. He is also an international fellow at the Centre for Business Taxation at the University of Oxford and at the Tax Administration Research Centre at the University of Exeter. He is a former editor of Australian Tax Review and has published extensively in the areas of tax administration (and particularly tax compliance, tax compliance costs and tax simplification) as well as in comparative taxation and in the taxation of capital and wealth.

Riel Franzsen is professor and the director of the African Tax Institute at the University of Pretoria where he also occupies the South African Research Chair in Tax Policy and Governance. He has acted as external expert for the International Monetary Fund, United Nations and World Bank. He specialises in local government own-source revenue and property related taxation, focusing on property tax policy issues and administrative challenges. He has published extensively on land and property taxes.

Elizabeth (Lilla) Stack holds a doctorate qualification from the University of South Africa (UNISA). She is a professor of taxation at Rhodes University (South Africa) and an emeritus professor of the University of South Africa. She has taught taxation at all academic levels and now concentrates on the supervision of master's and doctoral candidates. She has also published textbooks on tax and contributed to textbooks on management accounting and research methodology.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1144921190

2023-06-28

Published by Pickwick Publications, 2020.

BLURB: “This book takes the established fields of orality, performance, and first-century Christian healthcare studies further by combining analogues of praise performances to Apollo, Asclepius, and those from the Dondo people of South Eastern Zimbabwe to propose that Jesus's healing stories in Mark's Gospel are praise-giving narratives to Jesus as the best folk healer within the region of Capernaum. The book argues that the memory of Jesus as the folk healer from Capernaum survived and possibly functioned in similar contexts of praise-giving within early Christian households. The book goes through each healing story in Mark's Gospel and imaginatively listens to it through the ears of analogue from praise-giving given to Greek healers/heroes and similar practices among the Dondo people. The power, completeness, and effectiveness in which Jesus healed each of the mentioned conditions provoke praise-giving from the listeners to the best folk healer in the village. In each instance, while Mark is calling for attention to the new healer, more so, he is raving praise-giving.”

Zorodzai Dube is senior lecturer in New Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author of several articles that include, "Ritual Healing Theory and Mark's Healing Jesus: Implications for Healing Rituals within African Pentecostal Churches" (2019), "Models and Perspectives Concerning the Identity of Jesus as Healer" (2018), "Reception of Jesus as Healer in Mark's Community" (2018), and "The Talmud, the Hippocratic Corpus and Mark's Healing Jesus on Infectious Diseases" (2018).

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1224513284

2023-06-21

Published by Boekenfontein, 2018.

The UP Special Collections copy is signed by the author.

Abstract: “This mammoth publication can be regarded as a magnus opus by Johan Bergh, emeritus professor in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, University of Pretoria. As the title indicates, the publication contains a huge selection of the vast body of available material on Paul Kruger’s life and work. The original Afrikaans/Dutch edition is entitled, Paul Kruger: Toesprake en Korrespondensie van 1881–1900 and was published by Protea, Pretoria, in 2017. This English edition is an expansion of the documents on Kruger and covers the period 1850 to 1904. The documents were sampled from a wide array of sources and depositories: previous documentary publications on Kruger in the National Archives of South Africa (NASA), most of them in the Transvaal Archives series, newspapers, British Blue Books, published Transvaal Volksraad Minutes, the National Library of South Africa in Cape Town, the Jagger Library of the University of Cape Town, the University of the Witwatersrand De Souza Collection, the NZAV Archive in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, the Free University of Amsterdam, the University Library of Leiden and Gemeentearchief Kampen, the Archives of the Nederlandsch-Zuid-Afrikaansche Vereeniging in Amsterdam, the Free State Archive Depot, ZAR Green Books, the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History in Pretoria and the Rothschild Archive in London.” ~ from Historia Vol. 65 No. 1 (2020).

Johannes Stephanus Bergh was the chairperson of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria, 1886 to 2011. He obtained his degrees cum laude from the University of Stellenbosch and the University of South Africa. He was appointed at three universities and obtained various prestigious grants from prominent institutions. He was the author and co-author of eight academic books, about thirty five articles in prominent academic journals in South Africa and abroad and various other academic publications. He regularly presented papers at local and international conferences and was the chairperson of the two most prominent South African historical societies. He received substantial bursaries for this research project from the L.W. Hiemstra Trust, Rupert Education Foundation, Jan Marais National Fund and ABSA Bank.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1088437333

2023-06-14

Published by Facet Publishing, 2022.

BLURB: “The Special Collections Handbook, Third Edition is a comprehensive and practical resource covering all aspects of collections work. Written by a practitioner with many years' experience in collections management, the Handbook provides detailed coverage of collections care, security, emergency planning, collections development, cataloguing, metadata and digitisation, and legal and ethical issues. Best practice in public access is explored through various lenses: marketing, visitor services, teaching and learning, and outreach to wider audiences. Finally, the institutional context is considered: staffing and space, inreach and advocacy, fundraising and the importance of impact.

This new edition has been fully updated to reflect the growth and dynamism of the sector and the complexity of the environment, including:

• enriched and updated guidance on decolonising collections management and all other elements of special collections work
• working towards zero-carbon buildings, preservation and other aspects of collections management
• lessons/impact of COVID-19: managing remote access by staff and users, emergency planning, health and safety, risk assessments.

The Special Collections Handbook is an essential reference for special collections practitioners everywhere and is applicable to a wide range of settings, from academia and public libraries to museums and religious organisations. It features rich, detailed and highly structured content, characterised by evocative practical examples, bulleted lists, diagrams, quotations and extensive suggestions for further reading and study.

Alison Cullingford is Head of Library and Collections at Durham Cathedral, where she leads the team responsible for stewardship of the Cathedral's collections of medieval manuscripts, early printed books, archives, and objects. Previously she was Special Collections Librarian at the University of Bradford, where she managed over 100 collections of modern archives and rare books and led the transformation of unloved and unused 'hidden collections' into a service which allowed people worldwide to enjoy and learn from these artefacts. An active member of the CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group and many other sector groups, Alison regularly presents at conferences, blogs and tweets on the importance of the special collections librarian.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1289270321

2023-06-07

Published by Wits University Press, 2022.

BLURB: “Archives of Times Past is an exploration of particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's early history. It gathers recent ideas about archives and asks the question: 'How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?"

Historians use a wide range of source materials for this work. What are these materials? Where can we find them? Who made them? When? Why? What are the problems with using them? The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and other researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these researchers encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook. The aim is to make us think critically about where ideas about the time before the colonial era originate and to encourage us to think about why people in South Africa often refer to this 'deep history' when arguing about public affairs in the present. The essays will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and museum practitioners.

Cynthia Kros is an Honorary Research Associate of the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand and at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town. John Wright is an Emeritus Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and Research Associate at the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town. Mbongiseni Buthelezi is Executive Director of South Africa's Public Affairs Research Institute. Helen Ludlow was head of History at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1241163950

2023-05-31

Published by Brill, 2019.

BLURB: “This volume contains 17 essays on the subjects of text, canon, and scribal practice. The volume is introduced by an overview of the Qumran evidence for text and canon of the Bible. Most of the text critical studies deal with texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, including sectarian as well as canonical texts. Two essays shed light on the formation of authoritative literature. Scribal practice is illustrated in various ways, again mostly from the Dead Sea Scrolls. One essay deals with diachronic change in Qumran Hebrew. Rounding out the volume are two thematic studies, a wide-ranging study of the "ambiguous oracle" of Josephus, which he identifies as Balaam's oracle, and a review of the use of female metaphors for Wisdom.”

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament at Yale. His books include The Apocalyptic Imagination, Beyond the Qumran Community, The Dead Sea Scrolls. A Biography, and The Invention of Judaism. Torah and Jewish Identity from Deuteronomy to Paul.

Ananda Geyser-Fouché is Senior Lecturer of Old Testament Studies at the University of Pretoria. She has produced articles in prominent journals and was the sub-editor of the volume in HTS Theological Studies, Original Research: Special Collection Qumran Texts, 2016.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1109880474

2023-05-24

Published by Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2020.

BLURB: “The Edict of Cyrus, both opening Ezra-Nehemiah (Ezra 1:1-4) and closing Chronicles (2 Chron. 36:22-23), serves a different role in each book. In Ezra-Nehemiah, it is a command resulting in a restoration event that has failed, whereas in Chronicles it is a command anticipating a successful future restoration event. In the context of canon, these different uses of the edict are theologically significant, especially in formulating ideas of hope for the future in Chronicles.

While Chronicles is aware that a historical restoration transpired sometime in the past (1 Chron. 3:19-24; 9:2-44), it shares the sentiment of Ezra-Nehemiah, that the return was something of a failure. Through compositional analysis, Gilhooley argues that the edict closing Chronicles portrays the true, or rather, complete restoration not as a past event to be reflected upon but rather one to be anticipated sometime in the future—at a time when Israel was expected to see the establishment of a new glorified temple, political independence, release from servitude, and the blessings of new creation and of new cultic order.

Reading Chronicles as the last book of the Old Testament in accordance with various Jewish witnesses, we find that the edict is transformed into a programmatic conclusion to the canon. Accordingly, the eschatological return to Zion and reconstruction of the temple appear to be dominating concerns of the canonical editors. These verses that bring to an end both Chronicles and the Old Testament as a whole may also be read in dialogue with canon-conscious structural markers elsewhere and, therefore, could be formative in constructing a canonical theology.”

Andrew M. Gilhooley is a Research Associate in the Department of Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures, Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Pretoria.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1202124623

2023-05-17

Published by Aubrey Michael Mogase, 2018.

From the Foreword by Johnny Mailela: “Having gone through the narrative, one was left with the pleasant surprise that this is but the first of a rare glimpse into the metamorphosis of one of South Africa's better known townships, into a downright national heritage.

In this volume of nostalgic photographs and stories, editor Aubrey Mogase assembled the best he could lay his hands on; under challenging circumstances, we hear.

The compilers of this book, ably led by the passionate Mogase, have gone so far back that there begins to emerge pockets of sheer excellence, such as the fact that the Eerste Fabrieken Railway Station—from which the staff-riders (train surfers) showcased their dangerous skills—was originally an industrial hub known as Eerste Fabrieken. Full marks to a work of tireless research.

Before finally working on this foreword attempt, one has to be cautioned that the narrative leads the reader to cry out for more.

Mogase has assured us—the incredibly curious—that "Mamelodi, Reflections of a Lifetime" should be viewed as a prelude - a Thebu Cinema-like curtain-raiser to a more detailed narrative in years to come.”

Aubrey Michael Mogase was born and raised in Mamelodi. Having noticed the growth of the township over the years, one had to pay attention to its illustrious history and legacy as it unfolded. He realised that he could not fold his arms and do nothing. He had to contend with all the political turmoil that engulfed the country, and in particular Mamelodi, as there were a number of factors that led to all political consciousness. Finding solace in the presence of the community, he moved to engage with organizations, and became a board member of a number of organizations in the township, including social circles. He was part of the first group to interpret the South African Constitution, in the formation of Community Police Forums (the first in South Africa to be launched). He played a role in restructuring and organizing the School Governing Bodies in South Africa. He became the first branch chairperson of the ANC Youth League after the unbanning of political organizations. He moved to initiate and established the Mamelodi Community Radio Station (Mams FM).

He is currently the chairperson of Mosito wa Mamelodi, which is responsible for researching, preserving and documenting the illustrious history of this magnificent township. Also, he is chairperson of Mothamo wa Mamelodi, a forum established with a number of structures to promote Mamelodi.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1037010823

2023-05-10

Published by Penguin Random House South Africa, 2019.

BLURB: “Despite being South Africa's capital city, Pretoria has often played a supporting role to bold and brash Johannesburg and Cape Town's cosmopolitan charms. However, when it comes to architectural heritage, the 'Jacaranda City' is well-endowed. From the skyline-dominating Union Buildings and Voortrekker Monument, to the imposing edifices that make up its administrative precincts, Pretoria might almost be deserving of a second moniker: the city of sandstone, brick and granite. But when you look beyond the impressive façades, soaring columns and linear planes of buildings that were intended to convey power and authority, you'll find light-filled interiors embellished with decorative touches that are only hinted at from the pavement. Murals, mosaics, domes, galleries, stained glass windows, gleaming brass and impressive woodwork are often hidden from view behind doors that are closed to the public. Even those museums, buildings and places of worship that are open to all have architectural and design features that are easily overlooked unless they've been pointed out. The history of the city and, often, the country too, has been played out in many of the places featured in Hidden Pretoria. This story of our shared heritage deserves to be captured for a new generation so that they recognize the value in the built environment and the need to preserve the past in order to protect the future.

Following on Hidden Cape Town and Hidden Johannesburg, the book highlights a selection of notable buildings that embody the cultural and social heritage of Pretoria and its citizens. In words and photographs, Johan Swart and Alain Proust illuminate buildings, monuments and public spaces that represent the development of Pretoria from its early days as the capital of the ZAR, through British colonialism, Afrikaner nationalism, apartheid, and transformation into the heart of our new democracy. Hidden Pretoria serves as a record at a particular point in the city's history, capturing remnants of the past as well as considering their re-use and reinterpretation today, tor it is only by embracing the influences of our diverse heritage that we can create a solid foundation from which to build our shared future.

Hidden Pretoria reveals the multiple identities that have evolved within the city, bringing its historical narrative into the present and setting it in a framework that looks firmly towards the future whilst acknowledging the legacy of the past.”

Johan Swart holds a master's degree in architecture and heritage studies. At the University of Pretoria, he teaches architectural history and leads a heritage-focused design studio for postgraduate students. As curator of the architecture archives at the university, he is also responsible for the safeguarding and interpretation of significant historical drawing collections. His academic interests include the history of design, archival practice, cultural landscapes and adaptive re-use.

Alain Proust has been photographing buildings for decades. In Hidden Pretoria, his understanding of architectural space enables him to capture the essence of a building in a single frame, while his ingenuity and resourcefulness gained him access to spaces that are not open to the public, often photographing them with just natural light and a minimum of equipment. The result is tangible, and his images will serve as a legacy tor historians, archivists and custodians of our heritage.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1085149509

2023-05-03

Published by Naledi, 2019.

BLURB: “The conventions inherent in the ancient Japanese art of writing haiku, are embedded in its seventeen syllables spread over three lines. They display a poet's imaginative wit and dexterity. Haiku capture what Gerard Manley Hopkins calls the 'inscape,' or essence of a moment in nature.

These African haiku illustrate the power of poetry to appeal to the sensory and the cerebral. African philosophical traditions accept that the experience of wonder, reflected here, is the originating source of philosophy. In this new collection of haiku, Botswanan-born Anthea Pretorius, captures a variety of precious, but provocatively sombre insights into lived life at the tip of Africa. This collaboration of Japanese word art and African wisdom will keep you spellbound.”

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1120052613

2023-04-26

Published by Historical Publications Southern Africa, 2019.

BLURB: “The Reverend James Laing was one of the earliest missionaries of the Glasgow Missionary Society to arrive on the eastern frontier of South Africa in 1831. Like many other missionaries, he kept a daily journal until his death in 1872. This volume consists of the first six years of his journal, a tumultuous period on the Eastern Cape frontier. Laing was a private man who wrote considerably less about himself than about the amaXhosa whom he served, showing an insatiable interest in their language, genealogy, history, customs and societal structure. Together with his eventual mastery of isiXhosa, this gave him unparalleled insights into amaXhosa society. His close association with its leaders in the Amathole area allowed him to witness, during the years leading up to the Sixth Frontier War of Dispossession of 1834-1835, their growing suspicion, anger and hostility towards the colonial authorities' incursions and their retaliatory raids in return. These insights provide novel perspectives on the growing crisis on the frontier as well as on the brutal conduct of the war itself, including Laing's enforced move to the garrison town of Grahamstown throughout 1835.

Laing's interest, gentleness, sincerity and empathy earned him the trust of amaXhosa leaders like Maqoma, Suthu, Sandile and the many amaXhosa he encountered. When he died in 1872, an obituary published in isiXhosa referred to Laing as "Indoda ebisithanda" (the man who loved us).”

Sandra Rowoldt Shell was born in Zimbabwe and worked as a professional academic research librarian and archivist in African studies for several decades. She studied at the University of Cape Town where she was awarded her MA (2006) followed by her PhD (2013), both in history. She was a recipient of the Ernest Oppenheimer Trust Scholarship for Eastern Cape History, has published twenty-four articles (half of these in accredited journals), has chapters in ten books, has co-edited eleven books, and is the author of Protean Paradox: George Edward Cory (1862-1935): Navigating Life and South African History (Grahamstown: Rhodes University, 2017) and Children of Hope: The Odyssey of The Oromo Slave Children from Ethiopia to South Africa (Ohio, OH: Ohio University Press, 2018; Cape Town: UCT Press/Juta, 2019). She is presently Senior Research Associate (Cory Library), Rhodes University, South Africa.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1139391054

2023-04-19

Published by the Van Riebeeck Society, 2018.

BLURB: “In the last quarter of the eighteenth century, several foreign travellers explored the interior of southern Africa and published their views of the land, its people and VOC policies. One of these was Hendrik Swellengrebel Jr, son of a former Cape Governor. A well-educated and insightful advocate from the Netherlands, he visited the Cape's hinterland and the land of the Xhosa in 1776-7, with an eye to recommending how to develop the economy. His Journals of his three journeys and the accompanying aquarelles by his artist, Johannes Schumacher, are thus precise and richly informative about the land, its economy and its inhabitants and are presented here in the original Dutch and, for the first time, in an English translation.”

Gerrit Schutte is a graduate of the University of Utrecht and was Professor of the History of Dutch Protestantism at the Free University in Amsterdam. He is still Professor Extraordinarius in the Department of History at the University of South Africa. He has published studies and edited sources on the socio-cultural history of the Netherlands, the VOC and South Africa.

The VRS has previously published his Briefwisseling van Hendrik Swellengrebel Jr. or Kaapse Sake 1779-1792 (1983) and his Hendrik Cloete, Groot Constantia en die VOC, 1788-1799 (2003). Recently he contributed three chapters to Die VOC en die Kaap 1652-1795 (2016).

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1084850054

2023-04-12

Published by the Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2018.

BLURB: “The so-called 'Spanish' influenza epidemic of 1918 (tellingly dubbed 'Black October' by contemporaries in South Africa) was the worst disease episode ever to hit the country. Part of the global pandemic which killed about 3% of the world's inhabitants in little over a year, in hard-hit South Africa it claimed some 350,000 lives (or 5% of the population) in six weeks in September-October of 1918. During those dreadful weeks the country struggled to keep functioning in the face of this debilitating disease and consequent deaths. In flu-ravaged cities like Kimberley, Cape Town and Bloemfontein corpse-laden carts trundled through the streets to collect the dead and take them to hard-pressed cemeteries, scenes never seen before or since in the country; in the countryside silence reigned as deaths in kraals and on farms reduced helpless inhabitants to desperate straits. A whole generation of flu orphans appeared almost overnight.

This volume graphically captures this short but unprecedented crisis in South Africa's history through the memories of 127 survivors of the epidemic. Recorded on tape and in letters in the 1970s, these evoke the horror of 'Black October', providing unique, first-hand accounts of what these men and women saw and heard, how they coped medically, materially and psychologically and what mark this experience left on their lives. The memories of this very wide array of South Africans vividly evoke what it was like to live in and to live through a time of plague. As one survivor put it, 'That's worse than war’.”

Howard Phillips is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he taught, inter alia, the social history of medicine and disease in the Faculties of Humanities and Health Sciences. His curiosity about the then scarcely-known episode of 'Black October' was piqued when he was a postgraduate student at UCT in the 1970s and he subsequently went on to write the first scholarly work on the subject, 'Black October': The Impact of the Spanish Influenza Epidemic of 1918 on South Africa (1990), followed by several other works on this and related topics, viz. The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-19: New Perspectives (2003) and Plague, Pox and Pandemics: A Pocket History of Epidemics in South Africa (2012). He still lives in Cape Town.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1084965915

2023-04-05

Published by the Van Riebeeck Society for the Publication of Southern African Historical Documents, 2015.

BLURB: “The Russian view of the Cape as represented in this volume may be unique.

During the period in question, Russia had no cultural, political or economic ties with South Africa. Russians saw the Cape only as a convenient stopover en route to the Far East, to their country's distant domains that could not be reached by sea otherwise. The Cape was one of the 'exotic' lands they would visit on such journeys, their first and only introduction to the African continent.

Although amazed and perplexed by the 'entirely different world' they found here, Russian travellers would often draw unexpected parallels between life in their motherland and the realities of the Cape Colony.

The selections include memoirs of such important Russian personalities as Yuri Lisyansky, Vasily Golovnin, Ivan Goncharov and Konstantin Posyet. Most of the texts appear in English for the first time.”

Boris Gorelik is a Russian writer and researcher based in Moscow and Johannesburg. Born in Sverdlovsk (USSR), he received his MA in linguistics from the Moscow State University. In 2004, he was awarded with the Candidate of Sciences degree in history from the Institute for African Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences, for his research into the history of Russian immigration to South Africa.

Gorelik authored a comprehensive study of the Russian community in this country (Moscow, 2006) and a complete biography of artist Vladimir Tretchikoff (Cape Town; London, 2013). He also prepared and edited the new authorised version of David Grinker's memoir of Soweto in the 1960s-80s (Johannesburg, 2014).

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/931828056

2023-03-29

Published by Merlin Press, 2012.

BLURB: “ANC members found it very difficult to escape police surveillance after the Rivonia trial of Nelson Mandela and other leaders in 1963-64. But white people from outside South Africa—being unknown and unsuspected—could move about freely to do things for the ANC. London Recruits tells of the secret work they did: how they were recruited, their activities in South Africa and neighbouring countries, their motives and how they feel about it in retrospect.”

‘To this effort they brought their time, their skills, their knowledge, but most of all, their undoubted courage. They were drawn from different backgrounds and political formations on the left. What they shared was a readiness to risk life and limb in the struggle of another country. Working in self-contained cells that were unaware of each other, under the guidance of a small unit operating out of London, these dedicated women and men helped the liberation movement to rebuild its capacity inside South Africa at a time when repression had all but extinguished the embers of resistance.’

From the foreword by Z. Pallo Jordan.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/794134823

2023-03-22

Published by Penguin Books, 2016.

BLURB: “The armed struggle waged by the ANC's military wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), was the longest sustained insurgency in South African history. This book offers the first full account of the rebellion in its entirety, from its early days in the 1950s to the inauguration of Nelson Mandela as South African president in 1994.

Vast in scope, this story traverses every corner of South Africa and extends throughout southern Africa, where MK's largest campaigns and heaviest engagements occurred, as well as to the solidarity networks that the rebellion mobilised around the world.

Drawing principally from previously unpublished writings and testimonies by the men and women who fought the armed struggle, this book recreates the drama, heroism and tragedy of their experiences. It tells the story of leaders like Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Joe Slovo and Chris Hani, whose reputations were forged in the crucible of the armed struggle, but it is also a tale of martyrs such as Looksmart Ngudle, Ashley Kriel and Phila Ndwandwe, as well as of MK cadres such as Leonard Nkosi and Glory Sedibe, who would ultimately turn against the ANC and collaborate with the state in hunting down their former comrades.

Written in a fresh, immediate style, Umkhonto we Sizwe is an honest account of the armed struggle and a fascinating chronicle of events that changed South African history.”

Thula Simpson is a senior lecturer in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria and an editor of the South African Historical Journal.

His previous research on the ANC's armed struggle has been published in a number of journals, including the African Historical Review, African Studies, the Journal of Southern African Studies, the South African Historical Journal and Social Dynamics, as well as in edited book collections published by Wits University Press and the University of Cape Town Press. Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle is his first sole-authored book.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/942709562

2023-03-15

Published by AOSIS, 2016.

From the publisher: “The purpose of this book is to combine perspectives of scholars from Africa on Child Theologies from a variety of theological sub-disciplines to provide some theological and ministerial perspectives on this topic. The book disseminates original research and new developments in this study field, especially as relevant to the African context. In the process it addresses also the global need to hear voices from Africa in this academic field. It wants to convey the importance of considering Africa's children in theologising.

The different chapters represent diverse methodologies but the central and common focus is to approach the subject from the viewpoint of Africa's children. The individual authors' varied theological sub-disciplinary dispositions contribute to the unique and distinct character of the book. Almost all chapters are theoretical orientated with less empirical research, although some of the chapters refer to empirical research which the authors have done in the past.

Most of the academic literature in the field of Theologies of Childhood is from American or British- European origin. The African context is fairly absent in this discourse, although it is the youngest continent and presents unique and relevant challenges. This book was written by theological scholars from Africa, focussing on Africa's children. It addresses not only theoretical challenges in this field but also provides theological perspectives for ministry with children and for important social change.

Written from a variety of theological sub-disciplines, the book is aimed at scholars across theological sub- disciplines, especially those theological scholars interested in the intersections between theology, childhood studies and African cultural or social themes. It addresses themes and provide insights that is also relevant for specialist leaders and professionals in this field.”

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/982239490

2023-03-08

Published by AuthorHouse, 2012.

“You are about to read a much-needed book that will open your eyes to the Africa that has been hidden from us. Thinking out of the box of Western thought pattern, Dr. Jonathan has been able to give to the world this revolutionary masterpiece in the intellectual history of Africa. By systematizing African science he has emphasized that more than one cock crows. We may therefore call him the Demiurge of new African renaissance.”

Mary Nelson, Sankofa Directions, Houston Texas, USA

“With this towering intellectual accomplishment, Dr. Jonathan Chimakonam has not only proven that Africans are capable of revolutionary thoughts but has emerged as one of the leading original thinkers on the continent. In fact, in this piece of adorable literature, Jonathan could be said to have done for Africa what thinkers like Francis Bacon did for the West.

Prof. G. O. Ozumba, Head - Department of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Nigeria

 “This book is a great exploration into a rich repository of wisdom and knowledge which needs to be recaptured. It is African renaissance that will reposition Africa in the world of technology and development. This is both challenging and refreshing. With emerging scholars like Jonathan, there is hope for Africa! Hakuna Matata!”

Venerable Professor Udobata Onunwa, Director - International Center for the Study of African Languages and Culture, Birmingham, UK

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/865576079

2023-03-01

Published by Tafelberg, 2019.

BLURB: “For the Love of the Land introduces South Africans to the heroes of agriculture. A diverse crop of farmers from across the country share complex, layered stories about heritage and land, at times surviving traumas like land dispossession and forced labour and the more current spectre of violent farm crimes. From the small farms to the agri-businesses who feed South Africa against the odds, this book relays the power of land to heal, by telling stories that are often overlooked.”

Ivor Price is a well-loved name in Afrikaans media. He is a TV and Radio Presenter, Columnist and Co-founder of FoodForMzansi.co.za. The former SABC2 News Anchor also presented the first four seasons of Landbouweekliks, a DStv show, in which he criss-crossed the country to interview the movers and shakers of Mzansi’s agricultural industry. Other career highlights include a stint in London as a Foreign Correspondent and publishing leading community newspapers in Stellenbosch.

Kobus Louwrens is an award-winning journalist who has published leading magazines and community newspapers in both South Africa and East Africa. As Strategy Director for a Cape Town-based digital marketing agency, Kobus has developed breakthrough digital marketing strategies for numerous agricultural, wine and tourism brands. As the Co-founder of FoodForMzansi.co.za he believes in the power of agriculture as a bedrock industry that can enhance social cohesion.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1127906360

2023-02-22

Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2019.

BLURB: “The price exacted from across the African subcontinent for South Africa's stalled 20th-century industrial revolution is, in human terms, still largely hidden from history. For half a century, up to the mid-1950s, privately operated trains travelled by night between Ressano Garcia, on the Mozambique border, and Booysens station, in Johannesburg. The night trains carried Mozambicans recruited to work in the mines of the booming Witwatersrand. The up-trains disgorged their human cargo into the maw of the great Rand mining machine, while the down-trains whisked away the time-expired miners—often ill, broken or insane, and preyed on by con men, petty criminals and corrupt officials. While mine labour was recruited from all over southern Africa, Mozambican migrants made up the largest component, and they paid the highest price.

Charles van Onselen clinically reconstructs the world of the night trains, which were run as a partnership between the mining houses and the railways. By tracing the up and down rail journeys undertaken by black migrants over half a century it is possible to discern how racial thinking, expressed logistically, reflected South Africa's evolving systems of segregation and apartheid. Mirroring the brutal logic of industrial capitalism, this was a system of transport designed to maximise profit at the expense of the health, well-being and even the lives of those it conveyed.

The story of the night trains echoes today through songs such as ‘Stimela’ and 'Shosholoza'. But the experience of the poverty-stricken Mozambicans who travelled on the trains has never been told. The Night Trains lays bare this hellish world.”

Charles van Onselen is the author of several award-winning books, including The Fox and the Flies, Masked Raiders and The Seed is Mine, which was voted one of the hundred best books to come out of Africa in the 20th century, He has been elected to visiting fellowships at Cambridge, Harvard, Oxford and Yale universities and has been Research Professor in the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship (CAS) at the University of Pretoria for the past two decades.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1114353543

2023-02-15

Published by Jacana, [2012] 2020.

BLURB: “This is the first history of epidemics in South Africa—lethal episodes that significantly shaped this society over three centuries. Focusing on five devastating diseases between the 1700s and today—smallpox, bubonic plague, Spanish flu, polio and HIV/AIDS—the book probes their origin, their catastrophic course and their consequences in both the short and long term.

As each of these epidemics occurred at crucial moments in the country's history—early in European colonisation, in the midst of the mineral revolution, during the South African War and World War I, as industrialisation got under way, and within the eras of apartheid and post-apartheid—the  author also examines how these processes affected and were affected by the five epidemics. South African history should not look the same to readers after they have finished this book.”

Howard Phillips is a professor in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town, where he pioneered research in and the teaching of the social history of medicine and disease.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/798920259

2023-02-08

Published by Wits University Press, 2020.

BLURB: “Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Global South cities are often characterised as sites of contradiction and difference that produce a range of feelings around anxiety. This is often imagined in terms of the global Northʹs anxieties about the South: migration, crime, terrorism, disease and environmental crisis. Anxious Joburg invites readers to consider an intimate perspective of living inside such a city. How does it feel to live in the metropolis of Johannesburg: what are the conditions, intersections, affects and experiences that mark the contemporary urban?

Scholars, visual artists and storytellers, all look at unexamined aspects of Johannesburg life. From peripheral settlements to the inner city to the affluent northern suburbs, from precarious migrants and domestic workers to upwardly mobile young women and fearful elites, Anxious Joburg presents an absorbing engagement with this frustrating, dangerous, seductive city. It offers a rigorous, critical approach to Johannesburg revealing the way in which anxiety is a vital structuring principle of contemporary life.”

Nicky Falkof is an associate professor in Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is the author of The End of Whiteness: Satanism and Family Murder in Late Apartheid South Africa. Cobus van Staden is a senior researcher at the South African Institute of International Affairs and a visiting lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1222893692

2023-02-01

Published by Tafelberg, 2020.

BLURB: “Hermann Giliomee, pre-eminent South African historian, dissects the forces that shaped the Afrikaners into an unusual 'maverick African' nation. In part one of this collection, he analyses long-term forces like the powerful legal position of Afrikaner women, the expanding frontier that gave rise to individualism and later to republicanism, and the struggles about race inside the Dutch Reformed Church.

The second part examines controversial aspects of more recent Afrikaner political history, including the alleged civil service purges after 1948, Nationalist corruption, the Absa 'Lifeboat' and the quality of Afrikaner leadership. Finally, there is a chapter on the ‘broken heart’ of the Afrikaner community.”

Hermann Giliomee is a renowned historian. His bestselling The Afrikaners was published to international acclaim and adapted into a popular television documentary. He was a Fellow at Yale, Cambridge and the Woodrow Wilson Centre in Washington DC.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1140726187

2023-01-25

Published by Porcupine Press, 2022.

BLURB: “This field guide, a companion to Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses - A Military Engineer's Perspective, reviews key blockhouses left standing in South Africa. A first-of-its-kind guide, it can be used for virtual visits to learn more about these military structures, or better still to get ‘boots on the ground'. Its main aim is to put the blockhouse sites on the battlefield tour map and to encourage professional guides and amateurs alike to explore them in detail or make them a stop-off on a longer trip.

Built 120 years ago, these temporary structures occupied for years by the lonely and bored ‘Tommy Atkins' have a story to tell, of military industrial proportions. The author visited virtually every site, excepting only a few whose isolation and inaccessibility speak volumes about the challenges offered by the South African veld to the combatants.

The guide also acts as a record of the current condition of the sites, all sadly having been ravaged by human destruction and the inexorable effects of weather and the passage of time. Thirty of them are protected by government legislation which has proved ineffective. One day, indeed, this guide may be all that remains of an aspect of our national heritage that we are in danger of failing to preserve.”

Simon C Green was born in Jersey and educated at Welbeck College. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Technology from The Open University and a Master's Degree in Information Systems from Canfield University.

Commissioned at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1978 into the Royal Corps of Signals, he served for nearly 30 years in military appointments in Europe, Brunei, and South Africa. He worked extensively in major military headquarters, giving him a unique insight into the staff who fight wars at a strategic level. He was also involved in training staff officers in operational leader- ship and war-gaming to develop and hone their war-fighting tactics at lower levels of command. He retired from military service in 2006 and settled in South Africa to pursue his passion for military history and writing.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1328032705

2023-01-18

Published by Porcupine Press, 2020.

BLURB: “Anglo-Boer War Blockhouses is a fresh analytical look at how the construction of over 9,000 small fortifications during the Anglo-Boer War sought to change its course. The author examines all aspects of the South African blockhouses during the war: how the initial concept of protecting key bridges morphed into mass-produced, low-cost, pre-fabricated forts deployed in long lines across the veld; how they were built, manned and operated in a system designed to defeat roving Boer commandos.

The evolution of the 'blockhouse strategy' used by Lord Kitchener during the guerrilla phase of the war is examined as part of the wider strategy used to bring the war to its conclusion. Detailed analysis through the lens of a military expert finally answers the question 'Did the blockhouses win the war, or were they - in the words of the British Army's nemesis, General Christiaan de Wet - merely the strategy of a blockhead?'

From tracing the use of blockhouses prior to the war, to describing the conditions enjoyed by the average 'Tommy' living and fighting in these structures, to recording their post-war dismantling or preservation, this is a deep dive into a topic previously little explored.”

Simon C Green was born in Jersey and educated at Welbeck College. He holds a BSc (Hons) in Technology from The Open University and a Master's Degree in Information Systems from Canfield University.

Commissioned at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in 1978 into the Royal Corps of Signals, he served for nearly 30 years in military appointments in Europe, Brunei, and South Africa. He worked extensively in major military headquarters, giving him a unique insight into the staff who fight wars at a strategic level. He was also involved in training staff officers in operational leader- ship and war-gaming to develop and hone their war-fighting tactics at lower levels of command. He retired from military service in 2006 and settled in South Africa to pursue his passion for military history and writing.

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1241069040

2023-01-11

Published by BestRed, an imprint of HSRC Press, 2020.

BLURB: “Who or what is a public intellectual and how are they created? What is the role of the public intellectual in social, cultural, political and academic contexts? What are the kinds of questions they raise? What compels intellectuals to put forward their ideas?

The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa is a pioneering volume, representing a rich tapestry of South Africans who were able to rise beyond narrow formulations of identity into a larger sense of what it means to be human. Each brief portrait provides readers with an opportunity to consider the context, influences and unique tensions that shaped the people assembled here. In its entirety, the book showcases an astonishing array of achievements and bears testimony to the deep imprint of these public intellectuals. As South Africans continue to grapple with their past, present and future, it is clear that the insights of these remarkable people into reimagining an inclusive society continue to be relevant today.”

Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1202230781

2023-01-04