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Published by ESI Press, 2023.
BLURB: “De Aar: Lines of Architecture in the Making of a South African Town (1902–1977) reconstructs the history of a former railway town located in, what is today, the Northern Cape province of South Africa. This town is a remarkably early example of modern urban planning in South Africa, which was at heart an exercise in spatial segregation. The book investigates historical maps, plans, and blueprints to narrate De Aar’s urban development and discusses how state officials, politicians, and town planners imagined, conceptualised, ordered, and regulated the town of De Aar and its inhabitants. The close-up view reveals the specific process of establishing both ‘White’ and ‘non-White’ neighbourhoods that—while heavily regulated and subjected to recurrent forced removals—saw the emergence of complex systems of land tenure, property rights, and differential access to housing. By highlighting Black residents’ role in shaping the built environment and social fabric of De Aar, the book expands and enlivens the graphic archive of Northern Cape urban planning.”
Giorgio Miescher is the Carl Schlettwein Foundation Senior Lecturer and Research Fellow for Namibian and Southern African Studies and the Centre for African Studies of the University of Basel, and a research associate with the University of Namibia. He has published widely on the history of southern Africa, with a special focus on historical geography and visuality.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1439022794
2024-12-27
Published by CSA&G Press, 2020.
BLURB: “Social Justice Stories: Young People Reflect on HIV, Sexualities, Gender, Race and Inequality is the result of a partnership between young people, the South African Schools Debating Board and the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G) at the University of Pretoria - through its Just Leaders student volunteer programme.
The energy, enthusiasm and sense of justice in young people is infectious, and critical to a functioning society based on freedom of speech, fairness and dignity, determined to redress the imbalances of the past.
Full consent was obtained from the writers and their parents/guardians for these stories to be published.”
Pierre Brouard is a research associate at the CSA&G. He is a registered Clinical Psychologist. He has worked in HIV since the mid-1980s and at the CSA&G since 2001 as a manager, researcher, writer, facilitator and teacher. His interests include sexualities, gender, diversity, transformation and human rights. From 2001, Pierre was the Deputy Director of the CSA&G and acted as the Director from January 2023 until his retirement in August 2024. His continued work with the CSA&G primarily focuses on the Africa-Europe Cluster of Research Excellence for Health, Gender and Sexualities.
Dr Bettina Buabeng-Baidoo graduated with an MBChB (with distinction) from the University of Pretoria in 2020. She subsequently earned a Master’s degree in Public Health with distinction from the University of Cape Town in 2023, supported by the prestigious Mandela-Rhodes scholarship.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1348992656
2024-12-18
Published by ESI Press, 2023.
SYNOPSIS: “Thetha Sizwe invites readers to rethink and reimagine the play of power, firmly rooted in the triad of African languages, genders and sexualities. ‘Thetha Sizwe’, loosely interpreted as ‘let your voice be heard’, opens up spaces for fresh and active debate and discussion that inform the complexities and contestations of language. As a linguistic injunction, ‘thetha sizwe’ is not purely a communicative plea but directs the reader (and listener) to the politics of voice, silence, and indeed, the capacity to hear and listen.
The volume explores and problematises contemporary and current debates that shape African languages and literature by investigating assumptions and received notions, with deliberate attention to breaking out of dominant models that pose limits on further debate. The rich assembly of essays provide provocative and nuanced engagements with questions of morphology, syntax, and the meanings of prescribed texts for secondary schools. All arguments unequivocally coalesce around the politics of African languages in the context of feminist and gendered epistemologies and decolonial humanities. Arising out of this engagement is a volume that spotlights local (and some continental languages) as crucial to global shifts in decolonial struggles that aim to re-imagine new worlds.”
Siseko H. Kumalo is a lecturer at the University of Fort Hare's Department of Philosophy, currently completing his PhD (at the University of Pretoria) in which he interrogates belonging and national identity in South Africa. He is the recipient of the Harvard South African Fellowship 2022/2023. Kumalo received his formative training at Rhodes University, where he read in Political and International Studies, Anthropology and Philosophy. His research and teaching interests centre around themes of education decolonisation in the South African academy. He served as the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Decolonising Disciplines and has presented his research at world-leading institutions, having spoken at Duke University's (USA) Center for International and Global Studies and lectured at Karolinska Institutet (Sweden) in their master's in global health programme, teaching on the subject of decolonising global health. Kumalo's most recent edited collections include Decolonisation as Democratisation: Global Insights into the South African Experience (HSRC Press, 2021), Decolonising Curricula and Pedagogy in Higher Education: Bringing Decolonial Theory into Contact with Teaching Practice (with Shannon Morreira, Kathy Luckett and Manjeet Ramgotra, Routledge, 2021) and University on the Border: Crisis of Authority and Precarity (with Lis Lange and Vasu Reddy, SUN PReSS, 2021). He serves on the Editorial Collective of Stilet, the Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Association and the Literary Association of South Africa's Executive Committee.
Gabi Mkhize is a senior lecturer in the School of Social Sciences at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN). She is also an Academic Leader for the Development Cluster, where she is an HoD of Economic History, History, Gender Studies and Information Studies. She holds a PhD in Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies from the Ohio State University, USA. She has several peer-reviewed journal and book chapter publications on gender and sexuality. Her publications and research interests include gender and development, gendered violence, identity politics, gender and disability, gender and tourism, intersectionality and critical Black feminist thought.
Vasu Reddy is Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Internationalisation at the University of the Free State and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria. He is also a research associate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Pretoria. His research interests are gender, sexualities, poverty/inequalities, HIV/AIDS and critical food studies. He is an NRF BI-rated scholar. Beyond articles in these areas, his more recent book-length publications are Queer in Africa: LGBTQI Identities, Citizenship and Activism (with Zethu Matebeni and Surya Monro, Routledge, 2018); Queer Kinship: South African Perspectives on the Sexual Politics of Family-Making and Belonging (with Tracy Morison and Ingrid Lynch, UNISA Press and Routledge, 2018); State of the Nation: Poverty and Inequalities-Diagnosis, Prognosis, Responses (with Crain Soudien and Ingrid Woolard, HSRC Press, 2019); The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa (lead editor with Narnia Bohler-Muller, Greg Houston, Maxi Schoeman and Heather Thuynsma, HSRC Press, 2020); State of the Nation: Ethics, Politics, Inequalities: New Directions (with Narnia Bohler-Muller and Crain Soudien, HSRC Press, 2021), University on the Border: Crisis of Authority and Precarity (with Lis Lange and Siseko Kumalo, SUN PReSS, 2021) and Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa (with Narnia Bohler-Muller, Greg Houston, Maxi Schoeman and Heather Thuynsma, HSRC Press, 2022).
Nompumelelo (Mpume) Zondi is a professor and Head of the Department of African Languages at the University of Pretoria. She holds a PhD from UKZN. An NRF-rated scholar, Zondi is also a recipient of the Fulbright South African Researcher Scholar Program (2022-2023) hosted by The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. She is also a qualified teacher from Eshowe College of Education where she passed a Secondary Teachers' Diploma with Distinction. Zondi's research focus area is traditional and modern literature. She is particularly passionate about advocating for women's and children's rights and alleviating gender-based inequalities, using literary tools to address social ills. She has written and delivered papers on these subjects in both locally and internationally acclaimed and accredited journals. Her recent monograph, Bahlabelelelani-Why Do They Sing? Gender and Power in Contemporary Women's Songs (2020), deconstructs her doctoral thesis (2008), which uniquely contributed to unlocking women's agency in rural KwaZulu-Natal. Published by UKZN Press and financially supported by the NIHSS, the book contributes to gender discourse while nuancing the meaning of Zulu womanhood in a patriarchal society.
Evangeline B. Zungu is an associate professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. An NRF-rated scholar, her research interests are in sociolinguistics, onomastics, Indigenous knowledge systems and literature. She has published in local and international journals in these thematic areas within the discipline(s) of linguistics and sociolinguistics. Her recent monograph, published by UKZN Press and titled Zulu Names, Polygyny and Gender Politics in Traditional Societies (2021), brings to the fore a number of challenges facing rural women and how they turn to anthroponyms to vent their pent-up emotions.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1425873810
2024-12-11
Published by the Institute for Security Studies, 2019.
“Maxi Schoeman is very much a scholar, teacher and leader without much honour in her own profession. To me, she has been a teacher, friend and mentor. The undiscovered country: essays in honour of Maxi Schoeman is a generous-spirited and cheerful swansong to someone who is well deserving of such an honour. There are many of us who have crossed Maxi's path in various ways over the years who have been influenced in one way or another by her person, warmth, intellect and political insights. This collection makes important contributions to the discipline—and, as is appropriate, builds on Schoeman's own insights. The essays represent a rich repertoire of analysis written with clarity, plain humanity and passion in a fitting tribute to Maxi on the occasion of her 65" birthday.” ~ Ambassador Kingsley Makhubela
Vasu Reddy is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Internationalisation of the University of the Free State. His research interests and focus of work are in human development and identity-marker issues (gender, sexuality, HIV, and diversity) and the humanities that also address policy dimensions. Some of his recent book-length publications are From Social Silence to Social Science: Gender, Same-Sex Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in South Africa (2009); The Country We Want to Live In: Hate Crimes and Homophobia in the Lives of Black Lesbian South Africans (2010) and Women as champions of change: A Civil Society programme of action for the African women's decade (2014). Between 2007 and 2022 Prof Reddy was involved in obtaining substantive research funds which contributed to numerous projects, including topics such as gender-based violence, affirmative action, poverty, food security, sexuality, education, public intellectuals, and equality, to name a few.
Heather Thuynsma is a lecturer in Political Sciences and Communications Manager in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1434249554
2024-12-02
Published by ESI Press, 2023.
BLURB: “In light of the changing face and internationalisation of our student body and their concomitant needs, this book attempts to foreground both the strides made in the field, as well as the important questions and debates confronting writing centre practitioners in the South African higher education arena. The latter demands that we review and reimagine the support we currently provide. Reimaging, however, forces us to wrestle with the challenges that are inherent in work of this nature and to be vocal about the difficult questions that must be asked and answered if we want to provide socially just solutions to our students’ writing challenges. The onset of COVID-19 also imposed on our daily practices and required a hasty re-evaluation of our service provision.
The aim of this volume is to further conversations and research on the notion of the inter-nationalisation of writing centres and the necessity to focus on the key issues of multilingualism, discipline-based writing, social justice, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as specialised consultant/tutor training. Writing centres at South African universities have established themselves as fundamental to the support and development of our students. Thus, the time is ripe for us as writing centre practitioners in the South African context to continue writing our own writing centre narrative, grapple with context-specific issues and questions, and provide context-specific answers and solutions that speak to the lived realities of our students. We hope to achieve this through this book.
Avasha Rambiritch is a Senior Lecturer in the Unit for Academic Literacy at the University of Pretoria where she teaches a number of academic literacy and academic writing modules at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She is also the coordinator of the writing centre. She has a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics (Language Practice) and has published a number of research articles in accredited journals, as well as co-authored two book chapters published by reputable international publishers. Her research interests include academic writing, writing centres and social justice as well as language testing. She is an associate of ICELDA (Inter-Institutional Centre for Language Development and Assessment), a partnership of four multilingual South African universities (Pretoria, North-West, Stellenbosch and Free State) and NExLA (Network of Expertise in Language Testing). She is also the Assistant Editor of the Journal for Language Teaching.
Laura Drennan is a Lecturer in the Division of Languages, Literacies and Languages at the Wits School of Education. She holds a Ph.D. in English Language Studies and academic literacy development and teaches various literacy and language courses at undergraduate and postgraduate level. She has several publications in the fields of academic literacy and academic writing development, as well as language testing. Laura is a member of the Network of Expertise in Language Assessment (NexLA), the International Writing Centres Association (IWCA), as well as a member and co-founder of the South African Association for Academic Literacy Practitioners (SAAALP).
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1426285725
2024-11-27
Published by HSRC Press, 2014.
BLURB: “Care in Context is a thought-provoking book that looks at gender inequalities in the context of care. Drawing in part from unique transnational perspectives and gripping interviews, this book focuses on key questions that intellectuals, policy makers and all of us who care and need care have to ask, such as: What is good care? Who should be involved in providing it? And how should care be arranged and organized so that that the interests of both care givers and care recipients are equally provided for?
Care is indispensable to human flourishing. Without it we cannot survive. Care is vital to the development of all individuals and to that of the broader society. Increasing economic and health problems have also contributed to mounting care crises in different parts of the world. With this view, the book offers fresh and nuanced perspectives and is a must read for all those affected by issues of care."
Stephan Meyer has been associated to the Zentrum Gender Studies at the University of Basel. He has taught philosophy, gender studies and English in South Africa and Switzerland. His main interests are contemporary critical theory, narrative identity and academic discourse.
Thenjiwe Meyiwa served as research director in the Education and Skills Development unit of the Human Sciences Research Council, South Africa, and as honorary professor at the Durban University of Technology, South Africa. Her areas of research interest include feminist theory, self-study, indigenous knowledges, cultural constructions of gender and the impact of HIV and AIDS on parenting, women and home caregivers.
Vasu Reddy is the Deputy Vice-Chancellor: Research and Internationalisation of the University of the Free State. His research interests and focus of work are in human development and identity-marker issues (gender, sexuality, HIV, and diversity) and the humanities that also address policy dimensions. Some of his recent book-length publications are From Social Silence to Social Science: Gender, Same-Sex Sexuality and HIV/AIDS in South Africa (2009); The Country We Want to Live In: Hate Crimes and Homophobia in the Lives of Black Lesbian South Africans (2010) and Women as champions of change: A Civil Society programme of action for the African women's decade (2014). Between 2007 and 2022 Prof Reddy was involved in obtaining substantive research funds which contributed to numerous projects, including topics such as gender-based violence, affirmative action, poverty, food security, sexuality, education, public intellectuals, and equality, to name a few.
Tamara Shefer served as a professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies, and deputy dean of teaching and learning in the Arts Faculty of the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her interdisciplinary research and publications, grounded in feminist and critical psychology, critical masculinities and gender studies, are primarily in the areas of young heterosexualities and gender transformation; sexual violence; and gendered, sexualised and raced subjectivities in South African contexts. Her publications include Books and/or Babies: Pregnancy and Young Parenting in Schools (2012), co-edited with Robert Morrell and Deevia Bhana.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/893080112
2024-11-20
BLURB: “The public intellectuals featured in The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa are distinguished by the differing contexts and issues that shaped their lives, and the period during which they began to play prominent roles and shape public discourse. This volume intends to provoke rather than provide definitive answers to the topic, idea and subject of public intellectuals in an African context. It provides a motivation of these thinkers and how their insights reimagine an inclusive society in the theatre of ideas. Those assembled in this volume are, in our view, people who ultimately leave deep imprints on what it means to be human in a very complex and divided society.”
Narnia Bohler-Muller is the Executive Director of the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council. She is also adjunct Professor of the Nelson R Mandela School of Law at the University of Fort Hare and a Research Fellow with the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of Free State.
Gregory Houston is a Chief Research Specialist in the Developmental, Capable and Ethical State research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council and a Research Fellow in the History Department at the University of Free State.
Vasu Reddy is Professor of Sociology, and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria.
Maxi Schoeman is Emeritus Professor of Political Sciences, a former HOD Political Sciences (2000 – 2016) and Deputy Dean, Postgraduate Studies and Ethics (2016 – 2019) in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria.
Heather Thuynsma is a lecturer in Political Sciences and Communications Manager in the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1350638391
2024-11-12
Published by ESI Press, 2023.
BLURB: “This book focuses on distance education research, a dire need in the field, especially in Africa and other developing contexts. 'Distance education' in this book has been used as an umbrella term for any form of education in which there is a separation between the teacher and the learner, which necessitates the use of media. The authors from a range of African countries and international experts who have had a stint of their career in developing contexts, borrowing from their wealth of experience, discuss research trends in distance education in their milieu, identifying the gaps and how this mode of delivery can be strengthened. By so doing, their passion for quality which has been a major area of concern in the field was brought to the fore. They have reiterated the fact that it is possible to enhance quality in this mode of delivery by not only conducting research but also applying its findings to theory, practice, and policy.”
Volume 1 deals with three thematic sections:
Volume 2 continues this work and focuses on these three sections:
Dr Folake Ruth Aluko is a researcher within the Unit for Distance Education at the University of Pretoria. She manages the quality of the institution's distance education (DE) programmes. Ruth facilitates training and workshops and is involved in the evaluation of DE (Open Distance Learning [ODL]) programmes. Ruth is a co-editor of the books Assuring Institutional Quality in Open Distance Learning in the Developing Contexts and Exploring Dual and Mixed Mode Provision of Distance Education. She is the Chief Editor of the Teacher Education through Flexible Learning (in Africa and other Developing contexts) open journal, and she has served two terms as President of the National Association of Distance Education in Southern Africa (NADEOSA). Ruth is also the Treasurer of the Distance Education Association of Southern Africa (DEASA). Her research focus areas include quality management of ODL programmes, mobile learning, access, social justice, programme evaluation, student support, and teacher professional development. Ruth is a National Research Foundation (NRF) rated researcher.
Prof. Daniella Coetzee is currently retired and a research associate at the Free State University in South Africa. She was formerly the Head of the Department of Philosophy and Policy Studies, the Dean of the School of Open Learning, and the Principal of the Free State University's campus of open learning until 2020. She was the President of the National Association of Distance Education and Open Learning in South Africa (NADEOSA) from 2018 to 2019 and formerly President of the Education Association of South Africa (EASA). Her publications focus on policy studies in education, ideology critique, and open distance learning. She supervised more than fifty MEd and PhD students in Philosophy of Education and is currently conducting research in Higher Education in South Africa.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1461738899
2024-11-06
Published by ESI Press, 2022.
Synopsis: “Discrimination is a worldwide phenomenon that cuts across communities, cultures, religions and societies. Throughout the centuries, people in almost every context have faced discrimination based on gender, religion, ethnicity, sexuality, race and other factors. Religion, which ought to propagate and promote peace, unity and reconciliation, has unfortunately contributed to conflict, intolerance, religious violence and discrimination globally. Taking cognizance of its own checkered history of exclusion over the years, in 2017 the Faculty of Theology and Religion adopted as its centenary theme “Gateway to __ ”. The idea was to reflect on ‘open gates’ which speak to the deliberate desire to promote equity, inclusiveness and diversity. With regard to this endeavour, the Faculty has travelled far in working for justice, inclusivity and transformation.
The University of Pretoria has adopted a comprehensive anti-discrimination policy. One aspect of the initiative to publicise the policy was that the Faculty of Theology and Religion spearhead a drive to examine anti-discrimination from a faith perspective. Thus, in September 2021 the Faculty hosted a webinar that addressed various themes of anti-discrimination. This publication is an outcome of that initiative, in which some Faculty staff members contributed to conversations about anti-discrimination from different angles.”
Mary Crewe founded the Centre for the Study of AIDS in 1999. Trained in education and critical and social theory, she retired at the end of 2020. Prof Crewe authored one of the early books on AIDS in South Africa, produced many articles, and helped to organise and present at many national and international meetings and conferences.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1335528219
2024-10-30
Published by ESI Press, 2023.
BLURB: “The casebook for the Institute for Imbecile Children, and the casebooks of the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum constitutes one of South Africa’s largest archived records for people with intellectual disability (PWID) who were institutionalised from 1890 to 1920. In I See You Rory du Plessis testifies how the viewing of the casebooks’ content and photographs gave rise to a personal recognition of the personhood of the PWID. His testimony takes the form of poetry that is composed to honour and memorialize each individual person who is included in this album.”
Rory dy Plessis is a Senior Lecturer in Visual Studies at the School of the Arts, University of Pretoria. He is a NRF-rated scholar, the co-editor of the academic journal, Image & Text, and author of Pathways of Patients at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890 to 1907.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1420110298
2024-10-23
Published by ESI Press, 2022.
BLURB: “This is the first collection of writing by various academics from the University of Pretoria about reimagining the University and how it may look in the future. Reimagining the institution requires novel ways of thinking and engaging in debates about change, continuity, knowledge and excellence. These opinion pieces, thoughts and reflections about the University were shared by staff members and other collections will be published as contributions are received.”
Mary Crewe founded the Centre for the Study of AIDS in 1999. Trained in education and critical and social theory, she retired at the end of 2020. Prof Crewe authored one of the early books on AIDS in South Africa, produced many articles, and helped to organise and present at many national and international meetings and conferences.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1335467779
2024-10-16
Published by Fountain Publishers, 2022.
BLURB: “This remarkable, wide-ranging book is an insightful intellectual history of Makerere University and a welcome rejoinder to Uganda’s political leaders, who routinely disparage the academic study of the humanities. Historicising the Humanities shows how, over time, humanistic scholarship has shaped public life. The distinguished group of authors unpack the changing logic of the university curriculum with care and confidence, but this book is anything but a mundane exercise in bureaucratic recollection. The authors show how Uganda’s disparate people have made claims on the university, demanding access to knowledge that could advance projects and arguments outside the university’s gates. More than other universities, Makerere has never been an ivory tower, isolated from the pressures of real life. To the contrary: in different registers, in different disciplinary homes, and using different methods, Makerere scholars and students have created knowledge that responded to the demands of the moment.”
Josephine Ahikire is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies at the School of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University. She is currently the principal, of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences. She is an Honorary Professor at the Centre for Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy, Nelson Mandela University. Her scholarship has centred on feminist imperatives in politics, land, livelihoods, and cultural studies. Her current research network includes 'Gender Justice and Security', London School of Economics and 'Effective States and Inclusive Development, Manchester University. She has co-edited a book, Controlling Consent: Uganda's 2016 Elections, published by Africa World Press (2017).
Levis Mugumya is a Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics, English Language Studies and Communication Skills. His research interests include professional and academic writing, discourse analysis, media genres, evaluative language, as well as language and conflict. He has been coordinating the Historicising the Humanities at Makerere University since 1922 research project. His recent publication, 'Stealing money' or embezzling public funds: Construing sleaze in the Ugandan press via legalese, has appeared in Journalism (2020).
Edgar Fred Nabutanyi is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Department of Literature, Makerere University. His teaching interests are in Children's Literature, Critical Theory, Practical Criticism, and Media Studies and his research interests focus on public discourses in the public sphere regarding how fiction and media are subverted and assimilated by vulnerable and minority subjectivities for self-enunciation. He is also interested in new Ugandan writing, especially narratives that thematically and stylistically subvert the canon of science fiction.
Peter Atekyereza is a Professor of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University. He has taught courses in Sociological Theory, Sociology of the Family, Rural Sociology and Rural Development, Programme Development and Management. His research interests focus on the African family, sexual and reproductive health, urban agriculture and livelihoods, and livelihoods and vulnerability. He has headed the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Makerere University and is a Fellow of Uganda National Academy of Sciences.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1406017873
2024-10-09
Published by ESI Press, 2023.
BLURB: “This publication is a compilation of some of the submissions to the three UP Archives Covid-19 competitions which ran from 2020 to 2022, reflecting in a variety of formats the impact which the pandemic had on the community of the University of Pretoria. The writing and photographs offer many windows into the experiences of so many who make up this community.
The original calls for submission to the various competitions have also been included as an introduction to the written and visual contributions. The written submissions from 2021 and 2022 have been arranged roughly chronologically, interpolated with photographs from the original 2020 competition. While some attention has been given to smoothing over grammatical gremlins, the pieces have been largely left as they were entered into the UPA Covid-19 competition. This is to preserve the voice, style and context of those who wrote for future generations.
These pages reflect not only personal loss, suffering and loneliness, but also remarkable perseverance, endurance and optimism in the face of isolation, restriction and both physical and emotional challenges.”
Dr Bronwyn Strydom works as an archivist in the University of Pretoria Archives. She completed her DPhil in History, focusing on the early history of the University of Pretoria and two post-doctoral fellowships also investigating the history of universities in South Africa. She has been a lecturer both in History and History Education. Her responsibilities in the University of Pretoria Archives include the curation of the Art Archives collection and the oversight of UP collections in the Archives' Groenkloof Campus holdings.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1426006195
2024-10-02
Published by ESI Press, 2023.
BLURB: “The poems in Umalisi were conceived and written in Xhosa because the central subject of the collection was a Xhosa woman who spoke Xhosa to the author throughout his life. One of the threads holding the collection together is the pervasive experience of love, loss, grief, and the eventual getting on with life, which inevitably follows. The memories and moments captured in the poems articulate various aspects of this journey. It is unfortunate that many people can relate to these seminal life-shaping experiences of loss in one way or another as life offers these as part of the process of becoming, of growing up, of living, and of making meaning of it all.
Among other things, through these experiences we gain great insight into and about ourselves and our world. We learn about our vulnerabilities and inter-connectedness; we learn the meaning of the relationships we have with family, friends, community, and society at large; we learn to hurt, to break down, to cry, to trust, to hold on to and support one another, to encourage and challenge each other and in so doing to enable life for us all.
In the end, Umalusi is a celebration of a mother—and of the author's mother in particular.”
Edwin T. Smith was born and raised in East London, and was exiled in the mid-1980s. A graduate of the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), the ANC school in Morogoro, Tanzania, he worked for the ANC’s Department of Education in Lusaka, Zambia before leaving for the United States of America in 1990. During his nine years in the United States, he studied and later worked at Rutgers University in various capacities of which the last was as Director of Rutgers University’s Council for Southern Africa, which was Rutgers University's southern Africa international studies programme.
In 1999 Smith returned to South Africa where he served as the Spokesperson- for the Minister of Trade and Industry and as Director: Media Liaison. He joined the University of Pretoria in 2002 initially as Director: Marketing and Communications. In 2004 he served as the inaugural Director of the University’s Mamelodi Campus as well as the first live-in Head of Residence of Tuksdorp, the University’s largest postgraduate and international students' residence. As of 2016, Smith serves as the Manager: Campus Operations of the University of Pretoria's Mamelodi Campus and as of 2023, he is also an Extraordinary Lecturer in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies in the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pretoria.
Smith has published academic articles in a number of peer-reviewed journals in his discipline as well as popular articles in newspapers and online publications in South Africa.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1419246395-
2024-09-25
Published by Brill, 2023.
BLURB: “When the Scottish poet Thomas Pringle emigrated to the Cape Colony in 1820 he voyaged also into a new creative life and an art responsive to his colonial home, ‘sterner verse’ for ‘darker scenes’.
Accompanying him to the Cape, the sonnet became his most consistent choice for capturing his experiences and convictions, his personal crises and the greater trauma of colonial appropriation and racial oppression. In this study his unique contribution to the Romantic-era sonnet is for the first time given its full due, through readings that are as attentive to form and formal agency as to the cultural, social and historical conditions in which they are enmeshed. Moving beyond colonial theory to consider issues of literary migration, this illuminating work shows how Pringle effectively opened up a radical conversation between the habitual modes of perception and response of British Romanticism and his new, southern world.”
This book is part of the Scottish Cultural Review of Language and Literature series.
Patrick Lenahan is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Pretoria. He is a co-editor of Voices of this Land: An Anthology of South African Poetry in English.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1380460368
2024-09-11
Published by CSA & G Press, 2018. isiZulu and isiXhosa translations, 2022.
BLURB: “In 2021, the CSA&G Press published a reprint of Mfecane's original (2018) text after it was taken up widely by scholars and students in the field of critical gender and sexualities studies. Following the reprint, our team undertook to have the text translated into two African languages—isiXhosa and isiZulu—as a means to contribute to growing movements towards the decolonisation of 'evidence' in this important field. Our hope is that these translations will encourage critical exploration of the potential for increasing epistemological access by social justice actors through the translation of English academic texts.”
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: isiZulu
2024-09-04
Published by the Rupert Museum, 2024.
BLURB: “This full-colour publication celebrates the art collection of Huberte Rupert. Art critic and writer Amanda Botha sketches the early years and tells how Huberte and her future husband, Anton Rupert, fell in love during their student years at the University of Pretoria. They built a family together and gradually grew their art collection with care over many years. The story traces Huberte's art appreciation journey from the worldview she developed as a 'child of the Depression' through her art association involvement as a student to cultivating friendships with local artists.
The book further invites intimate glimpses into the relationships Huberte nurtured with what she called her 'Big Five' artists: Cecil Higgs, Maggie Laubser, Irma Stern, Jean Welz and Anton van Wouw. The collection also features works from many other South African and international artists. The text provides a sense of the Rupert family's commitment, together with the Rembrandt van Rijn and the Rupert Art Foundation, to support local artists: among other things, the headline sponsorship of the Cape Town Triennial (1982-1991) and the acquisition of works selected from the four exhibitions.”
Amanda Botha is an award-winning journalist and writer with an extended career in the creative- and performing arts world. She has published multiple articles about the visual arts, aspects of Afrikaans literature and theatre productions, especially concerning opera and ballet, in South Africa and international publications. As curator for the Stellenbosch Wordfest, she presented retrospective exhibitions on the work of various South African artists, and she excelled as a researcher and director of television documentary programmes, especially profiling South African artists, resulting in more than a hundred TV documentaries. She is the author of seven books, amongst them the biographies of the prima ballerina assoluta, Phyllis Spira, the artist Marjorie Wallace; Lost in Dust based on John Meyer's Anglo-Boer War paintings and Dagboeke based on the diaries of Johannes Meintjes.
Botha’s long association with Huberte Rupert gave her an intimate knowledge of her art collection; she accompanied her on studio visits to artists and attended exhibitions together. Long conversations ensued, and she gained invaluable insight into how the passionate collector valued artworks and made acquisition choices.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1431047900
2024-08-28
Published by Ssali Publishing House, 2021.
From the Preface: “Funded by the English Academy of Southern Africa with sponsorship from the NIHSS, this book is the culmination of a research project that began in 2016, intended to complement the production of the Special Issue on Elections of the International Journal of African Renaissance Studies. The intention was to begin to capture, in academic journals and books, the complex evolution of political succession through regular, free and fair elections on the African continent.
This book attempts to capture the nuanced challenges faced by African countries in their conduct of political power transfer through elections. The chapters have managed to capture the diversity confronting attempts to deepen democracy on the continent and attempts to cover the diversity of challenges facing transition and power transfers in some of the 55 different African countries on the continent.
The African Union Peace and Security Commission and that of Political Affairs have declared disputed elections as the major driver of conflict on the continent. The hope is that this book will encourage the lively interest, research and documentation of the complex contexts that Africa finds itself in and while this is certainly going to provide a better understanding of our situation, ultimately, this may offer options of sustainable solutions.”
Professor Martin Revayi Ruprya is a Visiting Fellow with lARS, Unisa; Professor Lesiba Teffo is with the Institute for African Renaissance Studies (IARS); Emeritus Professor Shadrack B. Gutto is a Visiting Professor with IARS, Unisa; and Rosemary Gray is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and was the former Managing Editor of the International Journal for African Renaissance Studies, founded by Professor S-hadrack Gutto.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1344369791
2024-08-21
Published by BestRed, an imprint of HSRC Press, 2022.
BLURB: “Is this Africa's century? How many inventions have been made in Africa? Is the nature of innovation in Africa different from elsewhere? Do you know the difference between tef and TEF; or a SolarTurtle, a Turtle car from Ghana and a satellite-tagged loggerhead turtle? How many African countries have produced their own cars? Why is the M-Pesa mobile money system so important?
Harambee: the spirit of innovation in Africa answers these and many other questions by showcasing the resourcefulness and resilience shown by people in Africa as they search for solutions to the pressing problems they face daily. This remarkable book is the first of its kind—over 800 inventions and innovations by more than 600 innovators from 50 African countries are discussed, and a variety of issues related to innovation are debated. From mompreneurs to moguls, waste pickers to fintech wizards, locust whisperers to rocket scientists, robocops to internet-enabled balloons, surfing therapy to gin flavoured with elephant dung, seshweshwe cloth to microsatellites, you will be astounded by the creativity of the continent's techpreneurs. This book is a must-read for anyone interested in the future of Africa.”
Mike Bruton originally trained as an ichthyologist at Rhodes University. He was professor and head of the Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science at Rhodes, has served as the director of the JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, and was appointed as the education director at the Two Oceans Aquarium in Cape Town. He was a founding director of the MTN ScienCentre before retiring in 2015 and setting up the consultancy company Mike Bruton Imagineering, where he has been active providing guidance to science and technology centres and writing popular science books.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1289269885
2024-08-14
Published by Ssali Publishing House/UNISA, 2022.
BLURB: “This is the story of an extraordinary man whose courage, imagination, enthusiasm and warmth left not only an indelible mark on his family, friends and colleagues but also on the countless young minds he influenced and on the abiding legacy he left behind. Dr Derek John Gray was a British born South African whose love of teaching and dedicated work among young scientists spread his name across the world, and whose sporting prowess as a Paralympian garnered medals in a myriad of disciplines. But it was as a father, partner and soulmate that Derek truly shone. This sweeping and lovingly crafted life story by his wife Professor Rosemary Gray, underpins her husband’s generosity of spirit, his depth of humility and his unshakeable love for the people of Africa.
The author hopes this book will help others become as infected by exuberance and curiosity as Derek was, as she celebrates a life well lived and shares a love story which transcended disability and adversity. By finding his purpose to teach and never stop learning, Derek Gray undoubtedly proved that a single individual can make a difference and that by building and encouraging others, you will illuminate a path towards the advancement of all humanity.”
Rosemary Gray is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria. She was awarded the Gold Medal for distinguished service to English over a lifetime in 2008 and won the Thomas Pringle award for best scholarly article in 2017. She is Managing Editor of the English Academy Review: Journal of English Studies and is Honorary Treasurer and Live Vice President of the English Academy of Southern Africa and serves on PanSALB’s National English Language Body.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1418672256
2024-08-07
Published by ESI Press, 2022.
BLURB: “HumanEATies is a cookbook, not a recipe book, as it has academic resonance, and is not a mere collection of recipes. Like many academic endeavours, it is a transdisciplinary project, with all the recipes tested by final-year Hospitality and Consumer Food Sciences students in the Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences.”
From the Foreword: “The idea for this cookbook was born, of course, while eating, specifically while enjoying breakfast with staff from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Who knew that from those first tentative conversations, a creation of such deliciousness would emerge from our colleagues in the Faculty of Humanities? Many of these recipes were sourced during the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown when cooking and baking seemed to present a welcome distraction from the uncertainties going on in the world. With this publication, the Faculty of Humanities has shown that there is more to being an academic than just teaching and research and that some wonderfully creative foodies are occupying our spaces.”
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1417142392
As ESI Press is a not-for-profit, open-source press, HumanEATies can be downloaded for free from their website.
Published by British Museum Publications Ltd, 1981.
BLURB: “This volume presents the Rosetta Stone, an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage—two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing. The author tells of the discovery of the Stone, and the story of how its mystery was solved. The book also includes a translation of text, a hieroglyphic alphabet, and a brief illustration of the ancient Egyptian language.”
This volume was donated to Special Collections by the Education Faculty Library at Groenkloof Campus.
Carol Andrews was a member of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, and authored various books on Ancient Egypt including The Rosetta Stone, Catalogue of Egyptian Jewellery in the British Museum and Egyptian Mummies.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/13237442
2024-07-24
Published by University of Pretoria, 2023.
BLURB: “The period that framed this sixth volume in the Ad Destinatum series was marked by several significant events and developments, among which was the appointment of Prof Cheryl de la Rey, the 12th Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of Pretoria. The purpose of each volume in the series is to serve as a reference resource of a specific time period, and over time, to capture the unique circumstances that have shaped the University's identity and academic project. In this volume, we set out to trace and reconstruct major institutional developments during the period 2009 to 2018, which coincided with the development of the University's long-term strategy, ‘UP 2025’.
Three themes tie together the six chapters: leadership and the dynamic nature of change; the University's time-place situatedness, simultaneously in Africa and in a global 21st century knowledge world; and thirdly, the need continually to recalibrate and realign strategies in order for intentional change to become embedded.
Third-year Visual Art students were involved in a design competition for Ad Destinatum VI, as part of their curriculum and assessment. Ten students received merit awards for their designs, with Marcholette Minnaar winning the competition with her cover design.”
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1443487283
The entire series of Ad Destinatum, from 1910 to 2018, is available online at UPSpace.
2024-07-17
Published by ESI Press, 2022.
From Chapter 1: “This publication [is one of the] key outcomes of Laura de Harde's project, Inherited Obsessions (2022). De Harde developed the project in response to what the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences identified as shortcomings in post-colonial forms of thinking about heritage and scholarship. She conceptualised the project as a collaboration with the Ditsong National Museum of Cultural History (DNMCH), working with Motsane Gertrude Seabela, Anthropology Collections Curator, to revisit the museum's collections in ways that address and challenge what can sometimes be presumptive and lasting cultural stereotypes. The chapters in this publication are the result of research and creative work conducted as part of, or in conversation with, the Inherited Obsessions (2022) project, which centres on the following themes: objects of culture, collection, conservation, memory, and commemoration. Hosted by the DNMCH in Pretoria [in] September 2022, the curators want[ed] the exhibition to invite contemplation about the nation's heritage and the collective consciousness of South African communities and society at large. However, the politics of the personal and the multiple collectives we associate with as individuals are also at play: the ties that bind us by birth, profession, age, conviction, obligation, association, and discrimination.”
Laura de Harde is a visual artist, researcher and curator. Laura developed a special interest in surfacing 'quieter' contributions to knowledge production, eclipsed by overarching master narratives while completing her doctorate in history of art at Wits University (2019). Continuing with this theme, Laura has contributed to books and published articles in journals such as de arte and Critical Arts. Her creative work has been included in group exhibitions, most recently the KKNK Virtual Exhibition: 'If you think about it, just midding in the meantime (or) Progression' (2021) and Nirox Open Lab II: 'Good Neighbours' (2022).
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1402199718
2024-07-10
Published by University of Chicago Press, 2007.
BLURB: “This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929 and 1940, largely during his earliest work among the Kgatla peoples of Bechuanaland (now Botswana), these images reveal an emotional engagement and an aesthetic impulse that Schapera seldom expressed in his writings. Covering a broad spectrum of activities, they include depictions of everything from pot making, thatching, and cattle herding to village architecture, vernacular medicine, rainmaking ceremonies, and initiation rites. Visually fascinating and of exceptional quality, Schapera's photographs capture the uniqueness of an African people at a particular time and place. They are contextualized in Jean and John Comaroff's introduction, while Adam Kuper's biographical sketch of Schapera provides new insight into the life of the photographer. Picturing a Colonial Past reveals not only a rare side of old Botswana, but also of one of the most famous anthropologists who worked there.”
John L. Comaroff is the Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town, and a Senior Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation.
Jean Comaroff is the Bernard E. and Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago and Honorary Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Cape Town.
Deborah James is Reader in Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/70114589
2024-07-03
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1902-1912.
The Special Collections Unit is pleased to add volumes iv, v, vi, vii, vii and xii of The Cambridge Modern History to our Reserved Collection, and look forward to being able to complete the fourteen-volume series. The Cambridge Modern History was published at the beginning of the 20th century with the aim of being a "comprehensive modern history of the world," beginning with the 15th century Age of Discovery and ending at the early 20th century with the Scientific Age and Modern Explorations.
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton: The series was planned and coordinated by Lord Acton, who intended it to be a monument of objective, detailed, and collaborative scholarship. Acton was Regius professor of modern history at Cambridge, and a fellow of All Souls, Oxford. He had previously established the English Historical Review in 1886. The series was edited by Acton, along with Stanley Mordaunt Leathes, Sir Adolphus William Ward and G. W. Prothero. More than 100 researchers contributed to the series.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/6253478
2024-06-26
Published by Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1908 and 1909.
Volume V of History of South Africa since September, 1795 is part of a series of five volumes, first published in 1908, focussing on the political history of South Africa between 1795-1894. Theal explores the British control of Cape Colony and the reactions of the Dutch setters to increasing British immigration, discussing the political consequences of the establishment of the various Boer Republics and the growth of Zulu power in South Africa.
Volume II of History and Ethnography of Africa south of the Zambesi is part of a series of three volumes first published in 1907, which contain Theal's detailed history of South Africa between 1505-1795. Theal discusses the formation of the colony from the first Portuguese conquests, exploring the Dutch colonial establishment and administration. Theal also describes the societies of the various indigenous peoples of South Africa and their relations with the colonists.
These volumes provide valuable details on the political history of South Africa, and reveal contemporary attitudes to the ideas of history and colonisation. They have been included in our Africana Collection, adding to our already large collection of Theal volumes.
George McCall Theal (1837 – 1919), was the most prolific and influential South African historian, archivist and genealogist of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. Born in New Brunswick Canada, he made his career in South Africa as a civil servant and historian. A teacher and later a reporter, Theal entered the public service at Cape Town in 1877, and subsequently held numerous posts, including that of Keeper of the Archives. He published various scholarly works on the history of sub-equatorial Africa, most notably a multi-volume history of South Africa. He was also the author of school texts in both Afrikaans and English. He died at Wynberg, South Africa.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/587937
https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/70894965
2024-06-19
Published by Ssali Publishing House, 2021.
From the Foreword: The writers assembled in this publication, celebrating the sixty-year anniversary of The English Academy of Southern Africa, epitomize the ways in which intellectuals and literary and language activists have become spokesmen and women for social and intellectual transformation. As borne out by this collection of memories, the academy has sought to espouse the credo of inclusivity in diversity as opposed to exclusivity. To promote inclusivity, the academy has promoted diversity of gender, beliefs, ethnicity, race, education, culture and regional circumstances. Commemorative Snapshots allows the uniqueness of these polyphonic voices to speak for themselves, without analysing the context of social memory or the history of its formulations.
Rosemary Gray is Emeritus Professor in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She is a rated researcher, specializing in Anglo-Saxon, Middle English and Pan-African texts; her current research interest is the work of Ben Okri. She is Honorary Life Vice President of the English Academy of Southern Africa and Managing Editor of the English Academy Review: Journal of English Studies. Her book publications include Broken Strings: The Politics of Poetry; Sounding Wings: Short Stories from Africa (with Stephen Finn, Longmans); Light Comes out of the Darkness: The History of Expo for Young Scientists (OUP); and A Glass Half Full or Half Empty? The challenges of political succession and elections in Africa (Ssali).
Professor Rajendra Chetty is a postcolonial scholar. He has written extensively on Commonwealth literature; critical pedagogy; and race, class and marginalisation. His recent publications include: At the edge: The writings of Ronnie Govender (2018) and Narrating the new nation: South African Indian writings (2018).
Professor Chetty was awarded the Fulbright visiting professorship to the USA in 2015/16, received the 2016 Medal of Honour from the South African Education Association for his research in language education and the English Academy of Southern Africa Gold Medal for his contribution to English studies.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1371868331
2024-06-12
Uitgegee deur Abrile Doman, 2020.
FLAPTEKS: “Nederlands met insluiting van Afrikaans is een van ses talkursusse wat in 1908 met die oprigting van die Transvaal University College, die voorganger van die Universiteit van Pretoria, aangebied was. Sedertien het die wording van Afrikaans en die lotgevalle van die Departement Afrikaans oor die jare heen saamgeval met die ontwikkeling en uitbreiding van die universiteit.
Hierdie geskiedenis van die Departement Afrikaans bied 'n oorsig van die besondere uitdagings en werksaamhede van personeellede oor meer as 'n eeu. Uit die beskrywing kom die leser agter hoe daar geywer is om'n vakrigting op te rig en te ontwikkel, en die akademiese studies en navorsing wat in elke periode tot stand gekom het. Onverdrote vlyt bied 'n insig in die arbeidsaamheid en ywer wat ‘n saambindende kenmerk van die departement is.
Die teks word ryklik aangevul met foto's en illustrasies wat die wordingsgeskiedenis van die departement vasvang. Uit tydgenootlike knipsels en berigte verneem ons die standpunte en oortuigings van toonaangewende akademici.
Tercia Klopper en Hein Willemse is onderskeidelik as departementele administrateur en professor verbonde aan die Departement Afrikaans, Universiteit van Pretoria.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1291387901
2024-06-05
Published by Friends of the War Museum, 2001.
From the Introduction: “As capital of the republic of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein played a significant, as well as a central, role during the Anglo-Boer War. This contribution on buildings in Bloemfontein, as well as the lesser known battles, is of the utmost importance for furthering the regional history regarding the Anglo-Boer War. This publication therefore makes an important contribution [to our knowledge] of the Anglo-Boer War in general and also gives factual information regarding the lesser known aspects of the war in Bloemfontein and surrounding areas. Dr Van der Bank’s ability to present facts in a concise but interesting manner, makes this guide accessible to academics, as well as school children.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/51083615
2024-05-29
Published by Lucas Zaba Chego, 2023.
“This enriching anthology touches upon a myriad of themes, resonating with readers from all walks of life. From exploring the essence of leadership to shedding light on pressing human rights issues, navigating the intricacies of educational systems, and addressing the myriad challenges of existence, each poem within Meretlwa Ya Leboa serves as a profound reflection on the human condition.” (https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7169311651479994369/)
From the preface: “Direto tše di ngwadilwe ka polelo ya go nona, ya go tshotshoma makhura. Tšona di na le mehuta ye e lebanego bjalo ka thetogale, thetolerato, thetotumiso, thetokgoro bjalo-bjalo. Pukwana ye e tliša tsebo yeo e tletšego ebile e nonnego thetong le polelong ya leleme la Sepedi; ke setloša bodutu sa batho ka moka, ka yona go hlabjwa kgobe ka mootlwa, ipalele o ithute!”
Dinashaneng Sammy Mamogobo has a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Pretoria. Mamogoba’s love of poetry started at an early age and he draws inspiration from his grandfather—also a writer—Phorohlo Matheas Mamogobo.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1427937927
2024-05-22
Published by Macmillan, 2021.
BLURB: “For 14-year-old Johnny Clegg, hearing Zulu street music as plucked on the strings of a guitar by Charlie Mzila one evening outside a corner café in Bellevue, Johannesburg, was one such 'magical' moment.
The success story of Juluka and later Savuka, and the cross-cultural celebration of music, language, story, dance and song that stirred the hearts of millions across the world, is well documented. Their music was the soundtrack to many South Africans' lives during the turbulent 70s and 80s as the country moved from legislated oppression to democratic freedom. It crossed borders, boundaries and generations, resonating around the world and back again. Less known is the story of how it all began and developed.
Scatterling of Africa is that origin story, as Johnny Clegg wrote it and wanted it told. It is the story of how the son of an unconventional mother, grandson of Jewish immigrants, came to realise that identity can be a choice, and home is a place you leave and return to as surely as the seasons change.”
Johnny Clegg was born in England on 7 June 1953. He grew up in Zimbabwe and South Africa, and spent a formative year in Zambia as that country transitioned to independence in 1964. Together with Sipho Mchunu, Clegg formed the multiracial band Juluka. They toured the length and breadth of South Africa, performing in township halls and at music festivals. The song 'Scatterlings of Africa', a hit in 1979, launched their international career and saw the band invited to perform in Europe and the United States. In 1986, after Juluka disbanded, Clegg formed Savuka, and many of his iconic songs came from that era—‘Asimbonanga ', 'Great Heart' and ‘The Crossing'. Clegg died on 16 July 2019, leaving his wife Jenny, and sons Jesse and Jaron.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1281111771
2024-05-15
Published by Wits University Press, 2023.
BLURB: “Isabel Homeyr is one of the world's leading scholars on African print cultures, postcolonial literary histories, Indian Ocean studies and the oceanic humanities. Reading from the South provides a sustained analysis of many of Homeyr's most riveting and lasting contributions to the humanities, and shows how her highly portable methods are used in a multiplicity of fields to produce original research. Each chapter engages with a key moment in Hofmeyr's work while also advancing the field in question from the point of view of Southern historical contexts and textual practices.
In multiple ways, the contributors to the volume reveal how she has been a lodestar in her oeuvre and her person, guiding a course—cleaving 'a lucent trail', in the words of Gabeba Baderoon—through the seas of contemporary literary scholarship today.”
Charne Lavery is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria and Co-director of the Oceanic Humanities for the Global South project based at the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies and Director of WiSER at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1393172660
2024-05-08
Published by Wits University Press, 2023.
BLURB: “Regina Gelana Twala, a Black South African woman who died in 1968 in Swaziland (now Eswatini), was an extraordinarily prolific writer of books, columns, articles, and letters. Yet today Twala's name is largely unknown. Her literary achievements are forgotten. Her books are unpublished. Her letters languish in the dusty study of a deceased South African academic. Her articles are buried in discontinued publications. Joel Cabrita argues that Twala's posthumous obscurity has not developed accidentally as she exposes the ways prejudices around race and gender blocked Black African women like Twala from establishing themselves as successful writers. Drawing upon Twala's family papers, interviews, newspapers, and archival records from Pretoria, Uppsala, and Los Angeles, Cabrita argues that an entire cast of characters--censorious editors, territorial White academics, apartheid officials, and male African politicians whose politics were at odds with her own—conspired to erase Twala's legacy. Through her unique documentary output, Twala marked herself as a radical voice on issues of gender, race, and class. The literary gatekeepers of the racist and sexist society of twentieth-century southern Africa clamped down by literally writing her out of the region's history.”
Joel Cabrita is the Susan Ford Dorsey Director of the Center for African Studies and an associate professor of African history at Stanford University as well as a senior research associate at the University of Johannesburg. She is the author of Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church and The People's Zion: Southern Africa, the United States, and a Transatlantic Faith-Healing Movement.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1376497657
2024-05-01
Published by Wits University Press, 2022.
BLURB: “Convening Black Intimacy demonstrates that the primary affective force in the construction of modern Black intimate life in early twentieth-century South Africa was not the commonly cited influx of migrant workers but rather the spread of Christianity. African converts developed a new conception of intimate life, one that shaped ideas about sexuality, gender roles, and morality.
While the integration of certain Black traditions and customs-including lobola, in which a bridegroom demonstrates his gratitude by transferring property to his bride's family-led many individuals to accept a new Christian model of sexuality and intimacy, others were drawn to the ways in which Christianity broke with tradition. In either case, Natasha Erlank argues, what Black South Africans regard today as traditional morality has been unequivocally altered by the spread of Christianity.
In asserting the paramount influence of Christianity on unfolding ideas about family, gender, and marriage in Black South Africa, Erlank challenges social historians who have posited the migrant labor system as the key factor. Erlank draws from a wide range of sources, including popular Black literature and the Black press, African church and mission archives, and records of the law courts, which she argues have been underutilized in histories of South Africa. The book will attract historians and other scholars interested in the history of African Christianity, African families, sexuality, and the social history of law, especially colonial law.”
Natasha Erlank is a professor of history at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests lie in the history of gender, marriage, and sexuality in Africa, within the broader context of colonialism and Christianity. Her new work examines the history of reproductive health in Africa from the 1940s to the 1990s.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1371481212
2024-04-24
Published by Wits University Press, 2021.
BLURB: “Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins interrogates how, in the era of decolonisation, post-apartheid South Africa reckons with its past in order to shape its future. Architects, historians, artists, social anthropologists and urban planners seek answers in this book to complex and unsettling questions around heritage, ruins and remembrance. What do we do with hollow memorials and political architectural remnants? Which should remain, which forgotten, and which dismantled? Are these vacant buildings, cemeteries, statues, and derelict grounds able to serve as inspiration in the fight against enduring racism and social neglect? Should they become exemplary as spaces for restitution and justice? The contributors examine the influence of public memory, planning and activism on such anguished places of oppression, resistance and defiance. Their focus on visible markers in the landscape to interrogate our past will make readers reconsider these spaces, looking at their landscape and history anew.”
Hilton Judin is an architect and director of postgraduate architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1255878912
2024-04-17
Published by Wits University Press, 2020.
BLURB: “Guerrilla Radios in Southern Africa is a collection of essays on the histories of the different radios of the liberation movements in the region during the era of the armed struggle.
From Angola and Mozambique, to Namibia, Zimbabwe and South Africa, the new technology of radio provided the liberation movements in exile with a platform to address their followers at home, to propagate their ideologies and to counter the propaganda of the oppressive white minority regimes. As the cheapest and most direct medium, guerrilla radios transcended the boundaries imposed by the settler regimes and were widely listened to, albeit within the realm of illegality.
Transnational in its approach, the book explores the workings of these radios from their areas of broadcast in exile, international solidarity, to reception at home where listeners huddled around their receivers to listen to the messages from the liberation movements, often beyond the gaze of the state. These radios shaped the nature of resistance campaigns that the liberation movements embarked upon in the various countries in the region.”
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi is Associate Professor of History at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Tshepo Moloi is Senior Lecturer of History at the University of the Free State, South Africa.
Alda Romão Saúte Saíde is Associate Professor at Pedagogic University in Maputo, Mozambique.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1264670754
2024-04-10
Published by Wits University Press, 2021.
BLURB: “Following a hiatus in the 1960s, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa was revived in 1971. In fascinating detail, Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed bring the inner workings of the NIC to life against the canvas of major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, and up to the first democratic elections in 1994.
The NIC was relaunched during the rise of the Black Consciousness Movement, which attracted a following among Indian university students, and whose invocation of Indians as Black led to a major debate about ethnic organisations such as the NIC. This debate persisted in the 1980s with the rise of the United Democratic Front and its commitment to non-racialism. Despite threats of banning and incarceration, the NIC kept attracting new recruits. This included students radicalised by the 1980s education boycotts and civic protests, who encouraged the development of community organisations.
Drawing on varied sources, including oral interviews, newspaper reports, and minutes of organisational meetings, this engaging history challenges existing narratives around Indian 'cabalism', and brings the African and Indian political story into present debates about race, class and nation.”
Ashwin Desai is Professor of Sociology at the University of Johannesburg.
Goolam Vahed is Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1227269919
2024-04-03
Published by Wits University Press, 2022.
BLURB: “Alan G. Morris takes us back over the past century of anthropological discovery in South Africa and uncovers the stories of individual scientists and researchers who played a significant role in shaping perceptions of how peoples of southern Africa, both ancient and modern, came to be viewed and categorised in both the public imagination and the scientific literature.
Morris reveals how many of the earlier anthropological studies were tainted with the tarred brush of race science, evaluating the works of famous anthropologists and archaeologists such as Raymond Dart, Thomas Dreyer, Matthew Drennan and Robert Broom. He also considers how modern anthropology tried to rid itself of the stigma of these early racist accounts in the 1960s and 1970s, when Ronald Singer and Phillip Tobias introduced modern methods.
Bones and Bodies shows the battle facing modern anthropology to acknowledge its racial past, but also how its study of human variation remains an important field of inquiry at institutions of higher learning.”
Alan G. Morris is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Human Biology at the University of Cape Town. He has published extensively on the origin of anatomically modern humans, and the Later Stone Age, Iron Age and historical populations of Kenya, Malawi, Namibia and South Africa, as well as forensic anthropology.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1252411939
2024-03-27
Published by CSA &G Press, 2021.
From the Foreword: “Dis/abling Higher Education in South Africa is an exploratory conversation that focuses on two elements that are fundamental to the social justice agenda: (a) the higher education sector has been disabling to persons with disabilities through structural ableism; and (b) this monograph itself intends to disable ableism by attempting to disrupt the sector so that something new can emerge.
The work examines higher education institutions and what they are currently doing and can do to create more inclusive spaces to transform the experience of students living with disabilities. Through her reflection Dr Ramaahlo challenges the status quo and speaks to the fact that transformation initiatives that focus solely on quantitative access and tolerance training, continue to fall short in making lasting change within this sector.”
Dr. Maria Ramaahlo is the head of the Disability Unit at the University of Pretoria. The Disability Unit operates within the Department of Student Affairs and supports students with disabilities in partnership with departments and faculties. Dr Ramaahlo has worked at different higher education institutions within South Africa and facilitated the inclusion of students with disabilities within these spaces.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1315540019
2024-03-20
Published by Wits University Press, 2020.
BLURB: “Cuba was a key participant in the struggle for the independence of African countries during the Cold War and the definitive ousting of colonialism from the continent. Beyond the military interventions that played a decisive role in shaping African political history, there were many-sided engagements between the island and the continent. Cuba and Africa, 1959-1994 is the story of tens of thousands of individuals who crossed the Atlantic as doctors, scientists, soldiers, students and artists. Each chapter presents a case study—from Algeria to Angola, from Equatorial Guinea to the Congo—and shows how much of the encounter between Cuba and Africa took place in non-militaristic fields: humanitarian and medical, scientific and educational, cultural and artistic.
The historical experience and the legacies documented in this book speak to the major ideologies that shaped the colonial and postcolonial world, including internationalism, developmentalism and South-South cooperation,
Approaching African-Cuban relations from a multiplicity of angles, this collection will appeal to an equally wide range of readers, from scholars in Atlantic studies to cultural theorists and general readers with an interest in contemporary African history.”
Giulia Bonacci is a historian and researcher at the Institute of Research for Development, and is posted at the Migrations and Society Research Unit (URMIS), University of Côte d'Azur.
Adrien Delmas is Director of the Centre Jacques Berque in Rabat and an associate researcher at the Institut des mondes africains, Paris.
Kali Argyriadis is an anthropologist and researcher at the Institute of Research for Development, and is posted at the Migrations and Society Research Unit (URMIS), University of Paris.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1202891399
2024-03-13
Published by CSA&G Press, 2020.
BLURB: “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered is an exploration of how a diverse group of young male-identified students at the University of Pretoria feels about maleness and masculinity, and assists us in developing some insights into the challenges young men experience and empathy for their journeys. The report helps to start a conversation about how masculinity feels to this generation of university goers, and to inspire you, the reader, to keep this conversation going.”
Justice Medzani joined the CSA&G and the Department of Political Sciences as a Postdoctoral Researcher in July 2020. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Pretoria. His thesis focused on the nexus between intimate partner violence and male identity. Prior to enrolling at the University of Pretoria in 2017, he worked for the Government of Zimbabwe in the Ministry of Justice. He has research interests in broad interconnected areas of family sociology, gender-based violence; identities (masculinities and sexualities); gender inequality and vulnerability.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1315540077
2024-03-06
Uitgegee deur Bel Monte, 2008.
Wilhelm Knobel die Ongewapende Man vertel die lewensverhaal van die Sestiger Digter, Wilhelm Knobel, deur sy eie geskrifte en kunswerke. Dit is saamgestel deur sy broer, Deon Knobel.
Katalogus: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/244246497
2024-02-28
Published by Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, 2023.
Synopsis: “Lost Libraries, Burnt Archives is a collected volume of short stories, artworks, poems, and essays by 22 contributors including Koleka Putuma, Masande Ntshanga, Bongani Kona, and many more. It is a result of a collaborative project with colleagues at the University of Cape Town, and responds to the 'Of Smoke and Ash: Jagger Library Memorial Exhibition' curated by Jade Nair and Dr Duane Jethro at UCT. This exhibition commemorated the tragic fire at the Jagger Library in April 2021, and celebrated the salvage efforts of volunteers and UCT Libraries. The contributors to this book are either artists or academics, sometimes both, and they write about libraries and archives or reflect on the topics of commemorative practices and collective loss, artistic practice and curatorship as a creative site of knowledge.
The physical book had a limited print run (100 copies) and was not available for sale but instead made freely available to university and public libraries, research institutions and specialized archives in South Africa and at select international institutions. The eBook is available for download free of charge.”
Editors Sindi-Leigh-McBride and Julia Rensing are PhD Candidates at the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1376252669
2024-02-21
Published by CSA & G Press, 2019.
BLURB: “Gendered and Sexual Imagi(nations) attempts to answer questions that have been central to scholarship within the humanities. Drawing on the concepts which Schneider refers to as the basic building blocks of society, i.e. “the quartet of kinship, economics, politics, and religion”, Mawere explores, on the one hand, the historiography of the Zimbabwean state, specifically the Mugabe era, and the particular ways in which it has been underpinned by a deeply rooted system of patriarchal values. On the other hand, this text asks questions which most authors have shied away from asking. Rather than constructing a perspective which imagines leaders of ZANU-PF and the MDC in natural opposition and fundamentally different because of divergent political visions, Gendered and Sexual Imagi(nations) asks its readers to take note of the commonalities shared by male leaders of these parties, and, in fact, held by most male politicians.”
Tinashe Mawere is a researcher at the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender (CSA&G) at the University of Pretoria (UP). His interests are identity construction, gender and sexualities and the workings of popular culture in political and social contexts. Tinashe holds a PhD in Women's and Gender Studies (UWC), an MA in African and Diasporan Literature in English, and a BA Honours in English and Communication from MSU.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1288565557
2024-02-14
Published by Tattoo Press, 2023.
From the Foreword: “This collection disrupts the natural order of things, it topples hierarchies, and offers alternative solutions, which in the current state of our rigid societies, seem unimaginable, impossible even. […] All in all, what a wonderful, expressive, and brave collection this is, calling for us to stop speculating about lives we want to build for our children, worlds we want to exist in, and to intentionally create these realities, because everything we need is within our reach. With the lines blurred to almost disappearing, with major technological advances across all industries, a #cando attitude will conspire for all things to work in one's favour. Life is an ebb and flow, a give and take, as we practice the freedom to be.”
Joanne Hichens lives in Cape Town. She has edited numerous anthologies, including the Short.Sharp.Stories titles, Bloody Satisfied, Incredible Journey, Die Laughing, Trade Secrets and Adults Only, winner of the NIHSS (National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences) Award for Best Edited Collection (2015). Most recently she and Karina M. Szczurek compiled and edited Hair: Weaving and Unpicking Stories of Identity. She penned the crime novels, Out to Score (co-written), Divine Justice, and Sweet Paradise. Her Young Adult novels, Stained and Riding the Wave, were each shortlisted for the Sanlam Literature Award. Her memoir, Death and the After Parties, is her latest literary offering.
Karina M. Szczurek is the author and (co)editor of a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, most recently a memoir, The Fifth Mrs Brink, and an anthology, Disruption: New Short Fiction from Africa. She won the MML Literature Award in the category, English Drama in 2012 and received the Thomas Pringle Award for a portfolio of ad hoc reviews from the English Academy of Southern Africa in 2018. She is a board member of Short Story Day Africa. In 2019, she founded Karavan Press, an independent publishing house, and a year later, established the Philida Literary Award. She lives in Cape Town.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1390435042
2024-02-07
Published by CSA &G Press, 2021.
BLURB: “In Gender and Germs, Pinheiro and Kiguwa provide a careful, textured analysis of South Africa’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, through an analysis of presidential speeches addressed to the South African public. It thus highlights pivotal moments in the South African political response to this historically significant moment. The authors’ psycho-social and decolonial feminist reading of South Africa’s militarised, hegemonically masculine response to the COVID-19 pandemic is ever timelier in a context in which the gendered inequities illuminated by the pandemic have produced immeasurable difficulties.”
Gabriela Pinheiro is a Critical Social and Psychological Researcher. She holds a Master's in Critical Social and Psychological Research from the University of the Witwatersrand, and an Internship in Research Psychology from the UNISA Institute for Social and Health Sciences. Currently, Gabriela works as a Researcher and Project Manager for the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender at the University of Pretoria, specialising in work that centres intersectional identity studies, LGBTQIA+ activism, gender justice and feminisms.
Peace Kiguwa is an Associate Professor in the School of Human and Community Development in Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. Her research interests include affective politics of gender and sexuality, critical race theory, critical social psychology and teaching and learning. Her research projects include focus on young women's leadership in Higher Education in partnership with the African Gender Institute (AGI) and Destabilizing Heteronormativity project in partnership with Accountability International (Al). She has co-edited four books (UCT and ZED press releases) and has published in both local and internationally accredited journals. She is currently an Editorial Board Member of the accredited journals Psychology in Society (PINS), African Studies (AS) and International Journal of Critical Diversity Studies (IJCDS) and has co-edited three accredited Special Issue journals: Rethinking social cohesion and its relationship to exclusion, Papers on Social Representations and Micro-politics of Belonging in Higher Education. She is the current Chair of the Sexuality and Gender Division of the Psychology Society of South Africa (PSYSSA).
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1315536502
2024-01-31
Published by Portobello Books, 2017.
BLURB: “On 2 February 1959, a musical about the life and times of heavyweight boxing star Ezekiel Dlamini (known as 'King Kong') opened in Johannesburg to a packed audience that included Nelson Mandela. King Kong was not just South Africa's first ever musical, but one that grew out of a collaboration between black people and white, and showcased an all-black cast. It was an instant hit, bursting through the barriers of apartheid and eventually playing to 200,000 South Africans of every colour before transferring to London's West End.
Pat Williams, the show's lyricist, was at the time an apolitical young woman trying to free herself from the controls and prejudices of the genteel white society in which she lived. Here she recounts her experience of growing up in a divided South Africa, her involvement in the musical, and its lasting impact both on herself and on the show's cast, many of whom went on to find international fame. Her memoir takes the story up to the present, and is not only a vivid evocation of a troubled time and place, but also a celebration of a joyous production, in which a group of young people came together in South Africa's dark times - to create a show which still lives on today.”
Pat Williams, who began her working life at sixteen, is an award-winning writer, journalist, script-writer and broadcaster, as well as a psychotherapist. She loves stories, spent ten years as director of the College of Storytellers (formed to help kickstart the British storytelling revival), and gives popular workshops and seminars on metaphor and therapeutic storytelling in Britain and elsewhere. Pat has lived in London for decades, as well as, in recent years, on the Isle of Arran.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/973140724
2024-01-24
Published by Jonathan Ball Publishers, 2022.
BLURB: “Alfred Milner was one of Britain's most celebrated—or notorious—empire-builders, who left an indelible imprint on the history of South Africa.
Sent to southern Africa to bring President Paul Kruger's obstreperous Boers to heel, Milner was primarily, though not solely, responsible for the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), a conflict that marked the beginning of the end of the British Empire. In the aftermath of the war, Milner set out to reconstruct the former Boer republics, but his policies stoked resentment among Afrikaners. He left behind a coterie of young administrators, the Kindergarten, who contributed significantly to the unification of South Africa and the fostering of imperial ideals.
In this biography, the first by a South African, Richard Steyn argues that Milner's reputation should not be defined by his eight years' service in South Africa alone. Milner's legendary administrative ability made him the obvious choice for War Secretary in Lloyd George's five-man War Cabinet, and he did much to shape the Allied victory in the First World War.
If Milner's personal qualities and beliefs made him the wrong man to send to South Africa, where he failed to accomplish the over-ambitious goals he set himself, he was the right man in a far greater international conflict.”
Richard Steyn is the author of several bestselling biographies, including Jan Smuts: Unafraid of Greatness (2015) and Louis Botha: A Man Apart (2018). He practised as a lawyer before switching to journalism. Steyn edited the Natal Witness in Pietermaritzburg from 1975-1990, was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 1985-1986 and editor-in-chief of The Star from 1990-1995. He served as Standard Bank’s Director of Corporate Affairs from 1996-2001 before returning to writing.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1316696004
2024-01-17
Published by CSA &G Press, 2021.
BLURB: “In Exclusion, Objectification, Exploitation: Gender, Sexuality and Climate Change Information Services, Dina Lupin Townsend takes as a key focus the idea of knowing, in a critical exploration of the epistemological dimensions related to climate change phenomena. Through a holistic lens, underpinned by the core principles of social justice and feminist epistemologies, knowing is here interrogated not as value-free, but as a cornerstone of equal and fair efforts to find meaningful solutions to global warming.”
Dina Lupin Townsend is a legal scholar specialising in environmental law, Indigenous peoples' rights, gender, participation and legal theory. Dina is currently based in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Vienna where she is conducting research on silencing and epistemic injustice in the context of consultation processes with marginalised groups. Previously, she worked as a Senior Attorney at the Centre for Environmental Rights in South Africa, representing rural communities in their battles for transparent and accountable environmental and water management in the mining sector.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/1315539633
2024-01-10
Published by Oxford University Press, 2016.
BLURB: “In The African Imagination in Music, noted music scholar Kofi Agawu offers a fresh introduction to the vast, immensely rich and diverse set of repertoires that comprise the sound worlds of Sub-Saharan African music. Agawu introduces readers to the basic elements of African music and to the values upon which they are built. He then explores the key dimensions and resources of African music, including the place of music in society, musical instruments, the relationship between language and music, rhythm, melody, form, harmony and finally, appropriations of African music by musicians around the world.
Written in an accessible style, The African Imagination in Music is poised to renew interest in Black African music, and to engender discussion of its creative underpinnings by Africanists, ethnomusicologists, music theorists and musicologists.”
Kofi Agawu was born in Ghana, West Africa where he received his initial education before studying in the UK and the US. He has taught and lectured at numerous universities in Africa, Europe and the United States. Agawu is a wide-ranging scholar and author of numerous articles and books, including Playing with Signs: A Semiotic Interpretation of Classic Music (Princeton University Press, 1991), African Rhythm: A Northern Ewe Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 1995), Representing African Music: Postcolonial Notes, Queries, Positions (Routledge, 2003) and Music as Discourse: Semiotic Adventures in Romantic Music (Oxford University Press, 2008). A Fellow of the Ghana Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is also Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy. Dr. Agawu is currently a professor of music at Princeton University.
Link to catalogue: https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/912045418
2024-01-03