Sindiwe Magona.

I write the yawning void. Selected essays of Sindiwe Magona.

Johannesburg: 2023. ISBN 9781776148196.

Sindiwe Magona is a celebrated South African writer, storyteller and motivational speaker known mainly for her autobiographies, biographies, novels, s...

$215.00

Sarah Nuttall.

Reading from the South. African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work.

Johannesburg: 2023. ISBN 9781776148370.

This book covers concepts and methods from the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, a leading South African scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories...

$167.00

Mbongiseni Buthelezi, Peter Vale.

State capture in South Africa. How and why it happened.

Johannesburg : 2023. ISBN 9781776148325.

$167.00

Bhekizizwe Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize, Makhosazana Xaba, et al.

Foundational African writers: Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi and Es’kia Mphahlele.

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776147519.

$94.00

Hein Marais.

In the balance. The case for Universal basic income in South Africa and beyond.

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776146932.

$179.00

Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter, Melanie Samson, et al.

Ethnographies of power. Working radical concepts with Gillian Hart.

Johannesburg : 2022. ISBN 9781776146666.

$71.00

Wits University at 100. From excavation to innovation.

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776147359.

$92.00

Bruce Murray .

WITS: The 'open' years. A history of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 1939 - 1959.

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776148127.

$85.00

Kopano Ratele .

Why men hurt women and other reflections on love, violence and masculinity.

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776147649.

$168.00

Mervyn Shear .

WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era.

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776148042.

$86.00

Jeremy Hollmann .

Customs and Beliefs of the xam.

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776147762.

Jeremy Hollmann is is a rock art specialist and an honorary research associate at the Rock Art Research Institute at the University of the Witwatersra...

$147.00

Ara Monadjem, Mike Unwin.

African Ark. Mammals, landscape and the ecology of a continent.

Johannesburg: 2023. ISBN 9781776147816.

$169.00

Jonathan D Jansen.

Corrupted. A study of chronic dysfunction in South African universities.

Johannesburg: 2023. ISBN 9781776147953.

$161.00

Hilton Judin (ed.).

Falling monuments, reluctant ruins: The persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146673.

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid interrogates how, in the era of decolonization, post-...

$86.00

Steven Friedman .

Prisoners of the past: South African democracy and the legacy of minority rule

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146840.

South Africa’s democracy is often seen as a story of bright beginnings gone astray, a pattern said to be common to Africa. The negotiated settlement o...

$82.00

Vanya Gastrow .

Citizen and Pariah: Somali traders and the regulation of difference in South Africa

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776147397.

Citizen and Pariah explores the fragility of law, pluralism and democracy in South Africa by investigating Somali informal shopkeepers’ experiences of...

$71.00

Siphiwo Mahala .

Can Themba : The making and breaking of the intellectual Tsotsi, a Biography

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776147311.

This rich and absorbing biography of Can Themba, iconic Drum-era journalist and writer, is the definitive history of a larger-than-life man who died t...

$85.00

Jenny Perkel.

Children in mind : Their mental health in today’s world and what we can do to help them

Johannesburg: 2022. ISBN 9781776147472.

Current research shows that certain childhood mental disorders are diagnosed more frequently today than in previous generations. Many of today’s child...

$71.00

Kros C., Wright J., Buthelezi M.

Archives of times past : Conversations about South Africa’s deep history

Johannesburg : 2022. ISBN 9781776147274.

Archives of Times Past explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa’s time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archiv...

$97.00

Alan G Morris .

Bones and bodies : How South African scientists studied race

Johannesburg : 2022. ISBN 9781776147236.

$88.00

Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed .

Colour, class and community. The Natal Indian Congress, 1971 - 1994 .

Johannesburg : 2021. ISBN 9781776147151.

$87.00

Steven Friedman .

One virus, two countries. What COVID-19 tells us about South Africa.

Johannesburg : 2021. ISBN 9781776147434.

$65.00

Elliot Zondi .

Ukufa kukaShaka.

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776140718.

Ukufa kukaShaka is a historical drama by Elliot Zondi, first published in 1960 in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series by the University of the ...

$61.00

Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng .

Senkatana.

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776140411.

A tragic play adapted from Sotho folk narrative. The play is regarded as a classic of Sesotho literature. Seen as one of the greatest essayists and dr...

$71.00

Sophonia Machabe Mofokeng .

Pelong ya Ka.

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776140435.

Pelong ya Ka, a collection of essays and sketches in Sotho was first published in 1962 in the Bantu Treasury Series Imprint of Witwatersrand Universit...

$71.00

Benedict Wallet Vilakazi .

Amal’ezulu: Translated by Langa Khumalo

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776140596.

Amal’ezulu (Zulu Horizons), first published in 1945 in the Bantu (later, African) Treasury Series by the University of the Witwatersrand Press, was t...

$65.00

John Marnell .

Seeking sanctuary. Stories of sexuality, faith and migration.

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776147106.

$88.00

Chris Broodryk (ed.).

Public intellectuals in South Africa: Critical voices from the past

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146895.

Edward Said described a public intellectual as someone who uses accessible language to address a designated public on matters of social and political ...

$89.00

Jan Christian Smuts, John Patrick Dalton, Robert Broom, et al.

Our changing world-view: Ten lectures on recent movements of thought in science, economics, education, literature and philosophy

Johannesburg: 2012. ISBN 9781776145553.

Ranging from economics, psychology, a spurious rebuttal of evolution to a substantial revisionist history and the perils of the ‘machine age’, this bo...

$81.00

Jane Duncan, Linda Gordon, Gunnett Kaaf, et al .

Destroying democracy: Neoliberal capitalism and the rise of authoritarian politics

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146994.

Focuses on how decades of neoliberal capitalism have eroded the global democratic project and how, in the process, authoritarian politics are gaining ...

$87.00

Beinart W., Kingwill R., Capps G.

Land, law and chiefs in rural South Africa: Contested histories and current struggles

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146802.

This edited collection illustrates contestations over land and political authority in South Africa’s rural areas, focusing on threats to popular right...

$175.00

Bill Freund .

Bill Freund: An historian’s passage to Africa

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146727.

Bill Freund, the late social historian and leading analyst of African history, passed away in 2020 soon after finishing his autobiography. Often descr...

$85.00

Katijah Khoza-Shangase (ed.).

Early detection and intervention in audiology: An African perspective

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146567.

$85.00

Susan Booysen .

Precarious power: Compliance and discontent under Ramaphosa’s ANC

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146451.

What happens when a former liberation movement turned political party loses its dominance but survives because no opposition party is able to succeed ...

$79.00

Leslie Swartz.

How I lost my mother: A story of life, care and dying

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146949.

Leslie Swartz is a clinical psychologist and a distinguished professor of psychology at Stellenbosch University, South Africa. He also has honourary a...

$77.00

Desiree Lewis, Gabeba Baderoon (eds.).

Surfacing: On being black and feminist in South Africa

Johannesburg: 2021. ISBN 9781776146093.

Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa is the first collection dedicated to contemporary Black South African feminist perspectives. Le...

$89.00

Federico Freschi (ed.).

Troubling images: Visual culture and the politics of Afrikaner nationalism

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776144716.

Emerging in the late nineteenth century and gaining currency in the 1930s and 1940s, Afrikaner nationalist fervour underpinned the establishment of wh...

$100.00

Lesley Green .

Rock. Water. Life: Ecology and humanities for a decolonial South Africa

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781478003694.

In Rock. Water. Life Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa,...

$220.00

Mike van Graan.

Bafana Republic and other satires: A collection of monologues and revues

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776145867.

$56.00

Barbara Boswell.

And wrote my story anyway: Black South African women’s novels as feminism

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776146185.

$75.00

Kali Argyriadis (ed.).

Cuba and Africa, 1959 - 1994: Writing an alternative Atlantic history

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776146338.

A history of Atlantic solidarity between Cuba and Africa, in struggle for African independence from colonial powers

$82.00

Bongani Nyoka.

The social and political thought of Archie Mafeje.

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776145980.

This is a comprehensive treatment of Archie Mafeje as a thinker and researcher analyses his overall scholarship and his role as a theoretician of libe...

$175.00

Lesley Cowling, Carolyn Hamilton (eds.).

Babel unbound: Rage, reason and rethinking public life

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776145898.

Drawing primarily on insights and materials from Africa for their capacity to speak to global developments, the authors in this volume propose new con...

$108.00

Kevin Shillington .

Patrick van Rensburg: Rebel, visionary and radical educationist, a biography

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776146048.

Patrick van Rensburg (1931-2017) was an anti-apartheid activist and self-made "alternative educationist". Van Rensburg was an innovative and charismat...

$71.00

Glenda Daniels .

Power and loss in South African journalism : News in the age of social media

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776145997.

The transition to digital news has been messy, random and unpredictable. The spread of news via social media platforms has given rise to political pro...

$65.00

Julie Reid, Dale T. McKinley .

Tell our story: Multiplying voices in the news media

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776145775.

Tell Our Story investigates the problem of disproportionate media representation and offers a hands-on demonstration of listening journalism and resea...

$63.00

Nicky Falkof (ed.).

Anxious Joburg: The inner lives of a global South city

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776146284.

Anxious Joburg focuses on Johannesburg, the largest and wealthiest city in South Africa, as a case study for the contemporary global South city. Globa...

$89.00

Ulrike Kistner, Philippe Van Haute .

Violence, slavery and freedom between Hegel and Fanon.

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776146239.

Offers close readings of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit, and of responses to it in the work of twentieth-century philosophers, that highlight the ent...

$63.00

Erin Hutchinson (ed.) .

Practical anatomy: The human body dissected. 2 edition

Johannesburg: 2020. ISBN 9781776145720.

A clear, concise and accessible dissection guide for undergraduate allied health sciences and medical students encountering dissection for the first t...

$135.00

Linda Chisholm .

Between worlds: German missionaries and the transition from Mission to Bantu education in South Africa

Johannesburg: 2018. ISBN 9781776141746.

The transition from apartheid to the post-apartheid era has highlighted questions about the past and the persistence of its influence in present-day S...

$68.00