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Contains fourteen essays originally published between 1974 and 1996. Based on fieldwork conducted between 1969 and 1985, and on extensive archival research, the first six essays examine the social function of poetry in the community, the element of improvisation in the production of poetry. Individual poets are then presented.

Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet and performance maestro, and the author of 12 books, including two plays and three novels. HIs third novel, Bird-Monk Seding, is a stark picture of life in a rural township two decades into South Africa's democracy.

The history of Muslim education in the east coast region of South Africa is the story of ongoing struggles by an immigrant religious minority under successive, exclusionary forms of state.

While there are many reasons to be despondent about the current state of affairs in the South African tertiary sector, this collection is intended as an invitation for the reader to see these problems as opportunities for rethinking the very idea of what it is to be a university in contemporary South Africa.

The subject of motherhood is at the heart of any consideration of women's writing. Conversations of Motherhood charts common themes, intersecting experiences and related tropes within the cultural specificities of South African society. Exploring this space, in turn, provides a lens for cross-cultural reading that draws on various local ways of knowing and the workings of agency.

Some of South Africa's finest academic minds look back at twenty years of democratic rule. How far has South Africa come? Is race still an entrenched issue? Why does gender discrimination continue? Why are the poor in revolt? Is free expression under threat? These (and many other) questions run through these pages.

Harold Wolpe was arguably the most influential theorist of this generation. His writing played a major role in a revolution in thought and his celebrated escape from prison in the 1960s made him a symbol of alternative action. Race, Class and Power clearly and insightfully examines Wolpe's work in the political, intellectual and social contexts in which it was developed and to which it gave form.

This careful study asks how the people of the Dwars River Valley respond to changing land use and how that relates to the historical and spatial contexts of the valley. Speaking to the massive Western Cape farm strikes of 2012, this book reveals agency in the Dwars River Valley and suggests that marginalised people have not acquiesced.

Twenty years after the end of apartheid rule, the claim that democratic South Africa is founded on the 'spirit of law' (nomos) of our shared humanity is questionable, to say the least. Some would argue that all talk of Ubuntu (or African humanism) should be dismissed as a passing fad of an exhausted nationalism.

Internationally acclaimed poet-scientist Douglas Livingstone and leading literary critic Michael Chapman struck up a warm, at times iconoclastic friendship. Their conversations recollected in this book take readers through the black-and-white times of political turbulence in South Africa of the 1970s and 1980s to a climate, after apartheid.

Provides an examination of the social and psychological dimensions of the literary mythology of Shaka, the Zulu founder King, in a genealogy of white writers.

Presents a collection of interviews with 15 South African theatre practitioners who have made their mark on the development of anti-apartheid theatre. The interviews, some of which are also personal testimonies, throw light on the ways in which theatre was able to get past the censors and through the security meshes of the special branch.

Second in a series of booklets on the natural history of the Drakensberg promoted by the management committee of the Ukhahlamba field centre at Cathedral Peak, this book aims to help the visitor to identify some of the most common grasses, sedges, restiads and rushes.

Result of a conference held in 1993, a century after Gandhi was ejected from a train at Pietermaritzburg station, this book traces some of the influences, which effected his transformation from an unsuccessful young man to a mature political and spiritual leader ready to carve his niche in history after his return to India in 1914.

A translated excerpt from the author's earlier work ""Drei Jahre in Sud-Afrika"", published in 1868, this book deals with the journey through Natal which formed part of his southern African travels between 1863 and 1866. It includes a short introduction that provides the historical context and details Fritsch's life and scientific career.

To South Africa, in 1838, came Delegorgue, a young French naturalist with a passion for information, a keen eye and a ready wit... and a mighty elephant gun. This volume describes his brief journeying in the Cape Colony, and the early part of his several years of hunting and specimen-collecting in Natal and Zululand.

A guide for parents and teachers to identify and help visual learners at home and in the classroom. It shows them how to help their children achieve the same level of success as their peers through using their creative talents.

During the years of apartheid rule in South Africa, many women 'skipped' the country and fled into exile to evade harassment, detention, imprisonment and torture by state security forces. Leaving the country of their birth, many took calculated, though dangerous, risks to cross borders.

An autobiography that traces Bernard Magubane's early life in country and town under apartheid, his years in exile and his intellectual development as an African scholar. It helps us learn of his close involvement with various members of the ANC, and the vital role he played in developing the anti-apartheid struggle in the US and beyond.

Bart Dunn is an average South African white guy, distraught at crime and general bungling. But he also holds a rogue view: he sees up-sides to Africa. As he rollercoasters through the highs and lows of everyday life, South African style, he is convinced there is a way, somewhere, to grow the highs and shrink the lows.

This is a collection that celebrates the quiet beauty of the ordinary. Moolman's subtle poetry speaks in the enigmatic strokes of abstract art.

This tribute collection binds together the manifold voices and visions of Sandile Dikeni - one of South Africa's most gifted poets.

A daughter's legacy is the story of Kedibone's journey from childhood to parenthood, from the dusty streets of her home village to the modern worlds of university and working life.

Lost city of the Kalahari is the author's hitherto unpublished account of the odd adventure.

A photographic journey that begins in the streets of Jo'burg in the late 1970's, and ends in the desert landscapes of the millennium. This is an observation of the lives of ordinary people and their daily survival choices, as they struggled and overcame the limiting circumstances of their lives, or simply reflected the tenor of their times.

Features a story that brings together the voices of two South African women, different in background, connected in spirit. Weaving together a range of narrative styles and strands - mythic, political, and anecdotal - this work reflects the complex reality of the Khomani Bushman community that Belinda is a part of.

A narrative and 'personal scrapbook' selection of sketches, poems, and private reflections, this book offers an intimate portrait of life, from a wheelchair perspective. It is, above all, a testament to courage and determination, from a man who recognises no limitations in his quest for life's best.

This book chronicles the life, times and poetry of extraordinary Xhosa praise poet, the late David Yali-Manisi, and his growing friendship and fruitful working relationship with the author.