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It is January, 1978. Groups of nervous, dutiful white conscripts begin their National Service with Rhodesia's security forces. Ian Smith's minority regime is in its dying days and negotiations towards majority rule are already under way. For these inexperienced eighteen-year-olds, there is nothing to do but go on fighting, and hold the line while the transition happens around them. Dead Leaves is a richly textured memoir in which an ordinary t...

Local history and folklore often inform the naming of people and places. Does eThekwini mean "place of the lagoon" or "place of the single testicle"? How are the names of dogs used to accuse a neighbor of witchcraft? What is the origin of Jamludi? Is the Zulu isibongo the same as a surname? Zulu Names explores the meanings of and metaphors behind more than a thousand Zulu names grouped into different categories: from personal names and nicknam...

The Farming Handbook is a unique and comprehensive book that deals with a wide range of agricultural subjects and enterprises in one easy-to-use volume. Although the focus is mainly on conditions in South Africa, the agricultural principles and practices can easily be applied elsewhere. Throughout his career, Barry Smith has formulated and collected rules of thumb, working on the premise that it is better to be roughly right than to be precise...

Since the democratic elections in 1994, there have been concerted efforts to redress race and gender inequalities in South Africa. In schools, teachers and students have responded in their own ways toward change. This book provides a nuanced analysis that

Presents a collection of papers, which was written by the man who is known to history as the boy 'John Ross'. By undertaking the hazardous journey to Delagoa Bay in 1827, to bring back medicines and shipbuilding equipment, he acquired legendary status as the saviour of the tiny community at Port Natal.

In 1948, the National Party came to power and immediately began to set up the structures of apartheid. This book examines the debate that raged within the Anglican Church, focusing on Michael Scott, Patrick Duncan, Trevor Huddlestone, and Ambrose Reeves on the one side, and Archbishop Geoffrey Clayton on the other.

Christiaan De Wet, commander of the Boer forces in the Anglo-Boer War, had the ability to lead his burghers, many of them individualists, with a strong hand, subjecting them to his stringent discipline. He was also a masterful strategist who could anticipate the moves of his opponents. But it was his ability to evade the British forces in what became known as the "First De Wet Hunt" that contributed significantly to his legendary status. Lord ...

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The World Bank: Development, Poverty, Hegemony scrutinizes the World Bank's agenda-setting documents of the past fifteen years from its examinations of African 'crises' and East Asian 'miracles' to its perspectives on the state's changing developmental role, the Bank's environmental and participatory strategies, and the institution's changes since during and since the Wolfensohn era. A wide range of academic scholars and activists including ec...

It All Begins is a collection of poems in English by over fifty South African poets (and some Zimbabweans), with several contemporary translations from /Xam, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Xitsonga and Zulu. All the poems were published in the poetry journal New Coin between 1989 and 1999. These poems were written over a period which included the brutal last years of apartheid, the release of Mandela, the country's first democratic elections, and the distu...

This groundbreaking book provides a critically informed and holistic analysis of the impact and legacy of mega-sporting events through the lens of South Africa's 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup and its associated developmental paradigm.

How responsive are South African corporations to their social and environmental responsibilities? Given the extremes of economic inequality, is business generally proactive in redressing the legacy of apartheid, or does it only respond to regulation? Thes

This anthology seeks to understand and appreciate a major phenomenon in South African literary and political life the rise to prominence of a Black Consciousness poetry, called the New Black Poetry of the 1970s, or Soweto Poetry. The contributions, republished here 25 years later, gain resonance in retrospect. They draw on the insights of many leading literary commentators including Peter Abrahams, H.I.E Dhlomo, Nat Nakasa, Es'kia Mphahlele, J...

Religion and spirituality are closely woven into the fabric of South African public and private life though not always seamlessly. This book is concerned with the role of religion and spirituality in individual identity and belief, as well as in the public spheres of South African governance and policy-making. It brings together significant researchers from various disciplinary perspectives ranging from law and politics to theology, literature...

This unique collection combines historical accounts with current socio-political analyses to present an agenda for social-spacial justice for the people of the Eastern Cape.

Mzi Mahola ranks as one of South Africa's most seasoned and profound poetic voices currently at work. His poetry, though deeply rooted in the literal and cultural earth of his traditional upbringing, has a global and contemporary reach. His is a praise singer's voice, perfectly attuned to the political and social complexities of the moment, intensely patriotic, but also boldly outspoken in its criticisms of leaders and the populace alike. Maho...

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Explores the interface between HIV, AIDS and religion and makes a significant contribution to a growing body of scholarship that recognises the importance of religious engagement with the reality of HIV and AIDS. This book seeks to understand what work has been done, and to discern what remains to be done. The book has a strong African focus with local forms of Christianity and Islam featuring prominently.

What is really meant by 'development' in 21st-century post-apartheid South Africa? What are the challenges and complexities of real transformation in this context? The contributions in this book address the ways in which people in all sectors of South African society are confronting its development dilemmas - from the energy crisis, environmental sustainability, and environmental justice, to grassroots social movements, problems of policy impl...