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William Kentridge Flute

The book, entitled William Kentridge Flute, will trace the process of Kentridge’s creation of The Magic Flute, his astounding collaborations that produced Black Box, and the host of other works that flowed out of preparations for these two important productions.

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Skill Set 1 – Graphic Design: A Primer in South African Graphic Design

CLICK HERE TO SEE A PREVIEW OF THIS BOOK   Written by graphic designer Michael MacGarry, and featuring the work of leading design professionals, and targeted at designers, A Primer in South African Graphic Design features design fundamentals and principles; practical advice and guidance; designing for and within the local context; example of work by [...]

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Foot Soldier for Freedom: A Life in South Africa’s Liberation Movement

  Rica Hodgson was banned, detained, house arrested and exiled by the apartheid government. After 27 years in exile she returned to South Africa to become Walter Sisulu’s secretary and to assist Nelson Mandela with projects close to his heart. In Foot Soldier for Freedom Rica traces her evolution from relative white privilege as a [...]

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Fighting for Justice

  Jay Naidoo was a tireless anti-apartheid campaigner in the 1980s, serving as the first General Secretary of Coastu, South Africa’s largest union federation and the backbone of the internal mass struggles against apartheid. In 1993, he stepped down to lead twenty leaders from Cosatu into parliament on an ANC ticket, and was asked by [...]

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Eggs to Lay, Chickens to Hatch: A Memoir

  Agnes, the Van Wyks’ Zulu housekeeper, had a special friendship with young Chris in the late sixties to early seventies. He would defend her whenever she came to work with a hangover on a Monday morning and made a mess of the cleaning. In turn, Agnes never told on Chris when he played truant [...]

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Hani: A Life Too Short

Chris Hani’s assassination in 1993 gave rise to one of South Africa’s great imponderables: if he had survived, what impact would he have had on politics and government in South Africa? More pointedly, could this charismatic leader have risen to become president of the country? Hani was a hero of South Africa’s liberation, a communist [...]

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Capitalist Nigger: The Road to Success

  Capitalist Nigger excels as an explosive and jarring indictment of the Black Race. The title asserts that the Negroid race, as naturally endowed as any other, is culpably a non-productive race. The Black Race is a consumer race and depends on other communities for its culture, its language, its feeding, and its clothing. Despite [...]

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Captured in Time: Five Centuries of South African Writing

The time has come to delve into the story of South Africa’s turbulent history – a story of exploration and conquest, rampant growth and war, oppression and ultimately, liberation. This selection of writings, from the most illuminating, entertaining and significant works written about the country and its diverse people, covers almost five centuries – from [...]

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Botsotso: An Anthology of Contemporary South African Poetry

Botsotso was founded in South Africa in 1994, following the end of Apartheid, by the Botsotso Jesters, a poetry performance group. Its first printed manifestation was as an insert in the New Nation a now defunct weekly newspaper’s demise, Botsotso became a magazine in its own right and a publishing house. This anthology of 12 [...]

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The Hottentonts Venus: The Life and Death of SAARTJIE BAARTMAN Born 1789-Buried 2002

SAARTJIE BAARTMAN was twenty-one years old when she was taken from her native South Africa and shipped to London. Within weeks she had made the headlines and become the talk of the social season of 1810, hailed as The Hottentont Venus for her exquisite physique (not least her shapely  and irresistible bottom) and sugestive semi-nude [...]

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