Botsotso is a grouping of poets, writers and artists who wish to both create as well as to generate means for its public communication and appreciation. We speak particularly of art that is of and about the varried cultures and life experiences of people in South Africa – as expressed in all our many languages. [...]

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Author: Various, English, Suthu and Zulu, Venda, South African Literature, Softcover, 299x212mm, full colour, 229pp, ISBN: 9771562763009,
Price: (ZA)R 110

The Range of South Africans’ often fragmented experience is best captured when individual testimonies are placed side by side- not necessarily to contradict but to augment each other. These six poets cover a wide spectrum of situations, moods and concerns; sections of six spiritslaid bare for those who wish to appreciate the multiplicity of our [...]

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Author: Various, English and Zulu, South African Literature, Softcover, 240x165mm, Full Colour, 224pp, ISBN: 9780981406879,
Price: (ZA)R 110

‘I weave warm words/cause havoc to political/I Ignite fire in frozen/hearts I steer the mind into the light’ From  Soweto, from the hiltops of initiation,Siphiwe ka Ngwenya adopts the mantle of Killjoy, disecting our liberation, questioning our infatuations, babtising us in the juicy waters of procreation. ‘Dance, Africa!’ he cries, before hittting Hillbrow pavements parading [...]

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Author: Siphiwe Ka Ngwenya, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 208x150mm, Full colour, 89pp, ISBN: 9780620348775,
Price: (ZA)R 66

This Book Salutes Peter Esterhuiysen, a fine and accomplished teller of stories. It is also a nod to a frienship that often expressed itself in poetic dialogue.The blurb includes Peter’s poem, Crossing the Piazza; a universal expression of the possibility for growth and change that all human friendship offers:               That first meeting was accidental, [...]

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Author: Peter Esterhuysen & Paul Mason, English, International Literature, Softcover, 211x140mm, Full colour, 72pp, ISBN: 9780620412438,
Price: (ZA)R 66

Inhloso yokubhala lencwadi yezinkondlo kumbhali kwabe kungukuvenza ubuhlungu, ukudideka kanye nokuhlukumezeka okwahlukahlukene esibhekana nakho imihla ngemihla yokuphila kwethu. Leminjunju kuyafuneka ilandelwe yisisombululo salenkanankana. My aim in writing this book was to expose pain, confusion , and the different types of abuse we face everyday of our lives. I also wish to show that this suffering [...]

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Author: Bongekile Joyce Mbanjwa, Zulu & English, South African Literature, Softcover, 210x148mm, Full colour, 96pp, ISBN: 9780981406893,
Price: (ZA)R 66

“The boundaries of Johannesburg are drifting away, sliding over pristine ridges and valleys, lodging in tenuous places, slipping again. At its edges, where the city fades momentarily into the veld, unimaginable new atmospheres evolve…” This half-made world besides the freeways, where Tuscan townhouses are jostled together with township matchboxes and shanties, is the setting for [...]

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Price: (ZA)R 140

This is a book about Johannesburg and one man’s place in it: a provocative, teasing, revealing, analytical and poetic text on the city and the life rooted in its concrete streets. A new high-water mark in Ivan Vladislavic’s writing, Portrait With Keys is a sprawling yet comprehensive portrait of his Joburg. His gaze roams freely [...]

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Author: Ivan Vladislavic, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 220x145mm, 212pp, ISBN: 9781415200209,
Price: (ZA)R 155

Blood and Bad Dreams: A South African Explores the Madness in His Country, His Tribe and Himself. In 1977 Rian Malan, descendant of Daniel Francois Malan, South Africa’s first nationalist Prime Minister, and one of the master builders of apartheid, fled his homeland to live in America. Eight years later he returned from exile to [...]

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Author: Rian Malan, English, South African Literature, Softcover, 200x130mm, 426pp, ISBN: 9780099749004,
Price: (ZA)R 155

Erik Laubscher studied in London and Paris and returned to South Africa in 1951 with a strong Formalist grounding. His early paintings were influenced by Post-Cubist trends and the School of Paris. His studies under Fernand Léger would prove to be important and influence his work at a later stage. Erik Laubscher has represented South [...]

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Author: Dr Hans Fransen, Forword by Melvyn Minnaar Additional contributions by: Elza Miles Abraham H. De Vries Francesca Gayraud Laubscher, English, Monograph, Softcover, 299pp, 280x258mm, ISBN: 9780620415842,
Price: (ZA)R 400

Cecil Skotnes said that Ngatane “put his thumbprint on the history of South African art”. In the course of his short-lived but illustrious career, Ngatane made a marked impression on the art of the 1950s and 1960s, creating artworks that captured the essence of township living and conveyed emotion and depth. Ngatane studied under Skotnes [...]

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Author: Rory Bester, English, Monograph, Hardcover, 250x250mm, full colour, 80pp, ISBN: 9780620454339,
Price: (ZA)R 300