AOM Flowers of the Nation is a novella about self empowerment and taking responsibility. It shatters the myth that impoverishment and blackness go together, showcases the new century’s renaissance man, and provides insight into Aids policy and other issues. In the beautiful Zenaele and her family you will find the compelling reality of today’s South [...]

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Author: Sandile Memela, English, NonArt, Softcover, 104pp, 195 x 130mm, ISBN: 978 1 86914 068 7,
Price: (ZA)R 100.00

AOM Welcome To Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow – microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche.  Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that [...]

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Author: Phaswane Mpe, English, NonArt, Softcover, 134pp, 197 x 128mm, ISBN: 978 0 86980 995 2,
Price: (ZA)R 100.00

On 27th April 2004, South Africa’s new democracy was ten years old. It has been a memorable decade, certainly one of the most fascinating in this country’s history.  This book aims at creating a permanent record of this seminal decade.  South Africa’s transition to democracy set off a whirlwind of change. Social dynamics were unleashed, [...]

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Author: George Hallet, English, NonArt, Hardcover, 280pp, 280x260mm, ISBN: 978 0 62032 027 6,
Price: (ZA)R 425.00

BACKGROUND – LONG LIFE In 2002, only 25,000 of the 4.7 million people living with HIV and AIDS in South Africa had access to life-saving medications. Six hundred people were dying of AIDS every day. In 2002, the Memory Box Project at the University of Cape Town began to run Memory Box workshops in Khayelitsha. [...]

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Current: December 1 2007- February 2008 David Krut Projects 142 Jan Smuts Avenue, Parkwood Johannesburg 011 4470627 Lucy@davidkrut.com CUNY College Brooklyn, New York, for World AIDS day December 1 2007

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Originaly published on – ‘Walking to a new rhythm’, M&G, June 23, 2006 http://www.chico.mweb.co.za/art/2006/2006jun/060623-adam.html
In the mid-1990s, while many South Africans were returning home from exile, Adam Levin was developing itchy feet and turning the other way. Of his life in Johannesburg, he wrote: “I am growing weary of life in this jungle. This savage hunting for money and things … it is time to walk again. To walk till my feet turn a tar road back to dirt.” This led him on his Wonder Safaris, through 20 African countries, in search of what it means to be an African. It restored his “miracle eye”, and changed his life.

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Justice Carole Lewis – Bloemfontein launch – 10 May 2005

Originally published on http://www.witnesstoaids.com/reviews.html#review3

Edwin Cameron’s moving and powerful account of his life with AIDS is a story not just about being a survivor and a witness to an epidemic that engulfs this continent.
It is also a story about personal courage. It is about a man with a public profile who made the decision to reveal his medical status in the full knowledge that it would bare his personal life to South Africans and many others worldwide.
It is about a man who knew that he would attract opprobrium and the wrath of politicians.

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In his book, Witness to AIDS, Edwin Cameron tells a ghastly story about Botswana . Knowing that up to a third of its population had HIV or AIDS, and that about 100 000 people were in urgent need of drugs, in 2001 Botswana’s government began to offer free anti-retroviral treatment to every citizen with AIDS. Yet, by late 2003, only 15 000 people had appeared at public health facilities for free medication. Why?

“Stigma,” is Cameron’s answer. “People are too scared — too ashamed — to come forward and claim what their government is now affording them: the right to stay alive.” Indeed, he says, “in some horrifically constrained sense, they are ‘choosing’ to die, rather than face the stigma of AIDS and find treatment”.

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By Luiz DeBarros
Originally published July 20, 2006 on http://www.mambaonline.com/

I remember writer and journalist Adam Levin in the late nineties. We weren’t friends, but he was often out and about on the Joburg gay scene and I briefly worked with him on a documentary in 1996. Then he disappeared.

I heard gossip that he was sick with Aids. When I briefly spotted him at party a few years later, I couldn’t reconcile the frail looking man with the person I remembered. Soon after, I heard that he was at death’s door.

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State of the Nation: South Africa 2004 – 2005 provides a comprehensive and frank picture of contemporary South African.

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Author: John Daniel, Roger Southall & Jessica Lutchman, English, NonArt, Soft Cover, 604 pages, 150mm x 210mm, ISBN: 0796920869,
Price: (ZA)R 200.00