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 party [...]

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Author: Janet Smith & Beauregard Tromp, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 230x150mm, 338pg, Black and White, ISBN: 9781868423491

In this selection of columns, Jonny Steinberg walks through Pollsmoor Prison on the eve of the invasion of Iraq and believes he sees in the jail’s corridors why the US’s impending war in the Middle East will fail.He meets a poverty-stricken old man who spends most of his state pension maintaining a black Mercedes Benz, [...]

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Author: Jonny Steinberg, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 200x125mm, 327pg, Black and White, ISBN: 9781868422937

Xolela Mangcu’s latest book takes the temperature of our democracy at this moment and provides an informed prognosis of our future. In particular he looks at the health of our institution  – such as political opposition, the court an the media – and the state f our enviroment , espcially  South Africa’s position in the [...]

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Author: Xolela Mangcu, English, NonArt, Sofcover, 210x145mm, 200pg, Black and White, ISBN: 9781770097742,
Price: (ZA)R 180.00

For Rian Malan the blessing of living in South Africa is that every day presents him with material whose richness beggars the imagination of those who live in saner places. ” Rian Mala could always see the story when others had long since lost the plt. Sometimes he went completely off his head as [...]

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Author: Rian Malan, English, NonArt, Softcover, 230x150mm, black and white, 336pg, ISBN: 9781868423569

Zapiro  returns with his signature wry satirical style to ensure that his audience hovers between shaking their heads
in rueful agreement and snorting in mirth. South Africa’s sharpest  cartoon also acts as our national conscience and
once again ensures that no event passes by without comment …or a laugh.
“Zapiro’s cartoons pack a punch that lands in your [...]

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Author: Zapiro, English, NonArt, Softcover, 24x19,5 cm, 136 pp, ISBN: 9781770097575,
Price: (ZA)R 140.00

Hani: A Life Too Short tells the story of Hani’s life, from his childhood in rural Transkei and education at Fort Hare University to the controversial Memorandum of 1969, the crisis in the ANC camps in Angola in the 1980s and the heady dawn of freedom. Drawing on interviews and the recollections of those who [...]

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Author: Janet Smith & Beauregard Tromp, English, NonArt, 15 x 23cm, ISBN: 978 1868423491,
Price: (ZA)R 200

by Lucy McClellan, Journal of International Affairs, 1 April 2009
http://www.allbusiness.com/humanities-social-science/literature-literature/12325066-1.html

Judith Todd’s account of Zimbabwe’s tragic post-colonial turmoil and the lawless rule of Robert Mugabe is a thorough, on-the-ground examination of the Zimbabwean nationalist movement and the many competing interests of the independence era. The subject matter is fascinating and Todd, as the director of the [...]

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There had never been art like the art produced by women artists in the 1970s — and there has never been a book with the ambition and scope of this one about that groundbreaking era.
WACK! documents and illustrates the impact of the feminist revolution on art made between 1965 and 1980, featuring pioneering and influential [...]

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Author: Lisa Gabrielle Mark, English, Hardcover, 511pp, 265x235mm, ISBN: 978 0914357995,
Price: (ZA)R 650.00

Entry for Encyclopedia on Censorship November 30th, 1997
Judith Todd – Zimbabwean nationalist and writer, born 1943
by Richard Saunders
Judith Todd rose to prominence in the 1960s in the international campaign against the illegal white minority regime of Ian Smith’s Rhodesian Front, working first as a student activist and later as a writer, organiser, public speaker and [...]

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Text taken from the Economist’s Books of the Year 2007.
Through the Darkness: A Life In Zimbabwe

A harrowing tale of courage and betrayal by a white heroine of the liberation struggle against Ian Smith who has been punished (and stripped of her citizenship) with extraordinary vengefulness by Robert Mugabe for speaking out about the regime’s abuses [...]

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