<p>Teach Yourself Xhosa is intended for all who are interested in learning one of the most widely spoken languages in South Africa. It is aimed at both South Africans and visitors to South Africa and those who are learning Xhosa from scratch, as well as those who want to brush up their existing skills. Wherever possible, the communicative aspect of the language has been emphasised to give you a course which is useful and practical. Cultural background and information forms an integral part of the course and will help you get the most out of a visit to South Africa. The book is divided into 16 units which range from basic functions and language usage in the initial units to a more varied and complex usage in the later units. Material from Xhosa literature and magazines will broaden the range of your language and will give you the confidence to go beyond the pages of the book. The book (0 340 87111 3) is accompanied by audio material on two cassettes (0 340 87113 X) or CDs (0 340 91391 6) which are available separately or together with the book in packs (book/cassette pack: 0 340 87112 1; book/CD pack: 0 340 91390 8).</p>

Xhosa

Sindiwe Magona

Beverley Kirsch

Teach Yourself

This title is intended for all those who want to learn one of the most widely spoken languages in South Africa. Emphasising the communicative aspect of the language, the course is divided into 16 units ranging from basic functions and language usage to a more varied and complex usage in later units. Material is included from Xhosa literature and magazines to broaden the range of your language and cultural notes are intended to enlighten those visiting Africa. Tips on pronunciation feature to master the "clicks" associated with speaking the language.

Xhosa (Teach Yourself Languages)

S. Skorge

Teach Yourself Books

This double CD provides relevant listening material to accompany the book, Teach Yourself Xhosa (978 0 340 87111 9). The book and CDs can also be be purchased as a pack (978 0 340 91390 1).

Teach Yourself Xhosa (Teach Yourself Complete Courses)

This powerful and widely acclaimed autobiography of Sindiwe Magona's early years in South Africa, announced the arrival of a major new black writer. Here she gives an account of her eventful first 23 years and tells a candid, unself-pitying story of triumph and endurance in the face of hardships relentlessly reinforced by the apartheid system.

To My Children's Children

Biographies & Memoirs

The Women"s Press

Forced to Grow: An Autobiography

Community & Culture

Living, Loving and Lying Awake at Night

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

<p>Sindiwe Magona's novel Mother to Mother explores the South African legacy of apartheid through the lens of a woman who remembers a life marked by oppression and injustice. Magona decided to write this novel when she discovered that Fulbright Scholar Amy Biehl, who had been killed while working to organize the nation's first ever democratic elections in 1993, died just a few yards away from her own permanent residence in Guguletu, Capetown. She then learned that one of the boys held responsible for the killing was in fact her neighbor's son. Magona began to imagine how easily it might have been her own son caught up in the wave of violence that day. The book is based on this real-life incident, and takes the form of an epistle to Amy Biehl's mother. The murderer's mother, Mandisi, writes about her life, the life of her child, and the colonized society that not only allowed, but perpetuated violence against women and impoverished black South Africans under the reign of apartheid. The result is not an apology for the murder, but a beautifully written exploration of the society that bred such violence.</p>

Mother to Mother (Bluestreak)

Beacon Press

Forced to Grow

David Philip, Publishers

Mother to Mother. Sindiwe Magona

Professionals & Academics

David Philip

While Ian van Coller was growing up in the 1970s, the black women working in his parents upper class home in a whites-only suburb of Johannesburg were valued as members of the family. Nannies and maids who helped raise the children and run the household, they were ever-present confidants and friends. And yet they were conspicuously absent from family vacations and photo albums.  Apartheid, though it has been officially consigned to history, continues to live on in nearly a million South African homes where blacks still serve the needs of the white minority. Ian van Coller s first monograph, Interior Relations, deftly probes this enduring racial fault line with a simple yet elegant premise: he has asked black housekeepers, nannies and maids to wear their finest clothes, and to sit for formal portraits in the homes they care for.  Though the subjects' white employers are never shown, evidence of their privilege crowds around the women, forever out of reach: every portrait a cameo of apartheid in redux.  For Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa's most celebrated black writers, working as a domestic in her youth provided a desperately needed but meager income that she was forced to supplement by selling sheep heads on the street. Serving white families represented a constriction of the soul that was broken only by the force of her will to become a writer.  Magona's introduction channels the voices of van Coller s subjects through her own years as a domestic worker. Ian van Coller s delicate and reverential portraits, coupled with Sindiwe Magona s searing essay, offer a starkly original view of the intersection of race and class in post-apartheid South Africa.

Interior Relations

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Charles Lane Press

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