<p>Sharing more than a hundred interconnected stories, Susan Levine memorably documents moments in the everyday lives of children who worked in the heart of South Africa's wine industry between 1996 and 2010. <br><br>The children introduced in the book―if they survived AIDS―are now young adults in a new South Africa that ostensibly offers possibilities for overcoming the shackles of race and class domination. However, as Levine makes clear, in the absence of radical economic restructuring, they are extremely poor adults; the costs of inequality and injustice remain high. South Africa, Levine reminds the reader, though a nation that managed to end the brutality of apartheid, has not managed to replace brutality itself.<br>CONTENTS: </p>
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<li>Foreword―Andries du Toit.</li> <li>A Brief History of Child Labour in South Africa.</li> <li>The Boys from Aliwal North.</li> <li>Rawsonville.</li> <li>Zwelethemba (Place of Hope).</li> <li>Epilogue.</li> </ul>
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Children of a Bitter Harvest: Child Labour in the Cape Winelands

History

Levine, Susan

Africa

Best Red, an imprint of HSRC Press

<p>Now this is real journalism: informative, authoritative, properly contextualized, and exceptionally well written. Schmidt is a great storyteller with a keen eye for detail. The best 'reporter's notebook' I've ever read.</p>

Drinking with Ghosts: The Aftermath of Apartheid's Dirty War

SCHMIDT, Michael

Drawing on insights drawn from extensive interviews with South Africans in all walks of life, Sharlene Swartz introduces the practical concept of social restitution―the actions and attitudes that people can undertake in dialogue with each other to “make things right.”CONTENTS: Foreword―Antjie Krog.A TIME TO SEE.Restitution and a Shared Vision for South Africa's Future.Ways of Seeing: Why We Are Divided About What Is Needed.THE PAST IN THE PRESENT.Black Pain and the Outrage of Racism.Apartheid's Costs: Education, Opportunities, Assets, and Wellbeing.White Privilege and Responses to South Africa's Past.TURNING TOWARDS TOMORROW.Restitution: A New Conversation.Locating Yourself in the Conversation.Restoring Our Humanity.A TIME TO ACT.Everyday Actions for Individuals and Groups.Telling New Stories Through Social Restitution.

Another Country: Everyday Social Restitution

Swartz, Sharlene

<p>The first of its kind for any sport in South Africa: a cricket love story of epic dimensions, full of sometimes shocking details. Cricket and Conquest fundamentally revises long-established foundational narratives of early South African cricket,  reaching beyond whites-only mainstream histories to integrate at every stage and in every region the experiences of black, as well as women, players. In this book and its sequels, the authors reveal how racism came to be built into the very fabric of South African cricket's culture and traditions, and how the sport was tied to the broader historical processes that shaped the country.<br>CONTENTS: </p>
<ul>
<li>Introduction.</li>
<li>WAR GAME, 1795–1870s.</li>
<li>Cricket Comes by Boat to Africa.</li>
<li>First Port of Call: Cape Town, 1795.</li>
<li>Second Port of Call: The Eastern Cape, 1810s.</li>
<li>The Beginnings of a Unique African Cricket Tradition.</li>
<li>Berthing in Port Natal, 1840s.</li>
<li>Cricket Reaches the Interior Highveld: The Boer Republics, 1850s.</li>
<li>The New Rush: Diamonds, Dust, and Cricket in the New Territory of Griqualand West, 1870s.</li>
<li>Southern Africa and the Spread of Cricket Across the World.</li>
<li>AFRICA'S FIRST COMPETITIONS, 1876–1890.</li>
<li>Cricket, War, and Change.</li>
<li>Champion Bat Ushers in New Era: The Launch of Inter-Town Tournaments, 1875/6.</li>
<li>"Native" Champions: A Second Inter-Town Tournament, 1884/5.</li>
<li>Abantu namaNgesi: Cricket, Color, and Citizenship in the 1880s.</li>
<li>The MCC of the Cape Colony: Stiff Upper Lips and Prejudice in the "Classic and Perennially Fragrant Metropolis."</li>
<li>The Balance Shifts from the Military to the Money: The Rise of Kimberley and the Birth of Johannesburg.</li>
<li>Subjugated Memories: Reconstituting the Statistics of the Inter-Town Tournaments, 1876–1898.</li>
<li>THE DOORS OPEN: THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TOUR AND VISIONS OF AN INCLUSIVE FUTURE, 1888–1894.</li>
<li>"Time for South Africa to Send Home Something Besides Gold, Diamonds, and Millionaires": From Inter-Town to International Cricket.</li>
<li>First International Team Arrives in Africa.</li>
<li>Journey That Inscribed Empire and Cricket Onto the Landscape of a Subcontinent.</li>
<li>The First South African Team and Test Matches.</li>
<li>"Home," "New Chums," and the Assertion of South African Cricket Identities.</li>
<li>"Gentlemen, We Beg You to Reconsider Your Decision": The Position of African Cricketers by the 1890s.</li>
<li>"The Most Gorgeous of Eastern Spectacles": A Third Inter-Town Tournament Launched, January 1890.</li>
<li>The Formation of the South African Cricket Association, April 1890. Cricket and the Imperial Mission: The Rise of Johannesburg and the First Currie Cup.</li>
<li>"What Man's Accomplish'd Ye Can Do": Selecting a Second South African Team, April 1891.</li>
<li>Demon Spofforth of Africa: The Assertion of Inclusive Identities and the First Taste of International Cricket for Black Players, March 1892.</li>
<li>THE DOORS CLOSE: INSTITUTIONALIZING CRICKET AS A SPORT FOR "EUROPEANS" AND MEN ONLY, 1894 ONWARDS.</li>
<li>Fateful Decision: Rhodes and Milton Exclude "Krom" Hendricks From the First South African Tour to Britain, 1894.</li>
<li>The Cape Town Establishment Institutionalizes Racism in Cricket.</li>
<li>The Color Bar in Cricket Becomes Fixed.</li>
<li>"Like a Rather Sunburned English Player": One Cricketer Who Bucked the System.</li>
<li>"Neither Ladies nor Cricketers": Women and Exclusions of Another Kind.</li>
<li>Women at the Crease.</li>
<li>PROVINCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL CRICKET BECOME THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF A NATIONAL GAME, 1890–1914.</li>
<li>Formation of the South African Coloured Cricket Board, 1903.</li>
<li>The First Inter-Colonial and Inter-Provincial Tournaments: SACA's Currie Cup and SACCB's Barnato Memorial Trophy.</li>
<li>Statistics for the Currie Cup and Barnato Memorial Trophy Tournaments, 1889/90 to 1912/13.</li>
<li>Old Wine in New Vessels: The Five Cricket Provinces in the Cape Colony.</li>
<li>The New Entrants: Transvaal, Natal, Orange Free State, and Rhodesia Enter Representative Cricket.</li>
<li>"The Bonds of the Union Within the Empire": South Africa SACA in International Cricket Before World War I.</li>
<li>EPILOGUE: IMPERIALISM, RACISM, AND THE SHAPING OF A NATIONAL CRICKET ETHOS.</li>
<li>A Long, Long Journey.</li>
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Cricket and Conquest: The History of South African Cricket Retold, Volume 1, 1795-1914 (BEST RED)

Winch, Jonty

Odendaal, André

Reddy, Krish

Merrett, Chrisopher

<p>When the Proteas play today, they bat for all South African cricketers―but there were once seven different cricket associations, each claiming to be to be "national." Divided Country continues the story begun in Cricket and Conquest, detailing not only how racism became so entrenched in South African cricket in 1914-1959, but also how segregation in the sport is tied to broader historical processes. The authors completely counter previous chronicles of South African cricket, showing how the game has an infinitely richer history than previously recorded.<br>CONTENTS: </p>
<ul>
<li>THE SEVEN SOUTH AFRICAS: AN INTRODUCTION.</li> <li>CRICKET, DISUNION, AND WAR, 1910 ONWARDS.</li> <li>Grim Start for a New Country, 1910–1918.</li> <li>Whites Only: The South African Cricket Association Slowly Picks Up the Pieces After World War I.</li> <li>Clause 25: The South African Coloured Cricket Board and Its Alternative Vision for South African Cricket, 1914–1959.</li> <li>DIVIDE AND RULE: CRICKET AND DEEPENING SEGREAGATION, 1920S-1950S</li> <li>New Laws Rearrange Urban Lives and the Spatial Basis for Cricket.</li> <li>Inventing Ethnicity: The Rise of a Third National Association: The South African Independent Coloured Cricket Board, 1926–1939.</li> <li>Mines, Municipalities, and Shrinking Opportunities: The South African Bantu Cricket Board Becomes the Fourth National Association, 1932–1939.</li> <li>South Africans But Not Citizens: The South African Indian Cricket Union, 1940 Onwards.</li> <li>World War II Brings Disruption.</li> <li>Changes in Society and a Sixth National Association: The South African Cricket Board of Control, 1945–1951.</li> <li>Women and Cricket: Another Form of Apartheid.</li> <li>"Hulle Engelse of Ons Engelse?": SACA and Politics in the Post-War Era.</li> <li>"One is One's Address": Understanding the Legislative Armoury of Apartheid.</li> <li>OVERVIEW OF THE PREMIER COMPETITIONS IN SOUTH AFRICAN CRICKET AFTER WORLD WAR II.</li> <li>SACA'S Currie Cup and Test Matches, 1940–1959.</li> <li>SACCB's Barnato Memorial Trophy, 1940s–1959.</li> <li>SACCA's Sir David Harris Trophy, 1940s-1959.</li> <li>SABCB's NRC Competition, 1940s–1959.</li> <li>SAICU's Christopher Cup, 1940s–1959.</li> <li>FOUNDATIONS FOR A NEW FUTURE, 1952–1960.</li> <li>"Ladies" Form the Seventh National Association and Assert Themselves in the "Gentleman's Game":</li> <li>The South Africa and Rhodesia Women's Cricket Association, 1952–1960.</li> <li>Femininity and Fashion: The Social Milieu of Women's Cricket.</li> <li>SACBOC and Its Base: Indian Administrators and Johannesburg Move Center Stage. Rapprochement: SACBOC Coaxes the Barnato Board Into the Fold.</li> <li>SACBOC and the Reinvention of South African Cricket Identities: Banishing Race and Preparing For the Future, 1954–1959.</li> <li>South African Women Also Join the International Circuit.</li> <li>Moving from One Era to Another.</li> <li>BRAND NEW SCORE BOOK.</li> <li>Reconstituting the Statistical Records of South African Cricket, 1919–1959.</li> <li>Statistical Overview of the South African Cricket Association, 1919–1959.</li> <li>Statistical Overview of the South African Coloured Cricket Board, 1922–1959.</li> <li>Statistical Overview of the South African Independent Coloured Cricket Board (Later SACCA), 1926–1959.</li> <li>Statistical Overview of the South African Bantu Cricket Board, 1933–1959.</li> <li>Statistical Overview of the South African Indian Cricket Union, 1940–1959.</li> <li>Statistical Overview of the South African Cricket Board of Control, 1951–1959.</li> <li>Statistical Overview of the South Africa and Rhodesia Women’s Cricket Association, 1951–1959.</li> </ul>
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Divided Country: The History of South African Cricket Retold, Volume 2, 1914-1950s (BEST RED)

<p>Following the birth of democracy in South Africa in 1994, Robben Island, once a symbol of pain, injustice, and closed spaces, became a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a global symbol of the commitment to democracy, tolerance, and human dignity. In the years that followed, however, conflict marred the high hopes for this cherished location. Robben Island Rainbow Dreams offers a behind-the-scenes account of the creation of the Robben Island Museum and the debate over democratic South Africa's first national heritage institution.<br />
CONTENTS: Prologue―A. Odendaal. DRAFT ONE OF THE MAKING OF THE ROBBEN ISLAND MUSEUM. The Liberation Struggle as Incubator for RIM―A. Odendaal. UWC's Mayibuye Centre: The Conceptual Base for RIM―A. Odendaal. Lobbying and Planning: A New South African Museums and Heritage Sector, 1990–1994―A. Odendaal. Defining the Vision: "The Triumph of the Human Spirit"―Address by Ahmed Kathrada. The Mandate: Cabinet's Decision on the Future of the Island, 1994–1996―A. Odendaal. Throwing Open the Prison Doors, 1 January 1997―A. Odendaal. Official Launch of RIM, 24 September 1997―Address by Nelson Mandela. Consolidation, Commemoration, Celebration: On the Way to UNESCO World Heritage Site Status, 1998–2000―A. Odendaal. Putting in Place Building Blocks for the Future―A. Odendaal. A Dirty Tricks Campaign Unfolds, 2001―A. Odendaal et al. The Pressure on RIM Intensifies―A. Odendaal. The Rupture, July 2002―A. Odendaal. Downward Spiral of an Institution and Its Vision―A. Odendaal. FOUNDATIONS FOR PERMANENCY. Narrative Design and Memory-Making as Healing Modality: The Ethos of Early RIM Education and Public Programming―D. Prins-Solani. Creating a New Generation of Heritage and Museum Leaders: The Inception of the Robben Island Training Programme―K.k. Mpumlwana and G. Corsane. From Mayibuye Centre to the UWC/Robben Island Mayibuye Archives―A. Josias. Signature in the City: Building the Nelson Mandela Gateway Building―L. Le Grange. Preparing for South Africa's First UNESCO World Heritage Site―J. Pastor. Challenges in Preventative Conservation: Artifacts as a Means of Triggering Memory and a Process of Healing―I. Mafune. Conservation Management Planning and Robben Island's Layered History―H. Deacon. Conserving the Island's Environment―S. Davis. An Ex–Political Prisoner's Memories of Living and Working on Robben Island―L. Davis. Building a New Community on the Island: The Robben Island Village Association―L. Damon and R. Damon. Making the Intangible Tangible: The First Tour Guides and the Social Memory of Robben Island―V. Mitchell. Appeasing the Ancestors: Art and Culture as a Way of Giving Meaning to RIM―R. Carneson. EXHIBITIONS AND MEMORY-MAKING PROCESS IN A SACRED SPACE. Memories of Working in RIM's First Exhibitions Unit, 1999–2008―G. Cheminais. Participation in Progress: The Story of Robben Island's Ex-Political Prisoner Reference Groups―R. Meintjes et al. Research Unit Experiences in Memorializing and Archiving Robben Island Prisoner Memories Through Oral History―N. Solani and O. Makhalemele. Journey to Sithebe Village: In Search of the First Political Prisoners in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison―N.L.l. Ramoupi et al. Restoring Dignity to the 12 Robben Island Prisoners Buried as Paupers in Stikland Cemetery by the Apartheid Regine―N. Tongo-Cetywayo and M. Fullard. The Making and Demise of the Nelson Mandela Gateway Exhibition, 2001–2010―M. Smallberg. VOICES AND DEBATES FROM WITHIN. The Saint of the Struggle: RIM and the Debate About Deconstructing the Mandela Myth―N. Solani. Pan Africanist and Black Consciousness Perspectives: Beneath the Surface of the Robben Island Museum Images―L.M. Dondolo. The Role of the Robben Island Museum in the Transformation of South Africa's Cultural Landscape―K. ka Mpumlwana and N.L.I. Ramoupi. See the Seagulls Fly: A Message to My Daughter―A. Forbes. CURIOUS COINCIDENCES. Fast Forward from RIM Rupture to State Capture―A. Odendaal. Mr. K. and the Replica of His Cell―A. O</p>

Robben Island Rainbow Dreams: The Making of Democratic South Africa’s First National Heritage Institution (African Lives, 18)

Dennis Brutus: The South African Years

Biographies & Memoirs

August, Tyrone

Arts & Literature

<p>This book reminds us why the news media must survive, not for the overburdened journalists at the wheel but for the people whose stories they carry.</p>

Hack with a Grenade: An Editor's Backstories of SA News

Humor & Entertainment

Abarder, Gasant

Humor

<p><div>Janet Hodgson tells the inspiring story of Emma Sandile (1842-1892)--Princess Emma, as she was known in southern African colonial circles--in a narrative that reads like a novel, but is all true, based on archival sources and extensive fieldwork.<br /></div> <div><br /></div> <div>Tracing the life of this pioneer of black womanism, Hodgson explores Sandile's early years, her education, and her many achievements as she became the first black woman landowner in Southern Africa and author of the first known work in English by an Xhosa woman. Princess Emma successfully bridged her African traditions with the imposed Western culture, facing challenges that will resonate with readers today.</div> <div><br /></div> <div>CONTENTS:</div> <div> <ul> <li>Foreword--Leah Tutu.</li> <li>Prologue: In Search of Emma Sandile.</li> <li>THE WEB IS SPUN.</li> <li>Emma's Early Years.</li> <li>A College for the Children of African Chiefs, 1857-8.</li> <li>Beginnings at Bishop's Court, 1858-9.</li> <li>Fundraising and Farms.</li> <li>"Zonnebloem Is Sunnyflower," 1860.</li> <li>The Girls and Their Teachers, 1858-63.</li> <li>Chief Sandile's Visit to Cape Town, 1860.</li> <li>FROM COLLEGE TO KRAAL.</li> <li>The Bishop and the Bridewealth, 1862-3.</li> <li>Princess Emma in Grahamstown, 1864.</li> <li>The Marriage Negotiations, 1864.</li> <li>Qeya and the Thembu Chiefdom.</li> <li>Mixed Tidings from Glen Grey.</li> <li>"A Maiden All Forlorn," 1864,</li> <li>Teacher at St. Philip's Mission, Grahamstown, 1864-7.</li> <li>"Return to the Red Clay."</li> <li>Emma's New World.</li> <li>Literacy and Land Issues.</li> <li>THE TURBULENT YEARS.</li> <li>The British Takeover.</li> <li>Sandile's Last Stand, 1877-8.</li> <li>Gonya's Captivity.</li> <li>Disarmament and Deposition.</li> <li>Stokwe's Rebellion, 1880.</li> <li>Emma's Farm.</li> <li>A Great Lady.</li> <li>Epilogue: What Became of Emma's Family.</li> <li>Photo Gallery.</li> </ul> </div></p>

Black Womanism in South Africa: Princess Emma Sandile

Hodgson, Janet

Historical

<p>What are public intellectuals? What is their role in social, cultural, political, and academic contexts? What compels them to put forward their ideas? The rich tapestry created in The Fabric of Dissent helps to answer these questions. Offering concise portraits of some seventy-five influential South African public intellectuals, past and present, the book not only showcases an astonishing array of achievements, but also explores the context, influences, and unique tensions shaping each individuals life and bears testimony to their continuing relevance.</p>

The Fabric of Dissent: Public Intellectuals in South Africa

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