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Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Pain and pleasure: Peri-Peri - The contrasts and contradictions of the African bird’s eye chilli
The African bird's eye Chilli is rich in contradiction: from its magical role in ancient African tribal healing to its undeniable presence among emerging 21st Century food trends. It makes for heated conversation...This title converts some of the myths surrounding this little scarlet pod to fact, by researching and providing the science behind the many (mis)perceptions and beliefs. The African bird's eye chilli is an especially pungent little chilli that evokes a level of passion that is inversely proportional to its size.
£24.26
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Miss Kwa Kwa 2: The dark side of the braai
The braai is so much more than a social event or a meal. It is a ritual, an experience, perhaps the closest thing to a meditative state many of us will achieve. Even the vegetarians know that. Sometimes, however, things get burned, fights break out and somebody gets naked. And covered in potato salad. What does this have to do with the book you're scanning curiously? MK has a big problem - she has woken up a week later than she went to bed. Somebody has been feeding her cat. She has no explanation for it, but is smart enough to know it can't be good. In Johannesburg and Cape Town, sinister plots are afoot, and MK - no stranger to the deep end - may just be in over her head. The lady usually causing all the trouble now faces it from all sides - political fanatics, a Hollywood party girl, a secret agent, and most diabolical of all - local television.
£12.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd O' Mandingo! Before Mandela was Mandela
O'Mandingo! Before Mandela was Mandela was written in the years prior to Mandela's release from jail, the author has chosen these pieces to follow up on his previous title O'Mandingo! The only black at a dinner party. Read this and remember when, as the author says in his introduction, "..under apartheid one had to hide one's meaning and hope that it will still be discovered." Miyeni writes in fact and fiction of those years when our realities were skewed by apartheid, yet we knew one thing for certain, and it was that Mandela was Mandela. "You know, I wore a t-shirt with Viva Mandela written on it to work once and one of the drivers came up to me and said in Zulu, 'Sorry bra, but I really didn't know that Viva was Mandela's first name.' How's that hey? The guy probably didn't even know whether Mandela was related to Stompie or not. For those who cannot read (and I'm sure there are plenty in this country) Stompie is the stub that was put out in an ashtray placed a little too close ton our version of the Queen Mother..."
£15.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The edge of fusion
Presented by gourmet chef Shane Sauvage, the recipes in the title are guaranteed to be the talking point of any dinner party. Amazing combinations of flavour and texture, with enough variety to satisfy even the most curious cook, fill the pages of this title with vibrancy and excitement. Easy-to-follow recipes, accompanied by detailed photographs of each step in the creative process, make fusion cooking far less daunting than one might imagine. Twelve years of experience on the cutting edge of South African cuisine has given Sauvage all the creativity and knowledge necessary to impart an enormous wealth of information to the budding fusion cook. Colourfully narrated in the author's idiomatic style, The Edge of Fusion will draw you to your kitchen and keep you there for hours.
£21.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Three Friends and a Taxi
Three friends and a taxi is a tale first told to the author by a local guide in a taxi in the islands of the Comores. Sheep, Goat and Dog take a taxi to the sea and must face the consequences of their own actions when the time comes to pay the taxi fare. It is a tale told all across Africa, from Nigeria to the Comores to South Africa, and belongs to all of Africa and its people.
£8.37
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Pride: Protest and celebration
The history of South African gay pride marches and parades over the last 16 years is compiled in this overview of the gay liberation struggle in South Africa. This reference brings together a host of valuable and rare material, including pictures, documents, and personal testimony of activists, organizers, and participants of Pride since 1990.
£13.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Uselessly
South Africa's foremost counter-culture revolutionary shares "letters" to and from his father, God, and the Devil, in this irreverent and pithy book about the world. Serious and philosophical issues of everyday life arise from the naïve voice of the protagonist in this off-beat, avant-garde rant. Readers will laugh or cringe at the author’s sharp, inquisitorial eye and insatiable curiosity, which serves to remind them that we don't really have a culture at all.
£12.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd There's a Tsotsi in the boardroom
There's a Tsotsi in the boardroom takes bewildered advertisers and marketers on a guided tour of exactly what makes the South African market tick. It's a story as old as history itself. Everyone wants to be a chief - whether it's in a boardroom, a parliament, a church or on the streets. Despite the odds having been stacked against them, many people in South Africa still made it. And many more didn't wait for opportunities to open up - they simply broke down the doors. You may find this title, at times, a little uncomfortable and a bit raw, but the author says: 'what do you expect? I am a product of Bantu education; I can only tell it like it is. But not because my vocabulary is limited. And I don't understand big words like 'diplomacy'.'
£15.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Sappi treespotting Cape: From Coast to Kalahari
There are dozens of titles that focus on specific areas of the Cape, or on specific types of plants that occur there. None of the simpler publications for the general public have tackled the integration of vegetation regions and the distribution of woody plants of this diverse area. Sappi tree spotting Cape successfully explores the wonder of trees and shrubs from the rocky dry Richtersveld in the west, through the Kalahari sands and the spiky survivors of the arid Karoo. It includes the Proteas and the towering giants of the forests of the south. The series, and now this last title, can make a difference on so many levels: They keep the terminology simple; they show you the right place to look for the right tree. They ID the striking features. These trees do not need a complex system of "keying" because they are instantly recognisable. The other four books are Sappi tree spotting Lowveld, Bushveld, KwaZulu-Natal and Eastern Cape and Highveld.
£22.00
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd One woman walking: Love, loss and liberation - a journey through divorce
Loss of love is a universal theme. Abandonment is a primal fear. Divorce severs not only connection to others but often to ourselves, becoming a breeding ground for separation anxiety and intense feelings of low self-worth. This title is a personal story of one woman's journey through abandonment and divorce. It is a naked inquiry into the anguish of her loss, not only physical loss but also the loss of a sense of self. Based on journals kept over three years, the story is intimately written. Woven through this nakedly honest record of divorce, is a second voice - the voice of a wise woman. She offers an inspired alternative, and explains how traumatic life experiences can be approached as an opportunity for new growth, greater fulfilment, true intimacy and creativity.
£15.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd RamApocalypse Now
No little thorn in the flesh or irritating fly in the ointment, Zapiro just cannot be ignored. It’s been another helluva year, and who better to make sense of it than Zapiro, political analyst, cartoonist and agent provocateur. He has the ability to knock the air out of us, to rock us back in our seats, to force us bolt upright with a 1000-watt jolt of electrifying shock. He makes us angry, he makes us laugh and he makes us think. He shines a light on the elephant in the room, presents the emperor in all his naked glory. Impossible to brush off, he is determined to provoke a response. When all around is crumbling, when fake news and zipped lips conceal the truth, Zapiro comes to the rescue. With the dissecting eye of a surgeon, the rapier-like point of his pen exposes flimflam, and reveals with a line what lies behind the action.
£10.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Nala Sings
Singing was Nala's favourite thing to do. Sadly, though, she was not allowed to sing while she was beside the river."Don't ever go to the river," the parents of the village always warned, because they feared Ledimo, the giant ogre, would take the children.But Nala loved the sound of the river. It made her parents' warning fade away. She listened to the gentle flow of the water with the Upupa birds singing in the distance, and then created beautiful melodies in tune with the calming sounds around her. One day Nala decides to take a risk, and goes to the river alone, where she meets Ledimo. Ledimo discovers something about Nala that he feels will help him. What does Ledimo want with Nala? Will she be able to get away in time? Nala Sings is a popular Setswana tale, infused with the beauty of nature that reimagines the much-loved African folktale, Tselane and the Giant, originally written in Sesotho.
£8.01
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Dearest MaRiky: A Mother’s Journey Through Grief, Trauma and Healing
Louisa Zondo’s work has helped to shape the new South Africa, but she has also faced intense grief and trauma, which came from the underside of the emerging nation’s complex social fabric. As mother of much-loved music star Riky Rick, who tragically took his own life in 2022, Louisa Zondo’s loss was shared by millions, but it was also a uniquely deep, lonely and life-shattering grief. The loss of her beloved MaRiky also brought to the surface cataclysmic trauma from her past. As Louisa Zondo takes her first small steps to facing her grief, she finds herself speaking to her son in a series of letters, gradually finding the words to express her love for him, and the pain of losing him. In expressing that love, she tells the story of her own life and the experiences that shaped her. This brave journey brings Louisa to a deeper understanding of her life’s path, and closer to healing.
£14.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd My Life, My Dance, My Soul: The Story of Gregory Maqoma
Dancer, choreographer and a legendary South African artist, Gregory Maqoma’s childhood was marked by a deep connection to movement, rhythm and the assorted sounds of Soweto. From a young age, he showed a natural passion for dance. He saw this in his neighbourhood, and he immersed himself in the language of music and dance. In his teen years, he played the drum in the school band, set up his own music and dance group, before winning a scholarship to Moving into Dance, despite his father‘s wishes that he become a doctor. Gregory’s upbringing in the 1980s, a politically charged era, sparked his awareness of social issues and a desire to use art as a means of activism. Amidst the challenges and inequalities of his environment, Maqoma found solace and inspiration in the transformative power of dance. Through sheer grit and dedication, his dancing gave him the means for self-expression, allowing him to channel his emotions, dreams, and aspirations. Along the way, he encountered mentors who supported his creative spark and fellow dancers who became lifelong friends. Maqoma’s childhood experiences laid the foundation for his future as a renowned choreographer and storyteller. They instilled in him a profound respect for his cultural heritage, a commitment to social justice, and an unwavering passion for the transformative potential of the arts. His journey from Soweto to the global stage is a testament to the resilience, creativity and indomitable spirit that shaped his formative years. My Life, My Dance, My Soul is an dazzling memoir that encourages young adults to embrace their passions, overcome obstacles, and believe in the strength of their dreams. It is a testament to the extraordinary heights that can be reached when one dances to the rhythm of their own soul.
£10.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Anthology Vol XI
Now in its 11th year, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award is a launching pad for upcoming poets. From slam poetry to formal rhyme, the anthology is a celebration of language and cultural diversity. Assembled by a brilliant team of judges, from a blind selection, this year’s compilation contains the best poems from over 600 entries, in 10 of the 11 South African languages. Named after Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (1876–1932), the award recognises the life and vision of this highly respected political and social activist. We always hope that it reveals the political and social attitudes of our time and reflects the complex, nuanced and uncomfortable truths of life in South Africa.
£11.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Unaccountables: The Powerful Politicians and Corporations Who Profit From Impunity
Corruption and economic crime has harmed millions of South Africans. This devastation is caused by a relatively small band of individuals, corporations, and institutions, in other words, The Unaccountables. They have looted public coffers, broken public trust, undermined the rule of law and profited without consequence. This impunity has created a sense amongst a politically exhausted public that this is the way ‘the system works’ – it favours the powerful and grants them immunity from any form of accountability. In this new book, Open Secrets, a non-profit organisation investigating economic crime and human rights abuses, makes a strong argument for disrupting the status quo. Using meticulously researched evidence based on years of investigations, they put faces to many of the names behind some of South Africa’s biggest corruption scandals from apartheid to state capture. This book skilfully profiles the large corporations and private individuals who are all implicated in economic crime but have never been held to account – or at best escaped substantive justice. The book focuses on 50 profiles detailing evidence of impunity and suggesting actions in each instance that could ensure accountability. The eight sections of the book take readers through tales of muck and abuse of power between 1977 and 2022, detailing the characters and the defining moments which have shaped our politics and may impact our future. In The Unaccountables, we meet the apartheid and war profiteers, the state capture profiteers, those who have profited from welfare, the banks and bankers who got away with laundering and profiteering, the auditors, complicit in economic crimes and, unsurprisingly, the bad cops.
£16.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd It’s Not How It Looks!
No little thorn in the flesh or irritating fly in the ointment, Zapiro just cannot be ignored. It’s been another helluva year, and who better to make sense of it than Zapiro, political analyst, cartoonist and agent provocateur. He has the ability to knock the air out of us, to rock us back in our seats, to force us bolt upright with a 1000-watt jolt of electrifying shock. He makes us angry, he makes us laugh and he makes us think. He shines a light on the elephant in the room, presents the emperor in all his naked glory. Impossible to brush off, he is determined to provoke a response. When all around is crumbling, when fake news and zipped lips conceal the truth, Zapiro comes to the rescue. With the dissecting eye of a surgeon, the rapier-like point of his pen exposes flimflam, and reveals with a line what lies behind the action.
£10.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Apartheid’s Stalingrad
The apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. This is the blazing story of how the people’s resistance – in the church, in the civic structures, underground – fought that war. Up until these insurrections, the brutal force of the apartheid state successfully crushed all attempts at revolt. Yet in the townships of Port Elizabeth, where they threw everything they had at the uprisings, the people stood and fought, and fought and stood. Riordan, a human rights activist during the years of high apartheid, draws a line connecting the story of Thozamile Botha, the Zwide and KwaZakhele Residents’ Associations and the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Association (PEBCO) of 1979, the subsequent demise of PEBCO, and the February 1990 unbanning of the ANC and the movement at large. What had happened in the intervening ten years to effect this once unimaginable change? Apartheid’s Stalingrad tells us what had happened.
£22.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Crossroads: I Live Where I Like
This searingly observant illustrated history of the women of Crossroads during the 1970s and 1980s tells a history of past and present organised resistance movements led by black women. “I heard about the famous women of the Crossroads struggle, which resulted in Crossroads being the only African informal settlement in the 1970s to successfully resist the apartheid bulldozers… I wanted to know what happened to the women who spearheaded the struggle for Crossroads,” so says Koni Benson, the author of this graphic novel-style history, and lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Western Cape. Illustrated by South African political cartoonists, André and Nathan Trantraal, together with Ashley Marais, Crossroads: I Live Where I Like, joins some recent histories which are written for both children and adults alike. The candid illustration style and the deeply felt text is a testament not just to the team who produced the book, but to the remaining women of Crossroads, who wanted their stories to have the widest reach possible. Crossroads: I Live Where I Like is a crucial exploration of a neglected part of South African history. It has all the hallmarks of a book that will be regarded as a pioneer in both form and content.
£10.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd White Chalk
This fearless collection of stories takes the reader on an odyssey of love and grief. Terry-Ann Adam’s peerless writing brims with fire and wonder. You will be provoked and you will exult. Above all, you’ll remember where you were when you read White Chalk.
£11.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Wanda the Brave (Afrikaans)
Meet Wanda, with her glorious head of hair. Today, Wanda is visiting the hair salon where she’ll use all the hair secrets Makhulu taught her. But Aunty Ada wants her to straighten her hair with a white chemical. Wanda and her friend Sandra come up with a plan and both girls stand strong and brave in the face of this big challenge. Bold and zesty, Wanda The Brave is a celebration of girl power, and a reminder that courage and friendship is a mighty force!
£8.70
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Christopher
Christopher follows an extraordinary family – the January-Miyas, with their fabled strong-willed women – sequentially through several generations. All the characters straddle many worlds which come to shape their existence in the world, starting in the present with Vuyo, the narrator, who is a contemporary young woman; her mother Nontsikelelo, a language professor; and Romance, Nontsikelelo’s older sister, a domestic worker. Vuyo returns to the area where her family origins lie, pregnant with twins, and mourning the drowning death of her husband, Christopher, a transplanted Scot, by drowning. From Vuyo we move back up the rungs of the family tree to learn of the family’s stronghold on the communities around them established by the patriarch of the family; the challenges of authentic existence in volatile spaces and how each member of the family overcomes their common but varied search to be at peace. To deal with their loss, the family member’s journey in reconciling with how to exist in an ever-changing country that is only coming to terms with the multiplicity associated with identity; the misrepresented or untold corners of truth of some histories of people in South Africa and the complexity of evolving as a person who is influenced by many truths.
£13.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Take Your Place, You Belong
Take your Place, You Belong is a rhyming picture book that tells the story of two best friends who face discrimination on the playground because they look different from one another. This book explores themes of empathy, heroism, friendship and identity. It helps children, parents and teachers alike, discuss the often all too difficult issues around race, diversity and the hurt caused by discrimination. Karen Theunissen’s first book I have Brown Skin and Curly Hair was listed as one of Brittle Paper’s 50 notable books of 2020 and as one of the ‘70 books to read before you grow up’ by Exclusive Books in 2021.
£8.68
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Great Pretenders: Race and Class under ANC Rule
This is a wide-ranging and trenchant critical account of South Africa since 1994, focusing particularly upon the follies and failures of the ANC government over the past 25 years. It anatomises an acute social, economic and political crisis, and argues that a series of events – including HIV/AIDS denialism, the Marikana shootings, the Nkandla funding scandal, mass student protests, the Esidimeni health tragedy, systemic corruption and state capture – are rooted in policy choices made by the ANC during negotiations and in power. This contemporary history is presented within a much wider arc. The author outlines the history of South Africa since the mid-17th century, discussing slavery, colonial rule and dispossession, the mineral revolution, the development of industrial capitalism, and apartheid. He also reviews the history of the ANC since 1912, emphasising continuities in the class character of the movement, and the extent to which its political objectives were always compatible with the capitalist order. This meant that the important democratic rights enshrined in the 1996 constitution left untouched the capitalist economic architecture. The contemporary analysis and the historical background are located within an overview and theoretical analysis of the concept of race and the history, ideologies and practices of racism and racialism. The author assesses the relation of racism to capitalism as a global phenomenon, and the specific forms of systemic racism that developed in South Africa under colonial rule and subsequently codified in apartheid. A separate chapter discusses the National Question. The author mounts a sustained critique of ‘Africanist majoritarian chauvinism’, making a significant and combative contribution to the prevailing discourse on race, identity and post-apartheid dynamics.
£20.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Forgotten Scientist (English): The Story of Saul Sithole
Unrecognised, ignored and forgotten. The Forgotten Scientist: The Story of Saul Sithole is the untold story of a pioneering black scientist who made a great contribution to the fields of anthropology and ornithology in South Africa. Saul Sithole was so committed to his craft that even the weight of apartheid did not stop him from giving 62 years of his life to the scientific world of birds and fossils. Saul never received the official recognition he deserved – until now. This book validates his contribution, sharing his life’s work and laying out a story that will inspire future generations of scientists. This book would not have been possible without the support of Biblionef and funding from the National Heritage Council.
£13.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Scatterlings
In this journey, someone will get lost, someone will give up and turn back, and someone may go all the way to the end. All these people will try to tell you the story of what happened. Abram, a South African winemaker who might be English or Dutch (depending on whomever happens to be listening to his troubles) will tell you that things went wrong when his wife stopped loving him, when his children couldn’t be citizens of their country of birth, and his country tried to put him in prison and steal his vote and estate. He will also tell you that in a twist of irony, his treason came about because he loved his wife and children. Abram’s wife, Alisa, will tell you that things went wrong much earlier than that. She will outline the details of her displacement with some simplicity. This is what she knows: her ancestors were brought to the Caribbean islands as slaves, she was born in 1882, and after her birth parents died she was adopted by an Englishman who raised her in the United Kingdom. Then there’s Dido, their troubled, eldest daughter; there’s also an angry man along the way and a woman who kept a secret she shouldn’t have. That’s how the story starts. And even the wind doesn’t know who will get lost, who will turn back, and who will eventually reach ‘home’. Scatterlings is the 2019/2020 Dinaane Debut Fiction Award winner.
£13.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Undeniable: Memoir of a covert war
“[Philippa] captures the determination of the Weekly Mail newspaper to unmask those fuelling the violence and expose state complicity, reminding us how bloody was this peaceful transition and how precarious the outcome. She evokes - in a deeply personal, honest and moving account - the ordinary people who, away from the media spotlight, paid a heavy price to bring us democracy.” - ANTON HARBER, co-founder and former editor, Mail & Guardian “An important and riveting slice of South African history told by someone who was right there at the ringside.” - MONDLI MAKHANYA, editor of City Press PHILIPPA GARSON WORKED for the brave and upstart Weekly Mail during the early 1990s, where she covered the civil war between Inkatha and ANC-aligned communities. Undeniable is an account of that period of her life, where she and colleagues, Mondli Makhanya, Kevin Carter, Eddie Koch, Anton Harber and others, tracked and discovered the involvement of a Third Force, which was fuelling the killing frenzy. There were times when Philippa escaped with her life. In this book, she tells of the casualties, victims of war and colleagues who did not. Her relationship across the colour line and partying during the off-hours in an effort to diminish the pain of what she had witnessed are all part of this brilliant account of a harrowing period in South African history. It is a period that has not been investigated sufficiently, and which escaped much scrutiny from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Rogues, lovers, family, friends, journalists, warlords and victims are all part of Philippa’s gripping memoir, in which she explores what it was like to investigate apartheid crimes through the lens of white privilege.
£15.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Freedom Writer: My Life and Times
‘It was said that my maternal grandfather, Iederoos Sallie, could stand on the corner of 15th and Krause Street in Fietas, and be heard all the way down to number 22 when he burst into song […] I remember my mother telling me, when I was quite young but old enough to understand, that my father, Moegammat Sallie Sallie, had ridden off on a horse and cart with his half of the marriage spoils, with his mother, Amina, leaving my mother standing on the pavement with me in her arms, in front of Ouma Galima’s house. I was 18 months old, according to my mother. At this point it would be prudent to explain that while my mother and father had the same surname, Sallie, they were not related to each other until they married, Sallie being a somewhat common Malay/Muslim surname with variations such as Salie, Sarlie or Saleh. So, the fact that I turned out to be the somewhat weird kind of person that I am cannot be explained by the fact that Janap Sallie married Moegammat Sallie Sallie … Or can it? My own explanation is actually that at birth, I refused to come into this world in the normal fashion and had to be dragged into it with the use of forceps during which operation I most probably suffered some brain damage – not a lot, but just enough to eventually cause me to be the way I am.’
£15.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Election 2019
The sixth general election since the arrival of democracy occurs at a critical moment in South Africa’s history. The immediate question this book poses is will the ANC manage to manufacture a sixth electoral victory despite its disastrous record in government since 2014? It finds the answer in the personal popularity of Ramaphosa, the ANC’s capacity to forge political unity when confronted by the risk of losing power, established voting trends amongst older voters, a sharp decline in participation among the youth which might otherwise have produced electoral shifts, and the failure of opposition parties to present themselves as viable alternatives. The subsequent question is what the consequences of a sixth successive election victory for the ANC will be for South African democracy. Will the ANC’s triumph provide a sufficiently strong mandate for Ramaphosa to turn South Africa around, or will he fail to overcome Zuma’s allies within the party? Whether he succeeds or fails, will the ANC manage to hold itself together? Is the future and quality of South African democracy dictated by whether the ANC stays together or splits into rival parts? Election 2019 covers the context of the election, analyses changing voter participation and attitudes, outlines party campaigns, and explores the role of gender and the media before evaluating the result. At its heart is the issue of whether South African democracy will survive.
£15.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd From Marabastad to Mogadishu: The Journey of an ANC Soldier
This is an account of the life experiences of a South African of Indian descent who was fortunate enough to be a part of some of South Africa’s most important changes in the transition from apartheid to a constitutional democracy. Hassen’s political consciousness grew at Westville University in 1976 and led him to join the ANC. He was forced into exile and became part of the political leadership of the ANC’s underground structures. The focus of Hassen’s underground work covers three specific areas. The first is Soweto, the formation of the Youth Congresses, and what came to be known as Organs of People’s Popular Power. The second focus is Lenasia, where the first Area Politico-Military structure was established. The third area of focus is the first Regional Politico-Military Unit that was established in Pretoria. After the unbanning of the ANC, Hassen joined the PWV Region of the ANC in 1991 to establish the first legal branches of the ANC. In 1992 he became part of the negotiation of our Interim, and later, the final constitution. With this opportunity, he had the good fortune of working with some of the great leaders that shaped South Africa’s transition and being part of some of the key defining moments. Hassen spent the next ten years in the Department of Justice and Constitutional Development implementing the new constitution. Since 2011, Hassen has been working internationally on various missions, mainly on behalf of the UN, primarily doing mediation work in countries coming out of conflict. He has also worked extensively on different constitution-making exercises.
£14.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The Gift of the Sun: A Tale From South Africa
All Thulani wants is a simple life basking in the sun. Tired of milking the cow, he exchanges it for a goat ... the goat for a sheep ... the sheep for three geese ... until all he has left is a pocket of sunflower seeds!
£8.70
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Divorce smart: The girl's guide to divorcing well
More than four in 10 marriages in South Africa end in divorce before couples get to celebrate their 10-year anniversaries. According to the latest statistics from South Africa, the number of divorces increased by 0.3% from 25,260 divorces granted in 2015 to 25,326 granted in 2016. Going through a divorce is the second highest stressor, and women are particularly hard hit. Divorce Smart offers clear, concise information on matters of maintenance, property, medical aid, pension funds, and investments. It aims to ensure that women are empowered to secure their home, keep as much wealth as possible, and provide for their children's needs well beyond the end of their marriage. The book is not designed to give you legal advice but rather guidance on the financial implications and decisions necessary to ensure financial stability and to steer you away from emotional outcomes. It shows how if you can get the financial, emotional, and legal decisions right during divorce, you will create financial stability for yourself which will pave the way for a better life after divorce sooner than you think. The book uses an easy-to-understand grid of building blocks to assist you in making smart decisions before and after your divorce. It will help you to think smart so that you can live smart.
£10.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Die Gryskoppe by die Deur
Vroeg een oggend het drie moeë, vuil en honger gryskoppe – Seënwense, Wysheid en Liefde – aan die deur van ? familie se huis geklop. Die familie wil hulle toe graag nooi om in te kom, maar hulle kon net een besoeker kies. Wie van die drie gaan hulle kies? Hierdie fabel is oor die kontinent heen vertel en behoort aan al die mense van Afrika. Hoewel die omgewing tipies Afrika is – van die ritme tot die taal en die patrone op die klere – is die boodskap universeel. Hierdie boek is bedoel vir elke kind en familie. Omdat dit goed geskryf en pragtig geïllustreer is, sal kinders dit oor en oor wil lees. Die storie het oorspronklik verskyn in die Sunday Times Storytime: 10 South African Stories for Children, in 2014.
£8.68
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd We are no longer at ease: The struggle for #FeesMustFall
We Are No Longer at Ease is a collection of personal articles, essays, speeches and poetry mainly from voices of young people who were part of the student-led protest movement known as #FeesMustFall, which began in 2015. It tells the journey of the youth who participated in a movement that redefined politics in post-apartheid South Africa and is evidence of a ‘born-free’ generation telling their own story and leading the discourse and action on transforming South Africa.Young people are not at ease. They are refusing to coexist with coloniality, sexism, democratic indifference and inequality. We need to acknowledge and take heed to their calls. This collection includes works by former student leaders turned researchers such as David Maimela and Asanda Luwaca; student newspaper journalists who covered the protests, like Natasha Ndlebe and Nkateko Mabasa; public intellectuals whose aim was to inform broader society of the key aspects of the movement, like Sisonke Msimang; lecturers who assisted the students to articulate and find clarity in voicing their ideas such as Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni; and most importantly the foot soldiers on the ground who led the students through the police brutality of rubber bullets and pepper spray, like Mcebo Dlamini, Lovelyn Nwadeyi, Ntokozo Qwabe and Sarah Mokwebo.
£15.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd African Muckraking
African Muckraking is the first collection of investigative and campaigning journalism written by Africans about Africa. The editors delved into the history of modern Africa to find the most important and compelling pieces of journalism on the stories that matter. This collection of 41 pieces of African journalism includes passionate and committed writing on labor abuses, police brutality, women's rights, the struggle for democracy and independence on the continent and other subjects. Each piece of writing is introduced by a noted scholar or journalist who explains the context and why the journalism mattered. Some of the highlights include: Feminist writing from Tunisia into the 1930s, exposés of the secret tactics planned by the South African government during apartheid, Richard Mgamba's searing description of the albino brothers in Tanzania who fear for their lives, and the reporting by Liberian journalist Mae Azango on genital cutting, which forced her to go into hiding. Many African Muckrakers have been imprisoned and even killed for their work. African Muckraking is a must-read for anyone who cares about journalism and Africa.
£17.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Sol Plaatje: A life of Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje 1876-1932
Sol Plaatje is celebrated as one of South Africa's most accomplished political and literary figures. A pioneer in the history of the black press, editor of several newspapers, he was one of the founders of the African National Congress in 1912, led its campaign against the notorious Natives Land Act of 1913, and twice travelled overseas to represent the interests of his people. He wrote a number of books, including - in English - Native Life in South Africa (1916), a powerful denunciation of the Land Act and the policies that led to it, and a pioneering novel, Mhudi (1930). Years after his death his diary of the siege of Mafeking was retrieved and published, providing a unique view of one of the best known episodes of the South African War of 1899-1902. At the same time Plaatje was a proud Morolong, fascinated by his people's history. He was dedicated to Setswana, and set out to preserve its traditions and oral forms so as to create a written literature. He translated a number of Shakespeare's plays into Setswana, the first in any African language, collected proverbs and stories, and even worked on a new dictionary. He fought long battles with those who thought they knew better over the particular form its orthography should take. This book tells the story of Plaatje's remarkable life, setting it in the context of the changes that overtook South Africa during his lifetime, and the huge obstacles he had to overcome. It draws upon extensive new research in archives in southern Africa, Europe and the US, as well as an expanding scholarship on Plaatje and his writings. This biography sheds new light not only on Plaatje's struggles and achievements but upon his personal life and his relationships with his wife and family, friends and supporters. It pays special attention to his formative years, looking to his roots in chiefly societies, his education and upbringing on a German-run mission, and his exposure to the legal and political ideas of the nineteenth-century Cape Colony as key factors in inspiring and sustaining a life of more or less ceaseless endeavour.
£25.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The curse of Teko Modise
Teko 'the General' Modise is one of the best footballers South Africa has ever produced. But life wasn't always kind. At eight years old, Teko was kicked out of his home for the very thing that would catapult him to stardom – football. After a series of contractual battles that saw him passed from team to team in Limpopo, he got his big break when he was signed to SuperSport United, a premier-league team. At the height of his career he played for the Orlando Pirates, becoming the superstar of South African football. His downward spiral came when he went through a messy and public divorce and developed a nasty drinking habit. It was at this stage that Teko was approached by a powerful medicine man, a king from the Congo. This story tells it all, from poverty to fame, from love to divorce. It is the story of a fatherless father trying to make sense of parenthood and a man who never had money trying to make sense of an abundance of wealth and the evils it brings, all the while maintaining his status as the greatest South African footballer of the modern era.
£14.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Win!: Inspiring interviews with SA’s top 20 leaders
The new year is synonymous with resolutions, good intentions, and dreams of a successful year ahead. It is natural to look for innovative ideas to grow your future. Win! is the complete inspirational package that will help you do just that. Imagine learning from South Africa's unique winners across varied fields—be it business, sport, politics, entertainment, or philanthropy—who have decades of experience in strategic planning, business and change management, human resource development, and the nitty-gritty of building a personal brand that can then be extended to your business and to everyone that you employ.
£15.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Nyambura Wag Vir Die Bus
’n Lieflike geïllustreerde boek wat tot kinders van alle ouderdomme sal spreek. Nyambura is laat! Sy is op pad om vir haar Ouma te gaan kuier en sy moet die bus neem van die mark af om daar te kom. Sy soen haar Mamma tot siens voordat sy na die bus haas. Nyambura moet lank wag vir die bus en dus raak sy verlore in haar eie gedagtes. Sal sy daarin slaag om die bus te haal of gaan sy agterbly? Nyambura Wag vir die Bus is ’n storie wat kinders die belangrikheid van goeie dade leer. Dit herinner ons ook om die momente wat ons saam met geliefdes spandeer, te waardeer.
£9.34
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Pride and Prejudice: The Gerald Kraak Anthology African Perspectives on Gender, Social Justice and Sexuality
Pride and Prejudice is the first in the Gerald Kraak Anthology series. The kaleidoscopic collection comprises the most exceptional written and photographic entries for the annual Gerald Kraak Award, which was established in 2016 by The Other Foundation and the Jacana Literary Foundation. Offering important African perspectives gathered from the continent, this inaugural edition features works of fiction, journalism, photography and poetry. The pieces are multi-layered, brave and stirring. They represent a new wave of fresh storytelling that provokes thought on the topics of gender, social justice and sexuality.
£18.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Last Night at the Bassline
In 1994 Brad and Paige Holmes opened a small, live-music venue in the bohemian suburb of Melville in Johannesburg. They called it Bassline, which very soon became synonymous with cigarette smoke, great jazz and nights you wished would never end. They later moved the club to Newtown where it grew in prominence as the ultimate venue for live music, hosting amazing artists like Thandiswa Mazwai, Jimmy Dludlu, Lira, The Soil and Grammy Award-winning group Ladysmith Black Mambazo. In 2016 word spread like wildfire that everyone's favourite club was closing its doors forever; this place that held all the promises of a new South Africa, a place where people of all races could come together, share a drink, dance and fall in love was to be no more. But as Bassline starts its new journey with Live @ the Bassline, yet another great story begins with Last Night at the Bassline.
£19.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The African orchestra
"In the beginning, when all things began, these were the sounds which were music to man. 'Cicadas, crickets, beetles and frogs. Seedpods, cocoons, hollowed out logs. Crackling fires, the patter of rain. Thundering hooves on the African plain. Birds in the air, in the trees - on the land. Wind in the grass through the leaves - over sand." With magical illustrations from Joan Rankin, and poetry from masterful story teller, Wendy Hartmann, the rhyme lyrically captures the magic of the African sounds of nature. From the clicking of crickets to the crackle of the fire, follow the journey that celebrates these sounds, in the rhythm and music of Africa. Also available in Afrikaans, isiXhosa and isiZulu.
£8.68
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Hamba sugar daddy
Set against the backdrop of a current South African black township, Hamba Sugar Daddy unfolds the tortuous journey of Rolivhuwa, an 18-year-old 'born-free' whose financial difficulties are exploited and influenced by her group of chomis into being a sugar baby. Rolivhowa's whole lifestyle changes after meeting Bigvy, the sugar daddy; she no longer eats the same food as other financially challenged students and is now able to afford expensive clothing and wave around the latest costly smartphone. Bigvy has introduced her to a new lifestyle but at what cost?
£13.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Blacks do caravan
I come from a culture where camping is purely for white people. Even if black people were to camp, they would not enjoy it because it is reminiscent of how many of us used to live; in fact, a lot of black people still live like that today – cooking on a fire, using communal toilets, with access to little or no technology – I thought there was no way I would agree to this camping expedition. Blacks Do Caravan tells the story of a young South African family's caravan journey, and the everlasting memories created along the way included amazing adventures and wonderful experiences. The book aims to inspire South Africans to take time out of their busy schedules and spend that valuable time with their families to discover the beauty of our country. Fikile's trip began on 15 September 2014 and during the journey she came to the realisation that South Africa is still a divided nation. Over twenty years into democracy, boundaries still divide us. Fikile aims to break those boundaries created by the past regime and contribute to the unity that is needed for all South Africans to move forward and experience this country equally, whether caravanning or any other form of holidaying. Fikile and her family visited over 60 caravan parks and extended their trip to the Kingdom of Swaziland, while on her travels she was blown away by the warm reception she had from fellow campers.
£13.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Thabo Mbeki
Mbeki was a complex figure, full of contradictions and paradoxes: a rural child who became an urban sophisticate; a prophet of Africa's Renaissance who was also an anglophile; a committed young Marxist who, while in power, embraced conservative economic policies and protected white corporate interests; a rational and dispassionate thinker who was particularly sensitive to criticism and dissent; a champion of African self-reliance who relied excessively on foreign capital and promoted a continental economic plan - NEPAD - that was disproportionately dependent on foreign aid; and a thoughtful intellectual who supported policies on HIV/AIDS that withheld antiretroviral drugs from infected people, resulting in hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. Thabo Mbeki is the most important African political figure of his generation and a dominant figure in South African politics for 14 years. A pan-African philosopher-king who spent two decades in exile, as president of Africa's most industrialised state, he set out a sweeping vision of an African Renaissance. As a key liberation leader in exile, Mbeki was instrumental in his party's anti-apartheid struggle. During the South African transition, he helped build one of the world's most respected constitutional democracies. As president, despite some successes, he was unable to overcome South Africa's inherited socioeconomic challenges, and his disastrous AIDS policies will remain a major blotch in his legacy. He will, however, be remembered more as a foreign policy president for his peacemaking efforts in Africa and in the building of continental institutions such as the African Union and NEPAD. This book seeks to rescue Mbeki from South African parochialism and to restore him to a pan-African pantheon.
£10.99
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Kachoo 123
In the heart of Africa lies the Land of Kachoo, with vast open plain and deep rivers, too. Animals roam freely in their wild domain through forests and grasslands and rocky terrain. Big cats and rhino and Thomson's gazelle, elephant and zebra - they live there as well. The sights and the sounds in the Land of Kachoo are uniquely African and will remain with you. The roar of the lions on a starlit night and the echo of hooves running away in fright or the call of the fish eagle in the African sun are sounds to signal your safari's begun. Come and explore this land. If you dare. A wild African adventure awaits you in there! Kachoo's adventures are back again but this time we are being taught to count and say our ABC. Set in the Land of Kachoo, we are introduced to all the familiar Kachoo animals in amusing attire performing interesting actions. Follow the animals from 1-20 and A-Z: from our sharp-toothed friends the crocodiles; the fierce lions who are proudly parading; the flamingos preparing for flight and the moles that are digging without light; to the gigantic elephants trumpeting while the bats are bustling. Filled with colourful animations and clever puns, this is a book for both children and parents to enjoy.
£8.01
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd Sam and me & the hard pear tree
Jami Yeats-Kastner's story is both a personal account of a mother's ultimate loss and a universal message of growth and hope. It is centred on the loss of their young son, Sam, and the deeply spiritual path that this sets her on. It is a very sad book but not a depressing one. Sam's death forces her to confront other personal truths about herself, her life and Sam's older special needs brother, Jack. Jami shares her journey with searing honesty and a wry sense of humour and, as she finds her way back into the light, it becomes less about grief and more about self-discovery, about synchronicity and about following the signs that are everywhere. If this story has a message, it is that finding your own true path is the only way to personal self-fulfilment and that it is only when we are ourselves fulfilled that we can be of proper service to others. Initially an unwilling seeker, this is what Jami eventually discovers, and in doing so she draws on all her available strength and inspirational new insights to continue building a happy future for herself and her young family.
£11.95
Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd The class of ’79: Three students who risked their lives to destroy apartheid
Out of the class of 1979 at Rhodes University one of the quietest girls in the class, Marion Sparg joined the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC) Umkhonto we Sizwe, trained in exile in Angola, and was eventually convicted of bombing three police stations. The Cape Times journalist Zubeida Jaffer was imprisoned, poisoned, and tortured for her writing and her union activism, yet chose not to prosecute her torturer. Guy Berger, also a student and later a lecturer at Rhodes University, was arrested and interrogated for possession of banned books. He spent seven months in custody, three of which he spent in solitary confinement. He was ultimately sentenced to four years in prison. For them, it began at the moment that each of them realized that what was happening in South Africa was wrong, and that they simply could not tolerate it. And for all of them, that moment came at Rhodes University. Each of them chose to reject their backgrounds and take the path of resistance, following in the footsteps of the famous few. Among these were the writers Breyten Breytenbach, Nadine Gordimer, Ingrid Jonker, Alan Paton; and the fighters Albie Sachs, Ruth First, Trevor Manuel, and Joe Slovo. This book is for all those who suffered under apartheid, and suffered to end it, and in particular for Marion, Zubeida, and Guy, who have shared their story so generously.
£12.95