One Law, One Nation
R250.00
In celebration of the 15th anniversary of this momentous occasion, the book One Law, One Nation charts the story of the long fight for constitutional rights in South Africa, and the astonishing obstacles and complexity that lay behind the constitution-mak More details
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Diesel and Dust
R450.00
Diesel and Dust offers visually stimulating images of Africa offer a multifaceted view of the continent in this recollection that is at once a history, a meditation, a travel memoir, and a tribute. More details
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The Last Sushi
R145.00
South Africans calling for our moral compass to be reactivated need look no further than Zapiro’s latest annual, The Last Sushi. More details
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Best of Getaway Gallery
R275.00
The Best of Getaway Gallery is a celebration of the photographers who constantly brave hot and cold, rain and shine, early mornings and late nights to capture the unbelievable pictures that are submitted to Getaway magazine every month. More details
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Mapping South Africa
R295.00
Mapping South Africa will be welcomed as a landmark in providing the first survey of the fascinating story of maps and mapmaking in the subcontinent. Beginning with the Portuguese voyages of exploration in the late 15th century, the book explores the atte More details
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San Rock Art
R99.95
San rock paintings are scattered over the entire area of southern Africa and present us with one of the greatest cultural treasures of humankind. More details
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Claudette Schreuders
R600.00
Claudette Schreuders is known for her distinctive carved and painted wooden sculptures. The book includes beautiful reproductions of more than 70 sculptures alongside prints, drawings and pages from the artist’s sketchbooks that provide insight into her r More details
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Women: South Africans of Indian Origin
R265.00
Women: South Africans of Indian origin steps into a critical gap in our understanding of our evolution into a society united in its diversity. The changing status of Indian women over the last century and a half has been a remarkable journey of triumph ov More details
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Rock Art Made in Translation
R165.00
From the hands of Pippa Skotnes and her team comes a handsome volume on rock art copies made by the great German ethnologist, Leo Frobenius. More details
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A Curious World
R420.00
Artist/potter Hylton Nel, who celebrates his 70th birthday in 2011, has developed a distinctive style of work, rich in references to the decorative arts, literature, art history and South African life. More details
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Alphabet of Democracy
R280.00
Alphabet of Democracy is an illustrated guide to the absurdities of life in the democratic South Africa. Kannemeyer dissects the issues, events and personalities that confound the country in more than 70 paintings, drawings and prints. More details
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Just for Kicks!
R185.00
Following the success of last year’s inaugural collection, Don't Joke: the Year in Cartoons, this year’s anthology of South Africa’s best political cartoons, punctuated by a lively Soccer World Cup section, is even more hilarious. More details
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Positions: Contemporary Artists in South Africa
R280.00
Ranging from resistance to education, contemporary artists are increasingly raising opposition to economic pressure, radical social change and rapidly changing identities. How does the local contemporary art scene respond? More details
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Do You Know Who I Am?!
R140.00
No year would be complete without Zapiro’s annual collection of cartoons, which have become a reflective summary of political events in the year. More details
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Mining The Future: The Bafokeng Story
R89.95
Mining the Future is about a resilient people and their visionary leadership – a remarkable story of how Bafokeng people acquired and held onto their land and heritage through 150 years of political upheaval in South Africa. More details
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Pappa in Afrika
R280.00
Pappa in Afrika brings together recent drawings, paintings and comics that tackle colonialism and its ongoing legacy head-on, adopting Hergé’s Tintin as the archetypal figure of the white settler. More details
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Soweto
R245.00
Acclaimed home-grown photographer, Jodi Bieber has created an open-ended essay which is a celebration and a portrait of life in Soweto today. More details
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Counter Currents
R300.00
The City of Cape Town is heading for disaster and is already in deep crisis if one cares to look close enough. More details
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Football Muti
R195.00
Robin Goode's photographic documentation on football seeks to show the inherent purity of the beautiful game by capturing, at grassroots level, Africa's relationship with this most popular of sports. More details
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South African Art Now
R700.00
South African Art Now covers the years 1968 to 2008 - from the period of the glory days of resistance art right up to the ever changing and compelling present. More details
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Bafana Bafana
R150.00
Bafana Bafana is not only a book about soccer; it is also a book about having dreams and chasing them. It is a book about making your own way in the world no matter what the cost, and it is a book about the people who help us realise our dreams. More details
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Thami Mnyele & Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective
R350.00
Jacana is proud to present Thami Mnyele & Medu Art Ensemble Retrospective, a book which brings together the myriad artworks exhibited and the stories of the original members of Medu who created them in a generously illustrated work. More details
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An Eloquent Picture Gallery
R295.00
Fritsch’s portraits of southern African people are extraordinary images, bringing to life a whole gallery of both known and unknown figures with astonishing veracity. More details
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Unconquerable Spirit
R385.00
George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts - poet, historian, ethnographer and prolific writer. Unconquerable Spirit reveals for the first time the beauty and scope of his labours. More details
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Stoep Zen
R185.00
Lao Tsu meets Oom Schalk Lourens in this delightful meditation on what it means to practise Zen in a changing South Africa. More details
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Saving the Zululand Wilderness
R395.00
Within a generation, the wilderness of Zululand, with its spectacular array of mammals, birds and plants, came near to extinction. This is the saga of that decline and of the heroic and successful attempt to preserve them. More details
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Hunger for Freedom Hardcover
R395.00
Food has provided the backdrop and occasionally the primary cause for momentous personal and political events in the life of Nelson Mandela. More details
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Hunger for Freedom Paperback
R265.00
Food has provided the backdrop and occasionally the primary cause for momentous personal and political events in the life of Nelson Mandela. More details
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Marlene Dumas
R270.00
The South African-born Marlene Dumas, who now lives in the Netherlands, is one of the best-known younger artists internationally. More details
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Bead by Bead
R265.00
By bringing a contemporary slant to a venerable African tradition, Monkeybiz has taken craft art to new levels and won a huge following for its authentic approach. More details
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Art & Revolution
R245.00
Professor Diana Wylie’s beautifully written literary biography reveals the struggles inside and around a gentle South African artist, Thami Mnyele, as he remade himself into a revolutionary soldier. More details
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Long Ago Way
R400.00
Dutch filmmaker, writer and photographer, Alphons Hustinx, traveled through Southern Africa in 1934. Some 72 years later, photographer-traveller, Obie Oberholzer is given the opportunity to follow in Alphons Hustinx's footsteps. More details
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Cool Hunting
R180.00
'Cool Hunters' are a new breed of trend watchers who travel the virtual world in a constant search for cutting edge designs. More details
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In Township Tonight!
R275.00
This book explores that history, taking us from indigenous musical traditions into the world of slave orchestras, penny whistlers, clergyman-composers, the gumboot dances of the dockers and mineworkers, and the touring minstrelsy and vaudeville acts. More details
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Africa Remix
R295.00
Africa Remix features the work of more than 85 artists from 25 countries on the African continent and the Diaspora. More details
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Tracking BuBu
R185.00
Tracking BuBu is a compilation of Catja Orford's journal entries and emails written over a 15 month period from Mikongo Conservation Camp, Lopé National Park, Gabon. More details
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The Big Bad Bitterkomix Handbook
R420.00
Now available in hardcover! More details
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Claim to the Country
R495.00
In the 1870s, facing cultural extinction and the death of their language, several |xam men and women told their stories to two pioneering colonial scholars at the Cape, Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. More details
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Memory and Magic (Hardcover)
R350.00
The collection of 82 artworks gives an overview on the works of eleven artists of the !Xun and Khwe community which has been collected by Hella Rabbethge-Schiller between 1994 and 2004. More details
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Memory and Magic (Paperback)
R245.00
The collection of 82 artworks gives an overview on the works of eleven artists of the !Xun and Khwe community which has been collected by Hella Rabbethge-Schiller between 1994 and 2004. More details
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The World in an Orange
R395.00
Barney Simon was the legendary artistic director, writer and co-creator of one of the most important theatres in South Africa and the world – the Market Theatre in Johannesburg. More details
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