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| A Dialogue of the Deaf |
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R150.00
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As part of the ongoing and necessary effort to create a UN that is truly representative of all its members, this book attempts to present the African perspective far more clearly and persuasively than has previously been the case.
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| A Matter Of Honour |
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R210.00
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The South African-born Chinese community is a tiny one, consisting of 10,000 to 12,000 members in a population of approximately 45 million. Throughout much of the history of this most race-conscious country, the community has been ignored or neglected, a
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| An Elusive Harvest: Working with Smallholder Farmers in SA |
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R220.00
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The book tells the story of this significant NGO that was active during the critical period when South Africa was transforming itself into a democratic nation. Starting work in the early 1990s, it pioneered participatory methods, and was virtually the onl
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| ANC: A View From Moscow |
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R195.00
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This book describes the history of the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa in the three decades following its banning. There are many myths surrounding the ANC: some of them are harmless, the product of enthusiastic supporters; others are mali
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| Cities |
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R120.00
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Jeremy Seabrook offers a vivid portrait of the lives of people who migrate from impoverished villages to towns and cities, the changes they face, and the impact these changes have on their psyche and well-being.
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| Climate Change |
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R120.00
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The story of climate change is the story of all life on Earth.
This book shows how the environmental challenges we face
are leading to big changes in our lives.
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| Constructive Engagement |
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R250.00
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The analysis of Crocker’s policy in southern Africa has an important relevance to the foreign policy dilemmas of today.
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| Cyril Ramaphosa |
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R240.00
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This commanding biography by Anthony Butler tells the story of Cyril Ramaphosa�s life for the first time. It is based on rich interviews with many of the subject�s friends and contemporaries, and it situates Ramaphosa�s achievements and his shortcom
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| Cyril Ramaphosa |
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R320.00
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This commanding biography by Anthony Butler tells the story of Cyril Ramaphosa’s life for the first time. It is based on rich interviews with many of the subject’s friends and contemporaries...
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| Debunking Delusions |
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R180.00
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One of the great, iconic struggles for social justice in the 21st century has been the campaign of the TAC against state-supported Aids denialism in South Africa. This struggle between activists, scientists and health workers, on the one hand, and a stran
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| Diamonds and Dispossession |
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R180.00
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Is Botswana still 'an African miracle'? Thanks to diamonds the country's growth rate was the highest in the world into the 1990s, and regular parliamentary elections judged free on polling day have been held since 1965. However a duopoly of presidentialis
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| DO IT |
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R130.00
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Using personal stories about themselves and one another, and using skills that honed as leaders in their respective organizations, Godsell and Motlatsi look into our homes, our schools, our workplace, our communities and in the public market place of idea
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| From Poverty to Power |
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R250.00
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The twenty-first century will be defined by the fight against the scourges of poverty, inequality, and the threat of environmental collapse- as the fight against slavery or for universal suffrage defined earlier eras.
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| Ghost Plane |
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R195.00
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"Stephen Grey has broken many of the first and best news stories about the CIA's secret program of terrorist renditions. He got the flight plans of the CIA's fleet that everyone else wanted to see.” Jane Mayer, The New Yorker
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| Globalisation and New Identities |
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R230.00
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Globalisation & New Identities: A view from the middle brings together 12 ethnographic studies of post-apartheid South Africa, which focus on the emergence of new South African identities.
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| Good Muslim, Bad Muslim |
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R175.00
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In this brilliant look at the rise of political Islam, the distinguished political scientist and anthropologist Mahmood Mamdani brings his expertise and insight to bear on a question that has been asked since September 11, 2001: how did this happen?
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| Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe |
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R230.00
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It is ten years since the original publication of Breaking the Silence: A Report on the Disturbances in Matabeleland and the Midlands. Now the Report is offered again at a time when the events it describes, the Gukurahundi, have acquired a fresh relevance
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| Hayibo! The Best of Hayibo.com |
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R160.00
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This is it.
The best of the best from Hayibo.com.
In print. On the page. In your own hands.
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| Human Sexuality in Africa |
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R155.00
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It can generally be assumed that there are two reasons for people to have sex - to have children and to have fun. This book looks at the fun aspects.
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| Inside Quatro |
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R180.00
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Inside Quatro uncovers some of the exile history of the ANC and SWAPO that both organisations would prefer not to remember. Here is a first-hand account of the ANC’s Quatro prison camp and of the mutiny in Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Angola in 1984; articles
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| Inside the Global Jihad |
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R185.00
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Who is Omar Nasiri? Why does he matter?
This is the remarkable true story - attested by specialists in international espionage and security - of the man who infiltrated Al Qaeda in Europe, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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| It’s not about how smart you can be. It’s about how wealthy you |
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R99.00
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A new way of investing makes it simple for people to own the performance of the stock market. It is a method so simple and so cost-effective the entire investment industry in South Africa hopes you don’t get to hear about it. This book is written as a wak
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| Khabzela |
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R155.00
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Khabzela concerns the brief life and perplexing death of Fana Khaba, aka Khabzela, a youth icon whose brief life mirrors that of the first generation to reach adulthood after liberation.
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| Landmarked |
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R175.00
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As post-apartheid South Africa began to take shape in the early 1990s, the country committed itself to a programme of land restitution to redress the brutal uprooting and relocation of people under apartheid.
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| Love & Courage |
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R165.00
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Pregs Govender is widely respected and admired as someone deeply committed to the development of South Africa as a just and humane democracy, concerned in particular with the rights of women and the poor in our society.
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| Mounting Queen Victoria |
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R210.00
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Mounting Queen Victoria is an indispensable guide to the politics of culture and identity in the South African public sphere.
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| Native Nostalgia |
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R180.00
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In this, his first book, Jacob Dlamini writes about growing up in Katlehong in Gauteng, in the tradition of Orhan Pamuk’s and Walter Benjamin’s accounts of their childhoods in Istanbul and Berlin respectively. Using fragments from his own childhood, he ex
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| New South African Keywords |
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R175.00
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This book sets out to do two things. The first to provide a guide to the key words and key concepts that have come to shape public and political thought and debate in South Africa since 1994. The second purpose is to provide a compendium of cutting-edge t
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| Pirates of Polokwane |
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R140.00
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Cartoon shown is from the New Zapiro Annual: Pirates of Polokwane.
The 13th annual collection of Zapiro cartoons from the Mail& Guardian, Sunday Times and Independent newspapers.
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| Power and Terror |
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R155.00
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In Power & Terror, Chomsky's first book following the runaway bestseller 9-11, Chomsky presents his latest thoughts on terrorism, US foreign policy, and the meaning and true impact of militarism in the world today.
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