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Jacana Media
New & Recent
Titles
2017
CONTENTS
Politics & History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Fiction & Poetry ................................................................ 16
Memoir & Biogr aphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Lifestyle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Humour . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Art & Photogr aphy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Cookery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Natur al History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Children’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Prices, dates and titles for all books listed are subject to change without notice.
10 of the best from 10 years back A Simple Man
POLITICS & HISTORY
Kasrils and the Zuma Enigma
RONNIE KASRILS
Written like a thriller in the engaging style of his previous
bestsellers about the liberation struggle, this book takes up
the tale in 2004, when Ronnie Kasrils became minister of
intelligence, and continues to the present day. Kasrils fought
against the lies and abuses of state resources at the cost of
his party popularity. His struggle for the truth, for that is
what the book is about, covers the tumultuous years that saw
Mbeki overthrown and his replacement by Zuma at the ANC’s
978-1-77009-377-5 978-1-77009-206-8 978-1-77009-210-5 Polokwane Conference, the scandal around the Nkandla property,
growing militarisation of the police resulting in the Marikana
Massacre, the outrageous appointment of flunkies to high office,
the present ‘state capture’ report and the ruling party’s unseemly
relationship with the Guptas.
The confusion engendered by Zuma has led Kasrils to explain the enigma and contradictions of the
man. But uppermost in his mind is to explain that corruption and the abuse of power does not begin
with Zuma. Merely replacing Zuma without dealing with the economic factors will not solve the
problem and time is running out. Kasrils suggests firm remedies to urgently turn the situation around
in the interests of all.
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The Black Consciousness
Reader
BALDWIN NDABA, THERESE OWEN, MASEGO
PANYANE, RABBIE SERUMULA AND JANET SMITH
PHOTOGRAPHY BY PABALLO THEKISO
There is a current revival of Black Consciousness in South
Africa, as political and student movements – as well as
academics and campaigners working on decolonisation
978-1-77009-260-0 978-1-77009-369-0 – reconfigure the continued struggle for socio-economic
revolution with this ideology at the forefront.
Black Consciousness is also increasingly finding solidarity
with similar movements around the world, in particular
#BlackLivesMatter in the United States and the black power
campaign gaining momentum around the memory of the
Mangrove Nine in the United Kingdom. Yet there is still not
enough known about the history of Black Consciousness in South Africa, nor its particular solidarity in
other parts of the world.
Steve Biko, Onkgopotse Tiro, Deborah Matshoba, Don Mattera, Neville Alexander, Florence Ribeiro,
the Black Power solidarity movement, Rick Turner, Strini Moodley, the lyrical work of Lefifi Tladi and
Dashiki are among the many subjects included in this important work.
978-1-77009-387-4 978-1-77009-087-3
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4 J A C A N A M E D I A C A T A LO G U E 2 0 1 7 Politics & History 5
Apartheid Guns and Money Letters to my Comr ades
A Tale of Profit Interventions & Excursions
HENNIE VAN VUUREN Z Pallo Jordan
South Africa remains a deeply unequal society battling the legacy of EDITED BY KEORAPETSE WILLIAM
apartheid and the persistence of corrupt networks that seek to ‘capture’
KGOSITSILE & MOTHOBI MUTLOATSE
its democratically elected leaders. As Hennie van Vuuren of Open Secrets
argues, in the absence of accountability, corrupt networks of the past stay in Z Pallo Jordan has long been the unapologetic moral
business. Rather than face justice, they invite members of the new elite to guardian of the liberation struggle. His writings, spanning
the table. decades, are testament to the power of putting pen to paper
In forging its future, a new generation of South Africans need to grapple and speaking the truth with forceful moral conviction.
with the baffling silence regarding apartheid-era economic crime and ask difficult questions of those This treasure trove of Jordan’s writing could not have been
who profited from it. This book provides the evidence and the motivation to do so. more timely in this critical – or should we say unfortunate
‘Apartheid Guns and Money… is probably the single most important book that has been written about – period of the promise that was the New Democratic
South Africa for the last 20 years.’ – Professor Achille Mbembe, WiSER, author of On the Postcolony Republic of South Africa. It is published on the eve of the
African National Congress’s general elective congress in
978-1-4314-2484-9 | Trade Paperback | Southern African Rights | 235x155mm | 624pp | May 2017 December 2017, and in the aftermath of the watershed
municipal elections of 3 August 2016.
South Africa’s Corpor atised
Liber ation
A Critical Analysis of the ANC in Power 978-1-4314-2486-3 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 536pp | August 2017
DALE T MCKINLEY
South Africa’s democracy is in trouble. The present situation is, in objective
terms, a house divided – a house that is tottering on rotten foundations.
Despite the more general advances that have been made under the ANC’s rule
African Muckr aking
since 1994, power has not only remained in the hands of a small minority but 100 Years of African Investigative Journalism
has increasingly been exercised in service to capital. The ANC has become
the key political vehicle – in party and state form as well as application – of EDITED BY ANYA SCHIFFRIN
corporate capital: domestic and international, black and white, local and national, and constitutive of WITH GEORGE LUGALAMBI
a range of different fractions. As a result, ‘transformation’ has largely taken the form of acceptance of,
combined with incorporation into, the capitalist ‘house’, now minus its formal apartheid frame. African Muckraking is the first collection of investigative
and campaign journalism written by Africans and about
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Africa. The editors present the most important and
Publishing) | 235x155mm | 208pp | February 2017
compelling pieces of journalism on the stories that matter.
This collection of 41 pieces includes passionate and
committed writing on labour abuses, police brutality,
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism women’s rights, the struggle for democracy and
The Role of Business in South Africa independence on the continent. Each piece of writing is
introduced by a noted scholar or journalist who explains the
RAYMOND PARSONS context and why the journalism mattered.
WITH ALI PARRY
African Muckraking is a must-read for anyone who cares
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism offers an insightful and balanced account about journalism and Africa.
of how the business sector – and particularly organised business – has
influenced South Africa’s political and socio-economic trajectory over the
years, and what it will take for the key actors – politicians and business
and labour leaders – to find a new sense of (common) purpose in the post-
Zuma era.
978-1-4314-2618-8 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 210pp | March 2018 978-1-4314-2586-0 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 220pp | November 2017
6 J A C A N A M E D I A C A T A LO G U E 2 0 1 7 Politics & History 7
SPY City of R ascals
Uncovering Craig Williamson The Uneven Development of Durban
JONATHAN ANCER PATRICK BOND, ASHWIN DESAI &
BRIJ MAHARAJ
Through a series of interviews with the many people
Williamson interacted with while he was undercover and Durban has a stunning reputation, ranking 7th on the
after his secret identity was eventually exposed, Jonathan New York Times ‘52 places to go’ list in 2015, a year after
Ancer details Williamson’s double life, the stories of a being named one of seven ‘World Wonder Cities.’ Yet
generation of courageous activists, with the book eventually once ‘deglobalisation’ set in following the world financial
culminating with Ancer interviewing South Africa’s ‘super- meltdown in 2008, these apparent successes are sprouting
spy’ face-to-face. seeds of failure and fraud. The ill-considered attempts at
It deals with crucial issues of justice, reconciliation, capital accumulation now pockmark Durban with rising
forgiveness, betrayal and the consequences of apartheid that poverty and mega-project white elephants. Although the
South Africans are still grappling with. city’s elites have been tightly aligned with national rulers
since 2009, splits soon emerged within a hotly contested
patronage system.
While political turmoil is the obvious surface-level story
here, deeper dilemmas are caused by footloose, fancy-free
financiers, inevitably taking the city for a ride. ‘Build it and they will come’? No, not to Durban … for
reasons that should compel a strategic rethink, even in this city of rascals.
978-1-4314-2149-7 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 304pp | March 2017 978-1-928232-46-9 | Trade Paperback | Word Rights | 235x155mm | 188pp | December 2017
The Dis-eases of Secrecy The Eagle and
Tracing History, Memory & Justice the Springbok
BRIAN RAPPERT & CHANDRÉ GOULD Essays on Nigeria and South Africa
Between 1981 and 1995, a top-secret chemical and biological ADEKEYE ADEBAJO
warfare programme titled Project Coast was established and
maintained by South Africa’s apartheid government. Under Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third
the leadership of Wouter Basson, Project Coast scientists of Africa’s economic might, and have led much of its
were involved in a number of dubious activities, including peacemaking and peacekeeping initiatives over the last two
the mass production of ecstasy, the development of covert and a half decades. Both countries have had a tremendous
assassination weapons and the manufacture of chemical cultural impact on the continent in terms of Nollywood
poisons designed to be undetectable post-mortem. movies and South African soap operas.
The Dis-eases of Secrecy is a retrospective analysis of Project The first three chapters of this book assess Nigeria/South
Coast and shows how South African governments (past and Africa relations in the areas of politics, economics, and
present) have chosen to deal with the issues of biochemical culture. The second section has three essays that examine
weapons and warfare. the issue of hegemonic leadership in relation to Nigeria and
South Africa. The third section consists of four essays on
In this cleverly constructed book, readers are able to choose
the contributions to the bilateral relationship and leadership
their own journey through the story. By taking on the
roles of four prominent South Africans and Nigerians:
role of investigator, readers are faced with the complexities of transitional justice, reconciliation and
Nelson Mandela, Thabo Mbeki, Olusegun Obasanjo, and
scientific developments that might give them a different view of South African politics in an ever-
Sani Abacha. The final section of the book analyses three technocratic Nigerian and South African
changing world order.
‘visionaries’: Adebayo Adedeji, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, and Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala.
978-1-928232-47-6 | Trade Paperback | World Rights excl. Nigeria (to Bookcraft) | 235x155mm
978-1-4314-2485-6 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 288 pp | June 2017 202pp | February 2018
8 J A C A N A M E D I A C A T A LO G U E 2 0 1 7 Politics & History 9
Mozambique Inside Apartheid’s
and Br azil Prison
Forging New Partnerships or RAYMOND SUTTNER
Developing Dependency? In the public imagination the struggle that saw the end
EDITED BY CHRIS ALDEN, SÉRGIO CHICHAVA & of apartheid and the inauguration of a democratic South
Africa is seen as one waged by black people who were often
ANA CRISTINA ALVES
imprisoned or killed. Raymond Suttner, an academic, is
one of a small group of white South Africans who was
This book critically investigates the expanding involvement
imprisoned for his efforts to overthrow the apartheid
of a leading emerging power, Brazil, in one of Africa’s
regime. He was first arrested in 1975 and tortured because
fastest-growing economies, Mozambique. It focuses on the
he refused to supply information to the police. He then
dynamics of Brazilian development assistance, its flagship
served 8 years in jail because of his underground activities
engagement in Mozambique’s agricultural and resource
for the ANC and SACP.
sector and the burgeoning social ties that bind them
together. With elites in Brazil and Mozambique celebrating The book describes Suttner’s experience of prison,
the strengths of South–South Cooperation, there is an providing the texture of prison life, but unlike most
emerging belief that the two countries are on the path to ‘struggle memoirs’ it is also intensely personal. Suttner is
forging a new development partnership. not averse to admitting his fears and anxieties.
First published by Oceanbooks, New York and Melbourne,
and University of Natal Press, Pietermaritzburg in 2001.
978-1-928232-37-7 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 296pp | October 2017 978-1-4314-2517-4 | Trade Paperback | World Rights | 235x155mm | 248pp | May 2017
China and Reverse Sweep
Mozambique A Story of South African Cricket
From Comrades to Capitalists since Apartheid
EDITED BY CHRIS ALDEN AND ASHWIN DESAI
SÉRGIO CHICHAVA In this searing and revealing account of cricket in post-
apartheid South Africa, Ashwin Desai deftly tells a story
China’s rising position in African affairs, from that of
of promise and despair, the story of a new pitch; a quick
quiescence to becoming a key economic actor on the
start full of hope, followed by a steady erosion of the
continent, is now a well-recognised fact. The emergence
commitments needed to fulfil the promise of a level-playing
of China as Africa’s top trading partner and leading source
field. Economic and political compromises contributed to
of foreign direct investment in 2009 has sharpened the
holding back the pulling aside of the covers of race and
focus on Chinese aspiration and conduct in Africa. This
class privilege. Alongside this, the hurried hollowing out
book chooses to explore one case in particular, that is the
of the ‘politics of cricket’, aided by black administrators
relationship between China and Mozambique, and the
assuming the accoutrements of office, saw very little internal
specificities that it brings to the general themes raised
challenge to the lack of transformation. In a book where the
above in China-Africa relations. It begins by examining
love of cricket shines through, Desai makes a significant
the bilateral relationship in both its historical context and
contribution to our understanding of the farce that was
more contemporary forms. It looks at Chinese investment
post-apartheid cricket administration and the characters
in the Mozambican banking sector and at elite business
that played such a role in the charade.
alliances, in agriculture and infrastructure. It discusses the
meaning and implications of the cooperation between the
two countries.
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Darwin’s Hunch From Protest to Challenge
Science, Race and the Search for Human Origins The Complete Revised & Updated Series
CHRISTA KULJIAN
From Protest to From Protest to
There is broad agreement that all humans share common origins in Africa,
but when Darwin first suggested it in 1871, few European scientists took
Challenge Vol. 1 Challenge Vol. 2
his theory seriously. Scientists, and their research, are often shaped by the Protest & Hope, 1882–1932 Hope & Challenge, 1935–1952
prevailing social and political context at the time. Kuljian explores this trend
SHERIDAN JOHNS THOMAS G. KARIS AND
in South Africa and provides fresh insight on the search for human origins R EVISED AND UPDATED SHERIDAN JOHNS
– in the fields of palaeoanthropology and genetics – over the past century. BY GAIL M. GERHART AND R EVISED AND UPDATED
The book follows the colonial practice in Europe, the US and South Africa SHERIDAN JOHNS BY GAIL M. GERHART
of collecting human skeletons and cataloguing them into racial types, in the
Protest and Hope 1882–1934 consists of ninety-nine This second edition of From Protest to Challenge
hope that they would provide clues to human evolution.
primary source documents, accompanied by a text revives the classic work of Thomas Karis and
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resource for students and scholars of African
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democratic transitions and conflict resolution.
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The Story of a Trade Union in the Ending of Apartheid
JAN THERON
From Protest to “[From Protest to Challenge] is an impressive overview of liberation politics . . .
emphasizing aspects of the struggle which until recently have largely been hidden
from both public and scholarly eyes. . . . It opens pathways for critical reflection and
From Protest to From Protest to
The events leading to the Marikana massacre not only shattered South
further avenues for historical reinterpretation and understanding. . . . [The authors]
display a commendable mastery of the historian’s craft, laying before us a rich
From Protest to Challenge
collection that will most certainly stand future generations in good stead.”
Challenge Vol. 3 Challenge Challenge Vol. 4
—NelsoN MaNdela, 1997
A Docume
History ntary
“[It] stands as a masterwork, at once a highly polished gem of scholarship in its Of Africa
own right and a crucial touchstone for future research and reflection.” Politics n
In South
—JohN saul, CaNadiaN JourNal of afriCaN studies Africa,
Africa’s image of itself as a democracy in which workers had a respected
1882–1990
“[From Protest to Challenge] has acquired a sound scholarly reputation. As a
matter of fact, it has recently been stated that the project was ‘largely responsible for
the creation of the academic field of black resistance politics in South Africa’ and that Political
it has established ‘the framework for the narration of South African resistance history, Profiles,
with its own chronology, periodisation and constitutive codes’. . . . The authors write 1882-1990
lucidly and cogently and the ebb and flow of the struggle against apartheid are
place, but also the image of Cosatu and its largest affiliate at the time.
captured in a most impressive manner.”
Challenge & Violence, 1953–1964 Political Profiles, 1882–1990
—albert GruNdliNGh, Kleio
“[A] wonderful resource for future generations of scholars. . . . It is one of the merits of
[these] volumes . . . that they enable us to see protest and challenge in all its complexity
and messiness, but also as a process that built on what had come before.”
—Christopher sauNders, south afriCaN historiCal JourNal
Subsequent events confirm that South Africa’s pre-eminent trade union
“I did not know what [From Protest to Challenge] contained [but] I discovered
that in fact it was gold.”
—sipho siMoN MaKaNa, south afriCaN diploMat
Hope and Challenge, 1935–1952
“The treatment of the various forces opposed to the apartheid state, whether aligned
THOMAS G. KARIS AND HOMAS G. KARIS AND
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with the ANC, more exclusively black-oriented groups, or smaller left-liberal and ultra-left
factions, is notably evenhanded and judiciously critical. . . . Even in a crowded market,
federation has lost its way. To understand why this has happened, Jan
this is an obligatory purchase for anybody seriously interested in the subject.”
—p. J. furloNG, iNterNatioNal JourNal of afriCaN historiCal studies
“[A] feat of such distinction that it is hard to call to mind a
single parallel or precedent.”
GAIL M. GERHART REVISED AND GWENDOLEN CARTER
—Julius lewiN, tiMes literary suppleMeNt
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of the 1950s and early 1960s. These were years of
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An Empty Plate analyses the state of the South African agri-food system. Nadir & Resurgence, 1964–1979 Challenge & Victory, 1980–1990
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A Novel A Novel
REHANA ROSSOUW MPHUTHUMI NTABENI
Ali Adams is a political reporter in Parliament. As Mandela begins his The Broken River Tent is a novel that marries imagination with history.
second year as president, she discovers that his party is veering off the path It is about the life and times of Maqoma, the Xhosa chief who was at the
and drafting a new economic policy that makes no provision for the poor. forefront of fighting British colonialism in the Eastern Cape during the
Aaliyah Adams lives with her devout Muslim family in Bo-Kaap. Her best 19th century. The story is told through the eyes of a young South African,
friend is getting married, piling up the pressure to get settled and pregnant. Phila, who suffers from what he calls triple ‘N’ condition – neurasthenia,
There is little tolerance for alternative lifestyles in the close-knit community. narcolepsy and cultural ne plus ultra. This makes him feel far removed from
Ali/Aaliya is trapped with her family and friends in a tangle of razor-wire events happening around him but gives him access to the analeptic memory
politics and culture. Can she break free? of his people. After being under immense mental pressure, he crosses the
Told with Rehana’s trademark verve and exquisite attention to language you will weep with Aaliya, mental divide between the living and the dead and is visited by Maqoma.
triumph with Ali, and fall in love with the assemblage that makes up this ravishing new novel. They engage in different conversations about cultural history, literature,
religion, the past and contemporary South African life.
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What Will People Say?
The Last Stop
A Novel
THABISO MOFOKENG
REHANA ROSSOUW
Macko is a man adrift, a taxi-driver with a corrupt boss and a loving but
Rehana Rossouw’s unique voice gives life and drama to this family saga. unreliable girlfriend. He does the long-haul run between Qwaqwa and
Neville and Magda Fourie live in Magnolia Court with their three children. Johannesburg, but these days there are voices in his head and visions on the
They are trying to ‘raise them decent’ in a township festering with gang road. An outbreak of taxi violence sets off a chain of events that threaten
wars and barricaded with burning tyres. to overwhelm Macko, who, after decades in South Africa, is still seen as a
Which members of the Fourie family will thrive, which ones will not ‘foreigner’ and at risk of xenophobia.
survive? Generously spiced with Cape Flats slang, lots of vivid and gritty Crime fiction featuring paranormal elements, The Last Stop combines gritty
description that give an authentic feel to the story and plenty of plot, the realism with the magical. It shows what happens between people in times of
writer draws us in and makes us curious about what will happen next. taxi violence and deals with themes of lust, betrayal and revenge.
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Wolf Tr ap If I Stay Right Here
The Limbo Trilogy | Book II A Novel
CONSUELO ROLAND CHWAYITA NGAMLANA
In Wolf Trap, book II of The Limbo Trilogy, Paola Dante is trying her Shay is a journalism student working part time as an intern. Sip is an
best to juggle her job and parenting a teen. The truth is that ever since her unemployed varsity drop out and ex-gang member. Their vastly different lives
husband Daniel walked out on their marriage she’s found it hard to get on make it challenging for them to be the kind of couple they so desperately want
with normal life. Now, an unlikely and ill-equipped mother, she is all that to be. Unable to get themselves untangled from the web they’ve created, Shay
stands between her adopted daughter Simone and the criminal kingpin who and Sip use money, other people and sex to fix things, but is this enough?
wants the teenage girl for his own ends and has set the wolves on her. Ngamlama has created a world that is somewhere between the present day
When a strange cult group appears in the neighbourhood Paola’s foreboding and a sub-world of delusion. The reader will want to watch both story and
grows and Simone’s behaviour becomes increasingly erratic. Matters spiral characters unravel. This book will touch anyone who has lost themselves or
out of control and one day Paola arrives home to find Simone gone. their loved ones to unhealthy destructive relationships.
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Shadow Play Period Pain
GERALD KRAAK A Novel
POSTHUMOUSLY COMPLETED BY ALISON LOWRY
KOPANO MATLWA
Shadow Play is a powerful novel of subterfuge, betrayal, risk and deep bonds
of friendship formed during a time of struggle and pain while a new nation, This book poignantly captures the heartache and confusion of so many
determined to rise, faces seemingly insurmountable obstacles. South Africans who feel defeated by the litany of headline horrors:
xenophobia, corrective rape, corruption and crime and for many the death
In the deceptive ease and heady freedom of Amsterdam, Matthew considers sentence that is the public health nightmare. Through this story we are able
possibilities open to him that would have been impossible even to envision to reflect, to question and to rediscover our humanity.
in his home country. For Mandla, directions to a liberated country that
were once clear to him and untainted by self-interest and the seduction of Published in the UK by Hodder & Stoughton as Evening Primrose.
power, become blurred at times and increasingly uncomfortable. Both men
have to search deep in their hearts when they are asked to make choices that
challenge them morally, personally and politically.
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A Tree For The Birds Spilt Milk
VERNON RL HEAD A Novel
Prepare to undertake another journey with the master of nature writing, KOPANO MATLWA
Vernon RL Head. In this novel, we venture deep into the mysterious world
Spilt Milk is the story of two passionate people who share a shameful past
of the Congo River, the Great Dancing Road. We meet Chrisnelt, a young
and a tenuous present. Decades after a childhood love affair earns upright
Congolese boy who grows into manhood shaped by the vast leaves held in
school principal Mohumagadi and disgraced preacher Father Bill expulsion
the branches of tropical forests, all the while battling a ravaged world of
from their communities, the two characters are brought back together under
globalised greed and death. Chrisnelt is a gardener of unusual genius: he
the most unlikely of circumstances.
learns from birds, insects and foreign weeds; and he counts raindrops falling
from clouds, finding exquisite numbers that sing of the interconnection of An exciting young voice has emerged that reflects the idiosyncratic nature of
peoples everywhere. our young democracy.
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Son
A Novel Coconut
NEIL SONNEKUS A Novel
Sonnekus brilliantly captures the so-called Noughties with his tragi-comic KOPANO MATLWA
creation Len Bezuidenhout, a recent divorcee whose quest for sex is as funny
Coconut deals with growing up as a black child in a white world. It is the
as his attempts to tease a hungover narrative from his father, a puritanical
story of black youth who grow up in white neighbourhoods, go to private
old curmudgeon. The two couldn’t be more different – or similar. They are
schools and have white friends. Fitting in, however, comes at the cost of
both storytellers, but when the tale Len starts extracting from his old man is
one’s blackness – too white for black, and too black for white.
slowly revealed, it is everything but funny.
Through scalding humour, caustic wit and brutally frank interrogation into
the country’s ‘post Rainbow Nation’ pathology, this stylistically imposing
work is one of hilarity, bitter warmth and eventual grace.
Also published in Afrikaans as Seun.
Son 978-1-920601-80-5 (English) Seun 978-1-920601-82-9 (Afrikaans)
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18 J A C A N A M E D I A C A T A LO G U E 2 0 1 7 fiction & poetry 19Piggy Boy’s Blues The Sol Plaatje European Union
NAKHANE TOURÉ Poetry Anthology Vol VII
The novel centres on the disastrous consequences of a man’s return to his Eastern VARIOUS
Cape home town of Alice. Davide’s journey, from the city to the country for peace
and quiet, is not what he or the characters living in the forgotten and dilapidated The seventh volume in this series is a truly democratic as well as creative
house have bargained for. His return disturbs and troubles the silence and day-to-day effort, in keeping with the spirit of the legendary intellectual giant, Sol
practices that his uncle, Ndimphiwe, and the man he lives with have kept, resulting in Plaatje: activist, linguist, translator, novelist, journalist and leader.
a series of tragic events. Touré’s work is poetic with sensuous prose. An overarching
theme of the book is its exploration of the spiritual lives of black people. The poems offer readers sensibilities, observations and responses to the
complex, nuanced and uncomfortable realities of life in our country –
past, present and future. Written in Afrikaans, English, Sepedi, Sesotho,
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where relevant, they reflect the diversity of our nation.
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A Novel
PANASHE CHIGUMADZI
Sweet Medicine is a thorough and evocative attempt at grappling with a variety of
important issues in the postcolonial context: tradition and modernity; feminism
and patriarchy; spiritual and political freedoms and responsibilities; poverty and
desperation; and wealth and abundance.
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2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011
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Nwelezelanga The Goddess of Mtwar a
The Star Child and other stories
UNATHI MAGUBENI
The Caine Prize for African Writing
Nwelezelanga, The Star Child travels a magical and spiritual journey that merges
the ancestral realms with contemporary realities. It is a story of an ancestral spirit VARIOUS
that is born through Nwelezelanga, who is tasked with the purpose of passing
messages from beyond; a divine responsibility to children of the star. The Caine Prize for African Writing is an annual literary award for the best
original short story by an African writer published in the English language.
The prize has shone a light on writing from the continent with some of its best
writers going home with what has become a coveted prize. Winners include
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Leila Aboulela, Helon Habila, Binyavanga Wainaina, Yvonne Adhiambo
Owuor and NoViolet Bulawayo.
Hamba Sugar Daddy This year, Sudanese writer Bushra al-Fadil has won the 2017 Caine Prize for his short story ‘The story of
the girl whose birds flew away’. 978-1-4314-2556-3 | Paperback
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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. Bigvy has introduced her to a new lifestyle but
at what cost?
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20 J A C A N A M E D I A C A T A LO G U E 2 0 1 7 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012The Curse of Teko Modise It’s Me, Mar ah
MEMOIR & BIOGR APHY
NIKOLAOS KIRKINIS
An Autobiography
Teko ‘the General’ Modise is one of the best footballers South Africa has ever
produced. But life wasn’t always kind. At eight, Teko was kicked out of his MARAH TEBOHO LOUW
home for the very thing that would catapult him to stardom – football.
This is the autobiography of the daughter of a priest from
At the height of his career he played for Orlando Pirates. His downward
Mzimhlophe Township who found her voice as a gifted
spiral came around the time of the 2010 World Cup when he went through a
child star, became a celebrated theatre performer, award-
messy and public divorce, and developed a nasty drinking habit. It was at this
winning solo artist, National Orchestra-backed diva,
stage that Teko was approached by a powerful medicine man – a king from
performer extraordinaire for kings and queens and political
the Congo.
leaders. She defied all obstacles and is now a recipient of
This story tells it all, from poverty to fame, from love to divorce. A fatherless two Lifetime Achievement Awards for her craft. Marah
father trying to make sense of parenthood and a man who never had money trying to make sense of an Louw tells her story with the candour, humility and
abundance of wealth and the evils it brings, all the while maintaining his status as the greatest South humour intrinsic to her character and with a passion that
African footballer of the modern era. only hindsight and real experience can give.
With a career spanning over 40 years, Marah Louw is today
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counted among South Africa’s musical and entertainment
industry royalty and has a powerful and memorable story
to tell.
Tales of the Azanian Princess
A Memoir
JACQUI ZIMBA
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Women’s voices against apartheid, a political structure which aimed at
systematically dehumanising black people have been either silenced or not
paid much attention to. There is a huge imbalance and inequality between
men’s and women’s stories emerging from this period. Jacqui Zimba was a From A to B
child-soldier, she faced death and hardship and felt resentment and resistance
towards her own femininity. Jacqui’s memoir does not only recount her Second Edition
struggle, but that of a community that had to endure and fight against every
possible difficulty imposed by an undemocratic and racist structure. BONANG MATHEBA
Bonang Matheba has built up her brand, making her face
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Is this a self-help book? Not quite. This is the story of how
a girl from Mafikeng in the North West found her face next
Being Chris Hani’s to that of Halle Berry’s in a worldwide Revlon campaign.
Daughter The most important lesson from the book, as the subtitle
suggests, will be that no one is born made – we all have to
LINDIWE HANI AND MELINDA FERGUSON work very hard. Much like Bonang did.
When Chris Hani, leader of the SACP and heir apparent to Nelson While she has given some access into her life through media
Mandela, was brutally slain in his driveway in April 1993, he left a shocked interviews, Bonang is yet to detail the journey that saw her
and grieving South Africa on the precipice of civil war. But to 12-year-old become a successful, multi-talented businesswoman and
Lindiwe, it was her daddy who had been shockingly ripped from her life. TV and radio personality. This book is a look into Bonang’s
In this intimate and brutally honest memoir, Lindiwe remembers the years life that she has never made public.
she shared with her father, and the toll that his untimely death took on the
Hani family. While the nation continued to revere and honour her father’s
legacy, for Lindiwe, being Chris Hani’s daughter became an increasingly
heavy burden to bear.
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