The Johannesburg Gas Works
R200This new book, the first comprehensive publication on the significant site, tells the story of the gas works and the manufacture of gas in Johannesburg, beginning in 1927.
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The Nominees – Mercedes-Benz Award for South African Art Projects in Public Space 2008
R150A first monographic catalogue is devoted to Kevin Brand the prizewinner of the Mercedes-Benz Art Award for South African Art Projects in Public Space 2008.
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Out of stockThe People Shall Govern! The Medu Art Ensemble and the Anti-Apartheid Posters, 1979-1985
R915The People Shall Govern! features nearly all the surviving posters that Medu created between 1979 and 1985.
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The Private World of Normand Dunn
R450Beneath the public face of Dunn’s work, the author contends, lies a private world of even greater significance, a world in which the essential elements of our being are examined, depicted and, by implication, commented upon – all with a gently satirical eye. It is this re-assessment which forms the basis of Chris Perold’s book, illustrated with reproductions and commentaries on more than one hundred of the artist’s paintings.
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The Secret Ambition (2015)
R250A writer of restless enquiry and breadth of learning, Valerio Magrelli bids fair to be the most important poet of his generation in Italy, as witnessed by the critical attention that his work has received and the major prizes it has garnered.
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The Standard Bank Foundation Collection of African Art 1986
R120The Standard Bank Foundation of African Art, housed at the University of the Witwatersrand Art Galleries was begun ten years ago. This exhibition, one of the largest of its kind ever held in South Africa, commemorates a partnership which expresses the true ideals of both private enterprise and public education in this country.
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The Thabo Mbeki I know
R300The Thabo Mbeki I Know is a collection that celebrates one of South Africa’s most exceptional thought leaders. The contributors include those who first got to know Thabo Mbeki as a young man, in South Africa and in exile, and those who encountered him as a statesman and worked alongside him as an African leader.
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The View
R250In some dystopian future, all homo-sexual people have been shipped into space. From his hermetically sealed pod, the Boy looks down on a ruined , devastated Earth. It is a story of loss, grief and isolation.
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Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi: Gymnasium
R250The exhibition opened on the eve of South Africa’s Covid-19 lockdown, and the catalogue essay by Mwenya B Kabwe asks what the Gymnasium series gives us ’at a time like this, a time of such massive upheaval’. Interweaving a fabular tale with her insights into Nkosi’s lens on this moment, Kabwe write: ’Nkosi tells us that when we are talking about race, we are never just talking about race. When we are talking about infectious diseases, we are actually talking about the biological expression of social inequality.’ She continues:
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This Is Shakespeare : How to Read the World’s Greatest Playwright
R230This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare’s plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex.
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Three Plays
Craig Higginson’s first three plays for adult audiences – collected here in one volume – represent one of the strongest debuts in contemporary South African theatre. Although each can be seen as a variation on the theme of the post-apartheid state of the nation play, they are also engaged with realities in Zimbabwe, the Congo and contemporary Europe. Higginson’s experience of growing up in wartorn Zimbabwe and apartheid South Africa have given him a deep-rooted and potent angle from which to dramatize a dialogue between Europe and Africa.
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Three radio plays
R150Band of Brothers travels back and forth in time over a period of twelve years to unravel a sex scandal in a boys’ school. The British Maharajah and the German Rentboy bills itself as a ’fantasy woven from facts’, presented as a quasi radio documentary. Clayton Crawford, PhD is a piece of total realism, the entire action taking place over one evening, with dramatic time mimicking real time.
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Transcontinental Delay
R200In Transcontinental Delay, Simon Van Schalkwyk tracks experiences of imminent arrival and departure, periods of waiting and suspension between destinations, points where the demands of place dissolve into the more anticipatory potentialities of space.
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u-Grand, Malume?
R120In this debut collection of 48 poems, Sizakele Nkosi reflects on her childhood and daily life and relationships in Soweto, the heartbeat of Black Jozi.
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Out of stockUlwembu
R180Evil stalks the township of KwaMashu, near Durban. It comes in the form of Whoonga, a toxic mix of B-grade heroin, rat poison and other chemical components that almost immediately sucks its users into the vortex of addiction and the crime, deception and personal tragedy that goes with it. Caught up in the web, the ulwembu of the title, presided over by the dealer, Bongani Mseleku, are Lieutenant Portia Mthembu, a police officer in the frontline of the fight against the scourge; her son Sipho; his friend, Andile Nxumalo, and Emmanuel Abreu, a Mozambique-born spaza shopkeeper.
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Uncaptured – The True Account Of The Nenegate/Trillian Whistleblower
R290In March 2016, Mosilo Mothepu was appointed CEO of Trillian Financial Advisory, a subsidiary of Gupta-linked Trillian Capital Partners. The prospect of being at the helm of a black-owned financial consultancy was electrifying for a black woman whose twin passions were transformation and empowering women. Three months later, suffering from depression and insomnia, she resigned with no other job lined up.
