Soccer Chic :Soccer Life the South African Way
R200A window on the world of South African football culture. Included some great photographs, especially those of some of the originally dressed fans.
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Out of stockSorrows and Rejoicings
R100In an old house in a small country town three women gather in the pressence of a stinkwood table and their powerful memories of the man they have just buried. In Sorrows and Rejoicings, Athol Fugard turns ones more to his beloved Karoo and to the themes of exile and the importance of place that have permeated so many of his plays.
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South African Cinema 1896-2010
R400Taking an inclusive approach to South African film history, this volume represents an ambitious attempt to analyze and place in appropriate sociopolitical context the aesthetic highlights of South African cinema from 1896 to the present. Thoroughly researched and fully documented by renowned film scholar Martin Botha, the book focuses on the many highly creative…
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South Africans versus Rommel: The Untold Story of the Desert War in World War II
R280South Africa’s Union Defence Force played an important part in World War II and also made tremendous sacrifices. By early 1941 South Africa had 30 000 troops in East Africa, where it helped drive the Italians out of Abyssinia and Somalia. This campaign was mere prelude to the operations it would conduct as part of the British Eighth Army against Erwin Rommel’s Afrika Korps in North Africa.
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Stanza Poetry No. 6
R130An open space where poetry matters. Stanzas is a quarterly for new poetry to suit all moods. It provides a platform for established and emerging poets to share their most recent work and affirm poetry’s important place in our lives. “I’m not very good at praying, but what I experience when I’m writing a poem…
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Stellenberg Gardens
R650Stellenberg, the story of a garden This superbly elegant book tells the story of one of South Africa’s most loved and admired gardens. It’s also the story of a historic and beautiful house, a uniquely preserved example of Cape Dutch architecture.
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Stephen Inggs – 665: Making Prints with Light(Softback)
R400665: Making Prints with Light constitutes a catalogue raisonne of photographic and print work by Cape Town artist, Stephen Inggs. Different bodies of work between 1978 and 2011 are presented in chapters, designed by Gart Walker and with essays by Virginia MacKenny and Sean O’Toole, a foreword by Nigel Warburton and introduction by Stephen Inggs….
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Strung Between Heaven and Earth
R300This beautiful full-colour coffee table book contains a collection of poems and art-images that capture the raw reality of the life caught in the tension between the ‘already’ and the ‘not yet’. Funny, lofty, ironic, profound – these words bring hope without hype and shatter religious mind-sets with their honest vulnerability.
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TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: David Koloane
R50David Koloane was born in 1938 in Alexandra Township, Johannesburg. He studied art at the Bill Ainslie Studios in Johannesburg and later completed a Diploma in Museum Studies at the University of London. Koloane established a reputation, both locally and internationally, as a pioneer black artist in apartheid South Africa and was the founding member of institutions promoting and supporting black talent in South Africa from the mid-1970s.
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TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Deborah Bell
R50Deborah Bell is a leading Johannesburg painter and sculptor and whose work is created in dialogue with multiple worlds, texts, histories and consciousnesses. She is also widely known for her collaborative projects with William Kentridge and Robert Hodgins. Bell’s drawings, etchings and monumental clay sculptures possess a kind of mystical godliness which comes from deep within her.
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TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Kagiso Pat Mautloa
R50Kagiso Pat Mautloa was born in 1952 in Ventersdorp. While still at school he attended classes at the Jubilee Art Centre in Johannesburg, then at Mofolo Art Centre in Soweto. He has worked as a full-time artist since 1993, and now has a studio at the Bag Factory in Johannesburg, where a number of other well-known artists work.
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TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Noria Mabasa
R50Noria Muelelwa Mabasa was born in 1938 in Xigalo, a village in Limpopo Province, north of Johannesburg. She is a sculptor of large woodcarvings and figurative ceramic work who first came to prominence in the urban art scene in the mid 1980s.
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TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Paul Stopforth
R50Paul Stopforth produced several bodies of work that were startling in their courageous engagement with the repressive society in which he lived. The importance of Stopforth’s work is that he is an acute observer of the minutiae of everyday life and keenly attuned to the significance of ordinary objects, which he imbues with dignity and careful metaphorical significance.
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TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Samson Mudzunga
R50Samson Mudzunga was born in 1938 in Shanzha, Dopeni, in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda “homeland”. Although Mudzunga began playing with clay as a child, it wasn’t until much later in life that he became a self-sustaining artist, acclaimed for his performance events and for his extraordinary wood carvings, particularly his enormous “coffin drums”.
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TAXI Art Book Educational Supplement: Sandile Zulu
R50This Educational Supplement is published with TAXI-012 Sandile Zulu by Colin Richards. Sandile Zulu’s work incorporates and gives expression to a many layered mythology in which fire, transformation, planetary cycles, and natural rhythms are key elements. Zulu uses found objects that he scavenges from industrial sites and from nature, but the distinctive scorch-marks and burnt edges of his work testify to the centrality of fire in his method and his aesthetic philosophy.
