The Art And The Passion
R200The Art and the Passion offers a rare behind-the-scenes glimpse of Cape Town Opera‘s productions staged in Cape Town, Malmö and Cardiff during 2009.
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The Cape Whale Coast: Gateway to the Overberg Region of South Africa
R200Describes guesthouses and hotels, vineyards and vintners, restaurants and recipes; artists of the Overberg region of Western Cape Province; and its marine life.
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The Craft – Selected Poems 1989-2016
R200Michael Cope was born in Cape Town, South Africa, in 1952. He has published three novels (one with Ken Barris), two volumes of poetry and a memoir.
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The Good Value Guru
R100Take two adventurous wine-lovers, a few thousand kilometres through ten South African wine regions and enough newly-discovered vinous gems to fill a transport truck, and the Good Value Guru has what he would call “a pleasant sort of journey”.
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The Man Who Killed Apartheid
R300This book reveals the extent of the cover-up by South Africa’s authorities and the desperate lengths they went to conceal the existence of Tsafendas’s opposition to apartheid. The book exposes one of the great lies in South African history, that Verwoerd was murdered by a mad man. It also offers for the first time a complete biography of this extraordinary man.
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The Promise of Justice : Book One History
R340King Justice Mpondombini Sigcau’s Struggle to Save the Kingdom of the Mpondo from Unjust Developments.
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The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 2 [1970-1980]
R760This is a history that, quite simply, had to be written. Those who actively participated in the struggle for liberation are growing ever older; here they have related their experiences to trained historians, sociologists and political scientists, many of whom were themselves involved in the resistance movement. SADET has compiled and coordinated this remarkable book that weaves together the complex history of The Road to Democracy in South Africa.
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The Stellenbosch Mafia: Inside the Billionaire’s Club
R280About 50km outside of Cape Town lies the beautiful town of Stellenbosch, nestled against vineyards and blue mountains that stretch to the sky. Here reside some of South Africa’s wealthiest individuals: all male, all Afrikaans – and all stinking rich. Johann Rupert, Jannie Mouton, Markus Jooste and Christo Weise, to name a few.
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The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories
R160A major strength of this collection is its precisely noted and rendered detail. Whatever the themes-whether the dilemmas of being differently abled; trapped in lower-income constraints; or born female in an abusively gendered world-they are relayed with authenticity. There is a strongly visceral component to the stories, with the body and its various vulnerabilities, captivities, and seductions featuring in many of them. Some pieces broaden out, both creatively and topically, to explore less obvious facets of staying afloat.
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Traces and Tracks: A Thirty-year Journey with the San
R400Traces and Tracks: A Thirty Year Journey with the San documents the history and life of the San in Namibia, Botswana and South Africa. It depicts Paul Weinberg’s intimate perspective on the lives of modern-day San over the past 30 years.
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Unrest – Hasan Essop and Husain Essop
R120Published in 2014 by the Goodman Gallery on the occasion of the exhibition Unrest by Hasan and Husain Essop and the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Visual Art 2014
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We Are No Longer at Ease
R240The collection includes works by the young student leaders turned academic and public commentators such as David Maimela, Thapelo Tselapedi and Sisonke Msimang; student newspaper journalists that were covering the protests like Natasha Ndlebe; public writing commentators with aims to inform and teach the broader South African society about the aspects of the movement like Yamkela Spengane and Rofhiwa Maneta; lecturers who were assisting the students articulate and find clarity in the way they shaped and voiced their ideas such as Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni and then of course others were foot soldiers on the ground leading students through the police brutality of rubber bullets and pepper spray like Mcebo Dlamini, Loverlyn Nwandeyi, Ntokozo Qwabe and Ramabina Mahapa.
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Who Was Sinclair Beiles?
R160Beiles is probably most famous for helping Burroughs get Naked Lunchpublished at Olympia through Girodias, at a time when Burroughs was really strung out on paregoric and/or heroin. His most famous work in print is probably as one of the four contributors (Beiles, Burroughs, Corso & Gysin) of the now legendary cut-up compilation, Minutes to Go, published in 1960.
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Out of stockWillam Kentridge: Anything is Possible
R275William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentdridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas have made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working today.
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Wim Botha: Standard Bank Young Artist for Visual Art 2005
R250Wim Botha won the Standard Bank Young Artist award for Visual Art 2005. This wonderfully produced catalogue documents the eight years of work leading up to that achievement.
