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In this fascinating work, the author gives his views on racial origins and differences, and describes the settlement of the black people throughout Natal. He records the customs of the Zulu people, and gives an overview of Zulu history during the turbulent nineteenth century from the perspective of the black people who lived through it.

In this fascinating work, the author gives his views on racial origins and differences, and describes the settlement of the black people throughout Natal. He records the customs of the Zulu people, and gives an overview of Zulu history during the turbulent nineteenth century from the perspective of the black people who lived through it.

Obekekileyo uAtshdikin Profesa Peter Tshobisa Mtuze odla umhlalaphantsi yimbongi, umfundisi nesifundiswa esaziwayo.

The hashtag has become the loud hailer of the 21st century. Its ability to gather voices and often bodies into a space of unified action for a cause or against injustice is unprecedented. This collection of poetry speaks to the power of hashtags, the individual names and the communal suffering that births them.

Explores representations of fathers in select South African novels published from the birth of apartheid to the post-transitional moment. Father figures in the texts reflect political and social climates in South Africa. The book also investigates how fatherhoods are being reimagined in light of shifting discourses of gender and identity.

Bringing together novels set in South Africa, China, Guatemala, Sri Lanka and Somalia, this book makes a marked intervention in the field of literary studies, by both bringing to light the trend of the returnee figure and exploring the possibilities of world-making through the explosion of a familiar form.

In Precarious Battle tells how labour broking was defeated in the South African Post Office (SAPO). Labour broking has become synonymous with worker exploitation. By 2011, a third of SAPO's workforce was employed through labour brokers.

Zulu Names, Polygyny and Gender Politics in Traditional Societies provides illuminating insight into Zulu polygynous families. It examines how Zulu anthroponyms used in respect of the living-dead reflect social behaviour patterns within homesteads.

2021 IsiZulu Standardisation, Spelling Rules and Orthography is a revised and improved version of the 2008 edition. The book includes the history and beginning of the development of isiZulu spelling rules and orthography and highlights the role of isiZulu academics and missionaries in the development of isiZulu writing.

This is a collection of short stories in isiZulu that were written by first-time women writers. It is the result of one of the projects undertaken by the University Language Planning and Development Office at the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

woman reluctantly takes on the responsibility of putting her eccentric rebellious mother into a retirement home, and managing her care. She has her own daughter to raise and nurture, a marriage and a business to hold together, and her own psychological troubles due in good part to how she was mothered.

Skeptical Erections is a book of startling visual and verbal imagination. In his poems Sapeta describes the deception and self-loathing prevalent in the people he encounters in his world, including (or perhaps especially) himself.

Lament for Kofifi Macu is Angifi Dladla's first collection of poems in English since The Girl who Then Feared to Sleep (Deep South 2001).

That kind of door, Finlay's fifth collection of poems, is a narrative of linked poems. A man loves a woman who lives on one continent and is a devoted father to his two sons who live on another - a situation that finds him sometimes in unbearable anguish.

Presents a transdisciplinary analysis of Zimbabwean music, drawing from different disciplines such as sociology, ethnomusicology, history, journalism, development studies, English, philology and drama. The book offers a re-evaluation of Zimbabwean music and, in so doing, reconsiders the work of international academics on the subject.

This volume builds on a previous collection, The Solidarity Economy Alternative: Emerging Theory and Practice (2014), and inaugurates a debate between leading government co-operative development practitioners and its critics, many of whom are working to advance bottom-up solidarity economy pathways.

By exploring whiteness and white identity through the lens of literary journalism, this book reflects on ways in which writers use the uncertainties and contradictions inherent in this genre to reveal the complexities of white identity formation and negotiation within contemporary society.

`Afrikaner' in South African public discourse is more often than not a swear word. This close media study considers how, squeezed in the moral vice of past and present, Afrikaners look in a mirror that reflects only a beautiful people.

Assists legal studies students as well as ordinary South Africans with a limited understanding of law, by providing them with basic explanations of legal terms in both isiZulu and English, in order to elevate African languages in legal education and the practice of law.

Sheds light on the reading cultures and practices that developed in the shadow of apartheid censorship, creating alternative literary spaces. By understanding reading as a complex and dynamic activity, this book stresses the importance of appreciating books in relation to the social context in which they are written and, most importantly, read.

Interrogates the ruling elite political reproduction, modes of accumulation across key economic sectors and implications for development outcomes in Zimbabwe. The book raises some pressing questions in search of answers.

A book of environmental portraits, composed of photographs taken in the first decade of the twenty-first century, a few years after South Africa's transition to constitutional democracy. It explores how photographic images can move us, can unlock personal and shared memories, can prompt public debate, can unsettle us and challenge us to think about alternative environmental futures.

Imitation happened when an unsuspecting philosopher one day found himself equally outraged by South African president Jacob Zuma's Big Man building project in Nkandla; awed, all over again, by Milan Kundera's Immortality; and numbed by the monument to hubris generally known as "the highest basilica in all of Christendom", Our Lady of Peace in Yamoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire.

Explores the transformation of KwaMashu Hostel in Durban in the twenty-first century - from a single-sex men's hostel to family accommodation in community residential units. It presents the continuities and discontinuities that take place as hostel-dwellers grapple with everyday livelihood struggles.

A title deed = tenure security. Or does it? This book challenges this simple equation and its apparently self-evident assumptions. It argues that two very different property paradigms characterise South Africa.

Contains fourteen essays originally published between 1974 and 1996. Based on fieldwork conducted between 1969 and 1985, and on extensive archival research, the first six essays examine the social function of poetry in the community, the element of improvisation in the production of poetry. Individual poets are then presented.

Lesego Rampolokeng is a poet and performance maestro, and the author of 12 books, including two plays and three novels. HIs third novel, Bird-Monk Seding, is a stark picture of life in a rural township two decades into South Africa's democracy.

The history of Muslim education in the east coast region of South Africa is the story of ongoing struggles by an immigrant religious minority under successive, exclusionary forms of state.

While there are many reasons to be despondent about the current state of affairs in the South African tertiary sector, this collection is intended as an invitation for the reader to see these problems as opportunities for rethinking the very idea of what it is to be a university in contemporary South Africa.

The subject of motherhood is at the heart of any consideration of women's writing. Conversations of Motherhood charts common themes, intersecting experiences and related tropes within the cultural specificities of South African society. Exploring this space, in turn, provides a lens for cross-cultural reading that draws on various local ways of knowing and the workings of agency.