Real African Publishers: 40 books
Crimes, Victims and Witnesses
Apartheid in Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Breaking open a fascinating new dialogue on the situation in occupied Palestinian territories, this personal account presents a South African perspective that is complemented by striking color photographs. Author and photographer Mats Svensson began work in Jerusalem with Swedish development assistance...
by Phathekile Holomisa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A thoughtful collection of newspaper articles and speeches, this book offers a compelling indigenous African perspective on contemporary issues and traditional values. With a framework for an alternative view on current affairs in South Africa, this new edition includes all of the original columns...
by Aziz Hassim
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2002
This tour-de-force debut novel represents not only one family's journey from India to South Africa, but also a valuable source of information about the experiences, struggles, feelings and thoughts of the South African Indian community.
by Peter Morris
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
A young man arrives in Johannesburg from a village in northern Mozambique and is conscripted into one of the city’s oldest organized crime syndicates. Joao Mucavinho soon learns who really runs this bad city: who controls the money, the “kwash,” and the turn of the dice. But the city is on the...
To Breathe into Another Voice
A South African Anthology of Jazz Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
‘Writing about jazz is like dancing about architecture,' observed TheloniousMonk. It's possibly one of the few times he was wrong. Jazz poetry is almostas old as jazz itself. Poets such as Thulani Davis, Langston Hughes and ourown Keorapetse Kgositsile and Mongane Wally Serote have long heard thepatterns...
Habitat and Struggle
The Case of the Kruger Park in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
Join Leslie Dikeni in his intriguing journey into the contested state of the Kruger National Park in the early years of the democratic transition. He speaks to chefs and wardens, cleaners and government officials, ecologists and secretaries. As word of his research spreads, those whose voices had...
Embracing Change
a Life Journey
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Why are Nikolay Boukovski’s experiences relevant for South Africans?Because communist Bulgaria had many parallels with apartheid SouthAfrica. The fall of the Berlin Wall and the dismantling of apartheid leftcertain groups rudderless and frightened, yet excited about change.The new orders were heralded...
Great Recession and its Implications for Human Values
Lessons for Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
The earth has enough for everyone's need, but not everyone's greed. — Mahatma GandhiThe Great Recession, which started around 2007, stands out as the most significant crisis of global capitalism since the 1930s, both in scope and intensity. Although it was triggered by developments in the financial...
by Lucy Michot
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
A riveting and emotional portrait of abusive conditions in rural Zimbabwe during the 1920s, this novel follows the terrible misfortunes of a brave and likable young girl as she grows to womanhood. Chinongwa always has been told that her paternal grandfather was shot and beheaded in front of her father's...
People's War
Reflections of an ANC Cadre
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017
A great deal of the revolutionary work that Charles Nqakula undertookas an ANC underground cadre and combatant of Umkhonto we Sizwewas in the Eastern Cape. This book is a well-documented and detailedrecollection of those difficult and dangerous times when detention,imprisonment, torture, and even...
Time to Tell
An Activist's Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2011
This dramatically revealing memoir follows Barry Feinberg's 45 years of activism, travel, relationships, and creative expression. While the twin narratives of private life and political doings are equally absorbing on their own, it is the relationship between the two—and the story of this relationship's...
Patronage Politics Divides Us
A Study of Poverty, Patronage and Inequality in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
Patronage Politics Divides Us is the culmination of a research project that forms part of MISTRA’s first suite of eight priority research projects. The research explores the relationship between patronage, poverty, and inequality with a particular focus on its impact on the conduct of local politics....
South Africa and the Global Hydrogen Economy
The Strategic Role of Platinum Group Metals
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
South Africa and the Global Hydrogen Economy is the publication of a MISTRA research project on the use of strategic minerals in the global putative hydrogen economy. The book highlights the global significance of platinum group metals (PGM) and explores the strategic opportunities that arise out...
Resurgent Resource Nationalism
A Study into the Global Phenomenon
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
The period between 2001 and 2008 saw the longest commodities boom in recent history. Resource-rich countries across the world developed more interest in the profits, control and ownership of their natural resources. South Africa, which did not benefit much from the boom in commodity prices, wasnonetheless...