Wits University Press: 87 books
Becoming Worthy Ancestors
Archive, Public Deliberation And Identity In South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011
Why does it matter that nations should care for their archives, and that they should develop a sense of shared identity? And why should these processes take place in the public domain? How can nations possibly speak about a shared sense of identity in pluralistic societies where individuals and groups...
Fees Must Fall
Student revolt, decolonisation and governance in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
#FeesMustFall, the student revolt that began in October 2015, was an uprising against lack of access to, and financial exclusion from, higher education in South Africa. More broadly, it radically questioned the socio-political dispensation resulting from the 1994 social pact between big business,...
A Long Way Home
Migrant Worker Worlds 1800-2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In no other society in the world have urbanisation and industrialization been as comprehensively based on migrant labour as in South Africa. Rather than focusing on the well-documented narrative of displacement and oppression, A Long Way Home captures the humanity, agency and creative modes of self-expression...
Lover of his People
A Biography Of Sol Plaatje
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Seetsele Modiri Molema?s Sol T. Plaatje: Morata Wabo is the first biography of Solomon Plaatje written in his mother-tongue, Setswana, and the only book-length biography written by someone who actually knew him. The manuscript had long been housed in the Wits Historical Papers and was accessible only...
We, the People
Insights of an activist judge
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
This stirring collection of essays and talks by activist and former judge Albie Sachs is the culmination of more than 25 years of thought about constitution-making and non-racialism. Following the Constitutional Court’s landmark Nkandla ruling in March 2016, it serves as a powerful reminder of the...
Ties that Bind
Race And The Politics Of Friendship In South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
What does friendship have to do with racial difference, settler colonialism and post-apartheid South Africa? While histories of apartheid and colonialism in South Africa have often focused on the ideologies of segregation and white supremacy, Ties that Bind explores how the intimacies of friendship...
Land, Chiefs, Mining
South Africa's North West Province Since 1840
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Land, Chiefs, Mining explores aspects of the experience of the Batswana in the thornveld and bushveld regions of the North-West Province, shedding light on defi ning issues, moments and individuals in this lesser known region of South Africa. Some of the focuses are: an important Tswana kgosi (chief...
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa
Contexts, Theories And Applications
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Psychoanalysis as a long term modality is inaccessible to the average South African. In this book the authors describe how psychoanalytically orientated or psychodynamic psychotherapy can be practiced as a short-term endeavour and applied to contemporary issues facing the country. Psychodynamic work...
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto
A history of medical care 1941–1990
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Baragwanath Hospital, Soweto illustrates how this rapidly growing, underfunded but surprisingly effective institution found the niche that allowed it to exist, to provide medical care to a massive patient body and at times even to flourish in the apartheid state. The book offers new ways of exploring...
One Hundred Years of the ANC
Debating Liberation Histories Today
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
On 8 January 2012 the African National Congress (ANC) of South Africa, the oldest African nationalist organisation on the continent, celebrated its one hundredth anniversary. This historic event has generated significant public debate within both the ANC and South African society at large. There is...
Conversations with Bourdieu
The Johannesburg Moment
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) is the most influential sociologist of our time. His works take in education, culture, sport, literature, painting, class, philosophy, religion, law, media, intellectuals, methodology, photography, universities, colonialism, kinship, schooling and politics. Not much remains...
by William Beinart, Julian Brown, Tracy Carson
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
This volume explores some of the key features of popular politics and resistance before and after 1994. It looks at continuities and changes in the forms of struggle and ideologies involved, as well as the significance of post-apartheid grassroots politics. Is this a new form of politics or does it...
by N Chabani Manganyi
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
This intriguing memoir details in a quiet and restrained manner with what it meant to be a committed black intellectual activist during the apartheid years and beyond. Few autobiographies exploring the ?life of the mind? and the ?history of ideas? have come out of South Africa, and N Chabani Manganyi?s...
Five Hundred Years Rediscovered
Southern African Precedents And Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2008
In the age of the African Renaissance, southern Africa has needed to reinterpret the past in fresh and more appropriate ways. The last 500 years represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African...