Jacana: 156 books
Trans
Transgender Life Stories from South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Featuring more than 20 original voices, all with a great deal to say about today’s transgender experience, this illuminating collection offers a brand-new tone for the literary world. Complemented by the extraordinary photographs of renowned transgender photographer Robert Hamblin, these unique...
Pilot in the Wild
Flights of Conservation and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2014
John Bassi has dedicated most of his life to the plight of wildlife in Africa, specializing in operating helicopters and becoming one of the leading game-capture pilots and conservationists. Raised in north eastern Zimbabwe, he was inspired by a life of living and working in wilderness areas throughout...
by Neville Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Thoughts on the New South Africa is a collection of essays which Alexander brought together just before his death. It reflects on the main issues that preoccupied him throughout his life and sheds light on South African society today. The three main issues included the fundamental necessity for South...
by Tammy Baikie
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Compared to the likes of Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, Lauren Beuke's Zoo City and Andrew Miller's Dub Steps, Selling LipService is a daring novel. Selling LipService introduces its reader to a strange assortment of new vocabulary, and through this touches on the familiar danger of the commercialisation...
Sanctuary
How an Inner-City Church Spilled Onto a Sidewalk
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
The New Radicals
A Generational Memoir of the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
From the political ashes of the late 1960s, new and radical initiatives grew with surprising speed in the first half of the 1970s. The New Radicals: A Generational Memoir of the 1970s tells the story of a generation of South African activists who embraced and developed forms of opposition politics...
The Eagle and the Springbok
Essays on Nigeria and South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Nigeria and South Africa account for about a third of Africa's economic might, and have led much of its conflict management initiatives over the last two-and-a-half decades. Both account for at least 60 per cent of the economy of their respective sub-regions in West and Southern Africa.The success...
Liberation Diaries
Reflections on 20 Years of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Told from the perspective of the everyday person, this book is a compilation of 38 essays written by South Africans reflecting on the journey of 20 years of democracy, against expectations, aspirations, and outcomes. Contributors of different demographic backgrounds and ideological persuasions were...
Zen Dust
A Journey Home Through the Back Roads of South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
A trip down the lesser-known back roads of the Karoo, from Kimberley to Colesburg, this account finds divinity in the dust and Buddha in every pothole in South Africa. With gentle wisdom and deep compassion, the author connects with the people he meets along the way and shares their stories, past...
Stoep Zen
A Zen Life in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Ruminating on what it means to achieve Zen in a continent that has experienced fear, injustice, and inspirational political revolution, this meditation is a refreshingly enlightening account of practicing Buddhism in a volatile and ever-changing South Africa. Reminiscent of Lau Tsu combined with Oom...
by Raymond Suttner
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
South Africa’s hard-won democracy was the main victim of the chaos in parliament during President Jacob Zuma’s State of the Nation Address. In Recovering Democracy in South Africa, Raymond Suttner brings together the best of his recent thinking; he offers a fresh look at the wide range of contentious...
Kgalema Motlanthe
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
Presenting a superb account of a man characterized by his reticence, this biography offers a rare and thorough insight into the life of one of South Africa’s most powerful: Kgalema Motlanthe. From Motlanthe’s ancestral family to his political awakenings as he discovered the African National Congress,...
Mozambique and Brazil
Forging New Partnerships or Developing Dependency?
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Forged in 1975, the relationship between Brazil and Mozambique has sparked debate in the international relations arena, especially with the ProSavana project that showed massive corruption in both countries. Brazil and Mozambique: Forging New Partnerships or Developing Dependency? analyses and investigates...
Songs & Secrets
South Africa from Liberation to Governance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
"If you picked up this book in the expectation of revelling in the true confessions of a disaffected spy-master put it back. If you opened this book in the hope of enjoying the confidences of a disillusioned cadre of the South African liberation movement close it, put it down. If you bought...