Wits University Press: 87 books
by Andrew van der Vlies, Leon de Kock, Archie L. Dick
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
This book explores the power of print and the politics of the book in South Africa from a range of disciplinary perspectives?historical, bibliographic, literary-critical, sociological, and cultural studies. The essays collected here, by leading international scholars, address a range of topics as...
State of Secularism
Religion, Tradition And Democracy In South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
The Dutch Reformed Church, it was said in apartheid South Africa, was the National Party at prayer, and indeed, given that the Bible was so fundamental to much of the legislation that governed the apartheid state, that apparently satirical description had the ring of truth. ?Religion in South Africa?s...
The Origins of Non-Racialism
White Opposition To Apartheid In The 1950S
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
After centuries of white domination and decades of increasingly savage repression, freedom came to South Africa far later than elsewhere in the continent _ and yet was marked by a commitment to non-racialism. Nelson Mandela?s Cabinet and government were made up of women and men of all races, and many...
Climate Crisis
South African And Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Capitalism?s addiction to fossil fuels is heating our planet at a pace and scale never before experienced. Extreme weather patterns, rising sea levels and accelerating feedback loops are a commonplace feature of our lives. The number of environmental refugees is increasing and several island states...
New South African Review 5
Beyond Marikana
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This fifth volume in the New South African Review series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the infl...
Working with Rock Art
Recording, Presenting And Understanding Rock Art Using Indigenous Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
This volume contains contributions that consider new approaches to three areas: the documentation of rock art; its interpretation using indigenous knowledge; and the presentation of rock art. Working with Rock Art is the first edited volume to consider each of these areas in a theoretical rather than...
Labour Beyond Cosatu
Mapping the rupture in South Africa’s labour landscape
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Labour Beyond Cosatu is the fourth volume in the series Taking Democracy Seriously – a ground-breaking, textured and nuanced study on workers and democracy – which was established in the 1990s. The series looks at members of trade unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions...
Eating from One Pot
The Dynamics Of Survival In Poor South African Households
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
As poverty and unemployment deepen in contemporary South Africa, the burning question becomes, how do the poor survive? Eating from One Pot provides a compelling answer. Based on intensive fieldwork, it shows how many African households are on the brink of collapse. That they keep going at all can...
Changing Space, Changing City
Johannesburg after apartheid
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As the dynamo of South Africa’s economy, Johannesburg commands a central position in the nation’s imagination, and scholars throughout the world monitor the city as an exemplar of urbanity in the global South. This richly illustrated study offers detailed empirical analyses of changes in the city’s...
Dominance and Decline
The ANC in the time of Zuma
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
As Jacob Zuma moves into the twilight years of his presidencies of both the African National Congress (ANC) and of South Africa, this book takes stock of the Zuma-led administration and its impact on the ANC. Dominance and Decline: The ANC in the Time of Zuma combines hard-hitting arguments with...
by Susan Booysen
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2011
The African National Congress is light years beyond the liberation movement of old. It remains a juggernaut, but its control and dominance are no longer watertight. The ANC lives the contradictions of weaknesses, cracks and factions while retaining its colossal status. As a party-movement it draws...
Competition Law and Economic Regulation in Southern Africa
Addressing Market Power In Southern Africa
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Shaping markets through competition and economic regulation is at the heart of addressing the development challenges facing countries in southern Africa. The contributors to Competition Law and Economic Regulation: Addressing Market Power in southern Africa critically assess the efficacy of the competition...
Marxisms in the 21st Century
Crisis, Critique And Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It...
Mbeki and After
Reflections On The Legacy Of Thabo Mbeki
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
For nearly ten years _ indeed more if we include his period of influence under Mandela?s presidency _ Thabo Mbeki bestrode South Africa?s political stage. Despite attempts by some in the new ANC leadership to airbrush out his role, there can be little doubt that Mbeki was a seminal figure in South...