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ShuduâEUR(TM)s happy and carefree childhood seems very far away when she moves towns and is bullied by her new classmates for being an outsider. But her special friendships help her feel like she belongs.

One of the keys to understanding the life of the bush is through identifying the droppings of wild animals.

My parents named me Vuyani, which simply means be happy and let us rejoice!âEUR(TM) The Joy Dancer, by multi-award-winning dancer and choreographer, Gregory Vuyani Maqoma, co-written with the legendary Gcina Mhlophe.

The Discovery of Love, Nthikeng MohleleâEUR(TM)s debut short fiction collection, set the scene for a treatment of a multiplicity of themes while maintaining the stylistic registers of his novels.

Hot Water is an intimate and daring look into the life of a young African woman from the Cape Flats with a chronic illness.

Growing up in apartheid-era Chatsworth, Kumi Naidoo tells how his motherâEUR(TM)s suicide when he was just 15 years old acted as a catalyst for his journey into radical action against the apartheid regime.

Now in its 11th year, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award is a launching pad for upcoming poets. From slam poetry to formal rhyme, the anthology is a celebration of language and cultural diversity.

This searingly observant illustrated history of the women of Crossroads during the 1970s and 1980s tells a history of past and present organised resistance movements led by black women.

This biography - the most succinct and straightforward to date - demythologises Fanon by situating his life and ideas within the historical circumstances he encountered.

There is something IâEUR(TM)ve never told you about our king,âEUR(TM) Father was saying as we walked around the palisade. We were three abreast, and I was in the middle. He looked at me.

No little thorn in the flesh or irritating fly in the ointment, Zapiro just cannot be ignored. ItâEUR(TM)s been another helluva year, and who better to make sense of it than Zapiro, political analyst, cartoonist and agent provocateur.

Singing was Nala's favourite thing to do. Sadly, though, she was not allowed to sing while she was beside the river."Don't ever go to the river," the parents of the village always warned, because they feared Ledimo, the giant ogre, would take the children.But Nala loved the sound of the river.

In this courageous and inspiring book, Thembi Kgatlana tells the story of her beginnings in the tough streets of Mohlakeng. She always had the talent and a dream to play soccer for South Africa but she was told that 'Girls Don't Do That'.

Sam is a little boy who has lost his smile. His parents wonder what they can do to help him find his smile again. Ice cream, toys, clothes, even his favourite toy giraffe fail to cheer him up. Finally, his parents give him a big hug... and Sam smiles!

Police spokesperson and former TV journalist McIntosh Polela has been on our screens for many years. But behind his seemingly unfazed demeanour, a troubled past haunts him. His parents disappeared when he was a little boy, leaving him and his sister Zinhle to suffer years of brutal abuse.

In the third volume of Milton Shain's history of antisemitism in South Africa, he traces and unpacks hostile attitudes towards Jews and irrational fantasies that accompany them in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa.

The Zondo Commission of Inquiry was one of the most important political developments in modern South African history. The commission sat for years, hearing the evidence of 300 witnesses and gathering a vast quantity of documents.

Louisa Zondo's work has helped to shape the new South Africa, but she has also faced intense grief and trauma, which came from the underside of the emerging nation's complex social fabric.

Three Egg Dilemma is a visionary novel. Morojele has built worlds and characters that are unforgettable. This audacious novel is set to become a classic work of South African fiction.

'...the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all.' The Modern South African Edition of the Communist Manifesto Includes: Leon Trotsky's Afrikaans Introduction to the 1937 edition with an English translation.

Mandala J. Radebe has written the first, full account of the South African revolutionary, Jabulani Nobleman 'Mzala' Nxumalo. Intimate and analytical, this powerful and searching biography of one of the liberation movement's chief critical thinkers.

Corruption and economic crime has harmed millions of South Africans. This devastation is caused by a relatively small band of individuals, corporations, and institutions, in other words, The Unaccountables.

No little thorn in the flesh or irritating fly in the ointment, Zapiro just cannot be ignored. It's been another helluva year, and who better to make sense of it than Zapiro, political analyst, cartoonist and agent provocateur.

The apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. This is the blazing story of how the people's resistance - in the church, in the civic structures, underground - fought that war.

ruce McKenzie's An Ecological Guide to the Bush captures the essence of what makes the bushveld tick. Here you'll find the basic principles of how ecosystems work, with the emphasis on energy flow through the bushveld and the adaptations that the plants and animals make in facilitating this energy flow.

¿Living in Soshanguve as a young boy with an adored and adoring mum, Welcome's life almost stops when his mum is murdered by her new boyfriend. The upturned chair, his mum's lifeless face, the blood on the floor, the glasses with the gold detail that Welcome had taken from a precious cupboard, the boyfriend's body, a tableau that would be impossible to unsee. But this is the beginning of a journey which takes the author through school and university, with the help of his remaining family, and allows him to explore a South Africa that is almost impossible to describe. Through student politics, journalism studies, Fees Must Fall and then as a freelance journalist, Lishivha documents the living country as he documents his sexuality, his body, his choices.Welcome Mandla Lishivha's exquisitely crafted memoir is unlike anything you have ever read. Boy on the Run is a staggering exploration of identity through grief, love and friendship, giving us, Lishivha's readers, a glorious song of self-expression.

The Jacana Literary Foundation and the Other Foundation are thrilled to announce the publication of the fourth volume of The Gerald Kraak Anthology, The Beautyful Ones Have Just Been Born.

In The Lion, the Dung Beetle and the Veld Tool Box, natural history and travel writer David Bristow delivers the fourth in his Stories from the Veld series of non-fiction narratives.