








The Story of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Barry Schoub
A history of the establishment and role of the public health organisation, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa by its founding director, Barry Schoub.
Date: July 2024 | Extent: 166 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-897-4 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: History, Health & Medical Science
Social Histories of Accommodation
Neil Roos
Explores how ordinary white people in South Africa were implicated in and shaped by apartheid and society, and also contributed to it.
Date: February 2024 | Extent: 288 pp | Rights: SADC
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-890-5
Subjects: History, Society & Social Science
The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala
Joel Cabrita
Written Out scrutinizes how prejudices around race and gender blocked Black African women like Twala from establishing themselves as successful writers.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 344 pp | Rights: SADC and Kenya
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-861-5
Subjects: Biography, Memoir & Letters, History
Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa
Natasha Erlank
This social history of twentieth-century Black intimacy and family life in South Africa is the first book to demonstrate the singular role of Christianity in reshaping Black South Africans’ ideas about gender, sexuality, marriage, and family during the first half of the twentieth century.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 280 pp | Rights: SADC and Kenya
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-816-5
Subjects: History, Society & Social Sciences
Innovation
Celebrating the experiences, achievements and insights of past and present students, this book maps the university’s current and future vision as it marks its centenary in 2022.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 234 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-735-9 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: History, Education, Society & Social Sciences
Bruce Murray
WITS: The Early Years explores the struggle to establish a university in Johannesburg and the often dramatic and contested history of Wits University up to 1939.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 412 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-808-0 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: History, Education
Bruce Murray
This book looks at the history of Wits University during and after World War II and its defense to maintain its ‘open’ status to admit students of all races.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 446 pp | Format: Paperback | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-812-7 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: History, Education
Mervyn Shear
Mervyn Shear tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 388 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-804-2 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: History, Education
Colonial Encounters and the Remaking of Zulu and Xhosa Identities
Jochen S Arndt
Divided by the Word offers a refreshing new appreciation for the deep historicity of language and ethnic identity in South Africa, by reconstructing the ways in which colonial forces generate and impose ethnic divides with long-lasting and lethal consequences.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 346 pp | Rights: SADC and Kenya
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-802-8
Subjects: History, Education, Society & Social Sciences
Biography, Circulation, Transgression
Edited by Juliette Leeb du Toit, Ruth Simbao and Ross Anthony Reflects on Chinese presence in African countries through the lens of the visual arts and material culture, analysing forms such as photography, painting, film, political posters and architecture.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 344 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-767-0 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Art & Architecture, Cultural & Media Studies
Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism
Edited by Frederico Freschi, Brenda Schmahmann and Lize van Robbroeck
Focusing on manifestations of Afrikaner nationalism in South Africa represented in paintings, sculptures, monuments, buildings, cartoons, photographs, illustrations and exhibitions, this volume offers a critical account of the relationship between Afrikaner nationalist visual culture and Afrikaner political and cultural domination.
Date: 2020 | Extent: 328 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-471-6 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Art & Architecture
Edited by Michael Onyebuchi Eze, Lawrence Hamilton, Laurence Piper and Gideon van Riet
This collection revisits the work of Rick Turner, a South African political theorist, and addresses contemporary debates.
Date: July 2024 | Extent: 280 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-893-6 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Politics & Political Theory, History
Liberatory Thought in Azania
Tendayi Sithole
A philosophical meditation on black radical thought in South Africa and the existential question: what does it mean to be black in an anti-black world?
Date: February 2024 | Extent: 184 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-868-4 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Politics & Political Theory, Philosophy & Religious Studies
Racism, Anti-Semitism and the Assault on Meaning
Steven Friedman
Shows how and why the meaning of anti-Jewish racism has been distorted to serve the Israeli state and what this implies for anti-racism today.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 230 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-848-6 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Politics & Political Theory, History
How and Why it Happened
Edited
by Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Peter Vale
A multidisciplinary analysis of how state capture unfolded in South Africa and how it was contested within both civil society and the state itself.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 288 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-831-8 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Politics & Government, History
Revolution and Evolution
Edited by David Boucher and Ayesha Omar
Offers a comparative analysis of the processes and aftermath of decolonisation from philosophical, historical, literary and legal perspectives.
Date: October 2023 | Extent: 272 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-844-8 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Politics & Political Theory, History
Edited by Amrita Pande, Ruchi Chaturvedi and Shari Daya
An interdisciplinary study on curriculum transformation, epistemic violence and what justice can look like in South Africa’s spaces of teaching, learning and research.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 256 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-784-7 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Education, Politics & Government
A Study of Chronic Dysfunction in South African Universities
Jonathan D Jansen
This book offers new explanations for the state of chronic dysfunction at some South African universities and offers solutions to bringing an elusive stability to higher education.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 312 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-794-6 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Education, Politics & Government
Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa
Philip Harrison
Explores the challenges of large, complex, institutionally fragmented, and dynamic city-regions across the BRICS countries and the emergence of formal and informal governance arrangements.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 284 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-852-3 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Urban & Migration Studies, Politics & Government
Ulandi du Plessis and Catriona Ida Macleod
This book focuses on the challenges faced in accessing and providing abortion services in rural areas under liberal abortion legislation.
Date: March 2024 | Extent: 288 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-873-8 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Society & Social Sciences, Health
Reflections on the Future of Work in South Africa
Edited by Malehoko Tshoaedi, Christine Bischoff and Andries Bezuidenhout
Analyses the fragmentation and future of labour movements in the context of globalisation, the fourth industrial revolution and the Covid-19 pandemic.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 358 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-822-6 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Sociology & Social Science, Politics & Government
Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age
Eddie Webster
This book discusses how globalisation and digitalisation are drivers for structural change and examines their implications for labour. It explores the role of digital technology in new business models and how it can be harnessed for counter mobilisation by the new worker.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 208 pp | Rights: SADC and Kenya
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-882-0
Subjects: Society & Social Sciences
Migrants and the Role of Information Communication Technologies
Edited by Maria C Marchetti-Mercer, Leslie Swartz and Loretta Baldassar
This books explores the experiences of transnational migrant African families, including both internal and cross-border migration and how technology is used to maintain familial relationships.
Date: December 2023 | Extent: 224 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-864-6 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Urban & Migration Studies, Society & Social Sciences
The Contested Future of Land, Home and Death in South Africa
uMbuso weNkosi
A profound interrogation of the ontological/spiritual meaning of land and home in the context of the historical dispossession of the indigenous population.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 186 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-840-0 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Politics & Government, Society & Social Sciences
Hugo ka Canham
Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo theory.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 288 pp | Rights: SADC
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-863-9
Subjects: Philosophy & Religious Studies, Society & Social Sciences, History
Transformative Resistance and Social Reproduction
Edited by Vishwas Satgar and Ruth Ntlokotse
This edited volume provides an eco-socialist feminist analysis of the current social reproduction debate in South Africa, outlining African and indigenous grassroot alternatives to mainstream liberal feminism.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 272 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-826-4 | OA: 978-1-77614-830-1 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Society & Social Sciences, Politics & Political Theory, History
Working Radical Concepts with Gillian Hart
Edited by Sharad Chari, Mark Hunter and Melanie Samson
Working with key concepts from theorist and human geographer Gillian Hart, this book argues for an ethnographic and geographic approach to critically engaging contemporary political-economic processes.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 240 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-666-6 | OA: 978-1-77614-683-3 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Human Geography, Critical Development Studies
The Case for a Universal Basic Income in South Africa and Beyond
Hein Marais
As jobs disappear, wages flat line and inequality grows, this timeous book presents a compelling analysis of the need, conditions and possibilities for a universal basic income (UBI) in South Africa and globally.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 308 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-772-4 | OA: 978-1-77614-714-4 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Politics & Political Theory, Society & Social Sciences
Edited
by
Jeremy C Hollmann
This revised resource based on articles published in the 1930s by Dorothea Bleek, incorporates and contextualises |xam beliefs and key narratives of the |xam teachers.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 446 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-776-2 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Society & Social Sciences, Language & Linguistics
Contemporary Sermons on Women’s Spirituality and Justice from Around the World
Sa’diyya Shaikh and Fatima Seedat
A first-ever collection of contemporary Muslim women’s khutbahs (sermons) by contemporary Muslim women in a variety of new and emerging contexts and drawing on their social, religious and spiritual experiences.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 264 pp | Rights: SADC and Kenya
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-835-6 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Gender Studies, Religious Studies
Kopano Ratele
Using conversations, observations, and reflections on his personal experiences, work with men, and scholarship, psychologist Kopano Ratele seeks to imagine the possibility of a more loving masculinity in a society where structural violence, failures of government and economic inequality underpin much of the violent behaviour that men display.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 288 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-763-2
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Subjects: Psychology, Society & Social Sciences, Gender & Sexuality
Their Mental Health in Today’s World and What We Can Do to Help Them
Jenny Perkel
A psychologist’s guide for parents, care-givers and health care practitioners to the emotional challenges facing children and their parents in today’s world in a South African context. Psychologist, Jenny Perkel presents a range of current local and international research findings relevant to children’s mental health.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 200 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-747-2
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Subjects: Psychology
Filming in South Africa, Germany, Poland and Bosnia/Herzegovina Tanja Sakota
An interdisciplinary work that proposes innovative ways to approach pedagogy using sites of memories for practice-based research, autoethnography and film. The author sits at the core but the book is shaped by films made by different workshop participants using film to access personal interpretations of space and place.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 344 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-798-4
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Subjects: Film & Photography, Biography, Memoir & Letters
Risk, Anxiety and Moral Panic in South Africa
Nicky Falkof
Nicky Falkof looks at how risk, anxiety and moral panic show up in media portrayals in modern South Africa. She investigates four case studies: the far right myth of ‘white genocide’; so-called ‘Satanist’ murders of young women; an urban legend about township crime; and social theories about safety and goodness in the suburbs.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 248 pp | Rights: Africa
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-788-5
Subjects: Cultural & Media Studies, Urban & Migration Studies, Society & Social Sciences
Uhuru Portia Phalafala
Mapping the sources of South African poet laureate and political activist Keorapetse Kgositsile’s verse and its influence on his contemporaries in the Black diaspora, the Black Arts and Black Power Movements and beyond.
Date: March 2024 | Extent: 216 pp | Rights: Africa
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-892-9
Subjects: Biography, Literature Studies
Concepts from the Global South
Edited by Dilip Menon
Drawing on linguistic concepts from Asia, Africa, the Arab world, and South America, the essays in the volume explore the entailments of words and their conceptual implications for the humanities and social sciences.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 346 pp | Rights: Africa
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-793-9
Subjects: Political Theory, Language & Linguistics, Society & Social Sciences
African Print Cultures and Oceanic Turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s Work
Edited by Charne Lavery and Sarah Nuttall
This book covers applied concepts and methods from the work of Isabel Hofmeyr, a leading South African scholar of print cultures and intellectual trajectories in the Atlantic and Indian oceans.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 200 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-836-3 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: History, Literature & Literary Studies
Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House
Isabel Hofmeyr
In Dockside Reading Hofmeyr traces the relationships among print culture, colonialism, and the ocean through the institution of the British colonial Custom House, showing how literary institutions like copyright and censorship were shaped by colonial control of coastal waters.
Date: 2021 | Extent: 136 pp | Rights: SADC
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-762-5
Subjects: History, Literature & Literary Studies
Selected Essays of Sindiwe Magona
Compiled and edited by Renée Schatteman
A selection of essays about writing, life and the South African condition by Sindiwe Magona, one of South Africa’s most significant woman writers.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 328 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-818-9 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Biography, Memoir & Letters, Literature & Literary Studies
The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, A Biography
Siphiwo Mahala
Mahala’s biography views the life and writing of Can Themba (1924–1967), an iconic figure of the South African literary world and Drum journalist who died in exile.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 312 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-731-1 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Biography, Memoir & Letters, Literature & Literary Studies
Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Nyembezi, Es’kia Mphahlele
Edited by Bhekizizwe (Bheki) Peterson, Khwezi Mkhize and Makhosazana Xaba
This collection explores the complexities of black existence, and intellectual and cultural life in the work and legacies of four centenarian writers.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 400 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-751-9 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Literature & Literary Studies
The African Treasury Series, published from the 1930s onwards, consists of texts written by pioneers of South African literature in African languages. It provided a voice for the voiceless and celebrated African culture, history and heritage. The reissue of these foundational texts with new introductions supports ongoing efforts to highlight the importance of writing in indigenous languages, and to remember and celebrate these early giants of African literature. The African Treasury Series is now available in ebook and print formats.
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje
Dintšhontšho tsa bo-Juliuse Kesara is a translation into Setswana of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar by the renowned South African thinker, writer and linguist Sol T. Plaatje.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 148 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-061-9 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Playscripts, Literature & Literary Studies, Music, Theatre & Performing Arts
Leetile Disang Raditladi
The Setswana play Motswasele II explores what it means to be a good chief through the characters of two powerful Batswana men, Moruakgomo and Motswasele.
Date: 2022 | Extent: 132 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-080-0 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Playscripts, Music, Theatre & Performing Arts
NEW TITLES EXPECTED IN 2024 IN THIS SERIES:
Inzuzo (S.E.K. Mqhayi)
Kielezo cha insha (Robert Shaaban)
Two Plays
Siphiwo Mahala
Two plays that follow the writers Can Themba, Bloke Modisane and Langston Hughes based in the DRUM era of the 1950s.
Date: May 2024 | Extent: 128 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-887-5 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Playscripts
Neil Coppen and Mpume Mthombeni
A one-woman play inspired by a true story of a woman who served as a political assassin in the build up to South Africa’s first democratic elections.
Date: April 2024 | Extent: 128 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-879-0 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Playscripts
A Collection of Monologues and Revues
Mike van Graan
Bafana Republic and Other Satires is a selection of monologues from six oneperson satirical revues by leading South African playwright Mike van Graan.
Date: 2020 | Extent: 188 pp | Rights: World
Print: 978-1-77614-586-7 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Playscripts
Phyllis Klotz, Thobeka Maqhutyana, Nomvula Qosha and Poppy Tsira
An exploration of daily township life as seen through the eyes of three women trying to eke out a living in a racially, socially and economically unequal world where men are glaringly absent and state helicopters threaten overhead.
Date: 2021 | Extent: 120 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-720-5 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Playscripts
Mammals, Landscape and the
Ara Monadjem with Mike Unwin
African Ark tells the story of how Africa’s mammals have helped shape the continent’s landscapes over time to support an amazing diversity of life. It explores the impact of megafauna on the environment, also highlighting small mammals such as rodents and bats, and their interaction with the people who live alongside them.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 336 pp | Rights: World Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-780-9
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Subjects: Environmental & Animal Studies, Natural Science
Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa
Lesley Green
Lesley Green examines the interwoven realities of inequality, racism, colonialism, and environmental destruction in South Africa, calling for environmental research and governance to transition to an ecopolitical approach that could address South Africa’s history of racial oppression and environmental exploitation.
Date: 2020 | Extent: 288 pp | Rights: SADC
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-614-7
Subjects: Environmental & Animal Studies, Cultural & Media Studies
WINNER OF THE 2023
ASSAF HUMANITIES BOOK AWARD
Empowering Employees to Drive Growth
REVISED WITH AFRICAN INNOVATION CASE STUDIES
Mjumo Mzyece, Hugh Molotsi, Ogundiran Soumonni and Jeff Zias
An essential guide that offers in-depth analysis on how intrapreneurship powers some of the world’s leading innovative businesses. When they maximise the entrepreneurial potential of employees and enable them to think and behave like start-ups, businesses see the continuous delivery of innovative products, services and processes.
The Intrapreneur’s Journey: Empowering Employees to Drive Growth is a must-read for any entrepreneur, innovator, manager or senior executive who wants to successfully compete in today’s fast-changing world. Based on the observation that the most under-utilised assets in most organisations are the ideas in their employees’ heads, the authors offer first-hand experience and in-depth analysis on how intrapreneurship powers some of the world’s leading innovative businesses and other types of organisations. The proposition is simple: established organisations see continuous delivery of innovative products, services and processes when they enable teams of entrepreneurial employees to think and behave like start-ups.
Date: 2023 | Extent: 336 pp | Rights: World
Print ISBN: 978-1-77614-789-2 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Economics, Finance, Business & Management, Reference & Text Book
Edited by Pravin Manga
The Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine (WJCM) is a peer-reviewed scientific research journal published tri-annually. It is a forum to showcase scientific research from Clinical Medicine Departments at institutions in South Africa and internationally. The journal is also a portal to highlight pressing health issues of our times and will publish opinion pieces or commentaries in this regard. The journal aims to provide an opportunity for emerging researchers to publish their work as Open Access and sets out to be the primary dissemination portal for clinical medical scientists from southern Africa. The editorial policy of the journal is guided by scientific quality, originality and integrity, and all publications are peer reviewed. WJCM especially welcomes submissions from younger academics including registrars, fellows and junior consultants, who are encouraged to submit their research.
The Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine is hosted by ScienceOpen - https://www.scienceopen.com/ collection/WITS_WJCM
Three issues per year | Extent: 56 pp | Rights: World Print ISSN: 2618-0189 | Also in digital formats
Subjects: Health & Medical Sciences
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