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A powerhouse of South African and international scholars and activists reflect on the writings and theories of the late Jabulani Nobleman âEURœMzalaâEUR? Nxumalo in this exciting new volume of essays.

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.

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

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.

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.

¿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 vast crowd that line the beflagged route to the Kremlin was, as in New York, friendly and cheering. 'Welcome, Otherworld Visitors to the Land of Socialism!' spelt out the banners, in big Cyrillic letters. 'For Universal Peace and Free Scientific Exchanges!' The chairman of the Supreme Soviet, Noriskin, followed closely along the pattern set by Dr Faradien when he introduced Rogard. And Rogard's message of peace and goodwill, expressed in flawless Russian, once again met with loud and enthusiastic applause." A dizzying blend of speculative history and unnerving prophesy, of utopian justice and the realpolitik of the Cold War, The White People has been in an archive for nearly 60 years. Wrien the same year that Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Harmel presages current threats to our planet by introducing visitors from another - the White People, who came from Oxindu.