Percival Kirby’s wax cylinders: elegy on archiving a deaf spot

Anthills of the Savannah by Chinua Achebe. London: Heinemann, 1987.

Language Policy and National Unity in South Africa/Azania by Neville Alexander. Cape Town: Buchu Books, 1989.

Black Valour: The South African Native Labour Contingent and the Sinking of the ‘Mendi’ by Norman Clothier. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1987.

The Devils Are Among Us. The War For Namibia by Denis Herbstein and John Evenson. London: Zed Press, 1989.

Modernising Hunger: Famine, Food Surplus and Farm Policy in the EEC and Africa by Philip Raikes. London: Catholic Institute for International Relations with James Currey and Heinemann, 1988.

Childhood in Crossroads. Cognition and Society in South Africa by Pamela Reynolds. Cape Town: David Phillip, 1989.

The Praises of Dingana (Izibongo zikaDingana) edited by D.K. Rycroft and A.B. Ngcobo. Durban: Killie Campbell Africana Library and Pietermaritz‐burg: University of Natal Press, 1988.

Matigari by Ngugi wa Thiong'o. Translated from the Gikuyu by Wangui wa Goro London: Heinemann African Writers Series, 1989.     

JOURNAL REVIEW

Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa: Politics and Popular Movements in the Transkei and Eastern Cape, 1890–1930 by W. Beinart and C. Bundy. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987.

The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry, 2nd edition, by C. Bundy. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

War and Society: The Militarisation of South Africa edited by Jacklyn Cock and Laurie Nathan. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

White Tribe Dreaming: Apartheid's Bitter Roots as Witnessed by Eight Generations of an Afrikaner Family by Marq de Villiers. New York: Viking Penguin, 1988.

Home Truths by Basil Du Toit and Spoils of War by John Eppel. Cape Town: Carrefour Press, 1988 and 1989.

Because They Chose the Plan of God: The story of the Bulhoek Massacre by Robert Edgar. History Workshop Topic Series I. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.

Brewers, Beerhalls and Boycotts: A History of Liquor in South Africa by Paul la Hausse. History Workshop Topic Series 2. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.

Detention and Torture in South Africa: Psychological, Legal and Historical Studies by Don Foster, with contributions by Dennis Davis and research assistance by Diane Sandier. Cape Town: David Philip, 1987.

State Resistance and Change in South Africa edited by Philip Frankel, Noam Pines and Mark Swilling. Johannesburg: Southern Book Publishers, 1988.

Building Tomorrow Today; African Workers in Trade Unions 1970–1984 by Steven Friedman. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987.

Facing The Storm: Portraits of Black Lives in Rural South Africa by Tim Keegan. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

History of Southern Africa by J.D. Omer‐Cooper. London: James Currey, 1987.

Journey Continued: An Autobiography by Alan Paton. Cape Town: David Philip, 1988.

The Dead Will Arise: Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle Killing Movement of 1856–7 by J.B. Peires. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989.

The Blood of Our Silence by Kelwyn Sole. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1988.     

Anxious urbanity: xenophobia,the native subject and the refugee camp

G. Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall; A history of South African ‘Coloured’ politics, (Cape Town, David Philip, 1987)

Ian Goldin, Making Race: The politics and economics of Coloured identity in South Africa (Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1987).

Gavin Lewis, Between the Wire and the Wall: A History of South African ‘Coloured’ Politics (Cape Town: David Philip, 1987).

Women in African Literature Today, No. 15, James Curry Limited, London: 1987.

Left‐Radical Movements in South Africa and Namibia 1900–1981 A Bibliographical and Historical Study, compiled by Elizabeth W. Böhmer. 2 vols. Cape Town: South African Library, 1986 and 1987.

South African Review 4. Edited and compiled by Glenn Moss and Ingrid Obery for the Southern African Research Service (SARS). Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1987, 599 pp., R24,95

The Rise and Decline of Apartheid: A study of political movements among the coloured people of South Africa, 1880–1985, R.E. van der Ross, (Cape Town, Tafelberg, 1986)

Setiloane, Gabriel M. African Theology ‐An Introduction. Johannnesburg. Skotaville 1986.

Pass Controls and the Urban African Proletariat, by Doug Hindson, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1987.

Class, Community and Conflict: South African Perspectives, edited by Belinda Bozzoli (Ravan, Johannesburg, 1987).     

Encyclopaedic Desire: A Response to Gates

“We Spend Our Years as a Tale That Is Told”: Oral Historical Narrative in a South African Chiefdom by Isabel Hofmeyr. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann; Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press; London: James Currey, 1994.

Liquor and Labour in Southern Africa, edited by Jonathan Crush and Charles Ambler. Athens: Ohio University Press; and Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 1992.

Politics and performance: Theatre, Poetry, and Song on Southern Africa, edited by Liz Gunner, Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994.

In the Wake of the Affluent Society: An Exploration of Post‐Development by Serge Latouche; translated and introduced by Martin O'Connor &; Rosemary Arnoux; London: Zed, 1993.     

Cast in a racial mould

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa 1900 ‐1983 by Belinda Bozzoli, with the assistance of Mmantho Nkotsoe, Johannesburg, Ravan Press, 1991.

Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970–1990 by Wilmot G. James, David Philip, James Currey &; Indiana University Press, Cape Town, London &; Bloomington,1992.

Bounds of Possibility ‐ The Legacy of Steve Biko &; Black Consciousness by N.B. Pityana, M. Ramphele, M. Mpumlwana, &; L. Wilson, (eds), Cape Town, David Philip, 1991.

Faces in the revolution: the psychological effects of violence on township youth in South Africa by Gill Straker, with Fathima Moosa, Rise Becker and Madiyoyo Nkwale. Cape Town, David Philip, 1992 and Athens, Ohio, Ohio University Press, 1992.

Lives of Courage: Women for a New South Africa by Diana E.H.Russell. New York, Basic Books, 1989.

Towards Justice? Crime and State Control in South Africa by Desiree Hansson and Dirk van Zyl Smit (eds), Cape Town, Oxford University Press, 1990.

South Africa in the Nineties by DJ van Vuuren, NE Wiehahn, NJ Rhoodie en M Wiechers (eds), HSRC Publishers, 1991.

To Live in Fear: Witchburning and Medicine Murder in Venda by A de V. Minnar, D Offringa and C Payze, HSRC, Pretoria, 1992.

The Anti‐Politics Machine: ‘Development’, Depoliticization and Bureaucratic Power by James Ferguson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Zimbabwe's Guerrilla War: Peasant Voices by Norma J. Kriger. Cambridge University Press, African Studies Series, number 70,1992.

A Passage to England ‐ Barbadian Londoners speak of home by John Western. U.C.L. Press, London, 1992.

Breaking the formal frame: Readings in South African education in the eighties by Clive Millar, Sarah‐Anne Raynham and Angela Schaffer (eds). Cape Town: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Negotiation : Theories, Strategies and Skills by Wynand Pienaar and Manie Spoelstra, Kenwyn, Juta, 1991

SUM: Selected Works by Martin Versveld. Cape Town: Carrefour Press 1991.

Projections in the Past Tense, by Kelwyn Sole. Ravan Press, 1992.     

Unconventional political participation and political confidence in South Africa: A longitudinal analysis using data from the world values study

Money‐go‐rounds: The Importance of Rotating Savings and Credit Associations for Women edited by Shirley Ardener &; Sandra Burman. Oxford, Berg, 1993

Illicit Union: Scientific Racism in Modern South Africa by Saul Dubow. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1995.

Christianity and Democracy: A Theology for a Just World Order by John W. De Gruchy. Cape Town, David Philip, 1995.

African Women and Development: a History edited by Margaret C Snyder and Mary Tadesse. Johannesburg, Witwatersrand University Press, 1995.

Rethinking South African Literary History, edited by Johannes Smit, Johan van Wyk and Jean‐Philippe Wade. Durban, YPress, 1996.     

Searching for the invisible woman

Natural Rebels: A Social History of Enslaved Black Women in Barbados. Hilary McD. Beckles. London: Zed Books Ltd. 1989. ix, 197pp.

Slave Women in Caribbean Society 1650–1838. Barbara bush. London: James Currey Ltd. 1990. xiii, 190pp.

Slave Women in the New World: Gender Stratification in the Caribbean. Marietta Morrissey. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas. 1989. xiv, 202pp.     

On the shaping of South African society

The Shaping of South African Society edited by Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee. Cape Town: Longman Penguin Southern Africa. R15,00.     

Mines and Labour Migrants in Southern Africa

Jonathan Crush, Alan Jeeves and David Yudelman, South Africa's Labor Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold Mines (Westview Press: David Philip, Boulder: Cape Town, 1991), xvi+266 pp.
Patrick Harries, Work, Culture, and Identity: Migrant Laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c.1860–1910 (Heinemann: Witwatersrand University Press: James Curry, Portsmouth: Johannesburg: London: 1994), xxiii+305 pp.
T. Dunbar Moodie (with Vivienne Ndatshe), Going for Gold: Men, Mines and Migration (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1994), xxi+337 pp.
Wilmot G. James, Our Precious Metal: African Labour in South Africa's Gold Industry, 1970–1990 (David Philip: Indiana University Press: James Currey, Cape Town: Bloomington: London, 1992), ix+188 pp.     

Slavery and freedom in South Africa

The Shaping of South African Society, 1652–1840. By RICHARD ELPHICK and HERMANN GILIOMEE. Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1989. Second Edition. xix, 623 pp.

The Slave Question: Liberty and Property in South Africa. By R.L. WATSON. Hanover and London: University Press of New England, 1990. xi, 274 pp.     

Reviews

Tony (A.R.J.) Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society During the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester’ University Press, 1989), Pp.ix + 257. £29.95.

Calvin W. Ruck, The Black Battalion, 1916–1920: Canada's Best Kept Military Secret. (Halifax NS: Nimbus Publishing, 1987). Pp.124. £6.95 pb.

Valerie Marett, Immigrants Settling in the City (London: Leicester University Press, 1989). Pp.vii + 207. £35 hb.

Keith Thompson, Under Siege: Racial Violence in Britain Today, (London: Penguin Books, 1988). Pp.xx + 204. £3.99p/b.

W. Montgomery Watt, Islamic Fundamentalism and Modernity (London: Routledge, 1988). Pp.ii + 158. £25.00.     

The United States and South Africa since 1948 1

South Africa and the United States: The Erosion of an Influence Relationship by Richard Bissel, New York: Praeger, 1982.

The United States and South Africa, 1968–1985: Constructive Engagement and its Critics by Christopher Coker, Durham: Duke University Press, 1986.

United States/South African Relations: Past, Present and Future by P.H. Kapp and G.C. Olivier (eds), Cape Town: Tafelberg, 1987.

Cold War and Black Liberation: The United States and White Rule in Africa, 1948–1968 by Thomas J. Noer, Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1985.     

The early Cape anatomised

The Shaping of South African Society 1652–1820, edited by Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee. Cape Town: Longman, 1979.     

Ethnic power mobilised

Mobilizing Ethnic Power: Can South Africa Change? by Heribert Adam and Herman Giliomee New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 1979. Distributed by David Philip: Cape Town.     

The emperor's new clothes

Ethnic Power Mobilised: Can South Africa Change? by H. Adam and H. Giliomee, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1979 and distributed by David Philip, Cape Town.     

Book reviews

The Skewed Revolution: Trends in South African Higher Education 1988–1998. By David Cooper and George Subotzky. Cape Town: Education Policy Unit of the University of the Western Cape. 2001. 284 pages. Paperback

Africanizing Anthropology: Fieldwork, Networks and the Making of Cultural Knowledge in Central Africa. By Lyn Schumaker. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 2001. 376 & xii pages.

On the Postcolony By Achille Mbembe. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. 2001. 274pp. Paperback.

Fighting Poverty: Labour Markets and Inequality in South African Studies. By Haroon Bhorat, Murray Leibbrandt, Muzi Maziya, Servaas van der Berg and Ingrid Woolard. Cape Town: University of Cape Town Press. 2001. 252 pages.     

Development strategies for the 1980s: Disillusion,confusion and hope

Inside the Third World: The Anatomy of Poverty by Paul Harrison, London: Harvester Press and Penguin, 1979.

The Third World Tomorrow: A Report from the Battlefront in the War against Poverty by Paul Harrison, London: Harvester Press and Penguin, 1980     

Review article: National and racial minorities in total war

Ansel Adams, Manzanar (London: Secker & Warburg, 1989). xx + 167pp. £15.

Joseph Kennedy, British Civilians and the Japanese War in Malaya and Singapore, 1941–45 (London: Macmillan, 1987). xii + 167pp. £29.50.

Tony Kushner, The Persistence of Prejudice: Antisemitism in British Society During the Second World War (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1989). ix + 257pp. £29.95.

François Lafitte, The Internment of Aliens (London: Libris, 1988, 1990). xxiv + 266pp. £24.95 hb; £8.95 pb.

Abraham Lewin, A Cup of Tears: A Diary of the Warsaw Ghetto (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988, 1990). vi + 310pp. £14.95 hb, £4.99 pb.

Frederick C. Luebke, Germans in Brazil: A Comparative History of Cultural Conflict During World War I (London: Louisiana State University Press, 1987). xii + 248pp. £30.90.

Graham A. Smith, When Jim Crow Met John Bull: Black American Soldiers in World War II Britain (London: I.B. Taurus, 1987). 265pp. £14.95.     

Book Reviews

Abstract

Human Services at Risk: Administrative Strategies for Survival , edited by Felice Davidson Permutter. Boston, MA: Lexington Books, D.C. Heath and Company, 1984. Reviewed by Mona Struhsaker Schatz

Supervising Student Internships in Human Services , edited by Carlton E. Munson. New York: The Haworth Press, 1984. Reviewed by Harvey Bertcher

Transactional Analysis for Social Workers and Counsellors: An Introduction , by Elizabeth Pitman. London and Boston: Library of Social Work, Routhledge and Kegan Paul, 1984. Reviewed by Edward G. Kuhlmann

Ages in Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on Inequality Between Old and Young , by Nancy Foner. New York: Columbia University Press, 1984. Reviewed by Bruce A. Thyer

Clinical Social Work in Health Settings , by Thomas Owen Carlton. New York: Springer Publishing Co., 1984. Reviewed by John R. Ball