Mothers: An Essay on Love and Cruelty is guided by a simple argument: that motherhood is the place in our culture where we lodge – or rather bury – the reality of our own conflicts, of psychic life, and what it means to be fully human.

Mothers are the ultimate scapegoat for our personal and political failings, for everything that is wrong with the world, which becomes their task (unrealisable, of course) to repair.

To the familiar claim that too much is asked of mothers – a long-standing feminist plaint – Rose adds a further dimension.

She questions what we are doing when we ask mothers to carry the burden of everything that is hardest to contemplate about our society and ourselves.

By making mothers the objects of licensed cruelty, we blind ourselves to the world’s iniquities and shut down the portals of the heart.

To demonstrate this vicious paradox at work, Rose explores a range of material: investigative writing and policies on motherhood, including newspaper reports, policy documents, and law; drama, novels, poetry, and life stories past and present; social history, psychoanalysis, and feminism.

An incisive, rousing call to action, Mothers unveils the crucial idea that unless we recognise what role we are asking mothers to perform in the world, and for the world, we will continue to tear both the world and mothers to pieces.

Event Details

• Date: Tuesday, 04 December 2018
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: The Book Lounge, 71 Roeland Street, Cape Town | Map
• Guest Speaker: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
• RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com
   

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  • Mothers by Jacqueline Rose
    EAN: 9780571331437
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Have you ever attended a launch sans author? Try something new and join The Cheeky Natives for a discussion on Sisonke Msimang’s latest book, The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela – Thursday, 22 November at Bridge Books. ‘Til then, Egoli!

The death of Winnie Madikizela Mandela on 2 April this year unleashed a hailstorm of opinion.

On one side, her legacy was cast by the media and public in the shadow of her sanctified ex-husband. Winnie was history’s loser. She was damaged goods; Nelson Mandela was whole and pure.

A younger generation, in particular women, took a different view and so a battle of ideas began that sought to reframe Winnie’s career and reclaim her identity as an extraordinary woman and fierce political activist.

Sisonke Msimang, an acclaimed author and public commentator, wasted little time in jumping into the fray.

And when the dust settled, what emerged is this short but razor-sharp book which reflects critically on the turbulent yet remarkable life of Winnie.

Msimang situates her political career and legacy in the contemporary context, what she means today in social and political terms, by exploring different aspects of her iconic persona.

The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela is an astute examination of one of South Africa’s most controversial political figures, of the rise and fall – and rise, again, – of a woman who not only battled the apartheid regime, but the patriarchal character of the struggle itself.

In telling Winnie’s story, Msimang shows us that activism matters, and that the meaning of women’s lives can be reclaimed.

SISONKE MSIMANG currently lives in Perth, Australia, where she is Programme Director for the Centre for Stories.

She is regularly in South Africa where she continues to speak and comment on current affairs.

Sisonke has degrees from Macalester College, Minnesota and the University of Cape Town, is a Yale World Fellow, an Aspen New Voices Fellow, and was a Ruth First Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand.

She regularly contributes to The Guardian, The Daily Maverick and The New York Times.

Her first book, Always Another Country, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for 2018.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday, 22 November 2018
• Time: 6:00 PM for 6:30 PM
• Venue: Bridge Books, 274 Fox Street, Maboneng, Johannesburg | Map
• Guest Speakers: Cheeky Natives
• RSVP: info@bridgebooks.co.za

   

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  • The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela by Sisonke Msimang
    EAN: 9781868429554
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The Woman in the Blue Cloak is a brilliant novella which will thrill and entertain fans of Deon Meyer’s much-loved detective Benny Griessel.

Benny Griessel is a cop on a mission: he plans to ask Alexa Bernard to marry him. That means he needs to buy an engagement ring – and that means he needs a loan.

So Benny has a lot on his mind when he is called to a top-priority murder case. A woman’s body is discovered, naked and washed in bleach, draped on a wall beside a picturesque road above Cape Town. The identity of the victim is a mystery, as is the reason for her killing.

Gradually, Benny and his colleague Vaughn Cupido begin to work out the roots of the story, which reach as far away as England and Holland… and as far back as the seventeenth century.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday, 15 November 2018
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: Exclusive Books, Hyde Park, Jan Smuts Ave & William Nicol Drive, Hyde Park, Johannesburg | Map
• Guest Speaker: Michele Magwood
• RSVP: events@exclusivebooks.co.za
   

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  • The Woman in the Blue Cloak by Deon Meyer
    EAN: 9781529309263
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The death of Winnie Madikizela Mandela on 2 April this year unleashed a hailstorm of opinion.

On one side, her legacy was cast by the media and public in the shadow of her sanctified ex-husband. Winnie was history’s loser. She was damaged goods; Nelson Mandela was whole and pure.

A younger generation, in particular women, took a different view and so a battle of ideas began that sought to reframe Winnie’s career and reclaim her identity as an extraordinary woman and fierce political activist.

Sisonke Msimang, an acclaimed author and public commentator, wasted little time in jumping into the fray.

And when the dust settled, what emerged is this short but razor-sharp book which reflects critically on the turbulent yet remarkable life of Winnie.

Msimang situates her political career and legacy in the contemporary context, what she means today in social and political terms, by exploring different aspects of her iconic persona.

The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela is an astute examination of one of South Africa’s most controversial political figures, of the rise and fall – and rise, again, – of a woman who not only battled the apartheid regime, but the patriarchal character of the struggle itself.

In telling Winnie’s story, Msimang shows us that activism matters, and that the meaning of women’s lives can be reclaimed.

SISONKE MSIMANG currently lives in Perth, Australia, where she is Programme Director for the Centre for Stories.

She is regularly in South Africa where she continues to speak and comment on current affairs.

Sisonke has degrees from Macalester College, Minnesota and the University of Cape Town, is a Yale World Fellow, an Aspen New Voices Fellow, and was a Ruth First Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand.

She regularly contributes to The Guardian, The Daily Maverick and The New York Times.

Her first book, Always Another Country, was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Alan Paton Award for 2018.

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• The Resurrection of Winnie Mandela by Sisonke Msimang
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Finuala Dowling will be in conversation with Lyndall Gordon at the launch of Outsiders – an exciting and provocative look at the women who wrote the novels that changed the literary world – Mary Shelley, Emily Bronte, George Eliot, Olive Schreiner, and Virginia Woolf. A must.

Event Details

• Date: Wednesday, 07 November 2018
• Time: 5:30 PM for 6:00 PM
• Venue: Clarke’s Bookshop, 199 Long Street, Cape Town | Map
• Guest Speaker: Finuala Dowling
• RSVP: books@clarkesbooks.co.za
   

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  • Outsiders: Five Women Writers Who Changed the World by Lyndall Gordon
    EAN: 9780349006345
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In A Man Apart Richard Steyn once again brings to life a South African icon.

Louis Botha was the first Prime Minister of the Union of South Africa, a union he did much to create in the decade after the devastation of the Anglo-Boer War.

During the war Botha was a brilliant young Boer general who through his battlefield strategy won significant victories over the British in the early stages of the war. When the weight of British arms overhelmed the Boers, Botha along with Smuts did much to encourage peace between English and Afrikaner and led the country to Union in 1910 and dominion status.

Botha was a big-hearted and generous man who showed magnanimity in his dealings with all, including former enemies.

He led the South African troops to victory and the capture of German South West Africa – prior to this he had to put down a revolt of pro-German Afrikaners. At the Peace of Versailles, representing South Africa, he pleaded unsuccessfully for magnanimity towards the Germans.

Botha was a globally respected figure – he and Smuts effectively operated as a double act in South Africa and on the international stage before Botha’s untimely death in August 1919 at only 57. In A Man Apart this tragically short life is illuminated in full.

Event Details

• Date: Thursday, 01 November 2018
• Time: 6:00 PM for 6:30 PM
• Venue: Love Books, Bamboo Lifestyle Centre, 53 Rustenburg Rd, Melville | Map
• Guest Speaker: David Williams
• RSVP: kate@lovebooks.co.za

   
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  • Louis Botha: A Man Apart by Richard Steyn
    EAN: 9781868429226
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From February to April 1947, South Africa welcomed King George VI, Queen Elizabeth and the princesses, Elizabeth and Margaret.

The Royal Family travelled many thousands of kilometres across the country in the specially commissioned White Train. Graham Viney’s descriptions of the tour’s highlights allow the reader to follow this royal progress.

In vivid prose, he provides a fascinating analysis of a fractious society on the threshold of momentous change. The Last Hurrah also captures the political controversy surrounding the tour.

There was resistance, initially, from black and Indian nationalist politicians and, throughout, from Afrikaner Nationalists. Only a year later, in 1948, Smuts’s government was defeated in a general election, a victory won essentially on DF Malan’s racist ticket.

But the tour had truly been a last hurrah, a show of Empire solidarity and a recognition of South Africa’s contribution to the Allied cause during the Second World War, and specifically that of Prime Minister Jan Smuts. Wherever the Royal Family went, South Africans turned out in their thousands to cheer and welcome them.

The Last Hurrah draws on sources from far and wide, including the Royal Archives at Windsor, and includes a selection of previously unpublished photographs of the Royal Family on tour.

GRAHAM VINEY was educated at the Diocesan College (Bishops), Cape Town, and Oriel College, Oxford, where he read International Relations. He runs an international design company. In addition to numerous papers and articles has written two books, Colonial Houses of South Africa and The Cape of Good Hope, 1806 – 1872.

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• The Last Hurrah: South Africa And the Royal Tour of 1947 by Graham Viney
  EAN: 9781868429240
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Berlyn, 1936. Hardebaard speurder Bernhard – “Bernie” – Günther word deur ’n miljoenêr-sakeman ingeroep om die moord op sy dogter en skoonseun op te los en waardevolle juwele wat tydens die inbraak gesteel is, te vind.

Gewoonlik is Günther op die spoor van vermiste persone, maar in dié onstuimige politieke klimaat betree hy ’n donker onderwêreld waar misdaad, korrupsie en onderhandelinge met Nazi-leiers aan die orde van die dag is. Sy soektog ontbloot ’n skandaal wat hoëkoppe soos Hermann Goering en Heinrich Himmler betrek …

Smerige nagklubs, smeulende filmsterre, oorvol lykshuise en onderonsies met die Gestapo lei uiteindelik tot ’n skokkende onthulling. Die roman speel af in Nazi-Duitsland – ’n milieu wat Kerr met vernuf skets.

Dié Afrikaanse uitgawe van March Violets is die eerste boek in Kerr se Berlin Noir-reeks, sy eerste Bernie Günther-trilogie. Vertalings van die volgende twee romans in die reeks, The Pale Criminal en A German Requiem, verskyn in 2019.

PHILIP KERR (1956–2018) was ’n Britse skrywer wat wêreldwyd bekendheid verwerf het vir sy speurverhale. Hy het in 1980 ’n meestersgraad in filosofie en die regte aan die Universiteit van Birmingham ontvang en het daarna meer as 30 boeke gepubliseer, waaronder veral historiese romans en misdaadfiksie. Sy Bernie Günther-romans speel af in Nazi-Duitsland. Hy is in Maart 2018 oorlede.

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• Hans-Nazi’s deur Philip Kerr
  EAN: 9781868428809
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Local is extra lekker in this cookbook that brings you mouthwatering recipes like Pap in a Pumpkin, Cheesy Braai Bombs, A-maize-ing Chakalaka Dippers, Croque Meneer and Steri Stumpie Hot Chocolate.

Foodies of South Africa is synonymous with epic recipes, wicked combos, extra cheesy delights and dripping sauces. With over 730 000 followers on Facebook, including a few local celebrities like Lorna Maseko and Dineo Ranaka, Foodies of South Africa’s videos have gone viral.

In the last year their videos got more shares than all of the top 50 brands in the country combined. Every week four million of their fans view their delicious recipes – in a good week this figure goes up to 10 million.

Their fans also love to comment on and share the recipes and even upload photos when they have made the dishes.

The book will also include several fan comments from Facebook. To the team from Foodies of SA food is much more than just food. It is also an intimate and intricate part of one’s life story, it is belonging, heritage, culture . . . and connection. This is a book that is bound to become a much-consulted, dog-eared, flour-dusted, timeworn companion.

Warm whiskey volcano: ‘I’m dead!’ – Gugu Gumede

Sheet pan dinner: ‘Soooo going to try this!’ – Dineo Ranaka

Cheesy bread bake: ‘Staaaaaaaaaapppppp!’ ‒ Lorna

About the authors

Chantal Botha is a brand strategist/digital marketer with a passion for food and nutrition. She helps to brainstorm recipe ideas, manages the respective Foodies of SA social platforms and helps to bring the Foodies of SA brand/voice to life!

Julie Brown is a boss lady/supermom who loves food, film-making and family. She has been producing, directing and managing video teams for nearly ten years.

Hayley Murison is an avid foodie, a parttime artist and a full-time cake enthusiast! She was one of the earliest members of the Foodies team and has since been involved in just about every aspect of the business.

Jon Ratcliffe is the founder of Engage Video Group which owns the Foodies of SA platform. He has also lead numerous divisions at Google both in Africa and at Google’s head office in California

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• Foodies of SA: The Most Viral Recipes Ever! by Chantal Botha, Julie Brown, Hayley Murison
  EAN: 9781868429103
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Duduza. Bopha. Imbiza. Phapha. Asixoliseni. Amapopeye . . . What is the power of a single word?

Six days a week, advertising creative Melusi Tshabalala posts a Zulu word on his Everyday Zulu Facebook page and tells a story about it. His off-beat sense of humour, razor-sharp social observations and frank political commentary not only teaches his followers isiZulu but also offer insight into the world Melusi inhabits as a 21st century Zulu man.

Over the past few months he has built up a big and a loyal following that include radio host Jenny Crwys-Williams and Afrikaans author Marita van der Vyver. He pokes fun at our differences and makes us laugh at ourselves and each other.

Melusi asks critical questions of everyone, from Aunty Helen, Dudu-Zille to Silili (Cyril Ramaphosa) and even Woolworths (why are their aircons always set on ‘jou moer’?). His fans love him for his honesty and commitment to pointing out subtle and overt forms of prejudice and racism.

Melusi’s Everyday Zulu holds up a mirror that shows South African society in all its flaws and its sheer humanity. Most importantly, he shows the power of words and that there’s umzulu in all of us!

Event Details

• Date: Saturday, 15 September 2018
• Time: 6:00 PM for 7:30 PM
• Venue: Burgundy Fly, Menlyn, Atterbury Rd & Lois Avenue, Menlyn Park Shopping Centre, Pretoria | Map
• RSVP: bfly@burgundyfly.co.za
   

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  • Melusi’s Everyday Zulu by Melusi Tshabalala
    EAN: 9781868429066
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