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Author | : Nechama Brodie |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 809 |
Release | : 2015-11-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1920545999 |
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The Cape Town Book presents a fresh picture of the Mother City, one that brings together all its stories. From geology and beaches to forced removals and hip-hop, Nechama Brodie, author of the best-selling The Joburg Book, has delved deeply into the hidden past of Cape Town to emerge with a lucid and compelling account of South Africa’s fi rst city, its landscape and its people. The book’s 14 chapters trace the origins and expansion of Cape Town – from the City Bowl to the southern and coastal suburbs, the vast expanse of the Cape Flats and the sprawling northern areas. Offering a nuanced, yet balanced, perspective on Cape Town, the book includes familiar attractions like Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch and the Company’s Garden, while also giving a voice to marginalised communities in areas such as Athlone, Langa, Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha. Many of the images in the book have never been published before, and are drawn from the archives of museums, universities and public institutions. This beautifully illustrated, information-rich book is the defi nitive portrait of the wind-blown, contradictory city at the southern tip of Africa that more than three million people call home
Author | : Zoë Wicomb |
Publisher | : The Feminist Press at CUNY |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2015-04-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1558619151 |
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The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer."
Author | : Madeleine Barnard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Cape Town (South Africa) |
ISBN | : 9781868729401 |
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Author | : Henry Trotter |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2020-01-01 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1946395285 |
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Cape Town is a place between two oceans, between first and third worlds, between east and west. The majority of its citizens: a people between black and white, native and settler, African and European. How can we understand a city that is most assuredly in Africa, though not””seemingly””of it? By exploring this city’s tween-ness, we can begin to understand the soul of this town””haunted by its past, unsure of its future. A short book just over 100 pages, it allows readers to quickly identify the unique pulse of the city, its throbbing historical, social, cultural and political beat that underlies the transactions between all Capetonians. This is not a substitute for a traditional guidebook, but a perfect companion to one, filling in the intimate details that other books leave out.
Author | : S J Naudé |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2014-11-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1415206201 |
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‘Cool and intelligent, unsettling and deeply felt, Naudé’s voice is something new in South African writing.’ – Damon Galgut From an ancient castle in Bavaria and a pre-War villa in Milan, to a winter landscape in Lesotho and the suburban streets of Pretoria, the stories in The Alphabet of Birds take an acute look at South Africans at home and abroad. In one story, a strange, cheerful Japanese man visits a young South African as he takes care of his dying mother; in another, a woman battles corrupt bureaucracy in the Eastern Cape. A man trails his lover through the underground dance clubs of Berlin, while in London a young banker moves through layers of decadence as a soul would through purgatory. Pulsating with passion, loss, and melancholia, S J Naudé’s collection The Alphabet of Birds is filled with music, art, architecture, myth, the search for origins and the shifing relationships between people.
Author | : Catherine Besteman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2008-09-02 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520942646 |
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This study provides a window into the lives of ordinary South Africans more than ten years after the end of apartheid, with the promises of the democracy movement remaining largely unfulfilled. Catherine Besteman explores the emotional and personal aspects of the transition to black majority rule by homing in on intimate questions of love, family, and community and capturing the complex, sometimes contradictory voices of a wide variety of Capetonians. Her evaluation of the physical and psychic costs to individuals involved in working for social change is grounded in the experiences of the participants and illu-minates two overarching dimensions of life in Cape Town: the aggregate forces determined to maintain the apartheid-era status quo, and the grassroots efforts to effect social change.
Author | : Gordon Gaddes |
Publisher | : Choir Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2016-05-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781910864449 |
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Cape Town Stories is a personal journey by the author over the last five years, as he and his wife fell in love with Cape Town and warmed to all the shades of people in this rainbow nation. Each story is sparked by an experience and the main themes are apartheid, its genesis, its effects and its ending. In the face of popular, pessimistic perceptions about the future of South Africa, the author describes rainbow signs of progress in the struggle to improve the lot of the poorest South Africans and praises the resilience of the people he has met.
Author | : Vivian Bickford-Smith |
Publisher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780864863843 |
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Author | : Nigel Worden |
Publisher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780864866561 |
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This richly illustrated history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule tells the story of its residents, the world they inhabited and the city they made - beginning in the seventeenth century with the tiny Dutch settlement, hemmed in by mountains and looking out to sea, and ending with the well-established British colonial city, poised confidently on the threshold of the twentieth century. This social history of Cape Town under Dutch and British rule traces the changing character of the city and portrays the varied lives and experiences of its inhabitants e" black and white, rich and poor, slave and free, Christian and Muslim. The story told in these pages is both immensely readable and endlessly interesting, and is sure to remain for long the definitive history of the city. The volume is illustrated throughout with a wealth of paintings, maps and photographs. The book is written for the general reader as well as academics.
Author | : Elizabeth Van Heyningen |
Publisher | : University of Cape Town Press (ZA) |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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