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Wits 2050 f Teaching Pre-colonial History / Johannesburg, South Africa CONTRIBUTORS COLIN BUND Y is Professor of History at the Universities of Cape Town and the Western Cape. He has written about political protest and contestation, particularly in the eastern Cape. He has also authored The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry and co-authored (with William Beinart) Hidden Struggles in Rural South Africa. ALAN MORRIS has worked for the Transvaal Rural Action Committee and is presently lecturer in Sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand. MELANIE WALKER is a researcher in the School of Education at the University of Cape Town. BILL FREUND is Professor of Economic History at the University of Natal, Durban and the author of The Making of Contemporary Africa and The African Worker. JOHN SAXBY has worked extensively in the development field in Central Africa. He has a doctorate in political economy from the University of Toronto. 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Subscription to TRANSFORMATION: rate From number Name: Address: outhern African Review f Books Western libraries subscribe to African TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR SPECIAL journals. This review endeavours to draw atten- tion to some of the material published fa SUBSCRIPTION OFFER southern Africa over the last two yean. It does so, admittedly, manly fa relation n taking a subscription to SARB, you can buy one or all of the to the most flourishing of African aca- demic publishing settings, Zimbabwe, llowing RECENTLY PUBLISHED books at the SARB book where a large English-speaking audience, lub discount price: educational development, and the com- petition between established and new publishers have combined to stimulate a UKPP SARB relatively large flow of books. ob Turrell Capital and Labour on the Kknberley One of the impulses towards publica- Diamond Fields 1871-1890 Cambridge [hbk] tion fa southern Africa is to set the mcord £25 00 £18.75 of straggle straight, to name the heroes. I an White Magomero. The Story of an African found this fa Zambia, when nearly 30 Village Cambridge [hbk] £19.50 £14.65 years after the events audioes are anxious to claim honour for unsung heroes of the delaide Tambo Oliver Tambo Speaks. Preparing independence struggle I was shown an for Power Heinemann [pbk] £ 4.95 £3.70 ur^ublished manuscript which posed the m Jenkin Escape from Pretoria questk>n:'Who were the first stone- throwers?9 and allocated the honour to Kliptown Books [pbk] £ 5.00 £3.75 the people of Chisana village. Nephas ichael Dingake My Fight Against Apartheid Ifcmtx* Tk* LUim Bmm KUUmg, pub- Kliptown Books [pbk] £ 5.00 £3.75 lished by Apple Books, describes his book as 'just fee beginning of the work hula Marks (ed.) Not Either an Experimental Doll in compiling the full list of freedom Women's Press [pbk] £ 5.95 £4.45 fighters . . . I promise to unravel more eve Davis Apartheid's Rebels: Inside South facts and names and add them to the book u they become available'. In his Africa's Hidden War Yale [pbk] £ 6.95 £5.20 foreword Hyden Dingiswayo Banda gives this listing a contemporary sigpifi- K postage free; Overseas postage £1.50 per book ook Club to be paid for in sterling] I am delighted to reootd that UNIP, the ayment by cheque, credit transfer (Nat West, 106 Finchley Rd, NW3 5JN, Party which Nepha* tkdessly helped e. 22970991) or Girobank, (Bootle, Mersey side, ace. 5991005) to build to what It is today, won inde- outhern African Review of Books, 25A Greeneroft Gardens, London NW6 3LN. pendence on 24 October 1964 and » still in control. The 64 million dollar question, however, remains: Is the Patty after dedicated and devoted sup- ARB annual (4 issues) subscription rates [please tick appropriate porters or mem numbers? Put it anoth- UK Eur & Ovs/Surface Ovs/Air er way: Is it after quality or quantity, dividuals *£5 (US$10) * £8 (US$16) * £10 (US$20) conviction or convenience? . . . Whatever happens, the Party will do stitutions * £10 (US$20) 4 £13 (US$26) #£17 (US$34) well to keep a list of its stalwarts. upporting tf £20 (US$40) An ironic note to this foreword records AME that in the October 19*3 General Elect- ion both Banda and Tcmbo lost their DDRESS seats. This leaves a tantaliting ambiguity hovermg over the book Is it an attempt to remind the young of the revolutionary legitimacy of those who run the party and die state? Or is it the lament of a defeated Old Guard, replaced by tech- No such ambiguity hovers over the books arrayed in the bookstall at Jan mmer I visited the universities acadonic world, has dried up. It is no But despite all this, the obstacles are Smuts airport in South Africa, where I tal cities of s a African countries solution for universities to establish their not, in fact, insuperable. Determined aca- was compelled to spend some hours ddis Abibt to Gaborone. I was own presses — the University Press in demics can and do publish, sometimes while waiting for a connection to f course, by the aknost insupera- Dar es Salaam has a back-log of over forming their own companies to do so. Botswana. Hie bookstall » exclusively acles to the publication of aca- 140 accepted manuscripts. Moreover, The radical libertarian Faculty of Lew in devoted to acoounu of the Rhodesian ooks by African scholars. Even when academic books armpublished in Dar m Salaam maintafai a flow of publi- war of the 197Oi. There one can buy in bi, in the midst of unparalleled one African country, they are impossible cations; new journals spring up, even at paperback narratives of the heroic deeds on of secondary and university to obtain in the bookshops of its neigh- not til of them sirvtve. Finpend Wait- of the Salous Scouts or the SAS, and n, publishers are timing only at bours. Only in Gaborone, with Bots- era academics can only admire fteae tri- more expensively, accounts of the hero- ol text-book market and the flow wana's internationally traded currency, umphs of perseverance* this urgency to Ism of the white population of Umtali idized historical monographs do the bookshops offer material pub- communicate. Yet we get all too few under bombardment, or picture-books nce made possible an internal lished in Naiiobi and Harare alongside chances to admire. Books published fa ilkistrating how to deal with land-mines. hbtoriopaphy, independent of that published in Botswana and South Africa ate seldom advertised or reviewed These all cany an unequivocal message ifferent to the Euro-American Africa. in Euro-American journals and few for South Africans: that heroism is not SOUTHERN AFRICAN REVIEW OF BOOKS, Winter 1967/88 23 RB is published by Robert Vicat Ltd and edited by Rob Turrell