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Since 1922 we have been curating and publishing innovative research that informs debate for the greater good of society. African Content. Global Impact.
Johannesburg, South Africa
Joined June 2009
RT @HannahJoburg: Thrilled to share that my book "Making a Life: Young Men on Johannesburg’s Urban Margins" is now out with @WitsPress ! Bo….
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RT @centringafrica: Over the next few months, PsySSA's Decolonising Psychology Division, in collaboration with the Institute for Social and….
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RT @PolityZA: Nigel C Gibson unpacks his book 'Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing', in which he argues that Fanon’s oeuvre is essential to thin….
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CONGRATULATIONS to Prof Tendayi Sithole for receiving the prestigious Nicolás Cristóbal Guillén Batista Outstanding Achievement Award from the The Caribbean Philosophical Association -@caribphil .He is the author of Black X: Liberatory thought in Azania.
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PODCAST: Fascinating insights in @CapeTalk radio interview with Casey Golomski, author of God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning in South African Elder Care. Give it a listen. @ChuckGski
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CAPE TOWN! Thursday 30 January at 7pm. Join Uhuru Phalafala, poet, academic & author of a book on Keorapetse Kgositsile at the Chimurenga Factory, 157 Victoria Road, Woodstock, Cape Town, for an event celebrating the life of the late poet laureate, Keorapetse Kgositsile.
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NOW PUBLISHED! Award-winning South African writer, NADIA DAVIDS' new play, HOLD STILL delves into intergenerational trauma, exploring how the legacies of the Holocaust and apartheid shape a family's present. Get your copy from online retailers and bookshops in South Africa.
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How is it possible to write 145-page book about the history of a relatively minor river, 70 km in length – the Kowie River in the Eastern Cape, South Africa – and keep the reader spellbound? Get your copy from Loot, Takealot or Amazon! @iNIHSS @SAHistSoc
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For me the book encapsulates South African history between the early 1700’s and the present day and gives a much better understanding of it.
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Can old racists change? New book tracks seven years in a South African nursing home - "God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End" via @TC_Africa @ChuckGski.
theconversation.com
The study of (mostly white) residents and (mostly black) workers in an old age home in South Africa took place over seven years and it upended stereotypes.
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One Hundred Years of Book Covers — Read here more about the remarkable changes in scholarly book publishing over the last 100 years in South Africa. An excerpt from Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press @aupresses @WitsWiSER
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The JRB presents an excerpt from Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press. The book is available in open access format, and can be read or downloaded free of charge here....
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HEADS UP for online event!! Casey Golomski, author of 'God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End' will be giving a talk about his book, an exploration of life in a South African nursing home. It is now published with Wits University Press.
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"As we witness the colonial death drive smashing through Gaza, and now Lebanon too, Frantz Fanon’s work takes on a painfully urgent intensity." .Nigel C Gibson’s new book Frantz Fanon: Combat Breathing is published by Wits University Press @WitsPolitics .
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For Fanon the physical and psychological aspects of liberation were linked as liberation is not merely a political process but also a social and psychological o
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NEW BOOK is now FREE to download from 'Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press' has been made Open Access. Click on the LOCK on the page below to access the book. @WitsWiSER .
witspress.co.za
Featuring contributions from scholars, publishers and authors this multi-voiced volume offers a deep dive into the history, sociology and politics of the oldest South African university press. It...
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"Today Sobukwe stands for decolonisation as a mode of subjectivity and culture, decolonisation as a pervasive condition of political desire." @mailandguardian @Sobukwe_Trust @RamarumoTshiko1 @sahistoryonline
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This is an edited extract from the book Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Sobukwe
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#RobertMangalisoSobukwe Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province, today 100 years ago. @Sobukwe_Trust @MyPAConline
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NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Just published is a 2nd volume of writings by Sobukwe, Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. Available from online retailers @SobukweTrust @MyPAConline
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A definitive collection of Robert Sobukwe’s political writings, speeches, unpublished court testimonies, and interviews, complete with a biographical narrative by the editors that demonstrates the...
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Silenced and almost erased from history: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe and the new book with his writings and essays about him by others, Darkest Before Dawn. @Sobukwe_Trust @News24
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"South Africa has not been kind to Robert Sobukwe. The magnitude of his deeds and beliefs is largely ignored."
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Excerpt: Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press edited by Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr @WiSER @aupresses
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INTRODUCTION: Experiments in Writing the History of a University Press by Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr In recent years, intellectual production and cultural theory have focused on the concept of...
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Congratulations to @SiphiwoMahala for winning the University of Johannesburg's VC's Distinguished Award for Book of the Year! His book, Can Themba: The Making and Breaking of the Intellectual Tsotsi, offers a definitive study on the iconic Drum-era journalist and writer.
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Dr Billy Keniston unpacks his book 'Apartheid Spies and the Revolutionary Underground', the first book-length account of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon in this interview with Thabi Madiba of @PolityZA .
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An in-depth study of the assassination of Jeanette and Katryn Schoon at the hands of apartheid spy Craig Williamson explores how the lives of a group of white radicals intersected with and were...
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