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Luuk Lagerwerf, Henk Boer and Herman Wasserman (2009)
Health Communication in Southern Africa: Engaging with social and cultural diversity

Publication year: 2009
Rozenberg
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
306 pag.
€ 28,50
ISBN 9789036101370
Rozenberg edition: Europe only - Rest of the world: Unisa Edition: 978 1 86888 574 9

This book of scientific approaches is a must-read for students, scholars and practitioners in health communication and public health. It presents studies on health communication, in particular HIV/AIDScommunication, in southern Africa, bringing together approaches from usually divergent areas such as psychology, the analysis of social networks, studies of mass communication and the analysis of interpersonal communication, language and document design. Established and promising researchers from the USA, Europe, and South Africa provide answers from health communication research in socially and culturally diverse societies in Southern Africa.

Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2009)
The Ndebele Nation: Hegemony, Memory, Historiography

Publication year: 2009
Rozenberg
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
216 pag.
€ 22,50
ISBN 978 90 361 0136 3
Orders from outside Europe: Unisa edition 978 1 86888 565 7

The Ndebele Nation is the first mayor study since the 1970s on the history of the Southern African kingdom of the Ndebele of Zimbabwe. This book delves deep into issues of state formation, nation-building, style of governance, hegemony, memory and the idea of a Ndebele ‘nation’ rather than a ‘tribe’. A richly nuanced historical portrait of the pre-colonial Ndebele political and social life is provided.

The book is at once a major historical reconstruction of an African pre-colonial society, engaging with key hegemonic and ideological issues while at the same time contextualising all this in a broad historiography and critical social theory in the period from the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. This book makes a bold challenge to the mythology of Ndebele ‘exceptionalism’ that was used by colonialists to justify their colonial mission.

Mokubung Nkomo and Saloshna Vandeyar (2009)
Thinking Diversity, Building Cohesion: a Transnational Dialogue on Education

Publication year: 2009
Rozenberg
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
224 pag.
€ 22,50
ISBN 978 90 3610 128 8
Orders from outside Europe: Unisa Edition 978 1 86888 567 1

Thinking Diversity, Building Cohesion is a cooperation between the University of Pretoria and the South African Human Rights Commission. The book is composed of papers submitted to a colloquium on issues of diversity education.
The book draws attention to complexities in the ways difference and diversity express themselves in schools and class rooms and it takes us into multi-perspectival and comparative analyses of what sustains deep divisions among students at all levels of the education system. The authors of this collection dig deep and what they find is a series of tensions: resistance and resilience, continuities and change, postcolonial conditioning and liberation impulses, assimilation and dissent. Race, the contributors argue, seldom operates on its own.

Kobus du Pisani (2009)
The Last Frontier War: Braklaagte and the Struggle for Land before, during and after Apartheid

Publication year: 2009
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
282 pag.
€ 28,50
ISBN 978 18 6888 562 6
NUR 740

This book tells the story of how a black community in rural South Africa, the Bahurutshe Ba Ga Moiloa, managed to hold on the farm which they purchased in 1908 and resist attempts by the successive white-controlled governments to forcefully remove them from their land. Braklaagte, the farm in the northwestern corner of the country near the Botswana border, was in terms of the Land Acts a ‘black spot’ in ‘white’ South Africa.
When the Apartheid regime failed to effect the forced removal of the community under the resolute leadership of their traditional leader, John Lekoloane Sebogodi, they were first expropriated and later forcefully incorporated into the Bophuthatswana homeland, thus losing their South African citizenship. The Braklaagte community lived through serious violence before being reincorporated into a reunified South Africa in 1994.
The purpose of the book is not to tell the Braklaagte story for its own sake, but to interpret the narrative in the context of the discourses of South African historiography. This is achieved by focussing on three issues: the role of ethnicity and traditional leadership in Apartheid South Africa, the relationship between insecurity of tenure and rural poverty, and the Braklaagte experience as proof of African agency in the face of oppression.

Kobus du Pisani is Professor of History in the School of Social and Government Studies at the Potchefstroom campus of the North-West University. His research interests include Afrikaner masculinities, the environmental history of arid regions in South Africa, and cultural heritage management.

Meki Nzewi, Israel Anyahuru and Tom Ohiaraumunna (2009)
Musical Sense and Meaning: An Indigenous African Perception

Publication year: 2009
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
269 pag.
€ 26,50
ISBN 978 90 5170 908 7
NUR 740

Musical Sense and Musical Meaning is an exposition of the indigenous philosophy, theory and societal meanings of the African musical arts system using the Igbo conceptual paradigm. It is co-authored by five articulate Igbo ‘mother’ musicians and the scholar who studies them. The five indigenous authorities on musical sense and musical meaning are composer-performer (performance composition) soloists on three cognate Igbo keyboard mother instruments, the ese, ukom and mgba, which are tuned drum rows.
The complex compositional formula and formal principles of each music type encodes, sequences and validates the systematic procedural framework of its event. The creative integrity of the mother musician is then critical for the success of an event occasion that the orchestral type automatically accords human-cultural meaning. The musical arts thus functions as a meta-language in event context as well as an agency that organises, structures and interprets societal systems and relationships in an African society.

Musical Sense and Meaning: An Indigenous African Perception is an anatomical study of the indigenous philosophy, theory and purpose of the musical arts in Africa using the model of three Igbo complex orchestral music practices. It well positions the ‘professorial’ voices of specialist culture exponents explicating their creative and performance processes.

Anthony Court (2009)
Hannah Arendt's response to the crisis of her times

Publication year: 2009
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
314 pag.
€ 34,50
ISBN 978 90 3610 100 4
NUR 740

Hannah Arendt's contributions to twentieth century political thought resist easy categorisation even as they continue to yield up their prescient insights and inspire a new generation of admirers. There are few thinkers in Western history who share Arendt's unwavering sense for the political. She is perhaps the quintessential political thinker of the modern age. Yet it was not a romantic attachment to antiquity and the polis-life that informed her judgements about what it means to be political. Rather, it was her response to the twentieth century phenomenon of 'total domination' that shaped her thought and in various ways confronted her in life.
Henk van den Heuvel, Mzamo Mangaliso & Lisa van de Bunt (eds.) (2007)
Prophecies and Protests: Ubuntu in Glocal Management

Publication year: 2007
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
210 pag.
€ 26,50
ISBN 978 90 5170 949 0
NUR 780
Co-published with Unisa Press ISBN 978 186888 455 1

What can managers around the globe learn from the indigenous African term ubuntu (‘humane-ness’)? For the first time ever, African management advocates, interpretative scholars, and academic sceptics are brought together in a unique book displaying the richness of the debate on the Afrocentric management vision.
Keyan G. Tomaselli (2006)
Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas

Publication year: 2006
SAVUSA SERIES
16,5 x 24 cm
204 pag.
€ 26,50
ISBN 978 90 5170 886 8
NUR 740
Co-published with Unisa Press 978 1 86888449 0

Keyan Tomaselli, one of the founders of cultural studies in SA, explores in this book how South African cinemas and films have been decidedly shaped by the country’s 20th century history. In turn, films have inspired their makers and audiences to understand, and come to terms with, the complex phenomenon of modernity. Discussing film theory, narratives, audiences and key South African films and filmmakers, Tomaselli aptly demonstrates that the time has come to adapt a more ‘African’ view on African cinemas, since western theories and models cannot automatically be applied to an African context.