SAVUSA - Rozenberg - UNISA publications

Publications together with Rozenberg Publishers and UNISA Press

This SAVUSA series - a co-publication arrangement between Rozenberg Publishers in Amsterdam and UNISA Press in Pretoria, aims to publish academic, yet broadly accessible texts on historical and contemporary issues in South and southern Africa. All SAVUSA series are subject to a double-blind international academic peer review process. Books can be ordered through Rozenberg Publishers (Dutch edition) or UNISA Press (South African edition).

Luuk Lagerwerf, Henk Boer and Herman Wasserman (eds)
Health Communication in Southern Africa: Engaging with Social and Cultural Diversity

This book presents studies on health communication, in particular
HIV/AIDS communication, 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.

2009, ISBN: 978 90 3610 137 0 (NL) / 978 1 86888 574 9 (SA), 306 pp., € 28.50 



Sabelo J. Ndlovu-Gatsheni
The Ndebele Nation: Hegemony, Memory, Historiography

Since the 1980s no major study has appeared on Ndebele pre-colonial
history and this book is the first of its kind to delve deeper into
pertinent 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.

2009, ISBN: 978 90 361 0136 3 (NL) / 978 1 86888 565 7 (SA), 216 pp., € 22.50 

Kobus du Pisani
The last Frontier War: Braklaagte and the Struggle for Land before, during and after Apartheid

This book tells the story of how a black community in rural South
Africa, the Bahurutshe Ba Ga Moiloa, managed to hold on Braklaagte,
the farm which they purchased in 1908, and to resist attempts
by the successive white-controlled governments to forcefully
remove them from their land. The Braklaagte community lived
through serious violence before being reincorporated into a reunified
South Africa in 1994.

2009, ISBN: 978 18 6888 562 6 (NL), 282 pp., € 28.50 

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

‘South Africa’s schools must become successful multiracial, multicultural
institutions if the nation is to move from freedom to unity
and genuine mutual respect ... This books draws on experience
throughout the world and in South Africa to help set the agenda
for educators, researchers and responsible authorities ...’ - from the
foreword by Gary Orfield (UCLA/Harvard University)

2009, ISBN: 978 90 3610 128 8 (NL) / 978 1 86888 567 1 (SA), 224 pp., € 22.50



Meki Nzewi, Israel Anyahuru and Tom Ohiaraumunna
Musical Sense and Musical Meaning: An indigenous African Perception

Musical sense and musical meaning - an 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 positions the ‘professorial’ voices of
specialist culture exponents explicating their creative and performance
processes.

2009, ISBN: 978 90 5170 908 7 (NL), 269 pp., € 26.50



Anthony Court
Hannah Arendt’s Response to the Crisis of her Times

Hannah Arendt’s contributions to 20th 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. Her response to the twentieth century
phenomenon of ‘total domination’, which is analysed in this book,
shaped her thought and in various ways confronted her in life.

2009, ISBN: 978 90 3610 100 4 (NL), 314 pp., € 34.50



Bob Wishitemi, Anna Spenceley, Harry Wels

Culture and Community: Tourism Studies in Eastern and Southern Africa

Cultures and communities in Africa both feed and fight the European
tourism image of Africa. In this book scientists from Europe and
Africa join hands in presenting and critically analysing cases from
eastern and southern Africa that show the cultural complexities
and social intricacies that lie behind the touristic representations of
Africa and Africans.

2007, ISBN: 978 90 5170 851 6, 177 pp., € 24.50



Henk van den Heuvel, Mzamo Mangaliso & Lisa van de Bunt (eds)

Prophecies and Protests: Ubuntu in Glocal Management 
 
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.

2007, ISBN: 978 90 5170 949 0 (NL) / 978 186888 455 1 (SA), 210 pp., € 26.50

Keyan G. Tomaselli
Encountering Modernity: Twentieth Century South African Cinemas

Keyan Tomaselli, a founder of cultural studies in South Africa, explores
in this book how South African cinemas and films have been
decidedly shaped by the country’s 20th century history. 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.

2006, ISBN: 978 90 5170 886 8 (NL) / 978 1 86888449 0 (SA), 204 pp., € 26.50 
 

Forthcoming Books