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11/12/2024

"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

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

09/12/2024

NEW BOOK is now FREE to download from https://www.oapen.org/ '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.
https://www.witspress.co.za/page/detail/Publishing-from-the-South/?K=9781776149285

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 explores the strategies deployed to professionalise global South knowledge making and supports the schol...

09/12/2024

"Today Sobukwe stands for decolonisation. And decolonisation understood not in a restricted or domesticated form (as the outcome of negotiated settlements, in the form of institutional concessions, and so on), but decolonisation as a mode of subjectivity and culture, decolonisation as a pervasive condition of political desire.
READ HERE AN EXCERPT FROM: Darkest Before Dawn : Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe.

This is an edited extract from the book Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Sobukwe

05/12/2024

Celebrating - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe was born on 5 December 1924 at Graaff-Reinet, Cape Province, today 100 years ago.

05/12/2024

BOOK REVIEW: “Scholars and the reading public owe a debt of gratitude to the editors for their work in this collection. It includes a thoughtful introduction and a concluding chapter that explores the different ways that scholars and activists have represented Sobukwe in the present. Detailed and informative footnotes run throughout the book.”

Robert Sobukwe was committed to individual rights, a key tenet of liberalism.

02/12/2024

Wits University Press is delighted to announce the publication of a 2nd volume of correspondences and writings by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, edited and annotated by Derek Hook and Leswin Laubscher.
This much-awaited collection is published in the week of what would have been Robert Sobukwe's 100th birthday on 5 December.

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 many challenges Sobukwe faced and his continued political resolve in the post-prison years of his lif...

02/12/2024

NEW BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Darkest Before Dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the Life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
https://www.witspress.co.za/page/detail/?K=9781776148561
Now available from bookshops and online retailers

"South Africa has not been kind to Robert Sobukwe. The magnitude of his deeds and beliefs is largely ignored."

02/12/2024

We're still basking in the glow of celebrations of the book on a hundred years of Wits University Press.
If you missed the launch, you can still get your copy of Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press at Love Books in Johannesburg or from online retailers worldwide.

Celebrating a century publishing excellence 29 November 2024 - Wits University Wits Press commemorated 100 years of publishing excellence with the launch of the book 'Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press'. The vibrant literary hub of Love Books in Melville, Johannesburg, was...

28/11/2024

"Like the University itself, Wits University Press from its start was embedded in the contradictions of Johannesburg, and of the global South more generally. Its aim of producing local knowledge had considerable substance, but it was equally shaped by the racial and gender inequalities of the social order." READ more in this excerpt from the new book on Wits University Press.

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 ‘theory from the South’. While generating analytical models that are rooted in the South, this co...

21/11/2024

The Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine published by is a peer-reviewed, open access research journal for scientific research from Clinical Medicine Departments in South Africa and beyond. The new issue, Vol 6 no 3 is now available online.

The Wits Journal of Clinical Medicine (WJCM) is a peer-reviewed scientific research journal published tri-annually. It is a forum to showcase scientific research from Clinical Medicine Departments at institutions in South Africa and internationally. The journal is also a portal to highlight press...

20/11/2024

Congratulations to 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. Dr Mahala's intensive research features unprecedented archival access and interviews with Can Themba's surviving colleagues and family.
Find more info: https://www.witspress.co.za/page/detail/?K=9781776147311

20/11/2024

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 Shomolekae of https://www.polity.org.za/article/apartheid-spies-and-the-revolutionary-underground-billy-keniston-2024-11-19

19/11/2024

Book launched!! Love Books was the generous host and Melville’s Service Station at the Bamboo Centre was the backdrop to the wonderfully festive launch of the book on Wits University Press; Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press. The book was edited by Sarah Nuttall of Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and Isabel Hofmeyr and speaking about their contributions were some of the contributors, Srila Roy, Siphiwo Mahala and Kopano Ratele.
We had such a lovely time and felt the warm support of authors, booksellers and publishers, Wits colleagues and friends of the Press. Thank you so much to everyone.
Here’s to another 100 years! 🥂

Get your copy of this book or from online retailers worldwide.

More info about it here:
https://www.witspress.co.za/page/detail/Publishing-from-the-South/?k=9781776149247

15/11/2024

Published, unpacked and ready for launching next week!

The book on South Africa's oldest scholarly press, Wits University Press - 102 years old! - is now published.

‘Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University Press’ is a new book, edited by Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr, with contributions from scholars, writers and publishers. This collection of essays brings together the craft, the art, the business, the passion and, quite simply, the love of books and the histories of their making.

Join us to celebrate at Love Books, Melville, Jhb, on Monday 18 November.

https://www.witspress.co.za/page/detail/Publishing-from-the-South/?k=9781776149247

13/11/2024

CAPE TOWN! Book Launch on Thursday 14th November @ The Book Lounge. Join authors Billy Keniston and Jonathan Ancer discussing a new book on the assassination of Jeanette Schoon and how the lives of a group of white activists intersected with and were impacted by the undercover security police.

12/11/2024

By Edwin Naidu Unassuming but a powerful intellectual, Professor Chabani Manganyi, the country’s first black psychologist, made an invaluable contribution t ...