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23/01/2025

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 – and keep the reader spellbound? This is what Jacklyn C**k did. Read more here and order your copy from online retailers.

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.

23/01/2025

INTERVIEW - podcast : Casey Golomski considers in his new book, God's Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life's End (Rutgers University Press, 2024) what matters in the end for older white adults and the younger Black nurses who care for them. Basing his research on a nursing home in South Africa, thirty years after the end of apartheid, his book narrates the story of years of immersive resereach as a one-day, room-by-room tour.
This book's story is told in breathtakingly intimate and witty conversations.

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21/01/2025

Prof. Barry Schoub, the founding executive director of the NICD, talks here with Communications Manager at the NICD, Vuyo Sabani, about his new book Fighting an Invisible Enemy.

Senior Communications Manager, Vuyo Sabani, chats with Prof. Barry Schoub, the founding executive director of the NICD, whose new book Fighting an Invisible Enemy: The Story of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases was published in August. Besides the encouragement from Prof. Metz, your w...

21/01/2025

God’s Waiting Room: Racial Reckoning at Life’s End is a beautifully written and intimate book about the characters in an old age home in South Africa. To write it, anthropologist Casey Golomski spent seven years travelling between South Africa and the US.
Read here an interview with the author about the writing of the book.

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.

09/01/2025

Read here more about the remarkable changes in scholarly book publishing over the last 100 years in South Africa.

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. Publishing from the South: A Century of Wits University PressEdited by Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Ho

18/12/2024

Watch here Polity.org.za Video interview with editors., Derek Hook and Leswin Laubscher of a book of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe's writings and testimonies.

A collection of Robert Sobukwe’s political writings, speeches and court testimonies supplemented by an account of his years in Kimberley following his release from Robben Island. There are several accounts of Robert Sobukwe’s courageous role in contesting South Africa’s system of apartheid and...

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...