Mark Lewis

Ross Anthony

Shuo Wang

Patricia Hayes

Philip Harrison

Ying Cheng

Yan Yang

Juliette Leeb-du Toit

Ruth Simbao

Rui Assubuji

Malcolm Corrigall

Romain Dittgen

Esther Esmyol

Binjun Hu

T Tu Huynh

Nicola Kritzinger

Khangelani Moyo

Stary Mwaba

Marcus Neustetter

Kristin NG-Yang

Gemma Rodrigues

Lifang Zhang

China and Africa have long shared a history of allegiance and contact points through global political forces from the time of colonialism and the Cold War. With China’s rise as the new superpower, its presence in Africa has expanded, leading to significant economic, geopolitical and cultural shifts. While issues such as trade, aid and development have received much attention, Chinese and African encounters through the lens of the visual arts and material culture is a neglected field. Visualising China in Southern Africa: Biography, Circulation, Transgression is a ground-breaking volume that addresses this deficit through engaging with the work of contemporary African and Chinese artists while analysing broader material production that prefigures the current relationship. The essays are wide-ranging in their analysis of ceramics, photography, painting, etching, sculpture, film, performance, postcards, stamps, installations, political posters, cartoons and architecture. Visualising China in Southern Africa confines its focus to southern Africa, yet even within this region, the context is complex. Ethnicity and nationalism, the lingering influence of Cold War allegiances and colonial configurations all continue to play a role. The various visual cultures discussed in this volume emphasise the commonality of these categories, but also point towards other shared histories that transcend the nation-state category. The collection includes scholarly chapters, photo essays, interviews, and artists’ personal accounts, organised around four themes: material flows, orientations and transgressions, spatial imaginaries, and biographies. The artists, photographers, filmmakers, curators and collectors in this volume include: Stary Mwaba, Hua Jiming, Anawana Haloba, Gerald Machona, Nobukho Nqaba, Marcus Neustetter, Brett Murray, Diane Victor, William Kentridge, Kristin NG-Yang, Kok Nam, Mark Lewis, the Chinese Camera Club of South Africa, Wu Jing, Henion Han and Shengkai Wu.

Biography, Circulation, Transgression

Visualising China in Southern Africa

From Gem stones to beach stones, rocks and minerals offer a portal into the Spiritual realm. Connecting with Crystals shows you how to access that portal. Through the author's personal stories of success, failure and learning to listen to the whispers of stones, Connecting with Crystals is designed to help you embrace your true nature, illuminating your powerful connection to Spirit, as you open your heart and mind to the infinite wisdom all around you.

Activate Your Natural Intuition Through Divination with Crystals, Runes and Eclectic Collections

Connecting with Crystals

The whole series is the author who knows and believes that in South Africa there are many, many areas that are as yet unexplored, that offer the visitor and reader a fascinating insight into our South African heritage and an understanding of the global concerns.

Science

South Africa's Top Sites

South Africa is a remarkable land of extraordinary beauty, a rich and colorful tapestry of diverse cultures and endless vistas that simply beg to be explored.

Arts & Culture

Takes you to sites related to the remarkable story of the opposition to South Africa's apartheid system, a saga that culminated in the country's transition to non-racial democracy in the early 1990s.

Struggle

This historical account of the epidemics that have struck Johannesburg during its 134-year history is written with the burden of the present. On 31 December 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported a cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China, and shortly afterwards confirmed that a previously unknown coronavirus was the cause. The disease was labelled Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) and spread globally in the early months of 2020.

Can we learn from history?

Johannesburg and its epidemics

Can We Have a Chat About Eddie?

Sue Heese

This volume is aimed at people traveling in South Africa with children. It provides 'windows' into themes such as history, geology, outdoor adventures, family entertainment and spiritual places.

South Africa's Top Sites: Family

Nine essays speak of this mischievous, macho, and mysterious desert animal. Photos depict the unique relationship between humans and coyotes.

The Legend and Lore of an American Icon

Seasons of the Coyote

Alison Todes

Vanessa Watson

Planning and Transformation provides a comprehensive view of planning under political transition in South Africa, offering an accessible resource for both students and researchers in an international and a local audience. In the years after the 1994 transition to democracy in South Africa, planners believed they would be able to successfully promote a vision of integrated, equitable and sustainable cities, and counter the spatial distortions created by apartheid. This book covers the experience of the planning community, the extent to which their aims were achieved, and the hindering factors. Although some of the factors affecting planning have been context-specific, the nature of South Africa’s transition and its relationship to global dynamics have meant that many of the issues confronting planners in other parts of the world are echoed here. Issues of governance, integration, market competitiveness, sustainability, democracy and values are significant, and the particular nature of the South African experience lends new insights to thinking on these questions, exploring the possibilities of achievement in the planning field.

Learning from the Post-Apartheid Experience

Planning and Transformation

Philip Harrison

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