- Research Article
- 10.1080/03057079408708404
Book reviews
- Jun 01, 1994
- Journal of Southern African Studies
- Diana Jeater + 11 more +11
Abstract Ruth Meena (ed), Gender in Southern Africa: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues (Harare: SAPES Books, 1992), xi + 201 pp., ISBN 0–7974–1162–3, £13.50/ US$24.00 pbk. Alice K. Armstrong, Struggling over Scarce Resources: Women and Maintenance in Southern Africa; Women and Law in Southern Africa Trust Regional Report (Harare: University of Zimbabwe Press, 1992), xvi + 157 pp., ISBN 0–908307–27–6, £10.00/US$18.00 pbk. Flora Veit‐Wild, Teachers, Preachers, Non‐Believers: A Social History of Zimbabwean Literature (New Perspectives on African Literature, 6, London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1992), 408 pp., ISBN 1–873836–15–5, £45.00 hbk. Flora Veit‐Wild, Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on his Life and Work (Documentary Research in African Literatures, 2, London: Hans Zell Publishers, 1992), 419 pp., ISBN 0–905450–97–3, £55.00 hbk. Pamela Reynolds, Dance Civet Cat: Child Labour in the Zambezi Valley (Harare: Baobab Books; Athens: Ohio University Press; London: Zed Books, 1991), xxxi + 176 pp., ISBN 0–86232–933–7, £9.95 pbk. Gerrie Ter Haar, Spirit of Africa: The Healing Ministry of Archbishop Milingo of Zambia (London: Hurst & Company, 1992), ix + 286 pp., £9.95. Elizabeth A. Eldredge, A South African Kingdom: the pursuit of security in nineteenth‐century Lesotho (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), xvi + 250 pp., £35 hbk. Ronnie Kasrils, Armed and dangerous: My undercover struggle against apartheid (Oxford: Heinemann, 1993), 374 pp., ISBN 0–435–90983–5, £6.99 pbk. Colin Murray, Black Mountain: Land, Class and Power in the Eastern Orange Free State, 1880s‐1990s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992), xiv + 340 pp., £35 hbk. J. B. Peires, The Dead Will Arise, Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle‐Killing Movement of 1856–57 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press; Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1989), xvi + 348 pp., ISBN 0–86975–381–9, £9.95. Mamphela Ramphele, A Bed Called Home ‐‐ Life in the Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town (Athens: Ohio Unviersity Press; Cape Town: David Philip, 1993), 140 pp., ISBN 0–7486–04480. US$21.95, R49.95. Anthony W. Marx, Lessons of Struggle: South African Internal Opposition, 1960–1990 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), £12.95. David R. Smock (ed), Making War and Waging Peace: Foreign Intervention in Africa (Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 1993), 290 pp., ISBN 1–878379–28–3. Thomas A. Dowson, Rock engravings of southern Africa (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1992), xii + 124 pp., ISBN 1–86814–120–9, £20 hbk.
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