Books from Jacana Media

  • Insider's Guide: Top Wildlife Photography Spots in Botswana and Namibia
    By Shem Compion

    This book provides a comprehensive guide to visiting some of the most remote destinations in the world. The daunting questions of when to go, how to get there, where to stay and what to do are quickly answered.

  • Zoo City
    By Lauren Beukes

    The uniformed guard has a Rat in his pocket, its pink snuffling nose poking out just above the Sentinel Armed Response logo. Zoos do okay in the security sector, especially with Sentinel, which is the largest and therefore, ...

  • Sappi Tree Spotting: Lifer List
    By Kevin Balkwill

    Sappi Tree Spotting series Lowveld ( 2001 ) Highveld ( 2003 ) ATLANTIC OCEAN KwaZulu - Natal & E. Cape ( 2004 ) ... SWAZI LAND Free State Northern Cape KwaZulu- Natal LESOTHO SOUTH AFRICA Western Cape Eastern Cape sappi what's in a name ?

  • Tomorrow is Ours

    Integrated approach to education is organized in such a way that it cuts across subject matter lines , bringing ... Learners are able to use their imaginations and extend their learning through weaving new patterns of understanding from ...

  • The Coming Revolution: Julius Malema and the Fight for Economic Freedom
    By Janet Smith

    Smith asks Malema to explain, contextualize, and motivate his political agenda and the genesis of the new party. Hard-hitting and informative, The Coming Revolution disrupts the dominant South African political narrative.

  • Twenty: Celebrating 20 Years of South Africa's Favourite Cartoon Strip
    By Rico, Stephen Francis

    Two decades after its conception, this humoristic cartoon series is still South Africa’s best reminder to laugh at itself as a society.

  • Cruel Crazy Beautiful World: A Novel
    By Troy Blacklaws

    Then, out of the blue, they all tilt their heads in sync, as if to tune into rumours of blood on a high, inhuman frequency. He sees distant dust float skyward. The dogs figure they have no time to make the kill, yet find it hard to let ...

  • 365 Postcards for Ants
    By Lorraine Loots

    "The artwork collected in this book include all paintings created for the 365 Postcards for Ants project reproduced at exact size, with no alterations made and as closely colour-matched as possible"--Title page verso

  • Primary HIV/AIDS Care: A Practical Guide for Primary Health Care Personnel in a Clinical and Supportive Setting
    By Clive Evian

    Chapter 6 PRIMARY CARE FOR ADVANCED ( SYMPTOMATIC ) HIV DISEASE AND AIDS Regular medical checks . ... Immunisation of children with HIV infection 199 ◇ Chapter 9 WOMEN WITH HIV INFECTION AND AIDS The spread of HIV infection in women ...

  • Zunami!: The South African Elections of 2009
    By John Daniel, Roger Southall

    Launching Democracy in South Africa: The First Open Election . New Haven:Yale University Press, 1996, p. 319; Horowitz, Democratic South Africa, p. 45; Lawrence Schlemmer, 'Democracy or democratic hegemony?

  • Sugar Girls & Seamen: A Journey Into the World of Dockside Prostitution in South Africa
    By Henry Trotter

    Based on fifteen months of research at the seamen's nightclubs, plus countless interviews with sugar girls, sailors, club owners, cabbies, bouncers and barmaids, this book provides a comprehensive account of dockside "romance" at the ...

  • Zapiro: But Will it Stand Up in Court? : Cartoons from Mail & Guardian, Sunday Times and The Times
    By Zapiro

    From President Zuma's five million rand court case against cartoonist Zapiro to the African National Congress's court action against Brett Murray, this book exposes the South African national conscience throughout 2012.

  • Debunking Delusions: The Inside Story of the Treatment Action Campaign
    By Nathan Geffen

    Finally, this book details how TAC ultimately succeeded on a much larger scale, as the group exposed corrupt doctors Matthias Rath and Zeblon Gwala and publicized the case of patient Andile Madondile, who had been deceived about his ...

  • Poverty in South Africa: Past and Present
    By Colin Bundy

    Poverty in South Africa: Past and Present argues that it is impossible to think coherently or constructively about poverty, and the challenge it poses, without a clear understanding of its origins, its long-term development, and it2019s ...

  • They're Burning the Churches: The Final Dramatic Events that Scuttled Apartheid
    By Patrick Noonan

    'This true account of the traumatised memory of the people of the townships of Vaal is a meticulously written, moving account of the groundbreaking events that dramatically accelerated the downfall of apartheid.' (Publisher)

  • The Uncertainty of Hope
    By Valerie Tagwira

    The Uncertainty of Hope

  • Take Two Veg and Call Me in the Morning: Cartoons from Mail & Guardian, Sunday Times and Independent Newspapers
    By Zapiro

    ZAPiro Take Two Veg and Call Me In the Morning JACK DANIELS Naz old Beas WHISKEY Tennessee Olive ! Secondo 2 Hello ? Hello ? Cartoons from Mail & Guardian , Sunday Times , Independent Newspapers ZAPiro Take Two Veg and Call Me In the ...

  • Old Nectar: A Garden for All Seasons
    By Una Van der Spuy

    While on holiday in Australia I was taking an early morning walk down a slope covered with dew-wet grass when I ... fact that the garden at Old Nectar is included in a recently published book, 1001 Gardens You Must See Before You Die.

  • The New Suffolk Hymnbook
    By Ben Oswest

    Through a beautifully crafted mosaic of different voices brought to life in dazzling, original prose, this novel creates a world that breaks new ground in literary convention and leaves a mark long after its poignant end.

  • Becoming Him: A Trans Memoir of Triumph
    By Landa Mabenge

    In April 1981, Landa Mabenge enters this world, trapped in a girl's body. From an early age, Landa is aware that he does not relate to his female form, despite being socialised as a girl.