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¿Living in Soshanguve as a young boy with an adored and adoring mum, Welcome's life almost stops when his mum is murdered by her new boyfriend. The upturned chair, his mum's lifeless face, the blood on the floor, the glasses with the gold detail that Welcome had taken from a precious cupboard, the boyfriend's body, a tableau that would be impossible to unsee. But this is the beginning of a journey which takes the author through school and university, with the help of his remaining family, and allows him to explore a South Africa that is almost impossible to describe. Through student politics, journalism studies, Fees Must Fall and then as a freelance journalist, Lishivha documents the living country as he documents his sexuality, his body, his choices.Welcome Mandla Lishivha's exquisitely crafted memoir is unlike anything you have ever read. Boy on the Run is a staggering exploration of identity through grief, love and friendship, giving us, Lishivha's readers, a glorious song of self-expression.

The Jacana Literary Foundation and the Other Foundation are thrilled to announce the publication of the fourth volume of The Gerald Kraak Anthology, The Beautyful Ones Have Just Been Born.

In The Lion, the Dung Beetle and the Veld Tool Box, natural history and travel writer David Bristow delivers the fourth in his Stories from the Veld series of non-fiction narratives.

"The vast crowd that line the beflagged route to the Kremlin was, as in New York, friendly and cheering. 'Welcome, Otherworld Visitors to the Land of Socialism!' spelt out the banners, in big Cyrillic letters. 'For Universal Peace and Free Scientific Exchanges!' The chairman of the Supreme Soviet, Noriskin, followed closely along the pattern set by Dr Faradien when he introduced Rogard. And Rogard's message of peace and goodwill, expressed in flawless Russian, once again met with loud and enthusiastic applause." A dizzying blend of speculative history and unnerving prophesy, of utopian justice and the realpolitik of the Cold War, The White People has been in an archive for nearly 60 years. Wrien the same year that Fidel Castro entered Havana in triumph, Harmel presages current threats to our planet by introducing visitors from another - the White People, who came from Oxindu.

Now in its 10th year, the Sol Plaatje European Union Poetry Award is a launching pad for upcoming poets. From slam poetry to formal rhyme, the anthology is a celebration of language and cultural diversity.

Take your Place, You Belong is a rhyming picture book that tells the story of two best friends who face discrimination on the playground because they look different from one another. This book explores themes of empathy, heroism, friendship and identity.

The sun begins to set and twilight falls over the Cape Town suburb of Salt River. The year is 1960, the year of the Sharpeville massacre. Three friends, Ainey, Haroun and Cassius, comrades in arms and merry pranksters, make a discovery that changes their lives.

Set over five days in an African Hereafter called "After Africa", this story revolves around the British South African imperialist, Cecil Rhodes, awakening in an After African Limbo after being asleep for 120 years.

It is not easy. Having a dream, having talent and being faced with a world that wants you to have neither - it is not easy. This is not an easy story. This is a book about difficult odds, about cruelty, about broken families and addiction. This is also a story about hope.

[...] Gugu smiled. "My darling child, you are already perfect. You just have to be yourself." She pulled Shudu closer. "Just remember one thing, my child. If you are beautiful inside," she tapped Shudu's chest where her heart was beating, "then you will always be beautiful outside."

Part tourist guide, part monograph, this book journeys through South Africa's amazing wildlife reserves. Indicating what types of animals to find and in which provinces to find them, this record not only contains stunning pictures and pertinent, detailed information but also teaches enthusiasts how to capture South Africa's beauty on camera.

This is a unique, first-of-its-kind tree book with beautiful illustrations of the fruiting twigs of 381 South African trees. The reason behind illustrating tree fruits is that, like so many tree-lovers, Trevor found it difficult to identify many tree species from their leaves as they are the most variable of all the plant parts.

This is a wide-ranging and trenchant critical account of South Africa since 1994, focusing particularly upon the follies and failures of the ANC government over the past 25 years.