Advertising in the News: Paid-for content and the South African print media
Adrian Hadland, Lesley Cowling & Bate Felix Tabi Tabe
This monograph, which derives from original recent research conducted by the HSRC and the University of the Witwatersrand’s Media Observatory, looks at the range of strategies employed in the print sector to develop paid-for content. It notes the problems and practices that may arise from such strategies and the potential consequences for editorial content, journalistic practice and for readers. The publication provides important insights into issues of editorial integrity, profitability, media ethics, trust and the consolidation of democracy. 2007 / 76pp / 978-0-7969-2183-3 / R90.00 / Softcover
Going for Broke: The fate of farmworkers in arid South Africa
Doreen Atkinson
South African agriculture has always been ideologically contested, because of its relationship with controversial land ownership issues. This book takes the question of farmworkers’ fortunes beyond the land debate to consider their current and future livelihoods. The author argues that the question of farmworkers needs to be understood as part of a broader spectrum of economic and social questions. A valuable study of past policy failures and future policy options, Going for Broke promotes new approaches, synergies and partnerships amongst stakeholders, including government, commercial farmers, agricultural cooperatives, municipalities, training agencies, and farmworker trade unions. 2007 / 320pp / 978-0-7969-2176-5 / R260.00 / Softcover
Earnings inequality in South Africa: 1995–2003
Ingrid Woolard & Chris Woolard
It is generally accepted that the gap between the earnings of unskilled and semi-skilled workers on the one hand, and skilled and highly skilled workers on the other, narrowed in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s. This paper investigates whether the gap between the real earnings of highly skilled and low-skilled workers in the formal sector of the South African economy continued to narrow after this country’s transition to democracy. 2007 / 44pp / 978-0-7969-2173-4 / R80.00 / Softcover
Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town
Edited by Sean Field, Renate Meyer & Felicity Swanson
Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, they are also constructed through popular imagination and spaces of representation. Imagining the City presents an array of oral and visual histories drawn from people who live, work and creatively express themselves in the city. It makes an important contribution to public discourse about a vision for, and ownership of the city by affirming the memory of its inhabitants, and by hinting at the work that can, and should still be done in foregrounding memory and culture in the re-imagination of Cape Town as a city. 2007 / 248pp / 978-0-7969-2179-6 / R180.00 / Softcover
Skills-building for Gender Mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS
Research and Practice: Seminar proceedings
Edited by Bridgette Prince, Sarah Pugh & Sharon Kleintjes
The impact of gender in fuelling HIV/AIDS has become a fundamental aspect of addressing the pandemic. It is clear that gender plays a pivotal role in how women and men respond to counselling, testing, treatment, care and prevention programmes. This report contains the presentations delivered at the gender and HIV/AIDS-themed sessions held during the 3rd African Conference of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA), held in Dakar in October 2005. 2007 / 88pp / 978-0-7969-2167-3 / R70.00 / Softcover
Women in South African History
Basus’iimbokodo, Bawel’imilambo/They remove boulders and cross rivers
Edited by Nomboniso Gasa
In this fascinating collection, full of different textures, narratives and nuances, sixteen authors have begun to tackle the task of writing South Africa’s history from an overtly feminist perspective, giving readers an opportunity to understand and reflect on debates about real women’s power in completely new and fresh ways. Contributors include Jennifer Weir, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Helen Bradford, Elizabeth van Heyningen, Nomboniso Gasa, Luli Callinicos, Iris Berger, Raymond Suttner, Jacklyn Cock, Janet Cherry, Pat Gibbs, Sheila Meintjes, Nthabiseng Motsemme, Caroline Wanjiku Kihato and Yvette Abrahams. 2007 / 536pp / 978-0-7969-2174-8 / R190.00 / Softcover
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