Latest Books Donated to the Old Rhodian Authors'Bookcase
These books are donated to Alumni House and are creating a lot of interest!
A sincere Thank You to all authors who send their books to us. Please note that the year date depicts the first year that the Author was at Rhodes and not the year the book was published.
Andre Van Heerden (1965)
Andre van Heerden’s Leaders and Misleaders – the art of leading like you mean it flays the misguided belief that we can produce leaders through skills-training and quick-fix solutions, and insists that the key is character-development and the fomenting of wisdom through on-going education. Giving skills to people of negative character will see those skills misused, and this is why our society tends to produce misleaders rather than leaders.
Andre van Heerden, who has worked with leaders in almost every category of business, uses compelling examples from history and corporate life to demonstrate how leaders are only developed by education, the continual nurturing of the intellect and the will. Everyone has intellect and will, and therefore the potential to lead, and using those faculties properly, is leading like you mean it. But without on-going education, they are either corrupted or fade. Before committing another cent to leadership development for your team, read this book and discover:
- What leading like you mean it really means
- Why misleaders are everywhere, but great leadership is hard to find
- The vital understanding of leadership that presidents, CEO's, and managers are missing
- What we as a society can do to change the status quo in the coming decade.
WEB-SITES: www.powerofintegrity.com www.leadersandmisleaders.biz
Any queries please e-mail alumni@ru.ac.za
Ducan Clarke (1966)
Africa's Future tells the tale of Africa’s economic evolution, providing unique prisms through which to view the continent’s panoramic story – ultimately one of triumph over the influences of nature and over multiple political tragedies. It explains how Africa in effect went backwards for one and a half thousand years, from the Roman Empire to 1500 CE. Only in more recent times has Africa gradually begun to evolve and grow, to the point at which its modern and archaic economies uneasily coexist today. Duncan Clarke, acclaimed author of Africa: Crude Continent and an acknowledged expert on the economics and geopolitics of Africa, provides fresh and challenging insights into our vision of Africa’s economies and future, offering seasoned views on a continent of enormous potential which has witnessed many false dawns.
Book available at Amazon.com
David Hilton-Barber (1953)
Footprints: On the trail of those who shaped Tzaneen's history is an idiosyncratic view of one of South Africa's loveliest districts. History is certainly revealed, but the book is much more than dry-as-dust facts and chronologies. The mountains and valleys and abundant vegetation of the northern Drakensberg have inspired many people. Their stories enliven almost every page. As Tito Mboweni states in his foreword: 'This is a book about Tzaneen, the vast splendour of its mountain ranges, the historical events that shaped its history, its rich cultural heritage and, above all, the strength and determination of the many people who have left their footprints here."
Books available from Porcupine Press
Herman Wasserman
Prof Wasserman is Deputy Head of Rhodes School of Journalism and Media Studies and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Journalism Studies at the University of Sheffield. Tabloid Journalism In South Africa examines the success of tabloid journalism in South Africa at a time when global print media are in decline. Less than a decade after the advent of democracy in South Africa, tabloid newspapers have taken the county by storm. One of these papers – the Daily Sun- is now the largest in the country, but it has generated controversy for its perceived lack of respect for privacy, brazen sexual content, and unrestrained truth-stretching. Herman Wasserman considers the social significance of the tabloids and how they play a role in integrating readers and their daily struggles with the political and social sphere of the new democracy. Wasserman shows how these papers have found an important niche in popular and civic culture largely ignored by the mainstream media and formal political channels.
Popular Media, Democracy and Development in Africa provides students and scholars with a critical perspective on issues relating to popular media, democracy and citizenship outside the global North. As part of the Routledge series Internationalizing Media Studies, the book responds to the important challenge of broadening perspectives on media studies by bringing together a range of expert analyses of media in the African continent that will be of interest to students and scholars of media in Africa and further afield.
Books available at amazon.com
Steve Murray (1951)
Why Do Aircraft Crash? Pilots and Their Limitations is an invaluable guide to pilots both general and commercial – and anyone who’s’ considered taking to the air. Today, most aviation accidents are the result of human limitations, not mechanical failure. How can pilots best deal with their limitations to avoid accidents? Steve Murray explores physical and mental limitations, the interface between humans and computers, human error, and problems with human communication. He explains decision making and the problems of stress. And he examines accident analysis, with a special focus on gliders. Steve started his flying career with the South African Air Force in 1952. Nearly 60 years later, he continues flying on a private pilot's licence. With a lifelong, passionate involvement in the practice and study of aviation with a D.Litt in aviation psychology, Steve has an extraordinary wealth of experience and unique insight into aviation accident causation.
Book available at amazon.com and Kalahari.net
Bill Malkin (1970)
ITS A FACT: A Book Of South African Trivia provides a collage of South African life for the casual reader. Every anecdote is factual and strikes a balance between events of historical or political significance, general interest and pure trivia. In researching the book, Bill became aware of how wonderfully colourful are the history and the people of South Africa and the book proves to be simultaneously fun and informative.
Susan Blackbeard (1973) (also publishing under the name S I Brodrick)
"Set mostly on the Queenstown/Grahamstown axis, but also incorporating Johannesburg and other parts of South Africa, The Door is a cleverly written novel dealing with the life and loves of Bing, a young man from a blue-collar family. Bing’s relationship with the drama student, Helen, who comes from an up-market background, is explored. The ways in which the tensions between the two – and their eventual separation – affect Minnie, the daughter and only child from their marriage, is convincingly realized.
Although written in the present tense, The Door effectively opens on a vista into the past, showing the reader how even liberal whites were contained in a net of ideological and legal restrictions, making it difficult for them to reach out to fellow black South Africans. To realize the manner in which icons of the present day such as Steve Biko and Nelson Mandela were viewed in the 1970s through white eyes is a mind-bending exercise."
part of review by Poet and Emeritus Professor of English, University of Cape Town, Geoffrey Haresnape.
Website: www.sibrodrick.blogspot.com
For information on how to buy the book, please e-mail:
Chris Walmsley (Nevin Weakley) (1968)
Mugabe-my part in his victory' is a light-hearted but factually based look at national service in the Rhodesian police force immediately prior to Robert Mugabe’s accession to power in Zimbabwe. It follows the transition of Chris Walmsley and his university friends from raw, high spirited recruits to disciplined and competent policemen.Not that this is a straightforward process. The police officers, recruits and Mugabe all had different ideas on how this should be achieved. They could not all be right….
Available from Amazon.com in paperback or kindle edition
Also available at bookorder@mpa.com Tel: 072 439 4133
Hugh Lewin (1958)
In July 1964 Hugh Lewin was held under the country’s 90-day detention law and later sentenced, with other members of the African Resistance Movement, to seven years’ imprisonment for protest sabotage activities against apartheid. He served the full term in Pretoria and left South Africa on a ‘permanent departure permit’ in December 1971. He spent 10 years in exile in London, followed by another ten years in Zimbabwe, before finally being allowed to return home at the end of 1992. He became director of the Institute for the Advancement of Journalism in Johannesburg and was a member of the Human Rights Violations Committee of the South African Truth & Reconciliation Commission.
Bandiet was first published in London in the mid-70s. Hailed as a classic work of South African prison literature, it remained banned in South Africa for many years. Bandiet Out Of Jail republishes the full text of the original Bandiet: Seven Years in a South African Prison with the addition of new stories that were excluded from the original. The new book also brings together previously unpublished poems
Websites to buy the book online:
Source: ColdType
Stones against the Mirror is a moving memoir which is both a family history and a story of friendship and betrayal between people caught up in the wrenching forces of the South African Struggle. Lewin describes his progress towards a meeting with Adrian Leftwich, the man who betrayed him to the Security Police in 1964. After 40 years, Lewin is determined to meet with his long-term friend both to find out what happened at his trial and to deal with the emotions of anger and bitterness that have assailed him ever since.
Source: Random House Struik
Nathi Mhlaba (2000)
Called into women's ministry and single, Nathi shares her experience with others and has been discipling women since university.
"In a world where being a couple is being promoted, where being in a relationship is the “in” thing, single women often feel left out and have the pressure to find someone. As women, we end up meeting the wrong people and settling for second best, as we feel that God has forgotten us.
Learn how to:
• be content in your singleness and fall more in love with God
• be joyful in the NOW
• prepare for the season that you are in (by reading, listening to preaching on being single or marriage)
Being single is not a curse but a gift, and we should look at it that way."
Sarah K. Gess (1955)
Wasps of the subfamily Masarinae are sometimes called "pollen wasps" because they are the only wasps that - like bees- provision their nest cells with pollen and nectar. Numbering a little over 300 known species, they favour regions of the world with hot, dry climates and scrubby vegetation, and are especially plentiful and diverse in southern Africa, where Sarah K. Gess has made the study of aculeate Hymenoptera, including these fascinating insects, her life's work.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, London, England.
David Christie (1995)
Not Much Of A Souldier" (From Drumclog 1679, To Dunkeld 1689). Betrayed by their political masters, deserted by their cavalry support, faced with an enemy fresh from their victory at Killiecrankie which outnumbered them five to one, only half equipped with firearms, and led by a man whose General assessed him as "not much of a soldier", what chance did the untried three-month-old Regiment have? This book tells the story of William Cleland, the first Cameronian commanding officer, and Alexander Shields, the first chaplain, who played a critical role in Scotland during the Revolution of 1689, and were instrumental in raising the Cameronian Regiment. Viscount Dundee had raised the Highlands for the ousted King James, and the story reaches its climax with the battles of Killiecrankie and Dunkeld. Yet despite all the problems the unblooded Cameronian Regiment faced, they fought the battle of Dunkeld with such courage and determination that they won a significant victory, breaking the back of the first Jacobite rebellion, and providing stability for social and religious changes in Scotland which still endure.
