Cleaner Energy, Cooler Climate: Developing sustainable energy solutions for South Africa
Harald Winkler
In ‘Cleaner Energy Cooler Climate', author Harald Winkler explores national sustainable energy options within the context of international climate change. By focusing specifically on development in South Africa's residential and electricity sectors, Winkler sets out to address whether there are energy policies to make development more sustainable economically, socially and environmentally, while also reducing GHG emissions. 2008 / 320pp / 978-07969-2230-4 / R 190.00 / Soft cover Get it here ...
The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South Africa and the shape of recurring pasts
Premesh Lalu
In 1996, as the TRC hearings were beginning, Nicholas Gcaleka, a healer diviner from Butterworth in the Eastern Cape, set off on a journey to retrieve the skull of Hintsa, the Xhosa king. Hintsa had been killed by British troops over 150 years before and, it was widely believed, been beheaded. Following the tracks of Gcaleka, author Lalu explores the reasons for the almost incessant laughter from the press, academics and traditional leadership that accompanied Gcaleka's journeys into the past. 2008 / 352pp / 978-07969-2233-5 / R 190.00 / Soft cover Get it here ...
Education and Poverty Reduction Strategies: Issues of policy coherence
Edited by Simeon Maile
Highly relevant for policy-makers, researchers, education practitioners, development professionals and activists in non-governmental organisations, this book offers some practical answers to crucially important questions. The colloquium proceedings interrogate the link between education and poverty reduction and highlight the role of cross-sectoral co-ordination and policy coherence in breaking the poverty trap. The connection between poverty and lack of education seems entirely self-evident, yet real progress in overcoming the obstacles to education and economic affluence has eluded governments and social activists worldwide for decades. 2008 / 288pp / 978-07969-2222-9 / R 140.00 / Soft cover Get it here ...
Managing to Learn: Instructional leadership in South African secondary schools
Ursula Hoadley & Catherine Ward
‘Instructional leadership' has become a key concept in the research literature, reflecting an attempt to better understand the relationship between school leadership, curriculum and instructional matters, and student achievement. ‘Managing to Learn', the first study of its kind in South Africa, considering these issues in a sample of 200 schools in two provinces and is part of the Teacher Education in South Africa series, documenting a wide-ranging set of research projects on teacher education. 2008 / 136pp / 978-07969-2241-0 / R 115.00 / Soft cover Get it here ...
Scholars in the Marketplace: The dilemmas of neo-liberal reform at Makerere University 1989- 2005
Mahmood Mamdani
With the World Bank heralding neo-liberal reform at Uganda's Makerere University as the model for the transformation of higher education in Africa, this case study of market-based reforms at Makerere has implications for the whole continent. Peerless academic and African intellectual, Mamdani distinguishes between privatisation and commercialisation, two processes that drove the Makerere reform, and warns against commercialisation of public universities as the subversion of public institutions for private purposes. 2008 / 272pp / 978-07969-2225-0 / R 190.00 / Soft cover Get it here ...
Situational Analysis of Orphaned and Vulnerable Children in Eight Zimbabwean Districts
Edited by Brian Chandiwana
In 2002, the HSRC was commissioned by the WK Kellogg Foundation to develop and implement a five-year intervention project focusing on orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) in southern Africa. In collaboration with several partner organisations, the project currently focuses on how children, families and communities in Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe are coping with the impact of HIV/AIDS. The aim of the project is to develop models of best practice so as to enhance and improve support structures for OVC in the southern African region as a whole. 2008 / 28pp / 978-07969-2234-2 / Price TBC / Soft cover Get it here ...
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