UJ Press

As we begin to fundamentally redefine our world, informed through the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) lens, entire industries are gearing up for this disruptive event. Library practices have been no exception. With the advent of advanced digital t...

Decolonising Higher Education in the Era of Globalisation and Internationalisation

Conceived within a context of transdisciplinarity and pluriversalism, and in rigorous response to the Eurocentric, globalising and nationalising structures of power that undergird and inhabit contemporary praxis in higher education especially in Afri...

Adult Development and Ageing

Adult development – a life span that could easily be four to five times longer than that of childhood – is an important discipline in its own right. As life expectancy is increasing more rapidly than at any other time in human history, scientific...

The Anglo Boer War `1899 to 1902` White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war

Based on many years of research with regard to the Anglo-Boer War, this book is essential reading for anyone who would like to know more about the most devastating conflict that has thus far been waged between white people in Southern Africa. However...

Basotho Medicinal Plants / Meriana ya dimela tsa Basotho

Medical

As a Mosotho I believe this publication assists in documenting the deep indigenous knowledge of our forefathers and helps preserve the proud tradition of the Basotho Nation.rnDr Chris NhlapornVice-Chancellor, Cape Peninsula University of Technologyrn...

The Battle at Mamusa The Western Transvaal border culture and the ethno dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity

The Battle of Mamusa reflects the grievous event in the Western Transvaal border culture context that contributed profoundly to the dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity. The narrative presented in this work is exceptional for at least tw...

Books and Bones and Other Things

Arts & Photography

Books tell stories about our lifeworld. In this book Jan Coetzee invites us to critically inquire into the aims, the content, and the context of the stories contained in a collection of old books from an old world. Without opening these old texts and...

A Century of Postgraduate Anglo Boer War

This study provides students, historians, other academics and scholars, as well as other researchers and anyone interested in the history of the Anglo-Boer War, with as comprehensive a list as possible of all postgraduate studies completed on any con...

Child and Adolescent Development

The development of children is one of the most fascinating wonders of life. From the moment conception takes place until the end of adolescence when the person enters the adult world, the developmental road is characterised by numerous miracles and m...

Churches in the mirror: Developing contemporary ecclesiologies

Ecclesiology is the study of the church and has two focal points; the one is the historical and doctrinal perspective on the church, and the other is the church as situated in a local context in the sense of the local practices of actual congregation...

Communion Ecclesiology in a Racially Polarised South Africa

Communion Ecclesiology by Dr. K.T. Resane explores the concept of a communion ecclesiology in South Africa. The book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the concept in the Bible, in history and in different church traditions includin...

A Foreign Voyage Pacific Maritime Labour Identity, 1840 to 1890

JOHN GRIDER joined the Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice at the University of the Free State as a Research Fellow in November 2015. He recently completed this captivating project, which investigates the complex interplay between gender,...

Human Development for Students in Southern Africa

Human Development for Students in South Africa, is a combination of two titles, namely: (1) Child and Adolescent Development, and (2) Adult development and Ageing....

International Comparative Perspectives on Religion and Education

This book scrutinises religion in education in ten countries. It reveals much about the tension between religion and education in secular countries, and the blending between religion and education in religious countries, such as Iran and Malaysia, as...

Jesus Christus, Seun van God, ís ons Versoening: ’n Missionêre Christologie

In Jesus Christus, Seun van God, is ons versoening: ’n Missionêre Christologie beklemtoon Pieter Verster die unieke betekenis van Jesus Christus as Seun van God en die implikasies van hierdie belydenis vir die sending. Verster lig die betekenis vi...

Jihad: A South African Perspective

What are the factors which have made South Africa so appealing to terrorist and radical Islamic organisations? What role has South Africa played within global Jihad? This book examines how South Africa has come to play a major role in global terror n...

Kaapstad se Streetgate Politieke Maneuvers en die Peter Marais Debakel

Vandag is die hernoeming van veral plek- en straatname om die onreg van die verlede reg te stel weer sterk op die voorgrond, en dit bly `n kontroversiële aangeleentheid wat rolspelers en die mens op straat se belangstelling vasvang. Derhalwe is dié...

Knowledge as Enablement: Engagement between higher education and the third sector in South Africa

Knowledge can and does enable, specifically through engagement between higher education institutions, the third sector (mostly non-profit organisations), public service role players and the communities. The purpose of the research is reciprocal build...

Majority World Perspectives on Christian Mission

It affords us real pleasure to present this editorial on behalf of the Majority World Christian Leaders Conversation (MWCLC). The MWCLC started slowly, but surely since 2016, following a groundbreaking conversation among eleven mission practitioners ...

Making sense of Jesus: Experiences, interpretations and identities

Making sense of Jesus is comprised of twelve chapters of a Christological nature, which are the result of a multidisciplinary theological research project. The aim of this book is to ascertain how, in the current cultural situation, an encounter with...

Narrating the Everyday: Windows on Life in Central South Africa

The chapters in this book reflect on the practice of using narratives to understand individual and social reality. They all reveal dimensions of the same concrete reality: contemporary society of Central South Africa. Except for two, all the chapters...

New hope for the poor: A perspective on the church in informal settlements in Africa

Empowering the poor remains an essential part of the Christian Gospel. The way in which the absolute poor in informal settlements in Africa can be empowered by the message of the Bible, needs to be researched. During research completed in informal se...

Nuns Across the Orange: A History of the Pioneering Anglican Community of St Michael and All Angels, Bloemfontein

When Sister Emma and the five women who accompanied her from England crossed the Orange River early in 1874, they exchanged the comfortable mainstream of Anglican Church life for the rigours of pioneering new works in an undeveloped country. Living c...

Obedience and Servant Leadership: Apollis, Appies, Buti, Buys

In celebrating a quarter of a century of the Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa (URSCA) (1994 2019), quite a few well-organised activities and events took place. These activities reflect a mix of serious academic seminars and liturgical celeb...

Of the same breath: Indigenous animal and place names

Of the Same Breath opens the door to a better understanding of why and how the animals and places of southern Africa have been given the names they have today. The vast reaches of the information provided in this book have been drawn together to crea...

Die Ontwikkeling van die kind en die adolessent

Kloppers

Jacobus Kloppers, an eminent composer, organist, pedagogue, and scholar, significantly contributed to musicological and organ teaching in South Africa and Canada and, in the latter context, art music, and liturgical composition. A Passage of Nostalgi...

Praxis towards sustainable empowering learning environments in South Africa

This collection presents some of the best peer-reviewed papers from a conference with the theme “Creating sustainable empowering learning environments through scholarship of engagement”....

A Scientific Bibliography of the Drakensberg, Maloti and Adjacent Lowlands

This bibliography includes scientific articles on the Drakensberg, Maloti and Adjacent Lowlands published between 1808 and 2019. Although focusing on material appearing in accredited journals, there is such a wealth of information in the form of unpu...

Sexuality Society and Pedagogy

Sexuality, Society and Pedagogy problematises some of the prevailing assumptions that frame this area of study. In doing so, it aims to make visible the challenges of teaching sexuality education in South African schools, while demonstrating its pote...

South African Christian Experiences: From colonialism to democracy

Some of the studies in this publication excavate lost or disappearing indigenous toponyms. Those researchers contribute in a very concrete way to the preservation of indigenous toponyms, and thereby also the associated cultural heritage. The other pa...

Southern African Geomorphology: Recent Trends and New Directions

Environment

This book covers the geomorphology and landscape evolution of South Africa, focusing on arid landscapes, fluvial systems, karst, Quaternary landscapes, macro-scale geomorphic evolution, coastal geomorphology and applied geomorphology. It would appeal...

Space and planning in secondary cities: Reflections from South Africa

Environment

Much of the urban research focuses on the large metropolitan areas in South Africa. This book assesses spatial planning in the second-tier cities of the country. Secondary cities are vital as they perform essential regional, and in some cases, global...

Sugar and Settlers: A history of the Natal South Coast 1850 to 1910

Duncan Du Bois provides a detailed and fascinating history of a hitherto much-neglected part of what was the colony of Natal. Based primarily on original archival research, he traces the southward advance of the white settler frontier and its sugar-b...

Suid Afrika se Vlootmagte 1922 to 2012

Afrikaans: Suid-Afrika, met drie landsgrense deur see omsoom en ’n kuslyn van ongeveer 2 800 km, is ’n maritieme moondheid. Die Suid-Afrikaanse vlootmagte vorm uiteraard ’n belangrike deel van dié land se gewapende magte en verdedigingstelsels...

Die Wonderbare Heilige Gees én die Vader van liefde: `n Missionêre teologie

Pieter Verster dra uit die ryk en ryp oesland van die Ou en Nuwe Testament ’n oorvloed gerwe. ’n Uitnemende geleerde is hier aan die woord. Die Persoon en werk van die Heilige Gees, die derde Persoon van God Drie-enig, word vars en nuut belig. Di...

Case Study Research: The Quick Guide Series

Interest in Case Study Research continues to grow as its importance becomes more and more established in the academic community. When Case Study Research is implemented correctly, it gives the academic researcher an opportunity of being able to look ...

Global Initiatives and Higher Education in the Fourth Industrial Revolution

The Fourth industrial Revolution (4IR) is forcing higher education (HE) into a new era where it must either actively and positively contribute to innovation, sustainability, and development or become obsolete and redundant. HE must leave its ivory to...

Grounded Theory: A Reader for Researchers, Students, Faculty and Others

Grounded theory is one of the most important intellectual developments in academic research. Prior to the seminal work in grounded theory in the 1960s the essence of academic research in the social sciences had not been particularly well articulated....

The Impact of Covid 19 on the Future of Law

The chapters in this volume focus on the future of law and related disciplines: human rights and access to medical care, corruption and money laundering in state procurement, counterfeit medical products, IPR waiver on COVID-19 vaccines, emergency po...

The Inclusive Economy: Criteria, Principles and Ubuntu

Business & Money

There is one serious missing link at the center of today`s capitalism. It is a disequilibrium between increased economic interconnectedness and increased isolation/exclusion. This unique challenge in the 21st century calls for a unique solution: Ubun...

An Introduction to Statistics using Microsoft Excel

A significant amount of academic research his conducted using quantitative research methods. In many universities large and expensive statistical software has been acquired. However much of this software requires a considerable amount of training bef...

Writing up your Research for a Dissertation or Thesis

In some circles there is an attitude that academic research consists of two distinct activities. The first of these is the execution of the research activities themselves and the second is writing it up in such a way that it may be presented either f...

Voices past and present: A comparison of Old Cape dialectal, Bushman and Khoikhoi words

The preservation of South Africa`s indigenous languages the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source for documenting and preserving s...

COJ Senior Citizens Write! An anthology of short stories written by senior citizens, through a digital literacy programme

City of Joburg Senior Citizens Write is a collection of short stories written by Senior Citizens and adults who participated in the digital literacy and creative writing program that was introduced in 2018 at Murray Park Library, Johannesburg, South ...

Waste PET MOF Cleanwater Waste PET Derived Metal Organic Framework

Science & Math

In counties like South Africa, firstly, the waste PET stream has posed a serious problem to the environment, and the current recycling of waste PET remains as low as 30%. The waste PET recycling industries such as PETCO & Extrupet (South Africa) are ...

Rhoda: Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!: A Biography

This authorized biography was made possible through the gracious help of my mother-in-law, Rhoda Kadalie, who provided generous access to her files, letters, photographs, and extensive library of documents. She made time to sit with me for several ho...

Reader in Trinitarian Theology

Speaking God today signifies assuming the task constitutive of the discipline of systematic theology. A relational God who lives in ex-static self-giving, creates Christian communities of hospitality and generosity, and offers a healing vision of tru...

A Scientific Bibliography of the Far Northern Drakensberg

This Scientific Bibliography of the “Far Northern Drakensberg” is a continuation by the Afromontane Research Unit of the University of the Free State (ARU) to document published and other similar works on the mountains of the summer rainfall area...

The Participation Paradox Between Bottom Up and Top Down Development in South Africa

ebunking the conventional belief that grassroots democracy is always a panacea for the poor and disenfranchised. The last two decades have ushered in what has become known as a participatory revolution, with consultants, advisors, and non-profits cal...

Being Gay is not all fabulous: Short stories of black South African gay men

LGBTQIA+

This book is born out of a need to speak back to a powerful, pervasive narrative about the lives of black gay men. The narratives still circulating pay no attention to the role of agency, creativity, hope, aspirations, and everyday lives of gay men. ...

Umsinga Wothando

Fiction

Le ncwadi ngumdlalo waseqongeni, olungiselelwe ukuba uluntu jikelele lufunde ukuba awunako ukuthintela uthando endleleni yalo. Lowo uthe wazama loo nto uya kurhaxwa kurhaxwe nabanye kwenzeke inyhikityha yokufa. Uthando lusekwa ngumdali hayi omnye umn...

Developmental Integration and Industrialisation in Southern Africa

Since the beginning of decolonisation in Africa, regional integration has become one of the most potent defining characteristics of the continent’s quest for industrialisation and sustainable development. It was understood that the individual conti...

The Politics of the Dead in Zimbabwe, 2000–2020: Bones, Rumours and Spirits

In 1898, just before she was hanged for rebelling against colonial rule, Charwe Nyakasikana, spirit medium of the legendary ancestor Ambuya Nehanda, famously prophesised that ‘my bones will rise again’. A century later bones, bodies and human rem...

Research on the Letter to the Galatians: 2000-2020. Volume 1: Introductory Matters, Textual and Stylistic Issues, History of Interpretation, Interpretative Approaches, and Theology of the Letter

This book confirms that research on the Letter to the Galatians is flourishing. Although it is true that much of what is being published is not new and that well-known arguments and insights have often been repeated, it is also clear that much progre...

Research on the Letter to the Galatians: 2000-2020. Volume 2: Research on the Letter arranged according to Pericopes

Linguistics for legal interpretation

Linguistics for Legal Interpretation is a language resource for scholars and practitioners of law who engage and work with statutory interpretation. It draws on lexical semantics, pragmatics and sociolinguistics to both understand and solve language ...

Research Mentorship: A Developmental and Transformational Tool in Shaping and Sustaining African Women’s Career Progression in Academia

“The lessons drawn on in this book are clear: do not wait to reach some place or position in life where you feel like you are prepared to give back or pour into people; you are already prepared and positioned on some level!” Prof Glenda Gray, Pre...

Reluctant Prophet: Tributes to Albert Nolan OP

This book is a collection of essays in honour of South African theologian and best-selling author Albert Nolan OP, who died in October 2022 at the age of 88. Awarded the ‘Order of Luthuli in Silver’ by then President Thabo Mbeki in 2003 for his �...

Male Powerlessness: Men and Intimate Partner Violence

Male Powerlessness investigates black African men’s lived encounters with intimate partner violence (IPV) and the ways in which these men make sense of, and struggle to overcome, their unprecedented experiences of abuse at a time when research on w...

Triangle of One Hundred Years Wars

The book “Triangle of One Hundred Years Wars” provides an incredibly gripping and riveting South African historiography, chronologically articulated through an endogenous lens by a native South African. It chronicles a record reflective of the fu...

Kortpad-Praatjies I: Afrikaans vir beginners | Shortcut Chats: An interactive workbook

Die Afrikaanse TipTop-Taalreeks is uniek omdat dit ´n internasionale karakter het en Kortpad-Praatjies I sluit tientalle stemopnames van grammatika-oefeninge in. Dit bevat ook dialoë wat in die Maroela-ateljees deur ´n span akteurs onder die leidi...

Imela Igobel’esandleni: Idrama, Imibongo & Amabali Amafutshane

Fiction

Lo mdlalo ubuhlungu kangaka wenzeka kwenye yemizi yakwaNyawuza eXhorha kwilali yaseThungwana.”Imela igobel’esandleni” La ngamazwi aphume kwinkosikazi uNolwando ezibona ilahlekelwa ngumntwana nempilo yayo ngenxa yomona.rnrnUZungula waswelekwa ng...

African Principles on the Law Applicable to International Commercial Contracts

This booklet contains the first draft of the envisaged African Principles on the Law Applicable to International Commercial Contracts. The proposal could be used by national legislators on the continent and African economic integration organisations,...

Navigating Academia: Women’s Stories of Success and Struggle - A Call to Action

“This book is a vital resource for promoting transformation and radical change in academia, offering perspectives, strategies and approaches that can be used in addressing persistent gender inequities in the fi eld. Readers from all walks of life c...

Landmark Constitutional Cases that Changed South Africa

On 14 February 1995, the Constitutional Court of South Africa was inaugurated by President Nelson Mandela. In his inaugural speech, President Mandela remarked that the “future of our democracy” hinged on the existence and the work of the newly cr...

Erfdeel: Koos du Plessis – Versamelde Werke

Poetry

Met bedrieglik eenvoudige lirieke en gevoelvolle melodieë het Koos du Plessis musiek in Afrikaans geskep wat tot gewone mense spreek, maar wat oor universele temas handel: verlies, vervreemding, afsondering, ontroering, ontheemding en verganklikheid...

Futures and Beyond: Creativity and 4IR Conference 2022

Arts & Photography

FUTURES & BEYOND and 4IR Virtual Conference was hosted online by UJ Arts & Culture on 30 and 31 August 2022. The University of Johannesburg has positioned the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) as its visionary focus in research and higher education,...

Sinsoekers: Tussen Twyfel en Troos

Johan Cilliers bied hier ’n teologiese boek aan wat tegelykertyd ook ’n kunswerk is – en wys daarmee dat teologiese diskoerse ’n opwindende kombinasie van skilderye, gedigte, refleksies, verhale, baie humor, Bybelse woorde, preke en meditasie...

Academic Libraries in Africa

This book offers an interesting overview of academic libraries and the communities they serve in Africa. The book explores the work of academic libraries from a number of different countries primarily in Sub-Saharan Africa. One of the valuable cont...

Adrianus van Selms: Concise versions of his contributions in Dutch and Afrikaans theological journals (1936-1982)

Adrianus van Selms (1906-1984) was a Dutch pastor (1930-1938) who became senior lecturer and professor in Semitic languages at the University of Pretoria (1938-1972) and lecturer in Biblical archaeology (1938-1962) at the Faculty of Theology of the N...

Demystifying the Jewel Called the ILO: A Labour of Love

Health, Fitness & Dieting

It is not easy to share what the International Labour Organization (ILO) is about, and what makes it one of the most important institutions in the world, without using jargon that completely loses most people who are not part of the environment that ...

Improving Health Literacy for People with Low Literacy: An analysis of a South African HIV health education programme

Health literacy and low health literacy have received increased attention due to their association with poor understanding of health information, and consequently negative health outcomes. Although much research discusses health literacy and its role...

Kortpad-Afrikaans: ŉ Basiese grammatika | Shortcut Afrikaans: Basic Afrikaans grammar

“Kortpad-Afrikaans is ’n uiters gebruikersvriendelike tweetalige kontrolebron oor daardie aspekte wat die lees, skryf en praat van Afrikaans ontsluit. Teorie en toepassing word deurgaans vernuftig versoen en daardeur word dit ’n toeganklike bro...

Mama

Mother’s Day is an annual occasion when we take the time to honour the incredible women who have shaped our lives through their love, support, and guidance. In celebration of Mother’s Day 2024, the University of Johannesburg (UJ) published Mama. ...

Map Work

Maps are part of daily life – from finding your way via Google Maps to monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals. Maps are frequently used to convey important information and relationships. In today’s modern world, maps are more diverse and ac...

Shaka Inkosi Yamakhosi: King of Kings

Reaching our full potential is the greatest form of self we can ever attain.rnBorn into shame and taught to hate, uShaka kaSenzangakhona was an outcast the moment he came into this world. With blood enemies at every turn, the supernatural, together w...

Through My Voice: Statements at the United Nations, 2016 – 2021

Through my voice, the message of my country, South Africa, Africa and Global South found expression in the formal platforms of the United Nations. I had the privilege to be the mouthpiece of South Africa’s policy positions during a critical period ...

My Poems

Poetry

This book is about a few different interesting poems written to help children to become literate and improve their reading skills. In South Africa, 81% of children are unable to read and write. This causes unemployment which already destroys our futu...

Women: Wise, Optimistic, Motivating, Empowering & Nurturing

Women’s Day, celebrated annually on the 9th of August, commemorates the 1956 women’s march against the discriminatory pass laws during the apartheid era. It was on this day that women from across the nation were led by Helen Joseph, Lillian Ngoyi...

Public Administration and Governance in Democratic South Africa

There is a national emergency, and it has become more pronounced as South Africa faces challenges of Ethical leadership in both the private and public sector. Recently the Zondo Commission, Public Investment Corporation (PIC) Commission and Courts of...

Gang Entry and Exit in Cape Town: Getting Beyond the Streets in Africa’s Deadliest City

Gang violence is a concern being debated by academics, politicians, and communities around the world. Yet effective solutions are still in short supply, partly because too little research concentrates on understanding how people can escape the trap o...

Reappraising the Life and Legacy of Jan C. Smuts

In this book, the authors cover both familiar and unfamiliar themes. One of the principal themes running throughout the book addresses head-on the deficiency in the literature highlighted by Saul Dubow, namely, the question of racism and Smuts’s re...

New Frontiers in Contemporary Missiology: Southern African Perspectives

In this book seven authors deal with issues of Africa identity. These comprise the interface between Christian faith with ancestral veneration, the question of African personhood, gender, and culture, human dignity, COVID-19, human sexuality, and the...

Liberal Peace: On Conflict, Gender, and Peacebuilding: Democratic Republic of Congo Case Study

In this book, the authors analyse and offer some insights into the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The story is told within the context of its conflicts, with an exploration of the complex and multilayered conflict causes and the a...

Journey to Ithaca: A personal memoir

Journey to Ithaca is an extraordinary memoir about an extraordinary life. Of its author it may well be said, in Shakespeare’s words (from Henry VI, part I, aptly quoted in the prelims): “Who would e’er suppose [he] had such courage and audacity...

Diaspora in the MENA Region and Beyond