New Releases by Gcina Mhlophe

Mhlophe tells stories from African folklore.

Everywhere she went, Khethiwe heard the beautiful sounds of the imbira. She wished she, too, could play it. But the king said that in his land, no girl could play imbira. Then one day, when Khethiwe was swimming in her secret place, an imbira magically appeared out of the water. That day, Khethiwe's life changed forever.

Zandile is snatched away from her grandmother's loving care and taken to live with her matriarcal family in rural Transkei. Moving, funny and convincing, full of Zandile's shrewd, youthful insights, the play offers an illuminating window onto the 1960s with its issues of white dominance, rural hardship and black female repression.

Gcina Mhlophe is a poet, playwright, performer and South Africa's favorite storyteller. In this fascinating retrospective collection, she shares her personal journey through the social and political landscapes of the 1980s, with its recollected moments of struggle and transformation along the way. Written in a variety of styles and voices, ranging from anecdotal memory to historical moment to folklore tradition, these simply presented poems and stories are by turns funny, touching, chilling, thought-provoking and absorbing. Love Child is a collection for the new millennium generation. It is valuable not just for the deeply-felt personal and political insights it has to offer, but for the accessible ease with which it manages to capture the seminal moments of black South African history in the preserving amber of the author's personal recollection.

Cambridge Reading Routes is a reading programme for the first seven years of schooling in South Africa.

Stars of Africa is an exciting reading series for learners from Grade R to Grade 7. The series contains a wonderful selection for Foundation Phase learners to build their confidence as readers, widen their knowledge as learners and increase their reading pleasure.

A fantasy accounting of how the pattern of the turtle's shell was formed.

Billedfortælling - fra Sydafrika - der bygger på folkeeventyret om danserinden Manjuza hvis mand blev forvandlet til en slange med syv hoveder. Selvlæsning fra 10 år. - Også for voksne