The tabloid *Southern African Review of Books*
is now available via e-mail. An e-mail copy of each issue,
which is normally available 4 weeks before the hard copy,
is included in the cost of a normal surface subscription.
This service is especially aimed at subscribers living
outside South Africa. If you would like to receive a
sample issue, drop a note to
ROBERT.TURRELL@HUMBOLDT.UNI-ULM.DE
Here is a sample of what was published in recent issues:
HISTORY
Norman Etherington on gold, Edward Alpers on the
History Workshop in Johannesburg, Tim Keegan on Zulu
nationalism, Charles van Onselen on a mining childhood,
Terence Ranger on women and the land in colonial Rhodesia,
Msokoli Qotole on mine hostels, Ciraj Rassool on the new
textbooks by William Beinart and Nigel Worden, Bill Nasson
on soldiers and war
POLITICS
David Everatt on death squads, Hilda Bernstein on
exiles, Kader Asmal on the constitution, Mzwanele Mayekiso
on the townships, Keorapetse Kgositsile and Wally Mongane
Serote on language, Mamphela Ramphele on 'affirmative
action', Tom Lodge on the South African election, Mucha
Musemwa on negotiations for a new South Africa,
Tim Holmes on the new Zambia, Patrick Bond on the RDP,
William Minter on war in Southern Africa,
Andimba Toivo Y Toivo on Mandela`s autobiogaphy
LITERATURE
Elleke Boehmer on Christopher Hope and
Damon Galgut, Ampie Coetzee on Andre Brink,
Donald Fanger on J.M. Coetzee, Dorothy Driver
on Bessie Head and Nadine Gordimer, Peter Horn
on Ivan Vladislavic, Leloba Molema on
inventing tradition, J.M Coetzee
on Breyten Breytenbach, Tony Morphet on Guy Butler
POETRY
Stanley Nyamfukudza on Stephen Gray
and Mzi Mahola, Geoffrey Haresnape on Wendy Woodward
and Cherry Clayton, Stephen Watson on C.J. Driver
POEMS
by Ingrid de Kok, Mongane Wally Serote,
C.J. Driver, Rustum Kozain
FICTION
Sarah Nuttall on seduction, Dick Peck on the crime
novels of James McClure, Tim Couzens on Namaqualand
novels and Rider Haggard
BIOGRAPHY
Tim Holmes on Tiny Rowland, Tom Lodge on
Oliver Tambo, Bill Hoffenberg on Alan Paton,
David Killingray on Trader Horn, Colin Bundy on S.P. Bunting
and H.M. Basner
EDUCATION
Namane Magau on desegregating white schools,
Linda Chisholm on education policy
PSYCHOLOGY
Graham Hayes on violence,
Njabulo Ndebele on children
SPORT
Vivian Bickford-Smith on cricket,
Chenjerai Hove on drinking beer
ARTS
Tony Morphet on Malcolm Payne,
Ingrid de Kok on culture
LAW
Don Pinnock on juvenile crime,
Nicholas Haysom on vigilantes
In addition there are regular columns and diaries:
"A Book That Changed Me":
Albie Sachs, Karel Schoeman, Denis Hirson, Elleke Boehmer,
Peter Wilhelm
"Writers at Work":
Shimmer Chinodya, Mazisi Kunene, Etienne van Heerden
Nadine Gordimer, Doris Lessing, Tsitsi Dangaremba
"The Art of Writing History":
Colin Bundy, Arnold Temu, Jeff Peires, Bill Freund
"Economics Diary":
Patrick Bond
"US Diary":
Lewis Nkosi
"Past Personal":
Randolph Vigne