Wits University Press News
Queer Mozambique: From the Mines to the Manas
4th June 2026
Queer Mozambique offers a wide-ranging exploration of Mozambique’s distinctive cultures of sexual and gender dissent and fluidity, from the mine compounds of the late nineteenth century to the current LGBTIQ+ movement and the formation of new sexual and gender identities, such as those of the... →
Queer Mozambique offers a wide-ranging exploration of Mozambique’s distinctive cultures of sexual and gender dissent and fluidity, from the mine compounds of the late nineteenth century to the current LGBTIQ+ movement and the formation of new sexual and gender identities, such as those of the... →
Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy: Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below
19th March 2026
The left has been unable to inspire a practical challenge to the planetary crisis of capitalism that has upended nature and society. This book maps a new transformative politics arising from worker cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and have the potential to undermine the... →
The left has been unable to inspire a practical challenge to the planetary crisis of capitalism that has upended nature and society. This book maps a new transformative politics arising from worker cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and have the potential to undermine the... →
Darker Shade of Pale: Shtetl to Colony – Deborah Posel
27th January 2026
A sweeping story with intimate roots, Darker Shade of Pale traces a little-known chapter in the history of global migration: the journey of families at the turn of the twentieth century from the Jewish territories of the Russian Empire, called The Pale of Settlement, to the far-flung British... →
A sweeping story with intimate roots, Darker Shade of Pale traces a little-known chapter in the history of global migration: the journey of families at the turn of the twentieth century from the Jewish territories of the Russian Empire, called The Pale of Settlement, to the far-flung British... →
Rock Art of the Waterberg: Rites and Transformation
2nd December 2025
The first comprehensive study of rock art in the Waterberg region of the Limpopo Province, this richly illustrated volume explores the intricate world views of Bushman groups, Iron Age farmers and Khoekhoe herders. The authors decode the visual languages of 130 sites to show how these groups... →
The first comprehensive study of rock art in the Waterberg region of the Limpopo Province, this richly illustrated volume explores the intricate world views of Bushman groups, Iron Age farmers and Khoekhoe herders. The authors decode the visual languages of 130 sites to show how these groups... →
Johnny Clegg: Critical Reflections on his Music and Influence – Michael Drewett & Lucilla Spini
17th November 2025
Explores Johnny Clegg’s legacy as a South African musician, anthropologist and cultural activist. It examines Clegg’s integration of music, dance and political philosophy as resistance against apartheid, his navigation of transnational cultural politics, and interrogates cultural appropriation... →
Explores Johnny Clegg’s legacy as a South African musician, anthropologist and cultural activist. It examines Clegg’s integration of music, dance and political philosophy as resistance against apartheid, his navigation of transnational cultural politics, and interrogates cultural appropriation... →
Book Launches
Queer Mozambique: From the Mines to the Manas
4th June 2026 Mozambique’s 2015 decriminalisation of homosexual acts occurred not through court rulings or mass protest, but through parliamentary reform and local advocacy, making Mozambique an outlier in Africa in its relatively tolerant behaviours and attitudes toward nonheterosexual relationships. What are... →
Bloke of All Ages: Perspectives on Bloke Modisane
19th March 2026 Perspectives on Bloke Modisane: Why Bloke Modisane Still Matters Editors of the book Siyabonga Njicaand Siphiwo Mahala will be in conversation with Zukiswa Wanner,on the literary and intellectual legacy of Bloke Modisane, author of Blame Me on History and one of Sophiatown’s most important... →
Worker Cooperatives and Deep Democracy: Transformative Politics and Planetary Care from Below
27th January 2026 The left has been unable to inspire a practical challenge to the planetary crisis of capitalism that has upended nature and society. This book maps a new transformative politics arising from worker cooperative systems that advance planetary care from below and have the potential to undermine the... →