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Imbali Academic Publishers is based in Cape Town. The
company was founded by publishing professionals Liesbet van Wyk, Ute
Späth and Glendor Crouch.
Under the Imbali General & Trade Publishers imprint, Imbali aims to
explore and highlight the voices of southern African people.
LAPA is proud to distribute these books under an agency agreement. For
more information, visit their website: imbaliacademic.co.za/.
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Operation
Mandela
The late eighties was a highly politicised environment. Willem
Laubscher was healing some of the world’s best-known political
prisoners, amongst them Walter Sisulu and Govan Mbeki. When Nelson
Mandela was scheduled for a similar operation, all hell broke loose.
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The National Party was quietly
plotting to smuggle Mandela out of the country, possibly hoping that he
would escape, while the ANC was scoring points by casting doubt on the
medical services that white doctors like Laubscher was willing to
provide to the political prisoners.
A relatively simple medical operation turned into an international
diplomatic crisis. Meanwhile, in most ironic of twists, the security
police was taking desperate measures to ensure Mandela’s safety – the
country could simply not afford an assassination attempt.
Willem Laubscher was the medical practitioner in the eye of this storm;
Nelson Mandela was the calm strategist who had held out against
pressure from both the jittery NP government and the increasingly
boisterous ANC, with Winnie Mandela already larger than life, stoking
the media and exploiting every available loophole to embarrass the
government.
This is the story of a few weeks of diplomatic chaos, and a security
operation that completely overshadowed the medical procedure Mandela
was scheduled for.
Operation Mandela
is available at your nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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Nasty women
talk back
Women, womyn & womxn: Are they really nasty? This collection
contains humour and pathos; it is an easy read, despite being
academically grounded and completely relevant. Wonderful doodles at the
start of each essay soften the page. This is a want-to-read book on an
extremely important topic. In South Africa the #Fallist movement became
an extremely important platform to discuss gender, while #metoo has
become a global phenomenon. Ashanti Kunene, a Fallist-leader, is one of
the contributors.
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The idea for the collection was born,
cradled and nurtured between friends who wanted to create a space for
writing and thinking about the women's marches. The group of
feminists who contributed to this collection used the marches and
the posters inspired by the marches as a vehicle which galvanised women
into action to put pen to paper and show fervour for ongoing feminist
activism. The nexus of this beautifully written and evocatively
illustrated collection is telling narratives that link very personal
stories with deeply political issues. These are the stories told by
nasty women who are making the personal political, who are seeking to
live their lives in ways that resist and challenge patriarchy. Through
their very intimate nature these are stories that speak to the creation
of a different kind of social order, one based on equity, the promotion
of human rights and social justice.
The presidential campaign in the USA grabbed the global imagination. It
also grabbed the feminist imagination, presenting the hope that if a
woman could become the president of the USA, women throughout the world
would finally break through the reinforced glass ceiling. However, when
it didn't happen, the lost opportunity become the metaphorical kick in
the feminist gut on a global scale. Through the subsequent misogyny,
vulgarity, lewd comments, the pussy-grabbing video, and the threats of
the erosion of feminist activism in the trenches, worldwide a deep
mourning arose from the feminist community. It was the name calling of
"nasty women" that really smarted. Initial feelings of anger
gave rise to empowerment of women - those who talk back to patriarchy -
to embrace the label of "nasty women".
Nasty women talk
back is available at your nearest bookstore. The e-book is
available at LAPA.
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Trevor in the
Land of Fantasy
Sheila Cussons is one of South Africa's best-known poets, a doyenne of
a certain era.
A few months before Cussons passed away, her son, Jaume Saladrigas
Cussons received a surprising gift from her ... a manuscript she had
kept to herself for decades. She expressed a keen desire that the book
be published.
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This was the fantasy she had written
for her little brother when she was still in her teens. It was familiar
to Jaume and his brother Jordi. When they were young, their mother
often read the Trevor stories to them. At the time she was living in
Spain with her husband and sons, and must have relived her youthful
writing, set in South Africa, where she had grown up.
Now finally, the hidden manuscript can be shared. It is meant to be
treasured by anyone from 8 to 108.
Beautifully illustrated with her own delicate artwork, the quaint
characters in Trevor
in the Land of Fantasy come to live, transporting the
reader with them into a world of fantasy and imagination. This is
Sheila Cussons as we have never read her before.
Trevor in the Land
of Fantasy is available at your nearest bookstore. The
e-book is available at LAPA.
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Dieretuin
Carl Lourens keer terug na Kaapstad se Noordelike Voorstede om sy
jonger broer te red uit die kloue van Die Dieretuin en die mense wat
daar bly.
Maxie Thorpe is Carl se tannie, die weduwee-matriarg van die huis en
die meesterbrein agter die familie-fortuin. Sy beheer ook alles wat in
die kelder van hulle spoghuis in Durbanville plaasvind; dié huis wat
bekend is as 'Die dieretuin'.
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Carl en sy jonger broer, Robbie, het
by hul ryk tante en oom gaan bly ná die wrede plaasmoord op hul ouers.
Soos Carl grootword, ontdek hy hoe hulle werklik hul geld maak.
Hy verlaat die skool en gaan vir 'n aantal jaar weg, maar sy
skuldgevoelens wat wentel om sy broer wat steeds in Die Dieretuin woon,
dwing hom om terug te keer met die hoop om Robbie te red. Robbie is nou
ook klaar met skool en tot Carl se ontsteltenis werk hy ook vir die
Thorpes.
Skokkende geheime word blootgestel wanner Carl probeer om Robbie red.
Dit is 'n baie donker roman met 'n aantal skokkende wendings en word
beslis nie aanbeveel vir sensitiewe lesers nie.
Dieretuin is
beskikbaar by jou naaste boekwinkel. Die e-boek is beskikbaar by LAPA.
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Feeding time
After an absence of four years, Carl McGregor returns to Cape Town's
northern suburbs. His plans are vague, but straightforward - to save
his younger brother from the claws of The Zoo.
Maxie Thorpe is Carl's aunt, the recently widowed matriarch of the
house, and the mastermind behind the family fortune. She also controls
all that goes on in the basement of their Durbanville mansion known as
the 'The Zoo'.
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Carl and his younger brother Robbie
had moved in with their wealthy aunt and uncle after the brutal farm
murder on their parents. As Carl grew up, he slowly discovered how they
REALLY made their money.
After leaving school, he tried to get away for a few years, but the
guilt of leaving his brother behind, forced him to return as a young
adult in the hope of rescuing Robbie. Robbie has now finished school,
but to Carl's horror, he is now working for the Thorpes.
Shocking secrets are exposed as Carl tries to rescue Robbie...
It is a dark, dark novel with some shocking twists and is not for the
prudish or fainthearted.
Feeding time
is now available at your nearest bookstore. The e-book is available at LAPA.
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The Saxon
wolves
Britain 455 AD. The Roman Empire has fallen. As the daughter of a king
and a priestess of the sacred grove, Anya's life in Germania is one of
wealth and privilege - until she dares to speak out against the high
priest's barbaric human sacrifices. Her punishment is exile. Forced to
leave her homeland, she sails to Britannia, an island that is sliding
into chaos and war, as rival kingdoms vie for power.
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Alone and far from home, Anya must
learn to survive amidst the bloodshed, treachery and intrigue of
fifth-century Britain.
This book provides a glimpse in to what Europe looked like shortly
after the Roman Empire lost its grip on what was called the "Known
World". Christianity was rare, and somewhat frowned upon.
Bloodshed was common and women had no say in whom they were allowed to
marry; or not.
Anya, an intelligent red head, found herself at times haunted, other
times hunted and often-times entrapped. Only her wit could outsmart the
enemy, but what happened when brute, testosterone-driven force meant
more than brains? You would want to read the end.
The Saxon wolves is available at your nearest bookstore and on LAPA's website.
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