Language and Literature

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White main title and subtitle lettering on a plain bright orange background, with a line drawing in deep red of a staff

Julius Caesar: Die Galliese Oorlog

J T Benade
December 31, 1984
Orange background with brown lettering and detailed line drawing of classical temple (with eagle on roof) and symbolic sculpture in the foreground. The Áfrikaans book title: Vergilius: Die Aeneis' appears at the top right.

Die Aenaes

J T Benade
December 31, 1975
Beige title and author information at top of cover with African geometric textile pattern as background design

African Mosaic: A Festschrift for J A Louw on his 75th birthday

Rosalie Finlayson (ed)
June 30, 1999
Greyscale photo of thorn tree at top, fading to grey at bottom, with white and deep red lettering of book title on front cover

African Proverbs Series : Volume 2: AKAN PROVERBS: hearing and Keeping

Kofi Asare Opuku; John S Mbiti
December 31, 1997

Afrikamasutratjie

Ilse Carla Groenewald; Diek Grobler, Marna Schoeman, Hardus Koekemoer
June 30, 2013

Authenticity on the Postmodern Stage: Betrayal, The Real Thing and Closer

Lida Krüger
December 25, 2018
high-contrast wine red photo rendering of the face of the man to whom the book is dedicated, CPT Naude, in a square block. the background is gret, and the book title lettering is in winered, and the 2 editors; names are placed in grey lettering at the bottom of the cover.

Charistion CPT Naude

Ursula Vogel-Weidemann (ed), Jan Scholtemeijer (ed)
December 30, 1993
Black lettering of book title in English, left, and Afrikaans, right, at top. IN the centre of the cover, the author names are listed. The background is plain beige.

Computer Exercises in French - Rekenaaroefeninge in Frans

Louise Broccardo, Rochelle Sadowsky , Celia van der Pluym; Peter Haffter
January 1, 1978

Displaced

Russel Kaschula
July 31, 2013

Driftword

Croc E Moses
July 1, 2015
white main title lettering in capital letters at the top of the cover, against a bright green background. At the bottom of the cover is a silhouettepen sketch of a pastoral scene, with 2 flute-playing men herding cattle, with the one carrying a load on his back. At the bottom corner of the drawing is a small buck and the outline of a plant.

Eclogae en Georgica

JT Benade
December 31, 1983
bilingual main title at top in brown lettering on beige background, with a large drawing of indigenous people in silhouette style against a background of a rural environment suggested by plants, a goat, and with the female figure on the right carrying firewood on her head .

Folk-tales of the Wambo: Volksverhale van die Wambo

J J Viljoen, P Amakali, Paavo Hasheela
June 30, 1984

From Around the World in Eighty Days: The India Section

Ari Sitas
June 30, 2014
Detailed pencil drawing of 3 Roman soldiers on horseback, portrayed at high speed and charging into the battledfield, with weapons raised. The drawing is framed in navy blue and placed against a deep red background. The author's name is placed in white capital letters at the top of the cover, and the main title is placed on a rectangle at the top, overlapping the drawing.

Gaius Marius: A political biography

Richard J Evans
December 31, 1994
White capital letters GLOSSARIUM against a medieval-style full-colour Keltic-style frame with yellow inner section, on which the subtitle is placed in maroon upper-and lowercase lettering, and the author's name is placed in capital letters, navy, at the bottom of the frame. The frame is placed against a plain burgundy background.

Glossarium: A compilation of Latin words and phrases generally used in law with English translations

Theo Bosman Rood
December 31, 2003

Haiku for Africa

Marie Heese
June 30, 2014
Sketch in red pencil with handwriting superimposed on the drawing in the background, while in the foreground the main book title is in red lettering, with the subtitle in navy blue script font, while the compiler's name is placed below in red lettering against a faded transparent blue colour band.

Herman Charles Bosman: The Prose Juvenilia

M C Anderson
December 31, 1998

Intimate Lightning: Sydney Clouts: poet

Dan Wylie
April 19, 2018

Investigating English

Glenda Heinemann
June 30, 2013
blue pencil drawing of two children reading inside an open book silhouette, with author's name in blue and the main title in white with blue outlines. The background is plain light yellow.

Kinderkeur: n Gids tot bekroonde Suid-Afrikaanse kleuter-, kinder- en jeugboeke tot 1989

J A Kruger
December 31, 1991

Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and The Gariep

Menan Du Plessis
December 19, 2018

Language Policy and the Promotion of Peace

Neville Edward Alexander (ed)
June 30, 2014
Background of cover is bright red, in the centre is a blue circle with the main title in red capital letters inside teh circle. At the bottokm of the cover, the authors'names are in white capital letters.

Lexicon Latin English: Institutionum Gai et Institutionum Justiniani

H L Gonin, W J G Lubbe
February 17, 2026

Looking for Lakshmi

Rajan Soni
April 30, 2015
Hazy greyscale image of thorn tree branch at top fading into grey at bottom, with book title lettering in white and orange

Lugbara Wisdom: African Proverbs Series Volume 3

Albert T Dalfovo (ed), John S Mbiti (ed)
December 31, 1997

Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making Space

Megan Lewis (ed), Anton Krueger (ed)
July 17, 2016
White bold lettering on a maroon background. The bottom half of the background contains a simple African design pattern. The author's names are in small lowercase lettering at the bottom of the cover.

Mathe le Leleme Vol 1: Tweetalige Suid-Sotho kursus/Bilingual Southern Sotho course

C F Swanepoel, J M Lenake
February 11, 2026
Bold white lettering for main title and subtitle, with large 2 at top right. Below in the middle of the background, an ethinc pattern is inserted. The 2 authors' names are at the bottom.

Mathe le Leleme Vol 2: Bilingual

J M Lenake, C F Swanepoel
December 31, 1980
Bold white lettering on a plain maroon background, with the bottom half decorated with Afircan patttern design. The authors'names are at the bottom of this volume.

Mathe le Leleme Vol 3: Tweetalige Suid-Sotho Kursus / Bilingual Southern Sotho Course

L Kock, P R S Mafike
December 31, 1980

Multilingual Education for Africa: Concepts and Practices

Russel H Kaschula (ed), H Ekkehard Wolff (ed)
January 15, 2017

Nelson Rholihlahla Mandela: Reflections through the eyes of poets

February 16, 2023
Colorful children's book illustration of a tree which branches enclose the main book title, and there are animal characters sitting around the trunk at the bottom. The subtitle is in white lettering below the tree, and the volum number is in thin green lettering at the top right-hand side.

Other worlds, other lives: Children's literature experiences Volume 3

Myrna Machet, Sandra Olen, Thomas van der Walt; Maj Asplund Carlsson, Tanya Barben, Magdaleen Bester, Sandra Braude, Rhonda Bunbury, Denise Diamond, Philomena Osazee Fayose, Peter Havard-Williams, Jenny Janisch, Ann Lawson Lucas Lawson Lucas, Marina le Roux, Johan Lenake, Ingrid Pramling, Lilia Ratcheva-Stratieva, FEMK Senkoro, John Stephens
December 31, 1996
Colourful children's book illustration of a tree which contains the main title lettering within the tree. There are small animal characters sitting around the trunk of the tree at the bottom. The subtitle is in white at the bottom of the tree. 'Volume 2' is indicated at the top right in thin green lettering.

Other worlds, other lives: Children's literature experiences Volume 2

Myrna Machet, Sandra Olen, Thomas van der Walt ; Evangeline L Barongo, Sandra L  Beckett, Rosey Bennett, Johannes J Booyse, Judith Campbell, Shu-Jy Duan, Rhona Dubow, Nadia El Kholy, John Foster, Jay Reale, Cynthia Hugo, Monica Lavin, Cheryl le Roux, Roderick McGillis, Mike Prins, Carole Scott, Peter Simatei, Anu Sulu, Jean Webb
December 31, 1996
Colourful children's book illustration of a tree, with the main book title enclosed within the leaves, and small animals sitting around the tree trunk at the bottom. The subtitle is in white lettering at the bottom. the volume number is indicated at the top right-hand.

Other worlds, other lives: Children's literature experiences Volume 1

Myrna Machet , Sandra Olen , Thomas van der Walt; Edward Ako, Paul Biegel, Cristina Colombo, Marisol Dorao, Stephen Finn, Lawrence Gordon , Sue Hepker, Elizabeth Fitzgerald Howard, Elwyn Jenkins, Margaret Labuschagne, Gillian Leggat, Miriam Maranga, Sue McMurray, Gcina Mhlophe, Mare Muursepp, Jean-Pierre Ngole, Maria Nikolajeva, Maureen Nimon, Thuli Radebe, Mandy Redcliffe, Mohamed Sharif, FEMK Senkoro, Serpil Ural, Cicely van STRATEN, Adie Wagener
December 31, 1996

Philip Quaque’s Letters to London, 1763-1811

Adélékè Adeeko (ed)
October 15, 2017

Poetic Bodies and Corpses: South African Great War Poetry

Gerhard Genis (ed)
June 27, 2018

The Poetry

Pitika Ntuli
June 30, 2014
The cover is divided into a beige horizontal part at the top, with the Afrikaans title placed above. IN the bottom part of the cover, there is a brown horizontal band with the Portuguese title in beige lettering. Right at the bottom in smaller letteting, are the names of the authors, also in beige lettering.

Portugees-Afrikaanse Woordeboek: Dicionario Portugues-Africanse

Peter Haffter, JCB Sabino , S J Pretorius
December 31, 1975
white horizontal band at top of cover, followed by an olive green background, which contains architectural mages and 2 coins linked to the classic Greek literature environment. The book title is at the top across the 2 bands, and the author's name is at the bottom right., in white lettering

Questioning reputations: essays on nine roman republican politicians

Richard J Evans
December 31, 2003

Seedlings

Elwyn Jenkins
March 20, 2012

Sesotho History and Development

Ntsoeu Seepheephe
December 15, 2024

Somewhere In This Country

Memory Chirere
February 22, 2006
The book cover has a top wine red band with 2 white lines, followed by a lime green plain background, on which the English and Afrikaans titles are displayed in large white lettering , with the number 3 large and in wine red on green. The names of the two editors are printed in small wine red letters at the bottom part of the book cover.and volume

South African Theological Bibliography Vol 3 : Suid-Afrikaanse Teologiese Bibliografie 3

CFA Borchardt; W S Vorster
June 30, 1988
White capital and lowercase letters for main title at the top, and author's name at the bottom in white lowercase letters, with a colour photo of a ancient Greek open-air arena in the middle of the book cover

Syracuse in Antiquity

Richard J Evans
June 30, 2009

Thomas Mofolo's Chaka

Chris Swanepoel (ed)
March 15, 2017
Main title in small capital letters at top, followed by lowercase small black lettering for author's itiials and surname, with a Unisa logo in black line in middle, and small black lettering at the bottom, on a plain cream colour background.

Three papers on Tragedy

F D Sinclair
May 30, 1960

Tiyo Soga: A literary history

Joanne Ruth Davis
June 13, 2018

Touched By Biko

Andile M-Afrika
June 30, 2017

Touched By Biko (part 2): The Interviews

Andile M-Afrika
June 30, 2018

Trance and transfiguration in rock art and literature

Alan Northover; Wayne Stables, Francis Thackeray, David S. Whitely, Dan Wylie
July 9, 2025
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