Books and Awards

BOOKS

1997:  Robben Island (RandomHouse Struik)
1999:  Mandela (RandomHouseStruik, updated version due late 2011)
2001:   Proud of Me: Speaking Out Against Sexual Violence and HIV (Penguin). Nominated for Alan Paton award, SA’s most prestigious literary award 2002, and voted one of the top 10 books of 2002 by The Star newspaper. Launched in Sweden as Utan Skuld by Leopard Press, 2003.
2006:  On the Sidelines Clapping: Gender in Southern Africa (Heinrich Boll Foundation)
2011: Mandela and America (New Africa Books).
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Chapters in Books:
1992: Patterns of Violence, edited A Minnaar, HSRC (Conflict).
1995: Robben Island, edited Jürgen Schadeberg (Escapes).
2004:  The Closest of Strangers: South African Women’s Life Writing edited by Judith Lutge Coullie, Wits University Press (Sexual assault).
2005:  Media in South Africa by William Mervin Gumede, Kwa Zulu Natal University Press (Broadcasting)
2006:  Articulations: A Harold Wolpe Memorial Lecture Collection, Africa World Press and University of KwaZulu Natal Press (HIV and AIDs).
2006:  1956:  The Woman’s March edited and published by Mothobi Mutloatse (Helen Joseph).
2009:  AIDS published by Leopard Forlag, Sweden (HIV in Africa).

Book editing:
1998:  Business in South Africa by Guy McLeod, Oxford University Press
2004:  Talk Left, Walk Right: political economics in South Africa by Patrick Bond, Kwa Zulu Natal University Press
2009: In Pursuit of a Dream: Bill Venter and the Altron Story, Shinglewood press

SOME AWARDS

1999
Woman of the Year: Media and Communications, SABC/Shoprite Checkers
Ruth First Courageous Journalism, Rhodes University
Person of the Year, Mail and Guardian newspaper
One of the 10 most Influential South Africans of the Year (ranked fifth), Independent Group of Newspapers
2000
Pretoria Technikon Communicator of the Year
2001
 CNN Journalist of the Year: Features
 Woman of the Year, Jong Dames Dinamiek
 Mondi award, Best Feature: Health
 Distinguished work: Media and Human Rights, SAWA, Toronto, Canada
 Co-recipient Prix Italia, best television documentary – AIDS in South Africa for Synergy Films and United Nations
2002
Special award: outstanding services to the community of South Africa in the field of HIV/AIDS and sexual violence, first National AIDS Awards, South Africa
Special award for ‘Selfless and unstinting service to communities of people infected with HIV/AIDS’, Targeted AIDS Interventions, South Africa
2009
Woman of Courage, Feather Awards, 2009