Politics in South Africa

Politics in South Africa
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Publisher : New Africa Books
Total Pages : 324
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ISBN-10 : 0864865058
ISBN-13 : 9780864865052
Rating : 4/5 (58 Downloads)

Synopsis Politics in South Africa by : Tom Lodge

This well-informed and crisply written introduction will appeal to both students of contemporary politics and general readers interested in the new democracy. Book jacket.

Winning Our Freedoms Together

Winning Our Freedoms Together
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9781469635293
ISBN-13 : 1469635291
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Winning Our Freedoms Together by : Nicholas Grant

In this transnational account of black protest, Nicholas Grant examines how African Americans engaged with, supported, and were inspired by the South African anti-apartheid movement. Bringing black activism into conversation with the foreign policy of both the U.S. and South African governments, this study questions the dominant perception that U.S.-centered anticommunism decimated black international activism. Instead, by tracing the considerable amount of time, money, and effort the state invested into responding to black international criticism, Grant outlines the extent to which the U.S. and South African governments were forced to reshape and occasionally reconsider their racial policies in the Cold War world. This study shows how African Americans and black South Africans navigated transnationally organized state repression in ways that challenged white supremacy on both sides of the Atlantic. The political and cultural ties that they forged during the 1940s and 1950s are testament to the insistence of black activists in both countries that the struggle against apartheid and Jim Crow were intimately interconnected.

The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945

The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1868886646
ISBN-13 : 9781868886647
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 by : Gareth Cornwell

The Columbia Guide to South African literature in English since 1945 Gareth Cornwell, Dirk Klopper and Craig MacKenzie This guide captures the pulsating diversity of South African literature in English since 1945 in a single volume, with a strong range of entries, richness of detail and critical sophistication. With some 400 entries on post-1945 writers, and a particular emphasis on writers emerging in the last 20 years or so, it is both comprehensive and concise on major writers and themes, and provides key background information on major historical and cultural events. The introduction provides a context for the entries, which include emerging writers, major post-1945 writers, and detailed subject entries. An appendix on some 30 essential pre-1945 writers ensures that the literary history is presented in a balanced way. The guide concludes with an extensive bibliography including primary works, critical literature, and anthologies, as well as a detailed index. From Afrika to Zwi, with Baderoon, Coovadia, and Duiker in between - not to mention Essop, Fugard, Galgut, Head, Jensma, Kozain, La Guma, Magona, Ndebele, Oliphant, Paton, Rampolokeng, Slovo, Themba, Uys, VladislaviÃ?Â, Wicomb, Zadok . . . this is the indispensible guide to South African literature in English.

Red Road to Freedom

Red Road to Freedom
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 633
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ISBN-10 : 9781847013217
ISBN-13 : 184701321X
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Red Road to Freedom by : Tom Lodge

Definitive and gripping narrative history of the Communist Party of South Africa.

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781139488266
ISBN-13 : 1139488260
Rating : 4/5 (66 Downloads)

Synopsis Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 by : Paul S. Landau

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 offers an inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the politics of the country's people, from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands, through the colonial era, to the dawn of Apartheid. A practical tradition of mobilization, alliance, and amalgamation persisted, mutated, and occasionally vanished from view; it survived against the odds in several forms, in tribalisms, Christian assemblies, and other, seemingly hybrid movements; and it continues today. Landau treats southern Africa broadly, concentrating increasingly on the southern Highveld and ultimately focusing on a transnational movement called the 'Samuelites'. He shows how people's politics in South Africa were suppressed and transformed, but never entirely eliminated.

Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives

Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9780429979231
ISBN-13 : 0429979231
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives by : Julian Kunnie

Is Apartheid Really Dead? Pan Africanist Working Class Cultural Critical Perspectives is an engaging and incisive book that radically challenges the widespread view that post-apartheid society is a liberated society, specifically for the Black working class and rural peasant populations. Julian Kunnie's central contention in this book is that the post-apartheid government was the product of a serious compromise between the former ruling white-led Nationalist Party and the African National Congress, resulting in a continuation of the erstwhile system of monopoly capitalism and racial privilege, albeit revised by the presence of a burgeoning Black political and economic elite. The result of this historic compromise is the persistent subjugation and impoverishment of the Black working class by the designs of global capital as under apartheid, this time managed by a Black elite in collaboration with the powerful white capitalist establishment in South Africa.Is Apartheid Really Dead? engages in a comprehensive analysis of the South African conflict and the negotiated settlement of apartheid rule, and explores solutions to the problematic of continued Black oppression and exploitation. Rooted in a Black Consciousness philosophical framework, unlike most other works on post-apartheid South Africa, this book provides a carefully delineated history of the South African struggle from the pre-colonial era through the present. What is additionally distinctive is the author's reference to and discussion of the Pan Africanist movement in the global struggle for Black liberation, highlighting the aftermath of the 1945 Pan African meeting in Manchester. The author analyzes the South African struggle within the context of Pan Africanism and the continent-wide movement to rid Africa of colonialism's legacy, highlighting the neo-colonial character of much of Africa's post-independence nations, arguing that South Africa has followed similar patterns.One of the attractive qualities of this book is that it discusses correctives to the perceived situation of neo-colonialism in South Africa, by delving into issues of gender oppression and the primacy of women's struggle, working class exploitation and Black worker mobilization, environmental despoliation and indigenous religio-cultural responses, and educational disenfranchisement and the need for radically new structures and policies in educational transformation. Ultimately, Is Apartheid Really Dead? postulates revolutionary change as a solution, undergirded with all of the aforementioned ingredients. While anticipating and articulating a revolutionary socialist vision for post-apartheid South Africa, this book is tempered by a realistic appraisal of the dynamics of the global economy and the legacy of colonial oppression and capitalism in South Africa.

Total Onslaught

Total Onslaught
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Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1526704889
ISBN-13 : 9781526704887
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Total Onslaught by : Paul Moorcraft

A comprehensive account of Southern Africa's incessant troubled history since the end of the Second World War

Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid

Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid
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Publisher : HSRC Press
Total Pages : 426
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ISBN-10 : 0796918961
ISBN-13 : 9780796918963
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid by : Saleem Badat

Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid examines two black national student political organisations - the South African National Students' Congress (SANSCO) and the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), popularly associated with Black Consciousness. It analyses the ideologies, politics and organisation of SASO and SANSCO and their intellectual, political and social determinants. It also analyses their role in the educational, political and social spheres, and the factors that shaped their activities. Finally, it assesses their contributions to the popular struggle against apartheid education as well as against race, class and gender oppression.