Native Labour in South Africa
Author: Aborigines Protection Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
Published: 1903
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13:
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We Die Like Brothers
Author: John Gribble
Publisher: Historic England Publishing
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781848023697
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe SS Mendi is a wreck site off the Isle of Wight under the protection of Historic England. Nearly 650 men, mostly from the South African Native Labour Corps (SANLC), lost their lives in February 1917 following a collision in fog as they travelled to serve as labourers on the Western Front, in one of the largest single losses of life during the conflict. The loss of the Mendi occupies a special place in South African military history. Prevented from being trained as fighting troops by their own Government, the men of the SANLC hoped that their contribution to the war effort would lead to greater civil rights and economic opportunities in the new white-ruled nation of South African after the war. These hopes proved unfounded, and the Mendi became a focus of black resistance before and during the Apartheid era in South Africa. One hundred years on, the wreck of the Mendi is a physical symbol of black South Africans' long fight for social and political justice and equality and is one of a very select group of historic shipwrecks from which contemporary political and social meaning can be drawn. The wreck of the SS Mendi is now recognised as one of England's most important First World War heritage assets and the wreck site is listed under the Protection of Military Remains Act.
From 'Foreign Natives' to 'Native Foreigners'. Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa
Author: M. Neocosmos
Publisher: African Books Collective
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 161
ISBN-13: 2869782004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKXenophobia is a political discourse. As such, its historical development as well as the conditions of its existence must be elucidated in terms of the practices and prescriptions that structure the field of politics. In South Africa, its history is connected to the manner citizenship has been conceived and fought over during the past fifty years at least. Migrant labour was de-nationalised by the apartheid state, while African nationalism saw it as the very foundation of that oppressive system. However, only those who could show a family connection with the colonial/apartheid formation of South Africa could claim citizenship at liberation. Others were excluded and seen as unjustified claimants to national resources. Xenophobia's current conditions of existence are to be found in the politics of a post-apartheid nationalism were state prescriptions founded on indigeneity have been allowed to dominate uncontested in condition of passive citizenship. The de-politicisation of a population, which had been able to assert its agency during the 1980s, through a discourse of 'human rights' in particular, has contributed to this passivity. State liberal politics have remained largely unchallenged. As in other cases of post-colonial transition in Africa, the hegemony of xenophobic discourse, the book shows, is to be sought in the character of the state consensus. Only a rethinking of citizenship as an active political identity can re-institute political agency and hence begin to provide alternative prescriptions to the political consensus of state-induced exclusion.
Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa
Author: Janet Remmington
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2016-10-01
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 1868149838
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSheds new light on Native Life appearing at a critical historical juncture, and reflects on how to read it in South Africa’s heightened challenges today. First published in 1916, Sol Plaatje's Native Life in South Africa was written by one of the South Africa's most talented early twentieth-century black leaders and journalists. Plaatje's pioneering book arose out of an early African National Congress campaign to protest against the discriminatory 1913 Natives Land Act. Native Life vividly narrates Plaatje's investigative journeying into South Africa's rural heartlands to report on the effects of the Act and his involvement in the deputation to the British imperial government. At the same time it tells the bigger story of the assault on black rights and opportunities in the newly consolidated Union of South Africa - and the resistance to it. Originally published in war-time London, but about South Africa and its place in the world, Native Life travelled far and wide, being distributed in the United States under the auspices of prominent African-American W E B Du Bois. South African editions were to follow only in the late apartheid period and beyond. The aim of this multi-authored volume is to shed new light on how and why Native Life came into being at a critical historical juncture, and to reflect on how it can be read in relation to South Africa's heightened challenges today. Crucial areas that come under the spotlight in this collection include land, race, history, mobility, belonging, war, the press, law, literature, language, gender, politics, and the state.
Zimbabwe's Migrants and South Africa's Border Farms
Author: Maxim Bolt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-09-25
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1107111226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the complex labour and life conditions faced by workers in the agricultural borderlands of northern South Africa.
The Origins and Demise of South African Apartheid
Author: Anton David Lowenberg
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780472109050
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat motivated South Africa's former white leaders to hand over the reins of power to a black government? Economist Anton D. Lowenberg examines the economic interests that led to apartheid and the economic prospects for post-apartheid South African society.
Black Valour
Author: Norman Clothier
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents an account of the tragic sinking of the troopship Mendi in the English Channel in 1917, where more than 600 black South Africans lost their lives. This book presents a detailed picture of the South African Native Labour Contingent recruited to support the Allied armies in France.
Border Jumping and Migration Control in Southern Africa
Author: Francis Musoni
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0253047161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith the end of apartheid rule in South Africa and the ongoing economic crisis in Zimbabwe, the border between these Southern African countries has become one of the busiest inland ports of entry in the world. As border crossers wait for clearance, crime, violence, and illegal entries have become rampant. Francis Musoni observes that border jumping has become a way of life for many of those who live on both sides of the Limpopo River and he explores the reasons for this, including searches for better paying jobs and access to food and clothing at affordable prices. Musoni sets these actions into a framework of illegality. He considers how countries have failed to secure their borders, why passports are denied to travelers, and how border jumping has become a phenomenon with a long history, especially in Africa. Musoni emphasizes cross-border travelers' active participation in the making of this history and how clandestine mobility has presented opportunity and creative possibilities for those who are willing to take the risk.
General Labour History of Africa
Author: Stefano Bellucci
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 784
ISBN-13: 1847012183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide.
Native Life in South Africa
Author: Solomon T. Plaatje
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Published: 2021-11-16
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1513217240
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNative Life in South Africa (1916) is a book by Solomon T. Plaatje. Written while Plaatje was serving as General Secretary of the South African Native National Congress, the work shows the influence of American activist and socialist historian W. E. B. Du Bois, whom Plaatje met and befriended. Using historical analysis and firsthand accounts from native South Africans, Plaatje exposes the cruelty of colonialism and analyzes the significance of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act. “Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave, but a pariah in the land of his birth.” Native Life in South Africa begins with the passage of the 1913 Natives’ Land Act, which made it illegal for Black South Africans to lease and purchase land outside of government designated reserves. The act, which was the first of many segregation laws passed by the Union Parliament, was devastating to millions of poor South African natives, most of whom relied on leasing land from white farmers to survive.Native Life in South Africa is a classic of South African literature reimagined for modern readers.
