Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860–2010
Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860–2010

Author: Audie Klotz

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013-09-16

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1107470536

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An extraordinary outbreak of xenophobic violence in May 2008 shocked South Africa, but hostility toward newcomers has a long history. Democratization has channeled such discontent into a non-racial nationalism that specifically targets foreign Africans as a threat to prosperity. Finding suitable governmental and societal responses requires a better understanding of the complex legacies of segregation that underpin current immigration policies and practices. Unfortunately, conventional wisdoms of path dependency promote excessive fatalism and ignore how much South Africa is a typical settler state. A century ago, its policy makers shared innovative ideas with Australia and Canada, and these peers, which now openly wrestle with their own racist past, merit renewed attention. As unpalatable as the comparison might be to contemporary advocates of multiculturalism, rethinking restrictions in South Africa can also offer lessons for reconciling competing claims of indigeneity through multiple levels of representation and rights.

New Histories of South Africa's Apartheid-Era Bantustans
New Histories of South Africa's Apartheid-Era Bantustans

Author: Shireen Ally

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2017-06-26

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 1351970682

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The bantustans – or ‘homelands’ – were created by South Africa’s apartheid regime as ethnically-defined territories for Africans. Granted self-governing and ‘independent’ status by Pretoria, they aimed to deflect the demands for full political representation by black South Africans and were shunned by the anti-apartheid movement. In 1972, Steve Biko wrote that ‘politically, the bantustans are the greatest single fraud ever invented by white politicians’. With the end of apartheid and the first democratic elections of 1994, the bantustans formally ceased to exist, but their legacies remain inscribed in South Africa’s contemporary social, cultural, political, and economic landscape. While the older literature on the bantustans has tended to focus on their repressive role and political illegitimacy, this edited volume offers new approaches to the histories and afterlives of the former bantustans in South Africa by a new generation of scholars. This book was originally published as various special issues of the South African Historical Journal.

The Sunburnt Queen
The Sunburnt Queen

Author: Hazel Crampton

Publisher: Saqi Books

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 408

ISBN-13:

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The true story of a child shipwrecked in Africa.

Rural Resistance in South Africa
Rural Resistance in South Africa

Author: Thembela Kepe

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2011-10-14

Total Pages: 291

ISBN-13: 9004214461

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Drawing on scholarship from multiple disciplines, this volume presents a fresh understanding of the Mpondo uprising in South Africa; focusing on its meanings and significance in relation to land, rural governance, politics and the agency of the marginalized.