Shades of Difference
Author: Padraig O'Malley
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 680
ISBN-13:
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Young Women Against Apartheid
Author: Emily Bridger
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1847012639
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.
People's War
Author: Anthea Jeffrey
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Published: 2019-05-15
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1868429970
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political violence, and the memory of the trauma has faded. Nevertheless, some 20 500 people were killed between 1984 and 1994. Conventional wisdom has it that most died as a result of the ANC's people's war. Many books have been written on South Africa's political transition, but none has dealt adequately with the people's war. This book does. It shows the extraordinary success of the people's war in giving the ANC a virtual monopoly on power, as well as the great cost at which this was done. The high price of it is still being paid. Apart from the terror and killings it sparked at the time, the people's war set in motion forces that cannot easily be tamed. Violence, once unleashed, is not easy to stamp out. 'Ungovernability', once generated, is not readily reversed. For this new edition, Anthea Jeffery has revised and abridged her seminal work. She has also included a brief overview of the ANC's National Democratic Revolution for which the people's war was intended to prepare the way. Since 1994, the NDR has been implemented in many different spheres. It is now being speeded up in its second and more radical phase.
Visions of Freedom
Author: Piero Gleijeses
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 673
ISBN-13: 1469609681
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVisions of Freedom: Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991
South Africa's Struggle for Human Rights
Author: Saul Dubow
Publisher: Jacana Media
Published: 2013-08-22
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1431403849
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSaul Dubow’s South Africa’s Struggle for Human Rights contextualises and explains the current concerns about rights and constitutionalism, as well as the populist reaction against the compromises or deals involved in the elite pact which brought about our New South Africa. The mid-1980s played a significant role as it is the time when the apartheid government and the ANC ‘discovered’ human rights at precisely the same time. African nationalist, liberalist and republican traditions were fragmented and episodic, but they help to explain why rights discourse and constitutionalism gained broad acceptance in the last decade of the twentieth century, and so aligned South Africa with global trends.
The Vaal Uprising of 1984 & the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa
Author: Franziska Rueedi
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1847012612
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.
The Church Struggle in South Africa
Author: John W. De Gruchy
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780800637552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo more heartrending yet hopeful case study in Christian ethics exists than in the story of South African apartheid and its recent decisive transformation. John de Gruchy's authoritative and newly updated account of Christian complicity with and then resistance to one of the world's most notoriously repressive regimes holds indispensable lessons and "dangerous memories" for all concerned about evil, justice, and racial reconciliation.
Winning Our Freedoms Together
Author: Nicholas Grant
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2017-10-18
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1469635291
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
A Turbulent South Africa
Author: Jérôme Tournadre
Publisher: SUNY Press
Published: 2018-03-01
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1438469772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHighlights the continuing social unrest and public protest occurring in South Africas poorest districts. Frequently praised for its democratic transition, South Africa has experienced an almost uninterrupted cycle of social protest since the late 1990s. There have been increasing numbers of demonstrations against the often appalling living conditions of millions of South Africans, pointing to the fact that they have yet to achieve full citizenship. A Turbulent South Africa offers a new look at this historic period in the existence of the young South African democracy, far removed from the idealistic portrait of the Rainbow Nation. Jérôme Tournadre draws on interviews and observations to take the reader from the backstreets of the squatters camps to international militant circles, and from the immediate, infra-political level to the worldwide anti-capitalist protest movement. He investigates the mechanisms and the meaning of social discontent in light of several different phenomena. These include, the struggle of the poor to gain recognition, the persistent memory of the fight against apartheid, the developments in the political world since the Mandela Years, the coexistence of liberal democracy with a popular politics found in poor and working-class districts, and many other factors that have played a crucial part in the social and political tensions at the heart of post-apartheid South Africa.
