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Author : Wyatt Tee Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Soweto Diary written by Wyatt Tee Walker and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Kane-Berman
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1868427706
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Between Two Fires written by John Kane-Berman and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2017-03-15 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Kane-Berman is uniquely qualified to look back over the enormous political and social changes that have taken place in his lifetime in this fractious country. In his career as student leader, Rhodes Scholar, newspaperman, independent columnist, commentator, and Chief Executive, for thirty years, of the South Africa Institute of Race Relations, Kane-Berman has been at the coal face of political change in South Africa. The breadth and depth of ideas and events covered in Between Two Fires are striking: the disintegration of apartheid, the chaos of the 'people's war' and its contribution to the broader societal breakdown we see today, the liberal slideaway, the rise of an authoritarian ANC with its racial ideology and revolutionary goals, to mention only a few. It is a book of fizzing ideas. Kane-Berman's willingness to confront received wisdom is thoroughly refreshing, and he is forthright about the threats to freedom, democracy, and growth in contemporary South Africa, many of which he identified even before the ANC came to power. He is equally forthright in putting forward liberal ideas to halt the country's downward slide. Writing, debate, and reasoned argument are Kane-Berman's stock in trade, and his clarity of vision and personal insight have created a memoir of rare candour and absorbing interest.
Author : David Grinker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (37 download)
Download or read book Extracts from the Diary of Michael Gumede written by David Grinker and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Deon Potgieter
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
ISBN 13 : 0143027123
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Rose of Soweto - The Dingaan Thobela Story written by Deon Potgieter and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many tales have been told of boxers who have risen up against the odds to achieve success in their lives. None, however, has been as dramatic and had such a profoundly inspirational influence on the people who shared the dream as the true life story of the man they call The Rose of Soweto. Dingaan Thobela, The Rose of Soweto, has been described as the most naturally talented boxer ever to come out of South Africa. Growing up in Chiawelo under the watchful eye of his grandmother, this is the story of how a skinny boy from Soweto overcame adversity to become one of the greatest boxers to lace up a pair of gloves. Starting his career as a raw 17-year-old with a passion for boxing, Dingaan Thobela would go on to become a two-time lightweight world champion by the age of 26. Fame and fortune followed, but the fairy tale that his life had become was not to last. After relinquishing his WBO title and losing his WBA title, he was to endure seven years of mixed fortunes and bitter disappointments until he found himself on the verge of being consigned to history books. Written off in the media and no longer able to make the weight to fight in the lightweight division, it looked as if The Rose of Soweto had no other option but to fade away quietly. His long-held dream of winning a third world title seemed an impossible one. Yet, Dingaan refused to give it up. He would not be denied. This is the story of how one man went about proving that no matter where you come from, no matter what your background and social standing you can triumph in the face of adversity. And then he proved it all over again. In doing so he would not only regain his crown as the champion of the people and once again be hailed as a unifying symbol in a racially divided nation, but he would also confirm his place alongside the greatest stars that boxing has ever produced.
Author : Sarah Nuttall
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822381214
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Johannesburg written by Sarah Nuttall and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Johannesburg: The Elusive Metropolis is a pioneering effort to insert South Africa’s largest city into urban theory, on its own terms. Johannesburg is Africa’s premier metropolis. Yet theories of urbanization have cast it as an emblem of irresolvable crisis, the spatial embodiment of unequal economic relations and segregationist policies, and a city that responds to but does not contribute to modernity on the global scale. Complicating and contesting such characterizations, the contributors to this collection reassess classic theories of metropolitan modernity as they explore the experience of “city-ness” and urban life in post-apartheid South Africa. They portray Johannesburg as a polycentric and international city with a hybrid history that continually permeates the present. Turning its back on rigid rationalities of planning and racial separation, Johannesburg has become a place of intermingling and improvisation, a city that is fast developing its own brand of cosmopolitan culture. The volume’s essays include an investigation of representation and self-stylization in the city, an ethnographic examination of friction zones and practices of social reproduction in inner-city Johannesburg, and a discussion of the economic and literary relationship between Johannesburg and Maputo, Mozambique’s capital. One contributor considers how Johannesburg’s cosmopolitan sociability enabled the anticolonial projects of Mohandas Ghandi and Nelson Mandela. Journalists, artists, architects, writers, and scholars bring contemporary Johannesburg to life in ten short pieces, including reflections on music and megamalls, nightlife, built spaces, and life for foreigners in the city. Contributors: Arjun Appadurai, Carol A. Breckenridge, Lindsay Bremner, David Bunn, Fred de Vries, Nsizwa Dlamini, Mark Gevisser, Stefan Helgesson, Julia Hornberger, Jonathan Hyslop, Grace Khunou, Frédéric Le Marcis, Xavier Livermon, John Matshikiza, Achille Mbembe, Robert Muponde, Sarah Nuttall, Tom Odhiambo, Achal Prabhala, AbdouMaliq Simone
Author : Jane Tormey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135190348
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (351 download)
Download or read book Cities and Photography written by Jane Tormey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines: across the social sciences and humanities, photography and fine art. This text offers different perspectives from which to view social, political and cultural ideas about the city and urbanism, through both verbal discussion and photographic representation. It provides introductions to theoretical conceptions of the city that are useful to photographers addressing urban issues, as well as discussing themes that have preoccupied photographers and informed cultural issues central to a discussion of city. This text interprets the city as a spatial network that we inhabit on different conceptual, psychological and physical levels, and gives emphasis to how people operate within, relate to, and activate the city via construction, habitation and disruption. Cities and Photography aims to demonstrate the potential of photography as a contributor to commentary and analytical frameworks: what does photography as a medium provide for a vision of ‘city’ and what can photographs tell us about cities, histories, attitudes and ideas? This introductory text is richly illustrated with case studies and over 50 photographs, summarizing complex theory and analysis with application to specific examples. Emphasis is given to international, contemporary photographic projects to provide provide focus for the discussion of theoretical conceptions of the city through the analysis of photographic interpretation and commentary. This text will be of great appeal to those interested in Photography, Urban Studies and Human Geography.
Author : Stephen R. Davis
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025303230X
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book The ANC's War against Apartheid written by Stephen R. Davis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-02 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study of the armed wing of the African National Congress also “contributes significantly to scholarship on liberation movements more broadly.”—Gary Baines, author of South Africa’s Border War For nearly three decades, the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), known as Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), waged a violent revolutionary struggle against the apartheid state in South Africa. Stephen Davis works with extensive oral testimonies and the heroic myths that were constructed after 1994 to offer a new history of this movement. Davis deftly addresses the histories that reinforce the legitimacy of the ANC as a ruling party, its longstanding entanglement with the South African Communist Party, and efforts to consolidate a single narrative of struggle and renewal in concrete museums and memorials. Davis shows that the history of MK is more complicated and ambiguous than previous laudatory accounts would have us believe, and in doing so he discloses the contradictions of the liberation struggle as well as its political manifestations.
Author : Edward P. Dramberger, PhD "The Destination Dr."
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480960306
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Destination Diaries written by Edward P. Dramberger, PhD "The Destination Dr." and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Destination Diaries By: Edward P. Dramberger, PhD “The Destination Dr.” The Destination Diaries chronicles a brave man’s quest to quench an insatiable thirst for travel and the endless excavation for life’s meaning therein. This collection of snapshots is a world-tour-de-force unseen in scope and varieties since travel writer Jan Morris. Decades of professional and leisure travel across 180 of the world’s 195 countries yielded this extraordinary book that mixes one part memoir, one part self-help and one part guide for anyone looking to turn travel into something more. Through intimate stories in unbelievable locales, readers will witness how travel has allowed Edward to connect with people, enjoy adventures and invigorate his spirit over a lifetime. He reveals the good, bad, ugly and beautiful through travel. The Destination Diaries will convince readers what is available to them and how travel will change us in unimaginable ways.
Author : Marius Paul Olivier
Publisher : African Sun Media
ISBN 13 : 1928480829
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Liber Amicorum written by Marius Paul Olivier and published by African Sun Media. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though some may categorise this work as a memorial publication, this book of friends is truly a celebratory publication by colleagues from Africa and beyond who had the privilege to know Edwell and Mathias personally. It is a tribute to the life and work of two individuals that each made a unique contribution to social justice, law and its development. As evidenced by the Tributes and Lists of Publications contained herein, both Edwell and Nyenti (as they were colloquially known) were productive scholars but they leave a legacy that extends beyond the academic realm to that of friendship and shared humanity.
Author : Teah Wulah
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1438918976
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (389 download)
Download or read book Back to Africa written by Teah Wulah and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book SAIRR News written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip Frankel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000637069
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)
Download or read book State, Resistance and Change in South Africa written by Philip Frankel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, this book describes and analyses the factors that were operative in South Africa during the 1980s, at a time when Apartheid was under intense pressure. It focuses not only on the central arenas of political action, but also on the non-institutional arenas which were increasingly the central forums of political action. Organised around the three linked themes of state action, popular opposition and possible alternatives, the work examines the manner in which such key institutions such as government, business and the military responded to Apartheid in its crisis as well as the role of the ANC, the black trade unions, Inkatha and community movements in the townships. The final section deals with the South African left and the Freedom Charter.
Author : Donald Rothchild
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000313093
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book State Versus Ethnic Claims written by Donald Rothchild and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea for this book can be traced to an informal brainstorming session among four very good friends -- Ali Mazrui, Victor Olorunsola, Donald Rothchild and Dunstan Wai. In a real sense, then, as editors we owe a lot to Dunstan and Ali for their intellectual stimulation and for encouraging us to pursue a follow-up to ~.f.2l.i::. ,lla .Qt Cultyral ~Natignalism .in A..f'.da
Author : Christina Steenkamp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857717782
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)
Download or read book Violence and Post-war Reconstruction written by Christina Steenkamp and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05-30 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The uncomfortable truth about peace accords is that often they do not bring about a real and lasting peace: while the conflict is officially over, civilians still live with the daily threat of violence. It is generally assumed that this does not pose a threat to the peace process yet the author shows how, in reality, violence that occurs at this time and within this context has a unique potential to cause damage.In this much needed and pioneering study the author shows the impact of continuing physical insecurity upon the postwar reconstruction process. Examining the type of violence, when it occurs and the identity of those who commit it, she reveals the serious implications for the reconstruction of state, polity and society and for the quality of peace that emerges. She shows how the use of violence to address everyday problems becomes increasingly acceptable, explores the use of violence by organized groups in society, and pays particular attention to civilian reactions to post-accord insecurity. In a final chapter she identifies a range of important considerations for the better understanding of a vital yet often neglected aspect of postwar reconstruction.
Author : James Sanders
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136327274
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (363 download)
Download or read book South Africa and the International Media, 1972-1979 written by James Sanders and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies the Anglo-American media's representation of South Africa in the 1970s - the international media is shown to have been under continuous pressure from both the South African Dept of Information and the anti-apartheid movement.
Author : Ali Khangela Hlongwane
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030147495
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Public History and Culture in South Africa written by Ali Khangela Hlongwane and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-04-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to questions of power, liberation and public history in the making and remaking of the South African nation. Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu analyse an array of these liberation heritage sites, including the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, the Apartheid Museum and the Mandela House Museum, foregrounding the work of migrant workers, architects, visual artists and activists in the practice of memorialisation. As they argue, memorialisation has been integral to the process of state and nation formation from the pre-colonial era through the present day.
Author : Anne Fuchs
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9783718650446
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Playing the Market written by Anne Fuchs and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1990 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a first-hand account of theatre in apartheid society. Exploring the forces which led to the foundation and development of "New South African Theatre", the financial backing provided by the South African business world, the black majority's point of view and the influence of cultural boycotts and problems of tours abroad, it provides specialist information on the Market Theatre. It also considers black consciousness and trade union and state-funded theatre in South Africa.
