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Khwezi

Author : Redi Tlhabi
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781868427277

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Khwezi by Redi Tlhabi Pdf

In May 2006 Jacob Zuma was found not guilty of the rape of Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo – better known as Khwezi – in the Johannesburg High Court. Another nail was driven into the coffin of South Africa's fight against sexual violence. Vilified by Zuma's many supporters, Khwezi was forced to flee South Africa and make a life in the shadows, first in Europe and then back on the African continent. A decade after Zuma's acquittal, Khwezi died. But not before she had slipped back into South Africa and started work with journalist Redi Tlhabi on a book about her life. About how, as a young girl living in exile in ANC camps, she was raped by the 'uncles' who were supposed to protect her. About her great love for her father, Judson Kuzwayo, an ANC activist who died when Khwezi was almost ten. And about how, as a young adult, she was driven once again into exile, suffering not only at the hands of Zuma's devotees but under the harsh eye of the media. In sensitive and considered language, Red Tlhabi breathes life into a woman for so long forced to live in hiding. In telling the story of Khwezi, Tlhabi draws attention to the sexual abuse that abounded during the struggle years, abuse that continues to plague women and children in South Africa today.

Zuma

Author : Jeremy Gordin
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781868423712

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Zuma by Jeremy Gordin Pdf

The first edition of Zuma, published in late 2008, concluded with Jacob Zuma's future balancing on a knife's edge. National elections loomed, but so did corruption charges and endless court battles. Since then Zuma's star has spectacularly risen - the corruption charges were dropped, he led the ANC to election victory and duly became President of South Africa, and his new cabinet and government appointments were generally well received. But he has also recently suffered a huge blow with revelations of another love-child, this time with the daughter of soccer supremo Irvine Khoza. Many of his supporters have distanced themselves from him, and Zuma is looking isolated. Pundits are once again wondering how long he'll survive as President. In this revised and updated edition, Jeremy Gordin takes the reader right up to present. He covers in detail the highs and lows of Zuma's past 18 months, including the final salvoes of his legal battles, as well as his first year as President. New material in this edition also includes the 'Pedro' document (a document Zuma wrote in 1986), and accurate information on his wives and children.

Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture

Author : Sharon Coleclough,Bethan Michael-Fox,Renske Visser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783031407321

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Difficult Death, Dying and the Dead in Media and Culture by Sharon Coleclough,Bethan Michael-Fox,Renske Visser Pdf

This book responds to a growing interest in death, dying and the dead within and beyond the field of death studies. The collection defines an understanding of ‘difficult death’ and examines the differences between death, dying and the dead, as well as exploring the ethical challenges of researching death in mediated form. The collection is attendant to the ways in which difficult deaths are imbricated in power structures both before and after they become mediatised in culture. As such, the work navigates the many political and social complexities and inequalities – what might be deemed the difficulties – of death, dying and the dead. The book seeks to expand understandings of the difficulty of death in media and culture through a wide range of chapters from different contexts focused on literature, film, television, and in online environments, as well as several chapters examining news reportage of difficult deaths.

Dreaming in Colour

Author : Uvile Samkelisiwe
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928433187

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Dreaming in Colour by Uvile Samkelisiwe Pdf

In her debut novel, Dreaming in Colour, Uvile Ximba explores with subtlety, humour and probing insight the connections between the joyful reclaiming of pleasure and the healing of buried traumas. As students at university in Makhanda during the #RUReferenceList campaign, Langa and her lover Khwezi have a passionate and complex relationship. Puzzling gaps in her memory haunt Langa, yet her dreams are vivid with colours and symbols that hint at a nightmare of forgotten violations and losses. So many secrets -- and Langa has had enough of secrets and silences. Who can she turn to? Her mother? Her grandmother? Khwezi? Or herself? Dreaming In Colour is Langa's story of coming out to herself, of discerning the history behind the closed door of conscious memory.

African Performance Arts and Political Acts

Author : Naomi Andre,Yolanda Covington-Ward,Jendele Hungbo
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472054824

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African Performance Arts and Political Acts by Naomi Andre,Yolanda Covington-Ward,Jendele Hungbo Pdf

Explores how performance arts, whether staged or in daily life, regularly interface with political action across the African continent

Feminisms, HIV and AIDS

Author : V. Tallis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137005793

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Feminisms, HIV and AIDS by V. Tallis Pdf

Women are disproportionately affected by HIV and AIDS. By focusing on the pandemic at its epicentre in Southern Africa, this book explores the gendered power inequalities driving women's vulnerability to HIV and provides suggestions of how to individually and collectively address women's oppression.

South Africa's Brave New World

Author : R. W. Johnson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780141957913

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South Africa's Brave New World by R. W. Johnson Pdf

The universal jubilation that greeted Nelson Mandela's inauguration as president of South Africa in 1994 and the process by which the nightmare of apartheid had been banished is one of the most thrilling, hopeful stories in the modern era: peaceful, rational change was possible and, as with the fall of the Berlin Wall, the weight of an oppressive history was suddenly lifted. R.W. Johnson's major new book tells the story of South Africa from that magic period to the bitter disappointment of the present. As it turned out, it was not so easy for South Africa to shake off its past. The profound damage of apartheid meant there was not an adequate educated black middle class to run the new state and apartheid had done great psychological harm too, issues that no amount of goodwill could wish away. Equally damaging were the new leaders, many of whom had lived in exile or in prison for much of their adult lives and who tried to impose decrepit, Eastern Bloc political ideas on a world that had long moved on. This disastrous combination has had a terrible impact - it poisoned everything from big business to education to energy utilities to AIDS policy to relations with Zimbabwe. At the heart of the book lies the ruinous figure of Thabo Mbeki, whose over-reaching ambitions led to catastrophic failure on almost every front. But, as Johnson makes clear, Mbeki may have contributed more than anyone else to bringing South Africa close to "failed state" status, but he had plenty of help.

Delivery as Dispossession

Author : Zachary Levenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-04-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780197629277

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Delivery as Dispossession by Zachary Levenson Pdf

A sweeping historical and political analysis with detailed ethnographic fieldwork of the politics of everyday life in postcolonial Africa. In post-apartheid South Africa, nearly a fifth of the urban population lives in shacks. Unable to wait any longer for government housing, people occupy land, typically seeking to fly under the state's radar. Yet in most cases, occupiers wind up in dialogue with the state. In Delivery as Dispossession, Zachary Levenson follows this journey from avoidance to incorporation, explaining how the post-apartheid Constitution shifts squatters' struggles onto the judicial register. Providing a comparative ethnographic account of two land occupations in Cape Town and highlighting occupiers' struggles, Levenson further demonstrates why it is that housing officials seek the eviction of all new occupations: they view these unsanctioned settlements as a threat to the order they believe is required for delivery. Yet in evicting occupiers, he argues, they reproduce the problem anew, with subsequent rounds of land occupation as the inevitable consequence. Offering a unique framework for thinking about local states, this book proposes a novel theory of the state that will change the way ethnographers think about politics.

Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law

Author : Chris Ashford,Alexander Maine
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781788111157

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Research Handbook on Gender, Sexuality and the Law by Chris Ashford,Alexander Maine Pdf

This innovative and thought-provoking Research Handbook explores not only current debates in the area of gender, sexuality and the law but also points the way for future socio-legal research and scholarship. It presents wide-ranging insights and debates from across the globe, including Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Australia, with contributions from leading scholars and activists alongside exciting emergent voices.

Volunteer Economies

Author : Ruth Prince,Hannah Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847011404

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Volunteer Economies by Ruth Prince,Hannah Brown Pdf

Examines the increasing significance of the volunteer and volunteerism in African societies, and their societal impact within precarious economies in a period of massive unemployment and faltering trajectories of social mobility.

Different Lives

Author : Hans Renders,David Veltman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789004434974

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Different Lives by Hans Renders,David Veltman Pdf

Internationally acclaimed biographies are mostly written by Anglophone biographers. How does biography function as a public genre in the rest of the world? Different Lives offers a global perspective on the biographical tradition by seventeen scholars of fifteen different countries.

Acts of Transgression

Author : Catherine Boulle
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781776142811

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Acts of Transgression by Catherine Boulle Pdf

Fifteen writers explore the experimental, interdisciplinary and radically transgressive field of contemporary live art in South Africa, focusing on a wide range of perspectives, personalities and theoretical concerns Contemporary South African society is chronologically ‘post’ apartheid, but it continues to grapple with material redress, land redistribution and systemic racism. Acts of Transgression represents the complexity of this moment in the rich potential of a performative art form that transcends disciplinary boundaries and aesthetic conventions. The contributors, who are all significantly involved in the discipline of performance art, probe its intersection with crisis and socio-political turbulence, shifting notions of identity and belonging, embodied trauma and loss. Narratives of the past and visions for the future are interrogated through memory and the archive, thus destabilising entrenched colonial systems. Collectively analysing the work of more than 25 contemporary South African artists, including Athi-Patra Ruga, Mohau Modisakeng, Steven Cohen, Dean Hutton, Mikhael Subotzsky, Tracey Rose and Donna Kukama, among others, the analysis is accompanied by a visual record of more than 50 photographs. For those working in the fields of theatre, performance studies and art, this is a must-have collection of critical essays on a burgeoning and exciting field of contemporary South African research.

Local Violence, Global Media

Author : Lisa M. Cuklanz,Sujata Moorti
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 1433102765

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Local Violence, Global Media by Lisa M. Cuklanz,Sujata Moorti Pdf

While there exists a wide range of material covering violence against women, very little scholarly attention has been paid to international media treatments of gendered violence. This volume addresses the gap by providing a broad overview of contemporary representations of gendered violence, enabling comparison and contrast in forms of violence and constructions of gender across a wide range of political and geographic contexts. From nonfictional accounts of the mass rapes during the Rwandan genocide to the sexual objectification of women in Serbian media and depictions of prostitute murders in the Chinese media, this book provides an overview of media representations of gendered violence around the globe. In addition to documenting specific challenges and shortcomings of mainstream representations, chapters present insight into the various forms of resistance and hope that exist in each particular area, and analytical essays open up new lines of inquiry by offering an assessment of the uneven changes that feminist activism has enabled around the world. Suitable for students and scholars in women's studies, gender studies, media, sociology, and education, Local Violence, Global Media can be used as a supplementary text in courses on media violence, sociology of media, gendered violence in media, and international perspectives on women's studies.

Memo from Turner

Author : Tim Willocks
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-03-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781538519608

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Memo from Turner by Tim Willocks Pdf

During a weekend spree in Cape Town, a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions—who do know—leave the girl to die. The driver’s mother, a self-made mining magnate named Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law is cheap. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town Homicide. When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns—including the local police and private security force—he finds her determined to protect her son at any cost. As the battle of wills escalates, and the moral contradictions multiply, Turner won’t be bought and won’t be bullied, and when they try to bury him he rediscovers, during a desperate odyssey to the very brink of death, a long-forgotten truth about himself ... By the time Willocks’s tale is finished, fourteen men have died, and he shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller.

Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!’

Author : Joel B Pollak
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781776413485

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Rhoda: ‘Comrade Kadalie, You Are Out of Order!’ by Joel B Pollak Pdf

This authorized biography was made possible through the gracious help of my mother-in-law, Rhoda Kadalie, who provided generous access to her files, letters, photographs, and extensive library of documents. She made time to sit with me for several hours of interviews from September through October 2021, to answer questions as they arose, and to offer innumerable clarifications. Rhoda also reviewed the first draft of the biography in December 2021, making corrections and additions, and contributing some of her own original vignettes, never before published.