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Author : Dougie Oakes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001642300
A record of all races and history of South Africa, featuring notable personalities and pivotal events.
Author : Dougie Oakes
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 094700890X
This updated version of the 1988 edition strips away the curtain of myths and misconceptions that surround South Africa. Much has happened and is still happening in this troubled land, so to better understand the events of recent years, the final two chapters have been revised and three new chapters have been added. 1,000 color photos, maps and illustrations.
Author : Trewhella Cameron,S. B. Spies
Publisher : Johannesburg : J. Ball
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040551462
Author : Thula Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197681183
South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have shaped the nation. Tracking South Africa's path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the influence of key figures including Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa. He offers detailed accounts of watershed events like the 1922 Rand Revolt, the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the Marikana massacre. He sheds light on the roles of Gandhi, Churchill, Castro and Thatcher, and explores the impact of the World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. Simpson's history charts the post-apartheid transition and the phases of ANC rule, from Rainbow Nation to transformation; state capture to 'New Dawn'. Along the way, it reveals the divisions and solidarities of sport; the nation's economic travails; and painful pandemics, from the Spanish flu to AIDS and Covid-19.
Author : Trewhella Cameron,S. B. Spies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : South Africa
ISBN : 1868121909
Author : Leslie Witz
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781800735392
Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories. From the renowned Robben Island Museum to the almost unknown Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum, the author demonstrates how an institution concerned with the conservation of the past is simultaneously a site for changing history.
Author : Michael Morris
Publisher : Sunbird Publishers Limited
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 1920289410
The one thing that looms largest in South Africa's future is South Africa's past - most especially the nearly five decades of division and conflict at the heart of one of the twentieth century's most infamous social experiments. Apartheid, an illustrated history is a portrait of the defining experience of modern South Africa's transition from colonial state to democracy. What began in May 1948 as a vague, grimly ambitious project to interrupt history and engineer white supremacy at the expense of the country's black majority spawned forty-six years of repressive authoritarianism and bitter resistance which claimed the lives of thousands and pushed the country to the brink of civil conflict. A provocative postscript examines apartheid's stubborn afterlife in the years since 1994, suggesting that the optimism and democratic vitality of the constitutional state hinge on South Africans avoiding simplistic views of the past that might lend themselves to demagoguery. For all its catastrophic and lingering effects, the book concludes, apartheid was disarmed, ultimately, by the society's much longer history of inseparability. Journalist Michael Morris draws on the work of scholars and historians as well as contemporary reporting in an unsentimental and highly readable account, vividly complemented by photographs and cartoons.
Author : B. L. Molyneaux,P. G. Stone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134865093
The Presented Past is concerned with the differences between the comparatively static, well-understood way in which the past is presented in schools, museums and at historic sites compared to the approaches currently being explored in contemporary archaeology. It challenges the all-too-frequent representation of the past as something finished, understood and objective, rather than something that is `constructed' and therefore open to co-existing interpretations and constant re-interpretation. Central to the book is the belief that the presentation of the past in school curricula and in museum and site interpretations will benefit from a greater use of non-documentary sources derived from archaeological study and oral histories. The book suggests that a view of the past incorporating a larger body of evidence and a wider variety of understanding will help to invigorate the way history is taught. The Presented Past will be of interest to teachers, archaeologists, cultural resource managers, in fact anyone who is concerned with how the past is presented.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : South Africa
ISBN : OCLC:1392379342
Author : Alois S. Mlambo,Neil Parsons
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137551986
From early human civilisation to today, this book illuminates the history of southern Africa. Interweaving social, cultural and political history, archaeology, anthropology and environmentalism, Neil Parsons and Alois Mlambo provide an engaging account of the region's varied past. Placing African voices and agency at centre stage rather than approaching the subject through a colonial lens, A History of Southern Africa provides an engrossing narrative of the region. This textbook is ideal for both undergraduate and postgraduate students of History and African Studies, and will provide an essential grounding for those taking courses in the history of southern Africa. Its lively and accessible approach will appeal to anyone with an interest in global history.
Author : Iris Berger
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195337938
South Africa in World History discusses the history of South Africa from the early centuries of the Common Era to the present-day and addresses broad themes of world history such as colonialism, white settlement, nationalism and reconciliation.
Author : Richard Steyn
Publisher : Jonathan Ball Publishers
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776190362
If a mere seven more MPs had voted with Prime Minister JBM Hertzog in favour of neutrality, South Africa's history would have been quite different. Parliament's narrow decision to go to war in 1939 led to a seismic upheaval throughout the 1940s: black people streamed in their thousands from rural areas to the cities in search of jobs; volunteers of all races answered the call to go 'up north' to fight; and opponents of the Smuts government actively hindered the war effort by attacking soldiers and committing acts of sabotage. World War Two upended South Africa's politics, ruining attempts to forge white unity and galvanising opposition to segregation among African, Indian and coloured communities. It also sparked debates among nationalists, socialists, liberals and communists such as the country had never previously experienced. As Richard Steyn recounts so compellingly in Seven Votes, the war's unforeseen consequence was the boost it gave to nationalisms, both Afrikaner and African, which went on to transform the country in the second half of the 20th century. The book brings to life an extraordinary cast of characters, including wartime leader Jan Smuts, DF Malan and his National Party colleagues, African nationalists from Anton Lembede and AB Xuma to Walter Sisulu and Nelson Mandela, the influential Indian activists Yusuf Dadoo and Monty Naicker, and many others.
Author : Paul S. Landau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139488266
Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 offers an inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the politics of the country's people, from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands, through the colonial era, to the dawn of Apartheid. A practical tradition of mobilization, alliance, and amalgamation persisted, mutated, and occasionally vanished from view; it survived against the odds in several forms, in tribalisms, Christian assemblies, and other, seemingly hybrid movements; and it continues today. Landau treats southern Africa broadly, concentrating increasingly on the southern Highveld and ultimately focusing on a transnational movement called the 'Samuelites'. He shows how people's politics in South Africa were suppressed and transformed, but never entirely eliminated.
Author : Trewhella Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : South Africa
ISBN : OCLC:610391929
Author : Archie L. Dick
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442695085
The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners. Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.