Sharpeville

Author : Tom Lodge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191617348

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Sharpeville by Tom Lodge Pdf

On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black and white in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at the social and political background to the events of March 1960, as well as the sequence of events that prompted the shootings themselves. He then broadens his focus to explain the long-term consequences of Sharpeville, explaining how it affected South African politics over the following decades, both domestically and also in the country's relationship with the rest of the world.

Author : Peter Parker,Joyce Mokhesi-Parker
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0814766595

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In the Shadow of Sharpeville by Peter Parker,Joyce Mokhesi-Parker Pdf

A history of the men who were sentenced to hang in South Africa following the death of a deputy-mayor in Sharpeville in 1984. The authors focus on the trial, sentencing, and subsequent international campaign that eventually led to their release after a stay of execution was ordered only 18 hours before the death sentence was to be carried out. Their exploration of the events also leads the authors into discussions of the way the criminal justice system in apartheid South Africa was biased against blacks. The source material for the book included countless interviews and letters written from Death Row. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Prakash Diar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015018998172

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The Sharpeville Six by Prakash Diar Pdf

Author : Philip H. Frankel,Professor Philip Frankel
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300091788

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An Ordinary Atrocity by Philip H. Frankel,Professor Philip Frankel Pdf

"On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on members of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) protesting peacefully in the South African township of Sharpeville against apartheid's iniquitous 'pass laws'. Sixty-nine people died, many shot in the back. The shots fired that day in an obscure corner of South Africa reverberated around the world and Sharpeville became the symbol of the evil of the apartheid system." "This seminal event in the history of African nationalism has never been systematically documented. The Wessels Commission of Inquiry established to investigate the crisis never published a satisfactory final report. And in the four decades since the shooting the massacre has been so mythologised and contorted to serve various political interests as to preclude a thorough investigation."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Peter Parker,Joyce Mokhesi-Parker
Publisher : Springer
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349146178

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In the Shadow of Sharpeville by Peter Parker,Joyce Mokhesi-Parker Pdf

The authors take a scalpel to South Africa's system of criminal justice during the Apartheid era. They focus on the case of the Sharpeville Six to analyse how criminal justice was used to make convictions easy to secure. Analysing the technicalities of the criminal law, as well as the quality of evidence and judicial reasoning in the case against the Six, Parker and Mokhesi-Parker also convey vividly through letters from death row, the sense these people made of their impending executions and how an international campaign to save their lives succeeded with only 18 hours to spare.

Author : Tom Lodge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780192801852

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Sharpeville by Tom Lodge Pdf

"Sharpeville, 21 March 1960: the story of an infamous massacre and its consequences for South Africa's apartheid regime"--Dust jacket.

Author : Mary K. DeShazer
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472065637

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A Poetics of Resistance by Mary K. DeShazer Pdf

A survey of the empowering poetry of politically active women in El Salvador, South Africa, and the United States.

Author : Richard Ambrose Reeves
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Civil rights demonstrations
ISBN : UOM:39015013311173

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Shooting at Sharpeville by Richard Ambrose Reeves Pdf

Author : Edgar H. Brookes
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000624410

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Apartheid by Edgar H. Brookes Pdf

Originally published in 1968, this volume traces the history and growth of Apartheid in South Africa. The acts which enforced Apartheid – the Group Areas Act, Population and Registration Act are given in full. The book also includes documents which reflected reaction to these measures: Parliamentary debates, newspaper reports and policy statements by the leading political parties and religious denominations. The documents are headed by a full historical and analytical introduction.

Author : Bryan Mark Urbsaitis
Publisher : VDM
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783639165043

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Wounded Healers & Reconciliation Fatigue by Bryan Mark Urbsaitis Pdf

How do NGOs' understandings of reconciliation differ from those of their clients within a larger project of national healing? How do staff at these NGOs balance remembering the past with nation-building and international development when they may be victims themselves? Why do certain groups and individuals continue to feel marginalized so long after liberation? And how might NGOs in South Africa constitute a reconciliation social movement? Wounded Healers argues that while South Africans have been reconciling apartheid-era abuses since 1994, ongoing reconciliation struggles of individuals must not be overlooked within the larger quest for national healing. Focusing on memorialization, missing persons, 30,000R reparation payouts, as well as on the continued oppression of marginalized identity based on culture, race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and HIV and AIDS, this ethnographic analysis will appeal to all those interested in post-conflict democratization, NGOs, international development, non-Western communication, conflict & peace-building, communication education, ethnography, cultural anthropology, activism, Africa, and anyone interested in global social justice.

Author : Sarah Harris
Publisher : Dryad Press
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : IND:30000000856710

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Sharpeville by Sarah Harris Pdf

Author : Nancy L. Clark,William H. Worger
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003802105

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Voices of Sharpeville by Nancy L. Clark,William H. Worger Pdf

This is the first in-depth study of Sharpeville, the South African township that was the site of the infamous police massacre of March 21, 1960, the event that prompted the United Nations to declare apartheid a "crime against humanity." Voices of Sharpeville brings to life the destruction of Sharpeville’s predecessor, Top Location, and the careful planning of its isolated and carceral design by apartheid architects. A unique set of eyewitness testimonies from Sharpeville’s inhabitants reveals how they coped with apartheid and why they rose up to protest this system, narrating this massacre for the first time in the words of the participants themselves. Previously understood only through the iconic photos of fleeing protestors and dead bodies, the timeline is reconstructed using an extensive archive of new documentary and oral sources including unused police records, personal interviews with survivors and their families, and maps and family photos. By identifying nearly all the victims, many omitted from earlier accounts, the authors upend the official narrative of the massacre. Amid worldwide struggles against racial discrimination and efforts to give voices to protestors and victims of state violence, this book provides a deeper understanding of this pivotal event for a newly engaged international audience.

Author : Brian Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Law
ISBN : 0742540863

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Justice Ignited by Brian Martin Pdf

Attacks can backfire on attackers_sometimes spectacularly. In March 1991, an observer videotaped several Los Angeles police beating Rodney King with their batons. Shown on television, the beating caused enormous damage to the reputation of the police and led to the chief's resignation. This incident and others, such as the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 1965 surveillance of Ralph Nader, prove that all sorts of attacks can backfire, from torture and massacres to job dismissals and reprisals against whistle-blowers. Through numerous detailed case studies, Justice Ignited presents the first comprehensive treatment of the dynamics of backfire, as it reveals the most promising tactics for causing the backfire of unfair attacks. Understanding backfire_both promoting and inhibiting it_is vitally important for activists and everyone else who wants to be effective in the face of injustice.

Author : Thomas Risse,Stephen C. Ropp,Kathryn Sikkink
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1999-08-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521658829

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The Power of Human Rights by Thomas Risse,Stephen C. Ropp,Kathryn Sikkink Pdf

In Tunisia and Morocco.

Author : Uche Onyebadi
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781648894718

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Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe. Volume 1. by Uche Onyebadi Pdf

'Political Messaging in Music and Entertainment Spaces across the Globe' uniquely expands the frontiers of political communication by simultaneously focusing on content (political messaging) and platform (music and entertainment). As a compendium of valuable research work, it provides rich insights into the construction of political messages and their dissemination outside of the traditional and mainstream structural, process and behavioral research focus in the discipline. Researchers, teachers, students and other interested parties in political communication, political science, journalism and mass communication, sociology, music, languages, linguistics and the performing arts, communication studies, law and history, will find this book refreshingly handy in their inquiry. Furthermore, this book was conceptualized from a globalist purview and offers readers practical insights into how political messaging through music and entertainment spaces actually work across nation-states, regions and continents. Its authenticity is also further enhanced by the fact that most chapter contributors are scholars who are natives of their areas of study, and who painstakingly situate their work in appropriate historical contexts.