The Aftermath Of The Cassinga Massacre

Author : Vilho Shigwedha
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : Angola
ISBN : 9783905758801

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The Aftermath of the Cassinga Massacre by Vilho Shigwedha Pdf

It took the former South African Defence Force (SADF) less than four hours to kill more than eight hundred Namibian refugees at Cassinga on May 4, 1978. Thousands of survivors were left with irreparable physical and emotional injuries. The unhealed trauma of Cassinga, a Namibian civilian camp in southern Angola before the massacre, is beyond the worst that the victims of the attack experienced on the ground. Unacceptable layers of pain and suffering continue to grow and multiply as the victims’ grievances and other issues arising out of the aftermath of the massacre have been ignored, particularly following Namibia’s political independence. In this book, the afterlife of the victims’ traumatic memories and their aspiration for justice vis-à-vis the perpetrators’ enjoyment of blanket impunity from prosecution, in spite of their ongoing denial of killing and maiming innocent civilians at Cassinga, are explored with the aim to create public awareness about the unfortunate circumstances of the Cassinga victims.

Author : Lovisa T. Nampala,Vilho Shigwedha
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Design
ISBN : 3908193168

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Aawambo Kingdoms, History and Cultural Change by Lovisa T. Nampala,Vilho Shigwedha Pdf

Author : Annemarie Heywood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105070221663

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The Cassinga Event by Annemarie Heywood Pdf

Author : Chandré Gould,Peter I. Folb
Publisher : United Nations Publications UNIDIR
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015052311373

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Project Coast by Chandré Gould,Peter I. Folb Pdf

Project Coast was the codename for a covert programme, established by the South African apartheid government in 1981, to develop a range of chemical and biological agents intended for use against opponents of the regime within and outside the state. This book examines the history of the project, its operation outside ordinary political, military and financial controls, through to its eventual demise in 1995. It draws on information made public at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings, as well as evidence presented at the criminal trial of Dr Wouter Basson, the project's director.

Author : Patricia Hayes,Gary Minkley
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821446881

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Ambivalent by Patricia Hayes,Gary Minkley Pdf

Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography—and with visibility more generally—in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent‘s contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories. Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson

Author : Christian A. Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107099340

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National Liberation in Post-Colonial Southern Africa by Christian A. Williams Pdf

Williams traces the South West Africa People's Organization of Namibia across three decades in exile in Tanzania, Zambia, and Angola.

Author : Timothy J. Stapleton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9798216117728

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A Military History of South Africa by Timothy J. Stapleton Pdf

This work offers the first one-volume comprehensive military history of modern South Africa. A Military History of South Africa: From the Dutch-Khoi Wars to the End of Apartheid represents the first comprehensive military history of South Africa from the beginning of European colonization in the Cape during the 1650s to the current postapartheid republic. With particular emphasis on the last 200 years, this balanced analysis stresses the historical importance of warfare and military structures in the shaping of modern South African society. Important themes include military adaptation during the process of colonial conquest and African resistance, the growth of South Africa as a regional military power from the early 20th century, and South African involvement in conflicts of the decolonization era. Organized chronologically, each chapter reviews the major conflicts, policies, and military issues of a specific period in South African history. Coverage includes the wars of colonial conquest (1830-69), the diamond wars (1869-81), the gold wars (1886-1910), World Wars I and II (1910-45), and the apartheid wars (1948-94).

Author : Alex O'Femi
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781683481201

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Marauders in the Tropics by Alex O'Femi Pdf

It is a fact that Africa has been booty to the world. It is also easy for Africans and most commentators on African history to blame the continent’s woes on outsiders-Western slave traders, colonial powers and neo-colonialists-without taking cognizance of the destructive roles played by conniving Africans. For the reasons of greed, politics for personal enrichment and tribal affinity, connivers are abounding on the continent of Africa always ready to betray their people. In his book, Alex O’Femi, blames African woes-especially that of Sub-Saharan Africa-on conniving elements in Africa without which the continent’s conquest would not have been possible. Through reliance on historicism, a method that treats history as a science, O’Femi concludes that Africa lost the battle to interlopers in previous centuries and may yet again do so in this century if enemies within are not effectively contained

Author : Carrier, Peter,Fuchs, Eckhardt,Messinger, Torben,Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (Germany)
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789231000331

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The International status of education about the Holocaust by Carrier, Peter,Fuchs, Eckhardt,Messinger, Torben,Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research (Germany) Pdf

How do schools worldwide treat the Holocaust as a subject? In which countries does the Holocaust form part of classroom teaching? Are representations of the Holocaust always accurate, balanced and unprejudiced in curricula and textbooks? This study, carried out by UNESCO and the Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research, compares for the first time representations of the Holocaust in school textbooks and national curricula. Drawing on data which includes countries in which there exists no or little information about representations of the Holocaust, the study shows where the Holocaust is established in official guidelines, and contains a close textbook study, focusing on the comprehensiveness and accuracy of representations and historical narratives. The book highlights evolving practices worldwide and thus provides education stakeholders with comprehensive documentation about current trends in curricula directives and textbook representations of the Holocaust. It further formulates recommendations that will help policy-makers provide the educational means by which pupils may develop Holocaust literacy.

Author : Cressida Fforde,C. Timothy McKeown,Honor Keeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351398879

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The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Repatriation by Cressida Fforde,C. Timothy McKeown,Honor Keeler Pdf

This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains. The Ancestral Remains of Indigenous peoples are today housed in museums and other collecting institutions globally. They were taken from anywhere the deceased can be found, and their removal occurred within a context of deep power imbalance within a colonial project that had a lasting effect on Indigenous peoples worldwide. Through the efforts of First Nations campaigners, many have returned home. However, a large number are still retained. In many countries, the repatriation issue has driven a profound change in the relationship between Indigenous peoples and collecting institutions. It has enabled significant steps towards resetting this relationship from one constrained by colonisation to one that seeks a more just, dignified and truthful basis for interaction. The history of repatriation is one of Indigenous perseverance and success. The authors of this book contribute major new work and explore new facets of this global movement. They reflect on nearly 40 years of repatriation, its meaning and value, impact and effect. This book is an invaluable contribution to repatriation practice and research, providing a wealth of new knowledge to readers with interests in Indigenous histories, self-determination and the relationship between collecting institutions and Indigenous peoples.

Author : Gary Baines
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472508249

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South Africa's 'Border War' by Gary Baines Pdf

South Africa's 'Border War' provides a timely study of the 'war of words' waged by retired South African Defence Force (SADF) generals and other veterans against critics and detractors. The book explores the impact of the 'Border War' on South African culture and society during apartheid and in the new dispensation and discusses the lasting legacy or 'afterlife' of the war in great detail. It also offers an appraisal of the secondary literature of the 'Border War', supplemented by archival research, interviews and an analysis of articles, newspaper reports, reviews and blogs. Adopting a genuinely multidisciplinary approach that borrows from the study of history, literature, visual culture, memory, politics and international relations, South Africa's 'Border War' is an important volume for anyone interested in the study of war and memory or the modern history of South Africa.

Author : Tichaona Mazarire
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783906927336

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Exploring Economic Reintegration in Namibia. Individual Trajectories of PLAN Ex-Fighters and SWAPO Exiles, 1989–2018 by Tichaona Mazarire Pdf

Exploring Economic Reintegration in Namibia: Individual Trajectories of PLAN Ex-Fighters and SWAPO Exiles, 1989–2018 draws from life histories to present constraints and possibilities that have shaped former SWAPO exiles’ economic reintegration in post-colonial Namibia from 1989 through 2018. The book advances three arguments, each of which pushes beyond existing scholarship on Namibia and/or economic reintegration broadly. Collectively, these arguments challenge dominant narratives that have generalized former SWAPO exiles’ economic reintegration experiences, highlighting that there is no single narrative that can describe their unique life stories of reintegration in the post-colony.

Author : Tichaona Mazarire
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-11-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9783906927343

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Exploring Economic Reintegration in Namibia: by Tichaona Mazarire Pdf

This study draws from life histories to present constraints and possibilities that have shaped former SWAPO exiles economic reintegration in post-colonial Namibia from 1989 through 2018. The book advances three arguments, each of which pushes beyond existing scholarship on Namibia and/or economic reintegration broadly. Collectively, these arguments challenge dominant narratives that have generalized former SWAPO exiles economic reintegration experiences, highlighting that there is no single narrative that can describe their unique life stories of reintegration in the post-colony.

Author : Oiva Angula
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1776093615

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Swapo Captive by Oiva Angula Pdf

A young Namibian goes into exile to join SWAPO's military wing, PLAN, in the late 1970s. After dedicating his life to the movement, a series of purges within the organisation lead to him being wrongfully branded an apartheid spy and traitor. So begins Oiva Angula's terrifying story of betrayal and torture by his comrades, which culminates in imprisonment in the omalambo - the hidden pits in Lubango, Angola, into which he, along with many others, is cast and left to die. SWAPO Captive threads together personal narrative and national history, including childhood impressions that hint at a racially segregated existence, the rising tensions sparked by the apartheid regime's rule over South West Africa, his father's role in early liberation movements, and Angula's own politicisation and decision to join the struggle. SWAPO Captive reveals little-known narratives from 'the other side' of the Border War: life in a PLAN training camp, political education in the Eastern Bloc, and a foot soldier's role in the war for independence. Angula also addresses the 'wall of silence' imposed after independence in Namibia with respect to possible war crimes committed by SWAPO, condemning the party that claimed to fight for freedom for all.

Author : Luregn Lenggenhager
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Caprivi (Namibia)
ISBN : 9783906927008

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Ruling Nature, Controlling People by Luregn Lenggenhager Pdf

Recent nature conservation initiatives in Southern Africa such as communal conservancies and peace parks are often embedded in narratives of economic development and ecological research. They are also increasingly marked by militarisation and violence. In Ruling Nature, Controlling People, Luregn Lenggenhager shows that these features were also characteristic of South African rule over the Caprivi Strip region in North-Eastern Namibia, especially in the fields of forestry, fisheries and, ultimately, wildlife conservation. In the process, the increasingly internationalised war in the region from the late 1960s until Namibia’s independence in 1990 became intricately interlinked with contemporary nature conservation, ecology and economic development projects. By retracing such interdependencies, Lenggenhager provides a novel perspective from which to examine the history of a region which has until now barely entered the focus of historical research. He thereby highlights the enduring relevance of the supposedly peripheral Caprivi and its military, scientific and environmental histories for efforts to develop a deeper understanding of the ways in which apartheid South Africa exerted state power.