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Author : Hazel Crampton
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 1919931929
A seven-year-old English girl, washed up on the Wild Coast in about 1736, is adopted by the amaMpondo, grows up to become a woman of surpassing beauty, marries the chief of the clan and becomes an ancestor of many of the Xhosa royal families.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 730 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Humanities
ISBN : UCAL:B2927693
Author : Gail Nattrass
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781785903687
South Africa is popularly perceived as the most influential nation in Africa – a gateway to an entire continent for finance, trade and politics, and a crucial mediator in its neighbours' affairs. On the other hand, post-Apartheid dreams of progress and reform have, in part, collapsed into a morass of corruption, unemployment and criminal violence. A Short History of South Africa is a brief, general account of the history of this most complicated and fascinating country – from the first evidence of hominid existence to the wars of the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries that led to the establishment of modern South Africa, the horrors of Apartheid and the optimism following its collapse, as well as the prospects and challenges for the future. This readable and thorough account, illustrated with maps and photographs, is the culmination of a lifetime of researching and teaching the broad spectrum of South African history. Nattrass's passion for her subject shines through, whether she is elucidating the reader on early humans in the cradle of humankind, or describing the tumultuous twentieth-century processes that shaped the democracy that is South Africa today.
Author : Henry Cogswell Knight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1831
Category : Sermons, American
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNS1P
Author : Paulus Gerardus Maria Hebinck,Peter C. Lent
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004161696
Focussing on the past history and present day life of the people in two villages in the central Eastern Cape, South Africa, the book provides a vivid but detailed and insightful account of the transformation of rural society and economy since colonisation.
Author : Treive Nicholas
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781398106789
Heartwarming story of the year Treive Nicholas spent in a forgotten corner of apartheid South Africa, where humour and kindness flourished amid grinding poverty and brutal racism. Funny and shocking in equal measure, tale of a British teenager far from home - and his unlikely friendship with a local nun - is one of adventure, ambition and hope.
Author : Nicolaas Vergunst
Publisher : Arena books
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781906791711
Historical fiction on South Africa.
Author : Ronnie Govender
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 872 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1770091866
A majestic saga and thoughtful narrative recounting a family's epic struggle, this novel weaves together extraordinary characters bursting with richness, feeling, and dimension. The story of Chin Govender's family is blended into the rich cultural tapestry of Indian life and the intricacies of close communities that form the backdrop for this amazing tale. Painting an evocative portrait of five generations of descendants of former indentured Indian laborers and their struggle to build an identity in an emerging South Africa.
Author : Liz Johanson Botha
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781783093878
This book investigates the strategies and identities of colonials who have learned the languages of colonised people, using the context of isiXhosa in South Africa. While power in language learning research has traditionally focused on the powerful native speaker and the relatively disempowered learner, this book studies the inverse, where elites are the language learners. The author analyses the life histories of four white South Africans who acquired isiXhosa during the apartheid years. The book offers insights into relationships between language, power, race, identity and change in their stories and in the broader context of apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, with its conflicted history and disparities. This book should appeal to researchers interested in studies of language acquisition, narrative and identity, as well as those more broadly interested in South African history, multilingualism and race studies.
Author : Todd Cleveland,Tarminder Kaur,Gerard Akindes
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780821446966
These groundbreaking essays demonstrate how Africans past and present have utilized sports to forge complex identities and shape Africa’s dynamic place in the world. Since the late nineteenth century, modern sports in Africa have both reflected and shaped cultural, social, political, economic, generational, and gender relations on the continent. Although colonial powers originally introduced European sports as a means of “civilizing” indigenous populations and upholding then current notions of racial hierarchies and “muscular Christianity,” Africans quickly appropriated these sporting practices to fulfill their own varied interests. This collection encompasses a wide range of topics, including women footballers in Nigeria, Kenya’s world-class long-distance runners, pitches and stadiums in communities large and small, fandom and pay-to-watch kiosks, the sporting diaspora, sports pedagogy, sports as resistance and as a means to forge identity, sports heritage, the impact of politics on sports, and sporting biography.
Author : Isabel Hofmeyr,Charne Lavery,Sarah Nuttall
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000937138
An experiment in reading for water, this book offers students and teachers a toolkit of methods that follow the sensory, political and agentive power of water across literary texts. The chapters in this book follow rivers, rain, streams, tunnels and sewers; connect atmospheric, surface and ground water; describe competing hydrological traditions and hydro-epistemologies. They propose new literary regions defined less by nation and area than by coastlines, river basins, monsoons, currents and hydro-cosmologies. Whether thinking along water courses, below the water line, or through the fall of precipitation, Reading for Water moves laterally, vertically and contrapuntally between different water-worlds and hydro-imaginaries. Addressing southern African and Caribbean texts, the collection draws on a range of elementally inclined literary approaches: critical oceanic studies, new materialisms, coastal and hydrocritical approaches, hydrocolonialism, black hydropoetics and atmospheric methods. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Interventions.
Author : Jane Taylor
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770097162
An investigation within an investigation, this richly imagined tale follows an organ recipient, Guy Hawthorne, and the person who performed his heart transplant. The mystery opens with an unexplained violent death and a video tape left with the body, leading to a story of modern medicine and the psychological twists that lie at the heart of celebrity and obsession. Infused with the halfway modern spirit of South Africa in the 1960s, this poetic and haunting thriller captures the tensions of the times, weaving together fiction and fact in a gripping storyline.
Author : Roger S. Levine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 477 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300168594
Born into a Xhosa royal family around 1792 in South Africa, Jan Tzatzoe was destined to live in an era of profound change—one that witnessed the arrival and entrenchment of European colonialism. As a missionary, chief, and cultural intermediary on the eastern Cape frontier and in Cape Town and a traveler in Great Britain, Tzatzoe helped foster the merging of African and European worlds into a new South African reality. Yet, by the 1860s, despite his determined resistance, he was an oppressed subject of harsh British colonial rule. In this innovative, richly researched, and splendidly written biography, Roger S. Levine reclaims Tzatzoe's lost story and analyzes his contributions to, and experiences with, the turbulent colonial world to argue for the crucial role of Africans as agents of cultural and intellectual change.
Author : Rosabelle Boswell,David O’Kane,Jeremy Hills
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030993474
This handbook is unique in its consideration of social and cultural contributions to sustainable oceans management. It is also unique in its deconstruction of the hegemonic value attached to the oceans and in its analysis of discourses regarding what national governments in the Global South should prioritise in their oceans management strategy. Offering a historical perspective from the start, the handbook reflects on the confluence of (western) scientific discourse and colonialism, and the impact of this on indigenous conceptions of the oceans and on social identity. With regard to the latter, the authors are mindful of the nationalisation of island territories worldwide and the impact of this process on regional collaboration, cultural exchange and the valuation of the oceans. Focusing on global examples, the handbook offers a nuanced, region relevant, contemporary conceptualisation of blue heritage, discussing what will be required to achieve an inclusive oceans economy by 2063, the end goal date of the African Union’s Agenda 2063. The analysis will be useful to established academics in the field of ocean studies, policymakers and practitioners engaged in research on the ocean economy, as well as graduate scholars in the ocean sciences.
Author : Julie Laplante
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781782385554
Umhlonyane, also known as Artemisia afra, is one of the oldest and best-documented indigenous medicines in South Africa. This bush, which grows wild throughout the sub-Saharan region, smells and tastes like “medicine,” thus easily making its way into people’s lives and becoming the choice of everyday healing for Xhosa healer-diviners and Rastafarian herbalists. This “natural” remedy has recently sparked curiosity as scientists search for new molecules against a tuberculosis pandemic while hoping to recognize indigenous medicine. Laplante follows umhlonyane on its trails and trials of becoming a biopharmaceutical — from the “open air” to controlled environments — learning from the plant and from the people who use it with hopes in healing.