Total Onslaught

Author : De Wet Potgieter
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770222311

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Total Onslaught by De Wet Potgieter Pdf

For much of its time in power, the National Party government was shored up by the direct involvement of its security forces. Ordinary citizens had no idea that their taxes were being used to fund unorthodox and even illegal operations, ranging from international propaganda campaigns to local death squads. From the dreaded Security Branch, the sinister Civil Cooperation Bureau, the aptly named BOSS and the ubiquitous front companies set up to bypass an arms embargo and economic sanctions, South Africa was run by stealth. It was the government’s Total Strategy against the enemy’s Total Onslaught. A handful of intrepid journalists began the process of uncovering the truth about apartheid, but despite their dedication and the later efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa’s recent history remains fraught with secrets. Now, for the first time, investigative reporter De Wet Potgieter can reveal the truth behind some of the most enigmatic events in South Africa’s past, from what happened during PW Botha’s final cabinet meeting to the assassination of Olof Palme. These, and many other news stories of the time, afford a rare and fascinating glimpse into the behind-the-scenes machinations of South Africa’s security apparatus in the apartheid era.

Author : Paul Moorcraft
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526704900

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Total Onslaught by Paul Moorcraft Pdf

The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved, civil wars between rival factions unfamiliar with democratic principles resulted. Liberation movements such as those in South Africa demanded self-rule and end to Apartheid. Tribal feuds, corruption and the ambitions of dictators led to more conflicts such as the protracted fighting in the Congo. These were wars that ran on until both sides were exhausted often only to be re-kindled after short periods of uneasy peace. The cost in human and material terms has been devastating and in too many cases remain so. Economic development has been frustrated and the result is often poverty, abuse and genocide. The Author who knows Southern Africa as a native is superbly equipped to tell this fascinating if tragic record.

Author : De Wet Potgieter
Publisher : Struik Pub
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1770073280

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Total Onslaught by De Wet Potgieter Pdf

Never-before-published information on the behind-the-scenes machinations of South Africa's security apparatus

Author : S. Mark,Stanley Trapido,S. Marks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317868965

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The Politics of Race, Class and Nationalism in Twentieth Century South Africa by S. Mark,Stanley Trapido,S. Marks Pdf

"The standard of contribution is high . . . the reader gets a good sense of the cutting edge of historical research." – African Affairs

Author : Phil Gunson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317270805

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The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Southern Africa by Phil Gunson Pdf

First published in 1988, The Dictionary of Contemporary Politics of Southern Africa provides a guide to the often confusing politics of Southern Africa. The book identifies and explains political figures, organisations, systems and terminology from the region in a clear and practical way. It covers eleven countries: Angola, Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Although first published in 1988, this book will be a valuable resource for journalists, students, diplomats, business people, and anyone else who is interested in the politics of this richly diverse continent.

Author : Katharina P. Coleman,Markus Kornprobst,Annette Seegers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000732436

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Diplomacy and Borderlands by Katharina P. Coleman,Markus Kornprobst,Annette Seegers Pdf

This book examines Africa’s internal and external relations by focusing on three core concepts: orders, diplomacy and borderlands. The contributors examine traditional and non-traditional diplomatic actors, and domestic, regional, continental, and global orders. They argue that African diplomats profoundly shape these orders by situating themselves within in-between-spaces of geographical and functional orders. It is in these borderlands that agency, despite all kinds of constraints, flourishes. Chapters in the book compare domestic orders to regional ones, and then continental African orders to global ones. They deal with a range of functional orders, including development, international trade, human rights, migration, nuclear arms control, peacekeeping, public administration, and territorial change. By focusing on these topics, the volume contributes to a better understanding of African international relations, sharpens analyses of ordering processes in world politics, and adds to our comprehension of how diplomacy shapes orders and vice versa. The studies collected here show a much more nuanced picture of African agency in African and international affairs and suggest that African diplomacy is far more extensive than is often assumed. This book will be of much interest to students of diplomacy studies, African politics and International Relations.

Author : Hennie P. P. Lötter
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9042002646

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Injustice, Violence and Peace by Hennie P. P. Lötter Pdf

This book argues that the secret to the political miracle achieved in South Africa is a comprehensive change in the conception of justice as guiding political institutions. Pursuing justice is a moral imperative that has practical value as a cost-efficient way of dealing with conflict. This case study in applied ethics and social theory patiently explains how justice in the new South Africa restores humanity and establishes lasting peace, whereas injustice in apartheid South Africa led to conflict and dehumanization.

Author : Saul Dubow
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191009501

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Apartheid, 1948-1994 by Saul Dubow Pdf

This new study offers a fresh interpretation of apartheid South Africa. Emerging out of the author's long-standing interests in the history of racial segregation, and drawing on a great deal of new scholarship, archival collections, and personal memoirs, he situates apartheid in global as well as local contexts. The overall conception of Apartheid, 1948-1994 is to integrate studies of resistance with the analysis of power, paying attention to the importance of ideas, institutions, and culture. Saul Dubow refamiliarises and defamiliarise apartheid so as to approach South Africa's white supremacist past from unlikely perspectives. He asks not only why apartheid was defeated, but how it survived so long. He neither presumes the rise of apartheid nor its demise. This synoptic reinterpretation is designed to introduce students to apartheid and to generate new questions for experts in the field.

Author : Maritz Spaarwater
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770224384

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A Spook’s Progress by Maritz Spaarwater Pdf

From the 1960s, Maritz Spaarwater was an intelligence agent for the South African government, first for Military Intelligence and later for National Intelligence. In the late 1980s, he was among the first to start official discussions overseas with the exiled leadership of the ANC, and he became involved in the negotiations that led to the 1994 election. This is his story. A Spook’s Progress plays out in a range of locations, from army bases in Namibia to the NIS offices in Pretoria, from the dusty streets of Freetown to the luxury of Geneva. Threaded through the narrative are encounters with people such as Sam Nujoma, Kenneth Kaunda, Niel Barnard, Roelf Meyer, Chris Hani, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. An honest depiction of day-to-day life as a spy, the book delves into the relationship between intelligence agents and their political masters and reveals their behind-the-scenes role in facilitating the transition. At times serious, at times ironic and satirical, A Spook’s Progress is a fascinating and frank account of an intelligence agent’s life and work, and his shift from making war to making peace.

Author : Grethe B. Peterson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521176395

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The Tanner Lectures on Human Values by Grethe B. Peterson Pdf

The Tanner Lectures on Human Values is the annual publication of lectures given at various universities around the world. Established to reflect upon the scholarly and scientific learning relating to human values, the lectureships are international and intercultural, and transcend ethnic, national, religious, and ideological distinctions.

Author : J.M. Coetzee
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226111773

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Giving Offense by J.M. Coetzee Pdf

Winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature. J. M. Coetzee presents a coherent, unorthodox analysis of censorship from the perspective of one who has lived and worked under its shadow. The essays collected here attempt to understand the passion that plays itself out in acts of silencing and censoring. He argues that a destructive dynamic of belligerence and escalation tends to overtake the rivals in any field ruled by censorship. From Osip Mandelstam commanded to compose an ode in praise of Stalin, to Breyten Breytenbach writing poems under and for the eyes of his prison guards, to Aleksander Solzhenitsyn engaging in a trial of wits with the organs of the Soviet state, Giving Offense focuses on the ways authors have historically responded to censorship. It also analyzes the arguments of Catharine MacKinnon for the suppression of pornography and traces the operations of the old South African censorship system. "The most impressive feature of Coetzee's essays, besides his ear for language, is his coolheadedness. He can dissect repugnant notions and analyze volatile emotions with enviable poise."—Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Book Review "Those looking for simple, ringing denunciations of censorship's evils will be disappointed. Coetzee explicitly rejects such noble tritenesses. Instead . . . he pursues censorship's deeper, more fickle meanings and unmeanings."—Kirkus Reviews "These erudite essays form a powerful, bracing criticism of censorship in its many guises."—Publishers Weekly "Giving Offense gets its incisive message across clearly, even when Coetzee is dealing with such murky theorists as Bakhtin, Lacan, Foucault, and René; Girard. Coetzee has a light, wry sense of humor."—Bill Marx, Hungry Mind Review "An extraordinary collection of essays."—Martha Bayles, New York Times Book Review "A disturbing and illuminating moral expedition."—Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times Book Review

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Africa
ISBN : IND:30000090499546

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AF Press Clips by Anonim Pdf

Author : Aletta J. Norval
Publisher : Verso
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1859841252

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Deconstructing Apartheid Discourse by Aletta J. Norval Pdf

The book thus seeks to trace the construction and contestation of the central axes around which its political frontiers were organized.

Author : Simon Baynham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000347517

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Military Power and Politics in Black Africa by Simon Baynham Pdf

First published in 1986, Military Power and Politics in Black Africa explores many themes that concerned military power and politics in sub-Saharan Africa at the time of publication. Adopting a thematic approach, the book considers the nature of both intervention and disengagement and looks at the relationship between civilian and military institutions. The final chapters put forward arguments for the importance of foreign intervention in the politics and civil-military relations of African states.

Author : Thula Simpson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780197681183

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History of South Africa by Thula Simpson Pdf

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.