Download or read book A Short Guide to the History of South Africa 1652 1902 written by Damian O'Connor and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-06 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To say that the History of South Africa has been a source of controversy over the years is to understate the case by several orders of magnitude. Everything has been fought over. Who was there first? Who owns the land? Why did the Bushmen disappear? Were the Khoikhoin people deliberately wiped out by the Europeans? Were the military exploits of the Zulu people a triumph or a curse? Was British Imperialism a grasping, brutal, racist curse or the advance of settled government, science, medicine, material prosperity and the Rule of Law? Were the Boers victims of British meddling or rapacious expansionists? Why did the Xhosa people collapse when the Tswana, Swazi and Basuto peoples maintained their independence? Where did Apartheid come from? Each of these questions merits a book on its own but this volume gives a fair survey of the issues and provides the reader with a series of workable answers. History is as much about Historians as it is about dates and battles and this book points out just how many Historians have attempted to influence the record to suit their own prejudices and political leanings and just how much and how often they get things wrong. Afrikaaner Nationalists, politically correct Marxists, campaigning missionaries, racists, anti-racists, anti-imperialists and out-and-out Jingoes have all tried to fix the record to justify their programmes over the years and here their efforts are laid bare for the reader to make his or her own judgement - or reserve it and study things further. Throughout, the message is consistent: doing your own thinking and having your own point of view does not make you a bad person.
Download or read book A history of South Africa from 1652 to 1903 written by Henry Anderson Bryden and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of South Africa written by Henry Anderson Bryden and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History of South Africa written by Leonard Monteath Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reexamines the history of South Africa, traces the development of apartheid, and describes the anti-apartheid movement
Download or read book The Beginning of South African History written by George McCall Theal and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1902 edition. Excerpt: ... that the line should, if necessary, be deflected so as to leave Umtasa's kraal in the British sphere and Masikesi in the Portuguese sphere. The treaty provided further that in the event of either of the powers proposing to part with any territory south of the Zambesi assigned to its sphere of influence, the other should have a preferential right to the territory in question, or any portion of it, upon similar terms. It provided for the transit of goods across the Portuguese territory during the following twenty-five years upon payment of a duty not exceeding three per cent of their value, for the free navigation of the Zambesi, for the construction of lines of telegraph, and for facilitating transit of persons and goods of every description over the waterways of the various rivers and over the landways which supply means of communication where the rivers are not navigable. A very important clause provided for the immediate survey and speedy construction of a railroad between the British sphere of influence and the navigable water of the Pungwe river, and for encouraging commerce by that route. And now, for the first time, the Portuguese territory in South Africa was properly defined on all sides, and was secured from invasion by tribes beyond its border. It contained as great an area as its owners could by any possibility make beneficial use of, and as many natives as they had sufficient power to control. It would not have been to their advantage if the boundary had been laid down farther westward. They could not colonise any of the land beyond it, and without colonisation on a large scale an addition of territory would have implied nothing more than additional expense and additional responsibility. Now, with ample scope for their...
Download or read book The Colonials in South Africa 1899 1902 written by John Stirling and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-13 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book History of South Africa 1652 to 1795 Etc Second Edition Revised and Enlarged written by George McCall THEAL and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Apartheid written by Edgar H. Brookes and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book 1652 and So Forth written by Jose Burman and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of humorous, yet little known incidents of South African history from 1652 to the time of the Boer War.
Download or read book Long Walk to Freedom written by Nelson Mandela and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2008-03-11 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
Download or read book The War in South Africa Its Cause and Conduct written by Arthur Conan Doyle and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The War in South Africa, Its Cause and Conduct" by Arthur Conan Doyle. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book The Columbia Guide to South African Literature in English Since 1945 written by Gareth Cornwell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the outset, South Africa's history has been marked by division and conflict along racial and ethnic lines. From 1948 until 1994, this division was formalized in the National Party's policy of apartheid. Because apartheid intruded on every aspect of private and public life, South African literature was preoccupied with the politics of race and social engineering. Since the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990, South Africa has been a new nation-in-the-making, inspired by a nonracial idealism yet beset by poverty and violence. South African writers have responded in various ways to Njabulo Ndebele's call to "rediscover the ordinary." The result has been a kaleidoscope of texts in which evolving cultural forms and modes of identity are rearticulated and explored. An invaluable guide for general readers as well as scholars of African literary history, this comprehensive text celebrates the multiple traditions and exciting future of the South African voice. Although the South African Constitution of 1994 recognizes no fewer than eleven official languages, English has remained the country's literary lingua franca. This book offers a narrative overview of South African literary production in English from 1945 to the postapartheid present. An introduction identifies the most interesting and noteworthy writing from the period. Alphabetical entries provide accurate and objective information on genres and writers. An appendix lists essential authors published before 1945.
Download or read book The No Nonsense Guide to World History written by Chris Brazier and published by New Internationalist. This book was released on 2011-08-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people's knowledge of world history is hazy and incomplete at best. This updated No-Nonsense Guide gives a full picture, revealing the hidden histories and communities left out of conventional history books—from the civilizations of Africa, Asia, and Latin America to the history of women. The new final chapter includes material on the financial crisis and the world response to climate change. Chris Brazier is co-editor at New Internationalist. His previous books include Vietnam: The Price of Peace. He is principal writer for UNICEF's The State of the World's Children report.
Download or read book The Defence of Duffer s Drift written by Ernest Dunlop Swinton and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Banking and Currency Development in South Africa 1652 1927 written by Ernst Heinrich Daniel Arndt and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mendelssohn s South African Bibliography written by Sidney Mendelssohn and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 1182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African History A Very Short Introduction written by John Parker and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
