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Book The Struggle for District Six

Download or read book The Struggle for District Six written by Shamil Jeppie and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rosa s District 6

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  • Author : Rozena Maart
  • Publisher : New Africa Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780864866905
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book Rosa s District 6 written by Rozena Maart and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these five connected stories, set in Cape Town's District 6 in the 70s, the central character is a precocious little girl called Rosa. Through her adventures in the neighbourhood we come to meet and know the District and its many colourful inhabitants.

Book Noor s Story

Download or read book Noor s Story written by Noor Ebrahim and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Commemorating and Forgetting

Download or read book Commemorating and Forgetting written by Martin J. Murray and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the past is painful, as riddled with violence and injustice as it is in postapartheid South Africa, remembrance presents a problem at once practical and ethical: how much of the past to preserve and recollect and how much to erase and forget if the new nation is to ever unify and move forward? The new South Africa’s confrontation of this dilemma is Martin J. Murray’s subject in Commemorating and Forgetting. More broadly, this book explores how collective memory works—how framing events, persons, and places worthy of recognition and honor entails a selective appropriation of the past, not a mastery of history. How is the historical past made to appear in the present? In addressing these questions, Murray reveals how collective memory is stored and disseminated in architecture, statuary, monuments and memorials, literature, and art—“landscapes of remembrance” that selectively recall and even fabricate history in the service of nation-building. He examines such vehicles of memory in postapartheid South Africa and parses the stories they tell—stories by turn sanitized, distorted, embellished, and compressed. In this analysis, Commemorating and Forgetting marks a critical move toward recognizing how the legacies and impositions of white minority rule, far from being truly past, remain embedded in, intertwined with, and imprinted on the new nation’s here and now.

Book Buckingham Palace

Download or read book Buckingham Palace written by Richard Rive and published by London : Heinemann. This book was released on 1986 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Emergence of the South African Metropolis

Download or read book The Emergence of the South African Metropolis written by Vivian Bickford-Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-16 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering account of how South Africa's three leading cities were fashioned, experienced, promoted and perceived.

Book Productive Math Struggle

Download or read book Productive Math Struggle written by John J. SanGiovanni and published by Corwin. This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All students face struggle, and they should—it is how they learn and grow. The teacher’s job is not to remove struggle, but rather to value and harness it, helping students develop good habits of productive struggle. But what’s missing for many educators is an action plan for how to achieve this, especially when it comes to math. This book guides teachers through six specific actions—including valuing, fostering, building, planning, supporting, and reflecting on struggle—to create a game plan for overcoming obstacles by sharing · Actionable steps, activities, and tools for implementation · Instructional tasks representative of each grade level · Real-world examples showcasing classroom photos and student work

Book The Truth is on the Walls

Download or read book The Truth is on the Walls written by Naz Gool Ebrahim and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Naz Gool Ebrahim and District Six are intimately linked; in fact it is hard to imagine the one without the other. Naz combined her radical political activism with her roles as devoted wife and mother to six children. Up until the end of her life in 2005, she worked tirelessly to oppose the evil of racial segregation. To her opponents, she was an indomitable adversary, but to her friends she was 'Naz - Raz-a-ma-tazz', a great lady who certainly knew how to tell a story and put on a good show. This book is in three parts: Section One deals with the period 1652 - 1947 and gives a history of the formation of the Cape Colony, the origins of District Six and the emergence of Cissie Gool as a strong political figure. Section Two covers the timeframe 1948 - 1963 and looks in more depth at apartheid government policy, the Group Areas Act and the death of Cissie Gool. Section Three begins February 11, 1966 when District Six was declared a 'White Area' and tells the story of Naz's struggle to get the international community to pay attention to the plight of all those evicted from their homes due to ethnic cleansing. When Naz was facing eviction from District Six, her home became a focal meeting point for the community. In an effort to make one last stand and let their voices be heard, Naz started writing slogans all over the walls of her house and soon the rest of the community joined in, so literally, 'the TRUTH is on the WALLS'.

Book Language in Cape Town s District Six

Download or read book Language in Cape Town s District Six written by Kay McCormick and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is a sociolinguistic case study of District Six, an inner-city neighbourhood in Cape Town characterized by language mixing and switching of English and Afrikaans. Its early inhabitants included indigenous people, freed slaves of African and Asian origin, and immigrants from Europe andelsewhere. The ravages of apartheid affected the residents' attitudes towards their languages in various ways, which are described. The book examines the norms and practices regarding language choice for various functions and domains in the only surviving sector of District Six. It also containsdetailed analyses of extended bilingual conversations showing a range of social, linguistic and discourse features. Of particular interest is the paradoxical polarization and blending of the two languages. They are strongly polarized symbolically and functionally, yet they are also habituallyblended in vernacular speech through lexical borrowing and intrasentential language switching. This paradox has interesting implications for the construction of individual, community and language identity.

Book Cape Town in the Twentieth Century

Download or read book Cape Town in the Twentieth Century written by Vivian Bickford-Smith and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Walk in the Night

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  • Author : Alex La Guma
  • Publisher : Northwestern University Press
  • Release : 1968
  • ISBN : 9780810101395
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book A Walk in the Night written by Alex La Guma and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of French and Malagasy stock, involved in South African politics from an early age, Alex La Guma was arrested for treason with 155 others in 1956 and finally acquitted in 1960. During the State of Emergency following the Sharpeville massacre he was detained for five months. Continuing to write, he endured house arrest and solitary confinement. La Guma left South Africa as a refugee in 1966 and lived in exile in London and Havana. He died in 1986. A Walk in the Night and Other Stories reveals La Guma as one of the most important African writers of his time. These works reveal the plight of non-whites in apartheid South Africa, laying bare the lives of the poor and the outcasts who filled the ghettoes and shantytowns.

Book History After Apartheid

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  • Author : Annie E. Coombes
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2003-11-24
  • ISBN : 9780822330721
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book History After Apartheid written by Annie E. Coombes and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-24 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVHow should post-apartheid South Africa present its history - in museums, monuments, and parks./div

Book Richard Rive

Download or read book Richard Rive written by Shaun Viljoen and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Moore Rive (1930-1989) was a writer, scholar, literary critic and college teacher in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best known for his short stories written in the late 1950s and for his second novel, 'Buckingham Palace', District Six, in which he depicted the well-known cosmopolitan area of District Six, where he grew up. In this biography Shaun Viljoen, a former colleague of Rive's, creates the composite qualities of a man who was committed to the struggle against racial oppression and to the ideals of non-racialism but was also variously described as irascible, pompous and arrogant, with a 'cultivated urbanity'. Beneath these public personae lurked a constant and troubled awareness of his dark skin colour and guardedness about his homosexuality. Using his own and others' memories, and drawing on Rive's fiction, Viljoen brings the author to life with sensitivity and empathy. The biography follows Rive from his early years in the 1950s, writing for Drum magazine and spending time in the company of great anti-establishment writers such as Jack Cope, Ingrid Jonker, Jan Rabie, Marjorie Wallace, Es'kia Mphahlele and Nadine Gordimer, to his acceptance at Magdalene College, Oxford, where he completed his doctorate on Olive Schreiner, before returning to South Africa to resume his position as senior lecturer at Hewat College of Education. This biography will resurface Richard Rive the man and the writer, and invite us to think anew about how we read writers who lived and worked during the years of apartheid.

Book Struggle

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  • Author : Philip Harrison
  • Publisher : New Africa Books
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780864865670
  • Pages : 116 pages

Download or read book Struggle written by Philip Harrison and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes you to sites related to the remarkable story of the opposition to South Africa's apartheid system, a saga that culminated in the country's transition to non-racial democracy in the early 1990s.

Book District Six Revisited

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Hallett
  • Publisher : Witwatersrand University Press
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9781868144525
  • Pages : 111 pages

Download or read book District Six Revisited written by George Hallett and published by Witwatersrand University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "District Six Revisited" is set to become the definitive collection of photographs of this vibrant suburb in Cape Town, whose destruction in terms of the apartheid 'Group Areas Act' became a symbol of the inhumanity suffered by the people of South Africa. The book attempts to reconstruct the spirit of the place from important historic photographs, some of which are published here for the first time.In February 1966, the National Party government announced that District Six was to be razed to the ground in order to make space for a new 'white area'. George Hallett and Clarence Coulson produced an intimate portrait of the area before the bulldozers came in.In the 1960s Jackie Heyns ran a weekly column in the Golden City Post called 'Aunt Sammy's', which he illustrated with his own photographs.

Book Lost Communities  Living Memories

Download or read book Lost Communities Living Memories written by Sean Field and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1913 and 1989 some four million South Africans were forcibly removed from their homes to enforce residential segregation along racial lines. This study records and interprets the memories of some of the Capetonians who were relocated as a result of the infamous Group Areas Act. Former resients of Windermere, Tramway Road in Sea Point, District Six, Lower Claremont, and Simon's Town narrate their experiences.

Book Challenge and Transformation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katherine J. Goodnow
  • Publisher : Berghahn Books
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9789232028167
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Challenge and Transformation written by Katherine J. Goodnow and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication looks at how change takes place in museums. Built around a series of case studies outlining the way ethnographic museums, historic sites and art galleries come to terms with issues of diversity and change, it is devoted to exploring diversity and promoting intercultural dialogue in museum practice.--Publisher's description.