Download or read book A Turbulent South Africa written by Jérôme Tournadre and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frequently praised for its democratic transition, South Africa has experienced an almost uninterrupted cycle of social protest since the late 1990s. There have been increasing numbers of demonstrations against the often appalling living conditions of millions of South Africans, pointing to the fact that they have yet to achieve full citizenship. A Turbulent South Africa offers a new look at this historic period in the existence of the young South African democracy, far removed from the idealistic portrait of the "Rainbow Nation." Jérôme Tournadre draws on interviews and observations to take the reader from the backstreets of the squatters' camps to international militant circles, and from the immediate, infra-political level to the worldwide anti-capitalist protest movement. He investigates the mechanisms and the meaning of social discontent in light of several different phenomena. These include, the struggle of the poor to gain recognition, the persistent memory of the fight against apartheid, the developments in the political world since the "Mandela Years," the coexistence of liberal democracy with a "popular politics" found in poor and working-class districts, and many other factors that have played a crucial part in the social and political tensions at the heart of post-apartheid South Africa.

Download or read book The Politics of the Near written by Jérôme Tournadre and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography of a poor people’s movement traces individual commitments and the mainsprings of mobilization in the ordinary social and intimate life of activists, their relatives, and other township residents. Tournadre’s approach picks up on aspects of activists lives that are often neglected in the study of social movements that help us better understand the dynamics of protest and the attachment of activists to their organization and its cause. What Tournadre calls a “politics of the near” takes shape, through sometimes innocuous actions and beyond the separation between public and domestic spheres. By mapping the daily life of Black and low-income neighborhoods and the intimate domain where expectations and disappointments surface, The Politics of the Near offers a different perspective on the “rainbow nation”—a perspective more sensitive to the fact that, three decades after the end of apartheid, poverty and race are still as tightly interwoven as ever.

Download or read book The Politics of the Near written by Jérôme Tournadre and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Politics of the Near offers a novel approach to social unrest in post-apartheid South Africa. Keeping the noise of demonstrations, barricades, and clashes with the police at a distance, this ethnography of a poor people’s movement traces individual commitments and the mainsprings of mobilization in the ordinary social and intimate life of activists, their relatives, and other township residents. Tournadre’s approach picks up on aspects of activists lives that are often neglected in the study of social movements that help us better understand the dynamics of protest and the attachment of activists to their organization and its cause. What Tournadre calls a “politics of the near” takes shape, through sometimes innocuous actions and beyond the separation between public and domestic spheres. By mapping the daily life of Black and low-income neighborhoods and the intimate domain where expectations and disappointments surface, The Politics of the Near offers a different perspective on the “rainbow nation”—a perspective more sensitive to the fact that, three decades after the end of apartheid, poverty and race are still as tightly interwoven as ever.

Download or read book Whiteness Just Isn t What It Used To Be written by Melissa Steyn and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2002 Outstanding Book Award presented by the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association The election of 1994, which heralded the demise of Apartheid as a legally enforced institutionalization of "whiteness," disconnected the prior moorings of social identity for most South Africans, whatever their political persuasion. In one of the most profound collective psychological experiences of the contemporary world, South Africans are renegotiating the meaning of their social positionalities. In this book, Melissa Steyn, herself a white South African, grapples with what it means to be white, reflecting on events in her past that still resonate with her today. Her research includes discourse with more than fifty white South Africans who are faced with reinterpreting their old selves in the light of new knowledge and possibilities. Framed within current debates of postcolonialism and postmodernism, "Whiteness Just Isn't What It Used To Be" explores how the changes in South Africa's social and political structure are changing the white population's identity and sense of self.

Download or read book South Africa written by Domini Clark and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text and photographs present the daily lives and family traditions of the people of South Africa, as well as their turbulent history and the legacy of apartheid.

Download or read book South Africa s 1940s written by Saul Dubow and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1940s was a turbulent period in the history of South Africa. It opened with parliament's bitterly contested decision to enter the war; was rocked by political turmoil; and ended with a bang, as well as a whimper, as the National party captured political power in 1948.

Download or read book Ghosts In My Heart written by Delyse Alorah Arliotis and published by Dtp Impressions. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Vignettes of a young life...through the eyes of a child.' Delyse Alorah was born and raised in post-war apartheid-era South Africa, the daughter of wealthy Greek and English immigrants. Ghosts in My Heart is her memoir of an early, turbulent, childhood. The book contrasts the opulence of the lives of her parents with the harrowing and brutal reality of life during the most challenging times in South African history. The book touches on the inner life and observations of a sensitive, soulful child and her life-long resonance with the powerful energy of Africa. 'A bittersweet memoir of poverty, amongst riches and privilege.'

Download or read book A Turbulent Voyage written by Floyd Windom Hayes and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Turbulent Times written by Mandla Prince Mbuli and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The action-filled novel Turbulent Times tells of life in the eastern part of South Africa four hundred years ago. At the beginning of the 18th century, there was a great deal of anxiety and uncertainty in the country, which gave opportunity to those with greedy and evil souls. As a result of their careless and stupid actions, there was bloodshed. The story uses the author's knowledge of the outlying area and its caves, where battles took place. Sudwala is a general in the conflict and Spuku is both a solder and an opportunist. Learn their fates in South Africa's Turbulent Times. But before peace can come to this troubled nation, blood must be spilled.

Download or read book Africa and the Africans in the Nineteenth Century A Turbulent History written by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories seek to understand modern Africa as a troubled outcome of nineteenth century European colonialism, but that is only a small part of the story. In this celebrated book, beautifully translated from the French edition, the history of Africa in the nineteenth century unfolds from the perspective of Africans themselves rather than the European powers.It was above all a time of tremendous internal change on the African continent. Great jihads of Muslim conquest and conversion swept over West Africa. In the interior, warlords competed to control the internal slave trade. In the east, the sultanate of Zanzibar extended its reach via coastal and interior trade routes. In the north, Egypt began to modernize while Algeria was colonized. In the south, a series of forced migrations accelerated, spurred by the progression of white settlement.Through much of the century African societies assimilated and adapted to the changes generated by these diverse forces. In the end, the West's technological advantage prevailed and most of Africa fell under European control and lost its independence. Yet only by taking into account the rich complexity of this tumultuous past can we fully understand modern Africa from the colonial period to independence and the difficulties of today.

Download or read book Real Change written by Andre Erasmus and published by Thica Media Limited. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War rape victim Nancy Nujomba flees from the battleground that is the South West Africa/Angola border area in 1978 to South Africa seeking safety and security. In Uitenhage just outside Port Elizabeth, she witnesses the police massacre 22 people in March 1985 and her life is turned around as she and her friend Arthur Shipalana - having told their story to the local newspaper - are then hounded by the security police. News editor Daniel Jacobs takes them under his wing as the newspaper breaks the story of the decade and then has to go to extraordinary lengths to protect their two key witnesses. It is far from over as security policeman Frans Jonker has several axes to grind and is determined to track down his targets and prevent his secret from being made public. The book moves from Port Elizabeth during the early stages of the unrest to a private game reserve in the Transvaal and finally to London as they attempt to flee and tell their story to the world's media. Real Change tells a fast-paced tale of police harassment and murder, vengeance, sorrow and success against the turbulent background of a South Africa undergoing political upheaval, a process which eventually brought about real change and democracy.

Download or read book Township Violence and the End of Apartheid written by Gary Kynoch and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand. In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while bothdeserved the plaudits they received for entering the negotiations that led to the end of apartheid, the four years of negotiations preceding the April 1994 elections, known as the transition era, were not "peaceful" they were the bloodiest of the entire apartheid era, with an estimated 14,000 deaths attributed to politically related violence. This book studies, for the first time, the conflicts between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party that took place in South Africa's industrial heartland surrounding Johannesburg. Exploring these events through the perceptions and memories of combatants and non-combatants from war-torn areas, along with security force members, politicians and violence monitors, offers new possibilities for understanding South Africa's turbulent transition. Challenging the prevailing narrative which attributes the bulk of the violence to a joint state security force and IFP assault against ANC supporters, the author argues for a more expansive approach that incorporates the aggression of ANC militants, the intersection between criminal and political violence, and especially clashes between groups alignedwith the ANC. Gary Kynoch is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He has written one previous book, We are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 (OhioUniversity Press, 2005). Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press

Download or read book After Mandela written by Alec Russell and published by Hutchinson Radius. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: South Africa is facing its most serious crisis since the end of white rule. Little more than a decade ago, with apartheid overcome and the African National Congress adjusting swiftly to high office, South Africa's new rulers aspired to forge a viable and prosperous state. Now, however, as the ANC lurches deeper into controversy with the election of heavily compromised Jacob Zuma as its leader, South Africa is poised to follow in the tragic footsteps of neighbouring state Zimbabwe. Though few like to admit it, some of the seeds of the ANC's decline were sown under Nelson Mandela himself, who turned a blind eye to the scourge of AIDS and also tolerated incompetence and even corruption among his coterie. His successor, Thabo Mbeki has proved a terrible disappointment. He has overseen disastrous policies on the crisis in neighbouring Zimbabwe and the epidemic of violent crime, unpicked much of the multi-racial fabric that Mandela so carefully wove and presided over a crude transfer of wealth that has led to the rise of millionaire 'oligarchs' while failing to alleviate poverty in the townships. Meanwhile, many whites have simply retreated behind ever higher walls surrounding their homes u both to ward off the appalling levels of crime and also to keep at bay the 'new' South Africa in what amounts to a virtual privatisation of apartheid. While few in South Africa mourned Mbeki's overthrow, the election of his successor, Jacob Zuma, is a stark indictment of how the ANC has squandered its moral authority. A populist who faces multiple charges of corruption and racketeering, Zuma also has a history of extraordinary scandal, including being tried on charges of raping a family friend. Alec Russell draws on his experiences during two tours as a foreign correspondent in South Africa, and he writes powerfully and accessibly about the South Africans whose lives he has followed over the last two decades. At a turbulent time for many African countries as they emerge into the second phase of the post-independence era, this book will have a wide appeal for Africa-watchers everywhere.

Download or read book Action Research for Sustainable Development in a Turbulent World written by Ortrun Zuber-Skerritt and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents and celebrates Action Learning and Action Research (ALAR) through stories, experiences, reflections and specific works of key proponents and participants in ALAR World Congresses. This title argues for the benefits of action research for sustainable development and problem solving in a turbulent world in the 21st century.

Download or read book After the Thrill is Gone written by Grant Farred and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After the Thrill Is Gone is a serious appraisal of what South African democracy has yielded and has failed to yield in the era following the heady expectations of liberation from apartheid's multiple repressions. Since that time, South Africa has revealed itself as a turbulent, dynamic nation. After the release of black political prisoners in 1990 and the first national democratic election in 1994, its citizens have witnessed a massive increase in crime, unemployment, and poverty and an educational system in chaos. In a range of politically inflected essays by philosophers, community activists, political scientists, sociologists, literary scholars, and cultural and postcolonial theorists--many of whom are diasporic or resident South Africans--this special issue of SAQ provides a critical look at the realities of black majority governance, at the African National Congress, and at the costs of ANC rule to the populace. One essay draws a condemning sketch of poverty and violence in the townships and the growing communities of squatters that continue despite the emergence of democracy. A philosophical piece contemplates the practice of human rights in a South African society grappling with the memory of apartheid abuses. The fiction and poetry in the collection explore sexual identity, including issues created by the AIDS epidemic, and offer critiques of government policies. Using comic strips, another contributor demonstrates the ability of South African popular culture to satirize the nation's political status quo. Taken together, the essays in After the Thrill Is Gone open a sobering perspective on South Africa's recent history, its present, and its future. Contributors. Rita Barnard, Patrick Bond, Ashwin Desai, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, Grant Fared, Michiel Heyns, Shaun Irlam, Neil Lazarus, Michael MacDonald, Zine Magubane, Richard Pithouse, Lesego Rampolokeng, Adam Sitze

Download or read book Nigeria written by Richard Bourne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'If you want to understand Nigeria's history in one succinct go, this is a very good choice.' Noo Saro-Wiwa Known as the African Giant, Nigeria's story is complex and often contradictory. How, despite the ravages of colonialism, civil war, ongoing economic disappointment and most recently the Boko Haram insurgency, has the country managed to stay together for a hundred years? Why, despite an abundance of oil, mineral and agricultural wealth, have so many of its people remained in poverty? These are the key questions explored by Richard Bourne in this remarkable and wide-ranging account of Nigeria's history, from its creation in 1914 to the historic 2015 elections and beyond. Featuring a wealth of original research and interviews, this is an essential insight into the shaping of a country where, despite the seemingly dashed optimism that was raised at independence, there still remains hope 'the Nigeria project' may still succeed.

Download or read book Robben Island written by Charlene Smith and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2013-07-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robben Island – best known as the place where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned for eighteen years – has been a place of harshness and brutality; its history steeped in the suffering of those banished there. Yet it has also become a universal symbol of hope, forgiveness, and triumph. With a storyteller’s sensibility, combined with rigorous research, Charlene Smith charts the evolution of the Island’s political and social history, from mail station, place of exile, and military defence post to maximum security prison and World Heritage Site. Fully revised, this new edition of Robben Island provides absorbing accounts of daring escapes, maritime disasters, lepers ostracized from mainland society, the fates of the great Xhosa chiefs of the nineteenth century, and the unique bonds of friendship and compassion forged among the political prisoners confined on the Island during the apartheid era. Today Robben Island is recognised for both its environmental riches and its cultural significance. More than just a geographical location or a tourist attraction, it is an enduring tribute to the resilience` of the human spirit. Sobering and uplifting, Robben Island is an essential read for anyone interested in South Africa’s turbulent journey to democracy and the people who made it possible.