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The Politics of Truth and Reconciliation in South Africaby Richard A. Wilson
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 38.00This book shows the impact of the TRC in urban African communities in Johannesburg. more...
Sharpevilleby Tom Lodge
OUP Oxford 2011; US$ 21.95On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black andwhite in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at the social and political background to the... more...
Skeletons on the Zaharaby Dean King
Little, Brown 2004; US$ 9.99While there have been numerous historical adventure narratives published, this is the first major work to take place in the greatest desert of all. King retraced parts of Captain James Riley's three-month trek through the desert, going for days consuming only camel urine and locusts. The book is rich with the sort of detail one could only get from being on the scene, in the heart of the desert. more...
South African Truth Commissionby Dr Kenneth Christie
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 140.00Over the last thirty years, many political transitions from authoritarian regimes and dictatorial political systems have been accompanied by Truth Commissions. Since 1974 there have been over twenty of these Commissions established in countries as diverse as Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, El Salvador, Ethiopia, the Philippines and Germany, among others. Perhaps the most important Truth Commission of our time is the South African one which also seeks to act as a mechanism for reconciliation in a divided society. The South African conflict was extremely long and violent; its victims suffered traumatic experiences and, in part, one of the Commission's functions is to allow their story to be told. This book tries to examine the Truth Commission... more...
Status and Respectability in the Cape Colony, 1750-1870by Robert Ross; David Anderson; Carolyn Brown; Christopher Clapham; Michael Gomez; Patrick Manning; David Robinson
Cambridge University Press 1999; US$ 28.00This compelling example of the new cultural history of South Africa argues that cultural factors were related to high political developments in the colonial Cape. It describes changes in social identity accompanying the transition from Dutch to British overrule, and the development of white racism and of ideologies of resistance. more...
Theory, Change and Southern Africa's Futureby Prof Peter Vale; Larry A. Swatuk; Bertil Oden
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 165.00As dramatic changes unfold throughout the world, and the new millennium begins, many in South Africa have begun to ask 'what next'? The scale and pace of change have led to a feeling of powerlessness. How to cope with 'globalization', 'regionalization', a depleting ozone layer, new diseases, rampant militarization, let alone unseen structures of influence and oppression like race, class and gender? While there is no shortage of theoretical models on offer many feel that they are inadequate for the case of Southern Africa. In this book, scholars of both international relations and Southern Africa present a wide variety of thoughts on the future of the reign and the place of theory in helping us to understand the bewildering array of events characterizing... more...
An African Athensby Philippe-Joseph Salazar
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2002; US$ 100.00This work is not a history of the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa; instead it is an analysis of a new ecology of rhetoric. Its aim is to arrive at a general view of issues as they have taken shape in the particular South Africa experience. more...
Why the Boers Lost the Warby Leopold Scholtz
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2004; US$ 110.00South African historian and journalist Scholtz grew up hearing about how the Boers were brave, fought well, and often carried the day; and later read histories never questioning the inevitability of British victory in the 1899-1902 war. He decided to do a bit of original research, especially drawing on largely unexploited Boer historical sources ra more...
The Fall of Apartheidby Robert Harvey
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2003; US$ 39.00This title tells the story of how apartheid came into being, secured its ascendancy over the richest and most developed society in Sub-Saharan Africa, and then collapsed. It reveals the full story of the secret meetings between Africans and Afrikaners in Britain. more...
South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperationby James J. Hentz
Indiana University Press 2005; US$ 19.95In South Africa and the Logic of Regional Cooperation, James J. Hentz addresses changes in South Africa's strategies for regional cooperation and economic development since its transition from apartheid to democracy. Hentz focuses on why the new South African government continues to make regional cooperation a priority and what methods this dominant state uses to pursue its neighborly goals. While providing a synthetic overview of the history of regional cooperation in southern Africa, Hentz considers the logic of cooperation more generally. An extensive discussion of South African politics provides the context for Hentz's exploration... more...