Research Catalog

Title

The South Africa reader : history, culture, politics / Clifton Crais and Thomas V. McClendon, editors.

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Crais, Clifton C.
• McClendon, Thomas V., 1954-

Description

xv, 606 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm.

Series Statement

World readers

Uniform Title

World readers.

Subjects

• History
• Aufsatzsammlung
• South Africa > Politics and government
• South Africa > Civilization
• Quelle
• South Africa > History
• Staat Südafrika

Genre/Form

• History.
• Aufsatzsammlung.
• Quelle.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-590) and index.

Contents

A story is like the wind and the sun is thrown into the sky / Kabbo -- On God and ancestors / Ndukwana ka Mbenwana -- The Black people and whence they came / Magema Fuze Mhudi, Solomon T. Plaatje -- An African woman at the Cape : Krotoa / Julia Wells -- The necessity of slavery / W.S. van Ryneveld -- A rebel slave / Galant -- Unconfessed / Yvette Christiansë -- Bobotie recipe / Clifton Crais -- The subjugation of the Eastern Cape Khoekhoe / John Barrow -- The treatment of indentured laborers / R.J. Van der Riet -- Protesting the Vagrancy Ordinance / Various -- Manifesto / Piet Retief -- The history of the Afrikaans people / C.P. Bezuidenhout -- Biltong recipe / Clifton Crais -- Among the Xhosa / Dr. Johannes Theodorus Vanderkemp -- The problem of God / Robert Moffat -- Visit to a mission community in Natal / John William Colenso -- Nkosi Sikelel? iAfrika (God Bless Africa) / Enoch Sontonga and Samuel E. Mqhayi -- Dingane's killing of Retief / Reverend F. Owen -- Mpande seeks an alliance with the Boers in Natal / Various -- Statement of the prophetess Nonkosi / Nonkosi -- Heart of redness / Zakes Mda -- The diamond fields / Anthony Trollope -- The trial of Langalibalele / Various -- The coming of the Anglo-Zulu War / Cetshwayo kaMpande -- Industrial Johannesburg / Violet Markham -- A model compound manager / Douglas Blackburn -- Building a nation from words / Isabel Hofmeyr -- A century of wrong / Francis William Reitz -- A Boer commando / Deneys Reitz -- Concentration camps / Emily Hobhouse -- Africans in the South African war / Dr. S.M. Molema -- The 1913 Natives' Land Act / Solomon T. Plaatje -- The Bhambatha rebellion / Msime ka Beje -- The Bulhoek massacre / Anonymous -- Mine workers' songs / Anonymous -- Women's labour / Olive Schreiner -- "Workers of the world, unite and fight for a white South Africa" / Captain William Urquhart -- The persecution of Indians / Mohandas K. Gandhi -- The journey to Pretoria / Naboth Mokgatle -- Township life, Marabastad, Pretoria / Es'kia Mphahlele -- Everyday life in Soweto : the photography of Santu Mofokeng / Patricia Hayes -- Requiem for Sophiatown / Can Themba -- Mr. Drum goes to jail / Henry Nxumalo -- Repeal the Pass Laws! / ANC Women's League and the Federation of South African Women -- Programme of action / ANC Youth League -- Women's charter / Federation of South African Women -- My spirit is not banned / Frances Baard -- Freedom charter / Congress of the People -- The manifesto of paramount Chief K.D. Matanzima -- The Peasant's revolt / Govan Mbeki -- The discarded people / Father Cosmas Desmond -- The Pan Africanist Congress / R.M. Sobukwe -- Statement from the dock / Nelson Mandela -- White racism and Black consciousness / Steven Biko -- Reporting from Soweto / Rand Daily Mail -- Grand apartheid and the Soweto uprising / Khotso Seatlholo -- The United Democratic Front / Allan Boesak -- Sanctions and the armed struggle / Oliver Tambo -- The church and the struggle / Archbishop Desmond Tutu -- Crossing the Rubicon / P.W. Botha -- Never give in / Andries Treurnicht -- The future of South Africa / Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi -- Violent times / Emma Mashinini -- The funeral of ANC guerrilla Thanduxola Mbethe -- Struggle songs / Various -- "Reforms" and revolution in South Africa / Joe Slovo -- Politics and violence / Rian Malan -- Preparing ourselves for freedom / Albie Sachs -- Release from prison / Nelson Mandela -- White referendum / F.W. DeKlerk -- Record of understanding / F.W. DeKlerk and Nelson Mandela -- Inaugural address / Nelson Mandela -- I am an African / Thabo Mbeki -- Mass struggle, negotiations and the 1994 elections / Alex Callinicos -- The rape of women / Antjie Krog -- The Cradock Four / Testimony from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- Amnesty or impunity? / Mahmood Mamdani -- Repeal the Black Authorities Act / Rural People's Movement -- The myth of timeless Africa in the game parks / Shirley Brooks -- AIDS and poverty / Thabo Mbeki -- Global Day of Action / Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) -- Zuma's rape trial / Steven Robins -- Lessons learned / Sonke Gender Justice Project -- Murder of Noxola Nogwaza / Ekurhuleni Pride Organizing Committee (EPOC) -- Ghosts of Sara Baartman / Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully -- David's story / Zoe Wicomb -- Witchcraft in Soweto / Adam Ashforth -- Nationalize the mines / Julius Malema -- Xenophobic violence / Nathan Geffen -- Welcome to our Hillbrow / Phaswane Mpe -- The World Cup / Christopher Merrett.

Call Number

Sc E 16-1516

ISBN

• 9780822355144 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822355140 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822355298 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0822355299 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2013018961

OCLC

842209181

Title

The South Africa reader : history, culture, politics / Clifton Crais and Thomas V. McClendon, editors.

Publisher

Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

World readers

World readers.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 585-590) and index.

Added Author

Crais, Clifton C.

McClendon, Thomas V., 1954-

Research Call Number

Sc E 16-1516