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Spoilt ballots : the elections that shaped South Africa, from Shaka to Cyril

Title: Spoilt ballots : the elections that shaped South Africa, from Shaka to Cyril / Matthew Blackman and Nick Dall.
Author: Blackman, M. (Matthew), 1975-
Publication: Cape Town, South Africa : Penguin Books, 2022

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Dall, Nick

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vi, 394 pages : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm

Summary

"If you paid even a moment's attention during high-school history lessons, you probably know that 1910 brought about the Union of South Africa, that the 1948 general election ushered in apartheid, and that the Rainbow Nation was born when Madiba triumphed in the country's first democratic elections in 1994. Spoilt Ballots dishes the dirt on these pivotal events in our history. But it also sheds light on a dozen lesser-known contests, starting with the assassination of King Shaka in 1828 and ending with the anointing of President Cyril at Nasrec in 2017. Spoilt Ballots is as much about the people who voted in some of our most decisive elections as it is about those who didn't get to make their mark. It explains why a black man in the Cape had more political rights in 1854 than at any other point in the ensuing 140 years and how the enfranchisement of women in 1930 was actually a step back for democracy."--

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN

1776096371
9781776096374
9781776096381 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

40031282327

OCLC

on1303076434
1303076434

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Columbia University Libraries