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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Crais, Clifton C.

McClendon, Thomas V., 1954-

Series:

World readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

South Africa--History.

South Africa.

History.

South Africa--Civilization.

Civilization.

South Africa--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xv, 606 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of color plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.

Summary:

The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and racial discrimination. Among the selections are folktales passed down through the centuries, statements by seventeenth-century Dutch colonists, the songs of mine workers, a widow's testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and a photo essay featuring the acclaimed work of Santu Mofokeng. Cartoons, songs, and fiction are juxtaposed with iconic documents, such as "The Freedom Charter" adopted in 1955 by the African National Congress and its allies and Nelson Mandela's "Statement from the Dock" in 1964. Cacophonous voices-those of slaves and indentured workers, African chiefs and kings, presidents and revolutionaries-invite readers into ongoing debates about South Africa's past and present and what exactly it means to be South African. Book jacket.

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 M. Fuze

Mhudi / Solomon T. Plaatje

An African woman at the Cape : Krotoa (ca.1642-74) / Julia C. 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 in 1800 / Johannes Theodorus van der Kemp

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 / F. Owen

Mpande seeks an alliance with the Boers in Natal / Volksraad of the Republic of Natalia

Statement of the prophetess Nonkosi, 23rd October 1857 / Nonkosi

Heart of redness / Zakes Mda

The story of the diamond fields / Anthony Trollope

The trial of Langalibalele / British Parliamentary Papers

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 / S.M. Molema

The 1913 Natives' Land Act / Solomon T. Plaatje

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 / 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 and Barbie Schreiner

Freedom charter / Congress of the People

The manifesto of paramount Chief K.D. Matanzima, 1963 / K. D. Matanzima

The Peasants' revolt / Govan Mbeki

The discarded people / 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, 17 June 1976 / Nat Serache and Derrick Thema

Students and the Soweto uprising / Khotso Seatlholo

The United Democratic Front / Allan Boesak

Sanctions and the armed struggle / Oliver Tambo

The church and the struggle / 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 / Anonymous

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. de Klerk

Record of understanding / F.W. de Klerk 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

Zuma's rape trial / Steven Robins

Lessons learned / Bafana Khumalo and Dean Peacock

Murder of Noxola Nogwaza / Ekurhuleni Pride Organizing Committee

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-598) and index.

ISBN:

9780822355144

0822355140

9780822355298

0822355299

OCLC:

842209181