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The South Africa reader : history, culture, politics / Clifton Crais and Thomas V. McClendon, eds.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- World readers.
- World readers
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- South Africa--History.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Civilization.
- South Africa--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (632 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- More than eighty absorbing texts and images shed light on South Africa's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and pose challenges to its future.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355298
- 0822355299
- 9780822377450
- 0822377454
- OCLC:
- 861634503
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