Onslaught Against South Africa
Author | : Hendrik Klapwijk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : 9780620091237 |
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Author | : Hendrik Klapwijk |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : South Africa |
ISBN | : 9780620091237 |
Author | : Paul Moorcraft |
Publisher | : Pen and Sword |
Total Pages | : 744 |
Release | : 2018-08-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526704900 |
The end of the Second World War may have heralded peace in Europe but conflicts in Southern Africa were about to begin. The imperial powers were weakened by the cost of war and a string of wars challenged colonial rule in countries such as Namibia, Angola and Rhodesia. Once independence was achieved, civil wars between rival factions unfamiliar with democratic principles resulted. Liberation movements such as those in South Africa demanded self-rule and end to Apartheid. Tribal feuds, corruption and the ambitions of dictators led to more conflicts such as the protracted fighting in the Congo. These were wars that ran on until both sides were exhausted often only to be re-kindled after short periods of uneasy peace. The cost in human and material terms has been devastating and in too many cases remain so. Economic development has been frustrated and the result is often poverty, abuse and genocide. The Author who knows Southern Africa as a native is superbly equipped to tell this fascinating if tragic record.
Author | : De Wet Potgieter |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2012-04-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1770222316 |
For much of its time in power, the National Party government was shored up by the direct involvement of its security forces. Ordinary citizens had no idea that their taxes were being used to fund unorthodox and even illegal operations, ranging from international propaganda campaigns to local death squads. From the dreaded Security Branch, the sinister Civil Cooperation Bureau, the aptly named BOSS and the ubiquitous front companies set up to bypass an arms embargo and economic sanctions, South Africa was run by stealth. It was the government’s Total Strategy against the enemy’s Total Onslaught. A handful of intrepid journalists began the process of uncovering the truth about apartheid, but despite their dedication and the later efforts of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, South Africa’s recent history remains fraught with secrets. Now, for the first time, investigative reporter De Wet Potgieter can reveal the truth behind some of the most enigmatic events in South Africa’s past, from what happened during PW Botha’s final cabinet meeting to the assassination of Olof Palme. These, and many other news stories of the time, afford a rare and fascinating glimpse into the behind-the-scenes machinations of South Africa’s security apparatus in the apartheid era.
Author | : W. A. Hachten |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : William A. Hachten |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Oxford University Press, South Africa |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Freedom of the press |
ISBN | : 9781868125807 |
Author | : Murray Baird |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 29 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3656295018 |
Essay from the year 2008 in the subject World History - Modern History, grade: 1b, University of Stirling, course: Apartheid and Resistance in South Africa, 1948 – 1994, language: English, abstract: The South African government’s preservation of apartheid during the 1970s was confronted with contradictory dilemmas. The need for permanent semi-skilled, rather than unskilled migrant labour, for a capitalist economy contradicted the apartheid policy of development in separate spheres: serious urban unrest, illustrated by the Soweto riots in 1976 when 575 people were killed, forced the realisation that repression alone was unsuccessful in quelling black agitation and that reform of the apartheid system was required, whilst the introduction of hostile governments in neighbouring states removed South Africa’s buffer zone protecting it from African clamour for the overthrow of apartheid. This ‘Total Onslaught,’ perceived as being orchestrated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, threatened to replace South African apartheid with Marxist communism by overrunning white supremacists with a black proletariat. Under the emergent leadership of Pieter Willem Botha, the government adopted an all-encompassing policy of regional security measures with concomitant domestic reform between 1978 and 1984 to provide the “resolution of the conflict in the times in which we now live” that demanded “inter-dependent and co-ordinated action in all fields. It is therefore essential that a total national strategy” is “formulated at the highest level.”
Author | : De Wet Potgieter |
Publisher | : Struik Pub |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781770073289 |
Never-before-published information on the behind-the-scenes machinations of South Africa's security apparatus
Author | : Gary Kynoch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781847012128 |
A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand. In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while bothdeserved the plaudits they received for entering the negotiations that led to the end of apartheid, the four years of negotiations preceding the April 1994 elections, known as the transition era, were not "peaceful" they were the bloodiest of the entire apartheid era, with an estimated 14,000 deaths attributed to politically related violence. This book studies, for the first time, the conflicts between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party that took place in South Africa's industrial heartland surrounding Johannesburg. Exploring these events through the perceptions and memories of combatants and non-combatants from war-torn areas, along with security force members, politicians and violence monitors, offers new possibilities for understanding South Africa's turbulent transition. Challenging the prevailing narrative which attributes the bulk of the violence to a joint state security force and IFP assault against ANC supporters, the author argues for a more expansive approach that incorporates the aggression of ANC militants, the intersection between criminal and political violence, and especially clashes between groups alignedwith the ANC. Gary Kynoch is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He has written one previous book, We are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 (OhioUniversity Press, 2005). Southern Africa (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press
Author | : John Killick |
Publisher | : South African Institute of International Affairs Jan Smuts House |
Total Pages | : 10 |
Release | : 1983-01-01 |
Genre | : Africa, Southern |
ISBN | : 9780908371129 |