The Ambiguities of Dependence in South Africa
Author | : Shula Marks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Shula Marks |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Les Switzer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1997-02-13 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521553513 |
Collection of essays on the South African alternative press from the 1880s to the 1960s.
Author | : Thula Simpson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2018-10-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1315459590 |
The history of the ANC, which is the oldest liberation movement on the African continent, is one that has generated a great deal of interest amongst historians in recent years. Gone are the days when the history of African nationalism could be relegated to the margins of the study of the South African past. Instead, with the ANC having ascended to the helm of political power, a position it has maintained for over twenty years, there can be no question that its history occupies an important and permanent place in the history of the nation. This volume gathers together some of the most important contributions to the literature on the ANC’s role in South Africa’s struggle for liberation. Besides important themes such as gender, ethnicity, and healthcare, contributions from leading historians also address why the ANC decided to engage in armed struggle; what role the South African Communist Party played in making this decision; how the ANC External Mission contributed to the upsurge of mass protest in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s; and the ANC’s contribution, relative to the other components of the liberation struggle, in ensuring the eventual demise of the old racial order. The chapters in this book were originally published in the South African Historical Journal, the Journal of Southern African Studies, and African Studies.
Author | : Mark Sanders |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2019-06-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691191468 |
"Why are you learning Zulu?" When Mark Sanders began studying the language, he was often asked this question. In Learning Zulu, Sanders places his own endeavors within a wider context to uncover how, in the past 150 years of South African history, Zulu became a battleground for issues of property, possession, and deprivation. Sanders combines elements of analysis and memoir to explore a complex cultural history. Perceiving that colonial learners of Zulu saw themselves as repairing harm done to Africans by Europeans, Sanders reveals deeper motives at work in the development of Zulu-language learning—from the emergence of the pidgin Fanagalo among missionaries and traders in the nineteenth century to widespread efforts, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, to teach a correct form of Zulu. Sanders looks at the white appropriation of Zulu language, music, and dance in South African culture, and at the association of Zulu with a martial masculinity. In exploring how Zulu has come to represent what is most properly and powerfully African, Sanders examines differences in English- and Zulu-language press coverage of an important trial, as well as the role of linguistic purism in xenophobic violence in South Africa. Through one person's efforts to learn the Zulu language, Learning Zulu explores how a language's history and politics influence all individuals in a multilingual society.
Author | : Cherryl Walker |
Publisher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Land reform |
ISBN | : 1770096329 |
Author | : Jason Conard Myers |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781580462785 |
A groundbreaking new study of the ways in which South African leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power. Indirect rule -- the British colonial policy of employing indigenous tribal chiefs as political intermediaries -- has typically been understood by scholars as little more than an expedient solution to imperial personnel shortages.A reexamination of the history of indirect rule in South Africa reveals it to have been much more: an ideological strategy designed to win legitimacy for colonial officials. Indirect rule became the basic template from which segregation and apartheid emerged during the twentieth century and set the stage for a post-apartheid debate over African political identity and "traditional authority" that continues to shape South African politics today. This new study, based on firsthand field research and archival material only recently made available to scholars, unveils the inner workings of South African segregation. Drawing influence from a range of political theorists including Machiavelli, Marx, Weber, Althusser, and Zizek, Myers develops a groundbreaking understanding of the ways in which leaders struggle to legitimize themselves through the costuming of political power. J. C. Myers is Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, Stanislaus.
Author | : Joel Cabrita |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 423 |
Release | : 2014-04-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139917129 |
Text and Authority in the South African Nazaretha Church tells the story of one of the largest African churches in South Africa, Ibandla lamaNazaretha, or Church of the Nazaretha. Founded in 1910 by charismatic faith-healer Isaiah Shembe, the Nazaretha church, with over four million members, has become an influential social and political player in the region. Deeply influenced by a transnational evangelical literary culture, Nazaretha believers have patterned their lives upon the Christian Bible. They cast themselves as actors who enact scriptural drama upon African soil. But Nazaretha believers also believe the existing Christian Bible to be in need of updating and revision. For this reason, they have written further scriptures - a new 'Bible' - which testify to the miraculous work of their founding prophet, Shembe. Joel Cabrita's book charts the key role that these sacred texts play in making, breaking and contesting social power and authority, both within the church and more broadly in South African public life.
Author | : David Chidester |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2014-06-27 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317649877 |
First published in 1992, this title explores the religious diversity of South Africa, organizing it into a single coherent narrative and providing the first comparative study and introduction to the topic. David Chidester emphasizes the fact that the complex distinctive character of South African religious life has taken shape with a particular economic, social and political context, and pays special attention to the creativity of people who have suffered under conquest, colonialism and apartheid. With an overview of African traditional religion, Christian missions, and African innovations during the nineteenth century, this reissue will be of great value to students of religious studies, South African history, anthropology, sociology, and political studies.
Author | : John E. Bardill |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2019-03-04 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429725132 |
In this book, the authors outline the features that make Lesotho unique, tracing its history and discussing the peculiar structure of Lesotho's labor reserve economy and the effects it has on development, politics, society, and culture.
Author | : Aletta J. Norval |
Publisher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 1996-04-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781859841259 |
The book thus seeks to trace the construction and contestation of the central axes around which its political frontiers were organized.