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Title:
The South Africa reader : history, culture, politics / Clifton Crais and Thomas V. McClendon, editors.
Author:
Crais, Clifton C.

McClendon, Thomas V., 1954-
Publication Information:
Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]
Call Number:
DT1719 .S675 2014
ISBN:
9780822355144

9780822355298
Series:
World readers

World readers.
Physical Description:
xv, 606 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
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 (c. 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 -- 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 / 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 -- The Peasant's 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 -- 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.
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