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South African Trade Unions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

South African Trade Unions

Revised thesis on trade unionism in South Africa R - covers the historical background, legal aspects, the origin and development of Black trade unions, dispute settlement, trade union federations, labour administration and labour courts, employers organizations, conciliation boards, union policy regarding strikes, collective bargaining, closed shops, etc., political aspects (incl. Trade union recognition, and racial segregation), and considers future trends. References and statistical tables. ILO mentioned.

Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 395

Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2016-07-27
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  • Publisher: Springer

This book provides a unique perspective, at once scholarly and fully engaged, on the political violence in South Africa during 'The Time of the Comrades' in the mid-1980s. The work of a group of social scientists and professionals, whose own work and thinking have been profoundly affected by the political crisis of that time, it provides an in-depth research and analysis as well as critical reflections on the difficult political and theoretical issues raised by political violence and the struggle in South Africa.

Dry White Season
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 324

Dry White Season

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2011-11-30
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  • Publisher: Random House

Ben du Toit is an ordinary, decent, harmless man, unremarkable in every way - until his sense of justice is outraged by the death of a man he has known. His friend died at the hands of the police. In the beginning it appears a straightforward matter, an unfortunate error that can be explained and put right. But as Ben investigates further he finds that his curiosity becomes labelled rebellion - and for a rebel there is no way back.

Unfinished Business
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 412

Unfinished Business

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Verso

This book pulls back the curtain on the 'political miracle' of the new South Africa.

The Wynand Du Toit Story
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

The Wynand Du Toit Story

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1987
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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A Dry White Season
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 6

A Dry White Season

As startling and powerful as when first published more than two decades ago, Andre Brink's classic novel, "A Dry White Season," is an unflinching and unforgettable look at racial intolerance, the human condition, and the heavy price of morality. Ben Du Toit is a white schoolteacher in suburban Johannesburg in a dark time of intolerance and state-sanctioned apartheid. A simple, apolitical man, he believes in the essential fairness of the South African government and its policies the sudden arrest and subsequent "suicide" of a black janitor from Du Toit's school. Haunted by new questions and desperate to believe that the man's death was a tragic accident, Du Toit undertakes an investigation into the terrible affair quest for the truth that will have devastating consequences for the teacher and his family, as it draws him into a lethal morass of lies, corruption, and murder.

Afrikaner Political Thought: 1780-1850
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 340

Afrikaner Political Thought: 1780-1850

This, the first volume of a projected trilogy, is a collection, with explanatory and critical comments, of 140 key documents - letters, speeches, manifestos, reports, petitions, diary entries and newspaper editorials - of Afrikaners over the period 1780 - 1850.

Truth v. Justice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

Truth v. Justice

The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of support and success. To many, they are the best--or only--way to achieve a full accounting of crimes committed against fellow citizens and to prevent future conflict. Others question whether a restorative justice that sets the guilty free, that cleanses society by words alone, can deter future abuses and allow victims and their families to heal. Here, leading philosophers, lawyers, social scientists, and activists representing several perspectives look at the process of truth commissioning i...

Oxwagon Sentinel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 667

Oxwagon Sentinel

This new approach to the social history of Afrikaner nationalism looks into the diverse causes for the rise of a political movement which was to shape South African history profoundly during the 20th Century. In the 1930s Afrikaner nationalism transformed itself from a populist into a cultural nationalism, becoming politically radicalised at the same time. The nationalist symbol of the oxwagon was used not only by the National Party, but also by the extra- and antiparliamentarian mass movement Ossewabrandwag, which was founded in 1939. Drawing on a broad range of archival resources the social history of this extremist organisation is analysed, showing local and regional differences. The Osse...

On Reason
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 350

On Reason

Given that Enlightenment rationality developed in Europe as European nations aggressively claimed other parts of the world for their own enrichment, scholars have made rationality the subject of postcolonial critique, questioning its universality and objectivity. In On Reason, the late philosopher Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze demonstrates that rationality, and by extension philosophy, need not be renounced as manifestations or tools of Western imperialism. Examining reason in connection to the politics of difference—the cluster of issues known variously as cultural diversity, political correctness, the culture wars, and identity politics—Eze expounds a rigorous argument that reason is produced ...