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An Archaeology of Colonial Identity
The book explores three key groups: The Dutch East India Company, the free settlers, and the slaves, through a number of archaeological sites and contexts. With the archaeological evidence, the book examines how these different groups were enmeshed within racial, sexual, and class ideologies in the broader context of capitalism and colonialism, and draws extensively on current social theory, in particular post-colonialism, feminism, and Marxism.
Chronicle of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
For two-and-a-half years South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission was on everybody's lips. Newspapers and radio programs reported daily on the work of the Commission, and the faces of victims and offenders alike appeared on millions of television screens. In Chronicle of the Truth Commission, Pieter Meiring sheds light on the work of the Truth Commission: the stories and testimonies of victims, the applications for amnesty by offenders guilty of violating human rights, the necessary confrontations with the past, and the need for forgiveness and reconciliation. Meiring presents the course of the Truth Commission as a symbolic quest, an epic journey back into the past and onwards to the new future, a great trek that would leave not a single South African unaffected.
Just for You, Mom (eBook)
JUST FOR YOU, MOM is a book about the experience of a mother’s love. It tells the story of the author’s first great love, and brings to life the fine interplay and high regard that characterizes a relationship between a mother and son. JUST FOR YOU, MOM looks at different aspects of motherhood: a mother as comforter, teacher, friend, example and confidante. But above all it is about a mother and her relationship with God; a mother and prayer. Such prayers create a cloud of security, the circle of light in which the angels work. This is the all-embracing love of a mother for her child.
Amsterdam tot Zeeland
Sedert die stigting van Stellenbosch en sy distrik in 1679, het slawerny 'n integrale rol in die ekonomiese en sosiale ontwikkeling van die gemeenskap gespeel. Op 1 Desember 1834 is hierdie stelsel, soos in die res van die Britse koloniale ryk, afgeskaf. Die afskaffing van slawerny het egter geen onmiddellike gelykstelling met die middelklas beteken nie - die gewese slawe moes tot 1 Desember 1838 steeds as 'ingeboekte vakleerlinge' (apprentices) in die diens van hul voormalige eienaars bly. Gedurende die vier jaar het daar min opleiding plaasgevind wat hulle werklik vir arbeid in die ope mark sou bekwaam. Ook na Desember 1838 het die Britse owerheid sy plig versaak om op daadwerklike wyse by...
Gruesome
In this book, investigative journalist De Wet Potgieter follows the trail of a number of criminals in South Africa’s history. These violent crimes, perpetrated from the late 1980s into the new millennium, vary from fanatical far-rightists who killed their innocent countrymen, to assassins who executed high-profile, state-sanctioned murders. He takes the reader behind the scenes of some of the most controversial events in our country and, with his fearless style of writing, pulls you right into the belly of the beast. In Gruesome, he shares information that has never before been made public. What really happened on the night of 17 June 1992 in Boipatong? What motivated the horrific attack on Alison Botha? What caused the ostensibly conformist policeman André Stander to become an unscrupulous bank robber? Who was the first person to see the connection between Gert van Rooyen’s victims and a probable human-trafficking network? Potgieter relates how, as a journalist, he went about reporting on each of these interesting, gruesome cases. This book takes you back to the bloody newspaper headlines of yesterday.
A History of the De Villiers Family
Pierre de Villiers (ca. 1657-1720) and brothers Abraham (ca. 1659-1720) and Jacques (1661-1735) were either sons or grandsons of Pierre de Villiers of La Rochelle, France. The three brothers emigrated from France (via Holland) to Cape Town, South Africa in 1689, and settled on farm land nearby, receiving land grants in 1694. Pierre married Marie Elizabeth Taillefer in 1694, and his brothers married two sisters, Suzanne and Marguerite Gardiol. Descendants and relatives lived in various parts of South Africa.
