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Zero Hour: A Countdown to the Collapse of South Africa's Apartheid System
This enlightening book focuses on the history of how the ethnic groups of Africa, eventually joined by white colonizers from Europe, created the seedbed for the hateful apartheid system in Southern Africa. The reader learns how apartheid began, the dehumanizing effects it had on the black population, and how it was finally abolished in its ‘zero hour’ in 1994. Written by historian, writer and researcher Geoffrey Hebdon, this is the second in a series that covers the experience of a British citizen who emigrated to South Africa during that era, and records in vivid detail his responses to the apartheid system and how South Africa and neighbouring countries evolved after apartheid was abol...
After Freedom
Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict. The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa’s first free election, reminding the world of the promise he represented as the nation’s first Black president. Despite significant progress since the early days of this new democracy, frustration is growing as inequalities that once divided the races now grow within them as well. In After Freedom, award-winning sociologist Katherine S. Newman and South African expert Ariane De Lannoy bring alive the voices of the “...
Native Boy
'When we moved from the farm, my mother was concerned about my survival. How would her youngest child survive township life; how would he transform from a maplazini to an urban township boy? Thabo Abram Molefe was just six years old when he and his family left their tenancy on a Boschfontein farm. Their destination: a vacant stand in the vibrant, multi-ethnic, rambling Ratanda township just south of Heidelberg, Transvaal – the birthplace of Eugene Terre'Blanche's AWB. To his new neighbours, Molefe is – and always will be – a 'maplazini', Sesotho for 'sumb country bumpkin'. It is a nickname he works to overcome as he journeys towards adulthood and further education, far beyond the apartheid regime's agenda to forever limit the black man to a life of hardship. Funny, moving, heartbreaking and heartwarming: Native Boy is an illuminating memoir of a young black man's search for identity, set against the backdrop of a country in the throes of political transition.
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Deze tweetalige bundel is het eerste resultaat van een jarenlange samenwerking tussen letterkundige onderzoekers van Afrikaanse en Nederlandstalige poëzie na 1945. Het biedt een staalkaart van lopend onderzoek, maar ook een aanzet voor nieuw onderzoek dat het vakgebied bredere perspectieven aanreikt. Het bevat zestien gevallenstudies waarin ontwikkelingen, auteurs en publicaties in de naoorlogse literatuur van Zuid-Afrika (Afrikaans), Nederland en Vlaanderen centraal staan. Academici verbonden aan universiteiten in Zuid-Afrika en in het Nederlandse taalgebied hebben met het oog op deze vergelijkende studies van moderne poëzie bijdragen geleverd die speuren naar raakvlakken en verschillen tussen literaire velden. De interactie tussen literaire actoren is nog maar zelden supranationaal, grens- en taaloverschrijdend onderzocht. In deelstudies wordt ingegaan op de wijze waarop teksten interageren, hoe schrijvers elkaar inspireerden en konden beïnvloeden en in welke mate vormen van samenwerking en uitwisseling van ideeën heeft plaatsgevonden.
Dutch Racism
Dutch Racism is the first comprehensive study of its kind. The approach is unique, not comparative but relational, in unraveling the legacy of racism in the Netherlands and the (former) colonies. Authors contribute to identifying the complex ways in which racism operates in and beyond the national borders, shaped by European and global influences, and intersecting with other systems of domination. Contrary to common sense beliefs it appears that old-fashioned biological notions of “race” never disappeared. At the same time the Netherlands echoes, if not leads, a wider European trend, where offensive statements about Muslims are an everyday phenomenon. Dutch Racism challenges readers to q...
