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Randolph Vigne
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Thomas Pringle
A fine biography. [It] is a most satisfying book and an important contribution to South African scholarship. CAPE TIMES Scottish poet, fighter for human rights in the Cape Colony, and abolitionist, reveals the role this key Enlightenment figure played in Africa and Britain. This biography of Thomas Pringle (1789-1834), poet, fighter for human rights in the Cape Colony, and abolitionist, reveals the role this key Enlightenment figure played in Africa and Britain. Honoured in South Africa as 'the father of South African English poetry', for his part in achieving a free press, for his fight for the settlers' rights in the colony, in Scotland as the founding editor of Blackwood's Magazine, and i...
Huguenots
Scholars from France and from countries of the Huguenot Refuge examine the situation of French Protestants before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in France and in the countries to which many of them fled during the great exodus which followed the Edict of Fontainebleau. Covering a period from the end of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century, the volume examines aspects of life in France, from the debate on church unity to funeral customs, but its primary focus is on departure from France and its consequences -- both before and after the Revocation. It offers insights into individuals and groups, from grandees such as Henri de Ruvigny, depute general and la...
The Huguenots
Examines the situation of French Protestants before and after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, in France and in the countries to which many of them fled during the great exodus which followed the Edict of Fontainebleau, covering a period from the end of the sixteenth to the beginning of the nineteenth century.
The New African
The New African was first published in 1962 and survived in Cape Town and in London for 53 issues. The radical monthly introduced to South Africa new writers such as Bessie Head, Lewis Nkosi, Ngugi, Can Themba, Dennis Brutus, Andre Brink, and Masizi Kunene alongside established writers including Nadine Gordimer, Dan Jacobson, and Alan Paton. It was "a magazine aimed at opening up debate and spreading the word about the new Africa" in the heady years of African independence. The New African was founded to tell people about this new Africa, a newly born concept to analyze, report on, and rejoice in. It also looked ahead to the ultimate collapse of white racial supremacy and the dawn of nonraci...
Liberals against Apartheid
The Liberal Party of South Africa was founded in 1953 to promote nonracial democratic liberalism in opposition to white supremacist apartheid. Under Alan Paton, it quickly moved into the extra-parliamentary field and won considerable black support, competing with Communism and black nationalism. Growing influence brought heavy government attack, and the 'banning' of nearly 50 of its leaders, black and white. Despite forced dissolution in 1968, the Liberals' ideas have triumphed over those of left and right in the 'new South Africa'.
A Gesture of Belonging
This book is a selection from the letters Bessie Head wrote Randolph Vigne, a politician and literary friend from her Cape Town days.
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Patrick Duncan
With a Foreword by Anthony Sampson Born son of a Governor-General of South Africa, Patrick Duncan rejected the attitudes of his privileged background to follow the Gandhian way of passive reistance, even to jail. This biography traces the life and times of Duncan and the changes and struggles in late-twentieth century South Africa.
Sharpeville
"Sharpeville, 21 March 1960: the story of an infamous massacre and its consequences for South Africa's apartheid regime"--Dust jacket.
