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Prisoner 913
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Dear Comrade President
In his annual presidential address on 8 January 1986, ANC president Oliver Tambo called on South Africans to make apartheid ungovernable through armed action and militant struggle. But unknown to the world, on that very day, the quiet-spoken mathematics teacher and aspirant priest turned reluctant revolutionary had also set up a secret think tank in Lusaka, which he named the Constitution Committee, giving it an ‘ad hoc unique exercise’ that had ‘no precedent in the history of the movement’. Knowing that all wars end at a negotiating table, and judging the balance of forces to be moving in favour of the liberation movement, Tambo wanted the ANC to hold the initiative after the fall o...
Johan Stemmet se musiektrivia
Johan Stemmet is al vir dekades sinoniem met musiekvermaak en hierdie trivia stel beslis nie teleur nie. Of jy nou 'n aanhanger is van Laurika Rauch, Mathys Roets, Gé Korsten, Queen, Abba of the Awakening - kom skerp jou musiekkennis op! Daar is iets vir elkeen met plaaslike en internasionale musiek oor die jare na almal se smaak. Het jy geweet: Eve Boswell sing in 1953 die Engelse weergawe van "Suikerbossie" by die Royal Command Performance en word deur prinses Margaret teruggeroep om die liedjie weer te sing. "Mamma, ek wil 'n man hê" is destyds gesing deur die Belgiese sanger, Bobbejaan Schoepen. Hy is deur die Nazi's gearresteer toe hy tydens 'n optrede gesing het dat die meisie nie met 'n Duitse man wil trou nie omdat hy varkvleis eet. Koos du Plessis het in graad 10 probeer om sanglesse te neem, maar is deur sy onderwyseres afgeraai weens "'n gebrek aan vaardighede". Koos Kombuis sê van homself "Skool was vir my baie boring, veral omdat ek myself al op drie leer lees het - van die agterkante van cereal-bokse af".
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...
The Oxford Handbook of Peaceful Change in International Relations
"Abstract: With the rapid rise of China and the relative decline of the United States, the topic of power transition conflicts is back in popular and scholarly attention. The discipline of International Relations offers much on why violent power transition conflicts occur, yet very few substantive treatments exist on why and how peaceful changes happen in world politics. This Handbook is the first comprehensive treatment of the subject of peaceful change in International Relations. It contains some 41 chapters, all written by scholars from different theoretical and conceptual backgrounds examining the multi-faceted dimensions of this subject. In the first part, key conceptual and definitiona...
Government Gazette
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Winnie & Nelson
'Only Steinberg could have written a book in which Winnie and Nelson can appear both larger-than-life and all too human. What a book! What an achievement!' – Jacob Dlamini, historian and author One of the most celebrated political leaders of the twentieth century, Nelson Mandela has been written about by many biographers and historians. But in one crucial area, his life remains largely untold: his marriage to Winnie. During his years in prison, Nelson grew ever more in love with an idealised version of his wife, courting her in his letters as if they were young lovers frozen in time. But Winnie, every bit his political equal, found herself increasingly estranged from her jailed husband's p...
The ANC Billionaires
'We were talking about the rise of Japan, about Ronald Reagan's Star Wars ... globalisation, technology. And they were still banging on about the Freedom Charter.' – Anglo American's Michael Spicer on the ANC in the mid-1980s. In 1985, a group of white South African business leaders, led by Gavin Relly, the executive chairperson of Anglo American, travelled to a game lodge in Zambia to meet with the exiled ANC leadership under Oliver Tambo and Thabo Mbeki. This visit set in motion a coordinated and well-resourced plan by big business to influence and direct political change in South Africa. In The ANC Billionaires, top-selling author Pieter du Toit draws on first-hand accounts by major roleplayers about the contentious relationship between capital and the ANC before, during and after the country's transition to democracy, and shows how the liberation organisation was completely unprepared to navigate the intersection between business and politics. He also ties the rise of the new elite – including Cyril Ramaphosa, Patrice Motsepe and Saki Macozoma – to the ANC, a party of government and patronage.
Prisoner 913
The top-secret archives of the apartheid government are slowly becoming public, including information about Prisoner 913: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. In this book, the authors draw on a secret apartheid-era archive to reconstruct the history we thought we knew. The archive reveals the truth of the months that lead to Nelson Mandela's release.
