Cape Town A Place Between
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| Author | : Henry Trotter |
| Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
| Total Pages | : 107 |
| Release | : 2020-01-01 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1946395285 |
Cape Town is a place between two oceans, between first and third worlds, between east and west. The majority of its citizens: a people between black and white, native and settler, African and European. How can we understand a city that is most assuredly in Africa, though not””seemingly””of it? By exploring this city’s tween-ness, we can begin to understand the soul of this town””haunted by its past, unsure of its future. A short book just over 100 pages, it allows readers to quickly identify the unique pulse of the city, its throbbing historical, social, cultural and political beat that underlies the transactions between all Capetonians. This is not a substitute for a traditional guidebook, but a perfect companion to one, filling in the intimate details that other books leave out.
| Author | : Henry Trotter |
| Publisher | : Jacana Media |
| Total Pages | : 248 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1770095756 |
Sugar Girls & Seamen illuminates the shadowy world of dockside prostitution in South Africa, focusing on the women of Cape Town and Durban who sell their hospitality to foreign sailors. Dockside "sugar girls" work at one of the busiest cultural intersections in the world. Through their continual interactions with foreign seamen, they become major traffickers in culture, ideas, languages, styles, goods, currencies, genes and diseases. Many learn the seamen's tongues, develop emotional relationships with them, have their babies and become entangled in vast webs of connection. In many ways, these South African mermaids are the ultimate cosmopolitans, the unsung sirens of globalisation. Based on fifteen months of research at the seamen's nightclubs, plus countless interviews with sugar girls, sailors, club owners, cabbies, bouncers and barmaids, this book provides a comprehensive account of dockside "romance" at the southern tip of Africa. Through stories, analysis and first-hand experiences, it reveals this gritty world in all its raw vitality and fragile humanity. Sugar Girls & Seamen is simultaneously racy and light, critical and profound.
| Author | : Nechama Brodie |
| Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
| Total Pages | : 809 |
| Release | : 2015-11-12 |
| Genre | : Travel |
| ISBN | : 1920545999 |
The Cape Town Book presents a fresh picture of the Mother City, one that brings together all its stories. From geology and beaches to forced removals and hip-hop, Nechama Brodie, author of the best-selling The Joburg Book, has delved deeply into the hidden past of Cape Town to emerge with a lucid and compelling account of South Africa’s fi rst city, its landscape and its people. The book’s 14 chapters trace the origins and expansion of Cape Town – from the City Bowl to the southern and coastal suburbs, the vast expanse of the Cape Flats and the sprawling northern areas. Offering a nuanced, yet balanced, perspective on Cape Town, the book includes familiar attractions like Table Mountain, Kirstenbosch and the Company’s Garden, while also giving a voice to marginalised communities in areas such as Athlone, Langa, Mitchells Plain and Khayelitsha. Many of the images in the book have never been published before, and are drawn from the archives of museums, universities and public institutions. This beautifully illustrated, information-rich book is the defi nitive portrait of the wind-blown, contradictory city at the southern tip of Africa that more than three million people call home
| Author | : Gillian Warren-Brown |
| Publisher | : Juta and Company Ltd |
| Total Pages | : 164 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 9781919930756 |
A celebration of this fascinating and unique world city
| Author | : Zoë Wicomb |
| Publisher | : Feminist Press at CUNY |
| Total Pages | : 244 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781558612259 |
The South African novel of identity that "deserves a wide audience on a par with Nadine Gordimer."
| Author | : Steven Otter |
| Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
| Total Pages | : 273 |
| Release | : 2012-09-21 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0143027379 |
The gunshots came in rapid succession. There were three of them, followed by screeching tyres and a screaming engine. In a matter of seconds I recalled the conversation I’d had with Mary. She’d been right after all. ‘You’ll be fine for a few days,’ she’d said, ‘but after that they’ll turn on you. Our cultures are too different. You won’t live through it, not just because of the cultural differences, but because of the common crime. Find a home here in the suburbs where you belong.’ The three gunshots had been my first, but perhaps for those who’d lived in these streets for years they were only three gunshots among countless others. Who knows? Perhaps three a week, maybe even three a night? ither way, I’d have to get used to them – or leave.
| Author | : Tony Roshan Samara |
| Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
| Total Pages | : 253 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0816670005 |
Reveals how liberal democracy and free-market economics reproduce the inequalities of apartheid in Cape Town, South Africa.
| Author | : K. Sello Duiker |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 227 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0821444549 |
Every city has an unspoken side. Cape Town, between the picture postcard mountain and sea, has its own shadow: a place of dislocation and uncertainty, dependence and desperation, destruction and survival, gangsters, pimps, pedophiles, hunger, hope, and moments of happiness. Living in this shadow is Azure, a thirteen-year-old who makes his living on the streets, a black teenager sought out by white men, beholden to gang leaders but determined to create some measure of independence in this dangerous world. Thirteen Cents is an extraordinary and unsparing account of a coming of age in Cape Town. Reminiscent of some of the greatest child narrators in literature, Azure’s voice will stay with the reader long after this short novel is finished. Based on personal experiences, Thirteen Cents is Duiker’s debut novel, originally published in 2000. This first edition to be published outside South Africa includes an introduction by Shaun Viljoen and a special glossary of South African words and phrases from the text translated into English.
| Author | : Maarten van Ham |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 520 |
| Release | : 2021-03-29 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 303064569X |
This open access book investigates the link between income inequality and socio-economic residential segregation in 24 large urban regions in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America. It offers a unique global overview of segregation trends based on case studies by local author teams. The book shows important global trends in segregation, and proposes a Global Segregation Thesis. Rising inequalities lead to rising levels of socio-economic segregation almost everywhere in the world. Levels of inequality and segregation are higher in cities in lower income countries, but the growth in inequality and segregation is faster in cities in high-income countries. This is causing convergence of segregation trends. Professionalisation of the workforce is leading to changing residential patterns. High-income workers are moving to city centres or to attractive coastal areas and gated communities, while poverty is increasingly suburbanising. As a result, the urban geography of inequality changes faster and is more pronounced than changes in segregation levels. Rising levels of inequality and segregation pose huge challenges for the future social sustainability of cities, as cities are no longer places of opportunities for all.
| Author | : Nigel Worden |
| Publisher | : Jacana Media |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Cape Town (South Africa) |
| ISBN | : 1431402923 |
