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Author | : Peter Parker |
Publisher | : NYU Press |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 1998-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780814766590 |
A history of the men who were sentenced to hang in South Africa following the death of a deputy-mayor in Sharpeville in 1984. The authors focus on the trial, sentencing, and subsequent international campaign that eventually led to their release after a stay of execution was ordered only 18 hours before the death sentence was to be carried out. Their exploration of the events also leads the authors into discussions of the way the criminal justice system in apartheid South Africa was biased against blacks. The source material for the book included countless interviews and letters written from Death Row. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Peter Parker |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 1998-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781349146192 |
The authors take a scalpel to South Africa's system of criminal justice during the Apartheid era. They focus on the case of the Sharpeville Six to analyse how criminal justice was used to make convictions easy to secure. Analysing the technicalities of the criminal law, as well as the quality of evidence and judicial reasoning in the case against the Six, Parker and Mokhesi-Parker also convey vividly through letters from death row, the sense these people made of their impending executions and how an international campaign to save their lives succeeded with only 18 hours to spare.
Author | : Tom Lodge |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 2011-05-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191617342 |
On 21 March 1960 several hundred black Africans were injured and 69 killed when South African police opened fire on demonstrators in the township of Sharpeville, protesting against the Apartheid regime's racist 'pass' laws. The Sharpeville Massacre, as the event has become known, signalled the start of armed resistance in South Africa, and prompted worldwide condemnation of South Africa's Apartheid policies. The events at Sharpeville deeply affected the attitudes of both black and white in South Africa and provided a major stimulus to the development of an international 'Anti-Apartheid' movement. In Sharpeville, Tom Lodge explains how and why the Massacre occurred, looking at the social and political background to the events of March 1960, as well as the sequence of events that prompted the shootings themselves. He then broadens his focus to explain the long-term consequences of Sharpeville, explaining how it affected South African politics over the following decades, both domestically and also in the country's relationship with the rest of the world.
Author | : Philip H. Frankel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Sarah Harris |
Publisher | : Dryad Press |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Franziska Rueedi |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1847012612 |
Offers new insights into the struggle against Apartheid, and the poverty and inequality that instigated political resistance.
Author | : Humphrey Tyler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
A journalist's recollection of living in South Africa from 1955 to 1963, the book starts with the ratification of the Freedom Charter, covers the Sharpeville massacre, and ends with Nelson Mandela's life sentence. The focus is not on politics, but on the day-to-day experiences of citizens and on contemporary journalism, with emphasis on magazines and newspapers which catered to a black readership. Behind-the-scenes anecdotes are told including stories about a now legendary generation of black journalists Nat Nakasa, Es kia Mphahlele, and Can Themba.
Author | : Rachel Odhner Longstaff |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2017-08-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1683150120 |
The book is the story of a young American girl living in South Africa during the early years of Apartheid (1948-1960). One of six children of a Swedenborgian minister who was sent to South Africa to establish a theological school for Africans, the author reaches back into this unique time and place in an effort to rediscover the culture that influenced her own adult attitudes. Rather than following a strictly chronological format, the story is laid out in a series of verbal snapshots, supported by photographs. Family life, experienced through the eyes of a child living in a complex environment, contrasts with the lives of those who were impacted by the institutionalized racism of apartheid. Examples of the Acts of Apartheid at the end of each chapter include news articles, interviews, and commentary. Deep childhood fears of some unnamed threat are represented by home invasions, wildfires, and the cry of a hyena in the mountains. The mountains are dangerous, they present a great barrier, but they can be conquered. After returning permanently to America as a teenager¿through a confusing and sometimes painful process of discussion and observation¿the author uncovers those artifacts of the past that inform her place in the world today.
Author | : Thomas Grant |
Publisher | : John Murray |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2022-07-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 152937300X |
'A forensic, riveting account of a wondrous and principled advocate' Philippe Sands 'Well-written, deeply researched and wholly gripping' The Spectator 'Meticulously researched' The Times 'Kentridge is one of many lawyers to whom I will forever be in debt, and whose everyday fights against injustice should inspire us all' David Lammy Sydney Kentridge carved out a reputation as South Africa's most prominent anti-apartheid advocate - his story is entwined with the country's emergence from racial injustice and oppression. He is the only advocate to have acted for three winners of the Nobel Peace Prize - Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Albert Lutuli. Already world-famous for his landmark cases including the Treason Trial of Nelson Mandela and the other leading members of the ANC, the inquiry into the Sharpeville massacre, and the inquest into the death of Steve Biko, he then became England's premier advocate. Through the great set-pieces of the legal struggle against apartheid - cases which made the headlines not just in South Africa, but across the world - this biography is a portrait of enduring moral stature.
Author | : Michael Scott-Baumann |
Publisher | : Hodder Education |
Total Pages | : 333 |
Release | : 2015-11-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1471839230 |
A new book for Paper 1, Prescribed Subject 4: Rights and Protest The renowned IB Diploma History series, combining compelling narratives with academic rigor. An authoritative and engaging narrative, with the widest variety of sources at this level, helping students to develop their knowledge and analytical skills. Provides: - Reliable, clear and in-depth content from topic experts - Analysis of the historiography surrounding key debates - Dedicated exam practice with model answers and practice questions - TOK support and Historical Investigation questions to help with all aspects of the Diploma