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Author | : Peter Alexander |
Publisher | : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Indigenous languages |
ISBN | : 9781869142209 |
Soweto, South Africa's most populous and politically important township, is in many ways the microcosm of the country's stratification of extremes. This study offers an in-depth look at the phenomenon of class and its ramifications from the point of view of urban South Africa, using an analysis of more than 2000 questionnaires and offering insights gleaned over a six-year period.
Author | : Bernadine E. Crosby |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 2001-01-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595165745 |
"Darling I would rather die in my bed than have to make it".These words,spoken by an old white colonial,sum up this witty and affectionate memoir of life in South Africa during the turbulant years,as seen through the eyes of an immigrant.
Author | : David M. Smith |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1134902972 |
This book explains how apartheid changed South Africa's cities, how people responded to regain some control over urban life, and how the forces of urbanization held back under apartheid will affect the post-apartheid era.
Author | : Jan Morris |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 486 |
Release | : 2005-03-22 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780393326482 |
A breathtakingly vivid guide to our greatest cosmopolitan cities and culturesfrom Manhattan to Venice and from Baghdad to Barbados, this book assembles 50years of Morris's finest travel writing.
Author | : United States. Joint Publications Research Service |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 862 |
Release | : 1977 |
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Author | : Gwen Ansell |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2005-09-28 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9780826417534 |
Tells the remarkable story of how jazz became a key part of South Africa's struggle in the 20th century, and provides a fascinating overview of the ongoing links between African and American styles of music. Ansell illustrates how jazz occupies a unique place in South African music.Through interviews with hundreds of musicians, she pieces together a vibrant narrative history, bringing to life the early politics of resistance, the atmosphere of illegal performance spaces, the global anti-apartheid influence of Hugh Masakela and Miriam Makeba, as well as the post-apartheid upheavals in the national broadcasting and recording industries.
Author | : Noor Nieftagodien |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 95 |
Release | : 2014-12-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0821445235 |
The Soweto uprising was a true turning point in South Africa’s history. Even to contemporaries, it seemed to mark the beginning of the end of apartheid. This compelling book examines both the underlying causes and the immediate factors that led to this watershed event. It looks at the crucial roles of Black Consciousness ideology and nascent school-based organizations in shaping the character and form of the revolt. What began as a peaceful and coordinated demonstration rapidly turned into a violent protest when police opened fire on students. This short history explains the uprising and its aftermath from the perspective of its main participants, the youth, by drawing on a rich body of oral histories.
Author | : Heidi Holland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Soweto (South Africa) |
ISBN | : |
Soweto, a sprawling urban city, home to four million people, became an icon of the apartheid era, infamous around the world for its violence, filthy streets and rickety shacks. This is a description of life in Soweto, told from the resident's point of view.
Author | : Fred Khumalo |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2011-12-02 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1415204381 |
As a teenager Fred Khumalo greeted his friends with a handshake and the words 'touch my blood'. It implied friendship and trust. The saying became his name. More than that, it became the way he viewed his world. Everything touched Fred Khumalo. Twice he was bewitched. Twice his father - the 'moegoe', the 'country bumpkin' - took him to inyangas to have the 'demons' banished. Twice his mother - the 'city girl' - took him to the doctor to have the 'fevers' cured. When the American Dudes became the fashion, Khumalo dressed up in outlandish style and strutted the streets. 'You had to be brave to be seen in the outfits that we wore. Green, yellow, maroon, powder blue. Outrageous stuff, garish stuff, bright stuff. Earth, Wind and Fire stuff. Michael Jackson (pre-nose job) stuff.' He smoked dagga with con men and criminals, he pickpocketed 'corpses' on Friday night trains. He worked as a gardener in the larney suburbs and drooled over pornographic photographs with his baas's son. He studied journalism and shacked up with whiteys in a commune called Snake Park, for a while the only darkie in a crazy swirl of booze and drugs and sex. And then the bloody fightings that tore apart KwaZulu/Natal in the 1980s touched his life. Sucked him into a place of horror and violence that threatened to destroy him. When a friend died in his arms with the words 'They really got me, Touch My Blood. They really got me,' Khumalo realised that if he was to outlive the madness he had to run. From the journalist and Sunday Times columnist comes a startlingly honest, humorous and poignant autobiography about growing up in a time of laughter and heartache.
Author | : Larrypoet |
Publisher | : AuthorHouse |
Total Pages | : 85 |
Release | : 2011-10-05 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1456786687 |
The Wonderful World is a collection of poetry that talks about the beauty of life, and the essential parts of life which cannot be bypass without noticing. It's a good book and brings you closer to the nature and the reality of life.