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18 produkter
A History of the Present
A Biography of Indian South Africans, 1990-2019
Inbunden, 2019
1006 kr
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A History of the Present is the first book-length overview of Indian South Africans in the quarter century following the end of apartheid. Based on oral interviews and archival research it threads a narrative of the lives of Indian South Africans that ranges from the working class men and women to …
South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Inbunden, 2015
1262 kr
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In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South …
South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
Häftad, 2015
289 kr
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In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than in South Africa. "India gave us a Mohandas, we gave them a Mahatma," goes a popular South African refrain. Contemporary South …
South African Gandhi
Stretcher-Bearer of Empire
E-bok, 2015
303 kr
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A biography detailing Gandhi''s twenty-year stay in South Africa and his attitudes and behavior in the nation''s political context.In the pantheon of freedom fighters, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi has pride of place. His fame and influence extend far beyond India and are nowhere more significant than …
We are the Poors
Community Struggles in Post-apartheid South Africa
Av Ashwin Desai
Häftad, 2002
307 kr
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When Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994, freedom-loving people around the world hailed a victory over racial domination. The end of apartheid did not change the basic conditions of the oppressed majority, however. Material inequality has deepened and new forms of …
Zuma's Own Goal
Losing South Africa's 'War on Poverty'
Av Patrick Bond, Brij Maharaj m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
385 kr
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Reading Revolution
Shakespeare on Robben Island
Häftad, 2014
207 kr
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'Somehow, Shakespeare always seems to have something to say to us.' -Nelson Mandela. The prison authorities on the apartheid South African Robben Island were obsessed with censoring the news prisoners could receive of the outside world. Through the memories and biographical accounts written by …
Colour, Class and Community - the Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994
Häftad, 2021
406 kr
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Positions the history and inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the canvas of the major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s up to the first democratic elections in 1994Following a hiatus in the 1960s, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa …
Colour, Class and Community - the Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994
Inbunden, 2021
1221 kr
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Positions the history and inner workings of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) against the canvas of the major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s up to the first democratic elections in 1994Following a hiatus in the 1960s, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa …
Colour, Class and Community - The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994
E-bok, 2021
472 kr
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Following a hiatus in the 1960s, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa was revived in 1971. In fascinating detail, Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed bring the inner workings of the NIC to life against the canvas of major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, and …
Colour, Class and Community - The Natal Indian Congress, 1971-1994
E-bok, 2021
462 kr
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Following a hiatus in the 1960s, the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) in South Africa was revived in 1971. In fascinating detail, Ashwin Desai and Goolam Vahed bring the inner workings of the NIC to life against the canvas of major political developments in South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s, and …
Belonging
E-bok, 2025
205 kr
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What does it mean to belong?Across oceans and centuries, this sweeping narrative shuttles between the corridors of the Colonial Office in London, the contested streets of Durban, and the changing power dynamics within the British Raj. The first boatload of indentured Indians arrived in Natal in …
Marxisms in the 21st Century
Crisis, critique and struggle
Av Ahmed Veriava, John Saul m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
398 kr
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The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It …
Marxisms in the 21st Century
Crisis, critique and struggle
Av Ahmed Veriava, John Saul m. fl.
E-bok, 2013
389 kr
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The current resurgence of Marxism is based on new sources of inspiration and creativity from movements that seek democratic, egalitarian and ecological alternatives to capitalism. The Marxism of many of these movements is neither dogmatic nor prescriptive, but rather, open, searching, utopian. It …
Wentworth
The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place
Av Ashwin Desai
Häftad, 2019
311 kr
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In the early 1960s, the city of Durban consolidated racially circumscribed group areas with brutal intensity. In the tiny enclave of Wentworth, designated a Coloured area, newly relocated residents made their homes and sought work in the numerous heavy industries that proliferated on its edges. As …
Blacks in Whites
A Century of Cricket Struggles in KwaZulu-Natal
Av Ashwin Desai, Vishnu Padayachee m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
574 kr
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The South African past is rich with stories of courage, initiative and endeavour which have never become history because they are the stories of those excluded from power. This title seeks to transform some of these stories into history: in this case into the history of cricket in Natal, hitherto …
Chatsworth
The Making of a South African Township
Inbunden, 2013
586 kr
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In 1960, apartheid’s planners created the ‘Indian’ township of Chatsworth, evicting people from established neighbourhoods around Durban and forcibly settling them into the grid of a modern racial ghetto. Making home within this architecture of exclusion, along streets without names, tens of …
Reverse sweep
A story of South African cricket since apartheid
Av Ashwin Desai
Häftad, 2016
208 kr
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In this searing and revealing account of cricket in post-apartheid South Africa, Ashwin Desai deftly tells a story of promise and despair, the story of a new pitch; a quick start full of hope, followed by a steady erosion of the commitments needed to fulfil the promise of a level-playing field. …
