[PDF] Apartheid Past Present And Future eBook

Author : Paul Maylam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351898930

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A unique overview of the whole 350-year history of South Africa’s racial order, from the mid-seventeenth century to the apartheid era. Maylam periodizes this racial order, drawing out its main phases and highlighting the significant turning points. He also analyzes the dynamics of South African white racism, exploring the key forces and factors that brought about and perpetuated oppressive, discriminatory policies, practices, structures, laws and attitudes. There is also a strong historiographical dimension to the study. It shows how various writers have, from different perspectives, attempted to explain the South African racial order and draws out the political and ideological agendas that lay beneath these diverse interpretations. Essential reading for all those interested in the past, present and future of South Africa, this book also has implications for the wider study of race, racism and social and political ethnic relations.

Author : Annie E. Coombes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 25,19 MB
Release : 2003-11-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822330721

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DIVHow should post-apartheid South Africa present its history - in museums, monuments, and parks./div

Author : Godfrey Vincent
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 20,39 MB
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 9781631896781

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This text generates discussion and interest in a country that is rich in both material and cultural resources. It provides a well-rounded look at South Africa from diverse perspectives, and places South Africans at the center of their history.

Author : John T. Friedman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 19,66 MB
Release : 2011-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0857450913

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In northwest Namibia, people’s political imagination offers a powerful insight into the post-apartheid state. Based on extensive anthropological fieldwork, this book focuses on the former South African apartheid regime and the present democratic government; it compares the perceptions and practices of state and customary forms of judicial administration, reflects upon the historical trajectory of a chieftaincy dispute in relation to the rooting of state power and examines everyday forms of belonging in the independent Namibian State. By elucidating the State through a focus on the social, historical and cultural processes that help constitute it, this study helps chart new territory for anthropology, and it contributes an ethnographic perspective to a wider set of interdisciplinary debates on the State and state processes.

Author : James L. Gibson
Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1610442474

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Perhaps no country in history has so directly and thoroughly confronted its past in an effort to shape its future as has South Africa. Working from the belief that understanding the past will help build a more peaceful and democratic future, South Africa has made a concerted, institutionalized effort to come to grips with its history of apartheid through its Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In Overcoming Apartheid, James L. Gibson provides the first systematic assessment of whether South Africa's truth and reconciliation process has been successful. Has the process allowed South Africa to let go of its painful past and move on? Or has it exacerbated racial tensions by revisiting painful human rights violations and granting amnesty to their perpetrators? Overcoming Apartheid reports on the largest and most comprehensive study of post-apartheid attitudes in South Africa to date, involving a representative sample of all major racial, ethnic, and linguistic groups. Grounding his analysis of truth in theories of collective memory, Gibson discovers that the process has been most successful in creating a common understanding of the nature of apartheid. His analysis then demonstrates how this common understanding is helping to foster reconciliation, as defined by the acceptance of basic principles of human rights and political tolerance, rejection of racial prejudice, and acceptance of the institutions of a new political order. Gibson identifies key elements in the process—such as acknowledging shared responsibility for atrocities of the past—that are essential if reconciliation is to move forward. He concludes that without the truth and reconciliation process, the prospects for a reconciled, democratic South Africa would diminish considerably. Gibson also speculates about whether the South African experience provides any lessons for other countries around the globe trying to overcome their repressive pasts. A groundbreaking work of social science research, Overcoming Apartheid is also a primer for utilizing innovative conceptual and methodological tools in analyzing truth processes throughout the world. It is sure to be a valuable resource for political scientists, social scientists, group relations theorists, and students of transitional justice and human rights.

Author : John Hirst
Publisher : Carlton, Australia : The History Institute
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 30,8 MB
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Apartheid
ISBN : 9780958889810

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Apartheid - The African National Congress (ANC) - For and against sanctions - The future.

Author : J. W. Hofmeyr
Publisher :
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Apartheid
ISBN :

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Events that changed the face of South Africa in 1948 are reflected on by a number of theologians from South Africa and abroad.

Author : Mr.Tamim Bayoumi
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 1991-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451853904

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Estimates of a supply-side model of the nonprimary sectors, in which particular attention has been paid to modeling key characteristics of the evolution of the apartheid system, are presented. These imply that the wage differential between white and nonwhite workers doing similar jobs fell significantly over the last two decades to around 14 percent in 1990. This relatively small gap implies that medium-term prospects for the advancement of the disadvantaged groups in South Africa depend heavily on their ability to take up skilled employment, with the direct gains from the elimination of apartheid being relatively small.