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Hani: A Life Too Short
Hani: A Life Too Short tells the story of Hani’s life, from his childhood in rural Transkei and education at Fort Hare University to the controversial Memorandum of 1969, the crisis in the ANC camps in Angola in the 1980s and the heady dawn of freedom. Drawing on interviews and the recollections of those who [...]
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Apartheid: The South African Mirror
This book portrays a visual and conceptual approach to old and new forms of prejudice and racial discrimination, through original artistic works and documentary material from the nineteenth century to the present day.
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Final Deadline: The Last Days of the Rand Daily Mail
For much of its 83–year history, the Rand Daily Mail was the most controversial newspaper in South Africa. Fearless and forthright, the newspaper dug where other publications did not, exposing stories – like the Information Scandal – that other newspapers were afraid to print. Under editors like Laurence Gandar, Raymond Louw and Allister Sparks, the [...]
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Composing Apartheid: Music for and Against Apartheid
AOM Composing Apartheid is the first book ever to chart the musical world of a notorious period in world history, apartheid South Africa. It explores how music was produced through, and was productive of, key features of apartheid’s social and political topography, as well as how music and musicians contested and even helped to conquer [...]
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Voices of Protest: Social Movements in Post-Apartheid South Africa
AOM Voices of Protest documents the first post-apartheid initiatives of poor people to mobilise and organise themselves. It analyses social struggles and movements in a variety of arenas. The book illuminates their demands, leadership and membership, organisational structure, and most importantly, their politics. It also assesses the collective effect of South Africa’s social movements on [...]
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Celebrating Steve Biko: We Write What We Like
AOM 2007 marked the thirtieth anniversary of the murder in South African police detention of Steve Biko (1946-1977), one of Africa’s greatest sons, leaders and philosophers. Celebrating Steve Biko is a collection of specially commissioned writings, both personal and political, that offer tribute to Biko’s contribution to the freedom struggle in South Africa, to his [...]
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Paper Wars: Access to Information in South Africa
AOM At the very startof South Africa’s constituional democracy, opennes and transperency had a special place. Reacting against the secrecy of apartheid, the viels would be lifted in a new open society. And indeed South Africa’s access to information law – the promotion of access to information Act, a direct result of the constitutional negotiations [...]
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The Bethal Trial Story – Where do we begin
June 16, 1976 remains the decisive moment that brought a new impetus to the struggle for liberation in South Africa. Little of this uprising is contained in a published book written by the student leaders themselves. This book is the first and does just that. The authors relate individual and collective accounts of their [...]
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ANC Underground in South Africa
According to the conventional wisdom, the ANC after its banning in 1960 by the apartheid government and the imprisonment of its leaders largely disappeared off the face of South Africa until public support for it revived in the wake of the Soweto Uprising of 1976. This title takes issue with that view. Drawing on substantial [...]
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With the Lid Off – South African Insights from Home and Abroad
“This book provides a bridge across gap of time which is hard to comprehend through orthodox historical accounts. The two writers, father and son, reflect the agonies, absurdities, hopes and fears in two quite different South Africas. The first is the country entering a grim new phase of oppression during the relentless clampdown of apartheid [...]
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