Fatima Meer
Title | Fatima Meer PDF eBook |
Author | Fatima Meer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 259 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Anti-apartheid activists |
ISBN | 9780795707889 |
Higher Than Hope
Title | Higher Than Hope PDF eBook |
Author | Fatima Meer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Civil rights workers |
ISBN | 9780140122343 |
Fatima Meer
Title | Fatima Meer PDF eBook |
Author | Shireen Hassim |
Publisher | |
Pages | 550 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Apartheid |
ISBN | 9780796924414 |
Race and Suicide in South Africa
Title | Race and Suicide in South Africa PDF eBook |
Author | Fatima Meer |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 235 |
Release | 2022-10-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 100064300X |
Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon. Its approach is Durkheimian in the use of court records, and phenomenological in the examination of actual cases. About 1500 cases of suicide in Durban from 1940-70 are analysed in terms of race, sex, occupation, marital status, economic status, family type and size, residential area, time and method used. What emerges is a revealing picture of suicide in South African ethnic groups. The findings confute the idea of Durkheim and others that behaviour in suicide conforms to certain universal principles and suggest the crucial role of particular social conditions in determining suicide trends, while at the same time challenging the proposition that a high suicide rate is associated with high status. Instead the author found that there were common emotional syndromes among suicides, but there were contributed to by different social factors.
Long Walk to Freedom
Title | Long Walk to Freedom PDF eBook |
Author | Nelson Mandela |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 598 |
Release | 2008-03-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0759521042 |
"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
Prison Diary
Title | Prison Diary PDF eBook |
Author | Fatima Meer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Political prisoners |
ISBN | 9780795701306 |
Well-known anti-apartheid activist's diary of her incarceration in the Fort in Johannesburg in the seventies. Reproductions of paintings done in prison at the time are included
Freedom in Our Lifetime
Title | Freedom in Our Lifetime PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 60 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |