Fault Lines
Title | Fault Lines PDF eBook |
Author | David Goodman |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780520232037 |
"This is a searingly honest book by someone who really knows his subject. Goodman is sympathetic to the attempts at transformation in my beloved motherland. The message of this book applies just as easily to the United States, where the fault lines run very deep, too. And the U.S. has been trying to solve these problems a great deal longer than the new South Africa."—Archbishop Desmond Tutu "David Goodman's vivid, intensely personal, and unobtrusively erudite book is irresistible reading for anyone who cares about South Africa."—Adam Hochshild, author of King Leopold's Ghost "A gem of a book. An excellent introduction to the intricacies of South African politics and society."—Gail M. Gerhart, Foreign Affairs "A sequence of truths shown through the lives of eight contrasted citizens, this book reveals our new South Africa with the startling accuracy of flashes of lightning on a stormy night—and with the apartheid storm over, a remarkable rainbow of hope can be seen."—Donald Woods, author of Biko
South Africa Update Series
Title | South Africa Update Series PDF eBook |
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Release | 19?? |
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How Cities Learn
Title | How Cities Learn PDF eBook |
Author | Astrid Wood |
Publisher | John Wiley & Sons |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2022-04-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 1119794277 |
How Cities Learn traces the circulation of bus rapid transit (BRT) to understand how and why it was widely adopted in South Africa. Investigates the global proliferation and localization of BRT Examines the production and distribution of transportation knowledge in the global south Addresses the spatial and social legacy of apartheid in South African cities Reveals a new way of understanding the intersections between policy, people and place Essential reading for scholars of geography, politics, sociology and transportation, as well as urban planners and practitioners
South Africa News Update
Title | South Africa News Update PDF eBook |
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Pages | 552 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | South Africa |
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Consists of reproductions of articles from South African newspapers.
Tomorrow Is Another Country
Title | Tomorrow Is Another Country PDF eBook |
Author | Allister Sparks |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 1996-07 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226768557 |
He concludes with a vivid assessment of the problems facing South Africa in the new era.
The Zuma Years
Title | The Zuma Years PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Calland |
Publisher | Penguin Random House South Africa |
Pages | 548 |
Release | 2013-08-16 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1770222766 |
The face of power in South Africa is rapidly changing – for better and for worse. The years since Thabo Mbeki was swept aside by Jacob Zuma’s ‘coalition of the wounded’ have been especially tumultuous, with the rise and fall of populist politicians such as Julius Malema, the terrible events at Marikana, and the embarrassing Guptagate scandal. What lies behind these developments? How does the Zuma presidency exercise its power? Who makes our foreign policy? What goes on in cabinet meetings? What is the state of play in the Alliance – is the SACP really more powerful than before? And, as the landscape shifts, what are the opposition’s prospects? In The Zuma Years, Richard Calland attempts to answer these questions, and more, by holding up a mirror to the new establishment; by exploring how people such as Malema, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng and DA parliamentary leader Lindiwe Mazibuko have risen so fast; by examining key drivers of transformation in South Africa, such as the professions and the universities; and by training a spotlight on the toxic mix of money and politics. The Zuma Years is a fly-on-the-wall, insider’s approach to the people who control the power that affects us all. It takes you along the corridors of government and corporate power, mixing solid research with vivid anecdote and interviews with key players. The result is an accessible yet authoritative account of who runs South Africa, and how, today.
Welcome to Our Hillbrow
Title | Welcome to Our Hillbrow PDF eBook |
Author | Phaswane Mpe |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan South africa |
Pages | 97 |
Release | 2014-07-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1770104054 |
Welcome To Our Hillbrow is an exhilarating and disturbing ride through the chaotic and hyper-real zone of Hillbrow - microcosm of all that is contradictory, alluring and painful in the changing South African psyche. Everything is there: the shattered dreams of youth, sexuality and its unpredictable costs, AIDS, xenophobia, suicide, the omnipotent violence that often cuts short the promise of young people, and the Africanist understanding of the life continuum that does not end with death but flows on into an ancestral realm. Infused with the rhythms of the inner city pulsebeat, this courageous novel is compelling in its honesty and its broad vision, which links Hillbrow, rural Tiragalong and Oxford. It spills out the guts of Hillbrow-living with the same energy and intimate knowledge ,with which the Drum writers wrote Sophiatown into being.