Hidden Pretoria
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Hidden Pretoria
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Author : Johan Swart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-02-19
Hidden Pretoria written by Johan Swart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-02-19 with categories.
Hidden Pretoria presents some of the architectural gems to be found in South Africa's capital. Sixteen key sites have been carefully chosen to convey the richness and diversity of the city's built heritage.
Hidden Johannesburg
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Author : Paul Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Random House South Africa
Release Date : 2016-10-01
Hidden Johannesburg written by Paul Duncan and has been published by Penguin Random House South Africa this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-01 with Architecture categories.
Johannesburg: Egoli to some, Jozi to others. Once a mining town, now the most important commercial city in Africa. It’s been home to renegades and rogues, colonialists and capitalists, the dispossessed and the newly enriched. Today it’s populated by those who call themselves Africans or Afrikaners, by blacks, whites and every shade in between, and by immigrants from all over. There are suburbs where the daily rituals of Jewish culture rival New York’s; elsewhere, the tone is more Lagos than laid-back. Remnants of the colonial era stand alongside contemporary steel and glass. In a town that prides itself on the pursuit of fortune, it’s a challenge to preserve heritage, and it is against this background that Hidden Johannesburg offers a snapshot of 28 notable buildings. From the stately mansions of the Randlords to their downtown headquarters, the clubs where they socialised and the churches where they worshipped, the architecture of early Johannesburg lives on in sandstone, granite, marble and slate. But this is a city that constantly reinvents itself, and where the old is all-too-readily demolished to make way for the next ‘big thing’. Some buildings will survive, others will be consigned to memory. Hidden Johannesburg reveals fragments of the history of this vibrant city but, perhaps, the book also tells us something about our future, for if we allow our heritage to be swept away in the name of progress, are we advancing at all?
National Character In South African English Children S Literature
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Author : Elwyn Jenkins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-11-01
National Character In South African English Children S Literature written by Elwyn Jenkins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-11-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
This is the first full-length study of South African English youth literature to cover the entire period of its publication, from the late nineteenth century to the early twenty-first century. Jenkins' book focuses on what made the subsequent literature essentially South African and what aspects of the country and its society authors concentrated on. What gives this book particular strength is its coverage of literature up to the 1960s, which has until now received almost no scholarly attention. Not only is this earlier literature a rewarding subject for study in itself, but it also throws light on subsequent literary developments. Another exceptional feature is that the book follows the author’s previous work in placing children’s literature in the context of adult South African literature and South African cultural history (e.g. cinema). He also makes enlightening comparisons with American, Canadian and Australian children’s literature.
How We Escaped From Pretoria
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Author : Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1901
How We Escaped From Pretoria written by Sir James Aylmer Lowthorpe Haldane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1901 with Escapes categories.
New Directions In Fl Nerie
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Author : Kelly Comfort
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2021-11-29
New Directions In Fl Nerie written by Kelly Comfort and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book distinguishes itself from previous scholarship by offering an inclusive and comprehensive treatment of urban walking from 1800 to the present. Divided into three sections—geography, genius, and gender—the introduction establishes the origins of the flâneur and flâneuse in early foundational texts and explores later works that reimagine flânerie in terms of these same three themes. The volume’s contributors provide new and global perspectives on urban walking practices through their treatment of a variety of genres (literature, film, journalism, autobiography, epistolary correspondence, photography, fashion, music, digital media) and regions (Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, the Middle East). This volume theorizes well-known urban characters like the idler, lounger, dandy, badaud, promeneuse, shopper, collector, and detective and also proposes new iterations of the flâneur/flâneuse as fashion model, gaucho, cruiser, musician, vampire, postcolonial activist, video game avatar and gamer.
Translations On Sub Saharan Africa
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Author : United States. Joint Publications Research Service
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
Translations On Sub Saharan Africa written by United States. Joint Publications Research Service and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with categories.
How We Escaped From Pretoria
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Author : Aylmer Haldane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
How We Escaped From Pretoria written by Aylmer Haldane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Escapes categories.
The Hidden History Of South Africa S Book And Reading Cultures
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Author : Archie L. Dick
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2013-06-17
The Hidden History Of South Africa S Book And Reading Cultures written by Archie L. Dick and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Hidden History of South Africa's Book and Reading Cultures shows how the common practice of reading can illuminate the social and political history of a culture. This ground-breaking study reveals resistance strategies in the reading and writing practices of South Africans; strategies that have been hidden until now for political reasons relating to the country's liberation struggles. By looking to records from a slave lodge, women's associations, army education units, universities, courts, libraries, prison departments, and political groups, Archie Dick exposes the key works of fiction and non-fiction, magazines, and newspapers that were read and discussed by political activists and prisoners. Uncovering the book and library schemes that elites used to regulate reading, Dick exposes incidences of intellectual fraud, book theft, censorship, and book burning. Through this innovative methodology, Dick aptly shows how South African readers used reading and books to resist unjust regimes and build community across South Africa's class and racial barriers.
Three Wise Monkeys
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Author : Charles van Onselen
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2023-03-23
Three Wise Monkeys written by Charles van Onselen and has been published by Jonathan Ball Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-23 with History categories.
The Three Wise Monkeys trilogy culminates with a forensic examination of South Africa's long struggle to suppress gambling, and especially lotteries. The opposition of the Calvinist churches – both Afrikaans and English-speaking – had its counterpart in the eager embrace of games of chance by the white working class on the Witwatersrand. Focusing on the career of Rufe Naylor, an Australian bookmaker, horse dealer and entrepreneur who, with the help of a defrocked Portuguese Catholic priest, ran the Lourenço Marques Lottery, The Quest for Wealth without Work shows how the efforts of church and state to control the leisure time and morals of the working class intersected with the need to ensure the flow of cheap mine labour from Mozambique. Ultimately, in the suppression of the Lourenço Marques Lottery – and in campaigns against pinball machines, dog racing and other 'social evils' – can be seen the emerging outlines of the apartheid police state.
Inside Out
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Author : Tim Jenkin
language : en
Publisher: Jacana Media
Release Date : 2003
Inside Out written by Tim Jenkin and has been published by Jacana Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The thrilling story of Tim Jenkin's daring escape from Pretoria Maximum Security Prison, where he was kept by apartheid authorities for his activities on behalf of the ANC, and his subsequent flight from South Africa.