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Soweto Now
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Author : Bernadine E. Crosby
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2001-01-28
Soweto Now written by Bernadine E. Crosby and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Darling I would rather die in my bed than have to make it".These words,spoken by an old white colonial,sum up this witty and affectionate memoir of life in South Africa during the turbulant years,as seen through the eyes of an immigrant.
Orlando West Soweto
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Author : Noor Nieftagodien
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012-08-01
Orlando West Soweto written by Noor Nieftagodien and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with History categories.
A history of the famous Orlando township Until the end of the First World War, urban growth in Johannesburg proceeded unevenly and haphazardly, but under the impact of a wave of militant struggles by black workers and in the context of the devastating impact of the 1918 influenza epidemic, the state became determined to better manage the movement of Africans into the urban areas and to place them in properly controlled locations. The promulgation of the Native (Urban) Areas Act of 1923 was intended to meet these objectives. The Act was a hybrid piece of legislation. On the one hand, it espoused the principles enunciated by the Stallard Commission of 1922, which had infamously declared that an African 'should only be allowed into the urban areas, which are essentially the white man's creation, when he is willing to enter and minister to the needs of the white man, and should depart therefrom when he ceases so to minister'. On the other hand, when it empowered local authorities to set aside land for black residential purposes, it recognised the need to create conditions for the settlement of an urban African population in order to provide a reliable supply of labour to secondary industry. The growing demand for housing led the government to establish Orlando (named after the chairman of the Native Affairs Committee, Edwin Orlando Leake) in 1931, when thousands of African families were evicted from urban slums in and around the city centre and moved there. The authorities described this as a 'model native township' that was supposedly planned along the lines of a garden city. The new location, it promised, would be characterised by tree-lined streets, business opportunities and recreation facilities. Reflecting the views of a somewhat conservative section of the African urban elite, the popular African newspaper Bantu World predicted on 14 May 1932 that the new township 'will undoubtedly be somewhat of a paradise [that] will enhance the status of the Bantu within the ambit of progress and civilisation'. Orlando West, Soweto illuminates the genesis of Orlando township and its well-known subsequent history, which is inextricably linked with the lives of prominent South Africans such as Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu, amongst many others. A beautiful photographic essay complements the testimony from residents, who describe the way things were, and the way they are now, in the heart of Soweto, South Africa's most iconic African township.
The Apartheid City And Beyond
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Author : David M. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2003-09-02
The Apartheid City And Beyond written by David M. Smith and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-02 with Science categories.
Apartheid as legislated racial separation substantially changed the South African urban scene. Race group areas' remodelled the cities, while the creation of homelands', mini-states and the pass laws' controlling population migration constrained urbanization itself. In the mid-1980s the old system - having proved economically inefficient and politically divisive - was replaced by a new policy of orderly urbanization'. This sought to accelerate industrialization and cultural change by relaxing the constraints on urbanization imposed by state planning. The result was further political instability and a quarter of the black (or African) population housed in shanty towns. Negotiations between the Nationalist government and the African National Congress are working towards the end of the old apartheid system. Yet the negation of apartheid is only the beginning of the creation of a new society. The vested interests and entrenched ideologies behind the existing pattern of property ownership survive the abolition of apartheid laws. Beyond race, class and ethnicity will continue to divide urban life. If the cities of South Africa are to serve all the people, the accelerating process of urbanization must be brought under control and harnessed to a new purpose. The contributors to this volume draw on a broad range of experience and disciplines to present a variety of perspectives on urban South Africa.
City Living
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Author : Quill R. Kukla
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021
City Living written by Quill R. Kukla and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021 with Philosophy categories.
City Living is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. More people live in cities than ever before: more than 50% of the earth's people are urban dwellers. As downtown cores gentrify and globalize, they are becoming more diverse than ever, along lines of race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class, sexuality, and age. Meanwhile, we are in the early stages of what seems sure to be a period of intense civil unrest. During such periods, cities generally become the primary sites where tensions and resistance are concentrated, negotiated, and performed. For all of these reasons, understanding cities and contemporary city living is pressing and exciting from almost any disciplinary and political perspective. Quill R Kukla offers the first systematic philosophical investigation of the nature of city life and city dwellers. The book draws on empirical and ethnographic work in geography, anthropology, urban planning, and several other disciplines in order to explore the impact that cities have on their dwellers and that dwellers have on their cities. It begins with a philosophical exploration of spatially embodied agency and of the specific forms of agency and spatiality that are distinctive of urban life. It explores how gentrification is enacted and experienced at the level of embodied agency, arguing that gentrifying spaces are contested territories that shape and are shaped by their dwellers. The book then moves to an exploration of repurposed cities, which are cities materially designed to support one sociopolitical order, but in which that order collapsed, leaving new dwellers to use the space in new ways. Through detailed original ethnography of the repurposed cities of Berlin and Johannesburg, Kukla makes the case that in repurposed cities, we can see vividly how material spaces shape and constrain the agency and experience of dwellers, while dwellers creatively shape the spaces they inhabit in accordance with their needs. The book concludes with a reconsideration of the right to the city, asking what would be involved in creating a city that enabled the agency and flourishing of all its diverse inhabitants.
Witchcraft Violence And Democracy In South Africa
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Author : Adam Ashforth
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2005-01-15
Witchcraft Violence And Democracy In South Africa written by Adam Ashforth and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-01-15 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Large numbers of people in Soweto & other parts of South Africa live in fear of witchcraft, presenting complex & unique problems for the government. Adam Ashforth explores the challenge of occult violence & the spiritual insecurity that it engenders to democratic rule in South Africa.
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.
South Africa News Update
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
South Africa News Update written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with South Africa categories.
Consists of reproductions of articles from South African newspapers.
The Wonderful World
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Author : Larrypoet
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2011-10-05
The Wonderful World written by Larrypoet and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-05 with Poetry categories.
The Wonderful World is a collection of poetry that talks about the beauty of life, and the essential parts of life which cannot be bypass without noticing. It's a good book and brings you closer to the nature and the reality of life.
Af Press Clips
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
Af Press Clips written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Africa categories.
No Single Loyalty
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Author : F. E. Auerbach
language : en
Publisher: Waxmann Verlag
Release Date : 2002
No Single Loyalty written by F. E. Auerbach and has been published by Waxmann Verlag this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Educators categories.