The South African Society
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The Shaping Of South African Society 1652 1840
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Author : Richard Elphick
language : en
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-15
The Shaping Of South African Society 1652 1840 written by Richard Elphick and has been published by Wesleyan University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-15 with History categories.
History is a powerful aid to the understanding of the present, and those who are concerned with the escalating crisis in South Africa will find this an invaluable source book. This is the story of the evolution of a society in which race became the dominant characteristic, the primary determinant of status, wealth, and power. Cultural chauvinism of the first European colonists – primarily the Dutch – merged with economic and demographic developments to create a society in which whites relegated all blacks – free blacks, Africans, imported slaves – to a systematic pattern of subordination and oppression that foreshadowed the apartheid of the twentieth century. From the beginning of the nineteenth century the new empire-builders, the British, reinforced the racial order. In the next century and a half the industrialized South Africa would become firmly integrated into the world economy. Published originally in South Africa in 1979 and updated and expanded now, a decade later, this book by twelve South African, British, Canadian, Dutch, and American scholars is the most comprehensive history of the early years of that troubled nation. The authors put South Africa in the comparative context of other colonial systems. Their social, political, and economic history is rich with empirical data and rests on a solid base of archival research. The story they tell is a complex drama of a racial structure that has resisted hostile impulses from without and rebellion from within.
South African Society
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Author : Henry Lever
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
South African Society written by Henry Lever and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Apartheid categories.
This study by a sociologist provides the most rigorous and comprehensive review of South African society to appear to date. At a time when the nations of the world are devoting increasing attention to the problems of South Africa and when South Africans are recognising the need to make adjustments to their way of life, this book presents a timely and provocative guide to the significant features of the society. Throughout his work Lever presents a detached and critical view of a troubled and complex society, while at the same time showing a genuine concern for the fate of South Africa and its people.
The South African Society
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Author : HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Relations. Main Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The South African Society written by HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Relations. Main Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Interpersonal relations categories.
This report is the end product of an investigation into human relations - a matter that has become increasingly topical on a national level in South Africa. The investigation was undertaken over a period of more than four years and researchers from all parts of the country participated in it on a partnership basis. The researchers represented 15 universities, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) and several other organizations. The multidisciplinary approach employed, involved some 20 academic disciplines. The HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Relations is the third investigation to be undertaken on a co-operative basis of this nature. The preceding two large-scale co-operative research programmes were the HSRC Investigation into Education executed under the direction of Prof J.P. de Lange of the Rand Afrikaans University and the HSRC Sports Investigation executed under the direction of Prof. G.J.L. Scholtz of Potchefstroom University for CHE. these two investigations were undertaken respectively at the request of the Cabinet and the Minister of National Education. The HSRC Investigation into Intergroup Relations was, however, not initiated by a request received for such research but was launched entirely on the initiative of the HSRC.
The Shaping Of South African Society 1652 1820
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Author : Richard Elphick
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1979
The Shaping Of South African Society 1652 1820 written by Richard Elphick and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with History categories.
The Shaping Of South African Society 1652 1840
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Author : Richard Elphick
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989
The Shaping Of South African Society 1652 1840 written by Richard Elphick and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with History categories.
The Great African Society
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Author : Hlumelo Biko
language : en
Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publishers
Release Date : 2013-02-06
The Great African Society written by Hlumelo Biko 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 2013-02-06 with Political Science categories.
Only a dramatic, imaginatively crafted intervention - a massive redistribution programme managed by the private sector, far-reaching policy changes in schooling, housing and health, and better, disciplined governance - will deliver the genuine liberation South Africa's still-poor millions expected from the 1994 settlement. Without it, without the real promise of a free, meritocratic society, South Africa will flounder and fail as corruption, crime, social decay, hopelessness and anger engulf society. This is the compelling thesis of Hlumelo Biko's hard-hitting, thoughtful analysis of South Africa's past, present and future, a sobering assessment of where we stand today, and where we need to go. At once unnervingly candid and inspiring, The Great African Society demolishes the complacent optimism that underpins much soft thinking about South Africa's future and places at the service of public debate practical, achievable objectives for business, government and civil society. South Africa's challenge, the book argues, is to act now to avoid the mounting threat of revolt and decline that would devalue every political and economic achievement of the past decade-and-a-half and leave Nelson Mandela's feted rainbow nation staring decrepitude in the face. No debate from here on about the South African future can be taken seriously without weighing Biko's insights and his warnings. The Great African Society is vividly moral in its intentions, but sober and unsentimental in examining political and economic imperatives. It is guaranteed to make the reader sit up and take stock afresh.
South Africa In World History
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Author : Iris Berger
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-03-27
South Africa In World History written by Iris Berger 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 2009-03-27 with History categories.
This volume begins in the early centuries of the Common Era with the various groups of people who had settled in southern Africa. Stone Age foragers, farmers with iron technology, and pastoralists all interacted to create a complex society before Europeans arrived. In the seventeenth century, Dutch settlers developed a colonial society based on the menial labor of indigenous inhabitants of the Cape and slaves imported from the East Indies and other parts of Africa. British conquest in the early nineteenth century brought an end to slavery, as well as new forms of colonial domination, tension between the British and the original Dutch settlers, armed struggle between expanding European communities and Africans (including the highly militarized Zulu kingdom), and intensive missionary activity that transformed many African societies. The discovery of diamonds and gold in the late nineteenth century brought industrialization based on migrant labor, new clashes between British and Africaaners, the final conquest of African societies, and new European migrants. During the twentieth-century, despite further economic development, African communities were increasingly impoverished. New forms of racial domination lead to the implementation of apartheid in 1948 and heightened political organizing among both African and Africaaner nationalists. The intensification of resistance in the 1970s and '80s coupled with drastic changes in the international balance of power brought an end to the apartheid state in 1994 and an intensified struggle to overcome apartheid's economic and political legacy by building a new nonracial society. The book emphasizes social and cultural history, focusing on people's interactions and identities according to race, class, gender, religion and ethnicity. It also addresses changes in literature (both oral and written), music, and the arts and draws on the extensive biographical and autobiographical literature to provide a personal focus for the discussion of major themes. While this emphasis reflects dominant trends in historical scholarship for the past two decades, it also includes recent material on environmental history and relationships between African Americans and South Africans. Where relevant, it highlights comparisons between South African and U.S. history.
Understanding South Africa
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Author : Martin Plaut
language : en
Publisher: Hurst & Company
Release Date : 2019
Understanding South Africa written by Martin Plaut and has been published by Hurst & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with South Africa categories.
When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, the country sank into bitter recriminations and rampant corruption under Jacob Zuma. Why did this happen, and how was hope betrayed? President Cyril Ramaphosa, who is seeking to heal these wounds, is due to lead the African National Congress into an election by May 2019. The ANC is hoping to claw back support lost to the opposition in the Zuma era. This book will shed light on voters' choices and analyze the election outcome as the results emerge. With chapters on all the major issues at stake--from education to land redistribution-- Understanding South Africa offers insights into Africa's largest and most diversified economy, closely tied to its neighbors' fortunes.
Socio Political And Psychological Perspectives On South Africa
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Author : Christopher R. Stones
language : en
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Release Date : 2001
Socio Political And Psychological Perspectives On South Africa written by Christopher R. Stones and has been published by Nova Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Political Science categories.
South Africa is a society that, sadly, has been divided against itself even at the best of times. Beginning with the initial advent of colonialism on the southern tip of the African continent, through to the later spawning of apartheid as well as in its nascent democracy, divisions have continually been manifest in varying form and content, along racial, ethnic, class, religious, language, political or other socio-economic and cultural lines. Unlike most societies, South Africa is a natural laboratory for psycho-social research yet it has been foreign researchers who have conducted most of the behavioural studies on the human condition in the country. South African psychologists seem to have steered clear of involvement in researching any major policy impact, especially in recent times when the re-shaping of South African society has been at its height. Each of the authors in this book is South African and, appropriately, has lived through the transition in South Africa and has attempted to understand the changes at both professional and personal levels. The contributors were each asked to write a chapter that would explore the South African socio-political terrain from within their fields of expertise and so help others navigate the uncharted future with less trepidation.'
South Africa A Changing Society
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Author : Cas De Villiers
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1977
South Africa A Changing Society written by Cas De Villiers and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977 with Africa, Southern categories.