Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 208 pages)
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illustrations, maps
ISBN:
9781782042372
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1782042377
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9781782042884
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184701089X
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9781847010896
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1782042881
Inhalt:
A new interpretation of the history of the Transkei during the apartheid era, focusing on the politics of identity, the formation of African elites in the Bantustans, and their ambiguous connections with the ANC
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Frontcover; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Mandela's Kinsmen; 1. Education, Monarchy & Nationalism; The Morning Star; Educated elites; African chieftaincies; 'I am an African': African nationalism compared; 'The years of manhood'; 2. The First Bantustan, 1954-1963; King Sabata and the Great Place Gang; 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'; Rural politics -- schoolhouse, courtroom, newssheet; Petrol bombs and ballot boxes; 3. The Second Peasants' Revolt, Mpondoland 1960-1980; Govan Mbeki's book; Chieftaincy's changing meanings.
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From 'Rural Betterment' to 'Community Development'The cattle tax crisis; Mpondoland's smothered revolt; A family squabble?; 4. The Old Mission Schools, 1963-1980; The Children of Soweto and Transkei's elite; Lazy teachers, school scandals, community collapse; 'The clenched fist of Black Consciousness'; 'Our sin is we are Black'; Elite schooling survives; The ANC in the old mission schools; 5. The Comrade-King, Bantustan Politics 1964-1980; The dispute on Robben Island; Quo Vadis?; Rural politics -- chiefs, community development, comrades; The curse of corruption.
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The making of the 'Comrade-King'6. Chris Hani's Guerrillas, 1974-1987; Hani's Transkei hinterland; The 'country bumpkins'; University dissent -- communitarians and class analysis; The intimacy of insurgency; A Bantustan coup; 7. The Apartheid Endgame, 1987-1996; 'A military intelligence project that went wrong'?; Bantu Holomisa's rise and southern Africa's civil wars; Reburying Sabata, returning to the ANC family; Counterintelligence, corruption and the chieftaincy: a web exposed; The Vlakplaas counter-coup; The militant moment; Bantu Holomisa's fall and the new South Africa.
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8. New South Africa & Transkei's Collapse, 1990 OnwardsMandela's moral homilies; The heirs to Fort Hare University; Civic organisations against the chieftaincy?; 'Ancient teacher prestige down the drain'; After 1994: Traditions reasserted; Conclusion: African Nationalism & its Fragments; Commemorating Mandela's kinsmen; Fractured legacies -- The Peasants' Revolt; Fractured legacies -- 'For the nation to live'; A nationalism of fragments; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.
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ISBN 1947010891
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ISBN 9781947010896
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Gibbs, Timothy Mandela's Kinsmen : Nationalist Elites & Apartheid's First Bantustan Woodbridge (Suffolk, England) : James Currey, ©2014 ISBN 9781847010896
Sprache:
Englisch
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