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Township Violence and the End of Apartheid - War on the Reef (Hardcover)
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Township Violence and the End of Apartheid - War on the Reef (Hardcover)
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A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following
apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the
transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of
the Witwatersrand. In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de
Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela
were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful
termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while bothdeserved the
plaudits they received for entering the negotiations that led to
the end of apartheid, the four years of negotiations preceding the
April 1994 elections, known as the transition era, were not
"peaceful": they were the bloodiest of the entire apartheid era,
with an estimated 14,000 deaths attributed to politically related
violence. This book studies, for the first time, the conflicts
between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party that took place in
South Africa's industrial heartland surrounding Johannesburg.
Exploring these events through the perceptions and memories of
combatants and non-combatants from war-torn areas, along with
security force members, politicians and violence monitors, offers
new possibilities for understanding South Africa's turbulent
transition. Challenging the prevailing narrative which attributes
the bulk of the violence to a joint state security force and IFP
assault against ANC supporters, the author argues for a more
expansive approach that incorporates the aggression of ANC
militants, the intersection between criminal and political
violence, and especially clashes between groups alignedwith the
ANC. Gary Kynoch is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie
University. He has written one previous book, We are Fighting the
World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999
(OhioUniversity Press, 2005). Southern Africa (South Africa,
Namibia, Lesotho, Zimbabwe and Swaziland): Wits University Press
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