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Spoilt Ballots - The Elections That Shaped South Africa, From Shaka To Cyril (Paperback) Loot Price: R448
Discovery Miles 4 480

Spoilt Ballots - The Elections That Shaped South Africa, From Shaka To Cyril (Paperback)

Matthew Blackman, Nick Dall

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If you paid even a moment’s attention during high-school history lessons, you probably know that 1910 brought about the Union of South Africa, that the 1948 general election ushered in apartheid, and that the Rainbow Nation was born when Madiba triumphed in the country’s first democratic elections in 1994. Spoilt Ballots dishes the dirt on these pivotal events in our history. But it also sheds light on a dozen lesser known contests, starting with the assassination of King Shaka in 1828 and ending with the anointing of President Cyril at Nasrec in 2017.

Spoilt Ballots is as much about the people who voted in some of our most decisive elections as it is about those who didn’t get to make their mark. It explains why a black man in the Cape had more political rights in 1854 than at any other point in the ensuing 140 years and how the enfranchisement of women in 1930 was actually a step back for democracy.

The book will leave you wondering if Oom Paul Kruger’s seriously dicey win in the 1893 ZAR election might have paved the way for the Boer War and whether ‘Slim Jannie’ Smuts really was that slim after all. It shows how the Nats managed to get millions of English-speakers to vote for apartheid and why the Groot Krokodil’s attempt to co-opt coloureds and Indians into the system backfired spectacularly.

Entertaining and impeccably researched, Spoilt Ballots lifts the lid on 200 years of electoral dysfunction in our beloved and benighted nation.

General

Imprint: Penguin Books (SA) (Pty) Ltd
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: February 2022
Authors: Matthew Blackman • Nick Dall
Dimensions: 234 x 153 x 35mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade
Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 978-1-77609-637-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political corruption
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social issues > Political correctness
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Constitution, government & the state
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political structure & processes > Elections & referenda
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political parties > Political manifestos
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General
Books > Local Author Showcase > Politics
LSN: 1-77609-637-1
Barcode: 9781776096374

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