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The Forgotten People - Political Banishment Under Apartheid (Paperback, New)
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The Forgotten People - Political Banishment Under Apartheid (Paperback, New)
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In 2001, in Unfinished Business: South Africa, Apartheid and Truth,
Dumisa Ntsebeza and Terry Bell complained that 'like so much of
South Africa's recent brutal history, we shall probably never know
exactly how many people were banished and what happened to all of
them'. Saleem Badat's The Forgotten People: Political Banishment
under Apartheid answers many questions about banishment and shines
a bright and welcome light on a largely hidden and unknown aspect
of our indeed 'brutal history'. It shows how apartheid's political
opponents from rural areas were condemned to the living hell of
banishment: a weapon used to expel rural opponents to distant and
often arid and desolate places for unlimited periods. These rural
opponents were plucked from their families and communities and
cast, in the late Helen Joseph's words, 'into the most abandoned
parts of the country, there to live, perhaps to die, to suffer and
starve, or to stretch out a survival by poorly paid labour, if and
when they could get it'. They were strangers in strange areas who
could not speak the local language, and often had little in common
with the locals and even less in common with those under whose
surveillance they fell. This is the first study of an important but
hitherto neglected group of opponents of apartheid set in a global,
historical and comparative perspective. It looks at the reasons why
people were banished, their lives in banishment and the efforts of
a remarkable group of activists, led by Helen Joseph, to assist
them. Indeed, this book originated in a promise made by the author
to Helen Joseph, who had undertaken an epic journey in 1962 to
visit all those banished across the length and breadth of South
Africa. The work is illustrated with stunning photographs by Ernest
Cole, Peter Magubane and others.
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