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Volume 3 deals with the crucial period of the 1950s and the early
1960s. These were years of mass passive resistance to apartheid;
years when the ANC was able to rally hundreds of thousands of
supporters for its strategy of non-violent protest. This was the
period when the increasingly brutal repressive measures of the
state, culminating in the Sharpeville massacre and the banning of
the ANC and PAC, finally turned the movement away from its proud
tradition of non-violence into the difficult and protracted path of
armed struggle.
From Protest to Challenge Volume 4: Political Profiles, 1882–1990,
in Jacana’s second edition of the six volumes of From Protest to
Challenge, profiles over six hundred individual activists who
played important political roles during the century before the
abolition of apartheid in 1990. Among those included are John Dube,
Clements Kadalie, Albert Luthuli, Steve Biko, Beyers Naude and Joe
Slovo, as well as Ellen Kuzwayo, Jay Naidoo, Robert McBride, P.K.
Leballo and Patricia de Lille. These books are a wonderful resource
for future generations of scholars. The publication of the Vol. 4
completes the series.
From protest to challenge is a multi-volume chronicle of the
struggle to achieve democracy and end racial discrimination in
South Africa. Beginning in 1882 during the heyday of European
imperialism, these volumes document the history of race conflict,
protest, and political mobilisation by South Africa’s black
majority. Completely revised and updated, with the inclusion of
photographs and with the previous volumes re-formatted to unify the
series, this second edition of From protest to challenge revives
the classic work of Thomas Karis and Gwendolen Carter and provides
an indispensable resource for students and scholars of African
history, race and ethnicity, identity politics, democratic
transitions and conflict resolution. The authors gratefully
acknowledge the assistance and generosity of all those who helped
to make this book possible. During two extended periods of
pioneering field research by Gwendolen Carter, Thomas Karis, and
Sheridan Johns in South Africa in 1963 and 1964 – a period of
growing political tension – dozens of South Africans gave them
documents or loaned them material to photocopy, often in the hope
of preventing irreplaceable records from falling into the hands of
the police. In addition, lawyers for the defendants in the 1956–61
treason trial contributed a complete set of the trial transcript
and the preliminary examination, as well as a set of virtually all
the documents assembled by the defence in preparation for the
trial. Added to the materials that the team was able to photocopy
from archival collections at several South African universities and
at the South African institute of race relations, these months of
fieldwork provided the initial foundation for what was to become
the first four volumes of From protest to challenge.
This volume, the fifth in the From Protest to Challenge Series,
examines and documents the liberation struggle in South Africa from
its nadir in 1964 to its resurgence by 1979. Four earlier volumes
traced the long history of resistence against white domination and
the pursuit of racial equality during the period 1882-1964. This
publication is a documentary history of the national liberation
struggle in South Africa which includes a priceless collection of
new primary historical sources. The 129 carefully selected
documents (429 pp) covering the years 1964-1979 add historical
depth and veracity to the finely honed, schlolarly text. Some are
landmark speeches: Bram Fischer from the dock in 1966, Abram Tiro
at Turfloop graduation in 1972, Chief Buthelezi at Jabulani
Amphitheatre, Soweto, in March 1976. Some bear testimony to the
fortitude of resisters, nameless and well known, who struggled
against forced removals. 'Bantu education', and racism in the
churches. Extensive footnotes and bibliography, chronology of
events, indexes of organisations and persons.
"The essays are meticulous and carefully documented accounts which
maintain the standard of excellence set by the previous volumes,
all of which belong in every library." -Choice "Based on extensive
documentary archives collected by these researchers, and augmented
by interviews with virtually all of the significant antiapartheid
activists, this volume covers a formative period in the struggle
against white minority rule, 1964-1979." -Africa Today " . . . a
substantial achievement . . . a wonderful resource for future
generations of scholars." -South African Historical Journal "Karis
and Gerhart's fifth volume is an invaluable addition to their
earlier documentary history of the national liberation struggle in
South Africa, and includes a priceless collection of new primary
historical sources. It ignites vivid flashes of memory . . . "
-from the Foreword by Nelson Mandela Volume 5 of this magnificent
historical record continues the indispensable study of the struggle
for freedom and justice in South Africa. In addition to extensive
background essays, it includes formal documents, underground and
ephemeral materials, and statements written in exile or in Robben
Island prison that have not previously been published.
This collection of interviews explores the role of religion in the
lives of eminent South Africans who led the struggle against
apartheid. Nelson Mandela, Chris Hani, Desmond Tutu, Nadine
Gordimer, and seventeen other political, religious, and cultural
leaders share the beliefs and values that informed the moral
positions they adopted, often at great cost. From all ethnic,
religious, and political backgrounds, these men and women have
shaped one of the greatest political transformations of the
century.
What emerges from the interviews are reflections on all aspects of
life in an embattled country. There are stories of the homelands
and townships, and tales of imprisonment and exile. Dedicated
communists relate their intense youthful devotion to Christianity;
Muslim activists discuss the complexity of their relationships with
their communities. As the respondents grapple with difficult
questions about faith, politics, and authority, they expose a more
personal picture: of their daily lives, of their pasts, and of the
enormous conflicts that arise in a society that continually strains
the moral fiber of its citizens. Taken together, these interviews
reveal the many-faceted vision that has fueled South Africa's
struggle for democracy.
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