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Dr Abdullah Abdurahman (1872–1940) was the first person of colour ever to be elected to political office in South Africa. He represented some of the poorest people in Cape Town on the City Council and then the Provincial Council. First winning a seat in 1904, he was to serve the city for 36 years. Beloved by the people of District Six, for whom he fought so hard, Dr Abdurahman is a forgotten giant of the fight for justice.
The grandson of slaves, he trained as a doctor in Scotland, returning to the Cape with a Scottish wife. Nellie and he were powerful partners – and their daughter, Cissie Gool, was among the most important political figures of her generation. Dr Abdurahman led the African Political Organisation – the leading coloured party of this period. He was a friend and ally of key political figures of his time: Sol Plaatje, Walter Rubusana, Mahatma Gandhi and W.P. Schreiner. He was a leading advocate of black unity, working tirelessly to resist the onslaught of white racism.
The doctor was among the most internationally admired South Africans of his generation, arguing his case on delegations to London and India. He led South African Indians to Delhi, confronted the Viceroy and made a memorable address to the Indian National Congress. At his death in 1940 Cape Town ground to a halt as the entire community paid their respects.
Drawing on previously undiscovered material, this biography lifts Dr Abdurahman from the obscurity into which he has so unjustly sunk – explaining his life against the background of the difficult times in which he lived.
What does a telepathic, parasitic creature with tentacles, a
moonlit-eyed stalker who murders his victims with a pair of
scissors, and a retired professional wrestler who pieces together
mysterious puzzles in order to ward off an ancient evil force, all
have in common? They're just a few of the unique characters inside
this ambiguous collection of ten novellas called Midnight World.
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Robert Mugabe (Paperback)
Sue Onslow, Martin Plaut
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Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe was an African leader who
sharply divides opinion. As a man and leader he has come to embody
the contradictions of his country's history and political culture.
As a symbol of African liberation he remains respected and revered
by many on the African continent, but this heroic status contrasts
sharply, in the eyes of his detractors, with repeated cycles of
gross human rights violations, capital flight, and mass emigration
precipitated by the policies of his government and his demonic
image in Western media. In this timely biography intended for a
general audience, Sue Onslow and Martin Plaut explain Mugabe's
formative experiences as a child and young man; his role as an
admired Afro-nationalist leader in the struggle against white
settler rule; and his evolution into a political manipulator and
survivalist. They also address the emergence of political
opposition to his leadership and the uneasy period of coalition
government. Ultimately, they reveal the complexity of the man who
led Zimbabwe for its first four decades of independence.
This is the go-to guide for confused South Africans and all those seeking an informed, balanced and up-to-date analysis of South African politics and society in the Ramaphosa era.
When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans appeared to many as a people reborn as the Rainbow Nation. Yet, a quarter of a century later, the country sank into bitter recriminations and rampant corruption under Jacob Zuma. Why did this happen, and how was hope betrayed?
President Cyril Ramaphosa, hoping to heal these wounds, was re-elected in May 2019 with the ANC hoping to claw back support lost to the opposition in the Zuma era. This book analyses this election, shedding light on voters’ choices.
With chapters on all the major issues at stake – from education to land redistribution – Understanding South Africa offers insights into Africa’s largest and most diversified economy, closely tied to its neighbours’ fortunes.
Colloquia and symposia have almost become a tradition among the
variable-star astronomers; those held more or less regularly at
Bamberg and Budapest have become well known. For a change, this
time the organizing committee of Commission 27 decided to hold an
LA. U. symposium in Moscow and to adopt as a special topic the
relation between variable stars and the evolution of stars and
stellar systems. This symposium, No. 67 in the LA. U. series, was
prepared by two committees, a by B. V. Kukarkin, and a local one
with V. A. Ambartsumian scientific one chaired as chairman, and G.
S. Khromov as executive secretary. It was held in Moscow at the
Physical and Astronomical Institutes of the Lomonosov University
from July 29 to August 4, 1974. The symposium was opened with three
short welcoming speeches by V. A. Ambartsu mian, J. M. Ternov
(vice-rector of Moscow University), and B. V. Kukarkin. All three
stressed the importance of the study of variable stars in
connection with the evolution of stars and stellar systems, the
role of the Russian astronomers in these studies, and the necessity
of international cooperation."
This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to
explore the interconnections between social networks based on
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel
behaviour in urban environments. Over the past decade, rapid
development of ICT has led to extensive social impacts and
influence on travel and mobility patterns within urban spaces. A
new field of research of digital social networks and travel
behaviour is now emerging. This book presents state-of-the-art
knowledge, cutting-edge research and integrated analysis methods
from the fields of social networks, travel behaviour and urban
analysis. It explores the challenges related to the question of how
we can synchronize among social networks activities, transport
means, intelligent communication/information technologies and the
urban form. This innovative book encourages multidisciplinary
insights and fusion among three disciplines of social networks,
travel behaviour and urban analysis. It offers new horizons for
research and will be of interest to students and scholars studying
mobilities, transport studies, urban geography, urban planning, the
built environment and urban policy.
This book brings together conceptual and empirical insights to
explore the interconnections between social networks based on
Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and travel
behaviour in urban environments. Over the past decade, rapid
development of ICT has led to extensive social impacts and
influence on travel and mobility patterns within urban spaces. A
new field of research of digital social networks and travel
behaviour is now emerging. This book presents state-of-the-art
knowledge, cutting-edge research and integrated analysis methods
from the fields of social networks, travel behaviour and urban
analysis. It explores the challenges related to the question of how
we can synchronize among social networks activities, transport
means, intelligent communication/information technologies and the
urban form. This innovative book encourages multidisciplinary
insights and fusion among three disciplines of social networks,
travel behaviour and urban analysis. It offers new horizons for
research and will be of interest to students and scholars studying
mobilities, transport studies, urban geography, urban planning, the
built environment and urban policy.
The language of Jung's writings, and of analytical psychology generally, is sometimes difficult to understand. This guide, in dictionary format, combines scholarship and historical accuracy with a stimulating, critical attitude.
The language of Jung's writings, and of analytical psychology
generally, is sometimes difficult to understand. This guide, in
dictionary format, combines scholarship and historical accuracy
with a stimulating, critical attitude.
Computational models offer tools for exploring the nature of human
cognitive processes. In connectionist, neural network, or parallel
distributed processing models, information processing takes the
form of cooperative and competitive interactions among many simple,
neuron-like processing units. These models provide new ways of
thinking about the neural basis of cognitive processes, and how
disorders of brain function lead to disorders of cognition. This
monograph is an expanded version of a recent issue of the journal
Cognitive Neuropsychology. It presents the most comprehensive
existing "case study" of how the effects of damage in connectionist
models can replicate the detailed and diverse patterns of cognitive
impairments that can arise in humans as a result of brain damage.
It begins with a review of the basic methodology of cognitive
neuropsychology and of other attempts at modeling
neuropsychological phenomena. It then focuses on a particular form
of acquired reading disorder, "deep dyslexia," in which previously
literate adults with brain damage exhibit a wide range of symptoms
in pronouncing written words, the most striking of which is the
production of semantic errors (e.g. reading RIVER as "ocean"). A
series of simulations investigate the effects of damage in
connectionist models that pronounce written words via their
meaning. The work systematically explores each main aspect of the
design of the models, identifying the basic computational
properties that are responsible for the occurrence of deep dyslexia
when the models are damaged. Although the investigation concerns a
specific form of reading impairment, the computational principles
that emerge as critical are very general ones: representation of
concepts as distributed patterns of activity, encoding of knowledge
in terms of weights on connections between units, interactivity
between units to form stable attractors for familiar activity
patterns, and greater richness of concrete vs. abstract semantics.
The fact that damage to models embodying these principles and
damage to the brain can produce strikingly similar behaviour
supports the view that the human cognitive system operates
according to similar principles.
Since the increased attention toward diversity in the workplace,
the concepts of "diversity initiatives" and "diversity management"
have become a common place in many conversations among academics
and practitioners alike. The diversity movement in the workplace
originated from the increased avocation for equal treatment of
minority groups due to the dynamic composition of the modern
workforce. Many organizations were forced to face these changes and
the dilemma of how to respond to group differences to maintain
and/or increase organization effectiveness and productivity. This
volume will present new research on the colorblindness versus
multiculturalism debate, assist in broadening the diversity
ideology conversation, share this conversation across social
science domains including industrial/organizational psychology,
social psychology, and law and public policy, and highlight how the
nature of diversity ideology may be fluid and therefore be
different depending on the diversity dimension discussed.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Computational models offer tools for exploring the nature of human
cognitive processes. In connectionist, neural network, or parallel
distributed processing models, information processing takes the
form of cooperative and competitive interactions among many simple,
neuron-like processing units. These models provide new ways of
thinking about the neural basis of cognitive processes, and how
disorders of brain function lead to disorders of cognition. This
monograph is an expanded version of a recent issue of the journal
Cognitive Neuropsychology. It presents the most comprehensive
existing "case study" of how the effects of damage in connectionist
models can replicate the detailed and diverse patterns of cognitive
impairments that can arise in humans as a result of brain damage.
It begins with a review of the basic methodology of cognitive
neuropsychology and of other attempts at modeling
neuropsychological phenomena. It then focuses on a particular form
of acquired reading disorder, "deep dyslexia," in which previously
literate adults with brain damage exhibit a wide range of symptoms
in pronouncing written words, the most striking of which is the
production of semantic errors (e.g. reading RIVER as "ocean"). A
series of simulations investigate the effects of damage in
connectionist models that pronounce written words via their
meaning. The work systematically explores each main aspect of the
design of the models, identifying the basic computational
properties that are responsible for the occurrence of deep dyslexia
when the models are damaged. Although the investigation concerns a
specific form of reading impairment, the computational principles
that emerge as critical are very general ones: representation of
concepts as distributed patterns of activity, encoding of knowledge
in terms of weights on connections between units, interactivity
between units to form stable attractors for familiar activity
patterns, and greater richness of concrete vs. abstract semantics.
The fact that damage to models embodying these principles and
damage to the brain can produce strikingly similar behaviour
supports the view that the human cognitive system operates
according to similar principles.
This omnibus edition brings together concise and up-to-date
biographies of AmÃlcar Cabral, Samora Machel, Robert Mugabe, and
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. African Leaders of the Twentieth Century,
Volume 2 complements courses in history and political science and
is an informative collection for general readers. AmÃlcar Cabral:
A Nationalist and Pan-Africanist Revolutionary, by Peter Karibe
Mendy AmÃlcar Cabral's charismatic and visionary leadership, his
pan-Africanist solidarity and internationalist commitment to "every
just cause in the world," remain relevant to contemporary struggles
for emancipation and self-determination. This concise biography is
an ideal introduction to his life and legacy. Mozambique's Samora
Machel: A Life Cut Short, by Allen F. Isaacman and Barbara S.
Isaacman From his anti-colonial military leadership to the
presidency of independent Mozambique, Samora Machel held a
reputation as a revolutionary hero to the oppressed. Although
killed in a 1987 plane crash, for many Mozambicans his memory lives
on as a beacon of hope for the future. Robert Mugabe, by Sue Onslow
and Martin Plaut For some, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe was a
liberation hero who confronted white rule and oversaw the radical
redistribution of land. For others, he was a murderous dictator who
drove his country to poverty. This concise biography reveals the
complexity of the man who led Zimbabwe for its first decades of
independence. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, by Pamela Scully Nobel Peace
Prize-winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
speaks to many of the key themes of the twenty-first century. Among
these are the growing power of women in the arenas of international
politics and human rights; the ravaging civil wars of the post-Cold
War era in which sexual violence is used as a weapon; and the
challenges of transitional justice in building postconflict
societies.
The first major study of the experiences of the hundreds of
thousands of African soldiers who served with the British army
during the Second World War. During the Second World War over
half-a-million African troops served with the British Army as
combatants and non-combatants in campaigns in the Horn of Africa,
the Middle East, Italy and Burma - the largest single movement of
African men overseas since the slave trade. This account, based
mainly on oral evidence and soldiers' letters, tells the story of
the African experience of the war. It is a 'history from below'
that describes how men were recruited for a war about which most
knew very little. Army life exposed them to a range of new and
startling experiences: new foods and forms of discipline, uniforms,
machines and rifles, notions of industrial time, travel overseas,
new languages and cultures, numeracy and literacy. What impact did
service in the army have on African men and their families? What
new skills did soldiers acquire and to what purposes were they put
on their return? What was the social impact of overseas travel, and
how did the broad umbrella of army welfare services change
soldiers' expectations of civilian life? And what role if any did
ex-servicemen play in post-war nationalist politics? In this book
African soldiers describe in their own words what it was like to
undergo army training, to travel on a vast ocean, to experience
battle, and their hopes and disappointments on demobilisation.
DAVID KILLINGRAY is Professor Emeritus of History, Goldsmiths, and
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies,
University of London.
The ongoing war and consequent famine in the Ethiopian province of
Tigray are increasingly critical. International journalists are not
being allowed to travel to the region, which is almost completely
sealed off from the outside world. This is a deliberate strategy by
the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments prosecuting the war: their
aim is to crush the Tigrayans at almost any cost. This
differentiates the current crisis from the famine of 1984-5, when
400,000 died of starvation primarily as the result of a prolonged
drought, exacerbated by war and government inaction. Today's famine
is a direct result of supplies to the region being cut off. Hatred
of Tigrayans has been stoked by senior advisers to Ethiopia's Prime
Minister, Abiy Ahmed: they have called Tigrayans 'weeds' who must
be uprooted, their place in history extinguished. This language is
reminiscent of the statements that preceded the genocide in Rwanda.
The present situation has been orchestrated since 2018 by Eritrea's
President Isaias Afwerki, who wields considerable influence over
Ethiopian affairs. His troops are deep inside Ethiopia, his
security agents in its towns and cities. For both the Eritrean
President and the Ethiopian Prime Minister, this appears to be a
fight to the finish.
Most people believe that black South Africans obtained the vote for
the first time in 1994. In fact, for almost a century suitably
qualified black people had enjoyed the vote in the Cape and Natal,
and in certain constituencies had decided the outcome of
parliamentary elections. Little wonder, then, that when the first
South Africa came about in 1910, black people were keen to see the
principle of non-racialism entrenched in the constitution that was
drawn up for the new Union. This is the story of that struggle. Its
centrepiece is a lively account of the delegation that travelled to
London in mid-1909 to lobby for a non-racial constitution. Led by a
famous white lawyer and former prime minister of the Cape, Will
Schreiner, brother of the novelist Olive Schreiner, it included
some of the great African and Coloured leaders of the day, who were
perhaps equal in stature to the great black leaders who helped
found the second South Africa in 1994. The story played out in
London, Cape Town and Pretoria; but its outcome was the result,
too, of protests in India and of debates in England and Australia.
Many of the Africans involved in this story went on to found the
African National Congress, but there were other participants,
including MK Gandhi, whose own fight for the rights of Indian
people in South Africa is woven into this story. The book concludes
with a discussion of why Gandhi was finally able to leave South
Africa in 1914 victorious, while other parties and movements,
including the ANC, were unable to resist the tide of white racism.
This is the story of the founding of the first South Africa, with
all its promise and despair.
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