South Africa And Its People

This work looks at South Africa and its people including all the racial and ethnic groups in all the provinces and their different cultures. It's also a general historical background of South Africa since the founding of the country. Also the country's natural resources in every province is one of the subjects covered in the book. African immigrants in South Africa, a relatively new group in the country especially since the end of apartheid, is another subject addressed by the author. And there's much more that's covered in this work.

Text and photographs present the daily lives and family traditions of the people of South Africa, as well as their turbulent history and the legacy of apartheid.

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When Nelson Mandela emerged from decades in jail to preach reconciliation, South Africans truly appeared 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, who is seeking to heal these wounds, is due to lead the African National Congress into an election by May 2019. The ANC is hoping to claw back support lost to the opposition in the Zuma era. This book will shed light on voters' choices and analyze the election outcome as the results emerge. 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 neighbors' fortunes.

A comprehensive reference book about South Africa for children (and their parents)

More than 25 years have passed since South Africans were being shot or hacked or burned to death in political violence, and the memory of the trauma has faded. Nevertheless, some 20 500 people were killed between 1984 and 1994. Conventional wisdom has it that most died as a result of the ANC's people's war. Many books have been written on South Africa's political transition, but none has dealt adequately with the people's war. This book does. It shows the extraordinary success of the people's war in giving the ANC a virtual monopoly on power, as well as the great cost at which this was done. The high price of it is still being paid. Apart from the terror and killings it sparked at the time, the people's war set in motion forces that cannot easily be tamed. Violence, once unleashed, is not easy to stamp out. 'Ungovernability', once generated, is not readily reversed. For this new edition, Anthea Jeffery has revised and abridged her seminal work. She has also included a brief overview of the ANC's National Democratic Revolution for which the people's war was intended to prepare the way. Since 1994, the NDR has been implemented in many different spheres. It is now being speeded up in its second and more radical phase.

Politically incorrect, comprehensively unscientific, and exceptionally funny, this guidebook identifies--and pokes fun at--the people of the Rainbow Nation. After sorting out the labels Black, English Whites, Afrikaners, and Coloreds, the discussion pushes on to more difficult questions: Why should you never give a White woman a white-gold engagement ring? Why do Indian men always play sports in jeans? and How do Colored gangsters fare in the navy?

This is a general introduction to South Africa - the land, its people and history. Subjects covered include the history of South Africa since the founding of the nation; the geography of the country in general; its provinces from a geographical and historical perspective and their natural resources; different ethnic groups and races in each of the provinces; the history of the different ethnic groups and races and their cultures and languages; the nation's cities and towns; tourist attractions, and much more. The work also looks at the country from other perspectives including South Africa in contemporary times to get a comprehensive picture of what is is unquestionably the most dynamic and most influential country on the African continent. Also addressed in the book is the subject of African immigrants in South Africa whose presence in the country is one of the most volatile subjects among many South Africans of all races. This is also a work of comparative study, showing many cultural and linguistic similarities between South African ethnic groups and other groups in the region. It's a comprehensive introduction for those who want to learn about South Africa for the first time and even for those who want to supplement their knowledge of this magnificent land and its people, a vibrant nation which is also the continent's powerhouse. Students, tourists and others including those who don't even intend to go to South Africa will find this work to be very useful if they want to learn many different things about this country, its people and history and life in contemporary times in the most dynamic and most developed country on the African continent.