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The Spirit of Marikana
Author | : Luke Sinwell,Siphiwe Mbatha |
Publsiher | : Pluto Press (UK) |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Labor disputes |
ISBN | : 0745336531 |
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On 16th August 2012, thirty-four black mineworkers were gunned down by the police under the auspices of South Africa's African National Congress (ANC) in what has become known as the Marikana massacre. This attempt to drown independent working-class power in blood backfired and is now recognised as a turning point in the country's history.The Spirit of Marikana tells the story of the uncelebrated leaders at the world's three largest platinum mining companies who survived the barrage of state violence, intimidation, torture and murder which was being perpetrated during this tumultuous period. What began as a discussion about wage increases between two workers in the changing rooms at one mine became a rallying cry for economic freedom and basic dignity.This gripping ethnographic account is the first comprehensive study of this movement, revealing how seemingly ordinary people became heroic figures who transformed their workplace and their country.
Babel Unbound
Author | : Lesley Cowling,Carolyn Hamilton |
Publsiher | : Wits University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781776145935 |
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In this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from the Global South demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. The notion that societies mediate issues through certain kinds of engagement is at the heart of imaginings of democracy and often centers on the ideal of the public sphere. But this imagined foundation of how we live collectively appears to have suffered a dramatic collapse across the world, with many democracies apparently unable to solve problems through talk – or even to agree on who speaks, in what ways and where. In the 10 essays in this timely, original and sophisticated collection, writers from southern Africa combine theoretical analysis with the examination of historical cases and contemporary developments to demonstrate that forms of publicness are multiple, mobile and varied. They propose new concepts and methodologies to analyse how public engagements work in society. Babel Unbound examines charged examples from the Global South, such as the centuries old Timbuktu archive, Nelson Mandela as a powerful absent presence in 1960s public life, and the challenges to the terms of contemporary debate around the student activism of #rhodesmustfall and #feesmustfall. These show how issues of public discussion span both archive and media, verbal debates in formal spaces and visual performances that circulate in unpredictable ways.
Contesting Transformation
Author | : Marcelle C. Dawson,Luke Sinwell |
Publsiher | : Pluto Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-04-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0745335020 |
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Contesting Transformation is a sober and critical reflection of the wave of social movement struggles which have taken place in post-apartheid South Africa. Much of the writing on these movements was produced when they were at their peak, whereas this collection takes stock of the subsequent period of difficulty and complexity. The contributors consider how these different movements conceive of transformation and assess the extent to which these understandings challenge the narrative of the ruling African National Congress (ANC). From township revolts to labour struggles, Contesting Transformation is the definitive critical survey of the state of popular struggle in South Africa today.
History of South Africa
Author | : Thula Simpson |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 667 |
Release | : 2022-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780197681183 |
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South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. This book explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have shaped the nation. Tracking South Africa's path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the influence of key figures including Jan Smuts, Nelson Mandela, Steve Biko, P.W. Botha, Thabo Mbeki and Cyril Ramaphosa. He offers detailed accounts of watershed events like the 1922 Rand Revolt, the Defiance Campaign, Sharpeville, the Soweto uprising and the Marikana massacre. He sheds light on the roles of Gandhi, Churchill, Castro and Thatcher, and explores the impact of the World Wars, the armed struggle and the Border War. Simpson's history charts the post-apartheid transition and the phases of ANC rule, from Rainbow Nation to transformation; state capture to 'New Dawn'. Along the way, it reveals the divisions and solidarities of sport; the nation's economic travails; and painful pandemics, from the Spanish flu to AIDS and Covid-19.
Twice the Work of Free Labor
Author | : Alexander C. Lichtenstein |
Publsiher | : Verso |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1996-01-17 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1859840868 |
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Twice the Work of Free Labor is both a study of penal labor in the southern United States, and a revisionist analysis of the political economy of the South after the Civil War.
Marikana
Author | : Peter Alexander |
Publsiher | : Jacana Media |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781431407330 |
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Dubbed the "Marikana Massacre," the Marikana miners’ strike was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid; those killed were mineworkers in pursuit of a pay raise. Through a series of interviews conducted with workers who survived the attack, this account documents and examines the controversial shootings in great detail. In addition, it includes a narrative of the preceding events as well as of the violence itself written from the perspective of the strikers. Unique and revealing, his book tells of police murders, sadness, bravery, and pride.
Socialism and Commodity Production
Author | : Paresh Chattopadhyay |
Publsiher | : Historical Materialism |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2019-09-03 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1642590509 |
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Chattopadhyay convincingly shows that Marx's conception of socialism bears little resemblance to the single-party states often termed "socialist."
Urban Revolt
Author | : Trevor Ngwane,Immanuel Ness,Luke Sinwell |
Publsiher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781608467143 |
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How do individuals and organizations move beyond the boundaries of constitutional or legal constructs to challenge neoliberalism and capitalism? As major urban areas have become the principal sites of poor and working-class social upheaval in the early twenty-first century, the chapters in this book explore key cities in the Global South. Through detailed cases studies, Urban Revolt unravels the potential and limitations of urban social movements on an international level.