Full Description
Originally published in 1990, this book provides a unique view of South Africa and when it was published, it represented a coming of age of a new and vigorous strand of scholarship. The contributors are black social scientists, doctors or trade unionists, some working inside black universities which subsequently turned against the apartheid planners who created them. This book reflects the conviction that the black people of South Africa are not only passive victims of white repression, but actors with the capacity for both overt and covert resistance. Whether writing about the health service, shopfloor struggles, or the evasion of pass controls, the contributors combine scholarly analysis with an insider's knowledge of the difference between apartheid theory and the social reality of South Africa during the 1990s.
Contents
Introduction Robin Cohen, Yvonne Muthien and Abebe Zegeye. 1. The Native Affairs Department and the Reserves in the 1940s and 1950s Ivan Evans 2. Protest and Resistance in Cape Town, 1939-65 3. The Pestilence of Health Care: Black Death and Suffering Under White Rule H. M. Coovadia & C. C. Jinabhai 4. Prelude to 1976: The Implementation and Response to Bantu Education, 195-76 Nozipho J. Diseko 5. Class Conflict, Mine Hostels and the Reproduction of a Labour Force in the 1980s Wilmot G. James 6. Class, National Oppression and the African Petty Bourgeoisie: The Case of the African Traders Bonginkosi Nzimande 7. The Labour Movement and Struggles for Workplace Democracy Henry Chipeya 8. The Power of Consciousness: Black Politics 1967-77 Yunus Mohamed 9. Women, Wage Labour and National Liberation Lindiwe Guma.
