Rural resistance in South Africa : the Mpondo revolts after fifty years
Drawing on scholarship from multiple disciplines, this volume presents a fresh understanding of the Mpondo uprising in South Africa; focusing on its meanings and significance in relation to land, rural governance, politics and the agency of the marginalized.
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| Format: | eBook Book |
| Language: | English |
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Leiden
Brill
2011
BRILL |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum Series |
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| ISBN: | 9789004214460, 9004214461 |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro -- Rural Resistance in South Africa -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction -- PART I ON THE REVOLTS -- 2. Resistance in the Countryside: The Mpondo Revolts Contextualized -- 3. Reading and Writing the Mpondo Revolts -- 4. Govan Mbeki's The Peasants' Revolt: a Critical Examination -- 5. The Mpondo Revolt through the Eyes of Leonard Mdingi and Anderson Ganyile -- 6. All Quiet on the Western Front: Nyandeni Acquiescence in the Mpondoland Revolt -- PART II INFLUENCE OF THE REVOLTS -- 7. Hoyce Phundulu, the Mpondo Revolt, and the Rise of the National Union of Mineworkers -- 8. The Moving Black Forest of Africa: The Mpondo Rebellion, Migrancy and Black Worker Consciousness in KwaZulu Natal -- PART III MEANINGS AND SIGNIFICANCE -- 9. The Shock of the New: Ngquza Hill 1960 -- 10. Tangible and Intangible Ngquza: A Study of Landscape and Memory -- 11. A Bag of Soil, a Bullet from Up High: Some Meanings of the Mpondo Revolts Today -- 12. Discontent and Apathy: Post-apartheid Rural Land Reform in the Context of the Mpondo Revolts -- 13. We don't want your development!: Resistance to Imposed Development in Northeastern Pondoland -- Index