Apartheid's Stalingrad - Couverture souple

Riordan, Rory

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1431432806 ISBN 13 : 9781431432806

Editeur : Jacana Media, 2022

Synopsis

"Powerfully argued, and a compelling read, this work is a major contribution to our understanding of the end of white minority rule in South Africa." - Peter Vale. The apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. This is the blazing story of how the people's resistance - in the church, in the civic structures, underground - fought that war. Up until these insurrections, the brutal force of the apartheid state successfully crushed all attempts at revolt. Yet in the townships of Port Elizabeth, where they threw everything they had at the uprisings, the people stood and fought, and fought and stood. Riordan, a human rights activist during the years of high apartheid, draws a line connecting the story of Thozamile Botha, the Zwide and KwaZakhele Residents' Associations and the Port Elizabeth Black Civic Association (PEBCO) of 1979, the subsequent demise of PEBCO, and the February 1990 unbanning of the ANC and the movement at large. What had happened in the intervening ten years to effect this once unimaginable change?

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jacana Media
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1431432806
• ISBN 13: 9781431432806
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 594
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible