The South Africa Reader
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The South Africa Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Clifton Crais, Thomas V. McClendon, Clifton Crais, Thomas V. McClendon

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The South Africa Reader

History, Culture, Politics

Clifton Crais, Thomas V. McClendon, Clifton Crais, Thomas V. McClendon

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The South Africa Reader is an extraordinarily rich guide to the history, culture, and politics of South Africa. With more than eighty absorbing selections, the Reader provides many perspectives on the country's diverse peoples, its first two decades as a democracy, and the forces that have shaped its history and continue to pose challenges to its future, particularly violence, inequality, and racial discrimination. Among the selections are folktales passed down through the centuries, statements by seventeenth-century Dutch colonists, the songs of mine workers, a widow's testimony before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and a photo essay featuring the acclaimed work of Santu Mofokeng. Cartoons, songs, and fiction are juxtaposed with iconic documents, such as "The Freedom Charter" adopted in 1955 by the African National Congress and its allies and Nelson Mandela's "Statement from the Dock" in 1964. Cacophonous voices—those of slaves and indentured workers, African chiefs and kings, presidents and revolutionaries—invite readers into ongoing debates about South Africa's past and present and what exactly it means to be South African.

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Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2013
ISBN
9780822377450
Topic
History
Subtopic
African History
Index
History
54 
Galant
took 
an 
ox 
thong 
which 
he 
doubled 
and 
flogged 
the 
child 
with, 
after 
which 
he 
brought 
it 
home. 
When 
Betje 
came 
from 
the 
water, 
my 
master 
beat 
the 
child 
again. 
The 
water 
was 
far 
from 
the 
house 
and 
Betje 
had 
gone 
there 
to 
wash 
the 
meat 
that 
was 
to 
be 
dressed. 
Master 
beat 
the 
child 
so 
long 
till 
that 
it 
was 
silent, 
and 
the 
same 
evening 
of 
that 
day 
the 
child 
died. 
I 
was 
not 
at 
home, 
for 
I 
was 
out 
to 
collect 
fifty-eight 
oxen 
belonging 
to 
my 
master. 
I 
was 
out 
twenty-six 
days 
at 
the 
Carroo 
[Karoo; 
arid 
scrubland] 
for 
the 
cat-
tle. 
When 
I 
came 
home 
my 
wife 
Betje 
told 
me 
all 
those 
circumstances, 
on 
which 
I 
said 
I 
would 
go 
and 
complain 
of 
it, 
but 
she 
answered 
that 
master 
had 
asked 
her 
pardon 
and 
said 
that 
he 
had 
done 
it 
in 
a 
passion, 
in 
consequence 
of 
which 
I 
did 
not 
complain.
Note
1. 
“The 
Trial 
of 
Galant 
and 
Others,” 
in 
Records 
of
the 
Cape 
Colony 
from 
February 
1793 
to 
April 
1831 
(London: 
Printed 
for 
the 
Government 
of 
Cape 
Colony, 
1897–1905), 
340.

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