Author: Fatima MeerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780795707889
Category : Anti-apartheid activists
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Fatima Meer
Author: Fatima MeerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780795707889
Category : Anti-apartheid activists
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
Higher Than Hope
Author: Fatima MeerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780140122343
Category : Civil rights workers
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Race and Suicide in South Africa
Author: Fatima MeerPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 100064300X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Originally published in 1976 Race and Suicide in South Africa synthesises the two dimensions of suicide: the personal and the social phenomenon. Its approach is Durkheimian in the use of court records, and phenomenological in the examination of actual cases. About 1500 cases of suicide in Durban from 1940-70 are analysed in terms of race, sex, occupation, marital status, economic status, family type and size, residential area, time and method used. What emerges is a revealing picture of suicide in South African ethnic groups. The findings confute the idea of Durkheim and others that behaviour in suicide conforms to certain universal principles and suggest the crucial role of particular social conditions in determining suicide trends, while at the same time challenging the proposition that a high suicide rate is associated with high status. Instead the author found that there were common emotional syndromes among suicides, but there were contributed to by different social factors.
Fatima Meer
Author: Shireen HassimPublisher:
ISBN: 9780796924414
Category : Apartheid
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Long Walk to Freedom
Author: Nelson MandelaPublisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0759521042
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 598
Book Description
"Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand history – and then go out and change it." –President Barack Obama Nelson Mandela was one of the great moral and political leaders of his time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. After his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela was at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the African National Congress and head of South Africa's antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule. He is still revered everywhere as a vital force in the fight for human rights and racial equality. Long Walk to Freedom is his moving and exhilarating autobiography, destined to take its place among the finest memoirs of history's greatest figures. Here for the first time, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela told the extraordinary story of his life -- an epic of struggle, setback, renewed hope, and ultimate triumph. The book that inspired the major motion picture Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom.
Life and Soul
Author: Margie OrfordPublisher: Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN: 9781770130432
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
This exquisite book by award-winning photographer Karina Turok presents a series of portraits of inspirational and iconic South African women
Apprenticeship of a Mahatma
Author: Fatima MeerPrison Diary
Author: Fatima MeerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780795701306
Category : Political prisoners
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Well-known anti-apartheid activist's diary of her incarceration in the Fort in Johannesburg in the seventies. Reproductions of paintings done in prison at the time are included
Freedom in Our Lifetime
Author: Relations and Networks in South African Indian Writing
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004365036
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
Writers of Indian origin seldom appear in the South African literary landscape, although the participation of Indian South Africans in the anti-apartheid struggle was anything but insignificant. The collective experiences of violence and the plea for reconciliation that punctuate the rhythms of post-apartheid South Africa delineate a national script in which ethnic, class, and gender affiliations coalesce and patterns of connectedness between diverse communities are forged. Relations and Networks in South African Indian Writing brings the experience of South African Indians to the fore, demonstrating how their search for identity is an integral part of the national scene’s project of connectedness. By exploring how ‘Indianness’ is articulated in the South African national script through the works of contemporary South African Indian writers, such as Aziz Hassim, Ahmed Essop, Farida Karodia, Achmat Dangor, Shamim Sarif, Ronnie Govender, Rubendra Govender, Neelan Govender, Tholsi Mudly, Ashwin Singh, and Imraan Coovadia, along with the prison memoirists Dr Goonam and Fatima Meer, the book offers a theoretical model of South–South subjectivities that is deeply rooted in the Indian Ocean world and its cosmopolitanisms. Relations and Networks demonstrates convincingly the permeability of identity that is the marker of the Indian Ocean space, a space defined by ‘relations and networks’ established within and beyond ethnic, class, and gender categories. CONTRIBUTORS Isabel Alonso–Breto, M.J. Daymond, Felicity Hand, Salvador Faura, Farhad Khoyratty, Esther Pujolràs–Noguer, J. Coplen Rose, Modhumita Roy, Lindy Stiebel, Juan Miguel Zarandona