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Between Two Fires

Holding the Liberal Centre in South African Politics

By: John Kane-Berman

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Between Two Fires

Holding the Liberal Centre in South African Politics

By: John Kane-Berman

John Kane-Berman is uniquely qualified to look back over the enormous political and social changes that have taken place in his lifetime in this fractious country. In his career as student leader, Rhodes Scholar, newspaperman, independent columnist, commentator, and Chief Executive, for thirty years, of the South Africa Institute of Race Relations, Kane-Berman has been at the coal face of political change in South Africa. The breadth and depth of ideas and events covered in Between Two Fires are striking: the disintegration of apartheid, the chaos of the 'people's war' and its contribution to the broader societal breakdown we see today, the liberal slideaway, the rise of an authoritarian ANC with its racial ideology and revolutionary goals, to mention only a few. It is a book of fizzing ideas. Kane-Berman's willingness to confront received wisdom is thoroughly refreshing, and he is forthright about the threats to freedom, democracy, and growth in contemporary South Africa, many of which he identified even before the ANC came to power. He is equally forthright in putting forward liberal ideas to halt the country's downward slide. Writing, debate, and reasoned argument are Kane-Berman's stock in trade, and his clarity of vision and personal insight have created a memoir of rare candour and absorbing interest.

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Jonathan Ball Publishers

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1868427706

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9781868427703

A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1972

By: Muriel Horrell,Dudley Horner,John Kane-Berman,Robin Margo

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A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1972

By: Muriel Horrell,Dudley Horner,John Kane-Berman,Robin Margo

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.

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Univ of California Press

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0520320840

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9780520320840

Rabble-Rouser for Peace

The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu

By: John Allen

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Rabble-Rouser for Peace

The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu

By: John Allen

South African journalist John Allen movingly captures Desmond Tutu’s life in a commanding story that sheds light on the struggles and triumphs leading up to Tutu’s Nobel Prize for his leadership in the resistance against apartheid in South Africa. To be a rabble-rouser for peace may seem to be a contradiction in terms. And yet it is the perfect description for Desmond Tutu, Nobel laureate and spiritual father of a democratic South Africa. Tutu understood that justice—a genuine regard for human rights—is the only real foundation for peace. So, he stirred up trouble: courageously engaging in heated face-to-face confrontations with South Africa's leaders; he stirred up trouble in the streets, leading peaceful demonstrations amid the barely controlled fury of police battalions; he stirred up trouble on the world stage, seeking international disinvestment in the apartheid economy. Tutu has led one of the great lives of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, and to read his story in full is to be reminded of the power of one inspired man to change history. In this authorized biography, written by John Allen, a distinguished journalist and longtime associate of Tutu, we are witnesses to courage, stirring oratory, and a demonstration of the power of faith to transform the seemingly intransigent. Through the author's personal experiences, total access to the Tutu family and their papers, and considerable research, including the use of new archival material, Allen tells the story of a barefoot schoolboy from a deprived black township who became an international symbol of the democratic spirit and of religious faith.

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521

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Simon and Schuster

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0743298667

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9780743298667

The Long Road to Freedom

Inkundla Ya Bantu (Bantu Forum) and the African Nationalist Movement in South Africa, 1938-1951

By: Ime John Ukpanah

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The Long Road to Freedom

Inkundla Ya Bantu (Bantu Forum) and the African Nationalist Movement in South Africa, 1938-1951

By: Ime John Ukpanah

Inkundla Ya Bantu was the only independent African journal to play a significant role in the resistance press against the white minority government. It was launched in 1938 as a moderate African nationalist community paper and would cease publication in 1951, just seven months before the launch of the Defiance Campaign. Ime Ukpanah tells the story of the paper and the people who founded it, later to be key figures in the ANC. Having no official press of its own, the ANC adopted Inkundla Ya Bantu as its PR organ.

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Africa World Press

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1592213324

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9781592213320

Desmond Tutu

Rabble-rouser for Peace, the Authorized Biography

By: John Allen

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Desmond Tutu

Rabble-rouser for Peace, the Authorized Biography

By: John Allen

Written by a distinguished journalist and longtime associate of Desmond Tutu, this definitive biography captures the flavor and details of Tutu's life while shedding light on the struggles and triumphs of modern society. Drawing on personal experiences with Tutu, as well as unprecedented access to his papers, this account explores how Tutu transformed from a barefoot schoolboy in a deprived black township into an international symbol of the democratic spirit and religious faith. During face-to-face confrontations with South African leaders and violent protests in the streets, Tutu maintained his faith in the power of peace, and when appointed to head the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Tutu seized upon it as an instrument of healing and redemption. Through his moral example and his lyrical command of language, he has successfully appealed to the conscience of the world and brought a whole new meaning to the phrase "human rights.

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Chicago Review Press

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1556527985

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9781556527982

South Africa-- the Present as History

From Mrs Ples to Mandela & Marikana

By: John S. Saul,Patrick Bond

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South Africa-- the Present as History

From Mrs Ples to Mandela & Marikana

By: John S. Saul,Patrick Bond

A new history of South Africa that examines today's post-apartheid society through the lens of its earlier history

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Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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184701092X

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9781847010926

Politicians and Apartheid

Trailing in the People's Wake

By: John Gardner

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Politicians and Apartheid

Trailing in the People's Wake

By: John Gardner

Politicians and apartheid: trailing in the people's wake seeks to explain why apartheid was abandoned by South Africa's ruling white National Party at the negotiating table with the African National Congress and other black political organizations. While most books on South Africa's current affairs emphasize political organizations and activists as the central players, Politicians and apartheid argues that political activity was of secondary importance in determining the fate of apartheid. This book adopts instead an economic perspective, focusing upon businesses, consumers, workers, homeowners and taxpayers as the key groups responsible for bringing an end to apartheid. Politicians and apartheid also examines the response of politicians to the decline of apartheid. It argues that attempts by pro-apartheid groups to restrict or obstruct change were futile, while attempts by apartheid's opponents to topple the system were not only ineffectual but disastrous. The book concludes that everyday people are better placed and more able to achieve real change than politicians.

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HSRC Press

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079691821X

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9780796918215

The Church Struggle in South Africa

By: John W. De Gruchy

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The Church Struggle in South Africa

By: John W. De Gruchy

No more heartrending yet hopeful case study in Christian ethics exists than in the story of South African apartheid and its recent decisive transformation. John de Gruchy's authoritative and newly updated account of Christian complicity with and then resistance to one of the world's most notoriously repressive regimes holds indispensable lessons and "dangerous memories" for all concerned about evil, justice, and racial reconciliation.

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Fortress Press

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0800637550

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9780800637552

Between Two Fires

Holding the Liberal Centre in South African Politics

By: John Kane-Berman

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Between Two Fires

Holding the Liberal Centre in South African Politics

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History of Southern Africa

By: John D. Omer-Cooper

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History of Southern Africa

By: John D. Omer-Cooper

History of South Africa. Includes information about Namibia and the native races.

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0852550103

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9780852550106

Nelson and Winnie Mandela

By: John J. Vail

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Nelson and Winnie Mandela

By: John J. Vail

Records the couple's struggles against South Africa's racial policies which led to Nelson's imprisonment and Winnie's banishment to a remote part of the Orange Free State.

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Facts On File

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1555468411

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The Europa World of Learning

By: Joseph Bascom St. John

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The Europa World of Learning

By: Joseph Bascom St. John

Provides: over 26,000 academic institutions, 150,000 staff and officials; extensive coverage of universities, colleges and other centres of learning; and detailed information on over 400 international cultural, scientific and educational organizations.

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1857433459

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Book's by John Kane-Berman

Between Two Fires

Between Two Fires

A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1972

A Survey of Race Relations in South Africa 1972

Rabble-Rouser for Peace

Rabble-Rouser for Peace

The Long Road to Freedom

The Long Road to Freedom

Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu

South Africa-- the Present as History

South Africa-- the Present as History

Politicians and Apartheid

Politicians and Apartheid

The Church Struggle in South Africa

The Church Struggle in South Africa

Between Two Fires

Between Two Fires

History of Southern Africa

History of Southern Africa

Nelson and Winnie Mandela

Nelson and Winnie Mandela

The Europa World of Learning

The Europa World of Learning

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