Beschreibung:
Saleem Badat is Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University. He is the author of Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid and Black Man, You Are on Your Own, co-author of National Policy and a Regional Response in South African Higher Education, and co-editor of Apartheid Education and Popular Struggle in South Africa.
This is the first book that investigates political banishment in South Africa as well as with a global, historical and comparative focus. It advances understanding of banishment as an old and common practice.
Contents Foreword Preface List of abbreviations INTRODUCTION 1 Banishment: an old and common practice 2 Banishment and rural resistance in the early 1950s: GaMatlala and Witzieshoek 3 Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s: Bahurutshe and Sekhukhuneland 4 Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Mpondoland, Thembuland and Natal 5 Urban political opposition and banishment 6 Banishments under the Suppression of Communism Act 7 Life in banishment 8 Responses to banishment CONCLUSION Appendix 1: Copy of banishment order Appendix 2: Release order from banishment Appendix 3: Can Themba, 'Banned to the bush.' Drum, August 1956 Appendix 4: Cosmas Desmond, 'Vorster's forgotten people.' Guardian Weekly, 19 June 1971 Appendix 5: List of people banished Notes Index