Fault Lines Journeys into the New South Africa

Name: Fault Lines
Author: David Goodman

Auteur: David Goodman

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: David Goodman

Engels
Hardcover
9780520217362
01 maart 1999
400 pagina's

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South Africa has experienced one of the world's most dramatic political transformations. David Goodman, a journalist and activist who has witnessed South Africa's struggles since the darkest days of apartheid, chronicles the historic transition from apartheid to democracy. This compelling story is told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans who have experienced apartheid from opposite sides of the racial and political divide. Taken together, these profiles provide the first in-depth look at the social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa.

Part social history and part personal drama, Fault Lines is an account of what happens to real people when their country is reinvented around them. The struggle to reconcile past evils is captured in the stories of a former police assassin and his intended victim. The rise and fall of South African racism is portrayed through the lives of the late Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerdthe notorious "architect of apartheid"and his grandson, now a member of the ruling African National Congress. The battle to break out of poverty is detailed in the story of two black women: one an impoverished domestic worker and new city councilor, the other a Mercedes-driving member of South Africa's new black elite. The struggle for the land is told through the eyes of two neighbors: a black farmer who was evicted from his lands in the 1980s and has returned to start over, and a conservative white farmer who participated in the eviction and now does business with the man whose life he nearly destroyed. These powerful stories are accompanied by the photography of award-winning South African documentary photographer Paul Weinberg.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 01 maart 1999
Aantal pagina's: 400
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: David Goodman
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of California

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Editie: Revised ed
Studieboek: Ja
Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm

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EAN: 9780520217362

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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Geschiedenis

Politiek

Politieke controle & Vrijheid

Periodes

Hedendaagse geschiedenis ( v.a. 1945)

Regio's & Landen

Afrika

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Boek, ebook of luisterboek?: Boek
Taal: Engels
Beschikbaarheid: Leverbaar
Periode: ca. 1950-1999

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