Mandela's kinsmen : nationalist elites & apartheid's first Bantustan /: nationalist elites & apartheid's first Bantustan. ([2014])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Timothy Gibbs, Junior Research Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge.
• Authors: Gibbs, Timothy, 1979-
• Contents: Frontcover; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: Mandela's Kinsmen; 1. Education, Monarchy & Nationalism; The Morning Star; Educated elites; African chieftaincies; 'I am an African': African nationalism compared; 'The years of manhood'; 2. The First Bantustan, 1954-1963; King Sabata and the Great Place Gang; 'Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown'; Rural politics -- schoolhouse, courtroom, newssheet; Petrol bombs and ballot boxes; 3. The Second Peasants' Revolt, Mpondoland 1960-1980; Govan Mbeki's book; Chieftaincy's changing meanings. From 'Rural Betterment' to 'Community Development'The cattle tax crisis; Mpondoland's smothered revolt; A family squabble?; 4. The Old Mission Schools, 1963-1980; The Children of Soweto and Transkei's elite; Lazy teachers, school scandals, community collapse; 'The clenched fist of Black Consciousness'; 'Our sin is we are Black'; Elite schooling survives; The ANC in the old mission schools; 5. The Comrade-King, Bantustan Politics 1964-1980; The dispute on Robben Island; Quo Vadis?; Rural politics -- chiefs, community development, comrades; The curse of corruption. The making of the 'Comrade-King'6. Chris Hani's Guerrillas, 1974-1987; Hani's Transkei hinterland; The 'country bumpkins'; University dissent -- communitarians and class analysis; The intimacy of insurgency; A Bantustan coup; 7. The Apartheid Endgame, 1987-1996; 'A military intelligence project that went wrong'?; Bantu Holomisa's rise and southern Africa's civil wars; Reburying Sabata, returning to the ANC family; Counterintelligence, corruption and the chieftaincy: a web exposed; The Vlakplaas counter-coup; The militant moment; Bantu Holomisa's fall and the new South Africa. 8. New South Africa & Transkei's Collapse, 1990 OnwardsMandela's moral homilies; The heirs to Fort Hare University; Civic organisations against the chieftaincy?; 'Ancient teacher prestige down the drain'; After 1994: Traditions reasserted; Conclusion: African Nationalism & its Fragments; Commemorating Mandela's kinsmen; Fractured legacies -- The Peasants' Revolt; Fractured legacies -- 'For the nation to live'; A nationalism of fragments; Bibliography; Index; Backcover.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge (Suffolk, England) Rochester, New York : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2014
• Copyright Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 208 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 968.29; Africans -- South Africa -- Homelands -- History; Apartheid; HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- General; HISTORY -- Africa -- South -- Republic of South Africa; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Rural; Africans; Apartheid; Transkei (South Africa) -- History; South Africa -- Homelands; South Africa -- Transkei; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781782042372; 1782042377; 9781782042884; 9781847010896; 1782042881
• Related ISBNs: 9781847010896; 1947010891; 9781947010895; 9781431410651; 1431410659; 9781847011565; 184701156X; 184701089X; 9781947010896
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on print version record.
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