Mandela's kinsmen : nationalist elites & apartheid's first Bantustan /: nationalist elites & apartheid's first Bantustan. ([2014])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Mandela's kinsmen : nationalist elites & apartheid's first Bantustan /: nationalist elites & apartheid's first Bantustan. ([2014])
- Main Title:
- Mandela's kinsmen : nationalist elites & apartheid's first Bantustan
- 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 riseFrontcover; 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. … (more)
- 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.
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