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Preliminary reading list
- W. Beinart, Twentieth-Century South Africa (2001)
- W. Beinart and S. Dubow (eds.), Segregation and Apartheid
in Twentieth-Century South Africa (1995)
- Nigel Worden, The making of modern South Africa: conquest,
segregation, and apartheid (2000)
- L. Thompson, A History of South Africa (2nd ed. 1995
or 3rd 2001)
- H. Marais, South Africa: Limits to Change (1998)
- N. Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1995)
- A. Sampson, Mandela: the Authorised Biography (1999)
- M. Mzamane, The Children of Soweto (1982) -novel
- P. Delius, A Lion Amongst the Cattle (1996)
- C. Walker (ed), Women and Gender in Southern Africa (1991)
- A. Krog, Country of My Skull (1999) - personal account
of Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
Seminar 2: Apartheid (28.1.2003) - Robert Padgett
Was apartheid primarily designed to protect Afrikaner power, or
to generate cheap labour?
- J. Lelyveld, Move your Shadow: South Africa,
Black and White (1985), an account by a US journalist is a
good way to start
- *D. O'Meara, Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid
State and the Politics of the National Party, 1948-1994 (1996)
- most comprehensive new study of Afrikaner power.
- H. Adam, Modernizing Racial Domination
(Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1971) argued for the flexibility of
apartheid.
- *H. Giliomee and H. Adam, Ethnic Power Mobilized
(New Haven, 1979) for a longer view of Afrikaners
- *H. Wolpe, 'Capitalism and Cheap Labour Power',
in Beinart and Dubow for the classic statement on apartheid and
labour migrancy
- F. Johnstone, 'White Prosperity and White Supremacy
in South Africa Today', African Affairs, 69 (1970)
- D. Hindson, Pass Controls and the Urban
African Proletariat (1987) challenges the link between apartheid
and migrancy
- *D. Posel, The Making of Apartheid 1948-1961(1991)
- J. Western, Outcast Cape Town (1981)
on the Group Areas Act
- J. Crush, A. Jeeves, and D. Yudelman, South
Africa's Labour Empire: A History of Black Migrancy to the Gold
Mines (1991)
- P. Bonner, P. Delius, and D. Posel (eds.),
Apartheid's Genesis 1935-1962 (1993) especially J. Hyslop,
'"A Destruction Coming In": Bantu Education as Response to Social
Crisis'
- Union of South Africa, Summary Report of
the Commission for the Socio-Economic Development of the Bantu
Areas within the Union of South Africa (U.G. 61-1955; Tomlinson
Commission; 1956) on homelands policy
- C. Desmond, The Discarded People: An Account
of African Resettlement in South Africa (1971)
- L. Platzky and C. Walker, The Surplus People
(1985).
- C. Murray, Black Mountain (1992)
- Delius, A Lion amongst the Cattle, for homelands.
- F. Wilson and M. Ramphele, Uprooting Poverty
(1989)
Seminar 3. External pressures, sanctions, and reform
- Roman Studer
What were the key features of sanctions against
apartheid and how significant was external pressure in reform and
the transition?
- *O'Meara for an introduction and especially
chapters 19 and 20.
- M. Lipton, Capitalism and Apartheid
(1986)
- *Robert M. Price, The Apartheid State in
Crisis: Political Transformation in South Africa 1975-1990
(1991)
- S. Greenberg, Legitimating the Illegitimate:
State, Markets, and Resistance in South Africa (1987),
- Mark Orkin (ed.), Sanctions against Apartheid
(1989) and Disinvestment the Struggle and the Future (1986)
- Peter Hain, Don't Play with Apartheid
(1971)
- G. Jarvie, Class, Race and Sport in South
Africa's Political Economy (1985)
- Robert Archer and R. Bouillon, The South African Game
(1982)
- *Jeya Wilson, Oxford D Phil thesis on Sanctions
against South Africa c.1993.
- T. Moll, 'Did the Apartheid Economy "Fail"?',
JSAS 17/2 (1991).
- J. Nattrass, The South African Economy
(Cape Town, 1988)
- Deon Geldenhuys, The Diplomacy of Isolation:
South Africa's Foreign Policy Making (1984)
- R. Davies and D. O'Meara, 'Total Strategy in
Southern Africa: and Analysis of South African Regional Policy
since 1978', JSAS (1985).
- Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa at the End of the
Eighties: Policy Perspectives 1989 (Johannesburg, 1989),
- (to be expanded)
Seminar 4: African Urban Society, Politics and Insurrection
- Roman Studer
What would you see as the major impulse of black urban politics:
youth insurrection, Black Consciousness, Trade Unions, or the exiled
ANC? Were these absorbed into a single political movement?
- Price, The Apartheid State
- *A.W. Marx, Lessons of Struggle: South African
Internal Opposition, 1960-1990 (1991)
- *Martin Murray, Time of Agony, Time of Destiny (1987)
lays more stress on Unions; also S. Friedman, Building Tomorrow
Today: African Workers in the Trade Unions, 1970-1985 (1987).
S. Marks and S. Trapido (eds.), Social History of Resistance
in South Africa, JSAS, 18/1 (1992); W. Beinart, R.
Turrell, and T.,O. Ranger (eds.), Political and Collective
Violence in Southern Africa, JSAS, 18/3 (1992)
- *For Soweto: M.
Mzamane, The Children of Soweto (1982)
- P. Bonner and L. Segal, Soweto: A History
(1998)
- Clive Glaser, BoTotsi: the youth gangs of Soweto, 1935-1976 (2000)
- C. Glaser, '"We Must Infiltrate the Tsotsis":
School Politics and Youth Gangs in Soweto, 1968-1976', JSAS
24/2 (1998), analyse schools and gangs.
- Jeremy Seekings, Heroes or villains? : youth politics in the 1980s (1992)
- *Jeremy Seekings, The UDF:
a history of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983-1991 (2000)
- T. Lodge and W. Nasson, All Here and Now: Black Politics
in South Africa in the 1980s (1992).
- S. Biko, I Write What I Like (1978)
- S. Nolutshungu , Changing South Africa
(1982)
- Exile politics: S. Ellis and T. Sechaba, Comrades against
Apartheid (1992)
- Stephen M. Davis, Apartheid's Rebels: Inside
South Africa's Hidden War (1987), and H. Barrell, 'The Turn
to the Masses: The African National Congress' Strategic Review
of 1978-79', JSAS 18/1 (1992)
- P. Gready, 'Autobiography and the "Power of
Writing": Political Prison Writing in the Apartheid Era', JSAS
19/3 (1993).
- For the ANC: Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom (1995), Sampson,
Mandela (1999);
- Saul Dubow, The African National Congress (2000).
Seminar 5 The political and economic settlement, 1990-1996
- James Myburgh
How do you explain the political settlement in South Africa, in
which whites gave up political power, but in which important economic
continuities were evident? Was it a 'small miracle' in respect
of containing violence and why?
- *Mandela, and Sampson, Mandela.
- *A. Sparks, Tomorrow is Another Country
(1994)
- P. Waldmeier, Anatomy of a Miracle (1997)
- *T. Davenport, The Birth of a New South
Africa (1998), develops constitutional themes
- H. Ebrahim, The Soul of a Nation: Constitution-Making
in South Africa (1998)
- S. Friedman and D. Atkinson (eds), The Small
Miracle: South Africa's Negotiated Settlement (1994)
- *H. Marais, South Africa: Limits to Change (Cape Town,
1998), is a challenging analysis of ANC's economic direction,
but less clear about the alternatives; new edition 2001.
- *N. Nattrass, 'Economic Restructuring in South Africa: The Debate
Continues', JSAS 20 (1994), is more supportive of the reorientation.
- R. Parsons, The Mbeki Inheritance: South
Africa's Economy (1999)
On violence and political killings:
- A.du Toit and N. Manganyi (eds.), Political
Violence in South Africa (1991)
- C. Charney, 'Vigilantes, Clientelism, and the
South African State', Transformation, 16 (1991).
- S. Ellis, 'The Historical Significance of South
Africa's Third Force', JSAS 24/2 (1998), argues for a close
relationship between state-sponsored violence and the negotiation
process.
- C. Campbell, 'Learning to Kill? Masculinity,
the Family and Violence in Natal', JSAS 18/3 (1992)
- D. Reed, Beloved Country: South Africa's Silent
Wars (1994)
On the 1994 elections:
- *R.W. Johnson and L. Schlemmer (eds.), Launching
Democracy in South Africa: The First Open Election, April 1994
(1994), provides the greatest detail on the 1994 elections
- M. Eldridge and J. Seekings, 'Mandela's Lost
Province: The African National Congress and the Western Cape Electorate
in the 1994 South African Elections', JSAS 22/4 (1996).
A. Reynolds (ed.), Election '94 South Africa (Cape Town, 1994)
- The Constitution
of the Republic of South Africa, 1996: One Law for One Nation,
Act 108 of 1996.
Seminar 6 Land reform - Roman Studer
Proposals for land reform have been extensively discussed in relation
to historical injustice and equity, but none sufficiently address
the issue of production. How far would you agree with this proposition?
General historical material:
- *Beinart, Twentieth-Century South Africa especially chapters
1, 2, 4, 8 and 12.
- W. Beinart, Delius and Trapido (eds.) Putting a Plough to
the Ground (1986), esp. intro.
- A. Jeeves and J. Crush (eds.), White Farms, Black Labour
(1997)
- C. Bundy, The Rise and Fall of the South African Peasantry
(1989)
- C. van Onselen, The Seed is Mine (1997)
- L. Platzky and C. Walker, The Surplus People (1985)
- C. Murray, Black Mountain (1992)
- R. Palmer, Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia (1977)
Land Reform debates:
- M. Ramphele (ed.), Restoring the Land (1991)
- *M. de Klerk (ed.), A Harvest of Discontent (1991),
intro., van Zyl, Vink, de Klerk
- C. Cross and R. Haines (eds.), Towards Freehold?: Options
for Land and Development in South Africa's Black Rural Areas
(1988).
- C. Murray and G. Williams (eds), 'Land and Freedom in South
Africa', special issue of Review of African Political Economy,
21 (1994), esp. intro, Alexander, de Wet, Beinart
- H. Bernstein, 'The Agrarian Question in South Africa', special
issue of Journal of Peasant Studies, 23 (1996), especially
intro., Cousins, Murray.
- *M. and M. Lipton et al (eds), Land, Labour and Livelihoods
in Rural South Africa (1997), especially vol. 1 intro and
conclusion.
- G. Williams, 'Setting the Agenda: a Critique of the World Bank's
Rural Restructuring programme for South Africa', Journal of
Southern African Studies (JSAS), 22 (1996) and 'Liberalizing
Markets and Reforming Land in South Africa', Journal of Contemporary
African Studies 16 (1998).
- W. Beinart, 'Strategies of the Poor and Some Problems of Land
Reform in the Eastern Cape', unpublished paper (1996) to be distributed.
- Ruth Hall, 'Contested Terrain: the Politics of Land Reform in
Post-Apartheid South Africa', M.Phil. Development Studies thesis
(1998).
- *B. Cousins (ed.) At the Crossroads: Land and Agrarian Reform
in South Africa into the 21st Century (2000)
- James Clarke, Coming Back to Earth: South Africa's Changing
Environment (Jacana, 2002).
- Jonny Steinberg, Midlands (Jonathan Ball, 2002) - a vivid
journalist's account of land conflicts in the Natal midlands.
On Zimbabwe:
- B. Kinsey, 'Land Reform, Growth and Equity', JSAS, 25
(1999)
- S. Moyo, 'The Political Economy of Land Acquisition and Redistribution
in Zimbabwe', JSAS, 26 (2000)
- T. Bowyer-Bower and C Stoneman (eds.), Land Reform in Zimbabwe
(2000).
- J. Alexander, 'Squatters, Veterans and the State in Zimbabwe',
unpublished paper in QEH library.
Seminar 7: Truth and Reconciliation Commission -
Robert Padgett
Would you agree that the TRC helped to revealed the excesses of
apartheid, but did relatively little to achieve reconciliation or
restore moral order?
- Leaflet Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(Justice in Transition, 1995)
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South
Africa : report, 5 volumes (1998/9) in Rhodes House.
- *A. Krog, Country of my Skull (1999),
- Kader Asmal, Louise Asmal & Ronald Suresh
Roberts, Reconciliation through truth : a reckoning of apartheid's
criminal governance (1997)
- *Desmond Tutu, No Future Without Forgiveness
(1999)
- Martin Meredith, Coming to Terms, South
Africa's Search for Truth (1999)
- A.Norval, 'Truth and Reconciliation: The Birth
of the Present and the Reworking of History', JSAS 25/3
- M. Lipton, Evaluating South Africa's Truth
and Reconciliation Commission (1998),
- Gillian Slovo, Red Dust (novel)
- *Alex Boraine, A Country Unmasked : inside South Africa's
Truth and Reconciliation Commission (2000)
- U. Mesthrie, The Truth and Reconciliation
Commission and the Commission on Restitution of Land Rights :
some comparative thoughts
- Lyn S. Graybill, Truth and reconciliation
in South Africa : miracle or model? (2002)
- Jason Pronyk, Mphil Development Studies thesis comparing South
Africa and Rwanda, (1999?) arguing that South Africa's TRC was
of limited effect in resolving local conflicts.
- N. Nattrass, 'The Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Business
and Apartheid: a Critical Evaluation',,African Affairs,
98, 392 (1999), 373-391.
Seminar 8: Mandela and Mbeki - Robert Padgett and James
Myburgh
How would you compare Mandela and Mbeki as political leaders?
Would you agree that while Mandela pursued reconciliation and advocated
a 'rainbow nation', Mbeki has pursued Africanist ideas and centralised
ANC power? Have Mbeki's, and the ANC's strategies affected democratization
in South Africa?
- *Sampson on Mandela, and Mandela and Tutu above.
- A. Hadland and J. Rantao, The Life and Times of Thabo Mbeki (Rivonia,
1999).
- *Tom Lodge, South African
politics since 1994 (1999) and revised ed Politics in South Africa: From Mandela to Mbeki
(2003) (From James.)
- *Thabo Mbeki, The African renaissance (1998) - two versions
in library
- Thabo Mbeki, Africa : the time has come
: selected speeches (1998)
- Adrian Guelke, South Africa in Transition:
The Misunderstood Miracle (London: I.B. Tauris, 1999)
- A.Reynolds (ed.), Election '99 South
Africa (Cape Town, 1999)
- Nicoli Nattrass & Jeremy Seekings " 'Two
Nations'? Race and Economic Inequality in South Africa Today"
Daedelus January 1, 2001 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/executive/
- And 'Democracy and Distribution
in Highly Unequal Economies: The Case of South Africa', unpublished
paper from WB
- Andrew Whiteford
and Dirk Van Seventer, "Winners and Losers: South
Africa's Changing Income Distribution
in the 1990s," WEFA Southern Africa, Pretoria, 1999
- Steven Friedman "South Africa: Entering the
Post-Mandela Era" Journal of Democracy 10.4 (1999) 3-18 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v010/10.4friedman.html
- Hermann Giliomee "South Africa's emerging dominant
party regime" Journal of Democracy 9.4 (1998) 128-142 http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_democracy/v009/9.4giliomee.html
- Hermann Giliomee & Charles Simkins (eds.),
The Awkward Embrace: One Party Domination and Democracy (Cape
Town: Tafelberg, 1999)
- *Roger Southall, "The Centralisation and Fragmentation
of South Africa's Dominant Party System" African Affairs
97(1998)
- Roger Southall, (ed.) Opposition and Democracy
in South Africa, (Frank Cass: London), 2001
- Roger Southall "The state of democracy in South
Africa" The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics
No. 3, Vol. 38 November 1, 2000 http://web.lexis-nexis.com/executive/
- C. Campbell and B. Williams,
'Beyond the Biomedical and Behavioural: Towards an Integrated
Approach to HIV Prevention in the Southern African Mining Industry',
Social Science and Medicine, 48 (1999),
- R. Shell et al., HIV/AIDS: A
Threat to the African Renaissance (Johannesburg, 2000).
- Chris McGreal "Special Report: Thabo Mbeki's
catastrophe" Prospect Magazine February 21, 2002 Can be
found on http://web.lexis-nexis.com/executive/
- Ian Taylor, "Commentary: The New Partnership
for Africa's Development and the Zimbabwe Elections: Implications
and Prospects for the Future", African Affairs (2002),
101, 403-412
- Taylor & Williams, "The limits of engagement:
British foreign policy and the crisis in Zimbabwe", International
Affairs 78, 2 (2002) pg. 562
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