Capital, State, and white labour in South Africa, 1900-1960: An historical materialist analysis of class formation and class relations (Humanities studies in African political economy)

Politics & Social Sciences

Davies, Robert H.

Politics & Government

Humanities Press

The struggle for South Africa: A reference guide to movements, organizations, and institutions

Reference

Biblio Distribution Center, U.S. distributor

The Struggle for South Africa: A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions

Dlamini, Sipho

O’Meara, Dan

History

Zed Books

The Struggle for South Africa: A Reference Guide to Movements, Organisations and Institutions

Davies, Robert H., O'Meara, Dan, Dlamini, Sipho

The Struggle for South Africa: A Reference Guide to Movements, Organisations and Institutions: 002

Davies went to China in 1988 as a backpacker and after two months touring Pakistan, found himself in Kashgar. He fell in love with Sharpet, an Uighur/Uzbek lady who was already married with a daughter. Blind to bureaucracy they travelled thousands of miles to obtain permission to marry. Sharpet's ex-husband returned from jail and sought revenge, but their love endured and cushioned the fall that came after Robert became involved in trafficking hashish. Arrested and taken 2500 miles across China to Shanghai, he was sentenced to eight and a half years. Fate, however, gave him a unique opportunity to observe a little-known world. He eventually served seven and a half years, and along with other Western prisoners, he fought against a corrupt system of draconian conditions. These memoirs are an indictment against the Chinese legal system, that Davies feels used him and other foreingers as propaganda tools, but he also concedes deference to a prison system that fed him, allowed him the chance to learn three languages and hone his oil painting and guitar playing. This is also about a love that endured years of separation and hardship.

Prisoner 13498

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Mainstream Publishing

South African strategy towards Mozambique in the "accord phase" from March 1984 to September 1985 (Destabilization and regional security concerns in southern Africa)

Institute of Southern African Studies

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