An inter-generational set of conversations about the country of our dreams and the reality on the ground. It concludes with a section that focuses on the need for healing of our woundedness as individuals, families, communities and the nation. It includes findings from a study that show how unleashing the energy of poor people can make a significant difference in the choices they make as they become agents of change. Mamphela Ramphele is a South African academic, businesswoman and medical doctor and was an anti-apartheid activist. She is a current trustee on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. In this book she speaks to the youth of the nation about taking responsibility and changing their attitudes. It is wonderfully motivational and inspiring.

Conversations with My Sons and Daughters

History

Ramphele, Mamphela

Africa

Penguin Global

Report for the Second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa. In South Africa the division between rich and poor is greater than in any other country in the world for which statistics are available. Based on research conducted by a wide range of South Africans of all races, the authors meld scientific and politically sensitive analyses into their thesis that without a fundamental redistribution of political power, poverty will remain a central feature of the economy. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge

Politics & Social Sciences

Wilson, Francis

Social Sciences

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

The essays in Violence and Subjectivity, written by a distinguished international roster of contributors, consider the ways in which violence shapes subjectivity and acts upon people's capacity to engage everyday life. Like its predecessor volume, Social Suffering, which explored the different ways social force inflicts harm on individuals and groups, this collection ventures into many areas of ongoing violence, asking how people live with themselves and others when perpetrators, victims, and witnesses all come from the same social space. From civil wars and ethnic riots to governmental and medical interventions at a more bureaucratic level, the authors address not only those extreme situations guaranteed to occupy precious media minutes but also the more subtle violences of science and state. However particular and circumscribed the site of any fieldwork may be, today's ethnographer finds local identities and circumstances molded by state and transnational forces, including the media themselves. These authors contest a new political geography that divides the world into "violence-prone areas" and "peaceful areas" and suggest that such descriptions might themselves contribute to violence in the present global context.

Violence and Subjectivity

Kleinman, Arthur

REYNOLDS, Pamela

Das,Veena

University of California Press

Remaking a World completes a triptych of volumes on social suffering, violence, and recovery. Social Suffering, the first volume, deals with sources and major forms of social adversity, with an emphasis on political violence. The second, Violence and Subjectivity, contains graphic accounts of how collective experience of violence can alter individual subjectivity. This third volume explores the ways communities "cope" with―endure, work through, break apart under, transcend―traumatic and other more insidious forms of violence, addressing the effects of violence at the level of local worlds, interpersonal relations, and individual lives. The authors highlight the complex relationship between recognition of suffering in the public sphere and experienced suffering in people's everyday lives. Rich in local detail, the book's comparative ethnographies bring out both the recalcitrance of tragedy and the meaning of healing in attempts to remake the world.

Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Lock, Margaret M.

Mamphela Ramphele, successful businesswoman and one of few outspoken black voices, offers both indictment and inspiration. In her new book she touches upon: the distrust between South Africa’s people, incomplete reconciliation and violent crime, the failure of schools and the government’s skills programs to educate South Africans, globalization and how South Africa is failing to fill its place in Africa and the world, the costs of Black Economic Empowerment and ‘transformation’ in the private sector and in government, problems of leadership in South Africa. Despite her spirited criticisms of mistakes made, Dr Ramphele remains upbeat about what can be achieved. Her insights into the lingering insecurities of some black South Africans and the psychology behind many of the failures of government are completely fresh. With great empathy she helps us understand why we act the way we do. At the same time she urges South Africans to overcome their immaturities and aim for excellence. Her new book is a powerful call to action.

Laying Ghosts to Rest: Dilemmas of the Transformation in South Africa

Nb Pub Ltd

Mamphela Ramphele is a figurehead of modern South Africa. The partner of Steve Biko, until his death in 1977, she has demonstrated extraordinary political leadership and statesmanship, most recently as the leader of the Agang SA party. In this highly acclaimed autobiography, Mamphela Ramphele vividly describes her extraordinary life – when she was born to teacher parents in the rural village of Kranspoort, few would have predicted that she would become not only a medical doctor, but an international leader and the founder of not one but two new political movements. As a young woman, Mamphela was instrumental in creating the ideology of Black Consciousness with her partner, Steve Biko. As an accomplished and respected businesswoman who had reached the pinnacle of success, she felt compelled to start Agang SA, to provide South African voters with an alternative to the increasingly corrupt ANC. Richly anecdotal, this book describes her loves and losses and her remarkable successes in both politics and business.

A Passion for Freedom

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Tafelberg Publishers Ltd

In the last three years the migrant labor hostels of South Africa, particularly those in the Transvaal, have gained international notoriety as theaters of violence. For many years they were hidden from public view and neglected by the white authorities. Now, it seems, hostel dwellers may have chosen physical violence to draw attention to the structural violence of their appalling conditions of life. Yet we should not lose sight of the fact that the majority of hostel dwellers are peace-loving people who have over the years developed creative strategies to cope with their impoverished and degrading environment. In this challenging study, Dr. Mamphela Ramphele documents the life of the hostel dwellers of Cape Town, for whom a bed is literally a home for both themselves and their families. Elaborating the concept of space in its many dimensions—not just physical, but political, ideological, social, and economic as well—she emphasizes the constraints exerted on hostel dwellers by the limited spaces they inhabit. At the same time, she argues that within these constraints people have managed to find room for manoeuvre, and in her book explores the emancipatory possibilities of their environment. The text is illustrated with a number of black-and-white photographs taken by Roger Meintjes in the townships and hostels.

A Bed Called Home: Life In The Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town

Ohio University Press

In this study, Dr Ramphele documents the lives of the hostel dwellers of Cape Town, for whom a bed is literally a home, for themselves and their families. The migrant labour hostels of South Africa, and of the Transvaal in particular, have attracted international attention in recent years for their violence and degrading conditions. Yet, as Dr Ramphele shows, many of the hostel dwellers are peace-loving people who have developed strategies to deal with their impoverished environment. She describes the constraints - political, ideological, social and economic, as well as physical - faced by the hostel dwellers, and explores the emancipatory possibilities of their situation. Dr Ramphele argues that one of the most important social and political tasks facing South Africa now is empowerment, which depends upon exploring these possibilites and extending people's spaces.

A bed called home: Life in the migrant labour hostels of Cape Town

D. Philip

One of the most distinguished women on the African continent, Mamphela Ramphele has been a prominent activist, medical doctor, anthropologist, teacher, and university leader, as well as a mother to two sons and lover of slain leader Steven Biko. Across Boundaries chronicles Ramphele’s inspiring journey, and reveals the staggering personal losses that coexisted with her astonishing political and professional achievements. Booklist writes, “what gives [this memoir} special power is not only the political freedom story, but her honesty about her failures and her fury and her survivor guilt. There’s deep commitment here, but not martyrdom…women everywhere will recognize her conflicts about her roles as mother, academic, political activist, lover, and friend.”

Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader (Women Writing Africa)

Community & Culture

The Feminist Press at CUNY

"Survival," writes Mamphela Ramphele, "is a stronger force than the fear of offending others." Born black and female in apartheid-ruled South Africa, Ramphele went on to become one of the most distinguished women on the African continent—a prominent activist, medical doctor, anthropologist, teacher, university leader, as well as a mother to two sons. Across Boundaries chronicles Ramphele's inspiring journey, and reveals the staggering personal losses that coexisted with her astonishing political and professional achievements. In addition to recounting the fascinating and often gripping events of her life, she describes the personal side of her experiences—her early struggles to maintain dignity and hope in a world that devalued both black people and women; her battles against despair, especially after the murder of her colleague and lover Steven Biko and the death of her third child in infancy; her mistakes and regrets, as well as her triumphs.

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Conversations with My Sons and Daughters

Uprooting Poverty: The South African Challenge

Violence and Subjectivity

Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery

Laying Ghosts to Rest: Dilemmas of the Transformation in South Africa

A Passion for Freedom

A Bed Called Home: Life In The Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town

A bed called home: Life in the migrant labour hostels of Cape Town

Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader (Women Writing Africa)

Across Boundaries: The Journey of a South African Woman Leader (Women Writing Africa)