<p>On Pietermaritzburg station in 1893 a young Indian lawyer, newly arrived in South Africa, was ejected from a train to Pretoria for insisting on his right to travel first class. It was to the cold night hours spent in the waiting room that Gandhi himself traced the genesis of his great resolve - to fight injustice by non-violent means. Crucial as this episode was, it was but one of the manifold influences which shaped the Gandhi-to-be during his sojourn in South Africa. This title arose from a conference held a century later, in 1993, at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, to reaffirm the South African Gandhi. It traces some of the influences, which effected his transformation from an unsuccessful and insecure young man to a mature political and spiritual leader ready to carve his niche in history after his return to India in 1914. The Mahatma's moral vision, of a way to resolve conflict and right injustice without resorting to violence, remains relevant to post-apartheid South Africa and to the world. It also remains a difficult vision to grasp; but a better understanding of his vital formative years will perhaps help to make it more accessible.</p>

Gandhi and South Africa: Perspectives and Prospects

Univ of Natal Pr

Basali!: Stories by and About Women in Lesotho

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

<p>A compelling and unique autobiography by an African woman with little formal education, less privilege and almost no experience of books or writing. Hers is a voice almost never heard in literature or history, a voice from within the struggle of 'ordinary' African women to negotiate a world which incorporates ancient pastoral ways and the congestion, brutality, and racist violence of city life.</p>

Singing Away the Hunger

Politics & Social Sciences

Nthunya, Mpho Matsepo

Women's Studies

White Farms, Black Labor: The State and Agrarian Change in Southern Africa, 1910-50 (Social History of Africa)

Throughout southern Africa, the rapid growth of commercial agriculture owed more to state intervention than to market forces. For South Africa, in particular, this expansion led to distortion in the labour market, in produce markets, and ultimately in the economy overall. The costs were high: socially, environmentally, and economically. Trapped in this system, black farm workers paid a high price. This book centres these key aspects of southern Africa's agrarian experience in the larger picture.

Business & Money

Economics

In 1934, American writer Rebecca Hourwich Reyher recorded the remarkable life story of Christina Sibiya, the first of sixty-five wives of the uncrowned king of the Zulus. What Reyher faithfully recorded - and then crafted into a moving narrative - is the riveting story of a South African woman who entered life among the Zulu royal family, and then, after enduring abuse, found the courage to leave. In 1915, fifteen year-old Christina Sibiya leaves teaching at a mission school to become the first wife of Solomon ka Dinizulu. While at the royal household, Sibiya successfully adjusts to the expectations of her new position: finding her place among the other wives, and negotiating Zulu and Christian traditions. After a series of hardships, climaxing in a beating by Solomon, Sibiya at the age of nearly twenty eight, escapes to Durban. Although pursued by Solomon's representative, Sibiya successfully resists Solomon's authority by testifying first in a European magistrate's court, and then at the royal headquarters that her marriage was invalid.

Zulu Woman: The Life of Christina Sibiya

Biographies & Memoirs

Reyher, Rebecca Hourwich

Community & Culture

Elite Transition: From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa

The first study of post-apartheid South Africa to examine the complex reasons for the failure of the new South African government to tackle development.

Elite Transition : From Apartheid to Neoliberalism in South Africa

Bond, Patrick

The Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War is a comprehensive, illustrated and expert guide to the famous clash in 1879 between the British Empire and the Zulu Kingdom. The book describes and explains the origins of the conflict, the Zulu, British and colonial military systems, the combatants' tactics and strategies, and the course of the campaign. There are definitive maps of military operations and the battles, diagrams of fortifications and additional pictorial material, all of which provide a dramatic and visual explication of the war. The aim is to lead the reader through the campaign while including a sense of the human and social context in which warriors and civilian commentators of a previous century experienced the violent cataclysm of invasion. In all its aspects this book is the essential guide to a full understanding of the Zululand campaign of 1879.

Illustrated Guide to the Anglo-Zulu War

History

Laband, John.

Thompson, Paul S.

Military

Changing Men in Southern Africa

Social Sciences

Children of AIDS: Africa's orphan crisis

The AIDS epidemic has been catastrophic south of the Sahara. "Children of AIDS" explores how families, charities and government are responding to the next wave of the crisis - millions of orphans. This collection of true stories reveals the experiences of orphans, street children, grandparents, aunts, foster parents, charity and social workers, and foreign donors across South Africa, Zambia and Uganda.

Children of AIDS: Africa's Orphan Crisis

Guest, Emma

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