African contrasts: the story of a South African people

Shepherd, Robert H.W.; Paver, Bertram G.

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Title:	African contrasts: the story of a South African people
Authors:	Shepherd, Robert H.W. Paver, Bertram G.
Year:	1947
Pages:	266
Language:	English
City of publisher:	Cape Town
Publisher:	Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford University Press
Geographic term:	South Africa
Subjects:	society race relations country studies (form)
Abstract:	This book aims at giving a brief, informative, sympathetic, well-illustrated presentation of the life of our African people (---). It would fain be a human document, giving a picture of the Bantu people of the Union under modern conditions, of their aspiration and the manner in which we rule them. (---) it is the story of the larger part of South Africa's population not merely the Natives in south Africa but of South Africa, as a family of mankind and not merely as a collection of tribes (p. 2) A viewpoint (p. 1-2) - The passing of isolation (p. 3-7) - A family of mankind (p. 8-22) - The Bantu as they were (p. 23-40) - The Bantu of to-day (p. 41-61) - A background of black people (p. 62-75) - People are not statistics (p. 76-86) - Home life in its extremes (p. 87-102) - Dead-end jobs (p. 103-116 - Sickness of the body (p. 117-138) - Soundness of the soul (p. 139-148) - Some popular misunderstandings (p. 149-61) - Some great Africans (p. 162-182) - The influence of history (p. 183-193) - Native administration (p. 194-204) - How we rule the Africans (p. 205-217) - In the eyes of the law (p. 218-235 ) - Achievement and failure (p. 236-255) - Aspirations and ambitions (p. 256-259) - the future (p. 259-261) - index.