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| Title: | Rural resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo revolts after fifty years |
| Editors: | Kepe, Thembela Ntsebeza, Lungisile |
| Year: | 2011 |
| Issue: | 22 |
| Pages: | 282 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Afrika-Studiecentrum series (ISSN 1570-9310) |
| City of publisher: | Leiden |
| Publisher: | Brill |
| ISBN: | 9004214461; 9789004214460 |
| Geographic terms: | South Africa Transkei |
| Subjects: | Pondo rebellions anti-apartheid resistance 1950-1959 |
| External link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1887/31865 |
| Abstract: | The Mpondo revolts, which began in the 1950s and reached a climax in 1960, rank among the most significant rural resistances in South Africa. Mpondo villagers emphatically rejected the introduction of Bantu Authorities and unpopular rural land use planning that meant loss of land. This volume deals with the significance of the revolts, then and now, particularly relating to land, rural governance, party politics and the agency of the marginalized. The first part outlines the context of the revolts: Resistance in the countryside: the Mpondo revolts contextualized (Lungisile Ntsebeza); Reading and writing the Mpondo revolts (Jimmy Pieterse); Govan Mbeki's 'The peasants' revolt': a critical examination (Allison Drew); The Mpondo revolt through the eyes of Leonard Mdingi and Anderson Ganyile (William Beinart); All quiet on the Western front: Nyandeni acquiescence in the Mpondoland revolt (Fred Hendricks and Jeff Peires). The second part reflects on the influence of the revolts on Mpondo migrant workers in the urban areas: Hoyce Phundulu, the Mpondo revolt, and the rise of the National Union of Mineworkers (T. Dunbar Moodie); The moving black forest of Africa: the Mpondo rebellion, migrancy and black worker consciousness in KwaZulu Natal (Ari Sitas). The final part discusses the wider significance of the revolts: The shock of the new: Ngquza Hill 1960 (Diana Wylie); Tangible and intangible Ngquza: a study of landscape and memory (Liana Müller); A bag of soil, a bullet from up high: some meanings of the Mpondo revolts today (Jonny Steinberg); Discontent and apathy: post-apartheid rural land reform in the context of the Mpondo revolts (Thembela Kepe); 'We don't want your development!': resistance to imposed development in Northeastern Pondoland (Jacques P. de Wet). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
