Tag: Apartheid

Vlakplaas Apartheid Death Squads 1979-1994 (History of Terror)


Free Download Robin Binckes, "Vlakplaas: Apartheid Death Squads: 1979-1994 (History of Terror)"
English | 2018 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 1526729210 | EPUB | 9,3 mb
Faced with the ‘total onslaught’ by its enemies, in 1979, Apartheid South Africa established Vlakplaas – lit. ‘shallow farm’, a 100-hectare farm nestling in the hills outside Pretoria on the Hennops River – as a secret operation under the arm of C1, a counter-terrorism division of the South African Police headed by Brigadier Schoon.

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Ruptures in the Afterlife of the Apartheid City (EPUB)


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English | ISBN: 3031424328 | 2024 | 239 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
How are poor people in South Africa confronting the persistent legacy of apartheid spatial segregation and anti-blackness? And what can movements across the world engaged in a global struggle against racial capitalism learn from the South African experience? This book explores the relationship between shack dwellers and the municipal government in South Africa. Grounded in the local realities of the struggle for housing and basic survival, the project makes broader interventions in national, continental and global debates about urban geography, African studies, social movements and race. The author argues that the shack settlement is emblematic of a democratic South Africa still profoundly shaped by apartheid’s afterlife.

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Disarming Apartheid


Free Download Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa’s Nuclear Weapons Programme and Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968-1991
by Robin E. Möser
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009307045 | 240 Pages | True PDF | 6.2 MB

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Embargo Apartheid’s Oil Secrets Revealed


Free Download Embargo: Apartheid’s Oil Secrets Revealed By Shipping Research Bureau; Richard Hengeveld (editor); Jaap Rodenbur (editor); Nelson R. Mandela (preface); Martin Bailey; Amer Araim; Kevin Davie; Clive Scholtz; Tom de Quaasteniet; Paul Aarts; Øystein Gudim; Henrik Berlau; Erik van den Bergh; Donna
1995 | 400 Pages | ISBN: 9053561358 | PDF | 10 MB
A group of authors, all of whom were intimately involved with the campaigning for and monitoring of the international oil embargo, reveals the story of South Africa’s oil under apartheid from the first call for oil sanctions in 1960 to the final lifting in 1993.

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Crossing the line a year in the land of apartheid


Free Download Karen Traviss, "Crossing the line: a year in the land of apartheid"
English | 2004 | pages: 384 | ISBN: 0060541709 | EPUB | 0,8 mb
Shan Frankland forever abandoned the world she knew to come to the rescue of a lost colony on a distant and dangerous planet – a hostile world coveted by two alien races and fiercely protected by a third. But in the course of her mission, she overstepped a boundary and stumbled into forbidden lands. And she can never go back – to being neutral, to being safe. To being human.

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Young Women against Apartheid Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle


Free Download Emily Bridger, "Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle"
English | ISBN: 1847012639 | 2021 | 242 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.

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South Africa The rise and fall of apartheid Ed 4


Free Download Nancy L. Clark, "South Africa: The rise and fall of apartheid Ed 4"
English | ISBN: 0367551004 | 2022 | 278 pages | PDF | 20 MB
This new edition of South Africa examines the history of South Africa from 1948 to the present, covering the economic background to racial segregation, the introduction of the oppressive policy of apartheid, the eventual collapse of White supremacy, and the legacy of apartheid to the present day.

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