The Griqua Captaincy of Philippolis, 1826-1861
Author : Karel Schoeman
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Author : Karel Schoeman
Publisher :
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 10,76 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Computers
ISBN :
Author : Edward Cavanagh
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 3034307780
The Griqua people are commonly misunderstood. Today, they do not figure in the South African imagination as other peoples do, nor have they for over a century. This book argues that their comparative invisibility is a result of their place in the national narrative. In this revisionist analysis of South African historiography, the author analyses over a century's worth of historical studies and identifies a number of narrative frameworks that have proven resilient to change over this time. The Griqua, in particular, have fared poorly compared to other peoples. They appear in, and disappear from, this body of work in a number of consistent ways, almost as though scholars have avoided re-imagining their history in ways relevant to the present. This book questions why that might be the case.
Author : Karel Schoeman
Publisher : Van Riebeeck Society, The
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 48,46 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Campbell, South Africa
ISBN : 9780958411219
Author : Erwin Schweitzer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3643905777
With the dawn of democracy in South Africa in 1994, the struggle of the indigenous Griqua people for land has gained new momentum. Having lost most of their ancestral land in the 19th century due to colonialism, the Griqua people are now using new legal opportunities to reclaim land. On their re-obtained land, the Griqua dwell, farm, celebrate indigenous festivals, and create cultural villages for tourists. In doing so, they are currently contributing to the making of 'Ethnicity, Inc.', the double process of commodification of culture and creation of ethnic businesses. (Series: Legal Anthropology and Indigenous Rights - Vol. 2) [Subject: Anthropology, Indigenous Studies, African Studies, Cultural Studies, Ethnic Studies, Business]
Author : Tim Keegan
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 17,49 MB
Release : 2016-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1770227113
Dr John Philip towered over nineteenth-century South African history, championing the rights of indigenous people against the growing power of white supremacy, but today he is largely forgotten or misremembered. From the time he arrived in South Africa as superintendent of the London Missionary Society in 1819, Philip played a major role in the idealist and humanitarian campaigns of the day, fighting for the emancipation of slaves, protecting the Khoi against injustice, and opposing the dispossession of the Xhosa in the Eastern Cape. A fascinating picture of South Africa and the British Empire during a time of great change, Dr Philip’s Empire documents Philip’s encounters with Dutch colonists, English settlers and indigenous South Africans, his never-ending battles with fellow missionaries and colonial authorities, and his lobbying among the powerful for indigenous people’s civil rights. A controversial and influential figure, Philip was considered an interfering radical subversive by believers in white superiority, but he has been labelled a condescending, hypocritical ‘white liberal’ in a more modern age. This book seeks to revive him from these judgements and to recover the real man and his noble but doomed struggles for justice in the context of his times.
Author : David Westley
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Griquas
ISBN :
Author : E. Cavanagh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2013-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1137305770
This local history of Griqua Philippolis (1824-1862) and Afrikaner Orania (1990-2013) gets at the crux of the ever-pertinent land question in South Africa. Identifying the many layers of dispossession definitive of the South African past, the book presents a provocative new argument about land rights and the residues of settler colonialism.
Author : Piet Erasmus
Publisher : UJ Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1920382771
The Battle of Mamusa reflects the grievous event in the Western Transvaal border culture context that contributed profoundly to the dissolution of the last functioning Korana polity. The narrative presented in this work is exceptional for at least two reasons: Firstly, for the thoughtful manner in which the intriguing concept of metaphors is applied in this study of historical ethnography cum ethnohistory. Secondly, for the skilful way in which the author relates the battle of Mamusa to how present-day Korana and neo- Khoisan communities, in a new context, are relating to their future in a post-1994 constitutional dispensation. Prof. Henry C (Jatti) Bredekamp University of the Western Cape
Author : Paul Weinberg
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 43,33 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 143140554X
A personal journey into the family archives of a talented photographer, this book explores Paul Weinberg's past as he retraces his family's footprints to far-flung small towns in the interior of South Africa--where his ancestors found a niche in the hotel trade. Part visual narrative and part multilayered travel book, this record is organized in the form of postcards to Weinberg's great grandfather, Edward. Weaving history, historiography, and memoir into a personal pilgrimage, it sets up a dialogue between the past and present and questions who records history and who is left out of it. The family's hotels are also revisited within these pages, and their evolution explored.
Author : Kim McGowan
Publisher : Penguin Random House South Africa
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1415203679
They are chasing visions of reaching Khartoum round the western margins of Africa, but don't even make it to East London. While one of them optimistically takes the lead, the other brings up the rear, muttering in his beard, inscribing the diary that eventually becoes this book. Donkey Crossings is the whacky , off-beat, jaundiced, and altogether wonderful accont of that journey. As the six merry companions weave their way through a perplexing network of pathways, donkeys are stolen and recovered through slow negotiation, amid slashing of Transkei gin. If not that, our valiant heroes themselves get pulled over for donkey theft. Rained on. tick-ridden, plagued by mosquitoes, they discover truths: how incompatible two very amiable people can be; how oppositional a donkey becomes when a river must be crossed; how frightening a crowd of two hundred inquisitive children may seem. After six months they abandon their journey, lest they decide never to leave the Transkei at all.