Books in the Perspectives on Southern Africa series

This collection of interviews explores the role of religion in the lives of eminent South Africans who led the struggle against apartheid. Political, religious and cultural leaders share the beliefs and values that informed the moral position they adopted, often at great cost.

This treatise defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that he absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. It describes the political contexts surrounding his novels.

An informative account of what happens to a society when it officially insists on a legal order that systematically denies the overwhelming majority of its population the minimum requirements of justice.

Challenges the understanding of the war that has turned Mozambique - a naturally rich country - into one of the world's poorest nations. This book combines frontline reporting, personal narrative, political analysis, and scholarship to present a picture of a Mozambique harrowed by local conflicts - ethnic, religious, political and personal.

Presents an understanding of the politics and ideology of orthodox African nationalism, or Black Power, in South Africa since World War II, from the Youth League of the African Student National Congress (ANC) of the late 1940s to the South African Student Organization (SASO) and the Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s'.

Suitable for anybody who wants to know what the homelands policy is all about, and how it works out in practice, this volume analyzes South Africa's program for eventually creating ten independent black African 'homelands'. It presents a detailed account of the history and conditions ...of two of the homelands, Bophmhatswana and KwaZulu.

Overturns the common assumption that apartheid in South Africa was enforced only through terror and coercion. Without understating the role of violent intervention, this book shows that apartheid was sustained by a great and ever-swelling bureaucracy.

South Africa has experienced one of the world's most dramatic political transformations. This title chronicles the historic transition from apartheid to democracy, told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans who have experienced apartheid from opposite sides of the racial and political divide.