Fault Lines - Journeys into the New South Africa

1. Auflage, Updated with a New Afterword 2002
ISBN: 978-0-520-23203-7
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, Band 56, 428 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 680 g

Reihe: Perspectives on Southern Africa

South Africa has experienced one of the world's most dramatic political transformations. David Goodman, a journalist and activist who has witnessed South Africa's struggles since the darkest days of apartheid, chronicles the historic transition from apartheid to democracy. This compelling story is told through the lives of four pairs of South Africans who have experienced apartheid from opposite sides of the racial and political divide. Taken together, these profiles provide the first in-depth look at the social dynamics of post-apartheid South Africa.

Part social history and part personal drama, Fault Lines is an account of what happens to real people when their country is reinvented around them. The struggle to reconcile past evils is captured in the stories of a former police assassin and his intended victim. The rise and fall of South African racism is portrayed through the lives of the late Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd—the notorious "architect of apartheid"—and his grandson, now a member of the ruling African National Congress. The battle to break out of poverty is detailed in the story of two black women: one an impoverished domestic worker and new city councilor, the other a Mercedes-driving member of South Africa's new black elite. The struggle for the land is told through the eyes of two neighbors: a black farmer who was evicted from his lands in the 1980s and has returned to start over, and a conservative white farmer who participated in the eviction and now does business with the man whose life he nearly destroyed. These powerful stories are accompanied by the photography of award-winning South African documentary photographer Paul Weinberg.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goodman, David

Weitere Mitwirkende

Weinberg, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fault Lines

PART ONE: VICTIM AND PERPETRATOR
Victorious Victim
The Vanquished Assassin

PART TWO: THE ODYSSEY OF THE VERWOERDS
Architect of Apartheid
Leaving the Laager

PART THREE: POOR WOMAN, RICH WOMAN
"The Book of Apartheid Is Still Open"
Apartheid Jujitsu Artist

PART FOUR: ON THE LAND
Tense Peace in the Platteland
Rising from the Ruins

Conclusion: Unmaking Apartheid
Afterword
Notes
Index

Über Autor(innen)

David Goodman is a freelance journalist who began traveling to South Africa at the height of apartheid in the 1980s. His work has appeared in Mother Jones, The Washington Post, Outside, The Nation, Village Voice, Boston Globe and many other publications. A graduate of Harvard University, he lives with his wife and two children in Vermont. Paul Weinberg is a South African documentary photographer. He is the recipient of the Mother Jones International Documentary Award for his photography