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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786133403321

Autore

Badat Saleem

Titolo

The forgotten people [[electronic resource] ] : political banishment under apartheid / / by Saleem Badat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012, c2013

ISBN

1-299-15484-0

90-04-24771-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (392 p.)

Collana

African social studies series, , 1568-1203 ; ; v. 29

Disciplina

305.9069140968

Soggetti

Exile (Punishment) - South Africa - History - 20th century

Internally displaced persons - South Africa

Political prisoners - South Africa

Political activists - Legal status, laws, etc - South Africa

Human rights - South Africa

Apartheid - South Africa

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book was earlier published in Southern Africa under ISBN 978-1-4314-0479-7 by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd in 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Banishment: an old and common practice -- Banishment and rural resistance in the early 1950s: Gamatlala and Witzieshoek -- Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s: Bahurutshe and Sekhukhuneland -- Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Mpondoland, Thembuland and Natal -- Urban political opposition and banishment -- Banishments under the Suppression of Communism Act -- Life in banishment -- Responses to banishment.

Sommario/riassunto

The apartheid state employed many weapons against its opponents: imprisonment, banning, detention, assassination – and banishment. In a practice reminiscent of Tsarist and Soviet Russia, a large number of ‘enemies of the state’ were banished to remote areas, far from their homes, communities and followers. Here their existence became ‘a slow torture of the soul’, a kind of social death. This is the first study of an important but hitherto neglected group of opponents of apartheid, set in a global, historical and comparative perspective. It looks at the



reasons why people were banished, their lives in banishment and the efforts of a remarkable group of activists, led by Helen Joseph, to assist them.