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

• Autore: Badat Saleem
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2012, c2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.9069140968
• Soggetto topico: 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
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: The forgotten people
• ISBN: 1-299-15484-0; 90-04-24771-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819837303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: African Social Studies Series ; 29.