Understanding Marikana Through The Mpondo Revolts

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ID2308317
AutoresSarah Bruchhausen (0009-0008-8789-0558, Rhodes University)
Ano2015
Volume50
Fascículo4
Páginas412-426
Data de publicação2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Asian and African Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-9096 • E-ISSN: 1745-2538
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0021909614531892
OpenAlexW2000507793
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas8
Referências citadas5

The purpose of this article is to demonstrate some of the ways in which rural histories can enhance our understanding of both rural and urban resistance, both past and present, in contemporary South Africa. In order to do so, it explores two books in conversation with each other, Thembela Kepe and Lungisile Ntsebeza's edited volume Rural Resistance in South Africa: The Mpondo Revolts after Fifty Years as well as Peter Alexander, Thapelo Lekgowa, Botsang Mmope, Luke Sinwell and Bongani Xezwi's Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer. These two books provide a useful platform from which to engage in a re-examination of rurally based protest and repression in order to locate some of the suggestive links, particularly in regard to the transmission of repertoires of struggle, between the Marikana strike and the Mpondo revolts, as well as the on-going struggles of the organised poor in some of South Africa's urban centres

Conversation · Order (exchange · Political science · Resistance (ecology · Rural area · Sociology · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Legal Issues in South Africa · South African History and Culture · Gender Studies · Law

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