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2016
298 pages
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Print: 978 1 77582 214 1 Southern African and North American rights only R321.00 / $34.95 / £21.95 BISAC: BIO006000
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2017
260 pages
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Print: 978 1 77582 209 7 Web: 978 1 77582 228 8 World rights available R320.00 / $31.50 / £18.50 BISAC: LAW032000
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HISTORY
Compassionate Englishwoman, The
Emily Hobhouse in the Boer War
R Eales
In 1899 the South African War broke out. As the war progressed, in London the upper-class Emily Hobhouse learned of the camps in southern Africa that contained mostly Boer women and children who had been displaced by the hostilities. She sailed by ship to Cape Town to begin the distribution of aid to these camps. During her travels she was appalled by the British army’s tactic of clearing the land and herding hundreds of thousands of people into concentration camps, where the awful conditions put the lives of these ‘refugees’ at risk. She urged the local authorities to provide better care and support, but little changed. So she returned to Britain to plead that immediate action be taken. She was met by indifference from the government and vitriol from the press, and her story was smothered. In this book, through careful research, her courageous and inspirational work is once again brought to life.
From Prohibited Immigrants to Citizens
The origins of citizenship and nationality in South Africa
J Klaaren
South Africa has witnessed horrific xenophobic attacks on its foreign citizens. There are many explanations for why this has occurred, one of which relates to ideas about lawful citizenship and legal residence. This book explains the making of South African citizenship. It traces and provides the history of the mobility- related laws for the constituent South African populations in the early 1900s: European, Indian (Asian) and African. Control over human mobility, while always understood to be crucial to apartheid through the pass laws, was equally — if not more — significant in the formation of South Africa and South African citizenship. Specifically, the author argues that the regulation and administration of the Asian population is the direct predecessor of the current Department of Home Affairs and provided the key platform for the elaboration and consolidation of the official vision of a unified (albeit structurally unequal) South African population.