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‘Black Economic Empowerment: 20 Years Later, the Baby and the Bathwater’ by Phinda Mzwakhe Madi, has been added to our Africana Collection!

For more information, go to the New Books guide on our webpage

library.up.ac.za/specialcollections/newbooks

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Apartheid Vertigo: The Rise in Discrimination Against Africans in South Africa by David M. Matsinhe.

Apartheid vertigo, the dizzying sensation following prolonged oppression and delusions of skin colour, is the focus of this book. For centuries, the colour-code shaped state and national ideals, created social and emotional distances between social groups, permeated public and private spheres, and dehumanized Africans of all nationalities in South Africa. Two decades after the demise of official apartheid, despite four successive black governments, apartheid vertigo still distorts South Africa's postcolonial reality. The colour-code endures, but now in postcolonial masks. Political freedom notwithstanding, vast sections of the black citizenry have adopted and adapted the code to fit the new reality. This vertiginous reality is manifest in the neo-apartheid ideology of Makwerekwere—the postcolonial colour-code mobilized to distinguish black outsiders from black insiders. Apartheid vertigo ranges from negative sentiments to outright violence against black outsiders[...] Ironically, the victims are not only the outsiders against whom the code is mobilized but also the insiders who mobilize it. Drawing on evidence from interviews, observation, press articles, reports, research monographs, and history, this book unravels the synergies of history, migration, nationalism, black group relations, and violence in South Africa, deconstructing the idea of visible differences between black nationals and black foreign nationals. The book demonstrates that in South Africa, violence always lurks on the surface of everyday life with the potential to burst through the fragile limits set upon it and possibly escalate to ethnic cleansing.

This book is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

https://UnivofPretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/712983622

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Students at the Groenkloof campus take a break from studying to spend some time with the Top Dogs, in May 2023!

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‘Decolonising the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature’ by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, has been added to our Africana Collection!

For more information, go to the New Books guide on our webpage

library.up.ac.za/specialcollections/newbooks

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Africa Leads by The University of South Africa.

This book will reshape your image of Africa. It contains 87 boldly illustrated, inspiring real-life stories about responsible leaders, communities, businesses, and educators succeeding in this continent. These are inspiring stories supported by facts. Strong voices from South Africa to Cape Verde Islands, from Morocco to Mozambique. Endorsed and introduced by former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan, the book explores a side of Africa filled with energy, exposing how a brighter future for the continent is already in the making. ‘Africa Leads’ shows the world that Africa is becoming a powerful example of hope.

This book is part of our Africana (ZA) Collection.

https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/85770796