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TITLE: A Lion Amongst The Cattle Reconstruction and Resistance in the Northern Transvaal, 1930-94
AUTHOR: Peter Delius 
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PUBLISHER: James Currey Ltd
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SERIES: Social History of Africa
FORMAT: Book (pp: 272) 227 x 142mm
ISBN-10: 0852556756
ISBN-13: 9780852556757
PUB DATE: 01 May 1997
AVAILABILITY: Available
PRICE: �17.95

DESCRIPTION:
The author draws on interviews to tell the story of the bitter and protracted struggles sparked off in the formidable Pedi Kingdom by the shifting policies and practices of conservation, segregation and apartheid. At the heart of the book are the two revolts of 1958 and 1986. Also charted is the changing relationship of the Communist Party and the ANC to the countryside, and the importance of migrant workers in the political cross-fertilization which contributed both to the revolt in 1958 and the formation of the Umkhonto We Sizwe in 1961. There is also an analysis of the run-up to the 1994 election in the Northern Transvaal, in which the ANC achieved its most decisive regional victory.
 

REVIEW:
'In a virtuoso piece of contemporary history, Delius explores and explains (the) grisly exercise in building a new moral and social order. He charts a middle course between politically correct sympathy and ex post facto judgementalism. He subjects the youthful comrades to the same kind of historical sociology that laid bare the dynamics of their parents' struggle in the 1950s, or their grandparents' experiences in the 1930s...A Lion Amongst the Cattle is the work of a mature and gifted historian.' - Colin Bundy in the Johannesburg Mail & Guardian

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Additional Information:
Illustrations: maps Dewey: 968.2505 LC Subject: Government, Resistance to - South Africa - Transvaal
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