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Whether you are a bird-watcher, an angler, a hiker, a diver, an environmentalist, or merely a weekend nature lover, this guide will provide hours of fascinating reading and be an invaluable reference for years to come.
From an array of prominent activists including Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko to renowned performers and oral poets such as Johnny Dyani and Samuel Mqhayi, the Eastern Cape region plays a unique role in the history of South African protest politics and creativity. The Spirit of Resistance in Music and Spoken Word of South Africa's Eastern Cape concentrates on the Eastern Cape's contribution to the larger narrative of the connection between creativity, mass movements, and the forging of a modern African identity and focuses largely on the amaXhosa population. Lindsay Michie explores Eastern Cape performance artists, activists, organizations, and movements that used inventive and historical means to raise awareness of their plight and brought pressure to bear on the authorities and systems that caused it, all the while exhibiting the depth, originality, and inspiration of their culture.
The Rough Guide Snapshot to the Eastern Cape is the ultimate travel guide to this region of South Africa. It leads you through the region with reliable information and comprehensive coverage of all the sights and attractions, from Port Elizabeth to Addo Elephant National Park and the Karoo to . Detailed maps and up-to-date listings pinpoint the best cafés, restaurants, hotels, shops, bars and nightlife, ensuring you make the most of your trip, whether passing through, staying for the weekend or longer. Also included is the Basics section from the Rough Guide to South Africa, with all the practical information you need for travelling in and around the Eastern Cape, including transport, food, drink, costs, health, national parks and safety. Also published as part of the Rough Guide to South Africa, Lesotho & Swaziland. Full coverage: Port Elizabeth; Addo Elephant National Park; Jeffrey's Bay; Port Alfred; Grahamstown; the Eastern Cape Karoo; Cradock; Graaff-Reinet; East London; The Amatola Mountains; Hogsback; Rhodes; the Wild Coast; Mthatha; Port St Johns.
Using a wealth of court records, Colonizing Consent shows how rape cases were caught up in, and helped shape, the major political debates in colonial South Africa.
First published in 1999, this volume responds to the recent application of Local Economic Development around the world and examines its impact in South Africa in the wake of the nation’s recent political transition. Etienne Louis Nel observes how the initiative is taking on a dual form of community-led and authority-led initiatives. Nel explores the issue through areas including South Africa’s space economy, a case study of Stuttenheim and local economic development in East London.
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This unique collection combines historical accounts with current socio-political analyses to present an agenda of social-spacial justice for the people of the Eastern Cape, a province a South Africa. The book explores economics, the environment, development, and service delivery, and also includes a series of case studies. The contributors' areas of expertise range from political science, social policy, economics, geography, anthropology, biology, and education. The Fate of the Eastern Cape not only provides a portrait of the post-1994 region, but also makes an important contribution to debates about future policy prescriptions, in order to tackle the wider questions about the future of South Africa's provinces.