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This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 10 working days The comeback of chieftaincy, custom and culture is one of the most surprising features of post-apartheid South Africa. As democracy dawned, support for traditional leaders rose not only in national politics, but also in the villages of rural South Africa. Chiefs were no longer considered relics of the past or puppets of the apartheid regime; instead they were heralded as key figures in the upcoming African Renaissance. Sekhukhune in the northern part of South Africa had a tradition of resistance. The author has used the example of this chieftaincy to consider much wider questions - what was the relation between the formal legal and political recognition of chieftaincy and its local insurgence? How are the local, national and global interlinked in the creation of custom? Why did the liberal ANC allow the chiefs to retain power over land, local government and custom? What does this teach us about politics in present-day Africa? Features Summary The comeback of chieftaincy, custom and culture is one of the most surprising features of post-apartheid South Africa. As democracy dawned, support for traditional leaders rose not only in national politics... Author Barbara Oomen Publisher University of KwaZulu-Natal Press Release date 20050630 Pages 272 ISBN 1-86914-067-2 ISBN 13 978-1-86914-067-0

Very scarce edition.. Hardcover.Olive cloth cover. Binding fair. Pages lightly foxed but only a few pages. Please note a flower bookmark impression to a few front pages. Condition: Fair. First Edition. 1866, 168 pages plus 3 folding tables. Original cloth with the printed paper title-label on the spine, all edges browned from age; front cloth lightly marked, Printed Saul Solomon & Co Cape Town 1866 including Genealogical Tables of Kafir Chiefs and Various Tribal Census Returns: Compiled by Direction of Colonel MacLean, C.B. Chief Commissioner in British Kaffraria. Printed for the Governemnt of British Kaffraria. 3 folding tables. "This volume, the results of the author's efforts to form a compilation of facts concerning the native races, is regarded as one of the best in the subject, and contains many valuable papers by the Rev. H. H. Dugmore, and Messrs. Warner, Brownlee, and Ayliff. The geography, government, laws, and customs of the natives are fully described,..." - [Mendelssohn: I, 960]. In a contemporary or publisher's olive cloth with the remains of a paper label to spine, Outside South Africa shipping will be R150   Cape Town Saul Solomon and Co.1866

Author: William Beinart Publisher: Ravan Press (1982) ISBN-10: 0869751379 ISBN-13: 9780869751374 Condition: Very good Binding: Softcover Pages: 220 Dimensions: 22 x 14.8 x 0.8 cm +++ by William Beinart +++ This book examines in detail how the people of one formerly independent African chiefdom were absorbed into the wider South African society during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The first two chapters discuss the nature of the pre-colonial polity, changes in agricultural production during the early stages of colonisation, colonial policy and the beginnings of mass labour migrancy up to about 1910. The last three chapters, focusing on the period between about 1910 and 1930, analyse changing patterns of rural production and labour migrancy, the changing form of African homesteads, the position of chiefs in rural South African and new patterns of rural differentiation. The book questions some of the assumptions in the literature on 'underdevelopment' in Africa.