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Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa

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  • © 1990

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Editors:
  1. N. Chabani Manganyi

    1. African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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  2. André Toit

    1. University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. The Time of the Comrades: Reflections on Political Commitment and Professional Discourse in a Context of Political Violence

    • N. Chabani Manganyi, André du Toit
    Pages 1-28

  3. The Epidemiology and Culture of Violence

    • Shula Marks, Neil Andersson
    Pages 29-69

  4. The Concept of Violence

    • Johan Degenaar
    Pages 70-86

  5. Discourses on Political Violence

    • André du Toit
    Pages 87-130

  6. The Shooting at Uitenhage, 1985: the Context and Interpretation of Violence

    • Robert Thornton
    Pages 131-153

  7. Symbolizing Violence: State and Media Discourse in TV Coverage of Township Protest, 1985–7

    • Deborah Posel
    Pages 154-171

  8. From Biko to Wendy Orr: the Problem of Medical Accountability in Contexts of Political Violence and Torture

    • Mary Rayner
    Pages 172-204

  9. Detention and Violence: Beyond Victimology

    • Don Foster, Donald Skinner
    Pages 205-233

  10. State Violence in South Africa and the Development of a Progressive Psychology

    • Leslie Swartz, Kerry Gibson, Sally Swartz
    Pages 234-264

  11. Political Oppression and Children in South Africa: the Social Construction of Damaging Effects

    • Leslie Swartz, Ann Levett
    Pages 265-286

  12. Crowds and their Vicissitudes: Psychology and Law in the South African Court-room

    • N. Chabani Manganyi
    Pages 287-303

  13. Violence and the Law: the Use of the Censure in Political Trials in South Africa

    • Dennis M. Davis
    Pages 304-325

  14. Sentencing in Cases of Public Violence

    • Clive Plasket
    Pages 326-340

  15. Images of Punishment in the People’s Courts of Cape Town 1985–7: from Prefigurative Justice to Populist Violence

    • Wilfried Schärf, Baba Ngcokoto
    Pages 341-371

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 373-384
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This book provides a unique perspective, at once scholarly and fully engaged, on the political violence in South Africa during 'The Time of the Comrades' in the mid-1980s. The work of a group of social scientists and professionals, whose own work and thinking have been profoundly affected by the political crisis of that time, it provides an in-depth research and analysis as well as critical reflections on the difficult political and theoretical issues raised by political violence and the struggle in South Africa.

Editors and Affiliations

  • African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

    N. Chabani Manganyi

  • University of Cape Town, South Africa

    André Toit

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