Political Violence and the Struggle in South Africa

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.

• political violence
• Protest
• torture
• violence
• work

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

  N. Chabani Manganyi

• University of Cape Town, South Africa

  André Toit

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