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The lion sleeps tonight : and other stories of Africa / by Malan, Rian.(CARDINAL)766768;
Chronicles South Africa's turbulent multicultural efforts to rebuild after Apartheid as reflected by such subjects as the famous song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight," the trial of Winnie Mandela, and President Mbeki's controversial AIDS policies.
Subjects: Post-apartheid era;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The born frees : writing with the girls of Gugulethu / by Burge, Kimberly,author.(CARDINAL)410841;
Includes bibliographical references (343-348)."A creative writing group unites and inspires girls of the first South African generation "born free." Born into post-apartheid South Africa, the young women of the townships around Cape Town still face daunting challenges. Their families and communities have been ravaged by poverty, violence, sexual abuse, and AIDS. Yet, as Kimberly Burge discovered when she set up a writing group in the township of Gugulethu, the spirit of these girls outshines their circumstances. Girls such as irrepressible Annasuena, whose late mother was one of South Africa's most celebrated singers; bubbly Sharon, already career-bound; and shy Ntombi, determined to finish high school and pursue further studies, find reassurance and courage in writing. Together they also find temporary escape from the travails of their lives, anxieties beyond boyfriends and futures: for some of them, worries that include HIV medication regimens, conflicts with indifferent guardians, struggles with depression. Driven by a desire to claim their own voices and define themselves, their writing in the group Amazw'Entombi, "Voices of the Girls," provides a lodestar for what freedom might mean" --
Subjects: Literature.; Young women; Post-apartheid era;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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David Goldblatt : South African intersections / by Goldblatt, David.(CARDINAL)713199; Haworth-Booth, Mark.(CARDINAL)162004; Danelzik-Brüggemann, Christoph.(CARDINAL)685032;
Subjects: Illustrated works.; Goldblatt, David.; Documentary photography; Post-apartheid era;
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After Mandela : the struggle for freedom in post-apartheid South Africa / by Foster, Douglas.(CARDINAL)686951;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Overture: Baleka Uzohaqwa! -- Part I. Tomorrow's country (2004) -- The chief -- The thief -- The rival -- The chroniclers -- The doctor -- The city -- The grandson -- Part II. The stalled revolution (2005-2006) -- Inside -- Outside -- Upside down -- On the air -- On the ground -- Part III. The pivotal year (2007) -- Cape Town -- Atlantis -- Johannesburg -- Orange farm -- Nkandla -- Polokwane -- Mvezo -- Part IV. The end of magical thinking (2008-2012) -- The globe -- The prisoner -- The cup -- Liberated people -- The leader -- Coda: freedom day.
Subjects: Post-apartheid era; Social change;
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After freedom : the rise of the post-apartheid generation in democratic South Africa / by Newman, Katherine S.,1953-author.(CARDINAL)158949; De Lannoy, Ariane,author.(CARDINAL)559548;
Includes bibliographical references and index.The people of the book -- Apartheid legacies -- Thandiswa's struggles -- The coconut dilemma -- Forgotten -- The other side of the coloured divide -- The past was wrong, but it was the past -- Movements and migrations -- Political heat -- After freedom.Twenty years after the end of apartheid, a new generation is building a multiracial democracy in South Africa but remains mired in economic inequality and political conflict. The death of Nelson Mandela in 2013 arrived just short of the twentieth anniversary of South Africa's first free election, reminding the world of the promise he represented as the nation's first Black president. Despite significant progress since the early days of this new democracy, frustration is growing as inequalities that once divided the races now grow within them as well.
Subjects: Post-apartheid era; Democracy;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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The inheritors : an intimate portrait of South Africa's racial reckoning / by Fairbanks, Eve,author.(CARDINAL)870635;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 377-397).Dipuo -- Christo -- Dipuo -- Christo -- Christo -- Dipuo -- Christo -- Christo -- Dipuo -- Christo -- Dipuo -- Christo -- Dipuo -- Malaika -- Christo -- Dipuo -- Christo -- Malaika -- Malaika -- Dipuo -- Christo -- Christo -- Dipuo -- Christo -- Malaika -- Dipuo -- Malaika -- Christo -- Dipuo -- Christo -- Elliot -- Malaika -- Christo -- Malaika -- Dipuo."A decade in the making, The Inheritors tracks three ordinary South Africans over fifty years in a sweeping, exquisitely written look at what really happens after a country resolves to end white supremacy. Dipuo grew up on the south side of the mine dump that separated Johannesburg's Black townships from the white-only city. Some nights she hiked to the top. On the other side were glittering lights as well as, she knew, prejudice and hubris; on her side there was dust but also love. To a South African teenager in the 1980s--even an anti-apartheid activist like Dipuo--the divide appeared eternal. But then, in 1994, the world's last explicitly segregationist regime collapsed to make way for something unprecedented. The end of apartheid carried South Africa past a point the United States and Europe are still moving slowly towards: the ascent to political, cultural, and intellectual power of members of the demographic groups the countries once colonized or enslaved. The Inheritors weaves together the stories of Dipuo, her daughter Malaika, and Christo-one of the last White South Africans drafted to fight for apartheid as the system crumbled around him--to consider what happens when people once locked into certain kinds of power relations find their status shifting. With intimate reporting, keen psychological insight, and luminous prose, the book probes how everyday people grapple with great social change, exploring questions that preoccupy not only South Africans but so many of us today: How can we let go of our individual and national pasts? How should old debts be paid? How much sympathy do we owe one another? And how does a person live an honorable life in a society that-for both better and worse-they no longer recognize?"--Pen/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction, 2023
Subjects: Biographies.; Post-apartheid era;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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The Cedarville Shop and the Wheelbarrow Swap / by Krone, Bridget,author.;
A lot of things can feel just out of reach in 12-year-old Boipelo Seku's small, impoverished village of Cedarville, South Africa. The idea of one day living in a house that's big enough for his family is just a faraway dream. But when Boi stumbles on a story about a Canadian man who traded his way from a paperclip to a house, Boi hatches his own trading plan starting with a tiny clay cow he molded from river mud. Trade by trade, Boi and his best friend Potso discover that even though Cedarville lacks so many of the things that made the paperclip trade possible, it is fuller than either of them ever imagined. In a chain of events that turns Boi's tiny spark into a warming fire, Boi learns the power of friendship and community, and finds that something's value isn't in what you can trade for it, but in the good it brings to the people you love.Accelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Boys; Friendship; Families; Poor; Barter; Post-apartheid era; Boys.; Friendships.;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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They got to you too : / by Ntshingila, Futhi,Author(DLC)no2008157518; Minnaar, Dawid,Narrator(DLC)no2007050814; Mvelase, Lerato,1982-Narrator(DLC)no2011186157; Sennett, Rika,Narrator(DLC)no2014080835; Hobbs, Robert,1972-Narrator(DLC)no2014027981; Djuma, Chris,Narrator(local)tlcaut1708031201926063145;
Narrated by Dawid Minnaar, Lerato Mvelase, Rika Sennett, Robert Hobbs, and Chris Djuma.Hans van Rooyen is a former police general raised by two women who survived the 1899 South African War. He finds himself being cared for in an old age home by the daughter of liberation struggle activists. At 80, he carries with him the memories of crimes he committed as an officer under the apartheid government. Zoe Zondi is tasked to care for the old man. Her gentle and compassionate nature prompts Hans to review his decision to go to the grave with all his secrets. Zoe has her own life story to tell and, as their unlikely bond deepens, strengthened by the isolation that COVID-19 lockdown brings, they provide a safe space for each other to say the things that are often left unsaid.
Subjects: Audiobooks; Novels; Older people; Terminal care; Apartheid; Post-apartheid era; COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023; Ex-police officers;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The fall of apartheid in South Africa / by Koosman, Melissa.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 44-45) and index.No easy journey : a history of racism -- Apartheid : anti-apartheid writers -- The fight for freedom : a Black nation or a rainbow nation? -- Apartheid falls apart : the university -- Democracy : CIDA city campus -- Chronology of apartheid's end -- Timeline in history.Discusses apartheid in South Africa and the fight for its prohibition, including notable protests, arrests, and anti-apartheid leaders that eventually brought the downfall of the system.
Subjects: Apartheid; Anti-apartheid movements; Post-apartheid era;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 2
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Mandela and Truth and Reconciliation / by Senker, Cath.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 56-58, 62) and index.The first witness speaks out -- Mandela : an activist against apartheid -- Violent struggle -- The tide turns -- Negotiating democracy -- Setting up the Truth and Reconciliation Commission -- The TRC gets to work -- Achievements -- Madela's legacy -- Timeline.1110L
Subjects: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013; South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Anti-apartheid movements; Post-apartheid era; Truth commissions; Reconciliation;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 3
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