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A History of South Africa

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by Leonard Thompson


  338. Ronnie Kasrils, “Letter: Zuma Should Dismiss Police Chiefs,” BDlive, Mar. 6, 2013, http://www.bdlive.co.za/opinion/letters/2013/03/05/letter-zuma-should-dismiss-police-chiefs.

  339. Scott Johnson, “Those Who Love South Africa Ask If It’s Existentially Violent,” IHT Rendezvous, Mar. 11, 2013, http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/03/11/those-who-love-south-africa-ask-if-its-existentially-violent/.

  340. Francis Hweshi, “Media: Tension Brewing in Townships over Foreigners,” Anti-Eviction Campaign, Western Cape, June 1, 2009, http://antieviction.org.za/2009/06/02/media-tension-brewing-in-townships-over-foreigners/.

  341. David Smith, “Nelson Mandela Gives World Cup a Dream Finale with a Wave and a Smile,” Guardian, July 11, 2010, http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2010/jul/11/world-cup-final-nelson-mandela/print.

  342. “Somali Shops Looted, Burnt in PE,” News 24, May 26, 2011, http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Somali-shops-looted-burnt-in-PE-20110526.

  343. “South Africa: Government Gets Lowest Rating on Xenophobia,” IRIN, July 4, 2011, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CVj0rySCw.

  344. “South Africa’s Extraordinary Skills Shortage—Adcorp,” politicsweb, May 1, 2011, http://www.politicsweb.co.za/politicsweb/view/politicsweb/en/page71619?oid=235542&sn=Marketingweb+detail.

  345. Scott C. Johnson, “Fleeing from South Africa,” Newsweek, Feb. 13, 2009, http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2009/02/13/fleeing-from-south-africa.html.

  346. “UN Declares 18 July Mandela Day,” SouthAfrica.info, Nov. 12, 2009, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2368573/Nelson-Mandela-celebrations-South-Africa-95th-birthday-confirmed-health-improving.html.

  347. Anthony Bond, “Celebrations across South Africa for Mandela’s 95th Birthday as It Is Confirmed His Health Is Improving . . . as Granddaughters Launch L20 ‘Legend’ T-shirts,” Mail Online, July 18, 2013, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2368573/Nelson-Mandela-celebrations-South-Africa-95th-birthday-confirmed-health-improving.html.

  348. “Zuma Thought Poor Whites Were Doing Well,” News24, July 18, 2013, http://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/Zuma-on-poor-whites-I-thought-they-were-all-doing-so-well-20130718.

  349. Wandoo Makurdi, “Nelson Mandela Showing Sustained Improvement, Says South Africa President, Jacob Zuma,” Huffington Post, July 22, 2013, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/22/nelson-mandela-sustained-improvement-south-africa-president-jacob-zuma_n_3634771.html.

  350. Sapa, “DA Pamphlet Showing Madiba, Suzman Embracing Angers ANC, “City Press, Apr. 8, 2013, http://www.citypress.co.za/politics/da-pamphlet-showing-madiba-suzman-embracing-angers-anc/.

  351. AP, “Nelson Mandela Looking Frail in News Video at Anti-apartheid Hero’s Home,” Guardian, Apr. 29, 2013, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/29/nelson-mandela-frail-video-zuma-visit.

  352. Jon Herskovitz, “Analysis: ANC Risks Losing South Africa’s ‘Born Free’ Voters,” Reuters, Jan. 1, 2013, http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/28/us-safrica-anc-idUSBRE90R0GH20130128; Luke Waters, “South Africa’s ‘Born-free’ Generation,” World News Australia, July 2, 2013, http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1784720/South-Africas-born-free-generation.

  INDEX

  Abacha, Sani, 299

  Abdurahman, Abdullah, 175

  Adams College, 156, 172, 208

  Affirmative action policy, 292

  African education: customary education, 24, 27; pre-1948, 84, 104; in segregation era, 156, 172–73, 181; under apartheid, 196–97, 227, 242; postapartheid, 256, 264–65

  African farmers: precolonial, 4–5, 10, 15, 18–30; in Cape Colony, 35–37, 40–46; 1870–1910, 132, 136, 143; post-1910, 163

  African National Congress (ANC): 1912–48, 156, 164; 1948–78, 198, 207–10, 215–16; 1978–90, 228–30, 232–33, 239, 245–46; post-1990, 247–56, 258–59, 261–64, 268, 270–73, 276–79, 282, 288–89, 291, 293–94, 296, 297, 301, 303, 311, 314–15, 317, 318–20, 322, 324, 326, 328, 344–45, 346

  African Peer Review Mechanism, 299, 311–12

  African Political Organization (apo), 174–77

  African Renaissance, 291, 299, 324

  African Resistance Movement, 211

  Africans: terminology, xviii–xix

  African townships. See Townships, African

  African Union (AU), 299, 301, 326

  Afrikaanse Handelsinstituut, 207

  Afrikaner Bond, 139, 147

  Afrikanerization, 160, 188

  Afrikaner nationalism: pre-1910, 135, 145, 147; 1910–48, 157, 159, 160, 162, 183–84; post-1948, 188, 198, 223, 238, 244, 247, 271

  Afrikaner Weerstand Beweging (awb or Afrikaner Resistance Movement), 234, 238, 255–56, 271

  Agang SA (Build SA), 325–26

  Agriculture. See African farmers; Crops; Farm laborers; Pastoralists

  AIDS. See HIV

  Algoa Bay, 31, 46, 50, 55, 59

  Aluminum industry, 304

  AmaBhungane, 321

  AMCU. See Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union

  American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), 99

  Amplats, 333

  Amsterdam, 18, 21, 41

  ANC Today, 303

  Anglo American Corporation, 206, 230, 244

  Angola, 32, 212, 214–16, 231–32, 236, 239, 272

  Apartheid, 187–240 passim, 245, 258, 272; origin of, 186. See also individual terms

  APLA. See Azanian People’s Liberation Army

  Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, 190–91, 327

  APRM. See African Peer Review Mechanism

  Archaeology, 5–7, 11–13, 15

  ARMSCOR, 200

  Arms embargo, 222, 234

  Army: pre-1976, 142–43, 146; post-1976, 224, 228, 231–33, 235–36, 238–39, 247, 256, 259, 270, 271, 273. See also South African Defense Force; South African National Defense Force

  ARVS (antiretroviral drugs), 308–9, 313, 336–37

  Asmal, Kader, 309

  Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, 331, 333

  Atlantic Charter, 182–83

  Avusa, 317

  Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA), 272–73

  Azanian People’s Organization (AZAPO), 236, 252, 268

  Bambatha, 148

  Bantu Laws Amendment Act (1964), 199

  Barnard, Neil, 245

  Barnato, Barney, 116, 120

  Bashir, Omar al-, 326

  Basutoland. See Lesotho

  Batavia, 33, 39, 41–42

  Batavian Republic, 40, 52, 54

  B-BBEE (BEE). See Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment

  Bechuanaland Protectorate. See Botswana

  BEE. See Black Economic Empowerment

  Beit, Alfred, 116, 120

  Bengu, Sibusiso, 262

  Bethelsdorp, 59, 61

  Biko, Steve, 212–14

  Black Consciousness, 212, 225, 230, 273

  Black Economic Empowerment, 302, 304

  Black Sash, 205, 238, 293

  Blacks: terminology, xviii–xix

  Blair, Tony, 299

  Bloemfontein, 101, 227, 268

  Bloemfontein Convention, 96

  Blue Drop program, 305, 336

  Boer War. See South African War

  Boesak, Allan, 239

  Bogaert, Abraham, 39

  Boipatong, 254, 270

  Booysen, Anene, 340

  Bophuthatswana, 191, 222, 226–27, 229, 236, 254

  Born frees, 345

  Botha, Andries, 62

  Botha, Louis, 142, 145, 147, 152, 157, 163

  Botha, Pieter Willem, 223–24, 226–28, 232–37, 240, 245–46, 274, 276

  Botna, Pik, 276

  Botswana, 214, 230–31, 233, 272

  Bowker, J. H., 62

  Boycotts, 259, 264

  Brand, J. H., 106, 134

  Brazil, 330–31

  brics, 330–31

  British Commonwealth. See Commonwealth

  British imperialism: in Cape Colony, 52–69; and A
frican conquest, 70–99; in Natal, 96–100; on the high-veld, 100–109; in era of mineral discoveries, 110–32; and the South African War, 132–43; and reconstruction, 143–53

  British Kaffraria, 76–77, 79–80

  British South Africa Company, 138–39

  Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment, 302, 329

  Broederbond, 162, 182–84, 244

  Brookes, Edgar, 175

  Brownlee, John, 19

  Bryant, A. T., 22

  Buildings Standards Act, 306

  Burchell, William J., 6, 21

  Bureaucracy, 242, 256, 258, 267, 271

  Burundi, 299

  Bushmen. See San

  Businesses and business leaders, 206–7, 243, 258, 262, 273

  Buthelezi, Mangosuthu Gatsha, 191, 230, 237, 247, 249–52, 255, 259–64, 268–70, 276, 278, 293

  Caledon River, 28, 85–86

  Canada, 56, 63, 158, 188, 233

  Cape Colony, 31–32, 33–51, 52–69

  Cape Mounted Rifles, 61

  Cape Town, 33–45, 248, 257, 262, 266, 306, 318, 324

  Capitalism, 1–2, 107, 123, 206–7, 216–19

  Capitalists, 191–92, 230

  Carnarvon, Lord, 148

  Carrington, Lord, 253

  Casalis, Eugène, 17, 24

  Casspirs, 333

  Cathcart, Sir George, 95

  Cattle: in precolonial societies, 4, 10–14, 16, 18, 20–29; in pre-1870 Cape Colony, 32, 36–38, 40–41, 46–50, 55, 62, 66; in colonial Natal and Afrikaner republics, 71, 78, 81, 83, 90, 93–94, 101, 103–4; post-1870, 112, 123–24, 127

  Cattle-killing, 78–80, 126, 176

  Cele, Bheki, 341

  Central African Republic, 327

  Centre for Investigative Journalism, 321

  Cetshwayo, 97, 122, 124

  Chamber of Mines, 179–80, 239

  Chamberlain, Joseph, 138–41, 146

  Chaskalson, Arthur, 271, 293

  Chiefs, 272. See also names of individual chiefs

  Chiefdoms. See names of individual chiefdoms

  Chikane, Frank, 239

  Children: in precolonial societies, 23–24, 27; pre-1870, 35–36, 45, 49, 58, 92, 103; 1870–1910, 112, 143; in segregation era, 154, 164; under apartheid, 201–2, 222, 228, 235–36, 242; postapartheid, 249, 256–57

  China, 299, 327, 330–31

  Chinese labor, 144–45

  Ciskei, 72, 80, 156, 191, 203, 226, 229, 254

  Citizen, the, 311

  Citizenship, 92, 137, 191

  Clans, 13–14, 17

  Classes: precolonial, 14; in Cape Colony, 35, 38–40, 45, 48, 51, 66; in colonial Natal and Afrikaner republics, 97, 101; 1870–1948, 112, 117–18, 147, 155, 158, 171; under apartheid, 200–201, 223–24, 228

  Clayton, Geoffrey, 198

  Clergy, 243, 275

  Clientage: in precolonial societies, 23–24, 29; in Cape Colony, 38, 48; pre-1948, 122; post-1948, 191, 207, 222

  Clinton, Bill, 299

  Coal-mining industry, 111, 154, 217

  Coetsee, Kobie, 245

  Collins, Richard, 54, 73

  Color bars, 152, 155, 157, 167, 180–81, 207

  Coloured People: terminology, xviii–xix, 65–66, 70, 113, 171; 1910–78, 171, 187, 190, 194, 196–97, 201–4, 208; post-1978, 222, 224–26, 228, 238, 242, 246, 261

  Commandos: in Cape Colony, 49, 58, 60; in Afrikaner republics, 72, 88, 90–92, 103, 106; 1870–1910, 122, 130, 133–35, 142–43, 145; post-1910, 160, 231–32

  Commission for the Restitution of Land Rights, 266. See also Land reform

  Committee for the Protection of Journalists, 318

  Commonwealth, 188, 214, 232–34, 236, 279

  Comprehensive Housing Plan for the Development of Integrated Sustainable Human Settlements, 306–7

  Concentration camps, 143

  Congress of Democrats, 208–9

  Congress of South African Students, 309

  Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 225, 236, 238, 247, 250, 251, 282, 293–94, 301, 318, 319, 331

  Congress of the People, 208, 314–15, 319, 322, 324, 325, 327

  Conservative party (South Africa), 234, 237, 247, 252–55

  Constituent Assembly, 252, 269, 270

  Constitutional Assembly, 249, 256

  Constitutional Court, 271, 293, 296, 297, 298, 305, 308

  Constitutional negotiations (1991–1994), 247–49, 252, 271

  Constitutions: Cape Colony, 63–65; Natal, 98; Orange Free State, 102; Transvaal, 102; Union of South Africa, 149, 150–52, 154–55, 160; Republic of South Africa, 225–26

  Constitutive Act, 299

  Consumer confidence, 301

  Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), 252–54

  cope. See Congress of the People

  Copper: in precolonial societies, 5, 16–20; in pre-1870 Cape Colony, 32, 37; post-1870, 115, 215, 217

  Corruption, 312, 330, 345, 346, 350

  COSAS. See Congress of South African Students

  COSATU. See Congress of South African Trade Unions

  Côte d’Ivoire, 299

  Council of Non-European Trade Unions, 179–80

  Council of Unions of South Africa-Azanian Confederation of Trade Unions (CUSA-AZACTU), 225

  Councillors: in precolonial societies, 26; in Natal and Afrikaner republics, 71, 78; post-1870, 125, 130, 182–83, 229, 237

  Crime, 267, 286–87, 311–12, 339–42. See also Violence

  Crocker, Chester, 232

  Crops, 10, 12, 36; barley, 62; fruits and vegetables, 39; grain, 101, 109, 112, 126–27, 131; millet, 19; sorghum, 16, 19, 20; wheat, 62, 66

  Crossroads, 202, 229

  Cuba, 216, 232, 239

  Customs unions, 149, 230

  Cwele, Siyabonga, 318

  DA. See Democratic Alliance

  Dalai Lama, 314, 327

  Dandala, Mvume, 315

  Davidson, Apollon, 275

  De Beers Consolidated Mines, 117, 206

  De Klerk, Frederick Willem, 246–49, 251–56, 259–64, 268–70, 275–77, 314

  De Kock, Eugene, 276

  Delagoa Bay, 83–84

  De Lange, Pieter, 244

  Delport, Tertius, 253

  Democratic Alliance, 294, 315–16, 318, 322, 324, 325, 344–45

  Democratic party, 247, 254, 257, 272, 288, 294

  Democratic Republic of Congo, 299

  Department of Foreign Affairs, 326

  Department of Human Settlements, 336

  Department of International Relations and Cooperation, 326, 327

  Department of Water Affairs, 305

  Destabilization, 231–34, 236, 259, 270

  Detention without trial, 228, 233, 235–36

  Diamonds, 5, 72, 107, 110, 114–19, 132. See also De Beers Consolidated Mines; Mining industries

  Diederichs, Nicholaas, 184

  Diet, 9, 15–16, 20, 164

  Difaqane. See Mfecane

  Dingane, 85, 87, 90–92

  Dingiswayo, 81, 83

  Dinuzulu, 148, 172

  DIRCO. See Department of International Relations and Cooperation

  Diseases: of animals, 4, 78, 80, 123, 127–28, 132; of humans, pre-1870, 5, 36, 38–39, 45–46, 70, 72, 104; of humans, post-1948, 119, 143, 168–69, 195, 202–4. See also Health

  DP. See Democratic Party

  Drakensberg Mountains, 4, 29, 96

  Dreyer, T. F., 162

  Drought, 4, 7, 13–15, 20, 25–27, 81

  Duncan, Sheena, 290, 293

  Dunn, John, 122, 124

  Durban, 3, 90, 193–94, 212, 237, 249, 266, 318

  D’Urban, Sir Benjamin, 94

  Dutch East India Company, 32–52

  Dutch Reformed Mission church, 51, 66, 68, 198, 204–5, 271; mission church, 239

  East London, 193, 208, 229

  Economic Freedom Fighters, 326

  Economy: 1870–1948, 110–11, 141, 154, 157, 167; 1948–78, 188–89, 195, 202, 212, 216–18; 1978–89, 222, 23
0–31; post-1989, 242–43; post-1994, 278–82; under Mbiki, 301–2; under Zuma, 328–31. See also Foreign investment; Unemployment

  Education, 284–86, 309–11, 338–39, 352. See also African education; Schools; Teachers; Universities; White education; individual colleges

  EFF. See Economic Freedom Fighters

  Elections: Cape Colony, 139; Orange Free State, 139; Union of South Africa, 157–58, 160–62, 184–87; Republic of South Africa, 187–88, 237–39; Government of National Unity, 249, 250–55, 272

  Electricity, 200–201, 256, 260, 261, 264, 266, 304, 334–35

  Emigration, 343–44

  Employment, by gender, 351

  Environment, 266–67

  eskom, 304, 334–35

  Ethnicity, 271–72

  European Union, 301

  Evictions, 193, 228

  Fagan, H. A., 181

  Fairbairn, John, 64

  False Bay, 3, 43

  Farlam, Ian, 332

  Farlam Commission, 332, 333

  Farming. See African farmers; Crops; Pastoralists

  Farm laborers: pre-1910, 111, 129, 132; post-1910, 155, 176, 185–86, 193

  Federal Alliance, 294

  Film and Publications Amendment Act, 316

  Fish River, 11, 14, 53–55, 73, 77, 80

  Fitzpatrick, Percy, 140, 158

  Fivaz, General George, 273

  Food production, 35, 109, 126–27, 129

  Food supplies: pre-1870, 32, 39, 72, 77; post-1870, 111, 123, 125, 128, 131, 143

  Forced removals, 55, 77, 92, 193–95, 228–29, 306

  Foreign investment, 243, 262, 276

  Foreign policy: under Mbiki, 298–301; under Zuma, 326–28

  Forum, the, 330

  France, 42, 214, 217–18

  Franchise: pre-1870 Cape Colony, 64–65; post-1870 Cape Colony, 111; colonial Natal, 98; Orange Free State, 102; Transvaal, 102, 137, 147; Peace of Vereeniging, 115, 144; Union of South Africa, 150–51, 160–62, 187, 190–91; Republic of South Africa, 225, 235, 239, 248

  Free blacks, 37, 44–45

  Free burghers, 33, 35–37, 41, 44–45, 49

  Freedom Alliance, 255

  Freedom Charter, 208–9, 229–30, 314–15

  Freedom Front party, 252, 254, 271

  Freedom Under Law, 323

  Fundamental rights. See Human rights

  Gaddafi, Muammar, 326

  Gama, Vasco da, 1, 31, 37

  Gamtoos River, 61, 73

  Gandhi, Mohandas, 113

  Garment Workers’ Union, 180

  Garvey, Marcus, 176

  Gauteng province, 270, 282, 284, 286

  GEAR, 301

 

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