Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.2000021
Noor Nieftagodien
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.1960415
N. Ulrich
strating how he was also a man of the people. His desire to share his experiences and provide a good role model to younger men suffuses the text. Jeptha tells a story of pugilistic triumph, of injury, of humility, and of friendship. He responds to the loss of sight in 1907 by turning ‘to text as the form with a reach beyond his fists’ (63–64). He shows that a boxer can be a writer and a philosopher and challenges simplistic ideas that reduce the boxer to the enacter of violent masculinity. Jeptha embraced endurance as a ‘modality of the self’ and this enabled him to survive the ‘apartheid logic of engendering self-hatred’ (20). Campbell has written a complex and fascinating book. It is not an easy read because his carefully developed argument engages, at least for this reviewer, a wide range of unfamiliar traditions, abstractions, and semiotic interrogations. His willingness to make a bold argument and revisit a rare historical text, however, will interest historians and scholars of the subaltern, leisure, and sport studies.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.1960413
R. Morrell
A century after Andrew Daries Jeptha’s death, Kurt Campbell has brought the South African boxer back to life. Campbell achieves this through a text he found written by Jeptha in 1917 titled A South...
Andrew Daries Jeptha去世一个世纪后，Kurt Campbell让这位南非拳击手复活了。坎贝尔通过他发现的杰普莎在1917年写的一篇题为《南方。。。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.1998210
K. Bachmann
ABSTRACT During World War II, Baron Otto von Strahl, a German career diplomat and trader, became one of South Africa’s most important intelligence assets in the fight against Nazi infiltration. But he died indigent, an immigrant to the United States of America, because the German post-war authorities refused to recognise him as a Nazi opponent. Many decades after his death historians have begun to praise him as a resistance fighter, though ignoring certain ambiguities in his activities in South Africa. Von Strahl had denounced fellow Germans as dangerous Nazis without any tangible evidence, bringing about their internment by the South African authorities. Based on archival research in South Africa, Namibia, and Germany, this article exposes a paradox in von Strahl’s activities for South Africa: as an undoubted expert of South Africa’s infiltration by Nazi envoys and their propaganda, he focused on the German population, which constituted a relatively minor threat to the country’s stability, but he ignored the menace coming from pro-Nazi radical Afrikaner movements. His role has been exaggerated by those who accused him of treason during and after the war in Germany, whilst both his accusers and post-war defenders neglected his pro-Jewish attitude as the main motivation for switching sides in 1939.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.1960594
Thula Simpson
Martin Plaut’s Promise and Despair, published in 2016,1 considered the late nineteenth/early twentieth century period in which Abdullah Abdurahman, the subject of his latest book, exercised his gre...
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.2016153
Sandra Swart, Joel Pearson, Sarah Bruchhausen, Milton Shain, Franziska Rueedi, Tim Gibbs, Julian Brown
Widespread civil unrest erupted in South Africa, in the provinces of KwaZuluNatal and Gauteng, between 9 and 18 July 2021. It appeared to ensue from the incarceration of former President Jacob Zuma. Zuma was found guilty of contempt of court and sentenced to 15 months, after his failure to testify at the Zondo Commission inquiry into state corruption that occurred during his term as president. The unrest involved public violence, arson and unprecedented levels of looting. These acts were initially described as ‘protests’ by Zuma supporters, but can be understood in the larger context of desperately high unemployment and inequality, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the army was called in to quell the violence and plundering. Approximately R10 billion was lost in plundered consumer goods, and vehicles and property destroyed by arson. Over 3000 people were arrested, and it is estimated that 342 people were killed during the crisis. The South African Historical Journal put together a panel to gain a deeper perspective on these events in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng – exploring them from an historical perspective. As we noted in an earlier article in this journal, historians should not be chastened by
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.1960591
Eddie Michel
ABSTRACT My article explores the stance of ‘principled pragmatism’ adopted by the Gerald R. Ford presidential administration in its relations with apartheid era South Africa during the mid 1970s. This policy was shaped by the values of equality, fairness and justice that stemmed from the political and private persona of Ford himself. Moderated by a practical realpolitik, however, Ford recognised the necessity of avoiding measures that, while carrying an important moral symbolism, would in fact prove to be counterproductive to the aim of ending apartheid. Ford further identified the geopolitical necessity of engaging with rather than isolating South Africa in order to advance broader US strategic and moral objectives in the southern African region.
我的文章探讨了杰拉尔德·r·福特(Gerald R. Ford)政府在20世纪70年代中期与种族隔离时代的南非的关系中所采取的“有原则的实用主义”立场。这一政策受到平等、公平和正义价值观的影响，这些价值观源于福特本人的政治和个人形象。然而，在现实政治的约束下，福特意识到有必要避免采取一些措施，这些措施虽然具有重要的道德象征意义，但实际上会对结束种族隔离的目标产生反作用。福特进一步指出了与南非接触而不是孤立南非的地缘政治必要性，以推进美国在南部非洲地区更广泛的战略和道德目标。
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Pub Date : 2021-07-03DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.2000020
P. Denis
ABSTRACT Traditionally, evangelical Christians support, if only passively, the government of the day and are reluctant to take a stand on political issues. Under apartheid, this represented a dilemma for black evangelicals. Most of them experienced the evil effects of the regime on a daily basis. But they were unable to articulate their opposition to apartheid in religious terms. The situation changed in the mid-1980s. Two ambitious initiatives saw the light during this period, signalling that evangelicals are not necessarily apolitical. The first was the National Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR), a campaign in favour of reconciliation across racial lines launched by African Enterprise, an evangelical mission organisation based in Pietermaritzburg. I argue that – dismissed as irrelevant by black activists and ignored by the majority of Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) ministers – the NIR did not reach its objectives, at least in the short term. Meanwhile, a group of black evangelicals, largely from Soweto, formed a movement called Concerned Evangelicals, which challenged the notion that faith-based reconciliation was sufficient to resolve the crisis. For the first time, an evangelical body was taking a radical stance on apartheid in South Africa. Its creation sanctioned – for a while – the institutional division of South African evangelicalism.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-25DOI: 10.1080/02582473.2021.1941221
J. McDonald
Civilian-Driven Violence and the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples in Settler Societies, edited by Mohamed Adhikari, brings together a collection of historical case studies that provide nuanced insigh...
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