WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era

ISBN-13: 9781776148042 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 398 str.

Mervyn Shear; Firoz Cachalia

Opis

First published in 1996, WITS: A University in the Apartheid Era by Mervyn Shear tells the story of how the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits) adapted to the political and social developments in South Africa under apartheid. This new edition is published in the University's centenary year.

Spis treści

• Foreword by Firoz Cachalia
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Racial Discrimination at Wits
• Chapter 2 The Threat to the ‘Open’ Universities
• Chapter 3 Activists Under Pressure
• Chapter 4 Student Politics in Black and White
• Chapter 5 The 1980s
• Chapter 6 Wits and the First State of Emergency
• Chapter 7 Resistance Escalates
• Chapter 8 Challenge to the Government
• Chapter 9 The Struggle Reaches a Climax
• Chapter 10 Transition to Democracy
• Chapter 11 Epilogue
• Notes
• Appendices
• Index