In the silence of the night, there is a lady, far and bright, listening patiently while others yawn, she goes to sleep, when comes the dawn. She hangs in the sky, quietly beaming and to those below, awake and dreaming, she hands out gifts of silver and blue, peacefulness, rest and dreams that come true.
In the silence of the night, there is a lady, far and bright, listening patiently while others yawn, she goes to sleep, when comes the dawn. She hangs...
This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flashpoint of South Africa's history. Brown argues that far from there being -quiescence- following the Sharpeville Massacre and the suppression of African opposition movements, during which they went underground, this period was marked by experiments in resistance and attempts to develop new forms of politics that prepared the ground for the Uprising. Students at South Africa's segregated universities began to re-organise themselves as a political...
This revisionary account of the Soweto Uprising of June 1976 and the decade preceding it transforms our understanding of what led to this crucial flas...
