Publisher's Synopsis
The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 4, Part 3 addresses the previously neglected and undermined voices of black scholars, researchers, and public intellectuals. The publication also ensures that oppressed voices of the majority of our population are at the centre of the historic narrative. Volume 4 Part 3 tackles the debate on whether the real locality of the struggle for liberation in South Africa was urban or rural and comes to the conclusion that it was indeed a national struggle and that it permeated all parts of the country. Included in the volume are chapters by Marepo Lesetja, who analyses the often neglected struggle for liberation in what was then the Far Northern Transvaal (now Limpopo Province); Tshepo Moloi examines the re-establishment of the ANC and PAC in selected townships located in the PWV area; Lungisile Ntsebeza assesses the political economy of the land question in South Africa's urban areas up to 1994, with a focus on the Cape Peninsula; Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu embraces the cultural, emotional, and human aspects of the liberation struggle by exploring why and how it was that Rolihlahla Nelson Mandela became the 'public face' of the liberation struggle. Luvuyo Wotshela discusses the fate of the Ciskei Bantustan and adjacent border towns, and their political transition towards a democratising South Africa from 1985 onwards.
