• APARTHEID'S STALINGRAD, how the townships in the Eastern Cape defied the apartheid war machine, with 18 portraits by David Goldblatt

APARTHEID'S STALINGRAD, how the townships in the Eastern Cape defied the apartheid war machine, with 18 portraits by David Goldblatt

: Riordan (R.)

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551pp., colour illus., paperback, Johannesburg, 2022

 

A history of the uprisings in the townships of Port Elizabeth (now Gqeberha) and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. 

"And to see so many 'unsung heroes', Dr Njongwe, Ernest Malgas, Henry Fazzie, Ivy Gcina and others ... now placed clearly in the picture of our struggle - this is great." Mkhuseli 'Khusta' Jack author of To Survive and Succeed, businessman, former president of the Port Elizabeth Youth Congress (PEYCO), and spokesperson for the Port Elizabeth consumer boycott

“Powerfully argued, and a compelling read, this work is a major contribution to our understanding of the end of white minority rule in South Africa.” Peter Vale, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, and Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics Emeritus, Rhodes University

Rory Riordan worked in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in the late 1980s. In 1986 he founded the Human Rights Trust in and its magazine Monitor.