THE ROAD TO DEMOCRACY IN SOUTH AFRICA, volume 7: Soweto uprisings: new perspectives, commemorations and memorialisation

: South African Democracy Education Trust

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267pp., illus., hardback, Pretoria, 2017.

 

Compiled and co-ordinated by the South African Democracy Education Trust (SADET), the Road to Democracy Project "aims to compile a chronological analysis of four decades, namely 1960-1970, 1970-1980, 1980-1990 and 1990-1994".

Foreword by Thabo Mbeki.

Contributions include:

"Cultural imperialism, language and ideological struggles inside the Soweto classrooms" and "The anatomy of the crowd" by Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

"The centrality of public and oral history in mapping the Soweto uprising routes" by Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu and Ali Khangela Hlongwane

"June 16 1976 Soweto uprisings: A journey into the contested world of commemoration" and "'Bricks-and-mortar testimonies': The interactive and dialogical features of the memorials and monuments of the June 16 1976 Soweto uprisings" by Ali Khangela Hlongwane