TOWNSHIP VIOLENCE AND THE END OF APARTHEID, war on the Reef

226pp., illus., maps, paperback, First SA Edition, Wits University Press, Johannesburg, 2018

ISBN: 9781776143221

First published in the UK in 2018.

Gary Kynoch on the conflicts between the ANC and the Inkatha Freedom Party in the townships surrounding Johannesburg during the four years of negotiations preceding the 1994 elections.

A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand ... an impeccable study, and one which is in many ways disturbing" Roger Southall, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand

"This book makes a powerful, provocative argument about the causes, experience and legacies of the political violence that shaped South Africa's democratic transition." Tim Gibbs, UCL

Gary Kynoch is Associate Professor of History at Dalhousie University. He is the author of We are Fighting the World: A history of the Marashea gangs in South Africa, 1947-1999 (2005).