The Forgotten People
Biographical note
Saleem Badat is Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University. He is the author of Black Student Politics, Higher Education and Apartheid and Black Man, You Are on Your Own, co-author of National Policy and a Regional Response in South African Higher Education, and co-editor of Apartheid Education and Popular Struggle in South Africa.
Readership
Scholars, intellectuals, politicians and individuals who are politically active through political organisations and civil society bodies. All those interested in aspects of South Africa’s authoritarian and repressive past and in human rights issues.
Reviews
“For the long years of meticulous research and finally the superb telling of the story of banishment under apartheid, we owe a great debt to the author” – George Bizos, from his Foreword
'An extremely impressive manuscript on an aspect of political repression that has previously received scant academic attention. For both the definitive study of banishment and the valuable overview of rural struggles in the apartheid era, this book will be welcomed by the scholarly community as an important contribution to knowledge' – Colin Bundy, Green Templeton College, Oxford, UK
'An extremely impressive manuscript on an aspect of political repression that has previously received scant academic attention. For both the definitive study of banishment and the valuable overview of rural struggles in the apartheid era, this book will be welcomed by the scholarly community as an important contribution to knowledge' – Colin Bundy, Green Templeton College, Oxford, UK
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This book offers an ethnographic exploration of how public and collective services are produced ‘on the ground’ in Africa. This anthropology of everyday governance as process is a strong contribution to current debates on public policy, governmentality and the state.
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