Rural resistance in South Africa: the Mpondo revolts after fifty years

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CONTENTS Acknowledgements ...vii 1. Introduction ...1 Thembela Kepe & Lungisile Ntsebeza PART I ON THE REVOLTS 2. Resistance in the Countryside: Th e Mpondo Revolts Contextualized ...21 Lungisile Ntsebeza (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 3. Reading and Writing the Mpondo Revolts ...43 Jimmy Pieterse (University of Pretoria, South Africa) 4. Govan Mbeki's Th e Peasants' Revolt: a Critical Examination ...67 Allison Drew (University of York, England) 5. The Mpondo Revolt through the Eyes of Leornard Mdingi and Anderson Ganyile...91 William Beinart (University of Oxford, England) 6. All Quiet on the Western Front: Nyandeni Acquiescence in the Mpondoland Revolt...115 Fred Hendricks and Jeff Peires (Rhodes University, South Africa) PART II INFLUENCE OF THE REVOLTS 7. Hoyce Phundulu, the Mpondo Revolt, and the Rise of the National Union of Mine Workers...143 T. Dunbar Moodie (Hobart and William Smith Colleges, New York, USA) (with Hoyce Phundulu) 8. The Moving Black Forest of Africa: Th e Mpondo Rebellion, Migrancy and Black Worker Consciousness in KwaZulu Natal ...165 Ari Sitas (University of Cape Town, South Africa) PART III MEANINGS AND SIGNIFICANCE 9. The Shock of the New: Ngquza Hill 1960 ...191 Diana Wylie (Boston University, USA) 10. Tangible and Intangible Ngquza Hill: A Study of Landscape and Memory...209 Liana Muller (University of Cape Town, South Africa) 11. A Bag of Soil, a Bullet from Up High: Some Meanings of the Mpondo Revolts Today...231 Jonny Steinberg (University of Oxford, England) 12. Discontent and Apathy: Post-apartheid Rural Land Reform in the Context of the Mpondo Revolts...243 Thembela Kepe (University of Toronto, Canada) 13. 'We don't want your development!': Resistance to Imposed Development in Northeastern Pondoland...259 Jacques P. de Wet (University of Cape Town, South Africa) Index ...279