The Angry divide by Wilmot G. James (Contributor)

ISBN: 9780864861160

This book- the first general social and economic history of the Western Cape- has grown out of a concern to deepen our historical understanding of the region ad appreciate more fully its contribution to the shaping of contemporary South Africa.

In their various chapters a number of leading scholars have sought to recover the regional particularity of Western Cape, and modify- perhaps even correct- the prevailing emphasis on the Witwatersrand and Kimberly in shaping social, economic and political relations in South Africa. Themes covered include relations between Khoisan and colonists, slavery, segregation in Cape Town; the rise of Afrikaner capital and Afrikaner nationalism; the underdevelopment of the region; class conflict and trade unionism; the role of the state, and the nature of resistance and popular protests in the twentieth century.