Then and Now: Activism in Manenberg, 1980 to 2010

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dc.contributor.advisorDhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma
dc.contributor.authorJacobs, Julian A
dc.contributor.otherDept. of History
dc.contributor.otherFaculty of Arts
dc.date.accessioned2013-09-03T12:42:01Z
dc.date.accessioned2024-03-26T06:48:47Z
dc.date.available2011/04/14 13:46
dc.date.available2011/04/19
dc.date.available2013-09-03T12:42:01Z
dc.date.available2024-03-26T06:48:47Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.descriptionMagister Artium - MAen_US
dc.description.abstractThe study analysed the politics of resistance in Manenberg placing it within the over arching mass defiance campaign in Greater Cape Town at the time and comparing the strategies used to mobilize residents in Manenberg in the 1980s to strategies used in the period of the 2000s. The thesis also focused on several key figures in Manenberg with a view to understanding what local conditions inspired them to activism. The use of biographies brought about a synoptic view into activists lives, their living conditions, their experiences of the apartheid regime, their brutal experience of apartheid and their resistance and strength against a system that was prepared to keep people on the outside. This study found that local living conditions motivated activism and became grounds for mobilising residents to make Manenberg a site of resistance. It was easy to mobilise residents on issues around rent increases, lack of resources, infrastructure and proper housing.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10566/9731
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.rights.holderUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectResistance movementen_US
dc.subjectManenbergen_US
dc.subjectSouth African politics 1980en_US
dc.subjectYouth and violenceen_US
dc.subjectDemocracyen_US
dc.subjectYouthen_US
dc.subjectSocial conditionsen_US
dc.titleThen and Now: Activism in Manenberg, 1980 to 2010en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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