Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948

by Paul Landau, Cambridge, 2011

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa

Popular Politics in the History of South Africa, 1400–1948 offers a newly inclusive vision of South Africa's past. Drawing largely from original sources, Paul Landau presents a history of the politics of the country's people, from the time of their early settlements in the elevated heartlands, through the colonial era, to the dawn of Apartheid.

Triumph over the tribe

by Paul Landau, Mail & Guardian

Well after apartheid's end, the tribe is still taken as the background for all subsequent African politics. The attraction of the idea is its mythical and timeless quality. It is celebrated by the state as "heritage" and furthered by new assertions of the chiefs' supposedly traditional prerogatives.