TY - BOOK AU - Badat,Saleem TI - The forgotten people: political banishment under apartheid T2 - African social studies series SN - 9789004247710 AV - HV8961.S6 B33 2013 U1 - 305.9069140968 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Leiden, Boston PB - Brill KW - Exile (Punishment) KW - South Africa KW - History KW - 20th century KW - Internally displaced persons KW - Political prisoners KW - Political activists KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Human rights KW - Apartheid N1 - "This book was earlier published in Southern Africa under ISBN 978-1-4314-0479-7 by Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd in 2012."; Includes bibliographical references and index; Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- Banishment: an old and common practice -- Banishment and rural resistance in the early 1950s: GaMatlala and Witzieshoek -- Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s: Bahurutshe and Sekhukhuneland -- Banishment and rural resistance in the late 1950s and early 1960s: Mpondoland, Thembuland and Natal -- Urban political opposition and banishment -- Banishments under the Suppression of Communism Act -- Life in banishment -- Responses to banishment -- CONCLUSION -- Copy of banishment order -- Release order from banishment -- Can Themba, ‘Banned to the bush.’ Drum, August 1956 -- Cosmas Desmond, ‘Vorster’s forgotten people.’ Guardian Weekly, 19 June 1971 -- List of people banished -- Notes -- Index; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - The apartheid state employed many weapons against its opponents: imprisonment, banning, detention, assassination – and banishment. In a practice reminiscent of Tsarist and Soviet Russia, a large number of ‘enemies of the state’ were banished to remote areas, far from their homes, communities and followers. Here their existence became ‘a slow torture of the soul’, a kind of social death. This is the first study of an important but hitherto neglected group of opponents of apartheid, set in a global, historical and comparative perspective. It looks at the reasons why people were banished, their lives in banishment and the efforts of a remarkable group of activists, led by Helen Joseph, to assist them UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004247710 ER -