A Bed Called Home: Life In The Migrant Labour Hostels of Cape Town

by Mamphela Ramphele

Book Overview

In the last three years the migrant labor hostels of South Africa, particularly those in the Transvaal, have gained international notoriety as theaters of violence. For many years they were hidden from public view and neglected by the white authorities. Now, it seems, hostel dwellers may have chosen physical violence to draw attention to the structural violence of their appalling conditions of life. Yet we should not lose sight of the fact that the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821410636
• ISBN13: 9780821410639
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 159 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.7" x 9.6"