To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996

by Jill E Kelly and Jill E. Kelly

To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996 offers a fresh perspective on the history of rural politics in South Africa, from the rise of the Zulu kingdom to the civil war at the dawn of democracy in KwaZulu-Natal. The book shows how Africans in the Table Mountain region drew on the cultural inheritance of ukukhonza--a practice of affiliation that binds together chiefs and subjects--to seek social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 161186285X
• ISBN13: 9781611862850
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Michigan State University Press
• Length: 396 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"