Violence in a Time of Liberation: Murder and Ethnicity at a South African Gold Mine, 1994

by Donald L. Donham

How can we account for the apparent increase in ethnic violence across the globe? Donald L. Donham develops a methodology for understanding violence that shows why this question needs to be recast. He examines an incident that occurred at a South African gold mine at the moment of the 1994 elections that brought apartheid to a close. Black workers ganged up on the Zulus among them, killing two and injuring many more. While nearly everyone came to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822348411
• ISBN13: 9780822348412
• Release Date: July 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 256 Pages