Apartheid's Stalingrad: How the Townships of the Eastern Cape Defied ... Apartheid

Rory Riordan, Apartheid's Stalingrad: How the Townships of the Eastern Cape Defied the Apartheid War Machine. ... With 18 portraits by David Goldblatt. Johannesburg: Jacana, 2022.

Soft cover, card wraps, 551 pages, plates.

Very good condition.

'In the townships of the Eastern Cape, where the state threw everything they had at these uprisings, the people stood and fought, and fought and stood. 

'Rory Riordan takes the reader on a long-anticipated and profound journey through the Eastern Cape during the horrors of apartheid in the 1980s. It was there that the apartheid security juggernaut met its Battle of Stalingrad during the uprisings in the townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in 1985 and 1986. This is the blazing story of how the people's resistance, through the church, through the civic structures and in the underground, won that battle. 

'[...1 for the first time we have a well-researched and comprehensive account of those difficult, terrible and yet wonderful years of the struggle. I couldn't recommend it more enthusiastically.' - Nkosinathi Benson Fihla, ANC and struggle veteran 

'Powerfully argued, and a compelling read, this work is a major contribution to our understanding of the end of white minority rule in South Africa.' - Prof. Peter Vale, Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria. and Nelson Mandela Professor of Politics Emeritus, Rhodes University 

Rory Riordan founded the Human Rights Trust in 1986, and its magazine Monitor. He worked extensively in the war-torn townships of Port Elizabeth and Uitenhage in the late 1980s. A former columnist for the Eastern Province Herald, Riordan lives with his wife in Schoenmakerskop, Gqeberha.'