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Article: Jeremy Krikler, White Rising: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa.(Book review)
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JEREMY KRIKLER, White Rising: the 1922 insurrection and racial killing in South Africa. Manchester: Manchester University Press (hb 25.00 [pounds sterling] 0719068444). 2005, xiv, plates + 405pp.
With South Africa now in its second post-apartheid decade, readers might be surprised to learn that in the early twentieth century some of the greatest challenges to the regime came not from black rebels, forerunners of today's African National Congress, but from disaffected white workers urging their fellow colonialists to 'fight and unite for a White South Africa'. The 1922 Rand Revolt was the last and most momentous of these upheavals. Beginning in January as a strike ...