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Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
Acknowledgments
Prologue and Readers' Guide
Introduction to the Electronic Space of this Book
A few suggestions for navigating this website
Hector Pieterson's Name
Terminology: Black/African
Digital Image Archive
A Note on the Archive
Summaries of Chapters
: Introduction:
[Epigraph]
Overview
Story Without End
The Uprising: Soweto Erupts
Author's Story
Context of the 1990s
Political Changes
The Story in the Archive: Cillié Commission of Inquiry into the Riots at Soweto
Creating a Space for Memory: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
Historiography of Soweto / Literature Review
The City
The Uprising
Black Consciousness
Cillié Commission
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission
[Intro]
Violence
Methodology and Conceptualization
Shift in Perspective
Context of Change and Violence
Sources
[Intro]
Oral
Documents
Student Documents
Police Statements
Transcribed Oral Testimonies—Cillié Commission
Transcribed Oral Testimonies—Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Strengths and Weaknesses, or Memory and Violence
Summary of Arguments
[Intro]
Solidarity in the Face of Ambiguity and Difference
Afrikaans
Black Consciousness
The Apartheid Government and the African National Congress
Violence
: "I Heard There Was a Riot in Soweto . . . :" A Narrative of June 16, 1976
[Epigraph]
A Winter Morning
Warnings
The March
The Confrontation
The Shooting
[Intro]
Tremor
Evening
Aftermath
Conclusion
: Official Stories:
[Epigraph]
Introduction
Responses to the Event
[Intro]
Immediate Reactions
Early Accounts
Secondary Discourses
: Commission of Inquiry into the Riots at Soweto and Elsewhere (Cillié) from the 16 June, 1976 - 28 February, 1977
Genesis of the Cillié Commission
Methods of the Cillié Commission
Rhetoric and Argument
Audience
Privileged and Knowing Position of the Author
Privileging of Narrative Time
Considering Causes
Representing Participants
Means and Method of Appropriation/Exclusion
Witnesses
Student Participants
Author Analysis: Witnesses
Methods of Coercion
Author Analysis: Statements
Experts
: Narrative of Resistance: The African National Congress (ANC)
[Intro]
Genesis of the ANC's Account
Audience
[Intro]
Claiming Authority
Rhetoric
The ANC's Informants
Narrative Time for the ANC
Participants as Represented by the ANC: Heroes or Threats?
Claiming Authority
The ANC and Black Consciousness
The ANC: What Really Happened—The Confrontation
The ANC's Means and Method of Appropriation
: Confronting Each Other: the ANC and the Cillié Commission
: The Last Official Narrative: The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
[Intro]
Nature of the TRC Commission Hearings (as opposed to the Cillié Commission):
Conclusion
: The Participants
[Epigraph]
Introduction
Life Histories: Four Voices
[Intro]
Beginnings
Education
Experience
Family
Status
Shifting the Point of View
[Intro]
Invisible Women? The Gendered Nature of the Uprising
Urban-Rural Connections—The Zoutpansberg Students' Organisation (ZOSO)
Dissent, Division, Difference—Solidarity
Identity and Representation
Conclusion
: Afrikaans:
[Epigraph]
Perspectives on the Role of Afrikaans
Afrikaans: Precipitating Factor?
[Intro]
The Urban Bantu Council, UBC
The State
The Opposition in Parliament
The ANC
The Press
"Not the True Cause . . . :" Analysis of the Literature
"Docile for Too Long:" The Cillié Report as a Record of Mounting Dissatisfaction over the Afrikaans Issue: Cillié Commission
"To Hell with Boere Taal:" Student Voices
Conclusion
: "I Saw a Nightmare . . . :" Violence and the Construction of Memory
[Epigraph]
Introduction: Individual and Collective Memory, Violence, and Silence
The Making of Memory: People, the State, the ANC, and Violence
On Violence and the Body: The Dead
The Disappeared
The Wounded: " . . . But the Pain You Feel Alone"
Conclusion
: Final Thoughts
Notes
: Introduction:
: "I Heard There Was a Riot in Soweto . . . :" A Narrative of June 16, 1976
: Official Stories:
: The Participants
: Afrikaans:
: "I Saw a Nightmare . . . :" Violence and the Construction of Memory
: Final Thoughts
List of Abbreviations
Keywords/Glossary
Bantu Education
Bizos, George
Black Consciousness / Black Consciousness Movement
Black Parents' Association (BPA)
Child / Childhood / Schoolchildren
Cillié Commission and Cillié Report
Fifty-Fifty Ruling
Mandela, Winnie
Mashinini, Tsietsi
Matlhare, Aaron Montoedi
Mazibuko, Seth
Mokoena, Aubrey Dundubele
Morobe, Murphy Mafison
Motapanyane, Tebello
Participant(s)
Pupils
Sizane, Zweli
South African Students' Movement (SASM)
South African Students' Organiszation (SASO)
Student(s) / Scholar(s)
Truth and Reconciliation Commission of South Africa (TRC)
Tsotsi
Urban Bantu Council (UBC)
West Rand Bantu Administration Board (WRAB)
Yutar, Percy
Zoutpansberg Students' Organisation (ZOSO)
Bibliography
Books
Newspapers and Magazines
Government Publications and Archives
Court Cases
Films
Interviews
[Intro]
Website links
Archive
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