South Africa 1922 In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellion—sometimes known as the Rand Revolt—that pitted the white miners against the...
White Rising: The 1922 Insurrection and Racial Killing in South Africa. By Jeremy Krikler. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2005. Pp. xvi, 405; 39 illustrations. $59.95. This is a wonderfully tight and painstaking microanalysis of the "Rand Revolt" of 1922. It...
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...
