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Episode: Thula Simpson, "History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present" (Oxford UP, 2022)
Description: South Africa was born in war, has been cursed by crises and ruptures, and today stands on a precipice once again. Thula Simpson's History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present (Oxford UP, 2022) explores the country's tumultuous journey from the Second Anglo-Boer War to 2021. Drawing on diaries, letters, oral testimony and diplomatic reports, Thula Simpson follows the South African people through the battles, elections, repression, resistance, strikes, insurrections, massacres, crashes and epidemics that have shaped the nation.Tracking South Africa's path from colony to Union and from apartheid to democracy, Simpson documents the influence of key figures incl...