To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996

To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996 offers a fresh perspective on the history of rural politics in South Africa, from the rise of the Zulu kingdom to the civil war at the dawn of democracy in KwaZulu-Natal. The book shows how Africans in the Table Mountain region drew on the cultural inheritance of ukukhonza-a practice of affiliation that binds together chiefs and subjects-to seek social and physical security in times of war and upheaval. Ground...