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TWO BOOKS
                                      Resistance atvJ Culture
    Qabula, Hlaishwayo and Malange are familiar names in
    Natal'i worker movement. They are increasingly becom-
    ing familiar names nationwide as their reputation as
    "Worker izimbongi" is spreading with every major issue
    in the country. By now thousands of people have witness-
   ed their powerful oral poetry at mass-meetings and at
   worker and community gatherings. They are pan and
   parcel of an exciting and militant cultural movement
   which is daily becoming central to the lives of working
   people in South Africa: indeed, a "Black Mamba Rising"
   in dignity.
   This book gather's together Qabula's, Hlatshwayo's and
   Malange's poetry from the beginnings of 1984 to the
   launch of COSATU in November 1985, it captures the
   oral peotry from the time Qabula started wandering
   through worker gatherings with his "Praise Poem to
   Fosatu" to the time when he and HIauhwayo orated their
   joint composition, Tcan of a Cnlor. In between these two
   major compositions, the poems here, sometimes in short
   and harsh lines, sometimes in complei Nguni symbolism,
   capture the power, the commitment and the pride of the
    progressive labour movement.
    Price - R6.
                                                             This book looks at the history of Indian workers from
                                                             1860 to the present. It tries to show hew the actions
                                                             of the bosses and the laws of the goverrnent have
                                                             created and reinforced divisions between Indian and
                                                             African workers. There were tines when the workers were
                                                             able to unite together, but more often Indian and
                                                             African Markers were Involved In separate struggles.
                                                             In the days of early Industry Indian workers were
                                                             •dlltant and orjauilsed. The bosses then used African
                                                             workers against Indian workers.Today, in the 1980's, it
                                                             Is the African workers who have cote together in strong
                                                             unions and a militant federation, GOSATU. Host Indian
                                                             workers are not involved in these unions.
                                                             These experiences are looked a t , and where possible
                                                             this is done through the words of workers and
                                                             oropnlsers who try to understand the divisions and the
                                                             way forward to unity.
                                                              P r i c e R4.50
Worker R e s i s t a n c e and Culture P u b l i c a t i o n s ,
Department of S o c i o l o g y , U n i v e r s i t y o f N a t a l ,
King George V Avenue, Durban. 4 0 0 1 .
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