Numbering the dead
Subtitle: the course and pattern of political violence in the Natal Midlands, 1987-1989
By: by John Aitchison
Edition: [First edition].
Publisher: Natal Society Foundation Trust
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780992176631
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Violence; Political violence; Ethnic conflict; Political parties; Resistance to Government; Ethnic relations; Race relations; Inkatha Freedom Party; African National Congress
Description: Provides a seminal account of the violent civil conflict that broke out around the city of Pietermaritzburg in 1987 and what ensued over the next three years. Aitchison and his colleagues, based at the Centre for Adult Education, documented and dissected the ebb and flow and the changing circumstances of this not-so-low intensity civil war in the region.  They collected, computerised, and categorised literally thousands of instances of eyewitness or documentary evidence, and then applied an innovative synthesis of qualitative and quantitative approaches that uncovered the patterns and intimated the underlying causes.
Notes: Based on the author's 1993 unpublished MA dissertation (of the same title), Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Also available online.
Table of contents: title: A story of what happened in the Natal Midlands --; title: Events and incidents --; title: Damage and destruction --; title: Death --; title: Analysing the conflict --; title: The interpreters --; title: Causes --; title: Features of an unofficial war --; title: Senzani na? In whose interests? --; title: Monitoring and monitoring methodology.