Title: Numbering the dead
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.
Subjects: Violence, Political violence, Ethnic conflict, Political parties, Resistance to Government, Ethnic relations, Race relations, Inkatha Freedom Party, African National Congress
Places: South Africa, KwaZulu-Natal, KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), KwaZulu-Natal Midlands (South Africa)