The Freedom Struggle was compiled and written by Peter Croeser to accompany a permanent exhibition on the struggle for racial equality in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands opened in September 2013 at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum. It is published in association with the Natal Society Foundation. The book covers a wide sweep of history from the San gatherers of 20 000 BC onwards, setting the history of the region against its sub-continental and national background. It moves from early African farmers to the arrival of first Voortrekkers, then the British, and via the wars of the nineteenth century to the eras of segregation and apartheid. The struggles of the disenfranchised culminated in regional violence at the end of apartheid that led to adoption of a democratically-inspired national Constitution in 1996.
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- KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
