The establishment of British rule in Northern Nigeria (1897-
1903) did not ameliorate the condition of female slaves, particularly
concubines. The policy of Indirect Rule, as implemented under High
Commissioner Frederick ...
It is not inconceivable that the formal institutions of democracy, with
universal adult suffrage in a unitary state at the centre, will be
introduced in South Africa in the foreseeable future. It is also not
beyond the ...
By a boycott we mean the refusal by persons to deal with one or
more other persons. The purpose of the boycott is generally
to punish, or induce abandonment of a course of action, by economic
pressure. Likewise, an ...
It is widely acknowledged that self-help procedures produce housing (Harms, 1982), but there are differing perspectives on the contexts and motives leading to the emergence of the self-help housing phenomenon; and the ...
Although small gold deposits were found in the northern and eastern Transvaal
in 1871, what radically changed the shape of South Africa was the discovery,
on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, of surface deposits which persisted ...
What was distinctive about Apartheid in the 1950s,as compared
with the 1960s? How was it constructed, and how did it change?
Much of the academic and journalistic literature on Apartheid
pre-'reform' depicts it as the ...
On April 4, 1988 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), along with the
World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP), initiated the
teacher unity process by bringing the major ...
The digitization of heritage material for publication on the worldwide web is a site of struggle and the real challenges are not technological or technical but social and political. What is at stake is the politics of ...
Resistance and anti-apartheid politics in South African are
generally considered to have been greatly diminished in the
aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto
and student uprisings from June 16, ...
This is a description and evaluation of a SIDA funded continuing education initiative to enhance Internet skills and applications in university libraries in nine Southern African countries. The article describes the origins, ...
The conventional wisdom of South African ethnologists, whether
liberal or conservative, has been dominated by the idea that African politics
operated according to certain fixed rules ("customs") which were hallowed ...
Swaziland's Fourth National Development Plan advocates the
development of outgrower schemes based on the example of Vuvulane
Irrigated Farms as an alternative strategy for rural development
(Swaziland government 1985:309). ...
As several scholars and policy institutions have shown, small-scale contract farming has
become increasingly popular in recent years as a model for organising agricultural production at
the margins of the international ...
The Ducktails were a white youth gang subculture, which emerged within post Second World War South Africa. They
were rebellious, hedonistic, apolitical and displayed little respect for the law, education or work. There ...