The mfecane as fetish:
In the last six years a major controversy has blown up among
historians of southern Africa about the historical reality or
otherwise of the phenomenon commonly known as the mfecane (1).
Since ...
The paper describes various laws and regulations that affect access to public information in two African countries, Uganda and South Africa. It offers some recommendations on how to remedy the situation in both countries.
On the 1st of March, 1914, the biggest British labour demonstration of the early twentieth century flooded into London's Hyde Park in a seven mile long column. Estimates of the size of the crowd ran as high as half a ...
Imperialist ideology remains an elusive concept. Most often it is taken to indicate a body of texts that justify and legitimize imperialism and are employed more or less consciously by imperialists to rationalize and ...
The South African government’s policy of granting
"independence" to the black reserves within its borders evoked considerable initial interest, particularly with regard to Transkei, the first black territory to be so ...
In this paper we will examine the atrocities committed by the Derg, the attempts made by
EPRDF to bring to justice those government officials who were responsible for human
rights violations, and the legislative reforms ...
In 1959 the Nationalist Government, after a decade in power, finally passed through Parliament legislation to impose apartheid on South Africa's university system. In protesting against the Government's proposals for ...
The assumption that the experiences of Western societies are the
inevitable path for development in African1 societies has for
long guided demographic studies of African fertility and reproductive
behaviour. Valid ...
The Interim Constitution of South Africa which came into effect on 27 April 1994 established
a new law-government relationship characterised by constitutionalism, a relationship which
will be confirmed by the final ...
The aim of this paper is to examine democracy and oligarchy in the independent trade unions in Transvaal and the Western Province General Workers Union in the 1978s. The unions
considered in the Transvaal comprise the ...
The historical context of time, place and circumstances helps to place the Indian factor in South African history in perspective. Within this context it is possible to periodize as well as to characterize this factor so ...
This paper outlines the background and analyses the role of the Indian
mercantile community in West Madagascar in the second half of the nineteenth
century- In so doing, it attempts to set their activity within the context ...
During the last two decades, industrial decentralisation and growth
centre policies have been widely applied throughout the world. In this paper
the authors describe a rather distinct application of those policies, ...
The outbreak of the First World War in Europe in August 1914 was a turning point in the
history of the international socialist and radical labour movement. The war precipitated the collapse of
the International Socialist ...
Over the last two decades the process of industrialisation
in Africa has generated considerable scholarly interest and debate.
While much of the interest flows from industry's acknowledged potential
as ‘the main lever ...