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 ...
This is a symposium paper that describes the objectives and components of the InfoLit portal especially WIST and Subject Portals at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Nicholson, Denise(Sage Publications on behalf of IFLA, 2002)
The right to access to information and ideas is vital for any society, yet for most developing countries in the sub-Saharan region of Africa, this is unattainable. This paper describes problems of access to information and ...
Information and knowledge are the drivers of socio-economic development. According to a World Bank report, weakness in the application of knowledge is a major factor behind the economic stagnation in Africa. Compared with ...
The paper discusses extensively the benefits and challenges of creating an institutional repository (IR) with local content (LC). The similarity of this to the National Library of Nigeria Legal Deposit (LD) Law was examined. ...