The article discusses a strategic planning initiative at the University of Swaziland Libraries. It describes the steps followed and the consultation and communication techniques used and notes the limited progress made in ...
In February 1876 the General Manager of the Standard Bank of South Africa
wrote that there was "a general spirit of enterprise abroad, which some
ten years ago would hardly have been considered possible in such a
country." ...
Bus boycotts assumed central significance in the political struggles in urban areas
during the forties and fifties. The Alexandra boycott of 1957, which evoked sympathy
boycotts across the country, even in areas in which ...
The years between 1886 and 1910 were amongst the most dramatic in the history of
southern Africa. Mineral discoveries at Kimberley in 1868, followed by the more
important discovery of vast seams of deep-level gold on the ...
Sol T. Plaatje's Sechuana Proverbs (1916) is a small blue book
containing 732 Setswana proverbs, their translations and their
'European eqvivalents'. At the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg,
this store of ...
Although recent historians have stated "the central theme
of South African history is interaction between peoples of
diverse origins, languages, technologies, Ideologies and social
systems, meeting on South African ...
In September 1997, the Botswana Government sponsored the second annual Month of
Prayer intended to involve churches in HIV/AIDS education and prevention efforts. At the
opening ceremony for this Month of Prayer, B.K. ...
The term apartheid is now used in many contexts to denote systematic racial separation and
exploitation. A long tradition in South African studies has sought to explain apartheid by
reference to the changing forms and ...
The immediate genesis of colonial Zimbabwe grew out
of the discovery of the main gold reef on the Witwatersrand
in 1886. When news of the find reached the diamond mining
centre of Kimberley, reaction was mixed. Some ...
The economic, political and social hub of Southern Africa is Johannesburg, which is by far the most affluent city on the African continent. The history
of this city is traditionally recorded as that of the rise of the ...