In accounting for the growth of militancy in Eastern Pondoland
in I960, it is necessary to analyse a number of changes enforced
in the reserves by the Government in the 1950's. Most prominent
of these are the intensification ...
In July 1949 the British Government appointed an anthropologist from Cambridge. G. I.
Jones, to inquire into the diretlo murders in the Protectorate of Basutofand. From the report which he compiled, the occurrence of the ...
The title of the paper suggests a tentative investigation into the nature
of the belief in Mwali in Venda and its historical significance. Initial
research into the problem was stimulated by reading Daneel (1) and
Ranger's ...
The contribution of the poet N.P. van Wyk Louw (1906-1970) to the debate on Afrikaans literature, politics and cultural life has been seminal in many respects. Although different aspects of
Louw's thought need to be viewed ...
Over the last decade, the use of oral testimony has been gaining momentum in southern African studies. Used initially as one source among many, oral testimony has come to occupy a more and more central place in an increasing ...
• Primary source of SA published
documentary heritage
• Wealth of information
• Books, periodicals, newspapers, maps,
special collections, government
publications, foreign official publications
The objects of the National Library of South Africa (NLSA) and the functions it is required to perform are prescribed by the National Libraries Act, Act 92 of 1998. The NLSA is the primary resource of South African published ...
In economic history, capitalism is a crucial concept. It draws attention to the role of social
institutions in the rapid and sustained productivity increases of the past two hundred years. It was
Karl Marx who first ...
Many people subscribe to the notion that the Johannesburg central business district, or CBD, has
declined substantially in recent years. A closer examination of the available data, however, suggests that the
process has ...
Public service workers now
enjoy trade union and collective bargaining rights for the first time in the country's history.
These changes provide public servants with opportunities to bring their conditions of service
into ...