The Government is beaten, because even the Government of England
could not stop the people from squatting. The Government was
like a man who has a cornfield which is invaded by birds. He
chases the birds from one part ...
The cool, and apparently dispassionate analysis of a phenomenon like Black Consciousness cannot forget, that hundred have died for it, thousands were injured, thousands went to jail for it, many are still languishing in ...
On 25 September 1974, the South African Students' Organisation and the Black People's Convention held two rallies to celebrate independence in Mozambique. Within two weeks, 29 black consciousness leaders were in detention, ...
States under siege do not necessarily use only force to achieve
their aims of staying in power. An alternative may be to look
back into their historical past and find ways in which they
perceive that they have handled ...
The paper is a modified version of the first chapter of a short book which is currently nearing completion and is provisionally entitled The Poverty of Black Incomes'. The origin of this book goes back to 1977 when a study ...
The magazine Drum began in March, 1951, and it has become
deservedly famous since: partly for the ethos it created, partly for
the writers that it fostered - writers such as Nat Nakasa, Can Themba,
Casey Motsisi, Ezekiel ...
Black political mobilization in South Africa has largely
been explained by factors which are either structural or external
to the communities involved: falling wages and employment, the
contradictions of school and ...
The students' uprising of 1976 hardly features in stories by black South African
writers. In this respect, the short story is noticeably different from novels, plays
and poems by black writers in which these events are ...
In this paper we will examine the situation in which strikes by Black workers take place and their relationship to trade union organisation. Hopefully we will be able to tease out the strands of relationship between the ...
This paper outlines the contents of two 'manuscripts of modernity' produced in
defence of the Afrikaner Boerestand in the late 1950's. My reconstruction of these
'manuscripts' is both incomplete and sketchy. I hope that ...
Bones and burial places have been invested with special meanings in South Africa's recent political history. Before 1994 funerals of anti-apartheid martyrs often created public spaces for
activists to renew resistance ...
Through a series of public statements and official proclamations issued in the early 1980s, the
South African government confirmed that KwaNdebele, a small peri-urban settlement northeast
of Pretoria, was to become the ...