The context within which political conflict plays itself out in
South Africa has changed dramatically since FW de Klerk's speech
to the opening of parliament on 2 February this year. The wide-ranging
announcements have ...
After the general strike of July 1913 on the Witwatersrand the Transvaal trade unions (most of which were craft unions) under the auspices of the Transvaal Federation of Trade Unions presented a statement of their grievances ...
At the University of South Africa, we recognised the need that the Library and Archives respond to the user needs as a single entity. At UNISA, we make every effort to service the different demands and needs of the scholarly ...
Vorster described the events of 1976 as just ‘the whirlwind before the storm’, and events since 1984 have confirmed his judgement. But whereas the protests and conflicts of 1976-77 were focussed on Soweto (although they ...
The relationship between colonialism and witchcraft, as depicted in the ethnographic
literature of central and southern Africa, presents an intriguing puzzle. The human myseries resulting from colonialism- such as the ...
Evans-Pritchard's classical text Witchcraft, Oracles and Magic Among the Azande
(1937) lay the foundations for contemporary scholarly understandings of witchcraft. Yet
the author's central contention that witchcraft ...
The Second World War began as a European war on Sunday 3
September 1939 and ended six years later in the Far East with the Japanese surrender to the United States. In the history of the University of the Witwatersrand, ...
The presentation will provide a brief background to the Wits Digitisation Centre, the services it delivers and strategies for the sustainability of the Centre. It will discuss our vision for an Integrated Resource Discovery ...
The presentation will provide a brief background to the Wits Digitisation Centre, the services it delivers and strategies for the sustainability of the Centre. It will discuss our vision for an Integrated Resource Discovery ...