During my visits to the Lowveld, I have not come across any veal
monsters or their animal loving enemies. I guess one would have to go
to the British port of Dover to witness that particular cattle battle. In
the same ...
A majority—almost 99 per cent—of African miners live in mine hostels. These are single-sex quarters located close to mine shafts,and they service the labour needs of individual mines. In the past they have also been called ...
In the early spring of 1832, Mey, a slave belonging to
Hendrik Albertus van Niekerk, initiated a series of events that,
in quick succession, saw him beaten by his master's son, Hendrik, Jr., whipped again by his master's ...
During the political upheavals which accompanied the shift from "Milnerism" to responsible Government in the Transvaal, the still troubled Johannesburg mining industry confronted serious new problems. In Britain, the ...
This paper addresses the current situation of the urban low-income housing stock in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the problems which have arisen from the increasingly severe housing shortage.
It is a widely accepted and disseminated tenet in virtually all
the literature on African art that no tradition of figurative
sculpture comparable to that of West and Central Africa existed
in Southern Africa. This ...
Jewish socialists have been ignored in writing the history of Jewish South Africa. They were important for the formation of the left in this country. The Jewish Workers Club (JWC), founded in the 1890's, was a social meeting ...
Until the 1950s, Gokwe was once perceived as the wild, remote and economically
'backward' domain of the 'Shangwe1 people, but since the influx of immigrants from the south
into this region, and the introduction of ...
The History of Mary Prince (1831) is, as far as we know, the first and only account by a slave
woman of her experiences to be published in Britain.(1) Its publication caused an immediate uproar which provoked three further ...