The Western Areas of Johannesburg, and Sophiatown in particular, came to symbolize black protest in the 1950s and became arguably the most politicized area in the country, albeit for a short period. This paper will seek ...
Referring to the Hermannsburg station Linokana in the Marico district the Rand Daily Mail commented in
1907, fifty years after the arrival of the first Lutheran missionaries at that spot.
But the days of the missionary ...
In late February 1996, a group of property-owners in northern Johannesburg attacked
residents of a squatter camp that had sprung up on their doorstep, and burnt down several
shacks. Local government officials, while not ...
On the 1st April 1905, on the North Randfontein gold-mine in the Transvaal, a simmering dispute between the Chinese Indentured labourers and the mine management
erupted in open violence. The whole of the Chinese work force ...
This paper will examine the development of immigration policy,
legislation and practice from 1913 to 1939. It will explore
how constructions of race have informed official discourses
around immigration as well as their ...
One individual towered over the members of the early International Socialists in South Africa and determined that groups political destiny. He was its thinker, its ideologist, its direction maker. He provided the cultural ...
Limited choices were available to
black workers in the auto plants in the late 1960s. Blacks received poor wages for performing the worst jobs, and faced virtually unbridled supervisorial
despotism. For coloureds, the ...
King Sabata Jonguhlanga Dalindyebo, deposed Paramount Chief
of the Thembus, was buried twice. The first interment took place
on 20th April 1986; the second took place on 1st October, 1989.
The first interment was ...
Existing interpretations of the failure of resistance to the forced removal of Sophiatown in 1955 have been grossly inadequate. The emphasis has been on the political programmes and strategies of organised politics which ...
This paper focuses on the experiences of Kagiso, a medium-sized township on the West Rand. Kagiso was one of several major townships - Soweto and Mamelodi were others - which remained relatively 'quiescent' during 1984-85, ...
This paper provides a re-interpretation of a crucial period in South African history, during which the main
struts of the Apartheid State were laid. There were four major issues facing successive governments in the first ...