In an earlier paper, I stressed the conceptual inadequacies prevalent in both the liberal analyses of the State in the process of South African capitalist development and in the ‘new’ literature
which departs from the ...
In September 1944, African milling workers on the Rand, in Pretoria
and in several other centres in the Transvaal, went on strike. The
stoppage lasted only a few days, but it involved over 1200 hundred
labourers more ...
Post colonial southern African states are distinctive for their relative administrative capacity
and their fairly effective governance. Analysis of African states has identified a prevalent
set of weaknesses: uncertain ...
In common with many developing countries, youth unemployment in South Africa is reaching
critical proportions. While the dimensions of the problem are not precisely known, studies
of the 1976 youth revolt, as well as ...
Much of the contemporary debate on the transition from an apartheid to
an apartheid free South Africa has primarily focussed on the question of
class alliances and the possibility of socialism. This literature has
not, ...
South Africa's transition to democracy has highlighted the role of the state and bureaucracy in
tackling gender inequalities in education. New initiatives at national and provincial level have
focused on the establishment ...
There is a widespread belief, among some who hope for change in
South Africa, that if only all Blacks withdrew their labour, the
whole structure of South Africa would collapse. It is a subject
which has received little ...
Until perhaps as recently as a year ago, it would have
been tempting to construct a 'radical' critique of the
Urban Foundation (UF) around the apparent compatibility of
the organization's programme with the objectives ...
The years immediately following the armistice of the First World War
witnessed the rapid growth of labour movements throughout the world.
In sub-Saharan Africa, despite the region's relative weakness of
capitalist ...
Prior to the eighteen fifties, southern Africa was almost totally devoid of the elements of a modern capitalist economy. But it was in that decade that some of the familiar features of capitalism began to show themselves ...
According to conventional wisdom, Western "aid fatigue" is evident in Africa. Desperately
needed resources traditionally supplied by numerous bilateral and multilateral development
institutions and Non-Government ...
Legal and customary barriers of racial employment patterns prevent South African companies from optimizing labour input relationships. The result of these barriers
is imperfections in the internal labour market which ...
The goal of this paper is to outline an agenda for comparative historical inquiry, examine the comparative literature on South Africa in light of that agenda and explore the implications such
an analytical program might ...