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, ...
A new generation of women leaders is carrying out an invisible revolution. All over the globe certain women have been asserting collective rights to protect their children against pollution, disease, and homelessness. Not ...
This paper is an examination of the political economy of Black women in South Africa
in terms of a case-study of women in Winterveld. As such it deals with three
issues, each of which is vast. These are: (1) Women; (2) ...
Virtually all of the married men to whom we spoke in Matatiele
and Qwaqwa were bitterly opposed to their wives engaging in
certain kinds of local income-generating activity. The main
target of male opprobrium was ...
In explaining the growth of independent churches among the Shona since the 1930s, Daneel lays great stress on the attraction for ordinary members of the curative powers offered by the church. Many joined because they ...
An earlier paper discussed the social origins of white women workers at
Zebediela. These women were young, Afrikaans-speaking, and came largely
from small farms in the Northern Transvaal (1). Their social characteristics
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Both nationally and on the Wits campus, the war years
constituted a major divide in the realm of student politics. On
the national level, the war promoted three developments.
Firstly, for the duration of the war, there ...