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 ...
Anthropologists have become interested in "the colonisation of consciousness", and in the processes by which this colonization has been withstood. While some scholars have examined acts of resistance whose social and ...
In the first half of the twentieth century racist ideology - whether
explicit or implicit - was a vital part of the ideological repetoire by
which white supremacy legitimated itself to itself. At one level this
contention ...
Identity is not a social entity. It is not embodied in
a social individual, or social institutions. It is not,
further, inscribed on the space of language. That is,
language does not create or even contain identity. ...