In the late 1970s and the 1980s scholarship on the Zulu kingdom under Shaka changed significantly as scholars began for the first time to draw heavily on recorded African oral tradition as an historical source, and to use ...
Bank, Leslie(University of Cape Town (Thesis), 1987)
It is my aim in this paper to trace the slow re-emergence of
class differentiation in Witsieshoek after the rebellion of 1950 and to
the consider the implications of this process for political
struggles waged in Qwaqwa ...
In this paper I elaborate on the argument that 'the mfecane' is a
pivotal component of a 'liberal', settler, apartheid-skeletal form a new
analysis. The main assertion of mfecane propaganda is that a
'Zulu-centric' ...
Sixty thousand black men were employed in 1912 as domestic servants on
the Witwatersrand. Most white women disdained this 'Kaffir work' and
in Johannesburg, there were less than 5 000 black women. Thus black
men performed ...
The most remarkable feature of Joseph Chamberlains
government of the Empire was his attempt to command assent
at home and abroad. At home he was extraordinarily successful.
His complicity in the Jameson Raid and his ...
This paper focuses on the linkages between women and
militarisation. Women are understood as a social category with
distinctive and specific experiences. Such experience is structured not
only by gender but by other ...
While it is by now conventional wisdom that the compound
'provided the framework for the total exploitation of ...
black workers', (1) it has often been assumed by historians
that the late nineteenth century closed ...
This paper examines the establishment, growth and influence of the
Ebenezer Congregational Church in Johannesburg, over a period of
almost Fifty years. Although not the largest Coloured congregation
in Johannesburg, ...
This paper questions the applicability of neoclassical
theory to the South African labour market and it adopts an
alternative approach, namely, segmented labour market theory.
Segmented labour market (SLM) theory has ...
Towards the end of August 1951, the manager of Transvaal Gold Mining
Estates (TGME) wrote to Rand Mines asking for advice on a 'very
embarrassing matter'. The problem he faced was one of difficulty in
obtaining continued ...
Filiation is the name given to that realm of nature or "life" that defines what is
historically given to us by birth or circumstance. Affiliation represents the process
whereby filiative ties are broken and new ones ...
It is evident that the population of the South African Republic
did not constitute a single homogenous group, devoid of variation
in wealth, education and life-style. The diversity of Afrikaner
society has frequently ...