They were bloody clashes but ... in the context of the
time and the circumstances in that part of the world,
they were relatively minor. Fighting was an absolutely
common feature there every weekend without exception. ...
Citizenship has become a fashionable topic for discussion amongst political theorists during the 1990s. This is not surprising,
since this is the decade when Europeans have been debating in a
single European Parliament ...
The state of African marriage in colonial Zambia has been a matter of discussion, research and policy debate since the colony developed in the late 19th century. The outline of these
discussions is well known. Chanock ...
This paper addresses two problems within the analysis of South African society. The one, that of the nature of the state, has been the focus of a great deal of intellectual activity. The other, the spatiality of South ...
The Germiston by-election of 1932 was significant in itself. At the time it attracted detailed national coverage. It was marked by an intensity of campaigning which often erupted in violence, but also ensured a very high ...
Since the subject of "Literary Criticism in South Africa" is a vast one, I am going to narrow the topic to the idea of research in South African literature and I do not aim to be comprehensive in any way. Looking back over ...
During my visits to the Lowveld, I have not come across any veal
monsters or their animal loving enemies. I guess one would have to go
to the British port of Dover to witness that particular cattle battle. In
the same ...
A majority—almost 99 per cent—of African miners live in mine hostels. These are single-sex quarters located close to mine shafts,and they service the labour needs of individual mines. In the past they have also been called ...
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 ...