In 1959 the Nationalist Government, after a decade in power, finally passed through Parliament legislation to impose apartheid on South Africa's university system. In protesting against the Government's proposals for ...
The assumption that the experiences of Western societies are the
inevitable path for development in African1 societies has for
long guided demographic studies of African fertility and reproductive
behaviour. Valid ...
The Interim Constitution of South Africa which came into effect on 27 April 1994 established
a new law-government relationship characterised by constitutionalism, a relationship which
will be confirmed by the final ...
The aim of this paper is to examine democracy and oligarchy in the independent trade unions in Transvaal and the Western Province General Workers Union in the 1978s. The unions
considered in the Transvaal comprise the ...
The historical context of time, place and circumstances helps to place the Indian factor in South African history in perspective. Within this context it is possible to periodize as well as to characterize this factor so ...
This paper outlines the background and analyses the role of the Indian
mercantile community in West Madagascar in the second half of the nineteenth
century- In so doing, it attempts to set their activity within the context ...
During the last two decades, industrial decentralisation and growth
centre policies have been widely applied throughout the world. In this paper
the authors describe a rather distinct application of those policies, ...
The outbreak of the First World War in Europe in August 1914 was a turning point in the
history of the international socialist and radical labour movement. The war precipitated the collapse of
the International Socialist ...
Over the last two decades the process of industrialisation
in Africa has generated considerable scholarly interest and debate.
While much of the interest flows from industry's acknowledged potential
as ‘the main lever ...
Over seventy years ago, South Africa's Department of
Forestry started a large scale tree planting programme. The
scheme involved the establishment of communities of poor whites in
areas suitable for afforestation. The ...
Commissions of inquiry are, as Merton (1975) pointed out, both users and producers of sociological knowledge. Because commissions deal with
political issues, their reports reveal some of the ways in which such
knowledge ...
This article will analyse the United Nations' experience of
demilitarization in Southern Africa with reference to the issues
surrounding the transition from an emergency situation to a
developmental context. The three ...
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 ...
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, ...