The Community Councils Act of 1977 provided for the
establishment of community councils in the African urban
townships - the urban locus for the management and reproduction
of the African labour force in the cities and ...
The title of this paper comes from a 1901 book by W.T. Stead, entitled The Americanisation
of the World. A British reformer and editor of the London-based Review of Reviews, Stead is
perhaps best known to historians as ...
In June 1930, Audrey Richards, a young British anthropologist who had trained
with Malinowski, arrived in her research area - the Bemba plateau in the northeastern
corner of what was then Northern Rhodesia. She was to ...
Witwatersrand during the 1940s and 1950s never involved themselves in "politics". Because they were almost by definition unemployed they were also marginal to the struggle between capital and labour. A study of the tsotsi ...
White settler political ideology in South Africa has traditionally seen itself as the embodiment
of some form of "civilisation" against the threatened "barbarism" of African
majority rule. The term has a significance ...
Writers on South African race policy frequently distinguish between the ‘administrative-repressive’ structure and the ‘utopian’ or 'declamatory' aspects of apartheid, between the ongoing processes of racial discrimination ...
In the 1960s the National Party (NP) government established two new universities for whites. These
were the dual-medium University of Port Elizabeth (UPE), which opened in 1965, and the Randse
Afrikaanse Universiteit ...
The main argument of this article is that capitalism in South Africa has undergone a fundamental change over the last few decades. Essentially, it would seem that the economy has been transformed over this period from being ...
It has been postulated that the greater the barriers between groups -
or, more specifically, ethnic groups - the greater the tendency for
stereotypes to be generalized. In such stereotyping, in other words,
not only are ...
The goldmine compound conforms fairly closely to what Goffman describes as
the " total institution ". He defines it as "a place of residence and work
where a large number of like-situated individuals, cut off from the ...
Following the renewal of black cultural activity around drama and poetry
in South Africa since the early 1970s, a resurgence of the use of prose
fiction has recently begun to take place. In the past decade several
anthologies ...
In the creation of an image of national unity successful
political states employ their power of cultural hegemony to
facilitate the continual renewal of forms of involuntary
ascription, such as ethnicity, that can coexist ...
Ethnicity has been an area in which scholars of southern Africa have shown a gradually
increasing interest over the last couple of decades. This interest has sharpened over the last
five or six years to become a major ...
The authors offer a social democratic alternative to neo-liberalism. First, liberalisation must be accompanied by social policies that minimise socialcosts. Second, policies must be designed with a view towards growth, and ...
The authors offer a social democratic alternative to neo-liberalism consisting of three
recommendations. First, liberalisation must be accompanied by social policies that minimise social costs. Second, policies must be ...
Missionary and evangelical work among the Africans in the mine
compounds took place on Sundays, Good Friday, Boxing, Christmas
and New Year's days, when African mine workers in the compounds
were allowed a whole day's ...