In this paper I seek to do three related things; to identify the dominant mode of production in the Swazi social formation and other possible subsidiary modes; to establish the existence or otherwise of classes in Swazi ...
In 1889 Tylor defined sacrifice as a form of gift-giving to spiritual beings (Tylor
1958:461). This definition has formed the conceptual framework for both classical and
contemporary anthropological understandings of ...
This paper examines the Zulu attempt to understand and to exploit the
imperial power of Queen Victoria relative to the colonial powers of Natal's
earliest colonists, missionaries, and administrators. The study reveals ...
Psychologists have a reputation for individualising, decontextualising and depoliticising
human suffering. Despite numerous exceptions to this rule - e.g. the attempts to theorize
colonial and class oppression by Fanon ...
On the 7 December 1985, the local community council, elected in a low poll in 1981, summonsed Oukasie residents to a fateful meeting. The residents were informed that they would have to move 24 kilometres north to Lethlabile ...
On the 21 April 1986, in the Mapulaneng district of Lebowa, the
Brooklyn Youth Organisation (BYO) was formed at a public meeting
held on the local soccer field. Two leaders and a disciplinary
committee (DC) were elected. ...
The establishment of British rule in Northern Nigeria (1897-
1903) did not ameliorate the condition of female slaves, particularly
concubines. The policy of Indirect Rule, as implemented under High
Commissioner Frederick ...
It is not inconceivable that the formal institutions of democracy, with
universal adult suffrage in a unitary state at the centre, will be
introduced in South Africa in the foreseeable future. It is also not
beyond the ...
By a boycott we mean the refusal by persons to deal with one or
more other persons. The purpose of the boycott is generally
to punish, or induce abandonment of a course of action, by economic
pressure. Likewise, an ...
It is widely acknowledged that self-help procedures produce housing (Harms, 1982), but there are differing perspectives on the contexts and motives leading to the emergence of the self-help housing phenomenon; and the ...
Although small gold deposits were found in the northern and eastern Transvaal
in 1871, what radically changed the shape of South Africa was the discovery,
on the farm Langlaagte in 1886, of surface deposits which persisted ...
What was distinctive about Apartheid in the 1950s,as compared
with the 1960s? How was it constructed, and how did it change?
Much of the academic and journalistic literature on Apartheid
pre-'reform' depicts it as the ...
On April 4, 1988 the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), along with the
World Confederation of Organizations of the Teaching Profession (WCOTP), initiated the
teacher unity process by bringing the major ...
Resistance and anti-apartheid politics in South African are
generally considered to have been greatly diminished in the
aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Soweto
and student uprisings from June 16, ...