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, ...
The conventional wisdom of South African ethnologists, whether
liberal or conservative, has been dominated by the idea that African politics
operated according to certain fixed rules ("customs") which were hallowed ...
Swaziland's Fourth National Development Plan advocates the
development of outgrower schemes based on the example of Vuvulane
Irrigated Farms as an alternative strategy for rural development
(Swaziland government 1985:309). ...
As several scholars and policy institutions have shown, small-scale contract farming has
become increasingly popular in recent years as a model for organising agricultural production at
the margins of the international ...
The Ducktails were a white youth gang subculture, which emerged within post Second World War South Africa. They
were rebellious, hedonistic, apolitical and displayed little respect for the law, education or work. There ...
Popular histories of nature protection in southern Africa usually portray the
prelude to the passing of the National Parks Act in 1926 as a contest between
the forces of 'good' (those in favour of national parks) and ...
During the 1940's under the stimuli of industrial action, communal protest and passive resistance and an increasingly repressive social and political climate, the African National Congress's leadership had reached the point ...
The image of the countryside in South African historiography has changed significantly in recent years. Earlier writers like C.W. de Kiewiet and W.M. MacMillan stressed the backwardness arid stagnation of the South African ...
The gold standard crisis defined the end of an epoch. From at least
the end of the first world war to the Christmas of 1932, the South African and
Imperial states and mining capital were involved in a struggle over the ...
Max Weber (1964 ed.) was perhaps the first social theorist of power to
note that activity in virtually any domain can serve as a basis of power, and
that once established, such power can become available for use in other ...
The extent of imperial capital's dominance over South Africa's
economy at the time of the formation of Union inevitably raises
serious questions about the content of the country's political
independence in 1910. This ...
This paper attempts to situate the current economic ‘upswing’ in the South African economy in the context of the on-going economic crisis which is plaguing the international capitalist economy. I will argue that the two ...
In November 1981 the historian Nicholas Cope tracked down Tandayipi Absolom kaSolomon
Zulu to a bottle store outside Nongoma, Zululand. Once a contender for the royal throne
of the Zulus, Tandayipi was now an alcoholic ...
'The way in which white has governed black in South Africa during approximately the past
century', formed the focus of Edgar Brookes's History of Native Policy published in 1924.'
Over the years, colonialism, segregation ...