As debate over African economic problems and prospects has shifted from concern with the
continent's "agricultural crisis" in the 1980s, to a focus on environmental degradation and sustainable
development in the 1990s, ...
Accounts of African political organisation in South Africa between the 1920s and 1950s have tended to veer between two extremes – institutional studies of national political organisations and micro studies of local struggles ...
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 ...
The period of the Rhodesian Front party's Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) is
sometimes described as providing a "hot-house" atmosphere for economic development, a characterisation
which stems from extraordinary ...
Although land and labour have been major themes in
Malawi's colonial history, class formation and the development
of the tea industry in the country's Southern Region
have received very little attention. This paper is ...
The social and political transformations currently under way in
South Africa provide reasonable grounds for optimism about the future of this country
and of most of its people. However the seeds of violence, social ...
"One may make one's own history", said Marx, "but not in the circumstances of one's own choosing". The argument in this paper is that, the production of particular versions of history may be inversely related to their ...
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 ...
In common with many developing countries, youth unemployment in South Africa is reaching
critical proportions. While the dimensions of the problem are not precisely known, studies
of the 1976 youth revolt, as well as ...