Wits History Workshop Papers
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Item Wits as an open university, 1922-1959(14-02-14T12:49:58Z) Murray, B. K.Item 'Truth'-without-justice-and-reconciliation: a study of the passivity of the Nigerian Government to the confession of the 'Abacha boys' to state terrorism.(1943-02-25T13:52:21Z) Albert, Isaac OlawaleHuman tights abuses are a problem.The need to discourage this ugly phenomenon and promote reconciliation between the perpetrators and victims of human tights abuses has culminated in the establishment of Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in some parts of the world. The most important of such commissions to be established in Africa was the Truth and Reconciliation Commission which was established in South Africa by Act No. 34 of 1995. Since June 1998, some Nigerians have been asking that their country should join the league of nations that have dealt with their past human rights problems using the path of TRC. The call is made necessary by the abuses that took place in Nigeria between 1993 and 1998. This was the period when General Sani Abacha gave a "bad name" to all the national questions besetting Nigeria since the 1960s: ethnic chauvinism, purposeless leadership, electoral fraud, lack of integrity, corruption, mediocrity, violation of human rights etc.Item The 1952 Jan van Riebeeck tercentenary festival: constructing and contesting public national history(1952-02-27T06:03:53Z) Rassool, Ciraj; Witz, LeslieItem Sol Plaatje: in the spirit of the man(1962-07-16T11:43:11Z) Voigt, E.Item Unwrapping history at the Cape Town Waterfront(1962-07-16T11:46:21Z) Worden, NigelItem A general overview of silicosis (paper 1)(1978-03-29T07:12:19Z) Katz, ElaineItem African and Coloured squatters in the Cape Town region: 1975-1978(1978-04-01T08:52:11Z) Maree, JohannItem The development of the compound as a mechanism of worker control 1900-1912(1978-04-16T12:52:56Z) Moroney, SeanItem Amafelandawonye (The Diehards): rural popular protest and women's movements in Herschel District, South Africa, in the 1920s(1984-01-31T07:32:59Z) Beinart, WilliamItem Music and change in black urban culture during the first half of the 1960s.(1984-01-33T10:16:13Z) De Jager, HelenItem The Janus face of rural class formation: an economic and political history of traders in Qwaqwa, 1960-1985.(University of Cape Town (Thesis), 1987) Bank, LeslieIt is my aim in this paper to trace the slow re-emergence of class differentiation in Witsieshoek after the rebellion of 1950 and to the consider the implications of this process for political struggles waged in Qwaqwa during the contemporary phase of 'homeland self-government'. The paper focuses centrally on the emergence of a commercial petty bourgeoisie in the Qwaqwa since the 1960 and its changing political profile over the past two decades. In developing this analysis I focus mainly on licensed retail traders in Qwaqwa. My discussion proceeds in three parts. The first part deals with the period 1960 to 1974 and is dominated by an investigation of the activities of the Bantu Investment Corporation (BIC) in Qwaqwa. The second section of the paper concentrates on the period 1974-1980, a phase of mass population relocation and rapid economic differentiation. It concentrates on the unfolding of political struggle between the homeland political elite and the emergent commercial petty bourgeoisie. In the final section of the paper I focus on changing economic opportunities for African traders in the early 1980s as they are brought under the wing of the Qwaqwa Development Corporation and the Mopeli government. The paper concludes on a comparative note by addressing similarities and difference in the changing political strategies of traders in Qwaqwa in the face of economic centralisation with those of storekeepers and artisans in ninetenth century Europe.Item William Gemill and South African expansion, 1920-1950(1987-02-07T13:29:06Z) Jeeves, AlanItem African settlement and segregation in Brakpan, 1920 - 1927(1987-02-09T06:02:12Z) Sapire, HilaryItem Banishment: Germiston's answer to opposition in Natalspruit Location, 1955-1957(1987-02-09T09:06:36Z) Pretorius, R. E.Item Notes from the other side: teaching history in the front line States(1987-02-09T09:39:28Z) Parsons, N.Item Reconciliation and revenge in post-apartheid South Africa: rethinking legal pluralism and human rights(1987-02-09T09:40:21Z) Wilson, RichardHuman rights are a central element in the new governmental project in the 'New South Africa', and this article traces some of the specific forms of connection and disconnection between notions of justice found in townships of the Vaal and rights discourses as articulated by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Human rights in post-apartheid South Africa have had varied social effects which are understood through the categories of'adductive affinities' and 'relational discontinuities'. Religious values and human rights discourse have converged on the notion of'reconciliation' on the basis of shared value orientations and institutional structures. There are clear divergences, however, between human rights and notions of justice as expressed in local lekgotla, or township courts, which emphasized punishment and revenge. The article concludes that the plurality of legal orders in South Africa results not from systemic relations between 'law' and 'society'. Instead, pluralism emerges from multiple forms of social action seeking to alter the direction of social change in the area of justice, within the context of the nation-building project of the post-apartheid state.Item The United Democratic Front and township revolt: South Africa(1987-02-09T09:41:49Z) Swilling, MarkItem The 1920 black mineworkers strike(1987-02-09T10:50:09Z) Bonner, Phil