The historical context of time, place and circumstances helps to place the Indian factor in South African history in perspective. Within this context it is possible to periodize as well as to characterize this factor so ...
This paper outlines the background and analyses the role of the Indian
mercantile community in West Madagascar in the second half of the nineteenth
century- In so doing, it attempts to set their activity within the context ...
During the last two decades, industrial decentralisation and growth
centre policies have been widely applied throughout the world. In this paper
the authors describe a rather distinct application of those policies, ...
The outbreak of the First World War in Europe in August 1914 was a turning point in the
history of the international socialist and radical labour movement. The war precipitated the collapse of
the International Socialist ...
Over the last two decades the process of industrialisation
in Africa has generated considerable scholarly interest and debate.
While much of the interest flows from industry's acknowledged potential
as ‘the main lever ...
Over seventy years ago, South Africa's Department of
Forestry started a large scale tree planting programme. The
scheme involved the establishment of communities of poor whites in
areas suitable for afforestation. The ...
Commissions of inquiry are, as Merton (1975) pointed out, both users and producers of sociological knowledge. Because commissions deal with
political issues, their reports reveal some of the ways in which such
knowledge ...
This article will analyse the United Nations' experience of
demilitarization in Southern Africa with reference to the issues
surrounding the transition from an emergency situation to a
developmental context. The three ...
In the late 1970s and the 1980s scholarship on the Zulu kingdom under Shaka changed significantly as scholars began for the first time to draw heavily on recorded African oral tradition as an historical source, and to use ...
Bank, Leslie(University of Cape Town (Thesis), 1987)
It 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 ...
In this paper I elaborate on the argument that 'the mfecane' is a
pivotal component of a 'liberal', settler, apartheid-skeletal form a new
analysis. The main assertion of mfecane propaganda is that a
'Zulu-centric' ...
Sixty thousand black men were employed in 1912 as domestic servants on
the Witwatersrand. Most white women disdained this 'Kaffir work' and
in Johannesburg, there were less than 5 000 black women. Thus black
men performed ...
The most remarkable feature of Joseph Chamberlains
government of the Empire was his attempt to command assent
at home and abroad. At home he was extraordinarily successful.
His complicity in the Jameson Raid and his ...