The 1920s witnessed a great volume of activity associated with the women's suffrage campaign
in South Africa. Existing women's organisations added the demand for the vote to their
programmes and new organisations were ...
Historians differ widely on the scope and significance of Cape liberalism. The lay public has forgotten it; the tradition did not survive Union either as an effective pressure group or a dispersed but influential body of ...
A seemingly interminable shortage of "adequate" shelter haunts the lives of a substantial number of residents of African townships…. This paper investigates the activities involved in the accumulation of capital through ...
This paper is essentially a summary of part of a dissertation I am
preparing for a M. Soc. Science degree. The primary focus is on the
labour movement in South Africa during the forties, but as is shown
below, to ...
The paper compares the development of various forms of
capitalist and peasant agriculture and state policies
towards them in South Africa, Kenya, Nigeria and Tanzania
during the coloniao and post-colonial periods. At ...
This essay is about things that never happened. The African
vampires discussed here are not the undead, but men and
occasionally women specifically employed--as firemen in East Africa
and game rangers in Central Africa--to ...
By the 1970s the mfecane had become one of the most widely abused
terms in southern African historical literature. Let the reader
attempt a simple definition of the mfecane, for instance. This is not
such an easy task. ...
The boundaries of modern nation-states delimit the territory controlled by the state. The
designation of places or ports of entry on the borders of modern nation-states allows the
counting of movement in and out. Immigration ...
On the 1st July 1989 Bophuthatswana police dispersed a meeting of villagers in Leeufontein,
situated about fifteen kilometres north of Zeerust in the western Transvaal who were protesting
against their forced removal ...
Intelligence – ‘spying’, in the popular imagination - operates
behind an aura of great power and influence. This is particularly so in authoritarian societies, where intelligence gathering is aimed at discovering, monitoring, ...
In a series of papers and articles beginning in 1983, Julian Cobbing has offered a radical, and often provocative, critique of the "mfecane" as the pivotal concept of the history of southern Africa in the first half of the ...
Compounds in the mining industry gave Rand and Kimberley capitalists a vital means of industrial and police control of their labour force, as well as enabling them “to provide amenities
such as recreation and health ...
South African historiography is ripe for change. Since the
emergence of revisionism in the 1960s, South African politics has
been studied using certain hitherto unquestioned assumptions. The
radical paradigm has been ...