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Economic crisis in South Africa: 1974-1986

Gelb, Stephen (1987-08)

Symptoms of economic crisis - long run economic decline – are now so widespread in South Africa that the existence of such a crisis is increasingly taken for granted in public discussions of the state of the economy and ...
Economic growth and political changes in South Africa: A postscript

Bromberger, N. (1975-08-18)
Economy and society in South Africa

Schlemmer, Lawrence (2011-05-09)

Between 1974 and the time of writing, dramatic political events in the Southern African region have tended to shift the ongoing debate on the economy and change in South Africa somewhat into the background. There has ...
The economy of a democratic South Africa: A discussion paper

Lazar, David (1990-10)

This paper examines some recent contributions to the economic policy of a democratic government.
Education, punishment and the contradictions of penal reform: Alan Paton and Diepkloof Reformatory, 1934 - 1948

Chisholm, Linda (1990-02-06)
Eiselen and the clash of languages

Kros, Cynthia (1990-09)

The events of 1976 drew attention in no uncertain way to the contention surrounding the language issue, in this case the enforced use of Afrikaans as a partial medium of instruction. It was by no means a new struggle. ...
Elitism vs populism in the West African epic: the politics of 'Sunjata'.

Austen, Ralph (1994-07-13)

The epic is a political genre whose function is to calibrate the power of the masculine warrior, or aristocracy, at the expense of other social groups. This is the understanding of the African oral narrative the Mende ...
Employment creation in construction in South Africa: The potential and the problems

McCutcheon, Rob (1992-02-24)

Unemployment is one of South Africa's most pressing problems. Various solutions to this problem have been proposed. Elsewhere in Africa employment creation programmes have been established within the public sector; in ...
The end of a dream? Social movements and the new South Africa

Pillay, Devon (1994-07-13)
"Engaging in honest labour": Land, inheritance and stratification in the Rehoboth Baster Gebiet

Pearson, Patrick (1987-05-11)

The Rehoboth Gebiet, "homeland" of the Baster people of Namibia, covers an area of about 1.3 million hectares, or three million acres. Located slightly south on the central plateau, it has often been described as including ...
Eritrea and political pluralism

Iyob, Ruth (1994-07-13)
Ethnicity and the geometry of power: One moment in the imagination of the polity

Thornton, Robert (1993-03-29)

Ethnicity, for those who subscribe to the concept, is understood to be one 'part' of a polity that contains, at least, other 'ethnicities' and probably many other kinds of groupings and 'parts'. This paper argues that ...
Ethnicity, language and national unity: The case of Malawi

Vail, Leroy (1978-09)

In late 1976, in the Mkuyu detention camp, outside Malawi's old colonial capital, Zomba, there were detained fifty-five university graduates. Forty-five were from the Northern Region (4). Between 1975 and 1976 many senior ...
Ethno-religious mobilisation and the sapping of democracy in Nigeria: on the legacy of the transition programme

Ibrahim, Jibrin (1994-07-13)
An evaluation of the IMF mission document on economic policies for a new South Africa

Zarenda, Harry (1992-08-03)

In January 1992, an IMF occasional paper entitled "Economic Policies for a New South Africa " (IMF 1992) was issued. As stated in the Preface, the study was intended as a contribution to the debate regarding the ...
An evil empire? The Russians on the Reef, 1947-1957

Bonner, Phil (1990-02-06)
The exercise of control in the diamond industry of South Africa: some preliminary remarks

Innes, Duncan (1975-03)

Though the diamond industry would, after a relatively short period of its life, be eclipsed by the gold industry in South Africa, the discovery of diamonds on a large scale ushered in a period of wealth and prosperity ...
Experiencing a century in a day? Making more of Gold Reef City

Kros, Cynthia (1992-07-16)
Explanations of the Mau Mau revolt, Kenya 1952-1956

Lonsdale, John (1983-08)

My intention is to suggest an outline of an historical process, specific to the Kikuyu people of Kenya but which is intelligible within the general rubrics of colonial nationalism and peasant revolt. The process is ...
The exploded self of a South African poet: the case of Wopko Jensma

Gardiner, Michael (1990-02-06)

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