Ethnicity has been an area in which scholars of southern Africa have shown a gradually
increasing interest over the last couple of decades. This interest has sharpened over the last
five or six years to become a major ...
The authors offer a social democratic alternative to neo-liberalism. First, liberalisation must be accompanied by social policies that minimise socialcosts. Second, policies must be designed with a view towards growth, and ...
Missionary and evangelical work among the Africans in the mine
compounds took place on Sundays, Good Friday, Boxing, Christmas
and New Year's days, when African mine workers in the compounds
were allowed a whole day's ...
By focussing largely on the struggle Langa's squatters waged against
forced removal, this chapter will attempt to analyse the complex
interactions between local township administrators, the white
establishment, employers, ...
Benjamin's famous figure of "The Storyteller", uncoupled from its exemplary historical
representatives like Nicolai Leskov, Johann Peter Hebel and, among others, Herodotus, Poe
and Kipling, has become almost stock in ...
Benedict Wallet Vilakazi can rightly be considered the "Father
of Nguni literature". In a period of twelve years, 1935-1947, he
was able to write three novels and two anthologies of his own
poetry. Ontop of that he wrote ...
The Government is beaten, because even the Government of England
could not stop the people from squatting. The Government was
like a man who has a cornfield which is invaded by birds. He
chases the birds from one part ...
The cool, and apparently dispassionate analysis of a phenomenon like Black Consciousness cannot forget, that hundred have died for it, thousands were injured, thousands went to jail for it, many are still languishing in ...
On 25 September 1974, the South African Students' Organisation and the Black People's Convention held two rallies to celebrate independence in Mozambique. Within two weeks, 29 black consciousness leaders were in detention, ...
States under siege do not necessarily use only force to achieve
their aims of staying in power. An alternative may be to look
back into their historical past and find ways in which they
perceive that they have handled ...
The paper is a modified version of the first chapter of a short book which is currently nearing completion and is provisionally entitled The Poverty of Black Incomes'. The origin of this book goes back to 1977 when a study ...
The magazine Drum began in March, 1951, and it has become
deservedly famous since: partly for the ethos it created, partly for
the writers that it fostered - writers such as Nat Nakasa, Can Themba,
Casey Motsisi, Ezekiel ...
Black political mobilization in South Africa has largely
been explained by factors which are either structural or external
to the communities involved: falling wages and employment, the
contradictions of school and ...
The students' uprising of 1976 hardly features in stories by black South African
writers. In this respect, the short story is noticeably different from novels, plays
and poems by black writers in which these events are ...
In this paper we will examine the situation in which strikes by Black workers take place and their relationship to trade union organisation. Hopefully we will be able to tease out the strands of relationship between the ...