In the early spring of 1832, Mey, a slave belonging to
Hendrik Albertus van Niekerk, initiated a series of events that,
in quick succession, saw him beaten by his master's son, Hendrik, Jr., whipped again by his master's ...
During the political upheavals which accompanied the shift from "Milnerism" to responsible Government in the Transvaal, the still troubled Johannesburg mining industry confronted serious new problems. In Britain, the ...
This paper addresses the current situation of the urban low-income housing stock in Harare, Zimbabwe, and the problems which have arisen from the increasingly severe housing shortage.
It is a widely accepted and disseminated tenet in virtually all
the literature on African art that no tradition of figurative
sculpture comparable to that of West and Central Africa existed
in Southern Africa. This ...
Jewish socialists have been ignored in writing the history of Jewish South Africa. They were important for the formation of the left in this country. The Jewish Workers Club (JWC), founded in the 1890's, was a social meeting ...
Until the 1950s, Gokwe was once perceived as the wild, remote and economically
'backward' domain of the 'Shangwe1 people, but since the influx of immigrants from the south
into this region, and the introduction of ...
The History of Mary Prince (1831) is, as far as we know, the first and only account by a slave
woman of her experiences to be published in Britain.(1) Its publication caused an immediate uproar which provoked three further ...
Anthropologists have become interested in "the colonisation of consciousness", and in the processes by which this colonization has been withstood. While some scholars have examined acts of resistance whose social and ...
In the first half of the twentieth century racist ideology - whether
explicit or implicit - was a vital part of the ideological repetoire by
which white supremacy legitimated itself to itself. At one level this
contention ...
Identity is not a social entity. It is not embodied in
a social individual, or social institutions. It is not,
further, inscribed on the space of language. That is,
language does not create or even contain identity. ...
To study a society from a comparative perspective is rarely a straightforward matter. A series of
strategic decisions regarding topics, time-frames, and angles of observation must be taken before any such project can ...
In order to extend the range of studies of wonen, class and
ideology in southern Africa,2 this paper attempts to
disaggregate the nass of African wonen who lived in colonial
Harare (Salisbury) and other Southern Rhodesian ...
This paper attempts to assess the role of liberal Ideology in capitalist development in South Africa. In Part I we argue that liberal ideology developed historically in a different context and its transplantation from the ...
This paper is an attempt to place in perspective the ideologies which have helped
shape South African Indian politics.
The history of organized Indian politics from the 1880s to the 1940s is mainly the
history of trader ...
The mfecane as fetish:
In the last six years a major controversy has blown up among
historians of southern Africa about the historical reality or
otherwise of the phenomenon commonly known as the mfecane (1).
Since ...
On the 1st of March, 1914, the biggest British labour demonstration of the early twentieth century flooded into London's Hyde Park in a seven mile long column. Estimates of the size of the crowd ran as high as half a ...
Imperialist ideology remains an elusive concept. Most often it is taken to indicate a body of texts that justify and legitimize imperialism and are employed more or less consciously by imperialists to rationalize and ...