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 ...
The South African government’s policy of granting
"independence" to the black reserves within its borders evoked considerable initial interest, particularly with regard to Transkei, the first black territory to be so ...
In 1959 the Nationalist Government, after a decade in power, finally passed through Parliament legislation to impose apartheid on South Africa's university system. In protesting against the Government's proposals for ...
The assumption that the experiences of Western societies are the
inevitable path for development in African1 societies has for
long guided demographic studies of African fertility and reproductive
behaviour. Valid ...
The Interim Constitution of South Africa which came into effect on 27 April 1994 established
a new law-government relationship characterised by constitutionalism, a relationship which
will be confirmed by the final ...
The aim of this paper is to examine democracy and oligarchy in the independent trade unions in Transvaal and the Western Province General Workers Union in the 1978s. The unions
considered in the Transvaal comprise the ...
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 ...