This article concerns itself with two bus boycotts, one well known, the other less so. They are interesting in themselves, but here it is suggested that they are relevant towards an understanding of South African black ...

This paper, which seeks to understand youths' own justifications for engaging in acts of collective violence, is based on a case study of activist youth and their organisations in Diepkloof, Soweto. The research was ...

There have been many occasions in my experience when the explanatory techniques normally used by social historians have seemed inadequate to deal with some particular process or event. No doubt this happens to every ...

A framework for understanding contemporary changes in the nature of work is provided by the fordist/post-fordist model which argues that fordism can no longer sustain high rates of productivity under changing conditions ...

After the general strike of July 1913 on the Witwatersrand the Transvaal trade unions (most of which were craft unions) under the auspices of the Transvaal Federation of Trade Unions presented a statement of their grievances ...

The relationship between colonialism and witchcraft, as depicted in the ethnographic literature of central and southern Africa, presents an intriguing puzzle. The human myseries resulting from colonialism- such as the ...

The Second World War began as a European war on Sunday 3 September 1939 and ended six years later in the Far East with the Japanese surrender to the United States. In the history of the University of the Witwatersrand, ...

This paper is an examination of the political economy of Black women in South Africa in terms of a case-study of women in Winterveld. As such it deals with three issues, each of which is vast. These are: (1) Women; (2) ...

In explaining the growth of independent churches among the Shona since the 1930s, Daneel lays great stress on the attraction for ordinary members of the curative powers offered by the church. Many joined because they ...