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Group Areas Board: investigation in terms of the Group Areas Act, 1950 (Act No. 41 of 1950) as amended: Grahamstown
Group Areas Act, Act No 41 of 1950
The Act was to provide for the establishment of group areas, for the control of the acquisition of immovable property and the occupation of…
ArticleThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
Few alumni know this, but one of South Africa’s most important civil rights leaders is part of the University of Minnesota family. One…
ArticleColonial specimen/neocolonial chic by Annemi Conradie
Mary Benson at the United Nations
This article forms part of the SAHO and Bridgewater State University Partnership
ArticleVisualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe
In the 1930s social anthropologists Eileen Jensen Krige and Jacob Daniell (Jack) Krige undertook intensive fieldwork among the Lobedu…
ArticleLeadership and Politics of Belonging in a 2015 FeesMustFall Movement A Case of UPrising by John Mashayamombe and Sandla Nomvete
ArticleBrushing History against the Grain: Oppositional Discourse in South Africa by Tony Morphet
This Richard Turner Memorial Lecture was delivered in Durban on 27 September 1990.
Black Consciousness and White Liberals by Richard Turner
The odious Jessie Duarte: Why this bully will be judged harshly by history
Welcome to the alternate world of Jessie Duarte. A world in which journalists must tow the line and not ask why she tolerates venal…
ArticleCarl Niehaus against the world by Rebecca Davis
This week, in February 2021, Carl Niehaus led a group of supporters to former president Jacob Zuma's home. But within the ANC, Niehaus's…
ArticleIntroduction: Relocating the African Photographic Archive by Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury
Jessie Duarte confirms ruling party’s idea of governance is incompatible with the Constitution by Professor Balthazar
What turned the country into a rent-seeking concoction was not the Constitution, but the intensity of State Capture that occurred under…
ArticleThe Struggle for the Tramway Union 1930-1945 by Chris Giffard
ArticleIntroduction: Visual Genders by Patricia Hayes
Sartre and Ryle on the imagination by Richard Turner
Re-reading Rick Turner in the New South Africa by Tony Fluxman and Peter Vale
Human models and economic systems by Richard Turner
ArticleBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was detained for her…
ArticleDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their…
ArticleBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the…
ArticleThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban, South Africa on August 30, 1928. She first attended the Durban Girls’ College. She then went on…
ArticleBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa,…
ArticleSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
Innate resilience in conjunction with unmatched passion forms a characteristic that proves to be unstoppable, yet the rarity of this…
ArticleEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
After the South African general election in 1948, the National Party, an Afrikaner political party that supported increased racial…
ArticleBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era,…
ArticleThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
Alternating from prison to fort to prison to museum, the Old Fort in Johannesburg has served a variety of unique purposes since its…
ArticleBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal repression by the…
ArticleBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South Africa. Many groups rallied against the Afrikaner…
ArticleBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
An Unmistakable Figure In late December 1931, Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born and she would become one of the premier…
ArticleA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
Contempt. This is what former president Jacob Zuma apparently felt for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, the Constitution,…
Editorial: Richard Turner
Dialectical Reason by Richard Turner
ArticleJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
Music is not a zero sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s…
ArticleThe Indian Question in South Africa, 1900-1914 by H. M. Adamson
ArticleBondage across the Ocean: Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean by Alessandro Stanziani
ArticleSettlers and Laborers: The Afterlife of Indenture in Early South African Indian Writing by Nienke Boer
ArticleWomen and migration in South Africa: historical and literary perspectives by Kalpana Hiralal
ArticleMapping free Indian migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930 by Kalpana Hiralal
ArticleSuch a long journey: The story of indenture by Brij V. Lal
ArticleMemories of indenture by Brij V. Lal
ArticleSouth African Families of Indian Descent: Transmission of Racial Identity by Kathryn Pillay
ArticleDaughters of the Gujarat Diaspora: Immigrant Women, Identity and Agency in Natal by Kalpana Hiralal
ArticleHistory of Migration and Contributions of Indian Women in Zambia: Comparison with South African Indian Women by Kamini Krishna
ArticleWomen Of Indian Descent In Southern Africa by Kamini Krishna
ArticleEnacting Marriage Laws: Regulating Women's Right and Sexuality in Natal 1860-1913 by Madhawi Jha
ArticleDiaspora, Citizenship and Identity: Migration from Kathor (Gujarat, India) to Durban (Natal, South Africa) by Goolam Vahed
ArticleIndentured Labour from India in the Age of Empire by Sunanda Sen
ArticleRecruiting Indentured Labour for Overseas Colonies, circa 1834–1910 by Madhwi
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