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ArticleZuleikha Mayat - South African author and activist who led a life of courage, compassion and integrity
Mrs Zuleikha Mayat was a remarkable pioneer, writer, public speaker, civic worker, human rights champion and philanthropist.
The Integrated Community Apartheid Could Not Destroy: The Warwick Avenue Triangle in Durban
This paper focuses on the Warwick Avenue Triangle (WAT), an inner city community, and attempts to explain how one of the oldest mixed…
Urban struggles apartheid local and civic and the transformation of the state: the case of community organizations in Durban
The pressure for change at the local level from civic, community, ratepayers and residents' associations has significantly informed…
Restructuring the Apartheid City - Cato Manor - A Prime Urban Reconstruction Opportunity
Cato Manor, in the city of Durban, was identified for urban reconstruction and development, with promising prospects for economic…
The Erosion of Residential Segregation in South Africa: The 'Greying' of Albert Park in Durban
In South Africa, the Group Areas Act, which emphasised racial residential segregation, was one of the key instruments used to enforce the…
The Group Areas Act and Community Destruction in South Africa - The Struggle for Cato Manor in Durban
In South Africa, attention has been drawn to the destruction of Sophiatown in Johannesburg (Lodge 1983) and the razing of District Six in…
Race, Ethnicity and Conflict in the Indian Diaspora
The Indian diaspora can be regarded as an international phenomenon, with a presence in more than 100 countries globally. The different…
Hamba Khaya - Go Home to Mumbai - Tracing the New Indian Diaspora
Indians in the indentured diaspora were always vulnerable, in both colonial and postcolonial times. This essay analyses some of the…
The Historical Development of the Apartheid Local State in South Africa: The Case of Durban
In Durban, there was a strong historical alliance between the Council and the white working class. The Council was particularly sympathetic…
ArticleApartheid, Urban Segregation, and the Local State: Durban and the Group Areas Act in South Africa
There has been some speculation about the origins of the Group Areas Act (GAA), one of the key instruments used to enforce the ideology of…
The Local State and Residential Segregation: Durban and the Prelude to the Group Areas Act
Conventionally, residential segregation in South Africa is associated with the ascent to power of the National Party, and the Group Areas…
Online bookGandhi Sites in Durban by Paul Tichmann
A study of the sites associated with Mahatma Gandhi’s years in Durban throws interesting light on Gandhi’s life and works and on the…
Theses and Dissertations"The Struggle to be South African": Cultural Politics in Durban, Contesting Indian Identity in the Public Sphere
At the state level, the discourses of ' non-racialism' and ' Rainbow Nation' are dominant, but at the local level, the old categories of…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1961 the South African…
The 1949 Durban ‘Riots' - A case study in Race and Class by E.C. Webster
63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai There had long been a…