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ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… a chief or an individual with no traditional authority. [xiii] The second system involved the use of local indigenous … framework Act 41 0f 2003, 1 349 ↵ …
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
… as they brought Staffrider directly to their communities. [xiii] According to Ivan Vladislavic , “The most striking … Kirkwood, “Staffrider: An Informal…
Article20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014) - Profiles of the Presidents
South Africa’s advent to democracy was ushered through the 1993 Interim Constitution, drawn up through negotiations among various political parties,…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… granted full recognition in both chiefly and Commissioner courts. However, customary law would be applied at the … of discriminatory legislation being…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… of the South African Student Press Union soon after. [xiii] Despite constant censorship of articles and threats on … ↵ [xii] Klug 2016, Phone Interview, 10…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… of squatters to join the Mau Mau fighters in the forest. [xiii] . A British Prison camp in Kenya, 1954. Image source … 1888-1970. Jefferson: McFarland &…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… “economic, diplomatic, sport, and any other means.” [xiii] Released in 1962, due to the film’s great organization … London.) Online Available: http://www…
ArticleThe Ottoman Empire
… were governed by the laws of Islam and tried by Muslim courts, foreigners were treated differently. They were …
ArticleWomen’s Rights and Representation
… This case concerned the constitutional obligation on the courts to develop the common law to promote the Bill of … Rights. The Act provides for the…
ArticleWomens Rights
… ) This case concerned the constitutional obligation on the courts to develop the common law to promote the Bill of … The Act also provides for the…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… music from your home? Look what it’s done for Miriam.’ [xiii] Masekela later recollects in an interview ‘I learned a … 146. ↵ [xi] Ibid., page 157. ↵ [xii]…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… back to the ANC’s National Department of Intelligence. [xiii] Only two years later, Gilder was considered one of the … modified 11 August 2015, http:/…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… and South Africa’s internal domestic recording industry” [xiii] (Hamm, 1989). He questions Makeba’s true desire to … Music 8, no. 03 (1989): 299. http://www…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… be involved in the Pan Africanist Movement, or the PAC, [xiii] in the 1950s, and the Liberal Party in 1961. [xiv] … Everyday Matters, page 85 ↵ [xii] A World…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… to control the traditional authorities and traditional courts. At the same time, the Act aimed at the recognition …
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… that had their parallel in the street committees, people?s courts and the like, were seen as the foundations of people?s …
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… had governed pre-industrial African society, South African courts continued to regard African women as perpetual minors …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… three judges rather than the usual one. Furthermore, the courts allowed the Minister of Justice to handpick the …
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… from Steelpoort. The youths began to set up People’s Courts in the villages, and young boys would deliberate on … and elderly villagers, usurping the role of…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… poet, certainly a finer poet that I could hope to be.” [xiii] After Nortje’s death, Brutus held on to his poems and … 20. ↵ [xi] Brutus, 2. ↵ [xii] McLuckie…
The Battle of Square Hill
… unhealthy swampy marshland close to the Rifiji River.’ [xiii] It was here that ‘Blackwater fever, dysentery and … World war, 1914 – 1918 (Stellenbosch, 2014)…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… be repealed. It further recommended that the Protectors courts be abolished and that all cases be heard by the …
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Act, be extended to apply to Coloured people as well. [xiii] This included determining where people were allowed to … [Accessed 19 April 2016]. p 408. ↵ …
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… like Weinberg, recruited both black and white members. [xiii] Jewish immigrants also heavily saturated the … and Conscience: The Jews in Apartheid South…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
… Humiliated. Hoping to God time’s going to go quickly’. [xiii ] The concept of apartheid in South Africa was … etc. ↵ [xii] Pass laws in South Africa 1800…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… had been cleared. These notices were challenged in the courts. In the majority of cases the courts declared the eviction notices invalid, demanding that …
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… She sought relief for her illegal abduction through the courts. Higgs was also kidnapped by apartheid government … and challenged the legality of his…
ArticleBlack South African literature
… literate Blacks to help in the mines as clerks, in the courts as interpreters and in other jobs such as teaching. …
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… that had their parallel in the street committees, people’s courts and the like, were seen as the foundations of people’s …