Browsing New Contree: 2014 No 70 (Special Edition) by Title
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Married to the Struggle: For better or worse Wives of Indian anti-apartheid activists in Natal: The untold narratives.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)The role and contributions of women in war, and anti-colonial and nationalistic struggles have become the subject of intense research and analysis over the past two decades. In South Africa, the nationalistic struggle ... -
Memories of forced removals: Former residents of the Durban Municipal Magazine Barracks and the Group Areas Act.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Two powerful phenomena around which people coalesce in the present, and which consequently give rise to notions of “community”, are recollections of historical suffering, and an affiliation to low income working class ... -
Monumentalization and the renaming of street names in the city of Durban (Ethekwini) as a contested terrain between politics and religion.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Responding to one of the key recommendations of the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa, the government promulgated the South African Geographical Names Council Act No. 118 of 1998.1 The aim of this ... -
Muslim women’s identities in South Africa: A Zanzibari perspective in KwaZulu-Natal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article examines how Zanzibari women in KwaZulu-Natal are negotiating their identities within the context of local and global realities. In South Africa, while the post-apartheid period gave birth to non-racial democracy, ... -
The Natal Inter-Race Soccer Tournament (1946-1960) and race identities in KwaZulu-Natal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article focuses on the Natal Inter-Race Soccer Tournament, a littleknown but popular tournament which was held under the auspices of the Natal-Inter-Race Soccer Board (NISB) between 1946 and 1960. Coloured, Indian ... -
Settler security, insecurity and solidarity in colonial Natal with particular reference to the South Coast 1850-1910.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Although British settlers enjoyed political and military control, there were factors which rendered them vulnerable. These included their proximity to the reserves set aside by Shepstone exclusively for African residence ... -
Van Heyningen, E. 2013. The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A Social History. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)No abstract available -
A very ordinary power: The evolution of the electrical substation in Pietermaritzburg, 1900-1960.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Pietermaritzburg is a city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, characterised by a central core of late Victorian-era buildings. It was in this period that electrification arrived, bringing with it new challenges in the ...
