Essays
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Correspondence between Adrian Leftwich and Magnus Gunther | |
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Cry, the Beloved Country | |
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Dialectic of Higher Education for the Colonised: the case of Non-White Universities in South Africa |
The institution of education in any society lends itself to two-fold functions, a conservative and a progressive one. It can be viewed as a custodian of societal values or constitute a threat to the traditional social order. |
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Do we need dialectics? |
An internal SACP incomplete draft discusing the need to study dialectics |
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Essays on Black theology |
Collection of essays on subjects such as Black theology, Black Consciousness, Missionaries, Black education |
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Forming Metaphor: The Interpreters | |
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Great hopes for the People's Parliament |
It is with a giddy feeling that we, the organizer, have noted the strongly escalating interest in the People's Parliament Against Apartheid . The growing wave of applications and international attentionhave drowned our original planning for a People's Parliament of normal dimensions . |
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GROWING (DEFINITELY) YOUNGER WITH PHYLLIS: A CRITICAL ESSAY |
I once read a brief essay entitled 'Aging with Grace", or something of the sort. It was an autobiographical, self-centered work spinning around the woes of an elderly woman smothered in oil. |
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Guarding the faith: reflections on the banning of black theology literature in South Africa |
An essay about the reflections on the banning of black theology literature in South Africa. |
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Healing and the Poetics of Mothering: The Spirit of "Gelede" | |
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Historical perspectives and the effects of uprootal |
This is an essay highlighting a few historical perspectives, brief historical review of migration of the period just before the Lifaqale, the review of the effects of the 1913 Native Land Act and subsequent related legislation is discussed and the effects of removals and resettlement. |
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Hofmeyr: An appraisal | |
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INDENTURED INDIAN IMMIGRATION INTO NATAL 1860 -1885. |
In its summary for the month of November 1860, The Natal Mercury noted that the news was principally confined to one topic. During the month an important change has taken place in our social fabric. A new element has been introduced and transfused into our population. |
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Indian Muslims in South Africa's History:Continuity and Change |
The majority of Indian Muslims arrived in Natal between 1860 and 1911 as contract indentured workers or pioneer traders. Indentured migration lasted between 1860 and 1911, by which time 152,641 Indians had come to Natal. |
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Introductory essay: Contact |
A scholarly introductory essay on the periodical Contact |
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Introductory essay: Inqaba ya Basebenzi Journal of the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the ANC |
A scholarly introductory essay on the periodical Inqaba ya Basebenzi |
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Introductory essay: Pro Veritate |
A scholarly introductory essay on the periodical Pro Veritate |
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Introductory essay: The African Communist |
A scholarly introductory essay on the periodical The African Communist |
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Introductory essay: the African National Congress, 1964 - 1994 |
Introductory essay on the African National Congress from 1964 to 1994. |
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Introductory essay: the problems of exile |
Introductory essay on the problems of exiles, including the reasons for going into exile, life experienced as an exile and unique problems of living as an exile. |