Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre
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Hinduism in South Africa: Caste, Ethnicity, and Invented Traditions, 1860-Present |
This paper examines the experience of Hindus and Hinduism in South Africa over the past century and half. It shows that while the influence of caste has generally greatly diminished, Hinduism continues to flourish, and even shows signs of prosperity in public spaces. |
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“Gagged and trussed rather securely by the law”: The 1952 Defiance Campaign in Natal |
For almost half a century after the establishment of the Union of South Africa in 1910, Black1 South Africans responded to the segregationist policies of successive white minority governments principally through non-violent techniques of resistance, such as boycotts, civil disobedience, mass demo |
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Cricket and corruption: the post apartheid relationship between India and South Africa within and beyond the boundary |
International sports sanctions against the apartheid government resulted in the isolation of South African cricket from 1970 to 1991. |
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Chatsworth The Making of a South African Township |
Many of the articles in this book are the result of research conducted as part of a three-year project undertaken with a grant from the South Africa-Netherlands Research Programme on Alternatives in Development (SANPAD). |
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The May 2008 Xenophobic Violence in South Africa: Antecedents and Aftermath |
This article revisits the May 2008 xenophobic attacks in South Africa in order to grapple with key questions around the causes of xenophobia in South Africa, measures that can be taken to address xenophobia and ways in which diverse but inclusive communities can be built. |
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Non-Governmental Organisations and Xenophobia in South Africa: A Case study of the Gift of the Givers |
This article examines the response of a Non-Governmental Organisation (GOTG) to the 2008 xenophobic attacks and more broadly reflects on the role of NGOs in confronting xenophobia in South Africa and in conflict situations more broadly. |
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Urban Violence and the Textures of Everyday life in Post-apartheid South Africa |
There is a great deal of literature on crime and violence in post-apartheid South Africa. |
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Race, Empire, and Citizenship: Sarojini Naidu's 1924 Visit to South Africa |
This paper focuses on Sarojini Naidu's noteworthy 1924 visit to South Africa. She was the first high profile Indian to visit after the departure of Mohandas K. Gandhi in 1914. |
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POWER AND RESISTANCE: INDENTURED LABOUR IN COLONIAL NATAL, 1860-1911 |
POWER AND RESISTANCE: INDENTURED LABOUR IN COLONIAL NATAL, 1860-1911 |
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INDIAN INDENTURE: SPEAKING ACROSS THE OCEANS |
This paper argues that research on Indian indentured labour needs to move beyond the conceptual limitations imposed by the neo-slavery / Tinkerian paradigm, which has focused excessively on the extent to which the indentured experience was (or was not) little more than “a new system of slavery” |
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Indenture and Indianness in South Africa, 1860–1913 |
Beginning in the mid-19th century, about 1.3 million Indian contract labourers were exported to Mauritius, Jamaica, British Guiana, Trinidad, St Lucia, Granada and Natal to satisfy the demand for labour that was both cheap and docile (Meer 1980: 3). |
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Gender, Citizenship and Power The Westcliff Flats Residents Association |
The post-apartheid period has witnessed a mushrooming of activity by civic organizations in South Africa. This paper focuses on a group of women in Westcliff, Chatsworth, who have been persevering against difficult odds over the past two decades. |
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Chatsworth Between Continuity and Change. |
Chatsworth was established as a township for Indians in the early 1960s by the apartheid government. The expansion of education and growth of industry from the 1960s resulted in the economic mobility of many Indians. This was reflected in the extensions to houses and … |
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THE DIASPORA AT HOME: INDIAN VIEWS AND THE MAKING OF ZULEIKHA MAYAT'S PUBLIC VOICE |
This article examines how the Gujarati-speaking Muslim trading class in South(ern) Africa was linked as a reading public through a newspaper, Indian Views, which had been founded in early twentieth-century Durban in opposition to Mahatma Gandhi's Indian Opinion. |
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Race, class and nationalism : the 1947 visit of Monty Naicker and Yusuf Dadoo to India, 1947 |
This article focuses on a 1947 tour of India by two South African Indian doctors, Yusuf Dadoo and GM (Monty) Naicker, during which they met with Mohandas K Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and attended the All-Asia Conference. |
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Between Apartheid and Neoliberalism in Durban’s Indian Quarter |
A drive from Durban's beaches towards the once bustling ''Indian quarter''will lead to a confluence of three streets: Monty Naicker, Alfred Bitini Xuma, and Yusuf Dadoo. |
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World Cup 2010: Africa’s turn or the turn on Africa? |
The awarding of World Cup 2010 to South Africa was hailed as a great ‘victory’ for the African continent and the cause of much celebration. It heightened expectations not only about the spectacle itself but about the benefits that would accrue to South Africa and the rest of Africa. |
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Monty Naicker: Between reason and treason |
Monty was a man of the people who believed in collective leadership and made an invaluable contribution in transforming the Natal Indian Congress once again into a mass organisation, unifying and mobilising all sections of the community – the working class, small traders, professionals and intell |
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INSIDE INDIAN INDENTURE : A SOUTH AFRICAN STORY1860 – 1914 |
insight into the trials and tribulations of indentured Indian immigration. One has to concur with the general thrust of the endorsements this work |
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Identity and Belonging in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Case of Indian South Africans |
This paper examines Indian identities in the post-apartheid period, focusing in particular on the vexed issues of identity and belonging. |