Gandhi-Luthuli Documentation Centre
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A I Kajee His Work for the SA Indian Community |
I first met Abdulla Kajee on the quay at Durban in July, 1929, when I stepped off a British India steamer at the end of a long journey. Fresh from the rural life of northern India, South African Indians and their complex problems seemed to me strange and a little alarming. |
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The Freedom Charter, 1955 |
The Freedom Charter is a unique document in that for the first time ever, the people were actively involved in formulating their own vision of an alternative society. The existing order of State oppression and |
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A contextualization and examination of the impi yamakhanda (1906 uprising) as reported by J. L. Dube in Ilanga Lase Natal, with special focus on Dube’s attitude to Dinuzulu as indicated in his reportage on the treason trial of Dinuzulu |
The thesis explores not only the history but also the competing histories of 1906. It is however no claim to represent the entire history - undoubtedly a period of great complexity, and a time of tragedy for the African people that culminated in their |
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Gender Under Fire - interrogating War in South Africa, 1939-1945 |
Warfare in the twentieth century – with few exceptions as the century closed – provided a theatre for the consolidation of gender roles. The gender roles of "soldiers" and "mothers" in particular were remarkably uncontested during war years. |
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Letter from Jay to Phyllis Naidoo |
Letter from Jay to Phyllis Naidoo |
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Letters from Jane to Phyllis Naidoo |
Letters from Jane to Phyllis Naidoo |
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Letter to Mr Huna from Phyllis Naidoo |
Letter to Mr Huna from Phyllis Naidoo |
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Letter from Glenn Moss to Phyllis Naidoo |
Letter from Glenn Moss to Phyllis Naidoo |
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Letter from Girlie to Phyllis Naidoo |
Letter from Girlie to Phyllis Naidoo |
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Letter from A G Narayadu to Phyllis Naidoo |
Letter from A G Narayadu to Phyllis Naidoo |
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Letter from J & R Frisbie to Phyllis Naidoo |
Letter from J & R Frisbie to Phyllis Naidoo |
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Witchcraft or Madness? The Amandiki of Zululand, 1894-19141 |
In late May 1999 Anglican Archdeacon, Ebenezer Ntlali, performed an exorcism to drive out evil |
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The Voice of History? Archives, Ethics and Historians [Lunacy] |
These documents and letters - which I have placed in chronological order, and taken excerpts from, but have not otherwise edited or changed in any way - can be found at the Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository.2 They comprise, in the main, correspondence between various officials from the offices |
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The Mad in their Midst: Accommodating Insanity in Natal, 1868-1920 |
In December 1916, James Mkize, a kholwa (Christian) peasant farmer and preacher submitted a deposition to the Resident Magistrate of Umzimkulu, southern Natal, South Africa, detailing at some length the reasons why he believed that his brother, Bennie, was insane and should be legally detained in |
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The fools on the hill : the Natal government asylum and the institutionalisation of insanity in colonial Natal |
Representing one aspect of my wider research into changing perceptions and practices of mental illness and mental health in the period c.1850-1950 in the region that today is KwaZulu-Natal, this paper focuses on the colonial identification and institutionalisation of those deemed insane between t |
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Researching and working with boys in Southern Africa in the context of HIV/AIDS – a radical approach |
In many western countries, in recent years, boys have been much criticised for being antiintellectual, emotionally illiterate, uncommunicative, antisocial and delinquent – characteristics that have been identified as marking them out as different from girls. (see eg. |
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‘Without the luxury of time’: AIDS, Representation and the Birth of Rights-based AIDS Activism in the 1980s |
On the August 4th 2003 Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) activists marched on the first South African AIDS Conference. The singing and toyi-toying demonstrators reached the court-yard next to the entrance to the conference’s venue, Durban’s |
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Letters of Esther and Phyllis Naidoo |
Letters of Esther and Phyllis Naidoo |
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Letter from Eleanor to Phyllis Naidoo |
Letter from Eleanor to Phyllis Naidoo |
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Letter from Elaine to Phyllis Naidoo |
Letter from Elaine to Phyllis Naidoo |