South Africa
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"A man of keen perceptive faculties" : Aboobaker Amod Jhaveri, an "Arab" in Colonial Natal, circa 1872-1887 |
Indians arrived in South Africa in two streams. Between 1860 and 1911, a total of 152 184 indentured labourers were introduced into colonial Natal mainly to work on the sugar plantations, though some were employed in other sectors of the economy. This initial flow … |
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Multiple communities: Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa |
In letters to newspapers and call-in programmes on radio stations, and also among many journalists and political commentators, South Africa's Muslims are largely viewed as a monolith, whether they live in the working-class townships of Phoenix in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), the Cape Flats in the Western |
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Managing South African transformation: the story of cricket in KwaZulu-Natal, 1994–2004 |
Sport has historically been an important element of South African popular culture, even though it was divided along racial lines for much of the country's history. In post-apartheid South Africa, sport is seen by politicians, sports officials and many ordinary people as a … |
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The Quest for 'Malay' identity in Apartheid South Africa |
This study examines identity construction in twentieth-century South Africa, where successive white minority regimes attempted to define individuals according to reified notions of race and ethnicity, and demarcate 'race' groups deemed to have essential origins from other similarly constructed gr |
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Contesting ‘Orthodoxy’: The Tablighi–Sunni Conflict among South African Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s |
Muslims constitute less than 2% of South Africa's population. In a context where divisions of race, ethnicity and class predominated, schisms among South Africa's Muslims have been largely overlooked in the country's historiography. |
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Muslim Marriages in South Africa: The limitations and legacy of the Indian Relief Act of 1914 |
Many Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa have been seeking to use the new freedoms of a democratic state and its liberal constitution to pursue distinctive rights as part of a broader project to construct new and tighter Islamic codes in public and private domains. |
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Deconstructing ‘Indianness’: Cricket and the Articulation of Indian Identities in Durban, 1900–32 |
Indian immigrants arrived in South Africa in two waves; approximately 150,000 indentured laborers imported between 1860 and 1911 were followed by traders from the west coast of India. |
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Taking up the white man's game : the rise and decline of African cricket in Durban, 1930-1960 |
Om die wit spel op te neem: die opkoms en agteruitgang van Swart krieket in Durban, 1930- 1960 Met die 2003-kriekettoetsreeks tussen Engeland en Suid-Afrika was Engelse kommentators Jonathan Agnew en Henry Blofeld opreg verbaas toe kopieë van André Odendaal se The Story of an African Game (2003) |
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Cultural Confrontation: Race, Politics and Cricket in South Africa in the 1970s and 1980s |
This narrative of Yacoob Omar, one of South Africa's finest Black2 cricketers during the apartheid era, is more than a story about cricket. |
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CONSTRUCTIONS OF COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY AMONG INDIANS IN COLONIAL NATAL, 1860–1910: THE ROLE OF THE MUHARRAM FESTIVAL |
This article is concerned with the historical construction of communities, cultures and identities in colonial Natal, in this case an Indian grouping that emerged from the heterogeneous collection of indentured workers imported between 1860 and 1911. |
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Mosques, Mawlanas and Muharram: Indian Islam in Colonial Natal, 1860-1910 |
This study examines the establishment of Islam in colonial Natal, attempting to fill a void in and correct the existing historiography.1 In comparison with other parts of Africa, the lack of a historiographical tradition on Islamic South Africa is conspicuous, but understandable given that tradit |
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Race or class? community and conflict amongst Indian municipal employees in Durban, 1914-1949 |
This article explores different facets of South African Indian identity between 1914 and 1949 by focusing on the Indian municipal workers resident in Magazine Barracks, Durban. |
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Letter from Maurice Crain to Alan Paton | |
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Letter from Maurice Crain to Alan Paton | |
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Letter from Alan Paton to Maurice Crain | |
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Letter to Alan Paton | |
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Agreement between Frederick A. Praeger Inc. Publishers and Alan Paton and Edward Callan | |
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Letter from Alan Paton to M S Wood | |
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Letter from Marian S Wood to Alan Paton | |
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Letter from Marian S Wood |