JOURNAL OF NATAL AND ZULU HISTORY

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Battling with Banality

This article deals with the history of nineteenth-century KwaZulu Natal, in particular the history of the British invasion of Zululand in 1879. While it used to be apartheid which threatened critical South African history, today it is competition and the free market.

Control of African Leisure Time in Durban in the 1930s

For Paul Maylam, African politics in Durban during the 1930s lacked the'militancy, vibrancy
and mass participation that characterised popular protest in 1929 and 1930.'H·~ attributes
this to a combination of factors which include th~: reinforcement of police strength, the …

The Making of "Indianess": Indian Politics in South Africa During the 1930s and 1940s

The years 1914 to 1949 were witness to rapid and extensive change in the social and
material conditions of Indians. The transformation of the majority of lndians to an urban-based
proletariat presented them with new challenges as well as additional choices of group

GIVE TILL IT HURTS': DURBAN'S INDIANS AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR1

In October 1913 approximately 20,000 Indian workers joined Mahatma Gandhi's campaign
of resistance against the South African government. This was a spontaneous outburst
against terrible working conditions and a realisation that the£ 3 poll tax on free Indians …

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