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Full-Text Articles in African History
Peacemaking And Peacebuilding In A Divided Society: South Africa’S National Peace Accord In The Transition From Apartheid To Democracy, Liz Carmichael
Peacemaking And Peacebuilding In A Divided Society: South Africa’S National Peace Accord In The Transition From Apartheid To Democracy, Liz Carmichael
New England Journal of Public Policy
South Africa’s complex history is outlined, providing an explanatory background to the two chief conflicts that existed in 1990 as the apartheid era drew to a close: the divide between the government with its security forces and the majority of the population, and grassroots violence between African National Congress supporters and the conservative Inkatha movement. During the 1990s, as South Africa accomplished its transition, a series of structures were created to manage the process. The best remembered is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was the final transitional structure, holding its hearings in 1996–98. The first was the National Peace …
Law Library Blog (July 2022): Legal Beagle Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Blog (July 2022): Legal Beagle Blog Archive, Roger Williams University School Of Law
Law Library Newsletters/Blog
No abstract provided.
Cannot Afford To Publicly Surrender: The Public's Influence On Ronald Reagan's Strategic Relationship With South Africa, Jessica P. Forsee
Cannot Afford To Publicly Surrender: The Public's Influence On Ronald Reagan's Strategic Relationship With South Africa, Jessica P. Forsee
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Reagan’s administration used the policy of constructive engagement to bring gradual reform to the apartheid system and build peace in the southern African region. The coordination of anti-apartheid activist organizations and members advocating for harsher economic pressure on South Africa successfully raised US public awareness and shifted public opinion against constructive engagement’s gradualist policies. As a result, leading Reagan staffers like Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Chester Crocker recalibrated constructive engagement’s focus to quicken regional peacebuilding maintain stability and control of US foreign policy in the public eye. This thesis analyzes the early influences on constructive engagement and …
Kofifi/Covfefe: How The Costumes Of "Sophiatown" Bring 1950s South Africa To Western Massachusetts In 2020, Emma Hollows
Kofifi/Covfefe: How The Costumes Of "Sophiatown" Bring 1950s South Africa To Western Massachusetts In 2020, Emma Hollows
Masters Theses
This thesis paper reflects upon the costume design process taken by Emma Hollows to produce a realist production of the Junction Avenue Theatre Company’s musical Sophiatown at the Augusta Savage Gallery at the University of Massachusetts in May 2020. Sophiatown follows a household forcibly removed from their homes by the Native Resettlement Act of 1954 amid apartheid in South Africa. The paper discusses her attempts as a costume designer to strike a balance between replicating history and making artistic changes for theatre, while always striving to create believable characters.
The South African Women's Movement: The Roles Of Feminism And Multiracial Cooperation In The Struggle For Women's Rights, Amber Michelle Lenser
The South African Women's Movement: The Roles Of Feminism And Multiracial Cooperation In The Struggle For Women's Rights, Amber Michelle Lenser
Graduate Theses and Dissertations
In the historiography of South Africa’s recent past, focus has been most heavily placed on apartheid and the anti-apartheid movement, with much emphasis placed on male involvement and men as the primary agents of change in the country. Women are largely viewed as playing a supportive role to male activists throughout the movement, and far less has been written on female involvement or women’s activism in its own right. Running parallel to the anti-apartheid movement, however, was a women’s movement characterized by women across the racial and socioeconomic spectrum struggling to secure their own rights in a very hostile and …
Genocide Masquerading: The Politics Of The Sharpeville Massacre And Soweto Uprising, Jessica P. Forsee
Genocide Masquerading: The Politics Of The Sharpeville Massacre And Soweto Uprising, Jessica P. Forsee
Honors College Theses
Apartheid South Africa represented a paradox as a US ally and human rights pariah. “Genocide Masquerading” uncovers the implications of US foreign policy on the rise and decline of apartheid, looking specifically at the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and the 1976 Soweto Uprising. By comparing Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, Ford, and Carter foreign policy responses, this thesis creates a comparative analysis of how effective, or ineffective, the United States was during pivotal moments in apartheid history. This thesis will not only expand on the developing South African literature but add to the conversation of international aid, diplomacy practices, and North-South relationships.
Understanding Violence Against Foreigners In Cape Town: Conceptions Of Autochthony And Xenophobia In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Mary L. Casey
Understanding Violence Against Foreigners In Cape Town: Conceptions Of Autochthony And Xenophobia In Post-Apartheid South Africa, Mary L. Casey
Student Publications
Examining the correlation between the history of colonialism and structures of Apartheid in South Africa and the current xenophobic violence experienced by Black African immigrants settling in Cape Town. This thesis explores theories of autochthony and belonging in the context of Cape Town, Black South African relationships and ownership of land, access to resources and opportunities for employment, and the continued disenfranchisement of Black South Africans in the wake of Apartheid. These components of the issue of xenophobia in Cape Town are factored into an analysis of how and why violence persists against immigrants in the city.
South African Marriage In Policy And Practice: A Dynamic Story, Michael W. Yarbrough
South African Marriage In Policy And Practice: A Dynamic Story, Michael W. Yarbrough
Publications and Research
Law forms one of the major structural contexts within which family lives play out, yet the precise dynamics connecting these two foundational institutions are still poorly understood. This article attempts to help bridge this gap by applying sociolegal concepts to empirical findings about state law's role in family, and especially in marriage, drawn from across several decades and disciplines of South Africanist scholarly research. I sketch the broad outlines of a nuanced theoretical approach for analysing the law-family relationship, which insists that the relationship entails a contingent and dynamic interplay between relatively powerful regulating institutions and relatively powerless regulated populations. …
Reflections On The Rescinded Oliver R. Tambo Award To Guyana's Forbes Burnham, Patricia Rodney, Asha T. Rodney, Jesse Benjamin, Aajay Murphy
Reflections On The Rescinded Oliver R. Tambo Award To Guyana's Forbes Burnham, Patricia Rodney, Asha T. Rodney, Jesse Benjamin, Aajay Murphy
Groundings
No abstract provided.
Musical Influence On Apartheid And The Civil Rights Movement, Katherine D. Power
Musical Influence On Apartheid And The Civil Rights Movement, Katherine D. Power
Student Publications
Black South Africans and African Americans not only share similar identities, but also share similar historical struggles. Apartheid and the Civil Rights Movement were two movements on two separate continents in which black South Africans and African Americans resisted against deep injustice and defied oppression. This paper sets out to demonstrate the key role that music played, through factors of globalization, in influencing mass resistance and raising global awareness. As an elemental form of creative expression, music enables many of the vital tools needed to overcome hatred and violence. Jazz and Freedom songs were two of the most influential genres, …
An Unconventional Challenge To Apartheid: The Ivorian Dialogue Diplomacy With South Africa, 1960-1978, Abou B. Bamba
An Unconventional Challenge To Apartheid: The Ivorian Dialogue Diplomacy With South Africa, 1960-1978, Abou B. Bamba
History Faculty Publications
This article focuses on the dialogue diplomacy that Ivorian President Félix Houphouët-Boigny initiated in the late 1960s to engage apartheid South Africa. Although contemporary observers and subsequent scholars (have) derided the scheme as an act of acquiescence and even betrayal, I argue that Ivory Coast's dialogue diplomacy was neither accommodationist nor dependent on the prodding of neocolonial powers such as France. A Pan-Africanist extension of the home-grown neotraditional practice of Dialogue ivoirienne, the diplomatic initiative never got the backing of other African states. A close analysis of the Ivory Coast's maneuvers in the context of an increasing radicalization of …
Interview With Anne Evens, Beth Thenhaus
Interview With Anne Evens, Beth Thenhaus
Chicago Anti-Apartheid Movement
Length: 84 minutes
Oral history interview of Anne Evens by Beth Thenhaus
Ms. Evens begins by recalling her childhood memories, growing up in Evanston with two academic parents. She began her work in activism during high school, demonstrating for stricter gun control laws and against racism. She explains how she first learned about Apartheid South Africa as she learned about the struggle of Palestinian people in Israel and the economic ties between the two countries. She explains how she became involved in anti-Apartheid efforts on her first day of college when she was introduced to the South African Divestment Coalition, …
South Africa In Transition: The Influence Of The Political Personalities Of Nelson Mandela And F.W. De Klerk, Aubrey Immelman
South Africa In Transition: The Influence Of The Political Personalities Of Nelson Mandela And F.W. De Klerk, Aubrey Immelman
Psychology Faculty Publications
The purpose of this paper is to examine salient factors accounting for South Africa’s relatively peaceful transition from apartheid state to nonracial democracy, focusing on the political personalities of South African leaders P.W. Botha, F.W. de Klerk, and Nelson Mandela. Following a brief overview of situational variables, the paper describes the political personalities of Mandela and De Klerk as assessed by the Millon-Type Political Personality Checklist (MPPC). The study shows that one cannot fully account for political developments in South Africa’s transition without considering (a) the interaction between situational variables and the political personalities of Nelson Mandela and F.W. de …
United Nations Press Release No.10/94, Permanent Mission Of South Africa To The United Nations
United Nations Press Release No.10/94, Permanent Mission Of South Africa To The United Nations
1994 South Africa General Election
A press release from the Permanent Mission of south Africa to the United Nations summarizing the winners of the 1994 South Africa General Election.
United Nations Press Release No.08/94, Permanent Mission Of South Africa To The United Nations
United Nations Press Release No.08/94, Permanent Mission Of South Africa To The United Nations
1994 South Africa General Election
A press release from the Permanent Mission of south Africa to the United Nations announcing the election results of the 1994 South Africa General Election.
Observing The New South Africa, Orlando Redekopp
Observing The New South Africa, Orlando Redekopp
1994 South Africa General Election
Orlando Redekopp was an international observer of the 1994 South Africa General Election through the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa (EMPSA). Authored by Redekopp, this narrative provides a brief memoir of his time in South Africa monitoring the elections.
Reflections On Elections In South Africa, Orlando Redekopp
Reflections On Elections In South Africa, Orlando Redekopp
1994 South Africa General Election
Orlando Redekopp was an international observer of the 1994 South Africa General Election through the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa (EMPSA). Authored by Redekopp, this narrative outlines his analysis of five reflections about the elections and the role of the church and Christians.
South African Elections Manual For International Observers, Independent Electoral Commission
South African Elections Manual For International Observers, Independent Electoral Commission
1994 South Africa General Election
A manual produced by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) for election observers of the 1994 South Africa General Election.
Empsa Daily Reports Of The Town Howick In The Natal Region, Howick Team, Ecumenical Monitoring Programme In South Africa
Empsa Daily Reports Of The Town Howick In The Natal Region, Howick Team, Ecumenical Monitoring Programme In South Africa
1994 South Africa General Election
A draft of a report by the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa (EMPSA) election monitors (Orlando Redekopp, Ursula Schmidt, Hendrikje Schievink, and Maina Murage) for the 1994 South Africa General Election of the town of Howick in the KwaZulu-Natal Province of South Africa from April 14 through April 21, 1994.
The Sacbc Democracy Charts: A Brief Introduction To The New Constitution, Justice And Peac Commission, Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference
The Sacbc Democracy Charts: A Brief Introduction To The New Constitution, Justice And Peac Commission, Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference
1994 South Africa General Election
A booklet created by the South African Catholic Bishops Conference (SACBC) to educate voters of the 1994 South Africa General Election about the new system of government and the new Constitution.
Voter Education Manual, Voter Education And Elections Training Unit, Legal Education Action Project
Voter Education Manual, Voter Education And Elections Training Unit, Legal Education Action Project
1994 South Africa General Election
A manual created by the Voter Education and Elections Training Unit (VEETU) and Legal Education Action Project (LEAP) to help educate new voters about the voting process for the 1994 South Africa General Election.
Empsa Guidelines And Principles For Monitoring In South Africa, Ecumenical Monitoring Programme In South Africa
Empsa Guidelines And Principles For Monitoring In South Africa, Ecumenical Monitoring Programme In South Africa
1994 South Africa General Election
Guidelines generated by the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa (EMPSA) for official EMPSA election monitors of the 1994 South Africa General Election.
Empsa Rules, Ecumenical Monitoring Programme In South Africa
Empsa Rules, Ecumenical Monitoring Programme In South Africa
1994 South Africa General Election
Rules generated by the Ecumenical Monitoring Programme in South Africa (EMPSA) for official EMPSA election monitors of the 1994 South Africa General Election.
The Hour For Democracy Songbook, Institute For Contextual Theology
The Hour For Democracy Songbook, Institute For Contextual Theology
1994 South Africa General Election
A song booklet created by the Institute for Contextual Theology (ICT) to promote democracy and prepare South Africans for the 1994 general election.
Independent Electoral Commission Code Of Conduct For Observers, Independent Electoral Commission
Independent Electoral Commission Code Of Conduct For Observers, Independent Electoral Commission
1994 South Africa General Election
The Independent Electoral Commission’s Code of Conduct for South African election observers for the 1994 South Africa General Election.
Texts Of Addresses At Opening Session For The North American Regional Conference For Action Against Apartheid, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid
Texts Of Addresses At Opening Session For The North American Regional Conference For Action Against Apartheid, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid
United Nations Centre Against Apartheid
A transcript of the addresses for the opening sessions of the North American Regional Conference for Action Against Apartheid including those authored by Major-General J. N. Garba, Chairman of United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, Javier Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Edward M. Kennedy, Shridath J. Ramphal, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, Daniel m. Lisulo, Chairman of the Legal and Political Committee of the Central Committee of the United National Independence Party of Zambia and Representative of the President of Zambia, Group Captain Emeka Omerua, Minister of Social Development, Youth, Information, Sports and Culture of Nigeria, Reverend Jesse L. …
Time For Sanctions Against Apartheid South Africa Is Now: Statements By H. E. Alhaji Yusuff Maitama-Sule (Nigeria), Chairman Of The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, H. E. Alhaji Yusuff Maitama-Sule, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid
Time For Sanctions Against Apartheid South Africa Is Now: Statements By H. E. Alhaji Yusuff Maitama-Sule (Nigeria), Chairman Of The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, H. E. Alhaji Yusuff Maitama-Sule, United Nations Centre Against Apartheid
United Nations Centre Against Apartheid
H. E. Alhaji Yusuff Maitama-Sule, or Yusuf Maitama Sule, was a Nigerian politician from the 1950s through the 1980s. This document, published by the United Nations Centre Against Apartheid, collates his various statements between September 1981 and July 1982 on apartheid rule in South Africa.