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Dependency Politics In A South African Bantustan: The National Party, Inkatha, And The Zulu People, 1975-1990, Joshua Shepley
Dependency Politics In A South African Bantustan: The National Party, Inkatha, And The Zulu People, 1975-1990, Joshua Shepley
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By the late 1980s, the apartheid structures of the racially segregated Republic of South Africa were fracturing. The ruling National Party’s Bantustan system, whereby the living spaces of the majority African population were restricted to discrete zones according to their ethnic subgroup, had been failing for decades. In order to understand the outbreak of violence that took place in South Africa’s townships in the midst of this breakdown of apartheid society, the relationships that developed within these Bantustans must first be addressed. The most consequential of these relationships developed within KwaZulu, the “homeland” of Zulu Africans, beginning in the early …
A Writer Of Empire? H. Rider Haggard & The Zulu Of South Africa, Payton Kyle Jacklin
A Writer Of Empire? H. Rider Haggard & The Zulu Of South Africa, Payton Kyle Jacklin
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"A Writer of Empire? H. Rider Haggard, the Zulu, and British Imperialism" examines the major nonfiction publications of H. Rider Haggard as they relate to his time in Southern Africa in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper engages with arguments made about Haggard by prominent postcolonial critics and attempts to provide a more nuanced examination of his opinions regarding imperialism in Southern Africa and the native peoples colonized by the British government. In doing so, this paper prov·des an image of Haggard that runs contrary to that of the wider discourse.
United Against Apartheid: The South African Communist Party And The African National Congress, 1917-1963, Caius Rafael Baluta
United Against Apartheid: The South African Communist Party And The African National Congress, 1917-1963, Caius Rafael Baluta
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"United Against Apartheid: The South African Communist Party and the African National Congress, 1917-1963" explores the path taken by the South African Communist Party towards forging an alliance with the African National Congress in order to topple the Nationalist Party's apartheid regime. It examines the ideological changes experienced by the Communist Party while adapting to the South African context, and how these changes influenced the Communist Party's relationship with the African National Congress.