Ethnicity, not class? The 1929 Bulawayo faction fights reconsidered

Title: Ethnicity, not class? The 1929 Bulawayo faction fights reconsidered
Creator: Msindo, Enocent
Date: 2006
Type: Article
Identifier: vital:6150
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1006816
Identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070600829419
Description: From Christmas Eve of 1929 to the end of that year, Bulawayo was an ungovernable city marred by fights between Shona, on the one hand (perceived as a 'common enemy'), and forces that were predominantly Ndebele and groups sympathetic to them. A brilliant attempt to explain these clashes a generation ago, nevertheless falls short. This article seeks to revise the popular interpretation of this violence and re-contextualise it historically. A longer timeframe would give us an alternative view of the conflict. It also vindicates the ethnic interpretation of the violence that Phimister and van Onselen, concentrating on the then popular Marxist 'class struggle' paradigm, either minimised or failed to assess thoroughly.
Format: 19 leaves, pdf
Language: English
Relation: Msindo, E. (2006) Ethnicity, not class? The 1929 Bulawayo faction fights reconsidered. Journal of Southern African Studies, 32 (3). pp. 429-447. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03057070600829419

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RU Department of History

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