The road forward: a policy statement of the South African Coloured People's Congress, for the consideration of the National Convention of Coloured People
- South African Coloured People's Congress
- Authors: South African Coloured People's Congress
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention , South Africa. South African Coloured People's Congress
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31266 , vital:23930 , MS 10 807 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: A Policy Statement of the South African Coloured People's Congress, for the consideration of the National Convention of Coloured People.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1961
- Authors: South African Coloured People's Congress
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention , South Africa. South African Coloured People's Congress
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31266 , vital:23930 , MS 10 807 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: A Policy Statement of the South African Coloured People's Congress, for the consideration of the National Convention of Coloured People.
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- Date Issued: 1961
The Argus: Mandela, the road to freedom
- Cruywagen, Dennis, Drysdale, Andrew
- Authors: Cruywagen, Dennis , Drysdale, Andrew
- Date: 1990-02-06
- Subjects: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994 , Apartheid -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76128 , vital:30509
- Description: Months were spent researching and preparing this four-part series on the dramatic events surrounding NELSON MANDELA, the life-term prisoner who has cast a larger than life shadow on South African politics. Staff writer DENNIS CRUYWAGEN travelled extensively to interview at first hand — or by other means, where necessary — those stalwart ANC veterans who were convicted in the Rivonia Treason Trial and jailed with Mandela. He talked, too, to members of the Mandela family, politicians, lawyers and many others who were close to or knowledgeable about the ANC leader. Official records and other sources on the life and times of Nelson Mandela were also consulted. Compiling the vast amount of information sometimes led to unusual situations. For instance, Mrs Winnie Mandela, always pressed for time, was interviewed — not in her home in Diepkloof, Soweto, as arranged but in a hired car in a Johannesburg traffic jam while following a vehicle driven by her driver. She was late for another appointment. Drawn from various sources this series sets out to reconstruct an overview of 25 years and more of political and personal drama, passion and poignancy. , Supplement to The Argus, Tuesday February 6 1990 , Exclusive Part 1
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- Date Issued: 1990-02-06
- Authors: Cruywagen, Dennis , Drysdale, Andrew
- Date: 1990-02-06
- Subjects: Mandela, Nelson, 1918-2013 , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1948-1994 , Apartheid -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76128 , vital:30509
- Description: Months were spent researching and preparing this four-part series on the dramatic events surrounding NELSON MANDELA, the life-term prisoner who has cast a larger than life shadow on South African politics. Staff writer DENNIS CRUYWAGEN travelled extensively to interview at first hand — or by other means, where necessary — those stalwart ANC veterans who were convicted in the Rivonia Treason Trial and jailed with Mandela. He talked, too, to members of the Mandela family, politicians, lawyers and many others who were close to or knowledgeable about the ANC leader. Official records and other sources on the life and times of Nelson Mandela were also consulted. Compiling the vast amount of information sometimes led to unusual situations. For instance, Mrs Winnie Mandela, always pressed for time, was interviewed — not in her home in Diepkloof, Soweto, as arranged but in a hired car in a Johannesburg traffic jam while following a vehicle driven by her driver. She was late for another appointment. Drawn from various sources this series sets out to reconstruct an overview of 25 years and more of political and personal drama, passion and poignancy. , Supplement to The Argus, Tuesday February 6 1990 , Exclusive Part 1
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- Date Issued: 1990-02-06
Rumours of spying
- Rhodes University. Students' Representative Council
- Authors: Rhodes University. Students' Representative Council
- Date: 1987-03-07
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Propaganda, South African , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Vincent, Louise , Knight, Janet , Espionage -- South Africa , Spies -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , tracts (ephemera)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57715 , vital:26984 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: A response from NUSAS SRC at Rhodes University, about allegations (published in The Star newspaper dated 17 February 1987) about two members of the Rhodes community acting as informants.
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- Date Issued: 1987-03-07
- Authors: Rhodes University. Students' Representative Council
- Date: 1987-03-07
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Propaganda, South African , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Vincent, Louise , Knight, Janet , Espionage -- South Africa , Spies -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , tracts (ephemera)
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57715 , vital:26984 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: A response from NUSAS SRC at Rhodes University, about allegations (published in The Star newspaper dated 17 February 1987) about two members of the Rhodes community acting as informants.
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- Date Issued: 1987-03-07
South African Coloured National Convention, Claremont Civic Centre, 7th to 10th July 1961
- Authors: Convention Central Office
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31245 , vital:23928 , MS 10 801 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Programme outline for the South African Coloured National Convention, which took place in Claremont Civic Centre, Cape Town, from the 7th to the 10th of July 1961.
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- Date Issued: 1961
- Authors: Convention Central Office
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31245 , vital:23928 , MS 10 801 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Programme outline for the South African Coloured National Convention, which took place in Claremont Civic Centre, Cape Town, from the 7th to the 10th of July 1961.
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- Date Issued: 1961
Bare life in the Bantustans (of the Eastern Cape): re-membering the centinnial South African nation-state
- Authors: Westaway, Ashley
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Democracy -- South Africa , Homelands (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Right of property -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD (History)
- Identifier: vital:11535 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/149 , Democracy -- South Africa , Homelands (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Right of property -- South Africa
- Description: This thesis argues that 1994 did not mark a point of absolute discontinuity in the history of South Africa. More specifically, it asserts that 1994 did not signal the end of segregationism; instead of democracy leading to national integration, the Bantustans are still governed and managed differently from the rest of the country. Consequently, it is no surprise that they remain mired in pervasive, debilitating poverty fifteen years after 1994. In insisting that contemporary South Africa is old (rather than new), the thesis seeks to make a contribution to political struggles that aim to bring to an end the segregationist past-in-the-present. The thesis is arranged in seven chapters. The first chapter considers the crisis that has engulfed South Africa historiography since 1994. It traces the roots of the crisis back to some of the fundamentals of the discipline of history, such as empiricism, neutrality and historicism. It suggests that the way to end the crisis, to re-assert the relevance of history, is for historians to re-invoke the practice of producing histories of the present, in an interested, deliberate manner. Chapter 2 narrows down the focus of the thesis to (past and present) property. It suggests that instead of understanding the constitutional protection of property rights and installation of a restitution process as the product of a compromise between adversarial negotiators, these outcomes are more correctly understood as emanating from consensus. The third chapter outlines the implementation of the restitution programme from 1994 to 2008. The productive value of restitution over this period is found not in what it has delivered to the claimants (supposedly the beneficiaries of the programme), but rather in its discursive effects related to citizenship in the new South Africa. Chapter 4 considers the exclusion of dispossession that was implemented in the Bantustans from the restitution programme. It argues that this decision was not an oversight on the part of the post-1994 government. Instead it was consistent with all other key policy decisions taken in the recent period. The Bantustans have been treated differently from the rest of South Africa; they have been deliberately under-developed, fabricated as welfare zones, and subjected to arbitrary customary rule. Whereas Chapters 2 to 4 look at the production of historical truth on the side of domination, Chapter 6 and 7 consider production on the side of resistance. Specifically, they describe and analyse the attempts of an NGO to establish the truths of betterment as dispossession, and post-1994 prejudice against the victims of betterment dispossession. They serve as case studies of third party-led processes that seek to produce truth-effects from within a prevailing truth regime. The final chapter attempts to bring many of the threads that weave through the thesis together, by means of a critical consideration of human rights discourse. The chapter calls on intellectuals to establish truths in relation to the history of ongoing human wrongs in South Africa (as opposed to the rainbow narrative of human rights) Finally, the thesis includes a postscript, comprising technical summaries of each of the chapters.
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- Date Issued: 2009
- Authors: Westaway, Ashley
- Date: 2009
- Subjects: Democracy -- South Africa , Homelands (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Right of property -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD (History)
- Identifier: vital:11535 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/149 , Democracy -- South Africa , Homelands (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Right of property -- South Africa
- Description: This thesis argues that 1994 did not mark a point of absolute discontinuity in the history of South Africa. More specifically, it asserts that 1994 did not signal the end of segregationism; instead of democracy leading to national integration, the Bantustans are still governed and managed differently from the rest of the country. Consequently, it is no surprise that they remain mired in pervasive, debilitating poverty fifteen years after 1994. In insisting that contemporary South Africa is old (rather than new), the thesis seeks to make a contribution to political struggles that aim to bring to an end the segregationist past-in-the-present. The thesis is arranged in seven chapters. The first chapter considers the crisis that has engulfed South Africa historiography since 1994. It traces the roots of the crisis back to some of the fundamentals of the discipline of history, such as empiricism, neutrality and historicism. It suggests that the way to end the crisis, to re-assert the relevance of history, is for historians to re-invoke the practice of producing histories of the present, in an interested, deliberate manner. Chapter 2 narrows down the focus of the thesis to (past and present) property. It suggests that instead of understanding the constitutional protection of property rights and installation of a restitution process as the product of a compromise between adversarial negotiators, these outcomes are more correctly understood as emanating from consensus. The third chapter outlines the implementation of the restitution programme from 1994 to 2008. The productive value of restitution over this period is found not in what it has delivered to the claimants (supposedly the beneficiaries of the programme), but rather in its discursive effects related to citizenship in the new South Africa. Chapter 4 considers the exclusion of dispossession that was implemented in the Bantustans from the restitution programme. It argues that this decision was not an oversight on the part of the post-1994 government. Instead it was consistent with all other key policy decisions taken in the recent period. The Bantustans have been treated differently from the rest of South Africa; they have been deliberately under-developed, fabricated as welfare zones, and subjected to arbitrary customary rule. Whereas Chapters 2 to 4 look at the production of historical truth on the side of domination, Chapter 6 and 7 consider production on the side of resistance. Specifically, they describe and analyse the attempts of an NGO to establish the truths of betterment as dispossession, and post-1994 prejudice against the victims of betterment dispossession. They serve as case studies of third party-led processes that seek to produce truth-effects from within a prevailing truth regime. The final chapter attempts to bring many of the threads that weave through the thesis together, by means of a critical consideration of human rights discourse. The chapter calls on intellectuals to establish truths in relation to the history of ongoing human wrongs in South Africa (as opposed to the rainbow narrative of human rights) Finally, the thesis includes a postscript, comprising technical summaries of each of the chapters.
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- Date Issued: 2009
An evaluation of political participation by coloured people, 1994-2009
- Authors: Bloemiers, Gary
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Colored people (South Africa) , Political participation , Racially mixed people -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:8184 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1008078 , Colored people (South Africa) , Political participation , Racially mixed people -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa
- Description: The aim of the study was to gain an understanding of the level of political participation of Coloured people in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth. The focus was to investigate and identify if political apathy exists among Coloureds in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth and the reasons thereof, if it existed. The northern area of Port Elizabeth is a historically Coloured area created with the imposition of the segregation policies of the apartheid government. The study attempted to explore means to improve political participation of Coloured people in Port Elizabeth. Coloured people have played an important role in the political landscape in South Africa during the colonial and apartheid period. The voting power of the Coloured people during the colonial and apartheid period have been a determining factor in shaping the political landscape. The study commences with a broad overview of the political participation and political identity of Coloured people during the colonial and apartheid periods, including the current political dispensation. The study also included the analysis of secondary information in the form of statistical data in respect of election results from the 1999 elections through to the 2009 national elections. Data was collected by using qualitative and quantitative methods referred to as methodological triangulation. The qualitative method comprised face-to-face semi-structured interviews with political and community leaders in the northern areas that gained information on the levels of political participation and the extent of political disengagement. The quantitative method included a questionnaire that established views of respondents regarding levels of political participation and apathy to determine the levels of political disengagement. The interviews elicited valuable information on political participation of Coloured people before and after 1994. Information was also gained on the existence and the reasons for the perceived political apathy. Valuable insight was gained as to how Coloured people view the importance of political participation and the results indicated the limited participation beyond elections. Recommendations are made on the importance of civil society participation, the visibility of political parties and the importance of political education and how it can contribute to increased political participation.
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- Date Issued: 2012
- Authors: Bloemiers, Gary
- Date: 2012
- Subjects: Colored people (South Africa) , Political participation , Racially mixed people -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:8184 , http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1008078 , Colored people (South Africa) , Political participation , Racially mixed people -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa
- Description: The aim of the study was to gain an understanding of the level of political participation of Coloured people in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth. The focus was to investigate and identify if political apathy exists among Coloureds in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth and the reasons thereof, if it existed. The northern area of Port Elizabeth is a historically Coloured area created with the imposition of the segregation policies of the apartheid government. The study attempted to explore means to improve political participation of Coloured people in Port Elizabeth. Coloured people have played an important role in the political landscape in South Africa during the colonial and apartheid period. The voting power of the Coloured people during the colonial and apartheid period have been a determining factor in shaping the political landscape. The study commences with a broad overview of the political participation and political identity of Coloured people during the colonial and apartheid periods, including the current political dispensation. The study also included the analysis of secondary information in the form of statistical data in respect of election results from the 1999 elections through to the 2009 national elections. Data was collected by using qualitative and quantitative methods referred to as methodological triangulation. The qualitative method comprised face-to-face semi-structured interviews with political and community leaders in the northern areas that gained information on the levels of political participation and the extent of political disengagement. The quantitative method included a questionnaire that established views of respondents regarding levels of political participation and apathy to determine the levels of political disengagement. The interviews elicited valuable information on political participation of Coloured people before and after 1994. Information was also gained on the existence and the reasons for the perceived political apathy. Valuable insight was gained as to how Coloured people view the importance of political participation and the results indicated the limited participation beyond elections. Recommendations are made on the importance of civil society participation, the visibility of political parties and the importance of political education and how it can contribute to increased political participation.
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- Date Issued: 2012
Target white schoolchildren: Black Sash tries to radicalise school pupils
- Victims Against Terrorism (South Africa)
- Authors: Victims Against Terrorism (South Africa)
- Date: 1989-07
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , Racism -- South Africa , Terrorism -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Propaganda, South African , Black Sash (Society) , Government Resistance to – South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , leaflets , newsletter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57664 , vital:26979 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Excerpt: "The organisation by political pressure groups amongst school pupils, particularly groups with close links with revolutionary organisations which have played a leading role in trying to create an ungovernable situation in black townships, provides grounds for real concern. Whilst one may question the morality of an organisation which targets school pupils as a means for achieving its own political ends one may be sure that these efforts are not meant as an honest attempt to broaden the thinking of the youth. Rather it is part of a well thought out strategy on the part of such organisationaddElement(0, 'physicalDescription'); hidemenu()s to politicise school pupils along radical lines."
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- Date Issued: 1989-07
- Authors: Victims Against Terrorism (South Africa)
- Date: 1989-07
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , Racism -- South Africa , Terrorism -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Propaganda, South African , Black Sash (Society) , Government Resistance to – South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , leaflets , newsletter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57664 , vital:26979 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Excerpt: "The organisation by political pressure groups amongst school pupils, particularly groups with close links with revolutionary organisations which have played a leading role in trying to create an ungovernable situation in black townships, provides grounds for real concern. Whilst one may question the morality of an organisation which targets school pupils as a means for achieving its own political ends one may be sure that these efforts are not meant as an honest attempt to broaden the thinking of the youth. Rather it is part of a well thought out strategy on the part of such organisationaddElement(0, 'physicalDescription'); hidemenu()s to politicise school pupils along radical lines."
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- Date Issued: 1989-07
South African anti-apartheid documentaries 1977-1987: some theoretical excursions
- Authors: Steenveld, Lynette Noreen
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: Documentary films -- South Africa -- History and criticism , Apartheid -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3484 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002939 , Documentary films -- South Africa -- History and criticism , Apartheid -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa
- Description: This study examines anti-apartheid documentary production in South Africa between 1977 and 1987. These documentaries were produced by a variety of producers in order to record aspects of South Africa's contemporary social history, and as a means of contributing - in some way - to changing the conditions described. While the 'content' of the documentaries is historical and social, and their intention political, this study is aimed at elucidating how a documentary, as a representational system, produces meaning. The study is therefore located within the discourse of film studies. My study is based on the theory that a documentary is the embodiment of several relationships: the relationship between social reality and documentary producers; the social relationships engaged in, in the production of the text; the relationship between the text and its audience 1, and the relationship between the audience and its social context. This informs my methodological approach in which analysis appropriate to each area of study is used. Using secondary sources obtained through standard library research, I pursue social and historical analysis of the 1970s and 1980s in order to contextualise both the producers of the documentaries, and their audience. The social relations of production of a text are examined using material gathered through extensive interviews with the producers and published secondary material. How this impinges on the documentary is ascertained through detailed textual analysis of 30 documentaries. For analytical clarity each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of documentary - although I do show how the various relationships impinge on each other. This research finds that the documentaries faithfully reflect the anti-apartheid ideology dominant in the extra-parliamentary opposition in the period under discussion - to the extent that all forms of consciousness are framed by this discourse. An examination of the textual strategies used shows that they are bound by the conventions of broadcast television. They therefore construct a spectator-text relationship which is not consistent with the political concern that democratic relationships be established as the basis of a post-apartheid society. In other words, there is an inconsistency between the ideology espoused, and the way in which film- and videomakers, in their specialised field of production, practise their politics. This can be attributed to the over-riding political intention of the documentarists 'to record' what is happening, and to establish a popular archive which can be used by extra-parliamentary opposition groups in their struggle against apartheid.
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- Date Issued: 1991
- Authors: Steenveld, Lynette Noreen
- Date: 1991
- Subjects: Documentary films -- South Africa -- History and criticism , Apartheid -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:3484 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1002939 , Documentary films -- South Africa -- History and criticism , Apartheid -- South Africa , Anti-apartheid movements -- South Africa
- Description: This study examines anti-apartheid documentary production in South Africa between 1977 and 1987. These documentaries were produced by a variety of producers in order to record aspects of South Africa's contemporary social history, and as a means of contributing - in some way - to changing the conditions described. While the 'content' of the documentaries is historical and social, and their intention political, this study is aimed at elucidating how a documentary, as a representational system, produces meaning. The study is therefore located within the discourse of film studies. My study is based on the theory that a documentary is the embodiment of several relationships: the relationship between social reality and documentary producers; the social relationships engaged in, in the production of the text; the relationship between the text and its audience 1, and the relationship between the audience and its social context. This informs my methodological approach in which analysis appropriate to each area of study is used. Using secondary sources obtained through standard library research, I pursue social and historical analysis of the 1970s and 1980s in order to contextualise both the producers of the documentaries, and their audience. The social relations of production of a text are examined using material gathered through extensive interviews with the producers and published secondary material. How this impinges on the documentary is ascertained through detailed textual analysis of 30 documentaries. For analytical clarity each chapter focuses on a specific aspect of documentary - although I do show how the various relationships impinge on each other. This research finds that the documentaries faithfully reflect the anti-apartheid ideology dominant in the extra-parliamentary opposition in the period under discussion - to the extent that all forms of consciousness are framed by this discourse. An examination of the textual strategies used shows that they are bound by the conventions of broadcast television. They therefore construct a spectator-text relationship which is not consistent with the political concern that democratic relationships be established as the basis of a post-apartheid society. In other words, there is an inconsistency between the ideology espoused, and the way in which film- and videomakers, in their specialised field of production, practise their politics. This can be attributed to the over-riding political intention of the documentarists 'to record' what is happening, and to establish a popular archive which can be used by extra-parliamentary opposition groups in their struggle against apartheid.
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- Date Issued: 1991
The Dakar Conference: a different perspective
- Authors: Moorcroft, E K
- Date: 1987-11
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Dakar Conference (1987, Dakar)
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57784 , vital:26989 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: E.K. Moorcroft's article on the Dakar Conference - the political discussions held in Dakar, Senegal, between the 9th and 12th of July 1987, between members of IDASA and the ANC. Article appeared in the journal titled "Reality: a journal of liberal and radical opinion", vol. 19, no. 6, issue dated November 1987.
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- Date Issued: 1987-11
- Authors: Moorcroft, E K
- Date: 1987-11
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Dakar Conference (1987, Dakar)
- Language: English
- Type: text , article
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57784 , vital:26989 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: E.K. Moorcroft's article on the Dakar Conference - the political discussions held in Dakar, Senegal, between the 9th and 12th of July 1987, between members of IDASA and the ANC. Article appeared in the journal titled "Reality: a journal of liberal and radical opinion", vol. 19, no. 6, issue dated November 1987.
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- Date Issued: 1987-11
Objecting to apartheid: the history of the end conscription campaign
- Authors: Jones, David
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: End Conscription Campaign (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Government, Resistance to South Africa , Conscientious objection South Africa , South Africa -- Social conditions , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA (History)
- Identifier: vital:11538 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1005998 , End Conscription Campaign (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Government, Resistance to South Africa , Conscientious objection South Africa , South Africa -- Social conditions , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Description: It is important that the story of organisations like the End Conscription Campaign be recorded. The narrative of the struggle against apartheid has become a site of contestation. As the downfall of apartheid is still a relatively recent event, the history is still in the process of formation. There is much contestation over the relative contributions of different groups within the struggle. This is an important debate as it informs and shapes the politics of the present. A new official narrative is emerging which accentuates the role of particular groupings, portraying them as the heroes and the leaders of the struggle. A new elite have laid exclusive claim to the heritage of the struggle and are using this narrative to justify their hold on power through the creation of highly centralised political structures in which positions of power are reserved for loyal cadres and independent thinking and questioning are seen as a threat. A complementary tradition of grassroots democracy, of open debate and transparency, of “people’s power”, of accountability of leadership to the people fostered in the struggle is being lost. It is important to contest this narrative. We need to remember that the downfall of apartheid was brought about by a myriad combination of factors and forces. Current academic interpretations emphasize that no one group or organisation, no matter how significant its contribution, was solely responsible. There was no military victory or other decisive event which brought the collapse of the system, rather a sapping of will to pay the ever increasing cost to maintain it. The struggle against apartheid involved a groundswell, popular uprising in which the initiative came not from centralised political structures, orchestrating a grand revolt, but from ordinary South Africans who were reacting to the oppressive nature of a brutally discriminatory system which sought to control every aspect of their lives.4 Leaders and structures emerged organically as communities organised themselves around issues that affected them. Organisations that emerged were highly democratic and accountable to their members. There was no grand plan or centralised control of the process. As Walter Benjamin warned in a different context, but applicable here: “All rulers are the heirs of those who have conquered before them.” He feared that what he referred to as a historicist view constructed a version of history as a triumphal parade of progress. “Whoever has emerged victorious” he reminds us “participates to this day in the triumphal procession in which the present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate. According to traditional practice the spoils are carried along in the procession.” 5 He was warning of just such a tendency, which has been repeated so often in the past, for the victors to construct a version of history which ends up justifying a new tyranny. To counter this tendency it is important that other histories of the struggle are told – that the stories of other groups, which are marginalised by the new hegemonic discourse, are recorded.This aim of this dissertation is thus two-fold. Firstly it aims to investigate “the story” of the End Conscription Campaign, which has largely been seen as a white anti-apartheid liberal organisation. The objective is to provide a detailed historical account and periodisation of the organisation to fill in the gaps and challenge the distortions of a new emerging “official” discourse.Secondly within this framework, and by using the activities and strategies of the organisation as evidence for its suppositions, the question of the role played by the ECC in the struggle.
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- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Jones, David
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: End Conscription Campaign (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Government, Resistance to South Africa , Conscientious objection South Africa , South Africa -- Social conditions , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA (History)
- Identifier: vital:11538 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1005998 , End Conscription Campaign (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Government, Resistance to South Africa , Conscientious objection South Africa , South Africa -- Social conditions , South Africa -- Politics and government
- Description: It is important that the story of organisations like the End Conscription Campaign be recorded. The narrative of the struggle against apartheid has become a site of contestation. As the downfall of apartheid is still a relatively recent event, the history is still in the process of formation. There is much contestation over the relative contributions of different groups within the struggle. This is an important debate as it informs and shapes the politics of the present. A new official narrative is emerging which accentuates the role of particular groupings, portraying them as the heroes and the leaders of the struggle. A new elite have laid exclusive claim to the heritage of the struggle and are using this narrative to justify their hold on power through the creation of highly centralised political structures in which positions of power are reserved for loyal cadres and independent thinking and questioning are seen as a threat. A complementary tradition of grassroots democracy, of open debate and transparency, of “people’s power”, of accountability of leadership to the people fostered in the struggle is being lost. It is important to contest this narrative. We need to remember that the downfall of apartheid was brought about by a myriad combination of factors and forces. Current academic interpretations emphasize that no one group or organisation, no matter how significant its contribution, was solely responsible. There was no military victory or other decisive event which brought the collapse of the system, rather a sapping of will to pay the ever increasing cost to maintain it. The struggle against apartheid involved a groundswell, popular uprising in which the initiative came not from centralised political structures, orchestrating a grand revolt, but from ordinary South Africans who were reacting to the oppressive nature of a brutally discriminatory system which sought to control every aspect of their lives.4 Leaders and structures emerged organically as communities organised themselves around issues that affected them. Organisations that emerged were highly democratic and accountable to their members. There was no grand plan or centralised control of the process. As Walter Benjamin warned in a different context, but applicable here: “All rulers are the heirs of those who have conquered before them.” He feared that what he referred to as a historicist view constructed a version of history as a triumphal parade of progress. “Whoever has emerged victorious” he reminds us “participates to this day in the triumphal procession in which the present rulers step over those who are lying prostrate. According to traditional practice the spoils are carried along in the procession.” 5 He was warning of just such a tendency, which has been repeated so often in the past, for the victors to construct a version of history which ends up justifying a new tyranny. To counter this tendency it is important that other histories of the struggle are told – that the stories of other groups, which are marginalised by the new hegemonic discourse, are recorded.This aim of this dissertation is thus two-fold. Firstly it aims to investigate “the story” of the End Conscription Campaign, which has largely been seen as a white anti-apartheid liberal organisation. The objective is to provide a detailed historical account and periodisation of the organisation to fill in the gaps and challenge the distortions of a new emerging “official” discourse.Secondly within this framework, and by using the activities and strategies of the organisation as evidence for its suppositions, the question of the role played by the ECC in the struggle.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2013
A small town in the early apartheid era: A history of Grahamstown 1946-1960 focusing on "White English" perspectives.
- Lancaster, Rupert Giles Swinburne
- Authors: Lancaster, Rupert Giles Swinburne
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History -- 20th Century , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Politics and government -- 20th century , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- 20th Century , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions -- 20th Century , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social life and customs -- 20th Century , Apartheid -- South Africa , Whites -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2612 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013161
- Description: This Thesis examines the socio-political perceptions of Grahamstown, a small South African City, during the period 1946 to 1960. The ‘White English’ population of Grahamstown is the specific focus, as it formed the dominant social group during the period and consequently provided the majority of information for this work. During this period the majority of Grahamstowns ‘White English’ population thought of their City as holding many attractive features and experiences despite the slum-conditions and poverty that were rife in the Locations. During the British Royal Familie’s tour of the Union of South Africa in 1947, Grahamstown was one of the Cities visited. The loyalty that Grahamstown’s ‘White English’ citizens felt towards the Royal Family and the United Kingdom is explored in connection with the regard that ‘White English’ Grahamstown held for the 1820 Settlers. To highlight the Grahamstown City Council’s activities during this period five events are analysed: The Grahamstown Financial Crisis, The Grahamstown Housing Crisis, The Beer Hall Debate, The establishment of a Tuberculosis Hospital and the granting of Full University Status to Rhodes University College. It is shown, with regard to the politics of the period, that ‘White English’ Grahamstown, unequivocally supported the United Party and were vocally anti-Nationalist. The implementation of Apartheid policies within Grahamstown is explored, with specific focus placed upon the Group Areas Act. Finally the anti-republican sentiment espoused by ‘White English’ Grahamstown is reviewed.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2013
- Authors: Lancaster, Rupert Giles Swinburne
- Date: 2013
- Subjects: Grahamstown (South Africa) -- History -- 20th Century , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Politics and government -- 20th century , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social conditions -- 20th Century , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions -- 20th Century , Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Social life and customs -- 20th Century , Apartheid -- South Africa , Whites -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Masters , MA
- Identifier: vital:2612 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013161
- Description: This Thesis examines the socio-political perceptions of Grahamstown, a small South African City, during the period 1946 to 1960. The ‘White English’ population of Grahamstown is the specific focus, as it formed the dominant social group during the period and consequently provided the majority of information for this work. During this period the majority of Grahamstowns ‘White English’ population thought of their City as holding many attractive features and experiences despite the slum-conditions and poverty that were rife in the Locations. During the British Royal Familie’s tour of the Union of South Africa in 1947, Grahamstown was one of the Cities visited. The loyalty that Grahamstown’s ‘White English’ citizens felt towards the Royal Family and the United Kingdom is explored in connection with the regard that ‘White English’ Grahamstown held for the 1820 Settlers. To highlight the Grahamstown City Council’s activities during this period five events are analysed: The Grahamstown Financial Crisis, The Grahamstown Housing Crisis, The Beer Hall Debate, The establishment of a Tuberculosis Hospital and the granting of Full University Status to Rhodes University College. It is shown, with regard to the politics of the period, that ‘White English’ Grahamstown, unequivocally supported the United Party and were vocally anti-Nationalist. The implementation of Apartheid policies within Grahamstown is explored, with specific focus placed upon the Group Areas Act. Finally the anti-republican sentiment espoused by ‘White English’ Grahamstown is reviewed.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2013
Why a "Coloured" National Convention
- Planning Committee of the South African Coloured National Committee
- Authors: Planning Committee of the South African Coloured National Committee
- Date: 1961-06
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31211 , vital:23925 , MS 10 800 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: We would like to stress at the outset that we are not organising this Convention in order to “gang up” with persons of other race-groups against others. Some people say that we should have nothing to do with Africans, because we have nothing in common with them. This is utter folly. We could mention several important factors which we do have in common with them. There is our common humanity, there is our common South Africanism, there is a great deal of common discrimination under South African laws, and there is, in regard to a great and growing number of Africans, a common Western view of life. We would like to see developed a wider South Africanism, capable of embracing all the peoples of this country, whatever their race, colour or creed. Let nobody say that because we are organising a Convention as a Coloured group, we are recognising and accepting the fact that we are a separate groun, or that we wish to be so regarded in the laws of the land. We repeat that we are a separate group by exclusion, by discrimination, by virtue of laws which we regard as wrong. And it is to destroy this false, separate identity that we are dedicating ourselves in this Convention.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1961-06
- Authors: Planning Committee of the South African Coloured National Committee
- Date: 1961-06
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/31211 , vital:23925 , MS 10 800 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: We would like to stress at the outset that we are not organising this Convention in order to “gang up” with persons of other race-groups against others. Some people say that we should have nothing to do with Africans, because we have nothing in common with them. This is utter folly. We could mention several important factors which we do have in common with them. There is our common humanity, there is our common South Africanism, there is a great deal of common discrimination under South African laws, and there is, in regard to a great and growing number of Africans, a common Western view of life. We would like to see developed a wider South Africanism, capable of embracing all the peoples of this country, whatever their race, colour or creed. Let nobody say that because we are organising a Convention as a Coloured group, we are recognising and accepting the fact that we are a separate groun, or that we wish to be so regarded in the laws of the land. We repeat that we are a separate group by exclusion, by discrimination, by virtue of laws which we regard as wrong. And it is to destroy this false, separate identity that we are dedicating ourselves in this Convention.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1961-06
"Get organised": a practical student manual
- Authors: Western Cape Youth League
- Date: 1985-10
- Subjects: Youth -- Political activity -- Western Cape (South Africa) , Students -- Political activity -- Western Cape (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Student government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76262 , vital:30528
- Description: The past few months have seen our courageous youth take to the streets to demonstrate their disgust against this system of exploitation and oppression. This militant fervour has touched many young hearts and minds. However, there is always the danger that these energies will burn out and dissipate. Demoralisation can so easily set in if these energies are not constructively channeled. "Channeled into what?” you may ask. ORGANISATIONS. It is only through strong organisations which attempt to give guidance and direction that meaningful action can be undertaken. The WCYL recognises the important need for students to begin to discuss broader issues such as The History of Struggle in S.A. or The Nature of S.A. Society. It is only when students begin to grapple with broader issues such as these, together with more specific ones, in a co-ordinated manner, will their actions be more effective. To this end has "GET ORGANISED" been designed. The handbook is intended as a guide for students in their efforts to organise SRC’s, awareness programmes, among other things, in schools.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985-10
- Authors: Western Cape Youth League
- Date: 1985-10
- Subjects: Youth -- Political activity -- Western Cape (South Africa) , Students -- Political activity -- Western Cape (South Africa) , Apartheid -- South Africa , Student government -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76262 , vital:30528
- Description: The past few months have seen our courageous youth take to the streets to demonstrate their disgust against this system of exploitation and oppression. This militant fervour has touched many young hearts and minds. However, there is always the danger that these energies will burn out and dissipate. Demoralisation can so easily set in if these energies are not constructively channeled. "Channeled into what?” you may ask. ORGANISATIONS. It is only through strong organisations which attempt to give guidance and direction that meaningful action can be undertaken. The WCYL recognises the important need for students to begin to discuss broader issues such as The History of Struggle in S.A. or The Nature of S.A. Society. It is only when students begin to grapple with broader issues such as these, together with more specific ones, in a co-ordinated manner, will their actions be more effective. To this end has "GET ORGANISED" been designed. The handbook is intended as a guide for students in their efforts to organise SRC’s, awareness programmes, among other things, in schools.
- Full Text: false
- Date Issued: 1985-10
Social policy and the state in South Africa: pathways for human capability development
- Authors: Monyai, Priscilla B
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Human capital -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , Equality -- South Africa , Poverty -- South Africa , Political participation -- South Africa , South Africa -- Economic conditions , South Africa -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD (Social Science Dev)
- Identifier: vital:11439 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007230 , Human capital -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , Equality -- South Africa , Poverty -- South Africa , Political participation -- South Africa , South Africa -- Economic conditions , South Africa -- Social conditions
- Description: The main focus of this thesis is the challenges that are facing social policy development and implementation in South Africa in relation to the enhancement of human capability. The study adopted a historical approach to assess the model of social policy in South Africa and identified that social relations of domination inherited from the apartheid era continuing to produce inequalities in opportunities. Social policy under the democratic government has not managed to address social inequalities and the main drivers of poverty in the form of income poverty, asset poverty and capability poverty which are the underlying factors reproducing deprivation and destitution of the majority of the population Although South Africa prides itself of a stable democracy, social inequalities continue to undermine the benefits of social citizenship because political participation in the midst of unequal access to economic and social resources undermine the value of citizenship. Also, inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth, and in the control of economic production undermine political equality which is an ethic upon which social rights are predicated. As a result, state interventions are lacking inherent potential to build human capability for people to live the life that they have reason to value. The paradox of social policy in South Africa is that the majority of those who are marginalised are those who were excluded by the apartheid regime even though state intervention is claimed to be targeting them. This points to the failure of incremental equalisation of opportunities within a context of stark social inequities. It is also an indication that the economic growth path delivered by the political transition is working to reinforce the inherited legacy of deprivation and it is avoiding questions related to the structural nature of poverty and inequalities. Therefore, a transformative social policy is an imperative for South Africa. Such a framework of social policy should be premised upon a notion of human security in order to built human capability. Human security focuses on the security of individuals and communities to strengthen human development. It emphasises on civil, political and socioeconomic rights for individual citizens to participate fully in the process of governance. Although this thesis is a case study of social policy in South Africa, it can be used to appreciate the role of social policy in other developing countries, particularly the impact of political decision making on social distribution. Poverty and social inequalities are growing problems in developing countries and so is the importance of putting these problems under the spotlight for political attention.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2011
- Authors: Monyai, Priscilla B
- Date: 2011
- Subjects: Human capital -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , Equality -- South Africa , Poverty -- South Africa , Political participation -- South Africa , South Africa -- Economic conditions , South Africa -- Social conditions
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD (Social Science Dev)
- Identifier: vital:11439 , http://hdl.handle.net/10353/d1007230 , Human capital -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , Equality -- South Africa , Poverty -- South Africa , Political participation -- South Africa , South Africa -- Economic conditions , South Africa -- Social conditions
- Description: The main focus of this thesis is the challenges that are facing social policy development and implementation in South Africa in relation to the enhancement of human capability. The study adopted a historical approach to assess the model of social policy in South Africa and identified that social relations of domination inherited from the apartheid era continuing to produce inequalities in opportunities. Social policy under the democratic government has not managed to address social inequalities and the main drivers of poverty in the form of income poverty, asset poverty and capability poverty which are the underlying factors reproducing deprivation and destitution of the majority of the population Although South Africa prides itself of a stable democracy, social inequalities continue to undermine the benefits of social citizenship because political participation in the midst of unequal access to economic and social resources undermine the value of citizenship. Also, inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth, and in the control of economic production undermine political equality which is an ethic upon which social rights are predicated. As a result, state interventions are lacking inherent potential to build human capability for people to live the life that they have reason to value. The paradox of social policy in South Africa is that the majority of those who are marginalised are those who were excluded by the apartheid regime even though state intervention is claimed to be targeting them. This points to the failure of incremental equalisation of opportunities within a context of stark social inequities. It is also an indication that the economic growth path delivered by the political transition is working to reinforce the inherited legacy of deprivation and it is avoiding questions related to the structural nature of poverty and inequalities. Therefore, a transformative social policy is an imperative for South Africa. Such a framework of social policy should be premised upon a notion of human security in order to built human capability. Human security focuses on the security of individuals and communities to strengthen human development. It emphasises on civil, political and socioeconomic rights for individual citizens to participate fully in the process of governance. Although this thesis is a case study of social policy in South Africa, it can be used to appreciate the role of social policy in other developing countries, particularly the impact of political decision making on social distribution. Poverty and social inequalities are growing problems in developing countries and so is the importance of putting these problems under the spotlight for political attention.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2011
PFP, Progressive Federal Party: the PFP stands for-
- Progressive Federal Party (South Africa)
- Authors: Progressive Federal Party (South Africa)
- Date: 19--?
- Subjects: Progressive Federal Party (South Africa) , South Africa -- Parliament , Apartheid -- South Africa , Political parties -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , South Africa -- Race relations
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76277 , vital:30530
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 19--?
- Authors: Progressive Federal Party (South Africa)
- Date: 19--?
- Subjects: Progressive Federal Party (South Africa) , South Africa -- Parliament , Apartheid -- South Africa , Political parties -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , South Africa -- Race relations
- Language: English
- Type: text , book
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/76277 , vital:30530
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 19--?
Black Sash - Untitled letter to Dr. F van Zyl Slabbert
- Douglas-Jones, Isobel, Black Sash (Society)
- Authors: Douglas-Jones, Isobel , Black Sash (Society)
- Date: 1987-08-20
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Black Sash (Society) -- Letters and correspondence , Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010 , Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA)
- Language: English
- Type: text , letter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57762 , vital:26987 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Letter written by the Chairman of the Blask Sash Cape Eastern Region, Isobel Douglas-Jones, to Dr F. van Zyl Slabbert, thanking him for his contribution (in the form of a speech) to the Sash/IDAMASA Public meeting held on the 6th of August 1987 in Port Elizabeth. Letter dated 20 August 1987.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1987-08-20
- Authors: Douglas-Jones, Isobel , Black Sash (Society)
- Date: 1987-08-20
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Politics and government , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Black Sash (Society) -- Letters and correspondence , Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010 , Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa (IDASA)
- Language: English
- Type: text , letter
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57762 , vital:26987 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Letter written by the Chairman of the Blask Sash Cape Eastern Region, Isobel Douglas-Jones, to Dr F. van Zyl Slabbert, thanking him for his contribution (in the form of a speech) to the Sash/IDAMASA Public meeting held on the 6th of August 1987 in Port Elizabeth. Letter dated 20 August 1987.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1987-08-20
Control, compliance and conformity at the University of Fort Hare 1916 - 2000: a Gramscian approach
- Authors: Johnson, Pamela
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: University of Fort Hare -- History , University of Fort Hare -- Administration , Higher education and state -- South Africa , Hegemony -- South Africa , Conformity -- Political aspects -- South Africa , Abuse of administrative power -- South Africa , Education, Higher -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1916-2000 , Apartheid -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:1325 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013126
- Description: Arising from Marxist theory, critical theory investigates the mechanisms that enable continued domination in capitalist society, with a view to revealing the real, but obscured, nature of social relations and enabling these to be challenged by subjugated classes. Within the broad spectrum of Marxist theory, social relations of domination and subordination are assigned according to the relationship of social classes to economic production. However, the neo-Marxist perspective developed by Antonio Gramsci locates relations of power within the broader context of the political economy. In doing so, the role of the State in a capitalist society assumes greater significance than that of maintaining and securing social relations on behalf of the dominant class through coercion and force. Instead, the State embarks on a range of activities in the attempted “exercise of hegemony”, or the cultivation of general acceptance by all social classes of existing social relations and conditions. Gramsci refers to this desired outcome as “consent”, the product of the successful exercise of hegemony, a political function which is thus crucial to the accumulation of capital. When unsuccessful, dissent cannot be contained by the State, and the extent to which contestation constitutes a threat is revealed by recourse to coercion. The manner in which relations of power are cemented through the exercise of hegemony lies at the core of this thesis. It investigates the relationship between the State and the administrators of an institution within civil society, the University of Fort Hare, as well as the responses to the activities of the State and University Administration within the University itself, over an extended period of time between 1916 and 2000. This period is divided into three specific time frames, according to changes in the expression of the South African State. In general, it is seen that conformity characterises the relationship between the State and the University Administration, underscoring the success of the State in fostering the role of education in the reproduction of social relations and values and in eliciting conformity. The nature of conformity is seen to vary according to different expressions of the State and changes in social relations, which are in turn informed by the overarching political economy and events taking place within society and the University of Fort Hare. Manifestations of consent and dissent, as responses to the attempted exercise of hegemony, are presented in the three periods corresponding to different expressions of the State. Four reasons for conformity, as presented by Gramscian scholar Joseph V Femia (1981), are utilised in order to explain and illustrate the nature of control and compliance at the University of Fort Hare between 1916 and 2000.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
- Authors: Johnson, Pamela
- Date: 2014
- Subjects: University of Fort Hare -- History , University of Fort Hare -- Administration , Higher education and state -- South Africa , Hegemony -- South Africa , Conformity -- Political aspects -- South Africa , Abuse of administrative power -- South Africa , Education, Higher -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape , South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1916-2000 , Apartheid -- South Africa
- Language: English
- Type: Thesis , Doctoral , PhD
- Identifier: vital:1325 , http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1013126
- Description: Arising from Marxist theory, critical theory investigates the mechanisms that enable continued domination in capitalist society, with a view to revealing the real, but obscured, nature of social relations and enabling these to be challenged by subjugated classes. Within the broad spectrum of Marxist theory, social relations of domination and subordination are assigned according to the relationship of social classes to economic production. However, the neo-Marxist perspective developed by Antonio Gramsci locates relations of power within the broader context of the political economy. In doing so, the role of the State in a capitalist society assumes greater significance than that of maintaining and securing social relations on behalf of the dominant class through coercion and force. Instead, the State embarks on a range of activities in the attempted “exercise of hegemony”, or the cultivation of general acceptance by all social classes of existing social relations and conditions. Gramsci refers to this desired outcome as “consent”, the product of the successful exercise of hegemony, a political function which is thus crucial to the accumulation of capital. When unsuccessful, dissent cannot be contained by the State, and the extent to which contestation constitutes a threat is revealed by recourse to coercion. The manner in which relations of power are cemented through the exercise of hegemony lies at the core of this thesis. It investigates the relationship between the State and the administrators of an institution within civil society, the University of Fort Hare, as well as the responses to the activities of the State and University Administration within the University itself, over an extended period of time between 1916 and 2000. This period is divided into three specific time frames, according to changes in the expression of the South African State. In general, it is seen that conformity characterises the relationship between the State and the University Administration, underscoring the success of the State in fostering the role of education in the reproduction of social relations and values and in eliciting conformity. The nature of conformity is seen to vary according to different expressions of the State and changes in social relations, which are in turn informed by the overarching political economy and events taking place within society and the University of Fort Hare. Manifestations of consent and dissent, as responses to the attempted exercise of hegemony, are presented in the three periods corresponding to different expressions of the State. Four reasons for conformity, as presented by Gramscian scholar Joseph V Femia (1981), are utilised in order to explain and illustrate the nature of control and compliance at the University of Fort Hare between 1916 and 2000.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 2014
Suggestions: For consideration at Meeting of Preliminary Convention Committee, Cape Town: Monday 11th September, 1961
- Daniels, J C A, South African National Convention Movement. Council.
- Authors: Daniels, J C A , South African National Convention Movement. Council.
- Date: 1961-08-30
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention , South Africa. South African Coloured People's Congress
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/32082 , vital:24009 , MS 10 812 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Suggestions for consideration at the Meeting of Preliminary Convention Committee, placed before the Council of the South African National Convention Movement.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1961-08-30
- Authors: Daniels, J C A , South African National Convention Movement. Council.
- Date: 1961-08-30
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention , South Africa. South African Coloured People's Congress
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/32082 , vital:24009 , MS 10 812 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Suggestions for consideration at the Meeting of Preliminary Convention Committee, placed before the Council of the South African National Convention Movement.
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- Date Issued: 1961-08-30
Letter from P.C. Kruger
- Authors: Kruger, P C
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention , South Africa. South African Coloured People's Congress
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/32107 , vital:24011 , MS 10 826 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Biographical and descriptive notes of incidents leading up to the National Coloured Convention in 1961.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1961
- Authors: Kruger, P C
- Date: 1961
- Subjects: Coloured National Convention , Colored people (South Africa) , Civil rights -- South Africa , Apartheid -- South Africa , South Africa -- Race relations -- 20th century , South Africa -- Social conditions -- 1961-1994 , Human rights -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century , South Africa. South African Coloured National Convention , South Africa. South African Coloured People's Congress
- Type: Text
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/32107 , vital:24011 , MS 10 826 , This manuscript is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Biographical and descriptive notes of incidents leading up to the National Coloured Convention in 1961.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1961
Crowd of 1 600 packs hall to hear Slabbert
- Authors: Barkhuizen, Dawn
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , Racism -- South Africa , Dakar Conference (1987, Dakar) , South Africa -- Politics and government , Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa , African National Congress , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57773 , vital:26988 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Newspaper clipping reporting on the address by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert (IDASA Executive Director), at the Feather Market Hall in Port Elizabeth. Dr. Slabbert addressed a crowd of 1600 interested parties, with the message of the address focussing on the outcomes of the political discussions held in Dakar, Senegal, between the 9th and 12th of July 1987, between members of IDASA and the ANC.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1987
- Authors: Barkhuizen, Dawn
- Date: 1987
- Subjects: Apartheid -- South Africa , Racism -- South Africa , Dakar Conference (1987, Dakar) , South Africa -- Politics and government , Institute for a Democratic Alternative for South Africa , African National Congress , Government Resistance to – South Africa , Slabbert, F. van Zyl (Frederik van Zyl), 1940-2010
- Language: English
- Type: text , clippings
- Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/57773 , vital:26988 , This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description: Newspaper clipping reporting on the address by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert (IDASA Executive Director), at the Feather Market Hall in Port Elizabeth. Dr. Slabbert addressed a crowd of 1600 interested parties, with the message of the address focussing on the outcomes of the political discussions held in Dakar, Senegal, between the 9th and 12th of July 1987, between members of IDASA and the ANC.
- Full Text:
- Date Issued: 1987