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Members of the Royal Griqua Tribe, which organised the event, were dressed in full regalia. Goab Bishop Kenneth Visser, a provincial leader of the Griqua Royal House, said it was of great significance to come back to the castle, where Adam Kok had once been imprisoned. “For us it means the freedom of the Griqua […]
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To this end we might consider the possibilities that ensue from what can be called a “subversive genealogy” of humanistic study in South Africa. Such a genealogy, which is aimed at forging a reconstituted concept of the humanities beyond a tradition that must also be cultivated, has two specific instances. In the first a subversive […]
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Ruth Hall, ‘Land grabbing in Southern Africa: the many faces of the investor rush’, Review of African Political Economy 38, 128 (2011) [Special Issue: LAND: A NEW WAVE OF ACCUMULATION BY DISPOSSESSION IN AFRICA?] The popular term ‘land grabbing’, while effective as activist terminology, obscures vast differences in the legality, structure and outcomes of commercial […]
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Michael P. Besten, ‘Envisioning ancestors: staging of Khoe-San authenticity in South Africa’, Critical Arts 25, 2 (2011). This article examines the operation of primordialist cultural stereotypes and their impact, particularly on the self-representations of Khoe-San people. The operation of these stereotypes is demonstrated by means of a study of a series of Khoe-San-related public events […]
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Kate Law, ‘White Rhodesians: Settlers or Expatriates?’, Journal of Southern African Studies 37, 2 (2011). Reviewing: Robert Bickers (ed.), Settlers and Expatriates: Britons over the Seas, Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2010), vi + 352 pp, £35 hardback, ISBN 978-019-929767-2 Josiah Brownell, The Collapse of Rhodesia, Population Demographics […]
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History Department, McGregor Museum, Kimberley Wed 14 Sept: 19:00 Book launch “Luka Jantjie: resistance hero of the South African frontier” and opening of exhibition with talk by John Aldridge, Aldridge Press, London Thursday, 15 September 2011: 07:45 – 08:45 Registration 08:45 – 09:00 Welcome – Kgosi Pelonomi Toto 09:00 Opening Address 09:45 – 10:20 Tea […]
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Sam Moyo, ‘Land concentration and accumulation after redistributive reform in post-settler Zimbabwe’, Review of African Political Economy 38, 128 (2011). Zimbabwe’s recent fast-track land reform was redistributive, but it retained significant enclaves of large-scale agro-industrial estates owned by transnational, domestic and state capital, despite unfulfilled popular and domestic elite demands for land. Such estates were […]
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Awad Issa Mansour, ‘Orientalism, Total War and the Production of Settler Colonial Existence: The United States, Australia, Apartheid South Africa and the Zionist’ (PHD Dissertation, University of Exeter, 2011). Picking up on current research about settler colonialism, this study uses a modified version of a model explaining modern-state formation to explain settler-colonial formation. Charles Tilly […]
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Kevin Davie, of the Mail and Guardian: What languages do you speak, I asked? “Afrikaans and Zulu,” she said. “Does that mean you are Zulu?” “Nee, ek is ‘n Boesman.” Kleintjie, who usually lives in Middelburg, is an aunt to Taki and Wole. The group of four, all of whom described themselves as Boesmanne, included […]
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