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“Volkekunde” in the academic and rugby world of South Africa’s Dr Danie Craven
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)
This article is a foray into the field of anthropology (“volkekunde” in
Afrikaans) and sport history. It examines aspects of the sport-related thinking
of a noted luminary in South Africa’s rugby world, Dr Danie Craven ...
A fool’s errand? Black Consciousness and the 1970s debate over the “Indian” in the Natal Indian Congress
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)
Bantu Stephen Biko, born in Tarkastad in the Eastern Cape was murdered by the South African apartheid regime in September 1977, aged 31. The year 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of his birth. Biko remains iconic, but a ...
“To build a just and fair society”: Fosatu and the vision of a new South Africa, ca.1970s-1980s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)
popularised the utopia of building a rainbow nation. The idea was to bring
together all people of South Africa, in all their diversity, to work towards a
new, common, non-racial and equal society. Indeed, the vision of ...