Browsing New Contree: 2022 No. 89 by Issue Date
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Jan Smuts and the Bulhoek Massacre : race and state violence in the making of South Africa, 1919-1920s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)The purpose of this article is to examine the role played by General JC Smuts, the prime minister of the Union of South Africa at the time, in the incident known as the Bulhoek Massacre which took place in May 1921. The ... -
The political economy of Somali piracy : unravelling the actors, their motivations and activities, 2005-2011
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)Understanding piracy as a criminal business enterprise only presents a partial portrait of what is otherwise a complex phenomenon. Somali piracy could be better understood if it were framed as a multi-layered engagement whose ... -
Indian South Africans as a middleman minority : historical and contemporary perspectives
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)Beginning in the 1940s, a literature on middleman minorities emerged to demystify the intermediary economic niche that Jews had occupied in medieval Europe. They were viewed as ethnic entrepreneurs occupying the ... -
Dangerous, frightening, homely : home experiences of those living on the goldmines of the Far West Rand
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)This article provides an outlook on the darker side of people’s home experiences, as described by the inhabitants of Merafong, a township located on the Far West Rand, South Africa, where gold mining companies have had ... -
Schoeman, K. 2022. Herlewing : Transvaal en die grensgebiede in die naoorlogsjare, 1902-1910 [Book review]
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Chisholm, L. 2017. Between worlds: German missionaries and the transition from mission to Bantu education in South Africa
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High Treason : the trial of the Bondelzwarts kaptein and the politics of settler self-delusion
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)This paper concerns official “truth-seeking” about the Bondelzwarts Rebellion and its brutal suppression in 1922 by the South African administration in its newly-mandated territory of South West Africa. These events ... -
The golden opportunity: Recruitment of “foreigners” into the Witwatersrand by mining corporations, 1913-1933
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)In this article the strategies used by mining corporations to facilitate the illegal entry of mine-workers into South Africa between 1913 and 1933 are discussed. In 1913 the government banned the outsourcing of ...