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Showing 1 to 20 of 44 for “"anti-apartheid"”.
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Justice and identity : the 'non-Jewish Jew', cosmopolitanism and anti-apartheid activism in twentieth century South Africa
Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 88-90).
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The role of Coloured church leaders in the anti-apartheid struggle : 16 June 1976-16 June 1986
… groups. The official terms used by the apartheid government were Coloured, Indian, White and Natives or Bantu. Coloureds were subdivided into no less than 5 subgroups. Coloureds were also known pejoratively as Hottentots as opposed to the more acceptable, Khoi-Khoi, and Bushmen as …
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Politics in the Courtroom: International Diplomacy, the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Rivonia Trial, South Africa, 1963-64
… repression in South Africa, which led to the anti-apartheid struggle moving abroad. This thesis offers a novel understanding of the global importance of this trial by advancing two strands of analysis. Firstly, the international-diplomatic: the attempts of state actors to utilise diplomacy and …
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Freedom and change : coming to terms with the end of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa : a case study
… faced by a multi-racial couple of South African anti-apartheid activists after the struggle ended. It aims to illustrate how a narrative therapy approach was helpful in assisting them to come to terms with the difficulties they experienced in their everyday lives once their role as activists came …
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Fractious Form: The Trans/Mutable Post-Apartheid Novel
… to what degree, and in what way, the paradigm of anti-apartheid literature gives way to its post-apartheid successor. More particularly, I explore how post-apartheid South African novels perpetuate, displace or transmute the narrative forms and conventions characteristic of anti-apartheid writing. …
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A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)
… African National Congress (ANC) and the British Anti-Apartheid Movement. Its goals were to advance war resistance both within South Africa and overseas, research the militarisation of Southern Africa, influence the ANC's opinion on war resistance, bring Western European peace groups and soldiers' …
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"COMRADES IN THEIR OWN RIGHT": WOMEN'S STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID IN THE SOUTH AFRICAN NOVEL
… thesis focuses on women’s struggle against apartheid in the South African novel. By means of textual analysis, the study explores the different ways in which apartheid oppressed women in South Africa and how women responded to the forces of oppression. In fact, at the core of this study is …
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A new terrain of struggle : the liberation of the 'self' : an analysis of the narratives of the experiences of activists of the Mass Democratic Movement (MDM) about their circumstances in post-apartheid South Africa, in the context of reconciliation
… of individuals who were involved in the anti-Apartheid struggle. These persons, more commonly referred to as activists, played key roles within various anti-Apartheid organisations between the period 1960 - 1994. Further, the study examines, via the life experiences of seven (7) activists …
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An analysis of the socio-political role of the Roman Catholic Church in contemporary South Africa
… in South Africa to the policy and practice of apartheid during the period 1948-1989. It is argued that the divisions, tensions and contradictions of the Catholic Church reflect the socially divided character of the broader society. It is suggested that some of the policies, teachings and social …
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Historicising the Popular: Trans-Atlantic Exchanges between African American and Local South African Musicians during the Cultural Boycott, c. 1960-1993
… The tours were often perceived by the media and anti-apartheid activists as controversial. They broke the cultural boycott, but they can also be viewed as pivotal moments for cultural exchange and the promotion of Black identity. By analysing the tours, this study, firstly, seeks to situate …
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Three essays on corporate responses to social movement activism
… of Royal Dutch/Shell’s rhetorical responses to anti-apartheid activists’ demands for the firm to divest from, or sever its ties to, South Africa in the late 1980s. Building on the findings from the first essay, Essay 2 is an examination of Coca-Cola, Inc.’s covert, or secret, funding of a front …
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A history of the present : recognizing the complex and shifting nature of racism and resistance in the life narratives of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces
… life-story narratives of a group of five former anti-apartheid combatants. Narratives were collected from a total often, in-depth, life-history interviews with five former-members of the Khayelitsha Internal Forces. The Internal Forces represent a group of ex-combatants who were operating in the …
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The alternative press in Black and White: Analysing the representation of black voices in the Weekly Mail's political reporting
The alternative press refers to a group of anti-apartheid newspapers which proliferated in South Africa during the early 1980s until the early 1990s. What was ‘alternative' about these publications was how they actively pursued an anti-apartheid agenda in their news reporting. The Weekly Mail …
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The alternative press in Black and White: Analysing the representation of Black voices in the weekly mails political reporting
The alternative press refers to a group of anti-apartheid newspapers which proliferated in South Africa during the early 1980s until the early 1990s. What was ‘alternative' about these publications was how they actively pursued an anti-apartheid agenda in their news reporting. The Weekly Mail …
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Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film
… a process of transition and the turbulent era of Apartheid is still vivid in our memories and our collective national identity. What is especially exciting about studying the history of the South African film industry, is that it was through film, television and the media at large, that we …
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A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution
… Coloured identity and the meaning of the anti-Apartheid movement.
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Thinking out of the box : a critical interrogation of selected essays in Njabulo Ndebele's Fine lines from the box. (2007).
… engages with Ndebele’s argument that the post-apartheid South African transformation agenda would be futile if it failed to achieve a new and inclusive South African national culture. Thus, through an examination of selected essays from the collection, this mini-dissertation explores the manner …
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Cover stories & undercover stories apartheid South Africa 1969-1984
… centers around one question: how did the apartheid state’s security forces decide to send the bomb that killed Jeanette and Katryn Schoon on the 28th of June 1984? This dissertation argues that the targeting of Jeanette Schoon was neither random nor thoughtless, but rather was the result …
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“Lost in translation?”: Women’s issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa (1910-1985)
… to the period of national defiance during Apartheid, throughout all of its ebbs and flows. By contextualizing women’s struggle for political and gender liberation within the political struggle of black men in South Africa, this study broadens the picture of female involvement within the …
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