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Re-thinking the role of regional development funds in South Africa: reflections on international experience
(Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University of the Free State, 2010)
English: In 2010 the national government actively considered the introduction of a regional development fund to support the objectives of regional development in South Africa. Against this backdrop, this article critically ...
Working on the thresholds of memory and silence: reflections on the praxis of the Legacies of Apartheid Wars Project
(University of the Free State, 2015)
Just as stories about the past are constructed in particular ways, so too are silences
about historical events. Silences about what happened in the past are catalysed by a
range of factors including expedience, fear, ...
SADF soldiers’ silences: institutional, consensual and strategic
(University of the Free State, 2015)
This article treats silence as a collective phenomenon. Silence can be proscribed and
enforced, socially conditioned and sanctioned, or voluntarily embraced. All forms were
evident in the case of soldiers who served in ...
Apartheid and the anticipation of apocalypse: the supreme strategies of the National Party government and the African National Congress, 1980-1989: an historical perspective
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2011)
By 1980 the National Party government of South Africa and the most prominent anti-apartheid organisation, the African National Congress (ANC), had moulded multidimensional strategies of epic proportions with which to seize ...
"A decent man, but not very popular": JGN Strauss, the United Party and the founding of the apartheid state, 1950-1956
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
JGN Strauss, leader of the United Party and the official parliamentary opposition between 1950 and
1956, was a flawed politician. His aloofness and inability to suffer fools meant that he lacked the
popular touch, making ...
Die Fischer-woning en -swembad in Beaumontstraat 12, Johannesburg: simbool van rasseharmonie in apartheid-Suid-Afrika
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2011)
Bram Fischer (1908-1975), well-known struggle activist and one time leader of the South African Communist Party, challenged the apartheid consciousness of the Afrikaner fundamentally and totally. Consequently in 1966 he ...
Alternatiewe tot apartheid? Gespreksgroepe in die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk (NGK) gedurende die 1980's
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
During the 1980s, the South African government was struggling to keep violence in the country under
control despite the many reforms that the PW Botha regime has brought with it. The days of “’grand
apartheid”, associated ...
The willing and the not so willing: conscription and resistance to compulsory military service in South Africa, 1968-1989
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2012)
South Africa participated in two world wars without implementing compulsory military service.
Following the Second World War, the Union Defence Force relied on the Active Citizen Force to
supplement its manpower needs. ...
Race, class and nationalism: the 1947 visit of Monty Naicker and Yusuf Dadoo to India, 1947
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2011)
This article focuses on a 1947 tour of India by two South African Indian doctors, Yusuf Dadoo and GM (Monty) Naicker, during which they met with Mohandas K Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru and attended the All-Asia Conference. ...
The storms of reforms: South Africa's reform-strategy, c. 1980-1989
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
2013 marks the thirtieth anniversary of South Africa’s 1983 referendum in which the majority of
whites voted in favour of Pretoria’s proposed reformist constitution. The reform strategy, set out as
a 12 Point Plan, was ...