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Finding voice, vocabulary and community. The UWC Student Movement 1972-1976
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2014-06)
This article delves into an activist vocabulary adopted by Coloured students at the University of the
Western Cape (UWC) in the early- to mid-1970s. It asks what language these students used to make
meaningful in their ...
Faith as politics-and politics as faith: Beyers Naudé and Dag Hammarskjöld
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2015-12)
This essay explores commonalities in the faith and political spirituality of Dag Hammarskjöld
(1905-1961) and Beyers Naudé (1915-2004) on occasion of the hundredth birthday of “Oom Bey”,
as Beyers Naudé was called by ...
Vlaandere en Suid-Afrika: die donker skaduwee van apartheid
(Faculty of the Humanities, University of the Free State, 2010-06)
In view of their history, the Flemish people always had a greater understanding of the Afrikaner’s striving to preserve their identity. Even during the dark days of apartheid they were quite sympathetic towards the Afrikaner. ...
"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 ...
Reflections on the ecclesiastical interpretations of 6th April 1652 as a South African symbolic date
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2004)
English: This article verifies the theological interpretation of the 6th April 1652 as a South
African symbolic date, which marked the beginning of the European and Christian
contribution to the history of Southern Africa. ...
Sports isolation and the struggle against apartheid in South African sport: the sports policy of the National Party during the 1980s
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
Under the National Party (NP) government sport had been governed by apartheid laws since 1948.
Towards the end of the seventies the NP introduced the idea of sports autonomy as their policy going into
the 1980s. This was ...
Does Black theology have a role to play in the democratic South Africa?
(Faculty of Theology, University of the Free State, 2016)
Black theology was conceived in South Africa in the mid-1960s and flourished from the 1970s, when White supremacy perpetuated by the apartheid state was at its zenith. The struggle against apartheid was aimed mainly at ...
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. ...