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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 ...
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 ...
Administrative sociology and apartheid
(University of the Free State, 2014)
Although sociological discourses are multiple and varied, with deeply critical versions
challenging the auspices of apartheid, there is also a strand of what I call ‘administrative
sociology’ that actively defined, ...
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 ...
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. ...
Dirty scapegoats: explaining Israel's ties with South Africa during the 1970s and 1980s
(Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2013)
The article surveys five possible explanations for the ties between Israel and South Africa between the
1970s and 1980s. (1) The Industrial-Military Complex Explanation, arguing that both the Israeli and
South African ...
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. ...
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, ...
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. ...