Conference Papers
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THE ROLE OF THE INDIAN IN NATAL'S ECONOMY |
PAPERS PRESENTED AT A CONFERENCE HELD UNDER THE AUSPICES OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE OF RACE RELATIONS (NATAL REGION) IN DURBAN ON 14th OCTOBER, 1966. |
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Yusuf Dadoo: Transnational Politics, South African Belonging |
Although people of Indian origin have been present in South Africa since 1860, they are still objects of suspicion in the ‘New’ South Africa. In many quarters, they are accused of exploiting Africans and, in the past, collaborating with apartheid. |
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Africa Fund: More than Economic |
Africa Fund: More than Economic |
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Identity and Indianness: Reading and Writing Ethnic Discourses |
Identity And Indianness: Reading And Writing Ethnic Discourses
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LOW-COST HOUSING LOCATION IN SOUTH AFRICAN CITIES: EMPIRICAL FINDINGS ON COSTS AND BENEFITS |
Low-cost housing delivery in South Africa is largely occurring at low densities on the urban peripheries where land is cheap, but where infrastructure and transport costs are often thought to be higher. |
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Globalisation and the African City: Touba, Abidjan and Durban |
This paper is in essence the final chapter of a forthcoming book. It is preceded by a chapter more generally covering the post-colonial city in Africa. I take the view that the real historic break in urban development in Africa took place with the breakdown of modernist planning from the 1970s. |
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‘But We Were Thousands’: Dispossession, Resistance, Repossession and Repression in Mandela Park |
This article seeks to give an outline of the key events in the unfolding struggle in Mandela Park, Cape Town, South Africa, against evictions and disconnections from water and electricity. |
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HOUSING ASPIRATIONS IN THE 'COLOURED' COMMUNITY OF DURBAN |
Despite an increasing interest in the 'Coloured' community of Durban, especially in the area of social problems experienced, little has yet appeared relating to the aspirations of the community. |
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CRIMINAL VICTIMISATION AND HOUSING IN CATO MANOR |
The Cato Manor area has a long history as a point of contention. The vibrant Indian and African community that had settled in the area was forcibly removed in 1955, and the land lay vacant for many years. |
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INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE INDENTURED LABOUR NATAL, 1860-1911: STRATEGIES OF RESISTANCE |
This paper focuses on the question of resistance to indentured labour. |
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Caste, Class and Identities among Surtee Muslims in KwaZulu Natal (South Africa), c. 1880-2009 |
This essay explores the variety of subject positions of Gujarati-speaking Muslim migrants from Surat, India, from the time of their arrival in South Africa in the late 1870s to the contemporary period. |
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Attitudes of South African Indians towards Disciplining in the Child-Rearing Process |
ASPECTS OF FAMILY LIFE |
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Family Functioning in the South African lndian Community |
Mental Health professionals working in the field of family therapy usually hold an implicit if not explicit view of the characteristics of the normal family, which underlies their assessment of the families which enter therapy. |
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Aspects of family life in the South African Indian Community. |
In different parts of the world there are social workers and other professionals who see their main task in tending those who, in the midst of plenty, have fallen by the wayside. Committed professionals can carry out this work only if they are equipped for it. |
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Making the Personal Civil: The Protector’s Office and the Administration of Indian Personal Law in Colonial Natal, 1872 – 1907 |
The arguments presented in this paper analyze the administrative contestations around Indian ‘personal law ’in the Colony of Natal from the establishment of the Coolie Commission of Inquiry in 1872 to the promulgation of the Indian Marriages Act in 1907.2 To date, very little attention has focuse |
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Labouring under the Law: Exploring the Agency of Indian Women under Indenture in Colonial Natal, 1860 – 1911 |
This paper is intended as the beginnings of an introduction to a Master’s thesis that will look at discourses around Indian women and gender under indenture in Colonial Natal from 1860 to 1911. |
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Witchcraft or Madness? The Amandiki of Zululand, 1894-19141 |
In late May 1999 Anglican Archdeacon, Ebenezer Ntlali, performed an exorcism to drive out evil |
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The Voice of History? Archives, Ethics and Historians [Lunacy] |
These documents and letters - which I have placed in chronological order, and taken excerpts from, but have not otherwise edited or changed in any way - can be found at the Pietermaritzburg Archives Repository.2 They comprise, in the main, correspondence between various officials from the offices |
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The Mad in their Midst: Accommodating Insanity in Natal, 1868-1920 |
In December 1916, James Mkize, a kholwa (Christian) peasant farmer and preacher submitted a deposition to the Resident Magistrate of Umzimkulu, southern Natal, South Africa, detailing at some length the reasons why he believed that his brother, Bennie, was insane and should be legally detained in |
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The fools on the hill : the Natal government asylum and the institutionalisation of insanity in colonial Natal |
Representing one aspect of my wider research into changing perceptions and practices of mental illness and mental health in the period c.1850-1950 in the region that today is KwaZulu-Natal, this paper focuses on the colonial identification and institutionalisation of those deemed insane between t |