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Passengers, Partnerships, and Promissory Notes: Gujarati Traders in Colonial Natal, 1870-1920 |
There were no complicated business arrangements. People trusted each other in those days. When you opened a shop, you would do your utmost to pay your creditors first... To be insolvent was a stigma. Traders tried to help one another. They helped others to open a shop. |
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The making of a political reformer: Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-1914 |
This Study Offers Perspectives That More Accurately Situate Gandhi`S Role In South Africa`S History. The Focus Is On The Religious And Cultural Orientation Of His Compatriots Seeking To Add With This New Dimension To A Better Understanding Of The Making Of A Social Reformer. |
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"A man of keen perceptive faculties" : Aboobaker Amod Jhaveri, an "Arab" in Colonial Natal, circa 1872-1887 |
Indians arrived in South Africa in two streams. Between 1860 and 1911, a total of 152 184 indentured labourers were introduced into colonial Natal mainly to work on the sugar plantations, though some were employed in other sectors of the economy. This initial flow … |
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Multiple communities: Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa |
In letters to newspapers and call-in programmes on radio stations, and also among many journalists and political commentators, South Africa's Muslims are largely viewed as a monolith, whether they live in the working-class townships of Phoenix in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN), the Cape Flats in the Western |
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Managing South African transformation: the story of cricket in KwaZulu-Natal, 1994–2004 |
Sport has historically been an important element of South African popular culture, even though it was divided along racial lines for much of the country's history. In post-apartheid South Africa, sport is seen by politicians, sports officials and many ordinary people as a … |
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The Quest for 'Malay' identity in Apartheid South Africa |
This study examines identity construction in twentieth-century South Africa, where successive white minority regimes attempted to define individuals according to reified notions of race and ethnicity, and demarcate 'race' groups deemed to have essential origins from other similarly constructed gr |
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Contesting ‘Orthodoxy’: The Tablighi–Sunni Conflict among South African Muslims in the 1970s and 1980s |
Muslims constitute less than 2% of South Africa's population. In a context where divisions of race, ethnicity and class predominated, schisms among South Africa's Muslims have been largely overlooked in the country's historiography. |
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Muslim Marriages in South Africa: The limitations and legacy of the Indian Relief Act of 1914 |
Many Muslims in post-apartheid South Africa have been seeking to use the new freedoms of a democratic state and its liberal constitution to pursue distinctive rights as part of a broader project to construct new and tighter Islamic codes in public and private domains. |
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Deconstructing ‘Indianness’: Cricket and the Articulation of Indian Identities in Durban, 1900–32 |
Indian immigrants arrived in South Africa in two waves; approximately 150,000 indentured laborers imported between 1860 and 1911 were followed by traders from the west coast of India. |
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Scotsman's pool, Durban |
Scotsman's Pool, Durban |
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Ocean Beach, Durban |
Ocean Beach, Durban |
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Ocean Beach, Durban |
Ocean Beach, Durban |
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Ocean Beach, Durban |
Ocean Beach |
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Durban bathing enclosure |
Durban bathing enclosure |
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Shelters, Durban beach |
Shelter, Durban beach |
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Ocean Beach and amphteatre, Durban |
Durban beach and amphiteatre |
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Swimming bath, Ocean Beach, Durban |
Swimming bath, Ocean beach, Durban |
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Bathing ocean beach enclosure, Durban |
Bathing ocean beach enclosure, Durban |
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South Beach, Durban |
South Beach, Durban |
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Ocean Beach, Durban |
Bathing enclosure, ocean beach, Durban |