Between Yesterday and Tomorrow

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Ashwin Desai ◽  
Goolam Vahed
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
Close Attention ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
The Way

This chapter begins with the promise of the Nelson Mandela presidency which made a commitment to building a ‘rainbow nation’ that would consign racism to the dustbin of history. Against this background, the opening chapter seeks to contextualize firstly the placing of Indians in the South African political economy through the long twentieth century that saw waves of colonialism, segregation and apartheid. It shows how through all these periods Indians were always regarded as outsiders and threatened with repatriation. It was only in 1961 a century after the arrival of the first indentured labourers that Indians were regarded as citizens. The chapter plays close attention to the way in which Indian South Africans reacted to discrimination and their attempts to build alliances with Africans. The chapter then zooms into the present and points to how the post-apartheid period raises in new ways the old chestnuts of diaspora, belonging, and citizenship.

Running the South African Gauntlet

2021 ◽  
pp. 133-162
Author(s):  
Charles van Onselen
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
The South ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Black And White ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
Cash Savings ◽  
Food And Drink ◽  
Sufficient Food ◽  
The Way

Unlike the ‘up’ train, the ‘down’ train to the Sul do Save carried African migrant workers with cash in the form of savings, wages or compensation for injuries sustained in the mines. The mood of many on the train going home was significantly more buoyant than that on the ‘up’ train, even though the returning migrants were often short of sufficient food and drink for the long journey. Passengers with cash savings were subjected to theft at stations or on the train itself. Returning miners also suffered other forms of institutionalised harassment by black and white South Africans preying on ‘foreign’ migrants when the train made enforced and unnecessarily prolonged stops at stations on the way home in order to sell workers refreshments.

South African War, Union, Segregation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Goolam Vahed
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South African ◽  
The South ◽  
South Africans ◽  
South African War ◽  
Black South Africans ◽  
Black Resistance ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter examines the politics of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century South Africa. It considers the South African War and itsrole in shaping modern South Africa through the postwar program of reconstruction under the watch of Milner’s kindergarten, in the context of the British imperial project. Factors that led to the war are outlined, including the role of Randlords, followed by a discussion of the reconciliation between the British and the Boers at the expense of black South Africans, the standoff between Smuts and Gandhi, reconstruction, segregation, the marginalization of black South Africans, and the genesis of organized black resistance to white minority rule under which union was forged.

scholarly journals Truth and reconciliation in South Africa: Hindu experiences and concerns

2004 ◽  
Vol 60 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
P.G.J. Meiring
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Faith Communities ◽  
The South ◽  
Reconciliation Commission ◽  
Truth And Reconciliation ◽  
Hindu Community ◽  
The Way

The author who served on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC), focuses on the Hindu experience in South Africa during the apartheid years. At a special TRC Hearing for Faith Communities (East London, 17-19 November 1997) two submissions by local Hindu leaders were tabled. Taking his cues from those submissions, the author discusses four issues: the way the Hindu community suffered during these years, the way in which some members of the Hindu community supported the system of apartheid, the role of Hindus in the struggle against apartheid, and finally the contribution of the Hindu community towards reconciliation in South Africa. In conclusion some notes on how Hindus and Christians may work together in th

scholarly journals Rapid and Successful Implementation of a COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Programme—The South African Experience

Viruses ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (10) ◽  
pp. 2050
Author(s):  
Tanya Nadia Glatt ◽  
Caroline Hilton ◽  
Cynthia Nyoni ◽  
Avril Swarts ◽  
Ronel Swanevelder ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Western Cape ◽  
The South ◽  
South Africans ◽  
African Experience ◽  
Antibody Titres ◽  
Investigational Therapies ◽  
Set Up

Background: COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) has been considered internationally as a treatment option for COVID-19. CCP refers to plasma collected from donors who have recovered from and made antibodies to SARS-CoV-2. To date, convalescent plasma has not been collected in South Africa. As other investigational therapies and vaccination were not widely accessible, there was an urgent need to implement a CCP manufacture programme to service South Africans. Methods: The South African National Blood Service and the Western Cape Blood Service implemented a CCP programme that included CCP collection, processing, testing and storage. CCP units were tested for SARS-CoV-2 Spike ELISA and neutralising antibodies and routine blood transfusion parameters. CCP units from previously pregnant females were tested for anti-HLA and anti-HNA antibodies. Results: A total of 987 CCP units were collected from 243 donors, with a median of three donations per donor. Half of the CCP units had neutralising antibody titres of >1:160. One CCP unit was positive on the TPHA serology. All CCP units tested for anti-HLA antibodies were positive. Conclusion: Within three months of the first COVID-19 diagnosis in South Africa, a fully operational CCP programme was set up across South Africa. The infrastructure and skills implemented will likely benefit South Africans in this and future pandemics.

scholarly journals The Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa and Ecumenism: 1923–1939

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Duncan
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South African ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
The South ◽  
Main Thrust ◽  
Church Of Scotland ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Free Church ◽  
Presbyterian Churches

The Bantu Presbyterian Church of South Africa (BPCSA) was birthed out of a quest for union amongst Presbyterians, which began in the 1890s more than 30 years before it was actually established as the fruit of the mission of the United Free Church of Scotland in 1923. From that date onwards church union hardly ever disappeared from the agenda of the highest court of the denomination, the General Assembly. During the twentieth century such discussions involved two of the three other Presbyterian churches and the Congregational Union of South Africa. In addition, the BPCSA has maintained a high ecumenical profile in both the South African and global contexts. The main thrust of this article describes and analyses the vicissitudes of Presbyterian conversations during the period 1923–39

South Africa and Scotland in the First World War

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Hyslop
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
South African ◽  
British Empire ◽  
The South ◽  
Political Identities ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Battle Of The Somme ◽  
First World

This chapter discusses the powerful and long-lasting impact Scottish military symbolism on the formation of military culture in South Africa. Drawing on the work of John MacKenzie and Jonathan Hyslop’s notion of ‘military Scottishness’, this chapter analyses how Scottish identity both interacted with the formation of political identities in South Africa, and ‘looped back’ to connect with changing forms of national identity in Scotland itself. In particular, it addresses how the South Africans’ heroic role at Delville Wood, during the Battle of the Somme, became a putative symbol of this racialised ‘South Africanism’. The South African Brigade included a battalion of so-called ‘South African Scottish’ which reflected the phenomenon of military Scottishness. Overall, the chapter looks at the way in which the representations of the role of the South African troops involved an interplay between British empire loyalism, white South African political identities, and Scottishness.

scholarly journals The war poems of Mongane Serote: The Night Keeps Winking and A Tough Tale

Literator ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
D. M. Hlabane
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
South African ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
The Political ◽  
South Africans ◽  
Political Turmoil ◽  
Historical Periods

For many South Africans who saw themselves as victims of a racist society, the twentieth century was a period of one hundred years of political turmoil and segregation. Representations of racism and the kinds of subjects it created were provided by various writers during specific historical periods. I consider the 1980s as a period in which the political conflict between the repressive white state and those who wanted change was largely undertaken through violence. This article therefore looks at the depiction of violence in Mongane Serote’s poems of the 1980s - The Night Keeps Winking (1982) and A Tough Tale (1987). As its title suggests, the article analyses these poems as “war poems”. It focuses on the political themes Serote develops in the poems. The Night Keeps Winking (1982) and A Tough Tale (1987) offer horrifying images of war and the senseless bloodletting characteristic of South African life in the 1980s. These poems, as the article will show, reveal how people's lives were damaged by the apartheid state to the extent that many people resorted to violence as a method of liberation.

The Reconstruction of Memory at Constitution Hill

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-25 ◽  
Author(s):  
CHURCHILL MADIKIDA ◽  
LAUREN SEGAL ◽  
CLIVE VAN DEN BERG
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Political Leader ◽  
Constitutional Court ◽  
African History ◽  
Constitutional Democracy ◽  
South Africans ◽  
The Past ◽  
Nelson Mandela ◽  
Former Prisoners ◽  
The Web

Abstract The Old Fort Prison was Johannesburg's main place of incarceration of prisoners for eight decades, including during the apartheid era. Virtually every important political leader in South African history, including Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Winnie Mandela, and Fatima Meer, as well as scores of ordinary South Africans caught in the web of colonial and apartheid repression, were imprisoned there. Today, this prison complex is home to South Africa's Constitutional Court. Constitution Hill has brought former prisoners to “map” their memories of the site. They also host public dialogues on the injustices of the past, as typified by the prisons at Number Four, as well as people's understanding of their constitutional needs and rights, and their experiences of the country's young constitutional democracy.

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