Why did the apartheid’s endgame favor the African National Congress (ANC) over other contenders? This article advances a path dependence argument, hypothesizing Mandela’s 1962 trip across Africa as a “critical junc...
The paper discusses the historical establishment of the apartheid system in South Africa since 1948 and the resistance struggle of Africans against its racial policies until the year 1969. The first part of the paper ...
There are many roads to worldwide renown,but few of tliem involve being discovered by a 60s musical icon and championed by a Nobel Prize winner That,in a nutshell,is the story of Ladysmith Black Mambazo,an a cappella ...
The South African a cappella group rocketed to global fame for their role on Paul Simon’s landmark Graceland.They have continued their outstanding performances in everything from the Lion King II to the 2010 FIFA Wor...
In one of the first pages and crucial scenes of The Lying Days (1953), we soon associate the narrating voice with that of a bright, inquisitive child of Scottish descent immersed in the harsh Witwatersrand scenario ...
This essay suggests that in 1962-1963, before Birmingham and the March on Washington, a coalition of Black and White civil rights activists, labor, and religious leaders were in the vanguard of the struggle both on th...
This paper outlines the rationale of Bantu education that was available for South African Blacks from 1953 to 1992. The paper is of the opinion that challenges of constructing a new education system in post-apartheid ...
This paper probes the problems of pedagogy within the South African context. The paper is written against the backdrop of the South African educational system that is at the crossroads regarding its adoption of a part...
The name, "Bantu", is a classificatory term which refers to a sub-group of the Niger-Congo languages, i.e., the Benue-Congo group of languages, which are spoken extensively in the equatorial and southern part of Afr...
South Africa was colonized by European powers from as early as the seventeenth century and all aspects of the indigenous population were transformed, alternatively, subjected to the norms of life of the colonial power...