The SACP in exile: the challenges of the party's fragmented and "lost" archive
In: Safundi: the journal of South African and American Comparative Studies, S. 1-6
ISSN: 1543-1304
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In: Safundi: the journal of South African and American Comparative Studies, S. 1-6
ISSN: 1543-1304
In: Review of African political economy, Band 47, Heft 165
ISSN: 1740-1720
In: African studies, Band 76, Heft 1, S. 1-21
ISSN: 1469-2872
This article focuses on the politics of chieftaincy in Lehurutshe, a rural region in South Africa's North West Province, in the second half of the twentieth century. This was a period of profound social and political restructuring in the South African countryside. The imposition of Bantu Authorities, the extension of passes to African women and the deposition of Kgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa by the white authorities in 1957 sparked a popular struggle of resistance (better known as the Zeerust uprising or the Hurutshe revolt) that engulfed Lehurutshe in the late 1950s. The article analyses the establishment of a new political order in the aftermath of this period of resistance. It goes on to examine the attempted revival of the institution of chieftaincy by Lucas Mangope's Bophuthatswana bantustan in the period from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s. The paper ends with the onset of another period of intense struggle over the incorporation of the "black spot" villages of Lekubu (or Braklaagte) and Mokgola (or Leeuwfontein) into Bophuthatswana in 1989. Like the Zeerust uprising of 1957-1959, the anti-incorporation struggle of 1989-1994 points to the complex and continued intersection of local political struggles for authority with liberation politics – crucially articulated through the institution of the chieftaincy - during periods of contestation over local resources.
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In: African affairs: the journal of the Royal African Society, Band 111, Heft 445, S. 686-686
ISSN: 0001-9909
In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 42, Heft 3, S. 79-93
ISSN: 2072-1978
In: African studies, Band 69, Heft 1, S. 1-12
ISSN: 1469-2872
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