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Journal articles on the topic "Migrant labor – South Africa – History"

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LICHTENSTEIN, ALEX. "MAKING APARTHEID WORK: AFRICAN TRADE UNIONS AND THE 1953 NATIVE LABOUR (SETTLEMENT OF DISPUTES) ACT IN SOUTH AFRICA." Journal of African History 46, no. 2 (2005): 293–314. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853704000441.

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Most analyses of apartheid labor policy focus on the regulation of the labor market rather than the industrial workplace. Instead, this article investigates the administration of South Africa's 1953 Native Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act to examine shop-floor control rather than influx control. The article argues that in response to the threat of African trade unionism, apartheid policymakers in the Department of Labour addressed the problem of low African wages and expanded the use of ‘works committees’. By shifting the debate about capitalism and apartheid away from influx control and mi
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Huang, Mingwei. "The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Rethinking Race and Capitalism." Public Culture 33, no. 2 (2021): 193–217. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/08992363-8917178.

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Abstract This article tells a story about the unfolding “Chinese Century” in South Africa centered on China Malls, wholesale shopping centers for Chinese goods that have cropped up along Johannesburg's old mining belt since the early 2000s. Based in ethnographic and historical analysis, the essay takes a palimpsestic approach to imagine how Chinese capital enters into a terrain profoundly shaped by race, labor, and migration and is entangled with the afterlives of gold. Chinese migrant traders in South Africa draw on legacies of migrant mine labor and refashion processes that devalue Black lab
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Musoni, Francis. "The Ban on “Tropical Natives” and the Promotion of Illegal Migration in Pre-Apartheid South Africa." African Studies Review 61, no. 3 (2018): 156–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/asr.2018.73.

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Abstract:This article examines the historical as well as contemporary significance of South Africa’s 1913 ban on the recruitment of migrant workers from areas north of latitude 22 degrees south. This ill-conceived policy not only criminalized the employment of so-called “tropical natives” in South Africa but also triggered contestations, fueling illegal migration from the restricted areas. By 1933, when the ban was lifted, illegal migration from Zimbabwe (then Southern Rhodesia) had become a major site of contestations among policymakers, labor agents, business owners, and migrant workers in S
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Breckenridge, Keith. "Promiscuous Method: The Historiographical Effects of the Search for the Rural Origins of the Urban Working Class in South Africa." International Labor and Working-Class History 65 (April 2004): 26–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0147547904000043.

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Class in contemporary South Africa is undergoing an identity crisis. The demographic decline of the industrial working class, and the terrible predicament of the unemployed, especially in the countryside, lends support to the argument that we should, as Geoff Eley and Keith Neald have recently suggested in the pages of this journal, reconsider the class-centered theory that has dominated social history since the early 1970s. This paper examines the recent labor history of the coastal center of Durban, the urban epicenter of the contemporary disease and subsistence crisis in South Africa. Three
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Breckenridge, Keith. "‘Money with Dignity’: Migrants, Minelords and the Cultural Politics of the South African Gold Standard Crisis, 1920–33." Journal of African History 36, no. 2 (1995): 271–304. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700034149.

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This paper takes as its point of departure a simple fact that has gone largely unnoticed in the historical and ethnographic literature of migrant mine labour: prior to 1933 mineworkers were paid in gold. It is argued that the ideas and practices associated with the control and transmission of metallic money were at the heart of the experience of migrant labour before the crisis and formed a major part of the self-definition of migrant gold miners during the 1920s. Moreover, both the practices and ideas of African mineworkers were reciprocally linked to the global political struggles taking pla
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GEWALD, JAN-BART. "NEAR DEATH IN THE STREETS OF KARIBIB: FAMINE, MIGRANT LABOUR AND THE COMING OF OVAMBO TO CENTRAL NAMIBIA." Journal of African History 44, no. 2 (2003): 211–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853702008381.

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Namibian politics and society are today dominated by people who trace their descent from the settlements and homesteads of Ovamboland in southern Angola and northern Namibia. Yet, prior to 1915, and the defeat by South Africa of the German colonial army in German South-West Africa, very few Ovambo had settled in areas to the south of the Etosha Pan. In 1915, a Portuguese expeditionary army defeated Kwanyama forces in southern Angola, and unleashed a flood of refugees into northern Namibia. These refugees entered an area that was already overstretched. Since 1912 the rains had failed and, on ac
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Lalthapersad, Pinky. "Historical analysis of African women workers in South Africa during the period 1900 to 2000." South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences 6, no. 2 (2003): 262–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v6i2.3313.

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The article is a detailed exposition of the history of the incorporation of African women into paid work in the South African labour market. The interlocking effects of racism, classism and sexism exposed African women to income and job insecurity. Historically, access of African women to the labour market was shaped by the gendered nature of the migrant labour system and by legal measures that restricted women’s entry into urban areas and waged work. When African women were allowed into the formal labour market, they were only allowed to undertake the low-skilled, low-paying, menial jobs, wer
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Heinicke, Craig, and Wayne A. Grove. "Labor Markets, Regional Diversity, and Cotton Harvest Mechanization in the Post-World War II United States." Social Science History 29, no. 2 (2005): 269–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0145553200012955.

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As hand-harvest labor disappeared from the American cotton fields after World War II, labor market dynamics differed between two key production regions, the South and the West. In the South, predominantly resident African Americans and whites harvested cotton, whereas in the West the labor market was composed of white residents, domestic Latino migrant workers, and Mexican nationals temporarily immigrating under the sponsorship of the U.S. government (braceros). We use newly reconstructed data for the two regions and estimate for the first time the regional causes of the demise of the hand-har
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Yoon, Soo Ryon. "Artists or Slave Laborers? Performing Uncapturability in Burkinabe Performers’ Labor Rights Struggle in South Korea." positions: asia critique 28, no. 2 (2020): 311–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/10679847-8112468.

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This article traces eight performers from Burkina Faso, who in 2014 protested unfair labor practices at the Africa Museum of Original Art in South Korea, where they had been hired to perform. In the process, they demonstrated political and artistic endeavors in live concerts and dance workshops to reclaim both their monetary compensation and their artists’ status. Nevertheless, public and media discourse that followed this nationwide news—no matter how sympathetic—tended to treat the artists’ experiences as merely a failed Korean dream. Using performance studies methodologies and ethnographic
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Austin, Gareth. "The Emergence of Capitalist Relations in South Asante Cocoa-Farming, C. 1916–33." Journal of African History 28, no. 2 (1987): 259–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0021853700029777.

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The notion of capitalist relations in Ghanaian cocoa-farming is familiar, yet their development has been relatively little studied. In Amansie district, Asante, capitalist relations of production developed as a result rather than as a cause of the cocoa ‘take-off’, c. 1900–16. This paper examines their emergence, which occurred largely during the subsequent period of much slower growth and generally lower prices. The introduction and spread of regular wage-labour, the widening and deepening burden of rent on ‘stranger’ cocoa farms, the proliferation of ‘advances’, and the introduction of farm
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Migrant labor – South Africa – History"

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Maloka, Edward Tshidiso. "Basotho and the mines : towards a history of labour migrancy, c.1890-1940." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22471.

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Bibliography: pages 368-396.<br>This thesis examines how Lesotho came to depend on the export of its men to South African mines; what the experiences of these men were; and how all this impacted on Basotho society during the years between c.1890 and 1940. The thesis is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the context and dynamics of labour migration and recruitment in Lesotho during the late 1880s to the late 1930s. This Part lays the basis for subsequent sections by showing which sections of Basotho opted for labour migrancy; and why it was men and not women who, initially at least, be
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De, Wet C. J., Phumeza Lujabe, and Nosipho Metele. "Resettlement in the Border/Ciskei region of South Africa." Rhodes University, Institute of Social and Economic Research, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2849.

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This paper presents the findings of part of a research project entitled "Population Mobility and Settlement Patterns in the Eastern Cape, 1950 to 1990", which was funded by the Human Sciences Research Council. The part of the project with which this paper is concerned, is the study of resettlement in the Border/Ciskei area of the (new) Eastern Cape Province. It involves two main foci: a) the Whittlesea district of the former Ciskei, where research was done in the resettlement area of Sada (where findings are compared with research done there in 1981) and Dongwe; and b) the Fort Beaufort area,
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Maro, Mkasafari Grace. "Economic impact of international labour migration on Lesotho's development, 1986-1998: towards an international labour migration policy for the Southern African region." Thesis, Rhodes University, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1007496.

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The aim of the thesis is to identify the pressures that contributed to the rise in international labour migration in Lesotho, and to investigate how these pressures are impacting upon the modernization process in the country, particularly at a time when employment opportunities are scarce in the southern African region. International labour migration has been used as a development tool throughout history, but especially in the 20th century by developing countries with dual labour markets. Newly independent developing countries with dual labour markets adapted the strategy of import substitutio
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Kritzinger, Barbara. "An exploration of myth in the adaptation processes of Zimbabwean migrants residing in Port Elizabeth." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1430.

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Migration is recognised as an escalating phenomenon of human behaviour worldwide. In the Southern African region African migrations and migrants have remained a focal point of discussion amongst politicians, citizens and migrants themselves in recent years. In South Africa, a major destination of migrants from various African Diasporas, this renewed interest in the topic has occurred in the context of xenophobic related violence aimed at foreigners within the broader economic, political and social arena. These factors extend to South Africa’s relationships with her near neighbours. Thus, Zimba
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Khoza, L. H. "Nxopaxopo wa switandzhaku swa vuguduka eka matsalwa ya xiTsonga lama nga hlawuriwa." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/2355.

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Thesis (M.A.) --University of Limpopo, 2014<br>Problem Statement This proposal investigates the life of men who left their beloved families with the aim of seeking jobs in order to support them. Most of the men when they get employed, they forget about where they come from and start new families by marrying another wives in urban areas. Furthermore this study will seek to find out how these men could get help and to restore their dignity. Methodology In order to achieve the aim and objectives of this proposal, the researcher will utilise textual analysis and interview method. Significance
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Rwelamira, Juliana. "Effect of rural inequality on migration among the farming households of Limpopo Province, South Africa." Pretoria : [s.n.], 2008. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-01212009-160959/.

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Van, Zyl-Hermann Danelle. "White workers and South Africa's democratic transition, 1977-2011." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2015. https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.708951.

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Iannini, Craig, and Craig Iannini. "Contracted chattel : indentured and apprenticed labor in Cape Town, c.1808-1840." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1995. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23252.

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This thesis examines indentured and apprenticed labor in Cape Town between the years 1808 and 1840. Through analysis of primary material such as the South African Commercial Advertiser, the Colonist, and the Mediator, as well as contemporary travel accounts, contracts of indenture and apprenticeship, and an examination of the records of the Cape Town Magistrates, this study explores the attitudes and perceptions towards indentured and apprenticed labor by both employers and indentured and apprenticed servants.This study hopes to add to the existing literature pertaining to nineteenth-century C
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Cherry, Janet. "The making of an African working class: Port Elizabeth 1925-1963." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 1992. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/17243.

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Bibliography: pages 231-239.<br>The thesis examines the 'making' of an african working class in Port Elizabeth. It offers an alternative interpretation to conventional histories which emphasize continuity both in the idea of a strong industrial working class and in a tradition of militant and effective worker organisation. At the same time, it posits the idea that there was a working-class movement which developed among Port Elizabeth's african community in the late 1940's and 1950's. Chapter 1 examines population growth in Port Elizabeth, the growth of secondary industry, and employment oppor
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Khosa, Risimati Maurice. "An analysis of challenges in running micro-enterprises: a case of African foreign entrepreneurs in Cape Town, Western Cape." Thesis, Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11838/1787.

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Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree Master of Technology: Business Administration (Entrepreneurship) in the Faculty of Business at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology 2014<br>The primary objective of this study was to analyse the challenges in operating micro-enterprises faced by African foreign entrepreneurs in Cape Town. The rationale behind the study is the fact that foreign entrepreneurs are faced with different challenges in operating micro-enterprises; some of these challenges are detrimental to the enterprises and lead some entrepreneurs to stop do
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Books on the topic "Migrant labor – South Africa – History"

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Leslie, Witz, ed. Hostels, homes, musem: Memorialising migrant labour pasts in Lwandle, South Africa. UCT Press, 2014.

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Harries, Patrick. Work, culture, and identity: Migrant laborers in Mozambique and South Africa, c.1860-1910. Heinemann, 1993.

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Crush, J. S. South Africa's labor empire: A history of Black migrancy to the gold mines. Westview Press, 1991.

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Maloka, Eddy. Basotho and the mines: A social history of labour migrancy in Lesotho and South Africa, c. 1890-1940. Codesria, 2004.

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Fultz, Elaine. The Social protection of migrant workers in South Africa. International Labour Organization, 1998.

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V, Minnaar A. de, ed. Communities in isolation: Perspectives on hostels in South Africa. Human Sciences Research Council, 1993.

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Whiteside, Alan. Past trends and future prospects for labour migration to South Africa. South African Institute of International Affairs, 1985.

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Russell, Margo. Parenthood among black migrant workers to the Western Cape: Migrant labour and the nature of domestic groups. Co-Operative Research Programme on Marriage and Family Life, Human Sciences Research Council, 1995.

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Paton, Bill. Labour export policy in the development of Southern Africa. Macmillan in association with the Institute of Social Studies, 1995.

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Toolo, Hilton. Migration to South Africa: Problems, issues, and possible approaches for organised labour : discussion paper. NALEDI, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Migrant labor – South Africa – History"

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Davies, Robert. "The 1922 Strike on the Rand: White Labor and the Political Economy of South Africa." In African Labor History. Routledge, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003474210-4.

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McCulloch, Jock, and Pavla Miller. "Lifting the Ban on the Recruitment of Tropical Labour: 1933–1945." In Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8327-6_5.

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AbstractThe ban on the recruitment of Tropical labour, imposed in 1913, was arguably the single most important state intervention in the mines’ history. It was the only intervention aimed specifically at protecting migrant labour—and it was strongly opposed by the industry. To have the ban lifted, the Chamber commissioned the international experts Almroth Wright, William Gorgas and Lyle Cummins to find a solution to deaths on the mines. Wright failed to develop an effective vaccine, and the expert recommendations of Gorgas and Cummins were largely ignored. Improved conditions on the mines did
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Freund, William. "Organized Labor in the Republic of South Africa: History and Democratic Transition." In Trade Unions and the Coming of Democracy in Africa. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230610033_7.

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Gubba, Angela, and Sinenhlanhla Sithulisiwe Chisale. "Labor Laws and the De-skilling of Professional Migrant Women From Zimbabwe to South Africa." In Gendered Spaces, Religion, and Migration in Zimbabwe. Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003317609-17.

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Gastrow, Vanya. "Indigenisation, Regulation and Enforcement: Curtailing Immigrant-Owned Small Businesses in Contemporary Africa." In International Perspectives on Migration. Springer Nature Singapore, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-9715-8_20.

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Abstract Restrictive policies towards immigrant-owned small enterprises is a phenomenon that is widely attributed to Africa’s past. Political leaders in many newly independent states often viewed migrant-owned businesses as a threat to nation building and the economic upliftment of citizens. As a result, many passed legislation to prohibit non-nationals from operating small and medium sized businesses. Such exclusions are not limited to the continent’s history. Over the past two decades, a number of African countries have passed legislation curtailing immigrant-owned enterprises. Targeted grou
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McCulloch, Jock, and Pavla Miller. "Introduction." In Mining Gold and Manufacturing Ignorance. Springer Nature Singapore, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-8327-6_1.

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AbstractThis chapter draws parallels between the Marikana confrontation between police and striking platinum miners in 2012 and the longer history of mining in South Africa. Then as now, mining has been dangerous work performed mostly by migrant workers under the eye of brutal management and a violent state. For most of the twentieth century, South Africa’s gold mines were the most profitable sector of the national economy yet faced formidable challenges in containing costs, dealing with health crises and recruiting sufficient number of workers. It was in the context of the ongoing threat to t
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"Migrant Labour in the Industrial Transformation of South Africa, 1920–1960." In Studies in the Economic History of Southern Africa. Routledge, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315035987-13.

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Jochelson, Karen, Monyaola Mothibeli, and Jean-Patrick Leger. "Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Migrant Labor in South Africa." In AIDS: The Politics of Survival. Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315232638-12.

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Gunner, Liz. "Cultural Histories of South Africa." In The Oxford Handbook of South African History. Oxford University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190921767.013.12.

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Abstract The chapter covers a broad swathe of South African cultural histories but keeps the focus on the performative aspects of culture. It situates praise poetry as the key genre that operated with deep connective roots across a number of languages and dialects and interwoven histories of the southern African region. It argues for a more holistic understanding of how praise poetry worked at both a personal and wider social level and makes a case for understanding its diplomatic roles as a point of contact between societies that moved between stability and flux over a long period. It also mo
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Simpson, Thula. "Red Peril." In History of South Africa. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197672020.003.0007.

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Abstract This chapter discusses South Africa's political realignment after the Rand Revolt, as the Nationalist and Labour parties concluded an electoral pact, and the South African and Unionist Parties merged. The realignment saw J.B.M. Hertzog become Prime Minister in 1924, while black South African politics moved left. Clements Kadalie initiated efforts to transform the ICU into a nationwide labor federation, while the CPSA--prodded by the Moscow-based Comintern--sought to build a popular base within existing black organizations. The communists gained important support from Josiah T. Gumede,
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Conference papers on the topic "Migrant labor – South Africa – History"

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Stewart, Michelle. "Ghostly Imprints: Revisiting the Tradition of the Death Mask in Digital Clay." In Arts Research Africa 2022 Conference Proceedings. Arts Research Africa, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54223/10539/35905.

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This paper explores the representation of the dead through a creative project that involves 3D digital sculptures inspired by forensic facial photographs of unclaimed deceased in government morgues as well as posthumous photographs of the author’s mother-in-law. The project draws on the tradition of death masks and aims to create final portraits that commemorate the individuals and acknowledge the transcendental aspects of death masks. The author’s work is situated within the discourse of art theory and history, rather than forensic art, and emphasises the artistic and conceptual nature of the
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