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"A black coup" : Inkatha and the sale of Ilanga
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Creator
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Gillwald, Alison
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Date
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1988
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Transformation : Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
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The black press in South Africa influences hundreds of thousands of readers in English and indigenous languages. The author considers the Durban-based and Inkatha-owned newspaper Ilanga and how it appears to succeed despite the political odds.
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"A liberal of another colour"
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Lodge, Tom, 1951-
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Date
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1991
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Transformation : Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
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Robert Sobukwe is one of the Africanist heroes of South Africa. The author is convinced by the new biography of Sobukwe written by Benjamin Pogrund that he was importantly a liberal.
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"Dhlakama é maningue nice!" : an atypical former guerrilla in the Mozambican electoral campaign
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Creator
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Cahen, Michel
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Date
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1998
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Transformation : Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa
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You may or may not agree with many Mozambicans that RENAMO leader Afonso Dhlakama is "maningue" nice but Michel Cahen's analysis suggests some of the complexities of politics in South Africa's most populous neighbour. This analysis finally moves the question of foreign intervention away from centre stage in discussions about Mozambique to focus on internal factors and the dilemmas of nation-building in Africa.
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"Ditiro tsa ditlhabololo" : Botswana as a developmental state
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Creator
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Taylor, Ian, 1969-
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Date
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2003
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Collection
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Pula : Botswana Journal of African Studies
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Of those countries outside of Asia that have recorded phenomenal levels of economic growth, it has been the so-called "developmental states" of Botswana and Mauritius that have performed well. Indeed, Botswana has had the most impressive growth figures in the world. The example of Botswana contradicts orthodox accounts of how development is best pursued, suggesting that retaining a competent and efficient state structure, rather than dismantle it as Structural Adjustment Programmes demand, is...
Show moreOf those countries outside of Asia that have recorded phenomenal levels of economic growth, it has been the so-called "developmental states" of Botswana and Mauritius that have performed well. Indeed, Botswana has had the most impressive growth figures in the world. The example of Botswana contradicts orthodox accounts of how development is best pursued, suggesting that retaining a competent and efficient state structure, rather than dismantle it as Structural Adjustment Programmes demand, is the key to future development. However, this is not to say that Botswana's development trajectory has not been unproblematic--the country has immense levels of inequality and poverty. But nor is it to deny that there have been elements within Botswana's post-independence history that other African states may take on board.
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"Every man must resettle where he wants" : the politics of settlement in the context of community wildlife management programme in Binga, Zimbabwe
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Creator
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Dzingirai, V.
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Date
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1996
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Zambezia
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Over the years there has been, in Southern Africa, a steady flow of populations from the overcrowded communal areas into those marginal zones which previously were sparsely populated. Usually it is post-independent leadership which encourages and facilitates settlement into these marginal areas currently occupied by minority ethnic groups which have failed to secure political representation since independence. The influx of people into these marginal areas affects the development of existing...
Show moreOver the years there has been, in Southern Africa, a steady flow of populations from the overcrowded communal areas into those marginal zones which previously were sparsely populated. Usually it is post-independent leadership which encourages and facilitates settlement into these marginal areas currently occupied by minority ethnic groups which have failed to secure political representation since independence. The influx of people into these marginal areas affects the development of existing programmes aimed at sustainable utilisation of natural resources. This article shows how politicians in Zimbabwe facilitate the resettlement of people into the previously sparsely populated Zambezi Valley. In addition, it shows that the huge influx of people into the valley has tended to affect the development of a community-based natural resource management project which was starting to benefit the Tonga people.
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"Homeland" of the mind
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Creator
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Obadare, Ebenezer
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Date
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2001
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Glendora Books Supplement
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Review of: Manthia Diawara. In search of Africa. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1998
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"Mapping the land" in Gudigwa : a history of Bugakhwe territoriality
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Creator
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Taylor, Michael, 1970-
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Date
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2002
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Collection
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Pula : Botswana Journal of African Studies
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Drawing largely from the experiences of a land mapping exercise in the ancestral lands of the residents of Gudigwa in northern Ngamiland, this paper explores the changing ways in which land ownership have been structured. It follows the decline of tenure over land and natural resources by Basarwa, a process that began after the first Bantu-speaking immigrants became established in the area. This analysis challenges the fallacy that Basarwa only had a loose sense of territoriality, and...
Show moreDrawing largely from the experiences of a land mapping exercise in the ancestral lands of the residents of Gudigwa in northern Ngamiland, this paper explores the changing ways in which land ownership have been structured. It follows the decline of tenure over land and natural resources by Basarwa, a process that began after the first Bantu-speaking immigrants became established in the area. This analysis challenges the fallacy that Basarwa only had a loose sense of territoriality, and examines in detail the nature of local conceptions of land ownership, and the salience of these conceptions to present struggles over land.
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