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Risk and benefit as functions of savings and loan clubs: an examination of the importance of rotating credit associations for poor women in Rhini

- Buijs, Gina

Authors: Buijs, Gina
Date: 1995
Subjects: Africans -- Economic conditions Rhini (Grahamstown, South Africa) -- Social conditions Savings and loan associations -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Savings and loan associations -- South Africa Urban poor -- South Africa Women -- South Africa -- Grahamstown -- Economic conditions Women -- South Africa -- Economic conditions Black people -- South Africa -- Grahamstown Grahamstown (South Africa) -- Economic conditions
Language: English
Type: Manuscript , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2498 , vital:20298
Description: Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, 25th April 1995: This paper examines the implications of risk taking in the context of rotating credit associations popular among poor women in Rhini. Mary Douglas notes that in the 19th century when the theory of risk taking became important in economics, humans were thought to be risk averse because they chose according to a pleasure calculus. In the 18th century the idea of risk was neutral: it took account of the probability of gains and losses. The concept originally emerged in the 17th century in the context of gambling. Risk then means the probability of an event occurring, combined with the magnitude of the losses and gains which would be entailed. She comments (1992:31) that the evaluation of the outcome is a political, aesthetic and moral matter. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Date Issued: 1995

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The collapse of the 'tribal authority' system and the rise of civic organisations

- Manona, Cecil W, Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995

Authors: Manona, Cecil W , Paper presented at an ISER Seminar, March 1995
Date: 1995
Subjects: Civic associations -- South Africa Local government -- South Africa -- Ciskei Local government -- South Africa Tribal government -- South Africa
Language: English
Type: Manuscript , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2454 , vital:20293
Description: The paper examines the performance of a local ('tribal') authority which existed in the Keiskammahoek district up to 1993 and accounts for the rise of civic organisations which challenged tribal authorities virtually everywhere in the former Ciskei. It suggests that the problems of this local authority which included inefficiency, corruption and lack of democracy were manifestations of the limitations of the Black Authorities Act of 1951 which attempted to revive traditional authority in the rural areas in south Africa even though this was incompatible with political developments in many other African states, particularly in a period during which the process of decolonisation was at its peak. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Date Issued: 1995

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Anton Muziwakhe Lembede

- Ka Msumza, Luyanda, Edgar, Robert

Authors: Ka Msumza, Luyanda , Edgar, Robert
Date: 1994
Subjects: Lembede, Anton Muziwakhe, 1914-1947 African National Congress -- Youth League Africans -- Government relations South Africa -- Politics and government -- 1909-1948
Language: English
Type: Manuscript , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2702 , vital:20318
Description: This essay is an introduction to Freedom in Our Lifetime: The Collected Writings of Anton M. Lembede to be published by Skotaville Press in 1995. On Easter Sunday 1944 a group of young political activists gathered at the Bantu Men's Social Centre in Orlando township to launch the African National Congress Youth League. Motivated by their desire to shake up the "Old Guard" in the African National Congress (ANC) and set the ANC on a militant course, this "Class of '44“ became the nucleus of a remarkable generation of African leaders - Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo, Walter Sisulu, Jordan Ngubane, Ellen Kuzwayo, Albertina Sisulu, A.P. Mda, Dan Tloome, and David Bopape - many of whom remained at the forefront of the struggle for freedom and equality in South Africa for the next half century. However, in 1944, the figure the Youth Leaguers turned to for their first president is not even listed in this group. He was a Natal-born lawyer, Anton Muziwakhe Lembede. Known to his friends as "Lembs," Lembede was a political neophyte when he moved from the Orange Free State to Johannesburg in 1943 to practice law. However his sharp intellect, fiery personality, and unwavering commitment to the struggle made an immediate impression on his peers, and he was quickly catapulted into prominence in both the Youth League and the parent ANC. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Date Issued: 1994

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Farmers' strategies and their implications for land reform in the Orange Free State

- Beinart, William

Authors: Beinart, William
Date: 1994
Subjects: Agriculture -- Orange Free State Land reform -- South Africa -- Orange Free State Land tenure -- Orange Free State
Language: English
Type: text , Manuscript
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2813 , vital:20328
Description: It is possible to conjure a wide variety of future agricultural scenarios in South Africa. But new policies should be developed only with close attention to what exists and what is feasible. Analysis of the potential for land reform should remain sensitive to local ecological and economic conditions and to the current strategies of both farmers and dispossessed. Rural life for many people remains insecure. Farmworkers are particularly vulnerable at present and might become more so in a phase of rapid reform and uncertainty. Although the most carefully planned strategy of reform might be undermined by the sheer demand for land or informal reoccupations, the aims of restitution, justice and redistribution should be tempered by the equally difficult demands of production. Drawing on material from a local research project in the Orange Free State (OFS), done jointly with Colin Murray, this article concentrates on three issues: patterns of land ownership; farming strategies; and land availability. The position of farmworkers and those who have recently moved off farms, as well as the potential for new patterns of occupation will be addressed in subsequent project papers (Murray, 1993). , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Date Issued: 1994

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Politics and science in Radcliffe-Brown: from anarchism to applied anthropology

- Maddock, Kenneth

Authors: Maddock, Kenneth
Date: 1994
Subjects: Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. (Alfred Reginald), 1881-1955 Anthropologists Anthropology Ethnology
Language: English
Type: Manuscript , Text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2645 , vital:20312
Description: It is part of anthropological folklore that A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (1881-1955) was known as "Anarchy Brown" when a student at Cambridge early this century. Meyer Fortes thought the nickname "a friendly recognition of the streak of aloofness in him and of his reputation for holding somewhat highbrow ideas in matters of art, life and literature" (1956: 153)- But there was more to it than the pose of a turn of the century aesthete, as Fortes knew. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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Date Issued: 1994

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Raymond Mhlaba, the Premier of the Eastern Cape

- Orie, Tembeka

Authors: Orie, Tembeka
Date: 1994
Subjects: Mhlaba, Raymond, 1920- African National Congress -- History African National Congress -- Youth League Africans -- Government relations Banning of persons -- South Africa Government, Resistance to -- South Africa Labor unions -- South Africa Mhlaba family New Brighton (Port Elizabeth, South Africa) -- History Political prisoners -- South Africa Port Elizabeth (South Africa) -- History
Language: English
Type: Manuscript , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/2769 , vital:20324
Description: Raymond Mpakamisi Mhlaba remains a mystery to tire public. Little is known about his, background and bow he has earned his premiership. The public is presently perplexed by his leadership qualities; his inaccessibility and his co-ordinating abilities to provide direction and leadership in the Eastern Cape province. What his vision is on implementing die reconstruction and development program, seems to be one of die anxieties experienced by the public presently. This paper endeavours to illuminate Mhlaba's past in order to explain and clarify who he is. This would help to see if there are any discrepancies between his past and the present, and what die challenges are to Mhlaba and to the public. , Digitised by Rhodes University Library on behalf of the Institute of Social and Economic Research (ISER)
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