Browsing by Subject "Nelson Mandela"
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"An absolute pillar of strength for her husband and the struggle": Molly Fischer (1908-1964) - wife, mother and struggle activist.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article concentrates on the life and times of Molly Fischer, wife of the renowned Communist and struggle-activist Bram Fischer. Molly and Bram’s life was not only woven together by their love for each other, but ... -
Address to commemorate the 2013 Martin Luther King day at the Law Faculty, University of Michigan
(2013)The paper commences by considering the similarity between Dr King, MK Gandhi and Nelson Mandela and argues that they are high mimetic figures who inspire us to be better. Their legacy and memory operate as a yardstick by ... -
A close reading of the opera Mandela trilogy, with a special focus on the performance of Mandela's masculinities
(North-West University (South Africa), 2018)This study explores the mediation of socio-political and life realities, and the performance of Nelson Mandela's masculinities in the opera Mandela trilogy, and what that says about the function and nature of contemporary ... -
Determining the willingness to pay for visiting Nelson Mandela's heritage sites
(North-West University (South Africa) , Potchefstroom Campus, 2016)In South Africa, the niche area of cultural heritage tourism holds particular promise for the racial transformation of the tourism sector and the empowerment of previously marginalized communities. As a result, many new ... -
“Let’s do things on our own …”: Gender and class dynamics during the quest to restore Inanda Seminary’s financial integrity, 1999-2001
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)During the 1990s, decades of disinvestment caused by Bantu Education prohibited Inanda Seminary from competing equally with other previously advantaged Whites-only private and former public ‘Model C’ schools within South ... -
Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders: A shift in power relations
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The stability of the apartheid system and the Afrikaners’ monopoly of power have been the subject of exhaustive scholarly analyses; by contrast, there have been few in-depth analyses of the unexpected transfer of power ...