Africa Today articles from January 1994

Africa Today archives from January 1994

M. Keith Irvine, writer and Africa expert, 69. (Obituary)
January 1, 1994... M. Keith Irvine, a writer, editor and publisher known for his expertise on Africa, died on Thursday at his home in Algonac, Mich. He was 69. He died of congestive cardiomyopathy, a disease of the heart muscle, his family said. Mr. Irvine...

Interview with M.C. Ramaphosa, secretary general of the African National Congress (ANC). (Interview)
January 1, 1994... Born in Johannesburg, Cyril Ramaphosa's life and leadership exemplifies the resistance struggle in South Africa. Mr. Ramaphosa grew up in Western Native Township and Soweto. He became involved in student politics while pursuing his Bachelors of...

Africa Today in the early years: the debate over strategy for the liberation of South Africa.
January 1, 1994... With the triumph of the ideas of liberation in South Africa, it is appropriate to reflect on the modest contribution made by this journal to these major changes. Most contributors to the anti-Apartheid struggle worked under very difficult...

The ideologies and strategies of resistance in post-Sharpeville South Africa: thoughts on Anthony Marx's Lessons of Struggle. (The Lessons of Struggle: south African Internal Opposition, 1960-1990)
January 1, 1994... Introduction Paradoxically, given the intensity and duration of mass resistance to the apartheid regime in recent years, there have been few theoretically informed syntheses of resistance strategy and ideology. Anthony Marx's book The Lessons...

African indigenous churches as a source of socio-political transformation in South Africa.
January 1, 1994... This paper will explore the anthropology of African indigenous churches, particularly as expressed in healing rituals at St. John's Apostolic Faith Mission Church, located in the township Guguletu in Cape Town, South Africa. Healing rituals are a...

"The Dawn of Freedom": a South African diary.
January 1, 1994... April 3, 1994: The Preparation "I feel the power of a nation within me." These were the striking words uttered by Sojourner Truth a century and more ago, words that I carry with me now from the United States to South Africa. I feel an utter...

Peace, Politics and Violence in the new South Africa.
January 1, 1994... The collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War signalled a dramatic shift in the global balance of power, expressed in the call for a New World Order. These global changes have been accompanied by efforts to resolve long-term local...

A History of South Africa.
January 1, 1994... The history of South Africa has been a subject of great debate for reasons which extend well beyond the borders of that troubled, promising land. In the genesis of the apartheid system, scholars have sought the links between racism, economics,...

Nelson Mandela Speaks: Forging a Democratic, Nonracial South Africa.
January 1, 1994... On Sunday afternoon, February 11, 1990, Nelson Mandela, the world's most famous political prisoner, walked through the gates of Victor Verster prison near Cape Town, South Africa. Seldom in the annals of modern history had an event been so widely...

Mandela, Tambo, and the African National Congress: The Struggle Against Apartheid, 1948-1990.
January 1, 1994... This is the first volume of its kind to be produced after the release of Nelson Mandela. This volume is a compilation of African National Congress (ANC) documents, Mandela's and Tambo's full and excerpted speeches as well as writings. As such,...

A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society.
January 1, 1994... Professor Donald Horowitz has written a serious study on the South African question at a time when the country is undergoing a fundamental political change--a time when modalities for new arrangements and accommodations are being discussed...

Apartheid Unravels.
January 1, 1994... This volume is the outgrowth of a lecture series on southern Africa. The contributions from ten scholars are concerned with the underpinnings of the apartheid system. The introduction by R. Hunt Davis, Jr., begins by examining the historical...

State Security in South Africa: Civil-Military Relations Under P.W. Botha.
January 1, 1994... This provocative study of South Africa's national security system during the 1980s under P.W. Botha's prime ministership will engage all and enrage some. Roherty (University of South Carolina) is a specialist on U.S. and comparative defense...

Transforming the Economy: Policy Options for South Africa.
January 1, 1994... This book is in many ways a fundamentally important document, in a political sense, for understanding the evolution of ideas about economic policy in South Africa. It results from a series of six conferences held in Lausanne, Paris, Bellagio, the...

Zimbabwe: Ten Years of Destabilization.
January 1, 1994... With the launching of liberation wars in Africa after World War II, it was only a matter of time before the whole colonial edifice in Africa would tumble down. By the end of 1960, especially after the passing of the United Nations Declaration on...

Southern Africa After Apartheid: The End of Apartheid, Future Regional Cooperation and Foreign Aid.
January 1, 1994... This book is a well-crafted study of the economic prospects for southern Africa after the end of apartheid and the manner in which external donors can promote development in the region over the coming years. The study was commissioned by the...

Economic Interdependence in Southern Africa: From Conflict to Cooperation?
January 1, 1994... Economic Interdependence in Southern Africa, as the author notes, "primarily reflects the results of the conceptual analysis" of economic interrelationships between Southern African Development Community (SADC) states, while "the empirical...