South Africa’s 1940s: World of Possibilities
2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 69; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/00207233.2011.641240
ISSN1029-0400
Autores Tópico(s)South African History and Culture
ResumoClick to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1. Interestingly this was fostered by the belief (in 1940) that the gold mining industry was in terminal decline. The Orange Free State gold fields were only proved in 1946! See 'Wild goose chase paid off', available online at: http://www.marques.co.za/welkompub/history1.htm. 2. From 1942 to 1946, real black wages increased dramatically (p. 27). 3. Although this would not necessarily be the 'predominantly newly urbanised' (p. 25) since these latter would have been unskilled. 4. This is a far cry from the political opportunists that make up the leadership these days and by extension that of the ANC parent body which was elected by a faction led by the ANCYL during the 52nd National Conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Polokwane, Limpopo from 16 to 20 December 2007. 5. For not supporting the Programme of Action, they turned the conference against the sitting president Dr A.B. Xuma. 6. Van der Post was engaged to handle contributions in Afrikaans. 7. See 'Gandhi – Biography of Mahatma Gandhi by Jennifer Rosenberg', available online at: http://history1900s.about.com/od/people/a/gandhi.htm. 8. There is a Dr Yusuf Dadoo Primary School and a Dr Yusuf Dadoo Public Hospital, both in Krugersdorp. 9. 'The tendency in nature to form wholes that are greater than the sum of the parts through creative evolution' (J.C. Smuts, 1927, in Holism and Evolution. London: McMillan and Co Limited, p. 88). 10. 'To some of us', Mda concluded, 'his Holism means the ultimate "unity and oneness" of mankind under the dominance of the Teutonic peoples' (p. 162). 11. 'Don't amount to a hill of beans' to quote Rick in the 1942 movie Casablanca.
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