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A - South African Perspectives Edited by Belinda Bozzoli Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/classcommunityco0000hist Class, Community and Conflict History Workshop 3 Class, Community and Conflict South African Perspectives Edited by Belinda Bozzoli Johannesburg é Ravan Press Published by Ravan Press (Pty) Ltd P O Box 31134, Braamfontein, Johannesburg, 2017 South Africa © The contributors as listed on the contents page of this book All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the Copyright owner. First published 1987 ISBN 0 86975 281 2 Cover photograph (Social worker with digger family, Lichtenburg, late 1920s) courtesy of Mrs S. Lourens Set in 10 on 11pt English Times Printed by Galvin and Sales, Cape Town Contents Acknowledgements vii Full List of Conference Papers viii Contributors x Preface xiii Part One: Themes Class, Community and Ideology in the Evolution of South African Society / Belinda Bozzoli The ‘People’s Past’: Towards Transforming the Present 44 Luli Callinicos Part Two: Communities Dispossessed The Legend of Fenner-Solomon 65 Jeff Peires ‘A Forgotten Corner of the Transvaal’: Reconstructing the History of a Relocated Community through Oral Testimony and Song 93 Patrick Harries Part Three: Class, Ideology and Jewish Community on the Rand The Making of a South African Jewish Community in Johannesburg, 1886-1914 135 Riva Krut Radical Community: The Yiddish-speaking Branch of the International Socialist League, 19i8-1920 /60 E.A. Mantzaris Part Four: Garment Workers in Local and Regional Perspective ‘Maar 'n klomp “‘factory’’ meide’: Afrikaner Family and Community on the Witwatersrand during the 1920s /77 Elsabé Brink ‘Joh’burg Hotheads’ and the ‘Gullible Children of Cape Town’: The Transvaal Garment Workers’ Union’s Assault on Low Wages in the Cape Vi Contents Town Clothing Industry, 1930-1931 209 Martin Nicol Part Five: White Workers and Political Ideology Community Politics on the Lichtenburg Alluvial Diamond Fields, 1926-1929 235 Tim Clynick A Case of Schizophrenia: The Rise and Fall of the Independent Labour Party 261/ Leslie Witz Part Six: African Resistance: Perspectives on Class and Gender ‘We are now the men’: Women’s Beer Protests in the Natal Countryside, 1929 292 Helen Bradford Women in Rural Politics: Herschel District in the 1920s and 1930s 324 William Beinart Part Seven: Cleavage and Unity in Urban African Communities The Stay-away of the Brakpan Location, 1944 358 Hilary Sapire Political Organisations in Pretoria’s African Townships, 1940-1963 401 Tom Lodge Part Eight: Criminality and Survival in the City Stone’s Boys and the Making of a Cape Flats Mafia 4/8 Don Pinnock The Ma-Rashea: A Participant’s Perspective 436 Jeff Guy and Motlatsi Thabane Part Nine: Experiences ‘Let me make history please’: The Story of Johanna Masilela, Childminder 457 Jacklyn Cock and Erica Emdon Workers Divided: Five Faces from a Hidden Abode 478 Eddie Webster Index 495 Photographs Between pages 64 and 65 Between pages 176 and 177 Between pages 291 and 292 Between pages 456 and 457 Acknowledgements The History Workshop is grateful to innumerable people and organisa- tions for their help and cooperation in making all three aspects of the last Workshop — the academic conference, the Popular History Day and the Open Day — successful. Financial and official support came from a variety of quarters, and we thank the Ford Foundation, the University of the Witwatersrand’s Workshop Fund, and the African Studies Institute in particular for their generous support. We would also like to thank Professors D.J. du Plessis, K. Tober and P. Tyson, who consistently backed our efforts, and various University departments and divisions, such as the Wits Theatre, which bore the brunt of the oversubscribed Open Day, the Central Printing Unit, Wits Public Relations, the Central Television Services, and the University Foundation. Organisational and administrative support came from Wendy Cullinan and Karin Shapiro, without whom nothing would have happened. The African Studies Institute provided us with space and the Sociology Depart- ment with various forms of tangible and intangible help. Veronica Houreld, Denise Moys and Ann Levy typed up clean copies of the papers in this volume; Andrea van Niekerk did picture research and Sheila de Wet compiled the index. We thank them all most warmly. The artists and performers who made the Open Day what it was, those who helped arrange transport for our audiences, the researchers who at- tended and participated so vigorously in our academic sessions, and the popularisers who contributed to our sessions on ‘popularising history’ are too numerous to be thanked by name, but we acknowledge them here. We appreciate their contributions immensely and hope to consolidate our links with them in the future. Peter Kallaway Phil Bonner Tom Lodge Belinda Bozzoli Andy Manson Luli Callinicos Patrick Pearson Tim Couzens Charles van Onselen Peter Delius Eddie Webster Ahmed Essop Deborah James Full List of Conference Papers Besides those included in this book the following papers were presented to the Conference. A full set of papers is available in the University of the Witwatersrand Africana Library. Bonner, Philip and Lambert, Rob: ‘Batons and Bare Heads: The Strike at Amato Textile, February, 1958’ Bradford, Helen: ‘Lynch Law and Labourers: The ICU in Umvoti, 1927-1928’ Chisholm, Linda: ‘Themes in the Construction of Free Compulsory Education for the White Working Class on the Witwatersrand, 1886-1907’ Couzens, Tim: ‘Keeping the Runway Clear: Ethelreda Lewis’ De Jager, Helen: ‘Music and Change in Black Urban Culture during the First Half of the 1960s’ Delius, Peter: ‘Abel Erasmus: Power and Profit in the Eastern Transvaal’ Dikobe, Modikwe: ‘Class, Community and Conflict’ Dubow, Saul: ‘Understanding the Native Mind: The Impact of Anthro- pological Thought on Segregationist Discourse in South Africa, 1919-1933’ Garson, Noel: ‘The Cape Franchise in Action: The Queenstown By- Election of December 1921’ Gilfoyle, Daniel: * ““A Concurrence of Interests?’’: Businessmen, Pro- letarians and Housing in Springs, 1948-1960’ Giliomee, Hermann: ‘Class, Community and Conflict: Mobilising the Cape Dutch and the Boers in the 19th Century’ Gordon, Sue: ‘Robert Ramathoka Seise’ Gray, Stephen: ‘Leipoldt’s Valley Community: The Novelist as Archivist’ Hamilton, Carolyn and Wright, John: ‘The Making of the Lala: Ethnici- ty, Ideology and Class Formation in a Pre-Colonial Context’ Hofmeyr, Isabel: ‘Building a Nation from Words: Afrikaans Language, Literature and ‘‘Ethnic Identity’’, 1902-1924’ Hyslop, Jonathon: ‘Trade Unionism in the Rise of African Nationalism: Bulawayo, 1945-1963’ Jeeves, Alan and Yudelman, David: ‘The Mobilization of a Sub- Continent’ Kaarsholm, Preben: ‘Lutheranism and Imperialism in the Novels of Olive
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