Historical and Literary Papers
Gille de Vlieg
AVUSA
AVUSA
AVUSA
William Matlala
Ekurhuleni
AVUSA
COPAC
Ekurhuleni
Marie Huchzermeyer
Marie Huchzermeyer
Marie Huchzermeyer
Marie Huchzermeyer
AVUSA
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE: TRACING THE CONTOURS OF EKURHULENI
CHAPTER TWO: WHITE WORKERS AND THEIR STRUGGLES 1907-1924
CHAPTER THREE: CONSTRUCTING BLACK EKURHULENI, 1890-1927
CHAPTER FOUR: EKURHULENI’S INSUBORDINATE WOMEN 1918-1945
CHAPTER FIVE: SOCIAL WORLDS AND SOCIAL STRAINS IN INDUSTRIALISING EKURHULENI
CHAPTER SIX: SQUATTER CAMPS AND IMMIGRANT CULTURE
CHAPTER SEVEN: TURNING POINT 1940S
CHAPTER EIGHT: THE FIRST STEPS IN SOCIAL ENGINEERING – RECONFIGURING SPACE
CHAPTER NINE: BLACK POLITICS IN EKURHULENI IN THE MID-1950S
CHAPTER TEN: MAKING OF A MODERN ECONOMY
CHAPTER ELEVEN: APARTHEID’S HEYDAY IN EKURHULENI
CHAPTER TWELVE: THE STUDENT MOVEMENT OF 1976
CHAPTER THIRTEEN: EKURHULENI AND THE STRUGGLE AGAINST APARTHEID
CHAPTER FOURTEEN: A TIME OF INSURRECTION
CHAPTER FIFTEEN: POLITICS OF THE STALEMATE
CHAPTER SIXTEEN: THE POLITICS OF TRANSITION
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: CITY OF FRAGMENTS
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: INFORMAL AND CONTENTIOUS CITY
ENDNOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
ACRONYMS
| AMWU | African Mine Workers’ Union |
| ANC | African National Congress |
| APF | Anti-Privatisation Forum |
| AZAPO | Azanian People’s Organisation |
| BC | Black Consciousness |
| BCM | Black Consciousness Movement |
| BLA | Black Local Authority |
| BPC | Black People’s Convention |
| CBD | Central Business District |
| CDE | Centre for Development and Enterprise |
| CNETU | Council of Non-European Trades Unions |
| COP | Congress of the People (formed in 1953) |
| COPE | Congress of the People (formed in 2008) |
| COSAS | Congress of South African Students |
| COSATU | Congress of South African Trade Unions |
| CPSA | Communist Party of South Africa |
| CWIU | Chemical Workers Industrial Union |
| DA | Democratic Alliance |
| DCA | Duduza Civic Association |
| DET | Department of Education and Training |
| DMA | Disaster Management Act |
| ERAB | East Rand Administration Board |
| ERAPO | East Rand People’s Organisation |
| ERPM | East Rand Proprietary Mines |
| ERUCA | East Rand Urban Councils’ Association |
| FAK | Federasie van Afrikaner Kultuurvereenigings |
| FAWU | Food and Allied Workers Union |
| FOSATU |
Federation of South African
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