The article looks into the response of religious authorities including White missionaries, Black ministers and leaders of African independent churches to the erosion of family life in the early years of the migrant labor system in southern Africa. It explores the 1902 Treaty of Vereeniging, that put an end to the South African War, and the Native Labour Regulation ...

In November 1893 Franz Pfanner, a Catholic missionary born in Austria, founder of the Trappist monastery of Mariannhill near Pinetown, sent to two Natal newspapers an article on the Native Question which attracted a fair amount of attention. A more elaborate version of his proposals was published the following year in the form of a pamphlet. Pfanner recommended the...

The purpose of this paper is to bring to the attention of the AIDS research community the existence of an oral history project known as the Memories of AIDS Project. The project focused on HIV/AIDS support group members, non-governmental organisation (NGO) workers and home-based carers in the Umgungundlovu (Pietermaritzburg) District Municipality, South Africa. The...