Janet Cherry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3780464 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Janet Cherry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Janet |
| FAMILY NAME | Cherry |
| SIGNATURE | CHERRY J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nelson Mandela University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8129-5247 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘We are building a new and better society’
The article examines the distinctive contributions of Ruth First and Matthew Goniwe to liberation struggles in Mozambique and South Africa in the period between 1980 and 1985. The focus is on their intellectual influences, as well as their strategies and organisational roles. Their role in, and critical relationship to, the South African Communist Party (SACP), is examined. The influence of First and Goniwe is linked to that of two socialist inte…
The South African Communist Party
This journal was founded during a period when the socialist transformation of newly independent countries of Africa and Asia was on the agenda and the existence of the communist party-led socialist state of Cuba was a reality in Latin America.We made no bones about aiming to produce a journal which would publish well-researched articles in solidarity with movements and parties working towards the liberation and transformation of Africa from imper…
Democracy and development in Nelson Mandela Bay
This review of Mcebisi Ndletyana’s Analysis of the ANC in Power draws on previous research on elections, democracy and development in the township of Kwazakhele in Nelson Mandela Bay, as well as on current literature on the ANC and corruption in South Africa. It argues that a political economy analysis best enables us to understand the failure of the democratic project in Nelson Mandela Bay, while contesting the arguments around class formation (…
Umkhonto we Sizwe
Ending gender-based violence through grassroots women's empowerment
Recent research in Rwanda has revealed positive findings regarding the combating of gender-based violence. Rwanda is notorious for the 1994 genocide which involved not only extreme violence in the killing of over 800 000 people, but in the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war. A recent study of women's involvement in cooperatives in the former Mayaga1 1. The former Mayaga region was made up of six districts: Mugina, Ntongwe, Muyira, Ntyazo, …
Spear of the Nation
Umkhonto we Sizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century-but it never got to \u201cmarch triumphant into Pretoria.\u201d MK-as it was known-was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government. A small group of revolutionaries committed to the seizure of power, MK discovered its principal members …
The End Conscription Campaign in South Africa
The End Conscription Campaign was a war resistance movement in South Africa between 1984 and 1993. This article examines the strategy behind this unique movement, and explores its relationship to the South African liberation struggle and the anti‐apartheid movement. The militarisation of South African society and the uprising against apartheid by the black majority, both of which intensified during the decade of the 1980s, created the context wit…
Cynicism at the Grassroots
Democratization and Politics in South African Townships
In South Africa, as in many other countries, there appears to have been a demobilization of mass urban movements following the achievement of representative democracy. This apparent demobilization has led to a perception that South Africa's neighbourhood-based civic organizations are in crisis. This article builds on existing studies by sharpening analysis of the nature of this 'crisis'. We show that there continue to be high levels of popular en…
Development, conflict and the politics of ethnicity in South Africa's transition to democracy
The politics of Hegemony and the politics of development
Following the first multi‐racial, democratic elections in South Africa, in April 1994, the new leadership and the country are confronting the dual task of political transformation and economic redistribution having won a clear popular mandate on the basis of a populist, Reconstruction and Development Programme. In government, however, the former liberation movement is now under pressure to adjust its policies and its developmental strategy in the…
Democratization and Politics in South African Townships
In South Africa, as in many other countries, there appears to have been a demobilization of mass urban movements following the achievement of representative democracy. This apparent demobilization has led to a perception that South Africa's neighbourhood-based civic organizations are in crisis. This article builds on existing studies by sharpening analysis of the nature of this 'crisis'. We show that there continue to be high levels of popular en…
Cynicism at the Grassroots
Ending gender-based violence through grassroots women's empowerment
Recent research in Rwanda has revealed positive findings regarding the combating of gender-based violence. Rwanda is notorious for the 1994 genocide which involved not only extreme violence in the killing of over 800 000 people, but in the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war. A recent study of women's involvement in cooperatives in the former Mayaga1 1. The former Mayaga region was made up of six districts: Mugina, Ntongwe, Muyira, Ntyazo, …
Development, conflict and the politics of ethnicity in South Africa's transition to democracy
The politics of Hegemony and the politics of development
Following the first multi‐racial, democratic elections in South Africa, in April 1994, the new leadership and the country are confronting the dual task of political transformation and economic redistribution having won a clear popular mandate on the basis of a populist, Reconstruction and Development Programme. In government, however, the former liberation movement is now under pressure to adjust its policies and its developmental strategy in the…
Development, conflict and the politics of ethnicity in South Africa's transition to democracy
The politics of Hegemony and the politics of development
Following the first multi‐racial, democratic elections in South Africa, in April 1994, the new leadership and the country are confronting the dual task of political transformation and economic redistribution having won a clear popular mandate on the basis of a populist, Reconstruction and Development Programme. In government, however, the former liberation movement is now under pressure to adjust its policies and its developmental strategy in the…
Democratization and Politics in South African Townships
In South Africa, as in many other countries, there appears to have been a demobilization of mass urban movements following the achievement of representative democracy. This apparent demobilization has led to a perception that South Africa's neighbourhood-based civic organizations are in crisis. This article builds on existing studies by sharpening analysis of the nature of this 'crisis'. We show that there continue to be high levels of popular en…
Cynicism at the Grassroots
The End Conscription Campaign in South Africa
The End Conscription Campaign was a war resistance movement in South Africa between 1984 and 1993. This article examines the strategy behind this unique movement, and explores its relationship to the South African liberation struggle and the anti‐apartheid movement. The militarisation of South African society and the uprising against apartheid by the black majority, both of which intensified during the decade of the 1980s, created the context wit…
Spear of the Nation
Umkhonto we Sizwe, Spear of the Nation, was arguably the last of the great liberation armies of the twentieth century-but it never got to \u201cmarch triumphant into Pretoria.\u201d MK-as it was known-was the armed wing of the African National Congress, South Africa's liberation movement, that challenged the South African apartheid government. A small group of revolutionaries committed to the seizure of power, MK discovered its principal members …
Ending gender-based violence through grassroots women's empowerment
Recent research in Rwanda has revealed positive findings regarding the combating of gender-based violence. Rwanda is notorious for the 1994 genocide which involved not only extreme violence in the killing of over 800 000 people, but in the systematic use of rape as a weapon of war. A recent study of women's involvement in cooperatives in the former Mayaga1 1. The former Mayaga region was made up of six districts: Mugina, Ntongwe, Muyira, Ntyazo, …
Umkhonto we Sizwe
Democracy and development in Nelson Mandela Bay
This review of Mcebisi Ndletyana’s Analysis of the ANC in Power draws on previous research on elections, democracy and development in the township of Kwazakhele in Nelson Mandela Bay, as well as on current literature on the ANC and corruption in South Africa. It argues that a political economy analysis best enables us to understand the failure of the democratic project in Nelson Mandela Bay, while contesting the arguments around class formation (…
‘We are building a new and better society’
The article examines the distinctive contributions of Ruth First and Matthew Goniwe to liberation struggles in Mozambique and South Africa in the period between 1980 and 1985. The focus is on their intellectual influences, as well as their strategies and organisational roles. Their role in, and critical relationship to, the South African Communist Party (SACP), is examined. The influence of First and Goniwe is linked to that of two socialist inte…
The South African Communist Party
This journal was founded during a period when the socialist transformation of newly independent countries of Africa and Asia was on the agenda and the existence of the communist party-led socialist state of Cuba was a reality in Latin America.We made no bones about aiming to produce a journal which would publish well-researched articles in solidarity with movements and parties working towards the liberation and transformation of Africa from imper…
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