Du Plessis, Irma(Historical Association of South Africa, 2016-11)
Conceptualised in 1933, the Jan Hofmeyr Improvement Scheme was Johannesburg (and South Africa's) first subsidised municipal housing development for the white poor. Being a slum clearance intervention, its design was informed ...
The institution of domestic work and the figures of the domestic worker (the ‘maid’) and
the employer (the ‘madam’) – both of which are always raced and gendered – seem to carry a
powerful and affective metaphoric and ...
