Journals
Access different Open Access journals housed by the North-West University (NWU) here. NWU publications house a number of Open Access journals published by the NWU with contributions from national and international authors.
Sub-communities within this community
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Contree [348]
Tydskrif vir Suid-Afrikaanse stedelike en streeksgeskiedenis / Journal for South African urban and regional history. -
Die O.B. [559]
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Die Wapad [456]
Studenteblad van die P.U.K. vir C.H.O. -
New Contree [443]
A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa -
Ons Klyntji [3]
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Transformation in Higher Education [43]
Humanities and Social Sciences -
Vir die Musiekleier [104]
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Yesterday & today = Gister & vandag [715]
Journal for History teaching = Tydskrif vir Geskiedenisonderrig
Recent Submissions
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Political economy of financial inclusion in Lesotho: Mobile money and the experiences of low-income and rural communities
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)This paper examines the development of mobile money in contemporary Lesotho, 2012-2020. Using historical and ethnographic sources, it situates the development of this mobile phone-based financial system within the broader ... -
Chiefdoms on the margins of the Zulu Kingdom: A case study of Nzama and Ngubane chieftaincies in Kranskop, Umvoti, from the 1820s to 1870s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)The chieftaincies in Kranskop in Umvoti seized the opportunity to exercise independence from the Zulu royal family, an opportunity which the advent of British imperialism provided. These chieftaincies decided to support ... -
For neither king nor swastika? Malan’s Afrikaner nationalism and De Valera’s Irish nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)The debate on supposed fascist influences on Afrikaner nationalists, particularly the mainstream National Party (NP), as opposed to more extremist groups, has mostly centred around alleged links or parallels with Nazi ... -
“To build a just and fair society”: Fosatu and the vision of a new South Africa, ca.1970s-1980s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)popularised the utopia of building a rainbow nation. The idea was to bring together all people of South Africa, in all their diversity, to work towards a new, common, non-racial and equal society. Indeed, the vision of ... -
“Fortuitous circumstances?” John Owen Smith and the art of nineteenth-century colonial wealth accumulation
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)A former British immigrant, John Owen Smith was one of the nineteenth century Cape Colony’s most prominent businesspersons. With interests in guano trading, farming, shipping, property development, auctioneering and arms ... -
Phillips, H. 2019. UCT under Apartheid, Part 1: From onset to sit-in 1948-1968 [Book review]
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Mkhize, S.M. 2019. A political biography of Selby Msimang : principle and pragmatism in the liberation struggle [Book review]
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Giliomee, H. 2019. The rise & demise of the Afrikaners [Book review]
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Van Zyl-Hermann, D. 2021. Privileged precariat: White workers and South Africa’s long transition to majority rule [Book review]
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Research ethics : examining the tension between principlism and rational self-interest in a neoliberal university context
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The reconfiguration of the contemporary university as a consequence of the (re)ascendency of neoliberal politics has not escaped South African universities. The higher education landscape in the country is ... -
Towards a humane community : the search for disability justice in higher education through African moral thinking
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The central claim of this article is that African disability justice is possible through analysing, re-examining and reimagining realities that distort and disempower the being of individuals with disabilities. Aim: ... -
Philosophers’ debt to their students : the South African case
(AOSIS, 2020)Philosophy teachers owe their students a little more than mere formal instruction of topics popular in philosophy. What they owe their students is largely influenced by philosophy’s claims to be a discipline that is ... -
National Universities in Argentina during the pandemic outbreak
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The health emergency that Argentina is experiencing because of the COVID-19 pandemic radically changed institutional normality at all educational levels. Universities have certainly not escaped this logic. ... -
Competency-based theological education in a postcolonial context : towards a transformed competency framework
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: Assessment of students for ministerial practice is traditionally performed through assignments and oral examinations, which often only concentrate on the knowledge component and outcomes of the programme. ... -
Gender pronoun use in the university classroom : a post-humanist perspective
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: This article explores the political impact of using gender neutral pronouns in the university classroom. Aim: We explore how the gender neutral pronoun ‘they’ denaturalises essentialist models of gender ... -
The construction of a post-academic university : opportunity or status quo?
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: Over the last two decades it has become increasingly urgent to rethink current hurdles and opportunities for higher education, not just in the Global North, but in the effects of Northern policies globally. Aim: ... -
A reflective analysis of articles published in the journal of Transformation in Higher Education (2016–2020) : beyond transformation?
(AOSIS, 2020)Background: The fault lines exposed by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic and global economic recession unfolding during 2020 in societies around the world, reiterated the need for transforming higher education ... -
Teacher training for religious education : engaging academics through the Dialogical Self Theory
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: In the Netherlands, most of the academic curricula for teacher training in religious education (RE) focus on shortfalls of students, like a lack of knowledge about the plurality of worldviews and the diversity ... -
Exploring shame and pedagogies of discomfort in critical citizenship education
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Social transformation in South Africa is a sensitive issue because of the historical realities of segregation and past injustices. Aim: To address transformation, Visual Communication Design students were ... -
Bruno Latour and the myth of autonomous academic discipline : rethinking education in the light of various modes of existence
(AOSIS, 2019)Background: Issues of identity, interdependence, relationality and violence are far larger than the human species alone, although humanity has often pretended as if it alone were the beneficiaries of studying such ...
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