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Labour union voices in South Africa and arguments to scrap inflation targets - a historical and 21st century debate.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)• Opsomming: Inflasieteikens wat inflasieverwagtings anker, is die primêre doelwit van monetêre beleid van sentrale banke in ontwikkelde lande. Binne 21ste eeuse debatte kritiseer vakbonde, en spesifiek Congress of South ... -
Land claims in South Africa: Uniqueness, historical distortions and injustices on the copper miners of Musina
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2020)This article argues that the case of the land claim by the descendants of the Copper Miners of Musina (the Musina clan) presents a unique case of historical distortions and injustice of land and mineral resources ownership ... -
Lawrence, L. & Moyo, G. 2006. Education and social transformation: an Eastern Cape study. [Book review]
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The league of nations: South Africa and the Rehoboth Basters' constitutional struggle, 1919 - 1939.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1999)Die groep mense van gemengde afkoms wat gedurende die agtiende eeu in die Noordwes-Kaap hulle ontstaan gehad het, en later as die Rehoboth-Basters bekend geword het, het in 1868 die Kaapkolonie verlaat en hulle in 1870 in ... -
Legassick, M. 2016. Hidden histories of GORDONIA land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990. [Book review]
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The lending practices of township micro-lenders and their impact on the low-income households in South Africa: a case study for Mamelodi township.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)Access to finance (cash/credit) is central to economic development and improving the living standards of people. Faced with uncertainty about future prospects, illiquid and irreversible nature of assets, the low-income ... -
“Let’s do things on our own …”: Gender and class dynamics during the quest to restore Inanda Seminary’s financial integrity, 1999-2001
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)During the 1990s, decades of disinvestment caused by Bantu Education prohibited Inanda Seminary from competing equally with other previously advantaged Whites-only private and former public ‘Model C’ schools within South ... -
Lewsen, P. 1996. Reverberations. A memoir. [Book review]
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Limb, P. 2012. AB Xuma: Autobiography and selected works. [Book review]
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The limits of political development and constitutionalism in South Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)The article investigates political development and constitutionalism in postapartheid South Africa by focusing on two general features of this society. These are firstly the enduring prevalence of violence defined broadly. ... -
Lived experiences and local spaces: Bangladeshi migrants in post-apartheid South Africa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)Migration literature tends to speak of temporary migration as economic migration and therefore the experience of migration is centred on the economy. In South Africa, this economic experience includes violence and ... -
Locating home where discourses of gender and empire intersect: An analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape diaries and journals
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Lady Anne Barnard’s abundant textual legacy has received a great deal of academic attention with scholars scrutinising her letters, journals and diaries. Although much excellent research has been done on her texts, no ... -
The 'lost' South African tribe – rebirth of the Koranna in the Free State.
(Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)The Khoisan is the original inhabitants of southern Africa. The Koranna were one of the tribes that already lived in the vicinity of Cape Town before the arrival of the first white settlers (1652). They had an own culture, ... -
Loyalism in the Cape colony: Exploring the Khoesan subject-citizen space, c.1828-1834
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article presents the argument that British loyalism became a defining feature of Khoesan identity during the period from 1828 to 1834. The analysis suggests that expressions of loyalty to the British Crown reflected ... -
Madikizela-Mandela, W. 2013. 491 Days: Prison number 1323/69. [Book review]
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Madresahs and Moravians. Muslim educational institutions in the Cape Colony, 1792 to 1910.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2006)The vigorous revival of Christian missionary activity after 1792 with the return of the Moravians and the arrival of the London Missionary Society had little effect on Cape Town Muslims. By 1793 the Dorp Street ... -
Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders: A shift in power relations
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The stability of the apartheid system and the Afrikaners’ monopoly of power have been the subject of exhaustive scholarly analyses; by contrast, there have been few in-depth analyses of the unexpected transfer of power ... -
Mapping free Indian migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The history of indentured Indians has been well documented in South African historiography in terms of migration and settlement. Shipping lists, which meticulously recorded the biographical details of each labourer, ... -
Market and entrepreneurial vision: the case of two family businesses in South Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The question of “why do some family enterprises survive into successive generations, while other succumb to contextual constraints?” elicited different responses. Explanations vary from that it might be inherent to the ... -
Marriage in the Mother City: The Anglican marriage records of Cape Town, 1865-1960
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)As a social institution that permeates almost all societies, marriage trends and practices are studied across the social sciences. Yet South African marriages, past and present, remain understudied, notably because of a ...