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The Crisis Committee, post apartheid protest and political mobilisation in Phomolong Township, Free State.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
Often depicted in images of violence, burning tyres, destruction of
property and looting of private businesses, service delivery protests have
captured the imagination of many scholars interested in South Africa’s ...
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 ...
Chieftaincy and resistance politics in Lehurutshe during the apartheid era.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
This article focuses on the politics of chieftaincy in Lehurutshe, a rural region
in South Africa’s North West Province, in the second half of the twentieth
century. This was a period of profound social and political ...
New “traditional” strategies and land claims in South Africa: a case study in Hammanskraal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
In post-apartheid South Africa, many hopes were pinned on the process
of land-restitution to be a major part of power and wealth redistribution.
However, as the land claims process is linked to demonstrable historical
...
Van Heyningen, E. 2013. The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War. A Social History. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
Hunting status? Power and buffalo shooting in the Albany and Bathurst districts of the Cape Colony c. 1892 - 1916.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
The hunting of buffalo in the Bathurst district of the Cape Colony during
the closing decades of the 19th Century serves as a case study of the system of
issuing permits to shoot big game introduced by the Game Act of ...
Suid-Afrika buite die Kaapkolonie in die tydperk 1650-1800 – interpretasies van vakhistorici.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
During the period 1650 to 1800 the Dutch colony at the Cape expanded
gradually, to include, ultimately, almost the western half of South Africa.
Studies about this period in South African history deal mainly with the ...
Feinstein, A. 2011. Kopwond: Vergete slagoffers van die Bosoorlog. [Boek resensie]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
High apartheid and the erosion of “official” local politics in Daveyton in the 1960s.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
The paper discusses the apartheid state’s onslaught against the limited rights
enjoyed by Africans in urban areas in the 1960s. It focuses attention on the
“modern model township” of Daveyton, which was seen in the early ...
The interface between tradition and modern in postapartheid South Africa: an outline of the Kekana family succession dispute and their encounter with the Platinum Reef Resource mine.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)
The terms traditional and modern and the processes thereof are often
discussed in isolation; as if they do not intersect. Some scholars have argued
that chieftaincy, as a traditional form of governance in South Africa ...