Browsing New Contree: 2013 No 68 by Issue Date
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Threats of Communist expansion in Apartheid South Africa: NP claims versus CIA intelligence perspectives in the years 1960 to 1990.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)There is a popular perception that the threat of Soviet expansionism during the time of South Africa’s Border War (1966-1989) was a fabrication by the National Party government to motivate young men to fight to maintain ... -
Early roots of “coloured” poverty: How much can 19th century censuses assist to explain the current situation?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The coloured population comprises almost 10 per cent of the South African population, earning only a slightly smaller proportion of national income. The average income of this group hides, however, startlingly large ... -
Public finances under private company rule: The Dutch Cape Colony (1652–1795).
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This paper provides an overview of the public finances of the Cape Colony in the period during which it was governed by the Dutch East India Company (1652–1795). Using information from secondary sources, the paper ... -
SASHT Conference 2014
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Constantine, R.J. (Ed.) 2013. New perspectives on the Anglo-Boer War / Nuwe perspektiewe op die Anglo-Boereoorlog. [Book review]
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Perspective on John Graham and the fourth Cape Eastern frontier war.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)John Graham played a key role in the Fourth Cape Eastern Frontier War, 1811 - 1812. His natural intelligence, training and experience as an officer in the British Army prepared him well as civil and military commander ... -
Assmann, J. 2011. Cultural memory and early civilization: Writing, remembrance and political imagination. [Book review]
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Schoeman, K. 2012. Portrait of a Slave Society: The Cape of Good Hope, 1717-1795. [Book review]
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White settlement and irrigation schemes: CF Rigg and the founding of Bonnievale in the Breede River Valley, 1900-c.1953.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The idea to initiate irrigation development as part of a white colonisation scheme and a political movement to settle Britons on land in South Africa dates back to the culmination of British imperialism in the late ... -
In Memoriam: Professor Piet F van der Schyff as historikus en mens.
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