Browsing New Contree: 2015 No 74 by Issue Date
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Intrapreneurship: George Beeton’s managerial contribution to the Edgars Group, 1963-1996
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)George Beeton was employed by the Edgars Group, a clothing, footwear and household textiles retailer, for 33 years, starting as a Management Trainee in 1963. He entered the top management structure in 1972 when he ... -
Organising the first Regional History Symposium in South Africa
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Family ties? Afrikaner nationalism, pan-Netherlandic nationalism and neo-Calvinist "Christian nationalism"
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This study, building on longstanding debates on “German” national socialist (“Nazi”) and “Dutch” Calvinist influences on Afrikaner nationalism, examines the latter’s intersecting relationships with Dutch neo-Calvinist ... -
“Skep julle kommando’s in reddingslaers om! Een vir almal, almal vir elkeen!”: Die Ossewa-Brandwag se maatskaplike beleid van Sosiale Volksorg, 1943-1952
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Established as an organisation with the aim to influence all aspects of Afrikaner life, the Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) made an impact on the lives of thousands of Afrikaners between 1939 and 1954. At the very start the movement ... -
“Wipe out the Vons!” The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee and the sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee was an extra legal body which discovered disloyal persons of German extraction in the city following the riots caused by the German torpedoing of the British passenger ... -
Sarkin-Hughes, J. 2011. Kaiser Wilhelm II’s genocide: The Herero’s versus the General and the settlers. [Book review]
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Informal finance for survivalist enterprise development in South Africa: A case study of Soshanguve Township
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The majority of South Africans are trapped in poverty and high unemployment levels. Some, particularly the poor, resort to operating survivalist enterprises to cater for day-to-day expenses or meet basic needs. The ... -
Various directions in regional history
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)History and geography are sister sciences, though their connection is not always close. Over the last twenty years, the regional-history point of view has begun to command a place in research reports, projects, history ... -
Bulpin, T.V. 2015. Storm over the Transvaal. [Book review]
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Invitation - Articles for a special “Free State” edition of New Contree
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