New Contree: Recent submissions
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Constitutionalism and coloniality: A case of colonialism continued or the best of both worlds?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)This article deals with the concept of constitutionalism in relation to colonialism and modernity, with a specific emphasis upon South Africa and South African constitutional development. The Republic of South ... -
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. ... -
An update on South Africa’s political risk profile in 2015/6
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)In 2015, South Africa has dropped out of the Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index for the first time since its inception in 1998. Although many resource companies have diverted their investments away from ... -
Contributions* by Reverend Johannes Jacobus Ulster2 to the development of the Moravian Mission Station, Elim, 1965-1974
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)The Reverend Johannes Jacobus Ulster (1922-2012) was called by the provincial board of the Moravian Church in South Africa to serve the mission station Elim from the start of January 1965 as its first indigenous minister ... -
Bakgomong: The Babirwa’s transboundary pastoralist identity and social change in late 19th century Botswana
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)To follow is a critical narrative on the intersection between identity production and transformations in the indigenous herding systems of the Babirwa of pre-colonial Botswana. The production of the Babirwa’s ... -
South African liberal thinking on questions of nationalism reconsidered
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)Liberals have often been criticised for not confronting key questions relating to South Africa’s present and future. While liberals did not address the socalled National Question directly, they did consider the issues ... -
Sarkin-Hughes, J. 2011. Kaiser Wilhelm II’s genocide: The Herero’s versus the General and the settlers. [Book review]
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Bulpin, T.V. 2015. Storm over the Transvaal. [Book review]
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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 ... -
“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 ... -
“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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Invitation - Articles for a special “Free State” edition of New Contree
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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 ... -
Johns, S. 2014. From protest to challenge: A documentary history of African politics in South Africa 1882-1990, Vol. 1, Protest and hope, 1882-1934. [Book review]
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Bossenbroek, M. 2015. The Boer War. [Book review]
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Mlambo, A. 2014. A history of Zimbabwe. [Book review]
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Warman, J. 2014. The class of ’79. [Book review]
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