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The transnational factor: The beginnings of South Africa’s women’s movement
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The South African women’s movement had its origins in the Cape, but it also had a strong transnational relationship with countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States. The earliest formally created ... -
The forgotten Effendi: Ottoman Muslim theologian, Mahmud Fakih Emin Effendi, and the real story of the Bo-Kaap Museum, c.1894-1978
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article attempts to re-present the religious and educational activities of a forgotten Muslim scholar, Mahmud Fakih Effendi, in Cape history. The subject of the article is related to this Ottoman scholar, as well ... -
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 ... -
Government schooling and teacher identity: The exertions of the first-class teacher at Worcester, Cape of Good Hope, c.1856-1873
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)In 1839 the colonial administration introduced to the Cape Colony one of the first systems of state education in the British Empire. This Established System of Education staggered along for a quarter century before the ... -
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 ... -
Fashion and the world of the women of the VOC official elite
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)During the early modern period material culture increasingly started to serve as symbols of identity and status rather than merely fulfilling a basic need. One example of such possessions that was particularly relevant ... -
Dutch contexts of Cape burgher protests
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article seeks to emphasise the notion that the Cape settlement of the VOC period needs to be studied within the context of the Dutch world and not in isolation. In recent research, empires are seen more as a collection ... -
Cape of storms: Surveying and rethinking popular resistance in the eighteenth-century Cape colony
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)In this article I provide a broad overview of resistance at the Cape under the Dutch East India Company (VOC) undertaken by the multiracial and multiethnic popular classes (low-ranking Company servants including soldiers and ... -
Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The retail of alcohol was so central to the economy and society of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that it earned the nickname “tavern of two oceans”. This retail business was organised ... -
Osborne, M. 2014. Ethnicity and empire in Kenya: Loyalty and martial race among the Kamba, c 1800 to the present. [Book review]
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Memories of a Soulmate: A tribute to Robert Shell: 13 February 1949 - 03 February 2015
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)No abstract available -
Robert Carl-Heinz Shell (1949-2015): A tribute
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)No abstract available -
Collective foreign aid and development prospects for sub-Saharan Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, the states of sub-Saharan Africa have been subjected to a seemingly irreversible spiral of poverty as well as social, political and economic unpredictability, causing ... -
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 ... -
Psigedelies en groen: Die invloed van Stephen Gaskin en sy hippiebeweging op omgewingsdenke in die VSA
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article argues that the hippy movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s, both in terms of its underlying philosophy and its practical lifestyle, made significant contributions to the environmental movement. The focus is on ... -
The colonial experience, indigenous leaders and the capitalization of the Swazi monarchy
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Historians and other researchers have analysed different aspects of Swazi historical affairs. One of the themes that has attracted academic attention is that of continuity and change, especially under the impact of ... -
"There is no hurry in Botswana": Scholarship and stereotypes on "African time" syndrome in Botswana, 1895- 2011
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The lack of a strict and disciplined adherence to keeping time or punctuality has been an issue of major concern to many authorities in the African public and private sectors. Botswana is no exception, as this article ... -
Van Heyningen, E. 2013. The concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War: A social history. [Book review]
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Moss, G. 2014. The new radicals: A generational memoir of the 1970s. [Book review]
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Breckenridge, K. 2014. Biometric state: The global politics of identification and surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the present. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
