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Churchill’s British atomic relations with Malan’s government in South Africa, 1951-1954.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)In 1951 Churchill assumed office for the second time as Prime Minister of Britain and renewed the effort to sway once again a Commonwealth sentiment on a Nationalistic DF Malan in their atomic relations. The period marked ... -
Sotho-Tswana mythic animals: Stratagem for environmental conservation.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article argues that pre-colonial indigenous knowledge placed restrictions on the use of certain animals and perceived them as sacred. This policy was often successful as several species of wildlife are to be found ... -
The appearance and significance of Rastafari cultural aspects in South Africa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article explores the presence and importance of Rastafari cultural features in South Africa. These cultural aspects include symbols and language that have become popular in South Africa from 1997 when the movement was ... -
An unlikely union. Exploring the possibilities of Afrikaner and black women’s organisations cooperating in the Women’s National Coalition, 1991-1994.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Die Women’s National Coalition (WNC) is in 1992 gestig om gelykberegtiging vir vroue in demokratiese Suid-Afrika te verseker. Inligting oor vroue se behoeftes en aspirasies sou ingesamel word en in ‘n Vrouehandves saamgevat ... -
Moon sightings and the quest for Muslim solidarities in twentieth century Natal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article examines local contestations over Ramadan moon sightings among Muslims in twentieth century Natal, South Africa, as a window to debates about authority, identity and Muslim unification. The issue was ... -
The rise of a raiding state: Makaba II’s Ngwaketse, c. 1780-1824.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Though long acknowledged for their military prowess under Makaba II (ruled c. 1780-1824), the emergence of the Ngwaketse among the southern Tswana in the pre-difaqane era has not been sufficiently accounted for, and ... -
Van den Bergh, G.N. 2013. Christiaan de Wet Annale 11: Die Anglo-Boereoorlog in die Potchefstroom omgewing. [Boek resensie]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)No abstract available -
Cruywagen, D. 2014. Brothers in war and peace: Constand and Abraham Viljoen and the birth of the New South Africa. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)No abstract available -
Sleigh, D. & Westra, P. 2013. The taking of the slaver Meermin, 1766. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)No abstract available -
White man’s disease, black man’s peril?: Rinderpest and famine in the eastern Bechuanaland Protectorate at the end of the 19th century.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)During the late nineteenth century, a pandemic of Rinderpest exterminated large numbers of cattle in Southern Africa. Although in the Bechuanaland Protectorate the disease killed cattle only for two years between 1896 ... -
Badat, S. 2012. The forgotten people: Political banishment under apartheid. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)No abstract available -
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, 2014)No abstract available -
"Doing time for crime": The historical development of the different models (approaches) of treatment for incarcerated offenders at the Westville Correctional Centre, Durban, South Africa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)The increase in the number of correctional facilities as institutes for punishing convicted offenders was a purposeful and gradual process which developed over many centuries, from basic beginnings in the early ... -
Monumentalization and the renaming of street names in the city of Durban (Ethekwini) as a contested terrain between politics and religion.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Responding to one of the key recommendations of the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa, the government promulgated the South African Geographical Names Council Act No. 118 of 1998.1 The aim of this ... -
Memories of forced removals: Former residents of the Durban Municipal Magazine Barracks and the Group Areas Act.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Two powerful phenomena around which people coalesce in the present, and which consequently give rise to notions of “community”, are recollections of historical suffering, and an affiliation to low income working class ... -
Historical evolution of Durban’s public transport system and challenges for the post-apartheid metropolitan government.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)The history of public transport in Durban is characterised by a diverse set of socio-political forces that have shaped and styled its present form. Characterised by horse and cart driven coach modes of transport in the ... -
A very ordinary power: The evolution of the electrical substation in Pietermaritzburg, 1900-1960.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Pietermaritzburg is a city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, characterised by a central core of late Victorian-era buildings. It was in this period that electrification arrived, bringing with it new challenges in the ... -
A history of the practice of ukuthwala in the Natal/ KwaZulu-Natal region up to 1994.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)The practice of ukuthwala has of late regularly been in the news. This has spawned debates between traditionalists and modernists on various aspects related to the practice. In this article we have tracked the reported ... -
Muslim women’s identities in South Africa: A Zanzibari perspective in KwaZulu-Natal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article examines how Zanzibari women in KwaZulu-Natal are negotiating their identities within the context of local and global realities. In South Africa, while the post-apartheid period gave birth to non-racial democracy, ... -
Married to the Struggle: For better or worse Wives of Indian anti-apartheid activists in Natal: The untold narratives.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)The role and contributions of women in war, and anti-colonial and nationalistic struggles have become the subject of intense research and analysis over the past two decades. In South Africa, the nationalistic struggle ...
