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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 ... -
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 ... -
Limb, P. 2012. AB Xuma: Autobiography and selected works. [Book review]
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Feinstein, A. 2011. Kopwond: Vergete slagoffers van die Bosoorlog. [Boek resensie]
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Van Heyningen, E. 2013. The Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War. A Social History. [Book review]
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Suid-Afrika buite die Kaapkolonie in die tydperk 1650-1800 – interpretasies van vakhistorici.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)During the period 1650 to 1800 the Dutch colony at the Cape expanded gradually, to include, ultimately, almost the western half of South Africa. Studies about this period in South African history deal mainly with the ... -
The emergence and radicalisation of black political formations in Kroonstad, 1915 to 1957.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)From the beginning of the 1920s to the 1950s Kroonstad witnessed the emergence of black radical formations, although this happened intermittently. The inaction of the ANC in the 1920s provided the ICU with space to ... -
New “traditional” strategies and land claims in South Africa: a case study in Hammanskraal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)In post-apartheid South Africa, many hopes were pinned on the process of land-restitution to be a major part of power and wealth redistribution. However, as the land claims process is linked to demonstrable historical ... -
Lived experiences and local spaces: Bangladeshi migrants in post-apartheid South Africa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)Migration literature tends to speak of temporary migration as economic migration and therefore the experience of migration is centred on the economy. In South Africa, this economic experience includes violence and ... -
The Crisis Committee, post apartheid protest and political mobilisation in Phomolong Township, Free State.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)Often depicted in images of violence, burning tyres, destruction of property and looting of private businesses, service delivery protests have captured the imagination of many scholars interested in South Africa’s ... -
The interface between tradition and modern in postapartheid South Africa: an outline of the Kekana family succession dispute and their encounter with the Platinum Reef Resource mine.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The terms traditional and modern and the processes thereof are often discussed in isolation; as if they do not intersect. Some scholars have argued that chieftaincy, as a traditional form of governance in South Africa ... -
Chieftaincy and resistance politics in Lehurutshe during the apartheid era.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This article focuses on the politics of chieftaincy in Lehurutshe, a rural region in South Africa’s North West Province, in the second half of the twentieth century. This was a period of profound social and political ... -
High apartheid and the erosion of “official” local politics in Daveyton in the 1960s.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The paper discusses the apartheid state’s onslaught against the limited rights enjoyed by Africans in urban areas in the 1960s. It focuses attention on the “modern model township” of Daveyton, which was seen in the early ... -
Hunting status? Power and buffalo shooting in the Albany and Bathurst districts of the Cape Colony c. 1892 - 1916.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The hunting of buffalo in the Bathurst district of the Cape Colony during the closing decades of the 19th Century serves as a case study of the system of issuing permits to shoot big game introduced by the Game Act of ... -
Jacklin, H. & Vale, P. 2009. Re-imagining the Social in South Africa: critique theory and postapartheid society. [Book review]
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Bottomley, E. 2012. Armblankes. [Boek resensie]
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Pienaar, UdV. 2012. A cameo from the past: the prehistory and early history of the Kruger National Park. [Book review]
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Schoeman, K. 2011. Cape lives of the eighteenth century. [Book review]
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