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"Wees jouself": Afrikaner kultuurorganisasies in Rhodesië (1934-1980).
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The problem of minority groups in host countries to preserve their culture is a world-wide phenomenon. In the history of Southern Africa the Afrikaners fundamentally experienced the same obstacles and restrictions concerning ... -
From fund-raising to Freedom Day: the nature of women’s general activities in the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1939-1943.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) was a mass-movement that originated as a result of the euphoria created by the 1938 Centenary Celebrations of the Great Trek in South Africa. With far-reaching and very ambitious aims the OB was ... -
Mapping free Indian migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The history of indentured Indians has been well documented in South African historiography in terms of migration and settlement. Shipping lists, which meticulously recorded the biographical details of each labourer, ... -
The usable past and socio-environmental justice: From Lady Selborne to Ga-Rankuwa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This article presents a case study in forced removals and their ramifications from 1905 to 1977 from the perspective of socio-environmental history. It depicts environmental damages and misunderstandings suffered due to ... -
Counterurbanisation and the emergence of a postproductivist economy in South Africa’s arid Karoo region, 1994-2010.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This review article serves to broach the concept of the “post-productivist countryside” where the primacy of agricultural production is supplanted by tertiary industries such as tourism, recreational farming, and arts ... -
The Graaff-Reinet municipal location: unemployment and poor relief during the Great Depression of 1929-1933.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)By focusing on a medium-sized rural town in South Africa during the period of the Great Depression broadly resulted in showing the effects and reactions that were, in general, indicative of worldwide trends but with ... -
History, historians and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)Whether or not the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) intended to write history, it certainly engaged with the past while historians were virtually absent. This article therefore sets out to take ... -
Delmas, A. & Penn, N. 2011. Written culture in a colonial context: Africa and the Americas, 1500-1900. [Book review]
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Pretorius, F. 2012. Geskiedenis van Suid-Afrika van voortye tot vandag. [Boek resensie]
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Ittmann, K., Cordell, D.D. & Maddox, G.H. 2010. The demographics of empire: The colonial order and the creation of knowledge. [Book review]
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Osborn, E.L. 2011. Our new husbands are here: Households, gender and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule. [Book review]
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The Rastafari movement in South Africa: Before and after apartheid.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)Rastafari as a movement originated in the Caribbean Island of Jamaica during the 1930s. From Jamaica, it spread to other parts of the world including South Africa. It is argued in this article that the ideological ... -
The Obama factor: responses in South Korea (2008-2009).
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)An analysis is made in this article of responses in the South Korean media to the rise of Barack Obama, starting with his appearance on the scene as presidential contender, then being nominated as the official candidate ... -
Navigating the hills and voluntary confinement: Magweja and the socio-economic and political negotiation for space in the diamond mining landscape of Chiadzwa in Zimbabwe, 2006-2009.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article focuses on the socio-economic and political experiences of the artisanal diamond miners and the various communities within the hills of Chiadzwa situated in the Marange area of Manicaland Province in Zimbabwe. ... -
"An absolute pillar of strength for her husband and the struggle": Molly Fischer (1908-1964) - wife, mother and struggle activist.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article concentrates on the life and times of Molly Fischer, wife of the renowned Communist and struggle-activist Bram Fischer. Molly and Bram’s life was not only woven together by their love for each other, but ... -
Bantu Education: destructive intervention or part reform?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The introduction of public education for blacks in 1953 and the withdrawal of state subsidies from mission schools were among the most controversial measures that the National Party (NP) government took. In introducing Bantu ... -
Indigenous "Africans" and transnational "Pan-Netherlanders": past and present in the "re-construction" of post-1994 Afrikaner identity.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article explores two strategies to “re-imagine” Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid South Africa in which white Afrikaners, once politically and culturally dominant, have become increasingly marginalized. One, ... -
The lending practices of township micro-lenders and their impact on the low-income households in South Africa: a case study for Mamelodi township.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)Access to finance (cash/credit) is central to economic development and improving the living standards of people. Faced with uncertainty about future prospects, illiquid and irreversible nature of assets, the low-income ... -
Voor 1652 - Vakhistorici se interpretasies van die vroeë Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)During the last few decades scholars from various disciplines, such as paleonthology, archeology, anthropology and linguistics, have steadily increased our knowledge of early South African history. Historians are dependent ... -
Head, B. 2007. Thunder behind her ears. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)
