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Die historiese in die hede : dinamika van die De la Rey-fenomeen in Afrikanerkringe, 2006 - 2007.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)In 2006 - 2007 an Afrikaans song about an intrepid Boer general, JH de la Rey, during the Anglo-Boer War sold an unprecedented 200,000 compact discs and attracted extraordinary media attention.This article attempts to ... -
Alternatives to imprisonment in South Africa: a historical perspective, 1980’s to present.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)Sedert die afgelope twee dekades het Suid-Afrika alternatiewe metodes van straf en kriminele geregtigheid ondersoek. Alternatiewe vorme van straf vir gewone strawwe soos tronkstraf, boetes en opgeskorte vonnisse, is tot ... -
Empowering peripheral writing: a case of South African Black English (SABE).
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)Tshobokanyo: Melebo ya molebopopego le molebotlhaeletsano e na le go leba boitshwaro jwa tekatenano le maitsholo a setemokerasi ka mokgwa o o fosagetseng fa go tlhalosiwa Seesimane sa Bantsho ba Aforika Borwa (SBAB). Fa ... -
A historical assessment of NGO efficiency in progressing towards a sustainable environmental heritage focus, with as case study the Wonderfontein Spruit catchment, Gauteng.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)Die artikel handel in wese oor ’n histories-kontemporêre waardering van die rol van nie-regeringsorganisasies (NRO’s) binne ’n demokraties-gerigte proses van omgewingsbestuur in veral die Merafong-studiegebied. Fasette wat ... -
Water procurement and the environment: a comparative history of South Africa’s Nandoni and De Hoop dams 1994 - 2007.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)Die konstruksie van damme in Suid-Afrika het in onlangse jare uiteenlopende response tot gevolg gehad in die geledere van die omgewingsbewuste lede van die land se burgerlike samelewing. Twee voorbeelde is die De Hoop- en ... -
Weller, T. 2011. Information history in the modern world: histories of the information age. [Book review]
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Desai, A. 2012. Reading revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island. [Book review]
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“Multinational sport participation replaces apartheid sport in South Africa - 1967 - 1978”: the role of BJ Vorster and PGJ Koornhof.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The sport declarations of TE Dönges as Minister of Internal Affairs in June 1956 and those of HF Verwoerd as Prime Minister in 1965 were aimed at strengthening apartheid sport participation in South Africa. These ... -
South African mineral law: a historical overview of the state’s regulatory power regarding the exploitation of minerals.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The Mineral and Petroleum Resources Development Act 28 of 2002 [MPRDA] acknowledges that the country’s mineral resources belong to the nation. The State is subsequently appointed as custodian of these resources. As ... -
Swart stedelike behuisingsverskaffing in Suid-Afrika, ca. 1923 - 1948: “wanneer meer minder kos” - finansiële verliese versus welsyns- en gesondheidswinste.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)Since 1923, urban local authorities in South Africa were legally obliged to provide housing to urban black workers within their areas of jurisdiction. Urban black workers were “cheap” workers, resulting in local ... -
Inclusivity towards legal research: a historical and future perspective.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)In order to research the South African law and understand how legal processes must transpire in contemporary South Africa, a historical perspective is firstly required. Historical knowledge gained assists both the academic ... -
The Premier’s Economic Advisory Council in the African National Congress-led government of the Free State Province, 1999 - 2004: a historical exploration on service delivery and poverty alleviation.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The article traces the impact and relevance of the service delivery and poverty alleviation strategies introduced by the African National Congress (ANC) led provincial government in the Free State Province. This was in ... -
The professionalisation efforts of accountants in the Orange Free State, 1907 - 1927: an exploration of their first twenty years.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)Professionalisation forms an important domain in the accounting history arena. The geographical spread of professional organisations occurred via the relay of empire and the movement of international capital. Outcomes ... -
The intersection of archaeology, oral tradition and history in the South African interior.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The historical entanglement of indigenous and colonial societies in South Africa created not only multiple points of social and cultural interaction, but also a repository of interconnected material, oral and documentary ... -
Davids, A. 2011. The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims from 1815 to 1915. [Book review]
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Couper, S. 2010. Albert Luthuli: bound by faith. [Book review]
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Vereniger en opheffer: die Nederduitse Gereformeerde Kerk in Rhodesië (1890 - 2007)
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)In the missionary and church history of Rhodesia (present day Zimbabwe) the Dutch Reformed church did not concentrate exclusively on the unity of the local Afrikaner community, but also played a pivotal role in the upliftment ... -
Assessing the past and the present role of the National Nuclear Regulator as a public protector against potential health injuries: the West and Far West Rand as case study.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)Recent national and international news media articles and television programmes, official public domain Government and peer reviewed academic reports drew the international and national public’s attention to the health ... -
Exploring aspects of the water history of the Potchefstroom region and the local management of it.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)It is by now common knowledge that South Africa is a water scarce country and that the correct public management of its potable water sources such as the transportation of it as well as the purification of the used water ... -
The status and political participation of women in the Democratic Republic of Congo (1960-2010): a critical historical reflection.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)One of the central demands of the feminist movement (which started in the 1880s globally [but first arose in France in 1870]) has been and continues to be women’s exercise of their full and active citizenship, which they ...
