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Steve Biko and Kenneth Kaunda: sampling youth in history.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)The paper examines history from the perspective of the youth as a marginalized social group in most societies. They are young, lacking influential skills and preparing for imagined futures. The paper argues that youth ... -
Taking stock of land reform in Namibia from 1990 to 2005.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)The land reform debate in Namibia has been predicated on a number of questionable assumptions and is atypical of the scenarios presented by other SADC countries. The one point of similarity is that the progress of ... -
Dynasty building, family networks and social capital: alcohol pachters and the development of a colonial elite at the Cape of Good Hope, c. 1760-1790.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)A hallmark of colonisation was extensive social reconfiguration, leading to the development of local elites which differed from the metropolitan and indigenous patterns. Historians of the Cape of Good Hope during the ... -
"In what way are gay men actually harmful to society?" Exploring the evidence on the feasibility of amendments to the Sexual Offences Act 23 of 1957.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)Prompted by a perception that a gay sub-culture developed in the major urban areas of South Africa, and that this formed a threat to state security and to the established mores of society, the Minister of Justice, PC ... -
Stassen, N. 2009. Afrikaners in Angola 1928 – 1975. [Book review]
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"It would be well now to wind up this rebel business sharp": the post-Anglo-Boer War management of the Natal rebels.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)Any post-war society is characterised by complex relationships. Natal society after the conclusion of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) was no different. In this article the post-war relations between the Natal rebels and ... -
George Bremner, Graaff-Reinet and "A State of Feeling", 1848 - 1859.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article explores a young Scottish teacher’s attempt to implement the ambitious plans for government education in Graaff-Reinet in the mid 19th century. Designed for the whole population, the New System (or Established ... -
"Thinking your journal unimportant": a feminist literary analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape diaries.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article offers a feminist literary analysis of selected excerpts from the diaries that Lady Anne Barnard wrote during her stay at the Cape Colony from 1797 until 1802. Lady Anne was, by all accounts, an extremely ... -
Business, state and society - doing business apartheid style: the case of Pep Stores Peninsula Limited.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article uses the Pep Stores Peninsula Ltd case study (1973-1974) as a window on State-Business relationships during apartheid and to highlight the dynamics and outcomes generated by the combination of state controlled ... -
Regional, local, urban and rural history as nearby spaces and places: historiographical and methodological reflections.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The purpose of this article is to review the almost 50 years of formal regional and local history research practices in South Africa under the umbrella of a variety of rural and urban trends, themes and phenomena. This ... -
Dedering, T. 1997. Hate the old and follow the new: Khoekhoe and missionaries in early nineteenth-century Namibia. [Book review]
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Harris, V. 1997. Exploring archives: an introduction to archival ideas and practice in South Africa. [Book review]
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Lewsen, P. 1996. Reverberations. A memoir. [Book review]
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Van Heerden, E. 1997. Postmodernisme en prosa: Vertelstrategieë in vyf verhale van Abraham H. de Vries. [Boek resensie]
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Tempelhoff, J. 1997. Die okkupasiestelsel in die distrik Soutpansberg, 1886 - 1899, argiefjaarboek vir Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis. [Boek resensie]
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"Garrisoning the moon against an attack from Mars"; the siege of Mafeking and the imperial mindset.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1997)Die Beleg van Mafeking sal altyd 'n belangrike hoofstuk in die annale van Imperialisme wees. Die amptelike interpretasie van gebeure word geboekstaaf deur dagboeke. Drie Victoria Kruise is toegeken, en loopbane en reputasies, ... -
Black territories: identity, ethnicity and politics.
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Re-creation, tourism and historical presentation: the cases of Georgetown, Colorado (USA), and Gamkaskloof, Western Province (South Africa) considered.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1997)Die geskiedenis van twee gemeenskappe, een wat op mynbou gegrond was en die ander op boerdery, word in die artikel vergelyk. Georgetown, Colorado, in die V.S.A. het in 1859 ontstaan, terwyl die koloniale wording van die ... -
"Forgetting the past" for "citizenship": barter and resentment in Martinique (1848 - 1946)
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The birth of Umkhonto We Sizwe: old and new sources.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1997)
