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Showing 1 to 20 of 40 for “"South African history"”.
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The empathy imperative : primary narratives in South African history teaching
… happening again. International literature on history education and memory studies questions this ‘never again’ imperative, pointing out that remembrance does not necessarily lead to redemption. The aim of this research is to conduct a similar exercise by investigating the following paradox …
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The education of the Indian in Natal,(1860-1947). Volume Two.
… one central government to form the Union of South Africa. This event marks the birth of a new era in South African history.
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A History of the Night in South Africa, 1860s-1980s
… the night as a vantage point to reassess the history of South Africa between the mid-nineteenth and late-twentieth century. It combines methods from cultural and social history, infrastructural studies, and the emerging field of ‘night studies’, to present a new way of understanding the …
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Constructing an alternative language: Historical revision in the fiction of Bessie Head
… use of fiction to challenge the hegemony of South African history, a history that fails to represent black South Africans except as "objects of abuse and exploitation" (Head, A Woman Alone 66). The absence of a subject position in history for black South Africans betokens a need for critical …
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Late Ottoman Perspectives on the South African War (1899-1902): the Work of Ismail Kemal Vlora
The South African War of 1899−1902 or Anglo-Boer War was one of the modern examples of propaganda in history. It revealed an enormous agitprop conducted by British and Boer forces. The European and American public closely followed the struggle between the mighty British Empire and the “little white …
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Boundaries and crossing points : children, geography, and identity in Fish Hoek valley
… 'white' state schools in the Cape peninsula, South Africa. Since 1994 these schools have seen an increase in the racial diversity of the student population, but children continue to live in a highly segregated landscape. I take a closer look at the way these schoolchildren work within and …
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An investigation of skeletons from Type-R settlements along the Riet and Orange Rivers, South Africa, using stable isotope analysis
… and Orange River areas of the Northern Cape, South Africa were inhabited by communities of hunter-gatherers and herders whose life ways are little understood. These people were primarily of Khoesan descent, but their large stone-built stock pens attest to the presence of substantial herds of …
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Meaning of forgiveness: analysing political and sexual violence cases
… of political and sexual violence in contemporary South Africa. Truth Reconciliation Commission (TRC) proceedings about the well known St James church massacre, Brian Mitchell, and Thapelo Mbelo case guide my understanding of the role of forgiveness in instances of political violence. Memoirs and …
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From narrative to severed heads : the form and location of white supremacist history in textbooks of the apartheid and post-apartheid eras : a case study
… dissertation reveals the enduring willingness of South African history textbooks to legitimate white supremacy. During the apartheid era, a historiographic mythology bearing the stamp of officialdom was propagated by history textbooks. This mythology constituted the era's "white history" - that …
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Walter Stanford as an apprentice in politics, 1908-1910 : a study in the representation of the interests of the black peoples of the Cape Colony
… committee appointed to investigate the state of African and Coloured education (1908), and the interim and final reports of the 1910 Cape Native Affairs Commission. I also use Stanford's printed magisterial reports contained in the Cape Native Affairs Blue-Books from 1877 to 1903. In addition, I …
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The history of the clarinet in South Africa
This thesis explores and traces the history of the clarinet in South Africa. After discussing the problems of researching western European music history in South Africa from the arrival of the Dutch in 1652, and briefly summarising that music history up to the first clarinet reference, the thesis …
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A history of the Committee on South African War Resistance (COSAWR) (1978-1990)
COSAWR consisted mainly of white male South Africans who avoided whites-only conscription into the South African Defence Force (SADF) by going into exile in Britain and the Netherlands. COSAWR was founded in 1978 with the assistance of the African National Congress (ANC) and the British …
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The relations between Sir Alfred Milner and W.P. Schreiner's Ministry, 1898-1900
This thesis compasses a period in South African history to which a considerable amount of attention has been devoted in recent years. Nevertheless it seemed worthwhile making a more detailed study of the activities of the Cape government. Originally I intended limiting this study to an examination …
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Evaluating automated and hybrid neural disambiguation for African historical named entities
Documents detailing South African history contain ambiguous names. Ambiguous names may be due to people having the same name or the same person being referred to by multiple different names. Thus when searching for or attempting to extract information about a particular person, the name used may …
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Herald
The original idea behind Herald was to create a South African Downton Abbey (ITV and PBS, 2010 -2015). Historical television is currently popular and Downton is appealing because it communicates interesting history, finds comedy in the manners and behaviours of the day and indulges in the visual …
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The path to free education: exploration of student revolts in South African Universities from an archival perspective
… challenged and shaped the political customs of South Africa for decades. This was shown in the recent 2015/16 student uprisings in tertiary institutions that brought the public to a standstill and provided immediate debate on the future of education in an unequal society left by the Apartheid …
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Avian Nation: a cultural and political history of blue cranes in southern Africa, from the precolonial past to present
… crane has been revered as the avian jewel of southern Africa. As most of the global blue crane population (99.9%) finds themselves within South African borders (and an additional 8-12 individuals in Etosha, Namibia), the species has solidified itself as an important member of the avian …
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(Un)Homely in Cape Town: contested space and the post-apartheid urban narrative
… of urban space is particularly pertinent to South African history as a site of social and spatial conflict resulting from the legislative practices and social engineering of the apartheid government in the form of the Group Areas Act (1950). As a postcolonial and post-apartheid city, Cape …
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Politics in the Courtroom: International Diplomacy, the Global Anti-Apartheid Movement and the Rivonia Trial, South Africa, 1963-64
The Rivonia trial was a seminal event in South African history. In 1964 the defendants, Nelson Mandela and seven of his comrades, were sentenced to life in prison and they were all to serve over twenty years of their sentences. The trial took place at a time of intense political repression in South …
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Negotiating the ambivalent construction of 'coloured' identity, in relation to the work of Malika Ndlovu and the Cape Town-based Black Women's Writers Collective, WEAVE
… to describe people of mixed descent living in South Africa). I base my analysis of their writings around 'Coloured' identity in postcolonial theory, in order to examine constructions of self and other. Chapter one introduces the reader to the Black woman writer, Malika Ndlovu and the collective …
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