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The South African high school history curriculum and the politics of gendering decolonisation and decolonising gender
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)
In this article, I argue that the category of gender should be an essential
consideration for a decolonised curriculum, and that gender theory should be
included in its analytical toolbox for two reasons: firstly, because ...
"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 ...
"Allowed such a state of freedom": women and gender relations in the Afrikaner community before enfranchisement in 1930.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2010)
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Hierdie artikel argumenteer dat Afrikanervroue gedurende die eerste twee eeue van die nedersetting aansienlik meer regte geniet het onder die Romeins-Hollandse reg as wat die geval was met vroue wat onder ...
Women in history textbooks - What message does this send to the youth?
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)
History textbooks, like all textbooks, play an important role in the
facilitation of learning. They act as vehicles by means of which past knowledge
legitimated by government and related authorities, as contained in ...
Race, power and me: my position as a History educator in relation to the position of learners
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
History, as outlined in the Curriculum and Assessment Policy Statements for
GET and FET (CAPS) is both a journey of enquiry and an evidence-based
construction of the past. It enables learners and teachers alike to ...
Married to the Struggle: For better or worse Wives of Indian anti-apartheid activists in Natal: The untold narratives.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)
The role and contributions of women in war, and anti-colonial and
nationalistic struggles have become the subject of intense research and analysis
over the past two decades. In South Africa, the nationalistic struggle ...
Regulating traditional justice in South Africa: a comparative analysis of selected aspects of the traditional courts bill
(2014)
Traditional justice systems have been in place for a very long time in South Africa and in Africa in general. They are characterised by informal systems that are not beset by the normal technicalities prevalent in formal ...
Archetyping race, gender and class: advertising in The Bantu World and The World from the 1930s to the 1990s
(2006)
This article sets out to interrogate the ideological hegemony of the superstructuring narrative voice in advertisements by studying linguistic, structural devices and encoding that are employed, in order to expose its ...
Muslim women’s identities in South Africa: A Zanzibari perspective in KwaZulu-Natal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)
This article examines how Zanzibari women in KwaZulu-Natal are
negotiating their identities within the context of local and global realities.
In South Africa, while the post-apartheid period gave birth to non-racial
democracy, ...
Locating home where discourses of gender and empire intersect: An analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape diaries and journals
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)
Lady Anne Barnard’s abundant textual legacy has received a great deal of
academic attention with scholars scrutinising her letters, journals and diaries.
Although much excellent research has been done on her texts, no ...