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"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 ...
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 ...
Local human development in contexts of permanent crisis: women’s experiences in the Western Sahara
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2009)
Sahrawi women are active agents in the social dynamics of the refugee camps, in which they have developeda number of coping strategies to overcome the hardships of a deteriorating humanitarian situation. Since the outbreak ...
Understanding gender, sexuality and HIV risk in HEIs: narratives of international post-graduate students
(2013)
Thirty years into the HIV&AIDS pandemic, the world is still striving to reduce new
HIV infections and halve AIDS related deaths by 2015. However, sub-Saharan Africa
still faces the burden of HIV infections as governments ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Perceptions of water access in the context of climate change by rural households in the Seke and Murewa districts, Zimbabwe
(AOSIS OpenJournals, 2013)
The objective of the study was to assess perceptions of rural household heads with regard to various aspects of water access and climate change, and to evaluate whether there were significant differences in perceptions of ...
"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 ...