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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...