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"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 ...
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 ...
"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 ...
Silenced and Invisible Historical Figures in Zambia: An Analysis of the Visual Portrayal of Women in Senior Secondary School History Textbooks
(South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the patronage of the Department of Humanities Education in the Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria, 2021)
Despite their significant contribution to the country’s historical development, women’s
influence is commonly underestimated and ignored in Zambian history literature.
Subsequently, their role remains undocumented in ...
The need for feminist approaches for housing cases in South Africa
(PER/PELJ, 2021)
Although South African courts have handed down progressive judgments concerning the right to access to adequate housing, they have failed failed to do so from a feminist point of view. The trajectory of housing jurisprudence ...
Gender in national history narratives in social studies textbooks for Ghana
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)
The Ghanaian society is highly patriarchal and one of the immediate outcomes is that assignment of roles and responsibilities are typically based on gender lines. This paper is about gender representation in social studies ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...