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Contradictions of community within local government in the 1950s with reference to municipal beer trading.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)
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Hierdie artikel beskryf die etiese dilemmas waarin munisipale amptenare in die 1950s hulleself bevind het, veral rakende die munisipale bierbrouery in die swart woongebiede. Hierdie ervarings illustreer die ...
Viewing 'the other' over a hundred and a score more years : South Africa and Russia (1890-2010)
(2010)
Whether novel is history or history is novel, is a tantalising point. “The novel is no longer a work, a thing to make last, to connect the past with the future but (only) one current event among many, a gesture with no ...
Business, state and society - doing business apartheid style: the case of Pep Stores Peninsula Limited.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)
This article uses the Pep Stores Peninsula Ltd case study (1973-1974) as a window
on State-Business relationships during apartheid and to highlight the dynamics and
outcomes generated by the combination of state controlled ...
Post-graduate education students’ oral history research: A review of retired teachers’ experiences and perspectives of the former Bantu Education system.
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)
Throughout the centuries, irrespective of the nature of the society or culture,
social history seems to have been narrated or written by the victor glorifying
his/her own cause.1 The voice of the ordinary person is rarely ...
Traditional Leadership and Independent Bantustans of South Africa: Some Milestones of Transformative Constitutionalism beyond Apartheid
(2009)
The institution of traditional leadership represents the early form of societal organisation. It embodies the preservation of culture, traditions, customs and values. This paper gives a brief exposition of the impact that ...
Indigenous "Africans" and transnational "Pan-Netherlanders": past and present in the "re-construction" of post-1994 Afrikaner identity.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)
This article explores two strategies to “re-imagine” Afrikaner identity in a
post-apartheid South Africa in which white Afrikaners, once politically and
culturally dominant, have become increasingly marginalized. One, ...
Bantu Education: destructive intervention or part reform?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)
The introduction of public education for blacks in 1953 and the withdrawal
of state subsidies from mission schools were among the most controversial
measures that the National Party (NP) government took. In introducing
Bantu ...
They also served: ordinary South African women in an extraordinary struggle: the case of Erna de Villiers (Buber)
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2010)
Met die ontplooiing en vestiging van die Apartheidsbeleid1 in Suid-Afrika na 1948 het by ‘n groot gedeelte van die Suid-Afrikaanse bevolking teenstand teen die beleid van afsonderlike ontwikkeling ontstaan.
Gedurende die ...
Anachronism and the rewriting of history: the South Africa case
(2006)
The use and abuse of anachronism is often seen as the quintessence of the writing of history. Historians tend to conceive it as the hardcore of their métier to avoid anachronism. It designates a confusion in order of time, ...
Remembering "Salisbury Island".
(The South African Society for History Teaching (SASHT) under the auspices of the School of Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)
Three distinct vignettes on “Salisbury Island”, have been composed for this
discussion on the tribal college for Indians inaugurated in 1961 on Salisbury
Island, an old naval base at the Durban Harbour. It was prompted ...