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Enkele perspektiewe rakende die organisasie van die Oranje-Vrystaatse burgermag in Oktober 1899
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)A few perspectives with regard to the organization of the Orange Free State citizen force in October 1899 The purpose of this article is to discuss the structure and organization of the Orange Free State (OFS) Boer republic’s ... -
Entrepreneur, social capital and the survival of Afrikaner business on the Witwatersrand, 1930 – 2007: the case of Burgers Brothers Clothing enterprise.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: Die ekonomiese afswaaifase van die 1930s is verswaar deur die geweldige droogte, plae en peste in die landbou en toenemende verarming onder blanke Suid-Afrikaners. Verstedeliking het een oorlewingstrategie ... -
Environmental history and sustainable cultural dynamics.
(Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)A notable sophistication has taken place in the field of environmental history, as a result of the endeavours of historians in the United States of America, Britain and Europe in recent years. In the article a number of ... -
The episteme of academia in Africa: the developmental history of the University of Bophuthatswana/North-West and the city of Mmabatho as an exemplary case.
(Departement van Geskiedenis, Universiteit van Noordwes / Department of History, University of North-West, 1996)• Opsomming: In hierdie artikel word aangetoon dat die stand van die akademie 'n Afrika ten nouste saamhang met die politieke aspirasies van die heersende politieke party. Die oorspronklike idee van die universiteit, ... -
Estate farming and Ndau people’s displacement from Zimbabwe into Mozambique, c.1940-2010
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)This article focuses on the development of plantation farming close to the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border and its effects on the Ndau people. Colonial incursions on the Zimbabwe/Mozambique border areas resulted in the development ... -
Evaton and a quest for economic independence: A new dimension to entrepreneurship, 1940-1949
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)In South Africa, commercial activity such as entrepreneurship was one of the socio-economic institutions manipulated by the white government to develop and maintain an unequal society. The aim of this article is to locate ... -
Expectations and the issue of land in South Africa – the historical origins and current debate
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)Land remains a contentious political issue that has the potential for further conflict in South Africa. Expectations over land are a legitimate result of a history of dispossession, displacement and deprivation during the ... -
Exploring aspects of the water history of the Potchefstroom region and the local management of it.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)It is by now common knowledge that South Africa is a water scarce country and that the correct public management of its potable water sources such as the transportation of it as well as the purification of the used water ... -
The eye of a violent storm: Inanda, 1985.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)In 1985 the United Democratic Front (UDF) was at the centre of country wide protests against the apartheid state. In Durban community protests were sparked by the assassination of UDF leader Victoria Mxenge. Across the ... -
Fact and fiction: representations of the South African War in Afrikaans history writing and literature.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1999)Beide feit en fiksie was nog altyd komponente van geskiedskrywing. In die onlangse verlede het postmodernistiese idees die vreedsame naasbestaan tussen feit en fiksie in geskiedskrywing versteur deur die onderskeid tussen ... -
Family ties? Afrikaner nationalism, pan-Netherlandic nationalism and neo-Calvinist "Christian nationalism"
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This study, building on longstanding debates on “German” national socialist (“Nazi”) and “Dutch” Calvinist influences on Afrikaner nationalism, examines the latter’s intersecting relationships with Dutch neo-Calvinist ... -
Fashion and family business entrepreneurs: Jaff and company, 1931 - 1980.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: Sam Jaff was deel van ʼn merkwaardige geslag entrepreneurs wat die klerebedryf in Suid-Afrika gevestig het. In 1931 vestig hy die vroueklerefabriek, Jaff and Company, in Johannesburg, wat vinnig in ‘n ... -
Fashion and the world of the women of the VOC official elite
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)During the early modern period material culture increasingly started to serve as symbols of identity and status rather than merely fulfilling a basic need. One example of such possessions that was particularly relevant ... -
Feinstein, A. 2011. Kopwond: Vergete slagoffers van die Bosoorlog. [Boek resensie]
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The first 'white' town north of the Vaal: inequality and apartheid in Potchefstroom.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2006)Alhoewel die 'gekleurde' en 'naturelle'-inwoners van Potchefstroom van die vroegste bewoners van hierdie dorp was, was hulle posisie as gevolg van segregasie en marginalisering altyd onseker. Verskillende opeenvolgende ... -
The first Muslim politician of South Africa Ahmet Ataullah Bey, 1865-1903.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Ahmet Ataullah Bey was a South African intellectual and politician who served the South African Muslims in the last quarter of nineteenth century. Ataullah Bey played prominent role in South African history as the ... -
A fool’s errand? Black Consciousness and the 1970s debate over the “Indian” in the Natal Indian Congress
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)Bantu Stephen Biko, born in Tarkastad in the Eastern Cape was murdered by the South African apartheid regime in September 1977, aged 31. The year 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of his birth. Biko remains iconic, but a ... -
For neither king nor swastika? Malan’s Afrikaner nationalism and De Valera’s Irish nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)The debate on supposed fascist influences on Afrikaner nationalists, particularly the mainstream National Party (NP), as opposed to more extremist groups, has mostly centred around alleged links or parallels with Nazi ... -
"Forgetting the past" for "citizenship": barter and resentment in Martinique (1848 - 1946)
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The forgotten Effendi: Ottoman Muslim theologian, Mahmud Fakih Emin Effendi, and the real story of the Bo-Kaap Museum, c.1894-1978
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article attempts to re-present the religious and educational activities of a forgotten Muslim scholar, Mahmud Fakih Effendi, in Cape history. The subject of the article is related to this Ottoman scholar, as well ...