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Gosselink, M., Holtrop, M. & Ross, R. 2017. Good Hope. South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600. [Book review]
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Governance and management challenges in establishing Robben Island as a National Museum and a World Heritage Institution in post-apartheid South Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)This article focuses on the governance and management challenges in establishing Robben Island as a world class National Museum and a World Heritage Site. The first democratically elected government of South Africa ... -
Government schooling and teacher identity: The exertions of the first-class teacher at Worcester, Cape of Good Hope, c.1856-1873
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)In 1839 the colonial administration introduced to the Cape Colony one of the first systems of state education in the British Empire. This Established System of Education staggered along for a quarter century before the ... -
The Graaff-Reinet municipal location: unemployment and poor relief during the Great Depression of 1929-1933.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)By focusing on a medium-sized rural town in South Africa during the period of the Great Depression broadly resulted in showing the effects and reactions that were, in general, indicative of worldwide trends but with ... -
Great expectations: pres. PW Botha’s rubicon speech of 1985.
(Giliomee, H. 2008. Great expectations: pres. PW Botha’s rubicon speech of 1985. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 55:1-41, May. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969], 2008)Die toespraak wat Pres. PW Botha op 15 Augustus 1985 voor die kongres van die Nasionale Party (NP) van Natal gehou het, word algemeen erken as een van die keerpunte in die geskiedenis van die NP-regering. Daar is verwag ... -
Green, T. 2011. The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589. [Book review]
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A greener past? An assessment of South African environmental historiography.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1999)Die doel met hierdie artikel is om 'n oorsig te verskaf van die bestaande literatuur oor Suid-Afrikaanse omgewingsgeskiedenis. Die opkoms van omgewingsgeskiedenis as 'n identifiseerbare sub-dissipline in historiografie ... -
Grobler, J. 2007. Uitdaging en antwoord: 'n vars perspektief op die evolusie van die Afrikaners. [Boek resensie]
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Grundlingh, A.M. & Huigen, S. 2008. Van volksmoeder tot Fokofpolisiekar. Kritiese opstelle oor Afrikaanse herinneringsplekke. [Boek resensie]
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Guanopreneurs and the dynamics of policymaking in the Cape Colony, 1843-1845
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2019)Having identified an opportunity to extract significant income from selling guano, a popular and profitable natural fertiliser, from individual islands within its territorial waters, the Cape colonial administration ... -
Harris, V. 1997. Exploring archives: an introduction to archival ideas and practice in South Africa. [Book review]
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Head, B. 2007. Thunder behind her ears. [Book review]
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Heese, J.A.. 2016. Méér as ’n kroniek van ’n rebellie: Slagtersnek en sy mense [Book review]
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"Help ons bou" - die Daisyfield-inrigting en die impak van sendingwerk en godsdienstige bearbeiding in 'n weeshuisomgewing in Rhodesië (1910 - 1948)
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2010)• Summary: Since the founding of Rhodesia during the last decade of the nineteenth century, many Afrikaner immigrants settled in the country in search of a new life and job opportunities. As a result of the Anglo-Boer ... -
Heyl, A. 2018. Bank robber: My time with André Stander [Book review]
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Hidden Histories of Gordonia, land dispossession and resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800-1990
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High apartheid and the erosion of “official” local politics in Daveyton in the 1960s.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The paper discusses the apartheid state’s onslaught against the limited rights enjoyed by Africans in urban areas in the 1960s. It focuses attention on the “modern model township” of Daveyton, which was seen in the early ... -
High Treason : the trial of the Bondelzwarts kaptein and the politics of settler self-delusion
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)This paper concerns official “truth-seeking” about the Bondelzwarts Rebellion and its brutal suppression in 1922 by the South African administration in its newly-mandated territory of South West Africa. These events ... -
A historical account of the key moments in South Africa to sentencing children under the age of 18 convicted of crimes
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2020)Punishment of crimes is as old as society itself. In South Africa, punishment of children continues to raise complex historical debates. For example, corporal punishment has long been abolished, but with the increase on ... -
A historical assessment of NGO efficiency in progressing towards a sustainable environmental heritage focus, with as case study the Wonderfontein Spruit catchment, Gauteng.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)Die artikel handel in wese oor ’n histories-kontemporêre waardering van die rol van nie-regeringsorganisasies (NRO’s) binne ’n demokraties-gerigte proses van omgewingsbestuur in veral die Merafong-studiegebied. Fasette wat ...