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Changing lifestyles, business, and the politics of the nineteenth-century Cape ice and refrigeration trade
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)The involvement of Cape businessmen in the ice or frozen water trade, and their contribution to its globalisation during the nineteenth century, is a neglected aspect of South Africa’s water history. During the period ... -
Changing profile: the public face of the University of Pretoria over a century, 1908 - 2008.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2010)• Opsomming: In die tydperk na die eerste demokratiese verkiesing in 1994, het die meeste tersiêre opvoedkundige instellings in Suid-Afrika, insluitend die vorige sogenaamde “apartheid” universiteite, weens verskeie redes ... -
Chiefdoms on the margins of the Zulu Kingdom: A case study of Nzama and Ngubane chieftaincies in Kranskop, Umvoti, from the 1820s to 1870s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)The chieftaincies in Kranskop in Umvoti seized the opportunity to exercise independence from the Zulu royal family, an opportunity which the advent of British imperialism provided. These chieftaincies decided to support ... -
Chieftaincy and resistance politics in Lehurutshe during the apartheid era.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This article focuses on the politics of chieftaincy in Lehurutshe, a rural region in South Africa’s North West Province, in the second half of the twentieth century. This was a period of profound social and political ... -
The Chinese in South Africa: a historical study of a cultural minority.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1999)South African historiography has for the most part been primarily preoccupied with explaining the past in terms of ethnic dimensions. More particularly, race - in its blackwhite paradigm - has been profoundly formative ... -
Chipkin, I. & Swilling, M. 2018. Shadow state: The politics of state capture [Book review]
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Chisembele, S. 2016. Zambia, the freedom struggle and the aftermath: the personal story of freedom fighter and leader Sylvester Mwamba Chisembele [Book review]
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Chisembele, S. 2016. Zambia, the freedom struggle and the aftermath: The personal story of freedom fighter and leader Sylvester Mwamba Chisembele. [Book review]
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Chisholm, L. 2017. Between worlds: German missionaries and the transition from mission to Bantu education in South Africa
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Christian National Education (CNE) and People’s Education (PE): historical perspectives and some broad common grounds.
(Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)A recognition of the legitimate origins of the idea of Christian-National Education in a people’s struggle for freedom does not mean endorsing the idea as such. Especially in its later development, it seems that the ... -
Churchill’s British atomic relations with Malan’s government in South Africa, 1951-1954.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)In 1951 Churchill assumed office for the second time as Prime Minister of Britain and renewed the effort to sway once again a Commonwealth sentiment on a Nationalistic DF Malan in their atomic relations. The period marked ... -
The city of arches.
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“Class D coloureds”: The establishment of Noordgesig, 1939-1948
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)Noordgesig Township is situated on the edge of Soweto, bordering the better known Orlando Township. This article pieces together the history of the township and its residents from the late 1930s to the beginning of the ... -
Cock, J. 2018. Writing the Ancestral River. A biography of the Kowie
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Cock, J. 2018. Writing the Ancestral River. A biography of the Kowie [Book review]
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Collective foreign aid and development prospects for sub-Saharan Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, the states of sub-Saharan Africa have been subjected to a seemingly irreversible spiral of poverty as well as social, political and economic unpredictability, causing ... -
Colonial administrators, indigenous leaders, and missionaries: Contesting the education of the Swazi child, 1921-1939
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The study of Swazi historical affairs in the colonial period has remained patchy. The historian is confronted by numerous gaps that make it difficult to get a comprehensive view of the development of the history of the ... -
The colonial experience, indigenous leaders and the capitalization of the Swazi monarchy
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)Historians and other researchers have analysed different aspects of Swazi historical affairs. One of the themes that has attracted academic attention is that of continuity and change, especially under the impact of ... -
The colony of Natal and the management of its Afrikaner subjects in the build-up to the Anglo-Boer War (1899 - 1902)
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)• Opsomming: In die historiografie van die Anglo-Boereoorlog (1899–1902) het die voor-oorlogse bestuur van Britse onderdane wat historiese, kulturele en bloed bande met die republieke gehad het tot dusver min aandag ... -
Community-based conservation: intrinsic versus extrinsic values.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2006)This article commences with an examination of the reasons for the enormous increase in areas under state protection worldwide, and proceeds to discover two incompatible value systems that inform this expansion. The ...