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    • Christian National Education (CNE) and People’s Education (PE): historical perspectives and some broad common grounds. 

      Van Eeden, Elize S; Vermeulen, L M (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 ...
    • Conflicting perceptions over water distribution in Sibasa-Thohoyandou area: interpreting local narratives. 

      Wuriga, Rabson (Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)
      The state perceives water as an economic commodity, even if its existing policy treats it as a national resource that should be freely accessed for basic usage. Research suggests many residents of the Sibasa-Thohoyandou ...
    • The death of trooper Alexander Aberline, F squadron, NSW Imperial Bushmen at Lichtenburg 2 October 1900. 

      Bottomley, John (Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)
      Much of the history of the Anglo-Boer War is dour and brutal, as is to be expected of a three year struggle which many believed was genocidal in purpose. This war saw so many nationalities fighting against each other, and ...
    • Environmental history and sustainable cultural dynamics. 

      Tempelhoff, Johann W N (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 historical development of prisons in South Africa: a penological perspective. 

      Singh, Shanta (Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)
      President Nelson Mandela commented during his time of incarceration: “Prison not only robs you of your freedom, it attempts to take away your identity. It is by definition a purely authoritarian state that tolerates no ...
    • The 'lost' South African tribe – rebirth of the Koranna in the Free State. 

      Erasmus, P (Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)
      The Khoisan is the original inhabitants of southern Africa. The Koranna were one of the tribes that already lived in the vicinity of Cape Town before the arrival of the first white settlers (1652). They had an own culture, ...
    • 'Oh! for a blessing on Africa and America', the Mount Holyoke system and the Huguenot Seminary, 1874 - 1885. 

      Duff, S E (Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)
      In November 1873, at the invitation of Andrew Murray, two American teachers arrived in the Cape Colony to establish a school to train middle class Dutch-Afrikaans girls to be teachers and missionaries. The two women were ...
    • Opinions on entrepreneurship development: ensuring maximum return on investment. 

      Van Rensburg, W P J; Louw, E J (Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)
      As a developing country with an unacceptably high unemployment rate, mass migration from rural areas to cities and increasing impoverishment of rural communities, South Africa is in dire need to develop entrepreneurs, ...
    • The sero-conversion of the people of the Nelson Mandela metropole, 1985 - 2021. 

      Shell, Robert C H; Rama, P (Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)
      The authors draw attention to the little researched pandemic of HIV/AIDS in the Western area of the Eastern Cape, South Africa. They use population projection programs and new historical case level data which has a broader ...
    • The South African Defence Force versus SWAPO and its allies: operation Askari, 1983 - 1984. 

      Oosthuizen, Gerhard J.J. (Department of History, North-West University, Mafikeng-campus and the School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, 2005)
      Die Suid-Afrikaanse Weermag (SAW) en die Suid-Afrikaanse Polisie (SAP) was betrokke in militêre konflik met die bevrydingsbewegings vir die volle duur van die sogenaamde grensoorlog aan die noordelike grens van Suidwes-Afrika ...