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Cape of storms: Surveying and rethinking popular resistance in the eighteenth-century Cape colony
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)In this article I provide a broad overview of resistance at the Cape under the Dutch East India Company (VOC) undertaken by the multiracial and multiethnic popular classes (low-ranking Company servants including soldiers and ... -
A case study of four South African War (1899-1902) Black concentration camps
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2020)On 11 October 1899, the South African War commenced between the British Empire and the South African Republic and Orange Free State Republic. This conflict saw the targeting of civilians by all sides throughout the conflict ... -
Challenges arising from ethnic internal boundary determination in Ethiopia since 1991
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)Like any other African country, Ethiopia has different ethnic groups with different languages. The Federal Constitution of Ethiopia guarantees all its ethnic groups including ethnic minority the right to self-determination. ... -
Challenges associated with living in karst environments, such as the historical Cradle of Humankind.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)Die unieke geologiese aard van die Wieg-van-die-Mens-Wêrelderfenisgebied (Cradle of Humankind) noord van Krugersdorp, bied sekere uitdagings vir die mense wat daar woon en werk. Hierdie gebied vorm deel van ‘n reuse ... -
The challenges of an engagement between the African Union and the UN Security Council
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)Since the 1960s and during the initial decades of the United Nations (UN) Africa has always had great representation inside the General Assembly. Besides the numerical advantage of Africa, the ties between the continent and ... -
The changing geography of wildlife conservation: perspectives on private game farming in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)Widespread wildlife ranching on privately owned land in South Africa has been fuelled mainly by land use changes in the agricultural sector over recent decades. This has changed the landscape of nature conservation with ... -
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
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)