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The earliest visits of ANC leaders to the USSR.
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Early roots of “coloured” poverty: How much can 19th century censuses assist to explain the current situation?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The coloured population comprises almost 10 per cent of the South African population, earning only a slightly smaller proportion of national income. The average income of this group hides, however, startlingly large ... -
Economic nationalism amid ethnic disharmony in postcolonial Zimbabwe (1980-2013): a case of Matabeleland Provinces
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The colonial legacy of uneven economic development in Zimbabwe and the use of such constructs as ‘Mashonaland’, ‘Matabeleland’ and ‘Manicaland’ have remained substantially unaltered under the post-colonial government. Those ... -
Economic remittances from employment in the Second World War and family conflicts, Swaziland, 1941-1950
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)Swaziland was connected to the Allied conduct of the Second World War through colonial ties and about four thousand Swazi men were recruited to serve in the war. Historians are beginning to analyse the different ways in ... -
Edwin S Munger 1922 - 2010: Academic bridge-builder in South Africa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)• Summary: Edwin S. Munger,(1921-2010), professor of Political Geography at Caltech Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California was a renowned specialist on Africa, race and ethnic relations. In his scores of trips ... -
Eldredge, E.A. 2004. The creation of the Zulu kingdom, 1815-1828: War, Shaka, and the consolidation of power. [Book review]
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The emergence and radicalisation of black political formations in Kroonstad, 1915 to 1957.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)From the beginning of the 1920s to the 1950s Kroonstad witnessed the emergence of black radical formations, although this happened intermittently. The inaction of the ANC in the 1920s provided the ICU with space to ... -
Emfuleni’s wastewater crisis, 2018-2021: The history of a Vaal sub-catchment problem
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)In 2018 the collapse of the wastewater infrastructure of Gauteng’s Emfuleni Local Municipality was responsible for a severe fish-kill in the Vaal River Barrage. Even communities downstream of the Barrage were affected. ... -
Empowering peripheral writing: a case of South African Black English (SABE).
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)Tshobokanyo: Melebo ya molebopopego le molebotlhaeletsano e na le go leba boitshwaro jwa tekatenano le maitsholo a setemokerasi ka mokgwa o o fosagetseng fa go tlhalosiwa Seesimane sa Bantsho ba Aforika Borwa (SBAB). Fa ... -
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 ...