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Madikizela-Mandela, W. 2013. 491 Days: Prison number 1323/69. [Book review]
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Madresahs and Moravians. Muslim educational institutions in the Cape Colony, 1792 to 1910.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2006)The vigorous revival of Christian missionary activity after 1792 with the return of the Moravians and the arrival of the London Missionary Society had little effect on Cape Town Muslims. By 1793 the Dorp Street ... -
Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders: A shift in power relations
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The stability of the apartheid system and the Afrikaners’ monopoly of power have been the subject of exhaustive scholarly analyses; by contrast, there have been few in-depth analyses of the unexpected transfer of power ... -
Mapping free Indian migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The history of indentured Indians has been well documented in South African historiography in terms of migration and settlement. Shipping lists, which meticulously recorded the biographical details of each labourer, ... -
Market and entrepreneurial vision: the case of two family businesses in South Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The question of “why do some family enterprises survive into successive generations, while other succumb to contextual constraints?” elicited different responses. Explanations vary from that it might be inherent to the ... -
Marriage in the Mother City: The Anglican marriage records of Cape Town, 1865-1960
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)As a social institution that permeates almost all societies, marriage trends and practices are studied across the social sciences. Yet South African marriages, past and present, remain understudied, notably because of a ... -
Married to the Struggle: For better or worse Wives of Indian anti-apartheid activists in Natal: The untold narratives.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)The role and contributions of women in war, and anti-colonial and nationalistic struggles have become the subject of intense research and analysis over the past two decades. In South Africa, the nationalistic struggle ... -
The Master's degree: perspectives on independent research at post-graduate level.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1998)Die gedoseerde MA-kursusse in Geskiedenis het geweldig toegeneem. Dit bied die geleentheid om verdere studie in Geskiedenis te onderneem sonder om gekortwiek te word deur sekere logistiese probleme, soos afstand van ... -
Memories of a Soulmate: A tribute to Robert Shell: 13 February 1949 - 03 February 2015
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Memories of forced removals: Former residents of the Durban Municipal Magazine Barracks and the Group Areas Act.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Two powerful phenomena around which people coalesce in the present, and which consequently give rise to notions of “community”, are recollections of historical suffering, and an affiliation to low income working class ... -
Micro credit and the transforming of uncertainty since 1976: international lessons for South Africa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)• Summary: The formal banking system plays a pivotal role in the delivery of financial services, particularly credit. However, the delivery of credit to poor households in South Africa by the formal banking system is ... -
Mkhize, S.M. 2019. A political biography of Selby Msimang : principle and pragmatism in the liberation struggle [Book review]
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Mlambo, A. 2014. A history of Zimbabwe. [Book review]
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Monumentalization and the renaming of street names in the city of Durban (Ethekwini) as a contested terrain between politics and religion.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Responding to one of the key recommendations of the transition from apartheid to a democratic South Africa, the government promulgated the South African Geographical Names Council Act No. 118 of 1998.1 The aim of this ... -
Moon sightings and the quest for Muslim solidarities in twentieth century Natal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article examines local contestations over Ramadan moon sightings among Muslims in twentieth century Natal, South Africa, as a window to debates about authority, identity and Muslim unification. The issue was ... -
Moss, G. 2014. The new radicals: A generational memoir of the 1970s. [Book review]
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Mouton, F.A. 2017. Iron in the soul: The leaders of the official parliamentary opposition in South Africa, 1910-1993. [Book review]
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Mudge, D. 2016. All the way to an Independent Namibia. [Book review]
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“Multinational sport participation replaces apartheid sport in South Africa - 1967 - 1978”: the role of BJ Vorster and PGJ Koornhof.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The sport declarations of TE Dönges as Minister of Internal Affairs in June 1956 and those of HF Verwoerd as Prime Minister in 1965 were aimed at strengthening apartheid sport participation in South Africa. These ...