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Taal, kultuur en ontspanning: die rol van die Algemeen-Nederlands Verbond in Kaapstad, 1995 - 2008.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)The Algemeen-Nederlands Verbond (“General Dutch Union”), an international society for the promotion of the Dutch language and culture, has been active in South Africa since its foundation in 1895, and a branch of this ... -
Taking stock of land reform in Namibia from 1990 to 2005.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2011)The land reform debate in Namibia has been predicated on a number of questionable assumptions and is atypical of the scenarios presented by other SADC countries. The one point of similarity is that the progress of ... -
A tale of two graves: a biography of Lance Corporal Wijnand “Victor” Hamman, 1893-1917
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)The biography of Lance-Corporal Wijnand “Vic” Hamman is quite unique in comparison to the stories of his peers who fought with him in the trenches during the First World War (1914-1918). This statement rests on the fact ... -
Tavern of two oceans: Alcohol, taxes and leases in the seventeenth-century Dutch world
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The retail of alcohol was so central to the economy and society of the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that it earned the nickname “tavern of two oceans”. This retail business was organised ... -
Tempelhoff, J. 1997. Die okkupasiestelsel in die distrik Soutpansberg, 1886 - 1899, argiefjaarboek vir Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis. [Boek resensie]
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"There is no hurry in Botswana": Scholarship and stereotypes on "African time" syndrome in Botswana, 1895- 2011
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The lack of a strict and disciplined adherence to keeping time or punctuality has been an issue of major concern to many authorities in the African public and private sectors. Botswana is no exception, as this article ... -
They also served: ordinary South African women in an extraordinary struggle: the case of Erna de Villiers (Buber)
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2010)Met die ontplooiing en vestiging van die Apartheidsbeleid1 in Suid-Afrika na 1948 het by ‘n groot gedeelte van die Suid-Afrikaanse bevolking teenstand teen die beleid van afsonderlike ontwikkeling ontstaan. Gedurende die ... -
"Thinking your journal unimportant": a feminist literary analysis of selected excerpts from Lady Anne Barnard’s Cape diaries.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article offers a feminist literary analysis of selected excerpts from the diaries that Lady Anne Barnard wrote during her stay at the Cape Colony from 1797 until 1802. Lady Anne was, by all accounts, an extremely ... -
'This was no election, it was a census': the IEC declaration of the April 1994 general election as free and fair in South Africa - a complex process?
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2006)Alhoewel die eerste demokratiese verkiesing in Suid-Afrika reeds 12 jaar gelede gehou is, is die kriteria gebruik deur die Onafhanklike Verkiesingskommissie (OVK) om die April 1994 verkiesing “vry en regverdig” te verklaar ... -
Threats of Communist expansion in Apartheid South Africa: NP claims versus CIA intelligence perspectives in the years 1960 to 1990.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)There is a popular perception that the threat of Soviet expansionism during the time of South Africa’s Border War (1966-1989) was a fabrication by the National Party government to motivate young men to fight to maintain ... -
Through Livingstone’s eyes: perspectives on water in nineteenth-century Southern Africa (1849-56)
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: David Livingstone (1813–1873) was deel van ‘n merkwaardige geslag ontdekkingsreisigers wat in die negentiende eeu Afrika vir die Engelssprekende wêreld oopgestel het. In Missionary travels and researches in ... -
“To build a just and fair society”: Fosatu and the vision of a new South Africa, ca.1970s-1980s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)popularised the utopia of building a rainbow nation. The idea was to bring together all people of South Africa, in all their diversity, to work towards a new, common, non-racial and equal society. Indeed, the vision of ... -
Tournadre, J. 2018. A turbulent South Africa: Post-apartheid social protest [Book review]
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Towards a community engagement turn? Historians debate forms of engagement in 21st century-higher education
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)Should the luxury we currently enjoy of focusing our research mainly on debating and/or philosophising about the discipline of History in centres of Higher Education and Training (HET) not be transformed in the 21st ... -
Traditional planning elements of pre-colonial African towns.
(Departement van Geskiedenis, Universiteit van Noordwes / Department of History, University of North-West, 1996)Die konsentriese boustyl van prekoloniale Afrikastrukture (skuilings, woonplekke, plazas, gange, paaie of mure), asook die gemeenskaplike gebruik van fasiliteite in die prekoloniale stede, is in oorsprong eie aan Afrika. ... -
The transnational factor: The beginnings of South Africa’s women’s movement
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The South African women’s movement had its origins in the Cape, but it also had a strong transnational relationship with countries such as the United Kingdom and the United States. The earliest formally created ... -
An unlikely union. Exploring the possibilities of Afrikaner and black women’s organisations cooperating in the Women’s National Coalition, 1991-1994.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Die Women’s National Coalition (WNC) is in 1992 gestig om gelykberegtiging vir vroue in demokratiese Suid-Afrika te verseker. Inligting oor vroue se behoeftes en aspirasies sou ingesamel word en in ‘n Vrouehandves saamgevat ... -
An update on South Africa’s political risk profile in 2015/6
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)In 2015, South Africa has dropped out of the Kearney Foreign Direct Investment Confidence Index for the first time since its inception in 1998. Although many resource companies have diverted their investments away from ... -
The usable past and socio-environmental justice: From Lady Selborne to Ga-Rankuwa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This article presents a case study in forced removals and their ramifications from 1905 to 1977 from the perspective of socio-environmental history. It depicts environmental damages and misunderstandings suffered due to ... -
The uses of history.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2010)• Opsomming: Op drie maniere kan die studie van geskiedenis tot nut van mense wees. In die eerste plek kan dit hulle help om `n behoorlike besef te kry van hul onderskeie afkoms en erfenis. Geskiedenis leer mense nie hoe ...