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War and the formation of Afrikaner nationalism
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)There is a tendency in writing histories of South Africa’s past to concentrate on the colour issue. However, doing so often leads to myths and polarisation as sources are not interrogated beyond the superficial. The ... -
Warman, J. 2014. The class of ’79. [Book review]
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Water procurement and the environment: a comparative history of South Africa’s Nandoni and De Hoop dams 1994 - 2007.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)Die konstruksie van damme in Suid-Afrika het in onlangse jare uiteenlopende response tot gevolg gehad in die geledere van die omgewingsbewuste lede van die land se burgerlike samelewing. Twee voorbeelde is die De Hoop- en ... -
“Water pure and wholesome” – watervoorsiening in Bloemfontein gedurende die 19de eeu
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2016)Bloemfontein and the greater Mangaung Metropolitan Municipality is today a modern metropolis using and consuming a considerable amount of water on a daily basis. Due to the severe droughts of 2014 and 2015, the water surface ... -
Waterkwessies, met spesifieke verwysing na die uitwerking van wateronttrekking op die landboubedryf in die Oberholzerdistrik (Carltonville-gebied), 1959 - 1972.
(Departement van Geskiedenis, Universiteit van Noordwes / Department of History, University of North-West, 1996)Pressure on water is, of course, inversely proportional to population growth and the concomitant expansion of agriculture, commerce and industry. Put simply - a growing population imposes ever greater demands on limited ... -
"We are free, you are slaves. Come on, let's run away": Escape from Constantia, 1712.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Slaves were imported to the Cape from 1658 to 1808. The majority of the captives lived in Cape Town and many other slaves lived on farms. Added to this captive population were political exiles. In 1712, 23 slaves and ... -
"Wees jouself": Afrikaner kultuurorganisasies in Rhodesië (1934-1980).
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The problem of minority groups in host countries to preserve their culture is a world-wide phenomenon. In the history of Southern Africa the Afrikaners fundamentally experienced the same obstacles and restrictions concerning ... -
Weller, T. 2011. Information history in the modern world: histories of the information age. [Book review]
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White identity development at the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) from 1965-1968 through the use of language and religion
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2019)The primary goal in the establishment of RAU in 1968 was the educational advancement of the white Afrikaans speaker on the Witwatersrand. A secondary goal was the development of white Afrikaans identity in higher education ... -
White man’s disease, black man’s peril?: Rinderpest and famine in the eastern Bechuanaland Protectorate at the end of the 19th century.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)During the late nineteenth century, a pandemic of Rinderpest exterminated large numbers of cattle in Southern Africa. Although in the Bechuanaland Protectorate the disease killed cattle only for two years between 1896 ... -
White settlement and irrigation schemes: CF Rigg and the founding of Bonnievale in the Breede River Valley, 1900-c.1953.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The idea to initiate irrigation development as part of a white colonisation scheme and a political movement to settle Britons on land in South Africa dates back to the culmination of British imperialism in the late ... -
Whose story is it? The construction and presentation of history.
(Departement van Geskiedenis, Universiteit van Noordwes / Department of History, University of North-West, 1996)Historie, of dan die storie van menslike gebeure, is 'n universele menslike aktiwiteit. Wat is die basisbeginsels waarop hierdie narratief vertel word, die hoek van die vertelling, die perspektief? Wie se storie is historie? ... -
“Wipe out the Vons!” The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee and the sinking of the Lusitania, May 1915
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)The Pietermaritzburg Citizens Vigilance Committee was an extra legal body which discovered disloyal persons of German extraction in the city following the riots caused by the German torpedoing of the British passenger ... -
"Your satisfaction, not mere profit is our aim": a traditional English family enterprise and the textile industry – Arthur Bales and Son, from 1902.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: Die Britse setlaars van 1820 het ‘n setlaargemeenskap in die Oos-Kaap gevestig. Hierdie Engelse gemeenskap het onder andere ingesluit werklose Britse burgers, wat hulle hoop geplaas het op ‘n nuwe lewe in ...