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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 ... -
Fashion and family business entrepreneurs: Jaff and company, 1931 - 1980.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: Sam Jaff was deel van ʼn merkwaardige geslag entrepreneurs wat die klerebedryf in Suid-Afrika gevestig het. In 1931 vestig hy die vroueklerefabriek, Jaff and Company, in Johannesburg, wat vinnig in ‘n ... -
Fashion and the world of the women of the VOC official elite
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)During the early modern period material culture increasingly started to serve as symbols of identity and status rather than merely fulfilling a basic need. One example of such possessions that was particularly relevant ... -
Feinstein, A. 2011. Kopwond: Vergete slagoffers van die Bosoorlog. [Boek resensie]
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The first 'white' town north of the Vaal: inequality and apartheid in Potchefstroom.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2006)Alhoewel die 'gekleurde' en 'naturelle'-inwoners van Potchefstroom van die vroegste bewoners van hierdie dorp was, was hulle posisie as gevolg van segregasie en marginalisering altyd onseker. Verskillende opeenvolgende ... -
The first Muslim politician of South Africa Ahmet Ataullah Bey, 1865-1903.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Ahmet Ataullah Bey was a South African intellectual and politician who served the South African Muslims in the last quarter of nineteenth century. Ataullah Bey played prominent role in South African history as the ... -
A fool’s errand? Black Consciousness and the 1970s debate over the “Indian” in the Natal Indian Congress
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)Bantu Stephen Biko, born in Tarkastad in the Eastern Cape was murdered by the South African apartheid regime in September 1977, aged 31. The year 2021 marks the 75th anniversary of his birth. Biko remains iconic, but a ... -
For neither king nor swastika? Malan’s Afrikaner nationalism and De Valera’s Irish nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)The debate on supposed fascist influences on Afrikaner nationalists, particularly the mainstream National Party (NP), as opposed to more extremist groups, has mostly centred around alleged links or parallels with Nazi ... -
"Forgetting the past" for "citizenship": barter and resentment in Martinique (1848 - 1946)
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The forgotten Effendi: Ottoman Muslim theologian, Mahmud Fakih Emin Effendi, and the real story of the Bo-Kaap Museum, c.1894-1978
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article attempts to re-present the religious and educational activities of a forgotten Muslim scholar, Mahmud Fakih Effendi, in Cape history. The subject of the article is related to this Ottoman scholar, as well ... -
“Fortuitous circumstances?” John Owen Smith and the art of nineteenth-century colonial wealth accumulation
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)A former British immigrant, John Owen Smith was one of the nineteenth century Cape Colony’s most prominent businesspersons. With interests in guano trading, farming, shipping, property development, auctioneering and arms ... -
The founding of the Marloth Nature Reserve: a historic example of collaborative conservation
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)During the 1970s collaborative conservation between management bodies and citizens became a field of academic interest. It is globally practised today and implies consensus-based decision-making, often with a special ... -
Friedman, S. 2015. Race, class and power. Harold Wolpe and the radical critique of apartheid. [Book review]
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From apartheid to development: science policy and the politics of race in South Africa.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1999)Toe die ANC aan die bewind gekom het, het hulle 'n nuwe wetenskapsbeleid aangekondig wat verbind is tot gemeenskaplike ontwikkeling. Voorstanders het beswaar gemaak dat navorsing voorheen voortgedryf is deur blanke ... -
From fund-raising to Freedom Day: the nature of women’s general activities in the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1939-1943.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) was a mass-movement that originated as a result of the euphoria created by the 1938 Centenary Celebrations of the Great Trek in South Africa. With far-reaching and very ambitious aims the OB was ... -
From “struggle” to “post-revolutionary” politics: the National Party, the African National Congress, and the "great rapprochement".
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2009)• Opsomming: Die Nasionale Party as regerende party onder Suid-Afrika se apartheidsbestel, en sy langtydse teenstander en navolger, die African National Congress, blyk onwaarskynlike onderwerpe vir ‘n vergelyking: Die ... -
"Garrisoning the moon against an attack from Mars"; the siege of Mafeking and the imperial mindset.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1997)Die Beleg van Mafeking sal altyd 'n belangrike hoofstuk in die annale van Imperialisme wees. Die amptelike interpretasie van gebeure word geboekstaaf deur dagboeke. Drie Victoria Kruise is toegeken, en loopbane en reputasies, ...