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“Preventing a silent wilderness, securing the economic bounty” – Cape guano and the politics of seabird protection during the 19th and early 20th century
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2020)The Cape Colony, after Peru, was the second-most-important supplier of seabird guano to commercial farmers on a worldwide scale during the nineteenth century. Despite the obvious benefits of selling guano licenses and ... -
Principle of Utis Possidetis and challenges of sitting at the frontier in Africa: the Yoruba in the Old Ilorin province and the politics of identity and belonging in post-colonial Nigeria
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2019)For communities that sit at the fringe of ethnic, cultural and linguistic divide, the twin questions of identity and belonging often remain issues of concern. The remoteness of such communities from the mainstream of ... -
Privatising South Africa by dictum: a review.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1997)Onlangse inisiatiewe om staatsbeheerde ondernemings in Suid-Afrika te privatiseer, met die sogenaamde doel om, inter alia, die ANC-beheerde Regering vir Nasionale Eenheid (RNE) se Heropbou- en Ontwikkelingsprogram (HOP) ... -
The professionalisation efforts of accountants in the Orange Free State, 1907 - 1927: an exploration of their first twenty years.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)Professionalisation forms an important domain in the accounting history arena. The geographical spread of professional organisations occurred via the relay of empire and the movement of international capital. Outcomes ... -
Progress towards legislative transformation: a critical assessment of the 1956 and 1998 water acts regarding municipal water supply.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2008)• Opsomming: Inwoners van Suid-Afrika behoort deurlopend herinner te word dat hulle ‘n waterarmland bewoon en dat kennis oor die fisiese omgewing en die aard en omvang van effektiewe openbare bestuur van watervoorsiening ... -
Psigedelies en groen: Die invloed van Stephen Gaskin en sy hippiebeweging op omgewingsdenke in die VSA
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)This article argues that the hippy movement of the 1960’s and 1970’s, both in terms of its underlying philosophy and its practical lifestyle, made significant contributions to the environmental movement. The focus is on ... -
Public finances under private company rule: The Dutch Cape Colony (1652–1795).
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This paper provides an overview of the public finances of the Cape Colony in the period during which it was governed by the Dutch East India Company (1652–1795). Using information from secondary sources, the paper ... -
Race and ethnicity in South African urban history : A call to investigate “mingling” as well as “separation” in the city
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2021)This article argues that more methodical attention should be given by historians to both the extent and nature of racial and ethnic mingling of people, ideas and cultures across the range of such potential divides in ... -
Raiding the raid: a summary of the Brenthurst conference 'the Jameson raid and beyond', 20-22 January 1997.
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The Rastafari movement in South Africa: Before and after apartheid.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)Rastafari as a movement originated in the Caribbean Island of Jamaica during the 1930s. From Jamaica, it spread to other parts of the world including South Africa. It is argued in this article that the ideological ... -
Re-creation, tourism and historical presentation: the cases of Georgetown, Colorado (USA), and Gamkaskloof, Western Province (South Africa) considered.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1997)Die geskiedenis van twee gemeenskappe, een wat op mynbou gegrond was en die ander op boerdery, word in die artikel vergelyk. Georgetown, Colorado, in die V.S.A. het in 1859 ontstaan, terwyl die koloniale wording van die ... -
Reconstructing Changamire’s family roots: new evidence from the Valoyi oral history
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)The Munhumutapa (or Monomotapa) empire became a major political entity in Southern Africa from around 1420 AD. Founded and ruled by the Nembire family, its territory covered areas in the present-day Zimbabwe and Mozambique. ... -
Reformulating identity in post war Mozambique: Sexuality and initiation of women in the Pafuri Triangle
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2020)This paper explores the initiation of women – or Vukhomba – in Pafuri, Mozambique. As historical literature illustrates, this is an event that is linked to the repression and regulation of sexuality by colonialists, ... -
Regional, local, urban and rural history as nearby spaces and places: historiographical and methodological reflections.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)The purpose of this article is to review the almost 50 years of formal regional and local history research practices in South Africa under the umbrella of a variety of rural and urban trends, themes and phenomena. This ... -
Relaxing the reflexes: reflections on Hordotus' "historical truth".
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1997)Een van die mees kontensieuse vraagstukke onder historici wentel tans om die geldigheid van "postmoderne" historiese teorie en praktyk (en by uitstek, antifondasionalisme en die daaruit vloeiende ontkenning van die ... -
Resistance and survival: Demolishing myths of disappearing people, minor chiefs and non-existent boundaries in the early 19th century Zuurveld of the Cape Colony
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2020)Starting with fragments of information from the archives about a rebellious young man designated a “Ghona [Xhosa]” in 1820, the study constructed a plausible biography to be used in a dance performance. This uncovered ... -
The Reverend Kenneth Mosley Spooner: African-American missionary to the BaFokeng of Rustenburg district, South Africa, 1915-1937
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2018)This article examines the missionary and educational work and impact of Kenneth Spooner, an African-American missionary among the BaFokeng African community in Rustenburg district, South Africa from 1915 to 1937. Originally ... -
Revisiting the causes of the South African War - Smith, R. 1996. The origins of the South African War, 1899 - 1920. [Book review]
(Departement van Geskiedenis, Universiteit van Noordwes / Department of History, University of North-West, 1996) -
The riddle of Rosalind Ballingall: Poster girl for hippie counterculture in Cape Town in the late 1960s
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2017)This article examines the short-lived hippie phenomenon in Cape Town during the late 1960s through the lens of the disappearance of a young woman from the University of Cape Town in the Knysna forests in 1969. It seeks to ... -
Riding the storm of change: Makhado, Venda and the South African Republic (1864 - 1895)
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1999)Die Venda regeerder Makhado (?-1895) was een van die mees suksesvolle swart leiers in die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek gedurende die tweede helfte van die negentiende eeu. Sy regeringstyd is gekenmerk deur 'n fyn interaksie ...