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"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, ... -
George Bremner, Graaff-Reinet and "A State of Feeling", 1848 - 1859.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2012)This article explores a young Scottish teacher’s attempt to implement the ambitious plans for government education in Graaff-Reinet in the mid 19th century. Designed for the whole population, the New System (or Established ... -
Giliomee, H. & Mbenga, B. 2007. New history of South Africa. [Book review]
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Giliomee, H. 2007. Nog altyd hier gewees: die storie van ‘n Stellenbosse gemeenskap. [Book review]
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Giliomee, H. 2016. Historian Autobiography. [Book review]
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Giliomee, H. 2019. The rise & demise of the Afrikaners [Book review]
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Gold mining in Zululand.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2006)Hierdie artikel ondersoek die reeks kleiner “goudstormlope” wat gedurende die middel 1880’s plaasgevind het tot net na die Eerste Wêreldoorlog in Kwa- Zulu-Natal – histories bekend as Zululand. Goudprospektering was ... -
The golden opportunity: Recruitment of “foreigners” into the Witwatersrand by mining corporations, 1913-1933
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark Campus, 2022)In this article the strategies used by mining corporations to facilitate the illegal entry of mine-workers into South Africa between 1913 and 1933 are discussed. In 1913 the government banned the outsourcing of ... -
Gosselink, M., Holtrop, M. & Ross, R. 2017. Good Hope. South Africa and the Netherlands from 1600. [Book review]
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Governance and management challenges in establishing Robben Island as a National Museum and a World Heritage Institution in post-apartheid South Africa
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2019)This article focuses on the governance and management challenges in establishing Robben Island as a world class National Museum and a World Heritage Site. The first democratically elected government of South Africa ... -
Government schooling and teacher identity: The exertions of the first-class teacher at Worcester, Cape of Good Hope, c.1856-1873
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2015)In 1839 the colonial administration introduced to the Cape Colony one of the first systems of state education in the British Empire. This Established System of Education staggered along for a quarter century before the ... -
The Graaff-Reinet municipal location: unemployment and poor relief during the Great Depression of 1929-1933.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)By focusing on a medium-sized rural town in South Africa during the period of the Great Depression broadly resulted in showing the effects and reactions that were, in general, indicative of worldwide trends but with ... -
Great expectations: pres. PW Botha’s rubicon speech of 1985.
(Giliomee, H. 2008. Great expectations: pres. PW Botha’s rubicon speech of 1985. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 55:1-41, May. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969], 2008)Die toespraak wat Pres. PW Botha op 15 Augustus 1985 voor die kongres van die Nasionale Party (NP) van Natal gehou het, word algemeen erken as een van die keerpunte in die geskiedenis van die NP-regering. Daar is verwag ... -
Green, T. 2011. The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589. [Book review]
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A greener past? An assessment of South African environmental historiography.
(Department of History, University of North-West, 1999)Die doel met hierdie artikel is om 'n oorsig te verskaf van die bestaande literatuur oor Suid-Afrikaanse omgewingsgeskiedenis. Die opkoms van omgewingsgeskiedenis as 'n identifiseerbare sub-dissipline in historiografie ... -
Grobler, J. 2007. Uitdaging en antwoord: 'n vars perspektief op die evolusie van die Afrikaners. [Boek resensie]
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Grundlingh, A.M. & Huigen, S. 2008. Van volksmoeder tot Fokofpolisiekar. Kritiese opstelle oor Afrikaanse herinneringsplekke. [Boek resensie]
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Guanopreneurs and the dynamics of policymaking in the Cape Colony, 1843-1845
(School for Basic Sciences, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2019)Having identified an opportunity to extract significant income from selling guano, a popular and profitable natural fertiliser, from individual islands within its territorial waters, the Cape colonial administration ... -
Harris, V. 1997. Exploring archives: an introduction to archival ideas and practice in South Africa. [Book review]
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Head, B. 2007. Thunder behind her ears. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2007)