• Kat River revisited

  

   Authors: Blackbeard, Susan Isabel Date: 2018 There is a paucity of oral-history works on Kat River. Likewise, although various histories of Kat River/Stockenstrom exist, few have focused on the forced removals of Stockenstrom coloured people in the 1980s, the effects of displacement on ... Read more

• A reconstruction of the Cape (South African) fur seal harvest 1653 - 1899 and the comparison with the 20th-century harvest

  

   Authors: David, Jeremy ; Van Sittert, Lance Date: 2008 The Cape fur seal was an abundant resource in southern Africa, when first discovered by itinerant sailing vessels in the late 16th century. Seals were slaughtered indiscriminately by the sailors for skins, meat and oil for three centuries ... Read more

• A tool for modernisation? The Boer concentration camps of the South African war 1900-1902

  

   Authors: Van Heyningen, Elizabeth Date: 2010 While not denying the tragedy of the high mortality of people in the concentration camps in the South African War of 1899–1902, this article suggests that, for Lord Milner and the British Colonial Office, the camps became a means of introducing ... Read more c b

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