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Aspects of the social and political history of Langa Township, Cape Town, 1927-1948

Author: Musemwa, Muchaparara Date: 1993 This study focuses on the social and political history of Africans in Langa Township from 1927 to 1948. Langa conveniently and justifiably serves as a good case study of the urban African experience because it is the area in Greater Cape Town, ... Read more
The Coon Carnival in the 1940's: An expression of culture within a changing political environment

Author: Rahman, Zarin Date: 2001 The 1940's saw tremendous change in the state of the world starting with the Second World War and culminating with the formation of several new independent nation states such as Pakistan, India and Israel. The growing nationalist trend became ... Read more
Creating a 'black film industry' : state intervention and films for African audiences in South Africa, 1956-1990.

Author: Paleker, Gairoonisa Date: 2009 This thesis examines one aspect of cinema in South Africa, namely, the historical construction of a 'black film industry' and the development of a 'black' cinema viewing audience. It does so by focusing on films produced specifically for an ... Read more
Crime, community and police in Cape Town, 1825-1850

Author: Elks, Katherine Dawn Date: 1986 This thesis is primarily an examination of petty crime and law enforcement in Cape Town in the period 1825 -1850. This period was one of fundamental change in terms of the spatial and demographic growth of Cape Town, the diversifying economy ... Read more
The Doctor of District Six: exploring the private and family history of Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, City Councillor for District Six of Cape Town (1904-1940)

Author: Wong, Eve Date: 2016 Abdullah Abdurahman is best-known in South African historiography for his four-decade career as the first coloured City Councillor of Cape Town and the President of the African Political Organisation. However, most literature on Abdurahman ... Read more
From Matieland to motherland : landscape, identity and place in feature films set in the Cape Province, 1947-1989.

Author: Riley, Eustacia Date: 2012 This thesis analyses the representation of landscape, place and identity in films set in the Cape between 1947 and 1989. These films are products of a "white", largely state-subsidised film industry, although they include a small number of ... Read more
The Gateway of tomorrow: modernist town planning on Cape Town's Foreshore 1930-70

Author: Botha , Nicholas Michiel Date: 2013 Cape Town's Foreshore has been a site of contestation for much of the twentieth century. Conventional accounts of its history describe the sudden reclamation of land in 1937, and subsequent planning throughout the 1940s and 50s. However, these ... Read more
The Great Dance : myth, history and identity in documentary film representation of the Bushmen, 1925-2000

Author: Van Vuuren, Lauren Date: 2005 This thesis utilises a sample of major documentary films on the Bushmen of Southern Africa as primary sources in investigating change over time in the interpretation and visualisation of Bushmen peoples over seventy-five years from 1925 to ... Read more
History, identity and meaning : Cape Town's Coon Carnival in the 1960s and 1970s

Author: Baxter, Lisa Mary Date: 1996 Little has been written about the Coon Carnival since its inception in the late nineteenth century. This thesis helps remedy the general neglect of popular, "Coloured", working class history during the apartheid years. attempts to situate ... Read more
Imperialism, state formation and the establishment of a Muslim community at the Cape of Good Hope, 1770-1840 : a study in urban resistance

Author: Bradlow, Muhammad 'Adil Date: 1988 One of the most significant and yet least studied developments of late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Cape Town is the emergence and growth of a muslim community. So dramatic was this process, that by the end of the period of slavery, ... Read more
Letters home : the experiences and perceptions of middle class British women at the Cape 1820-1850

Author: Erlank, Natasha Date: 1995 My thesis is concerned with the experiences and perceptions of British women living in the Cape Colony, South Africa, during the first half of the nineteenth century. My chief source materials are the letters and diaries written by different ... Read more
A matter of life and death? : the Western Province Football Board and the implementation of the double standards resolution

Author: Kahn, Ryan Date: 2015 This dissertation focuses on assessing and questioning the perceived 'politicisation' of the non-racial South African Council on Sport (SACOS) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Through an institutional case study of the organisation's largest ... Read more
Miserable hovels and shanties on waterlogged wasteland : political-economy of peri-urban squatting around greater Cape Town, circa 1945-1960

Author: Kondlo, Kwandiwe Merriman Date: 1993 This thesis is an intended contribution to the store of historical knowledge on Cape Town. Its title 'Miserable Hovels and Shanties on Waterlogged Wasteland'; political economy of peri-urban squatting in Cape Town, 1945 - 1960, has been decided ... Read more
An oral history of Tramway Road and Ilford Street, Sea Point, 1930s-2001 : the production of place by race, class and gender

Author: Paulse, Michele Date: 2002 The political economies of segregation and apartheid contributed to the production and reproduction of a mainly Coloured working-class enclave in Tramway Road and Ilford Street, Sea Point, during the 20th century. Against this background, ... Read more
Redefining the griot : a history of South African documentary film

Author: Da Canha, Taryn Date: 2001 The South African film industry, like the rest of the country, has gone through a very difficult and trying time over the last century and has been faced with enormous challenges since 1994. South Africa is still in a process of transition ... Read more
Remembering and Recollecting World War Two: South African Perspectives

Author: Walton, Sarah-Jane Date: 2014 This thesis explores some of the memories and recollections of World War Two in South Africa today. It aims to address an absence of work done on South Africa in relation to World War Two, memory and commemoration. This thesis is as much about ... Read more
Reports on Colloquium Sessions

Author: Adhikari, Mohammed ; Phillips, Howard ; van der Watt, Liese ; Rijsdijk, Ian-Malcolm ; van Sittert, Lance ; Deacon, Harriet ; Erlank, Natasha ; Clowes, Lindsay ; Worden, Nigel ; Bickford-Smith, Vivian Date: 2004 Since the late 1980s the environmental trope in South African history has been gradually elevated to a field of enquiry in its own right. The impetus to this transformation has been varied, the blossoming of environmental history in the North ... Read more
"The sea is in our blood" : community and craft in Kalk Bay, c. 1880-1939

Author: Kirkaldy, Alan Date: 1989 This thesis examines the historic right of the Kalk Bay fishermen to occupy the area and exploit the marine resources of False Bay. It attempts to provide the historical base absent from anthropological, and other, works which have focussed ... Read more
"She was certainly not a Rosa Luxemborg" : a biography of Cissie Gool in images and words

Author: Paleker, Gairoonisa Date: 2002 This thesis, in both its written and filmed components explores the life of Cape politician and political activist Cissie Gool (1897-1963) against the backdrop oflocal, national and international politics as it impacted on her in both a direct ... Read more
Sports, festivals and popular politics : aspects of the social and popular culture in Langa township, 1945-70

Author: Molapo, Rachidi Richard Date: 1994 The rapid industrialization which transformed South African Society after the discovery of minerals, had a profound impact on the lives of most South Africans. The process of urbanization escalated during and after the Second World War because ... Read more

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