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Activist memorialization : bearing witness at St. George's Cathedral

Author: Van Mill, Sarah Date: 2011 The purpose of this thesis is to address the question: how can memorialization contribute to social transformation? Specifically, in what ways is memorialization activist? To answer this question I worked with St. Georgeâ€™s Cathedralâ€™s ... Read more
Beyond the refugee label : identity and agency among Somali refugees

Author: Buyer, Meritt Date: 2007 As the world refugee population continues to rise, so the debate over how to best assist those who have been displaced intensifies. Humanitarian practices often have a disempowering effect on individuals instead of helping them to become ... Read more
Culture, gender and patriarchy : a study of sixteen female teachers in gender specific schools of Lesotho

Author: Monyane, Temelo Date: 2005 Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-109). Read more
The empathy imperative : primary narratives in South African history teaching

Author: Geschier, Sofie M M A Date: 2008 National and international literature on intergenerational dialogue presents the sharing of primary narratives as necessary to prevent an atrocity from happening again. International literature on history education and memory studies questions ... Read more
"The father of the revolution": history, memory and the FNLA veterans of Pomfret

Author: Claassen, Christian Date: 2016 The "official" narrative of the Frente Nacional de Libertação de Angola (National Front for the Liberation of Angola, or FNLA) as presented by FNLA documents and scholars such as Christine Messiant and Inge Brinkman, paints a picture of a ... Read more
Generations of meaning : memory, technology and the South African audio archival context

Author: Meyer, Renate Date: 2008 Like it or not, the past infects the world we live in, the decisions we make, the very choices we see to lie before us. If we ignore its influence, we do not escape its power. Read more
Imagining the city: memories and cultures in Cape Town

Author: Field, Sean ; Meyer, Renate ; Swanson, Felicity Date: 2010 The overriding strength of this book is that it places people – ordinary people – at the centre of memory, at the centre of historical and contemporary experience, and thus at the centre of re-imagining and owning the city of Cape Town. It ... Read more c b n
Introduction: Approaching Oral History at the Centre for Popular Memory

Author: Field, Sean Date: 2008 At its dialogic centre, oral history research methodology involves interactions between an interviewer eliciting and listening to a narrator framing and performing their memories through spoken words, sentences and stories. But oral history ... Read more
Keeping up with the Queers: White gay and bisexual men's experiences of relationship intimacy and conflict in Cape Town, 1966-2008

Author: Kleinschmidt, Adam Elliot Date: 2021 Between 1966 and 2008, the social, political and cultural landscape of South Africa changed considerably for queer people living in Cape Town. This thesis intends to explore white gay and bisexual men's experiences of intimacies and conflict ... Read more
Politics and prosthesis : representing disability in South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Author: Price, Neroli Date: 2016 This dissertation aims to put two seemingly stable and unchanging categories, namely the 'nation' and the 'body', into conversation with each other in order to interrogate how the disabled body, in particular, became a site for nation building ... Read more
Televising truth commissions: the interaction between television, perpetrators, and political transition in South Africa

Author: Anderson, Michelle E Date: 2020 This research explores the portrayals of perpetrators in television broadcast coverage of truth commissions within politically transitioning societies, particularly how these discourses may influence the perceptions and experience of transition ... Read more
The Gukurahundi "genocide": memory and justice in independent Zimbabwe

Author: Ndlovu, Nompilo Date: 2019 Operation Gukurahundi (1982-1987) commenced and endured within the Midlands and two Matabeleland Provinces of Zimbabwe through a Fifth Brigade army – trained by the North Koreans, and which was accountable to former President Robert Mugabe. ... Read more
The Public Life of Abortion and the Making of South Africa's Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act

Author: Koekemoer, Ronel Date: 2022 This thesis is a study of the making of post-apartheid South Africa's abortion law, the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, 1996. It focusses on how abortion as a public interest issue at the time of SA's transition from apartheid to ... Read more
Turning up the Volume: Dialogues about Memory Create Oral Histories

Author: Field, Sean Date: 2008 This article sketches an overview of South African oral history since the 1970s and argues that while oral history projects have grown rapidly since 2000, insufficient attention has been given to international debates about memory, myth and ... Read more
Ukusebenza nethongo (Working with Spirit): the role of sangoma in contemporary South Africa

Author: Wreford, Jo Thobeka Date: 2005 This thesis represents a typically boundary-crossing ethnographic experience and an unconventional anthropological study, its fieldwork grounded in the author's personal experience of ukuthwasa - initiation, training and graduation - to become ... Read more
Urban agriculture in Cape Town : an investigation into the history and impact of small-scale urban agriculture in the Cape Flats townships with a special focus on the social benefits of urban farming

Author: Dunn, Shirley Date: 2010 Urban agriculture (UA), defined in this study as the cultivation of crops and the farming of poultry and livestock within city boundaries, is not a new phenomenon. There are noticeable gaps in the literature in respect of Cape Town: a lack ... Read more