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Class, colour consciousness and the search for identity : blacks at the Kimberley diamond diggings, 1867-1893

Author: Lawrence, Paul Gilbert Date: 1994 The discovery of diamonds in the Kimberley area was to have far reaching consequences, not only for the region but the entire sub-continent. In addition to the hundreds of individual diggers, mainly white, who converged on this arid corner ... 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
Exploring the value of 'The Rwandan genocide Film' as a pedagogical tool for raising awareness

Author: Adams, Khaya Date: 2019 The Rwandan genocide is a complex subject that even works of written historical discourse struggle to explain. Previous filmic studies have primarily focused on three well known Rwandan genocide films, Hotel Rwanda, Shooting Dogs and Sometimes ... Read more
Hope, fear, shame and frustration: Continuity and change in the expression of Coloured Identity in white supremacist South African 1910-1994

Author: Adhikari, Mohamed Date: 2006 This article seeks to explain the basic impulses behind coloured exclusivity in white supremacist South Africa and to elaborate on continuity and change in the processes of coloured self-definition by identifying the core attributes of coloured ... Read more
Hope, fear, shame, frustration : continuity and change in the expression of coloured identity in white supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994

Author: Adhikari, Mohamed Date: 2002 This thesis examines the ways in which Coloured identity manifested itself in South African society from the time the South African state was formed in 1910 till the institution of democratic rule in 1994. The central argument of the dissertation ... Read more
Mass murder and motivation : the Rwandan genocide

Author: Aamaas, Åsmund Date: 2007 This project is about mass murderers and the motivation for becoming perpetrators of mass murder. The Rwandan genocide is chosen as a case study. The project strives to explain what seems inexplicable; why tens of thousands of Rwandan men and ... Read more
‘Not Black Enough’: Changing Expressions of Coloured Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Author: Adhikari, Mohamed Date: 2004 M. Adhikari, ‘Hope, Fear, Shame, Frustration: Continuity and Change in the Expression of Coloured Identity in White Supremacist South Africa, 1910-1994’ (PhD thesis, University of Cape Town, 2002). The central argument of the dissertation is ... Read more
Not only 'the younger daughter of Dr Abdurahman': a feminist exploration of early influences on the political development of Cissie Gool

Author: Van der Spuy, Patricia Date: 2002 Cissie Gool was an extraordinary presence on Cape Town's political and social scene in the first half of the twentieth century. She was the first black woman to preside over a national liberatory organisation, the National Liberation League ... Read more
Not only 'the younger daughter of Dr Abdurahman': a feminist exploration of early influences on the political development of Cissie Gool

Author: Van der Spuy, Patricia Date: 2002 Cissie Gool was an extraordinary presence on Cape Town's political and social scene in the first half of the twentieth century. She was the first black woman to preside over a national liberatory organisation, the National Liberation League ... Read more
Sitting on the fence or walking a tightrope? : a political history of the coloured community in Zimbabwe, 1945-1980

Author: Muzondidya, James Date: 2001 This thesis examines the political history of the Coloured community of Zimbabwe, a group that has not only been marginalised in most general political and academic discourses but whose history has also been subject to popular misconceptions. ... Read more
Teachers' League of South Africa 1913-40

Author: Adhikari, Mohamed Date: 1986 Besides examining the history of the Teachers' League of South Africa, a specifically coloured teachers' association, during its conservative phase from 1913 to 1940, this thesis in addition attempts to investigate the nature and development ... Read more
West Germany and Namibia's path to independence, 1969-1990: foreign policy and rivalry with East Germany

Author: Kern, Thorsten Date: 2016 This thesis examines West Germany's relationship with Namibia between 1969 and 1990. It investigates West German foreign policy towards Namibia, at the height of the Namibian liberation struggle, against the backdrop of East and West German ... Read more