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Aspects of the impact of apartheid on commerce and industry in the Western Cape, 1960 to 1990

Author: Wood, Robert Jameson Date: 2008 The thesis considers the economic performance of South Africa, from the substantial and sustained growth from 1960 to 1974, followed by a period when the South African economy weakened. The Western Cape economy was not reliant on mining, but ... Read more
The Association Young Africa and its context with special reference to Trafalgar High School

Author: Hess, Albert Date: 2006 This thesis examines the social orientations of the members of the Association Young Africa (AYA), and the circumstances that surrounded the founding of the organization at Trafalgar High School. It endeavours to place these elements in their ... Read more
Beyond white supremacy

Author: Saunders, Christopher Date: 2006 The author recalls how he first became interested in American studies and comparisons in 1967, and how, twelve years later, he attended a conference (as did George Fredrickson) comparing the U.S. and South African frontiers. The author then ... Read more
The black concentration camps of the South African War, 1899-1902

Author: Kessler, Stowell van Courtland Date: 2003 Includes bibliography. Read more
The Cape Khoisan in the Eastern districts of the colony before and after Ordinance 50 of 1828

Author: Malherbe, Vertrees Canby Date: 1997 My study arose from a wish to consolidate work begun in the 1970s concerning the indigenous people of the Cape - the 'Bushmen' and 'Hottentots' of the historical record who, properly, are called San and Khoi, or 'the Khoisan' • My idea was ... Read more
Conversations with historians

Author: Saunders, Christopher ; Kros, Cynthia Date: 2005 The editors of the South African Historical Journal decided to commemorate its 51st issue by asking a range of historians — some established, some emerging — to reflect on the state of the discipline. We present an edited collation below of ... Read more
The environmental impact of the armed conflict in Southern Mozambique, 1977-1992

Author: Pihale, Estêvão Date: 2003 This dissertation analyses the main environmental problems that were faced during the armed conflict in Mozambique between 1977 to 1992. The subject matter covered by this dissertation is diverse, including the political economy of the Region ... Read more
Experiencing the armed struggle : the Soweto generation and after

Author: Von den Steinen, Lynda Date: 2007 This study explores the experiences of the rank-and-file soldiers of Umkhonto we Sizwe and the Azanian People's Liberation Anny. Extensive interviews by the author and other researchers reveal the voices of the soldiers themselves. The African ... Read more
A forgotten corner of Namibia: aspects of the history of the Caprivi Strip, c1939-1980

Author: Kangumu, Bennett Date: 2000 A major theme in this study Strip is South Africa's administration of the Eastern Caprivi Strip from 1939 to 1980, a period of 41 years. This general study of aspects of the history of the Caprivi Strip deals with a variety of themes. A good ... Read more
From slavery to freedom : the Oromo slave children of Lovedale, prosopography and profiles.

Author: Shell, Sandra Rowoldt Date: 2013 In 1888, eighty years after Britain ended its oceanic slave trade, a British warship liberated a consignment of Oromo child slaves in the Red Sea and took them to Aden. A year later, a further group of liberated Oromo slave children joined ... Read more
The history and politics of liberation archives at Fort Hare

Author: Maaba, Lucius Bavusile Date: 2013 This thesis, the first of its kind on liberation historiography, seeks to put the liberation movements archives housed at the University of Fort Hare in context. The thesis focuses mainly on the 1990s, when the repatriation of struggle material ... Read more
A history of the Xhosa of the Northern Cape, 1795-1879

Author: Anderson, Elisabeth Dell Date: 1985 Read more
A missionary life among the amaXhosa : the Eastern Cape journals of James Laing, 1830-1836

Author: Shell, Sandra Rowoldt Date: 2006 This thesis is a critical edition of a section of the journals of the Reverend James Laing of the Glasgow Missionary Society. The first scholarly study of the Laing journals, this thesis seeks to contribute towards a new understanding of the ... Read more
Multi-party elections in Southern Africa : the cases of Namibia and Mozambique, 1989-1999

Author: Mukumbi wa Nyembo, Jules Date: 2004 This dissertation essentially examines the context and the conduct of elections held in the southern African region, particularly in Namibia and Mozambique between 1989 and 1999. These elections crystallized a wider process of democratization ... Read more
New Brighton, Port Elizabeth c1903-1953 : a history of an urban African community

Author: Baines, Gary Fred Date: 1994 This thesis explores the history of New Brighton in the context of Port Elizabeth's political economy. This port city was essentially an entrepôt until primary industrialisation commenced after the First World War. Jobs in the footwear and ... Read more
Perspectives on the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa

Author: Saunders, Christopher Date: 2004 The now substantial literature on the transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa defines ‘transition’ in different ways. In the third edition of his History of South Africa (2001), Leonard Thompson devoted a chapter to the political ... Read more
Political and social theories of Transkeian administrators in the late nineteenth century

Author: Martin, Samuel John Russell Date: 1978 This study sets out to examine the order of categories and values, structuring men's thought and perception at a fundamental level although not systematically formulated, in terms of which the Transkeian magistrates viewed the African communities ... Read more
Poverty, living conditions and social relations : aspects of life in Cape Town in the 1830's

Author: Judges, Shirley Ann Date: 1977 The chief topic discussed in this thesis is poverty - whether it existed in Cape Town during the 1830s; if so, how it can be measured, how it came to exist. Related to this are general living conditions in Cape Town and in particular, the ... Read more
Race, housing and town planning in Cape Town, c.1920-1940 : with special reference to District Six

Author: Barnett, Naomi Date: 1993 This thesis traces the Cape Town Council's housing policy from 1920 to 1940 in relation to those citizens (in this instance members of the Coloured community) who could not afford to home themselves. The onus to provide such housing in urban ... Read more
Raymond Mhlaba and the genesis of the Congress Aliance : a political biography

Author: Orie, Thembeka Date: 1993 The dominant and current theory about the African National Congress in the 1940s is that the Youth League in particular, led by the young, aspirant middle-class intellectuals, radicalised the organisation: that it was a bourgeois revolution ... Read more

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