Author:Wood, Robert JamesonDate:2008The 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
Author:Hess, AlbertDate:2006This 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
Author:Saunders, ChristopherDate:2006The 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
Author:Malherbe, Vertrees CanbyDate:1997My 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
Author:Saunders, Christopher; Kros, CynthiaDate:2005The 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
Author:Pihale, EstêvãoDate:2003This 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
Author:Von den Steinen, LyndaDate:2007This 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
Author:Kangumu, BennettDate:2000A 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
Author:Shell, Sandra RowoldtDate:2013In 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
Author:Maaba, Lucius BavusileDate:2013This 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
Author:Shell, Sandra RowoldtDate:2006This 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
Author:Mukumbi wa Nyembo, JulesDate:2004This 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
Author:Baines, Gary FredDate:1994This 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
Author:Saunders, ChristopherDate:2004The 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
Author:Martin, Samuel John RussellDate:1978This 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
Author:Judges, Shirley AnnDate:1977The 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
Author:Barnett, NaomiDate:1993This 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
Author:Orie, ThembekaDate:1993The 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