Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Hayes, Patricia"
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Cape-Helena: An exploration of nostalgia and identity through the Cape Town - St. Helena migration nexus
Samuels, Damian (University of the Western Cape, 2018)For an Island measuring merely 128 square kilometers, and in spite of its remote location in the mid-South Atlantic, St. Helena “punches way above its weight in history”, earning and occupy ... -
Cape-Helena: An exploration of nostalgia and identity through the Cape Town - St. Helena migration nexus
Samuels, Damian (University of the Western Cape, 2018)In the following two chapters I will attempt to offer a more systemic account of St. Helena immigration to South African between 1838 and 1948. To date, no such study has been undertaken, ... -
Digital storytelling and the production of the personal in Lwandle, Cape Town
Sykes, Pam (University of Western Cape, 2019)Digital storytelling is a workshop-based practice, originally developed by the Californiabased nonprofit StoryCenter, in which people create short, first-person digital video narratives based on stories from their own ... -
Enduring suffering: the Cassinga Massacre of Namibian exiles in 1978 and the conflicts between survivors' memories
Shigwedha, Vilho Amukwaya (University of the Western Cape, 2011)During the peak of apartheid, the South African Defence Force (SADF) killed close to a thousand Namibian exiles at Cassinga in southern Angola. This happened on May 4 1978. In recent years, Namibia commemorates this day, ... -
Gender politics and problems in Southern Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland and Namibia in the post-colonial/apartheid era.
Mngomezulu, Bhekithemba Richard (University of Western Cape, 1997)The study of gender is crucial for the achievement and sustainability of the democratic ethos in Southern Africa. The substantial·literature in this field attests· to this notion1 '. It could help us understand why ... -
The impact of migrant labour infrastructure on contract workers in and from colonial Ovamboland, Namibia
Nampala, Lovisa Tegelela (University of Western Cape, 2020)This thesis explores the ways in which migrant labour infrastructure and the related operating practices of the South African colonial administration impacted on workers in and from the colonial north-central part of ... -
The Impact of Migrant Labour Infrastructure on Contract Workers in and from Colonial Ovamboland, Namibia, 1915 to 1954
Nampala, Lovisa Tegelela (University of the Western Cape, 2020)This thesis explores the ways in which migrant labour infrastructure and the related operating practices of the South African colonial administration impacted on workers in and from the colonial north-central part of ... -
Inside and outside the family album: Making, exhibiting and archiving the photograph in the South African National Gallery and the National Library of South Africa
Becker, NatashaOne of the first things that reached me about photography was how a photograph tells a story or stories. This experience is perhaps most common when viewing personal photographs. A few years ago I was looking through a ... -
Living memory in a forgotten war zone: the uKwangali district of Kavango and the Namibian liberation struggle, 1966-1989
Karapo, Herberth Kandjimi (2008)Ukwangali district is located in the western part of the Kavango region approximately 70 kilometers west of the regional town Rundu. This thesis explores and documents the local political dimensions which prevailed in the ... -
'Looking good, clean and fresh': Visual representations of the self in the Van Kalker Studio, Cape Town 1939-1978
Frieslaar, Geraldine Leanne (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This mini-thesis attempts to analyse the way in which Van Kalker photographs enabled representations of the self and allowed sitters a means through which to assert themselves visually especially when considered against ... -
Mandume ya Ndemufayo's memorials in Namibia and Angola
Shiweda, Napandulwe Tulyovapika (University of the Western Cape, 2005)Mandume has fought two colonial powers, Portugal and British-South Africa from the time he became king in 1911 to 1917. This thesis looked at the different ways in which Manume is remembered in Namibia and Angola after ... -
Omhedi: displacement and legitimacy in Oukwanyama politics, Namibia, 1915-2010
Shiweda, Napandulwe Tulyovapika (University of the Western Cape, 2011)This is a study of the contest over political and social legitimacy in a former precolonial kingdom, Oukwanyama, in northern Namibia, from 1915 to the present. It tracks the historical shifts in this long time frame through ... -
The palaces of memory: a reconstruction of District One, Cape Town, before and after the Group Areas Act
Weeder, Michael Ian (University of the Western Cape, 2006)This thesis started off as a biographical discussion on my association with District One. I was able to widen the scope of this thesis as my research brought more information to light with regard to the city’s past. The ... -
Photography and the spectacle of ASỌ EBÌ in Lagos, 1960-2010
Nwafor, Okechukwu Charles (University of Western Cape, 2011)This research charts the political and visual economies of asọ ebì in urban Lagos from 1960 to 2010. Under political economy I address the politics of asọ ebì dress in Lagos: the contestations surrounding the use of asọ ... -
Photography, facebook and virtualisation of resistance in Nigeria
Agbo, George Emeka (University of the Western Cape, 2016)Nigerian post-independence history (1960 to the present date) is steeped in socio-political upheavals. The majority of the citizens are frustrated with the injustice, inequality and fraudulent politics that pervade the ... -
Power relations in landscape photographs by David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng
Xakaza, Mzuzile Mduduzi (University of the Western Cape, 2015)How far can landscape photographic images allow us to interrogate the extent to which collective socio-political, cultural and economic aspirations of marginalised South Africans have, or have not, been achieved since the ... -
Rural women as the invisible victims of militarised political violence: the case of Shurugwi district, Zimbabwe, 2000-2008
Marongwe, Ngonidzashe (University of the Western Cape, 2012)Zimbabwe was beset by militarised politically-inspired violence between 2000 and 2008. How that violence has been imagined in terms of its causes, memorialisation and impact has been far from conclusive. As a derivative ... -
A Space for Genocide: Local Authorities, Local Population and Local Histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda
Mulinda, Charles Kabwete (University of the Western Cape, 2010)Soon after the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, in 1994, research around this horrific event flourished. Although a variety of authors of different expertise (journalists, human rights activists, witnesses, academics, both Rwandans ... -
A space for genocide: local authorities, local population and local histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda)
Mulinda, Charles Kabwete (University of the Western Cape, 2010)This research attempts to answer the following questions: How and why genocide became possible in Gishamvu and Kibayi? In other words, what was the nature of power at different epochs and how was it exercised? How did forms ... -
The suppression of communism, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the instrumentality of fear during apartheid
Longford, Samuel (University of the Western Cape, 2016)Between the 1917 Russian Revolution and demise of the Soviet Union, the communist Other, as godless deviant and arch enemy of the capitalist state, inhabited a specific space in the minds and imaginations of much of the ...