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Exhumations, reburials and history making in post-apartheid South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This mini-thesis, ‘Exhumation, Reburial and History Making in South Africa’, is concerned with an analysis of the practices of exhumation and reburial through discussing the case studies of the Iron-Age archaeological site ...
Multilingualism and linguistic landscapes across space and time in the public railway system in South Africa: A multisemiotic analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
During apartheid, the infrastructure in South Africa was built by the government and
was designed to keep Blacks away from White areas. This infrastructure comprised
inter alia the public railway system which was intended ...
A phenomenological discourse analysis of harassed female 'skinscapes' in select public spaces in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Street harassment refers to the unsolicited verbal remarks and nonverbal gestures that women
are subjected to by men when moving through (public) spaces. The dominant discourse sees
this phenomenon as firstly a gendered ...
Visual trauma: Representations of African bodies in the 1983 Contre Apartheid Exhibition
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
After the 1976 student uprising, South Africa entered a period of increased violent state
repression. The struggle against apartheid also became increasingly globalised, as can be seen
in the UN resolution and the rise ...
The sound of war: Apartheid, audibility, and resonance
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This study approaches the field of military history with approaches to the study of sound in order to
interrogate the concept of war that underpins military historiography as a disciplinary formation. It
delineates the ...