Browsing Department of History by Issue Date
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Re-articulating history: historical play, nation, text
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This dissertation was divided into two parts. In the first part questions of representation and textuality in the discipline of history will be explored with the aim of positing the historical play as productive for the ... -
The palaces of memory: a reconstruction of District One, Cape Town, before and after the Group Areas Act
(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 ... -
Re-articulating History: Historical Play, Nation, Text .
(University of Western Cape, 2006)The writing of history in postapartheid South Africa constitutes a crisis for the discipline of history as, I argue, it requires the discipline to confront its role in contributing towards the constitution of the condition ... -
Saul Januarie: Biography of a wagon-maker and blacksmith from Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Saul Januarie was born in Worcester in 1903. He spent his childhood years in the town of Touwsriver and then returned to Worcester as an adult where he married and spent the remainder of his life. He became well-known as ... -
The Kavango Legislative Council 1970-1979: a critical analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)Namibia was under South African rule until March 1990. On 11 September 1962, the Odendaal Commission was set up by the State President of South Africa to enquire into the welfare and progress of all the inhabitants of South ... -
Oral history in the exhibitionary strategy of the District Six Museum, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)District Six was a community that was forcibly removed from the centre of Cape Town after its demarcation as a white group area in 1966. In 1989, the District Six Museum Foundation was established in order to form a project ... -
Imagining the real-magical realism as a post-colonial strategy for narration of the self in Zakes Mda's Ways of dying and the Madonna of Excelsior
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)The thesis examines the role of magical realism as a postcolonial trope in Ways of Dying and The Madonna of Excelsior. It begins by stating that the author uses magical realism as an alternative strategy for self narration ... -
The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)The second half of the 1990's was marked by a significant reworking of memory and history in South Africa. WHilst the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was involved in its hearings on amnesty applications and gross ... -
Living memory in a forgotten war zone: the uKwangali district of Kavango and the Namibian liberation struggle, 1966-1989
(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 ... -
The history of History in South African secondary schools, 1994-2006
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)This MA thesis investigates the decision to marginalize History in C2005 at a time when there were expectations of the importance of the discipline in a democratic South Africa. It argues that the marginalization of the ... -
Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)It is now forty years after the start of African Socialism, or Ujamaa, in Tanzania. This study examines to what extent Tanzanians still tell their national history in ways which feature the important themes of social change ... -
Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania
(University of Western Cape, 2008)It is now forty years after the start of African Socialism, or Ujamaa, in Tanzania. This study examines to what extent Tanzanians still tell their national history in ways which feature the important themes of social ... -
Richard Turner's contribution to a socialist political culture In South Africa 1968-1978
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis evaluates Turner's capacity to encourage a shift in white politics towards New Left radicalism. Despite Turner's influence on many, tensions arose between Turner's politics and more orthodox forms of socialism, ... -
The Impasse of Violence : writing necklacing into a history of liberation struggle in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This thesis falls within the category of historical studies that is concerned with a difficult legacy of South Africa's liberation struggle, namely the practice of necklacing that accompanied it. My interest in the practice ... -
Then and Now: Activism in Manenberg, 1980 to 2010
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)The study analysed the politics of resistance in Manenberg placing it within the over arching mass defiance campaign in Greater Cape Town at the time and comparing the strategies used to mobilize residents in Manenberg in ... -
A space for genocide: local authorities, local population and local histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda)
(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 ... -
Social history, public history and the politics of memory in re-making 'Ndabeni'' pasts
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Remaking /Xam narratives in a post-apartheid South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)Public history has become a dynamic new field of study in South African historiography during the post-apartheid period. As a field of applied history, it has been engaged with analysing the highly contested nature of ... -
Being / becoming the "Cape Town flower sellers" The botanical complex, flower selling and floricultures in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)This mini-thesis is concerned with histories of flower selling in Cape Town. Since the late 19th century, images and imaginings of the flower sellers in Adderley Street and to a lesser degree in other areas of the city ...