Browsing Department of History by Author "Dept. of History"
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The construction of public history and tourist destinations in Cape Town's townships: a study of routes, sites and heritage
Dondolo, Luvuyo (University of the Western Cape, 2002)This paper seeks to explore a number of issues in relation to tourism, particularly cultural tours, in Cape Town from the apartheid era to the new political dispensation in South Africa. Cultural tourism is not merely about ... -
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, ... -
The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
Kadi, Palesa (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 ... -
A historical and conceptual analysis of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS),1997 – 2009.
Morakinyo, Olusegun Nelson (University of the Western Cape, 2011)In 1998 the University of the Western Cape together with the University of Cape Town, and the Robben Island Museum introduced a Post-graduate Diploma in Museum and Heritage Studies. This programme was innovative in that ... -
The historical productions of Cecil John Rhodes in 20th century Cape Town
Mdudumane, Khayalethu (University of the Western Cape, 2005)This thesis analysed the historical productions of Rhodes in 20th century Cape Town. The critique of this study was that Cape Town embodies the history of imperialism in maintaining the memory of Rhodes. The thesis examined ... -
The history of History in South African secondary schools, 1994-2006
Ebot, Tabe Fidelis (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 ... -
The Impasse of Violence : writing necklacing into a history of liberation struggle in South Africa
Moosage, Riedwaan (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 ... -
The individual, auto/biography and history in South Africa
Rassool, Ciraj (University of the Western Cape, 2004)This thesis is a contribution to the field of public history, which the author and others at the University of the Western Cape's History Department have over the last decade pioneered in defining and mapping out in South ... -
The Kavango Legislative Council 1970-1979: a critical analysis
Nambadi, Aaron Haufiku (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 ... -
Memory and representation: Robben Island Museum 1997-1999
Solani, Noel Lungile Zwelidumile (University of the Western Cape, 2000)The notion of what constitutes a nation has been a subject of many debates. The nation, like individual is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice and devotion. The post aprtheid project of reconciliation ... -
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 ... -
Political autobiography, nationalist history and national heritage: the case of Kenneth Kaunda and Zambia
Simakole, Brutus Mulilo (University of the Western Cape, 2012)The research for this thesis started off as a long academic essay that sought to review a 1970s biography of Kenneth Kaunda.1 In its original focus, the study aimed at evaluating the work on the narrations of Kenneth ... -
The politics of production of archaeological knowledge :a case study of the later stone age rock art paintings of Kasam, Northern Zambia
Lishiko, Billiard Berbbingtone (University of the Western Cape, 2004)The main purpose of this study was to investigate and examined the politics in the production of archaeological knowledge especially in rock art, at academic, heritage institutions and national and global level. It aims ... -
Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania
Yona, Mzukisi (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 ... -
Re-articulating history: historical play, nation, text
Van Bever Donker, Maurits Michiel (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 ... -
Remaking /Xam narratives in a post-apartheid South Africa
Hendricks, Mona (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 ... -
Rundu, Kavango: a case study of forced relocation in Namibia, 1954 to 1972
Likuwa, Kletus Muhena (University of the Western Cape, 2005)This research dealt with the following cases of relocation that occurred in Rundu, namely: Nkondo village in the 1950s, forced removal to karapamwe Black Township in 1968, and the relocation of Sarusungu and Bangarangandja ... -
Saul Januarie: Biography of a wagon-maker and blacksmith from Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa
Esau, Cecyl (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 ... -
Social history, public history and the politics of memory in re-making 'Ndabeni'' pasts
Sambumbu, Sipokazi (University of the Western Cape, 2010)