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Making heritage in post-apartheid South Africa: Agencies, museums and sites
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This work responds to the perceptions of post-apartheid heritage practices as producing an
authorised heritage discourse. It contrasts this perception by approaching the making of postapartheid
heritage as not just a ...
In the shadows of the archive: Investigating the Paarl March of November 22nd 1962
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis is concerned with an uprising which occurred during the early morning hours of the 22nd of November 1962 in Paarl- a small agricultural town some 60 kilometres northeast of Cape Town. On this occasion a group ...
Solidarity and the struggle for Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean African National Union (ZANU) in Mozambique (1975-1980) Clinarete
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
This dissertation examines the relationships of solidarity that developed between the Mozambican people and the Zimbabwean liberation movement ZANU, between 1975 and 1980, considering them in their multifarious aspects and ...
Memory, trauma, silences: Narratives of the 1982 Maseru Invasion
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The aim of this mini-thesis is to interrogate an incident that happened in Lesotho in 1982, where
the South African Defence Force (SADF) invaded the capital, Maseru, under the guise of
searching for ANC operatives and ...
Visualizing the body: Photographic clues and the cultural fluidity of Mbopo institution, 1914-2014
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The mbopo institution, popularly known as the “fattening room” is a cultural rite of passage for
young virgins, who are being prepared for marriage among the Ibibio/Efik people of southern
Nigeria. It is a complex cultural ...
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 ...
Producing and consuming the Wembley Whopper and the Super Fisheries Gatsby: Bread winners and losers in Athlone, Cape Town, 1950-1980.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Wembley Roadhouse and Super Fisheries have cemented themselves as food
institutions on the Cape Flats. Family-owned take-aways establishments that
appeared on the black periphery and catered for the black consumer ...
Visual entanglement: Political and aesthetic connotations of Gladys Mgudlandlu’s work
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study focuses on how we can interpret political meanings embedded in Gladys
Mgudlandlu’s work by concentrating on her landscapes, murals, and portraits during
the period of the 1960s – 1980s. The core of my thesis ...
Administrative death: Bureaucracy, capital punishment and governmentality in South Africa during the 1960s
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
On 15December 2011, the now ousted South African President Jacob Zuma officiated the opening of the Gallows Memorial Museum at the Pretoria Central Correctional Facility, a project undertaken by the Department of Correctional ...
Zimbabwean Reggae and Dancehall: A History of Generations (1981 to recent times)
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
The Zimdancehall phenomenon is a growing subculture in Zimbabwe’s entertainment
industry and as such it is attracting scholarly attention, hence the literature around it is
burgeoning. The aim of this research is to trace ...