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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 ...
Enduring suffering: the Cassinga Massacre of Namibian exiles in 1978 and the conflicts between survivors' memories
(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, ...
Theorising women: the intellectual contributions of Charlotte Maxeke to the struggle for liberation in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The study outlines five areas of intervention in the development of women studies and politics on the continent. Firstly, it examines the problematic construction and the inclusion of women in the narratives of the liberation ...
Night writing: The textual ideation of Andrew Jeptha
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The publication A South African Boxer in Britain contains the unique
aesthetic of the Cape Town born boxer Andrew Jeptha, the first black fighter
to win a British welterweight title in 1907. The booklet was published in ...
Photography, facebook and virtualisation of resistance in Nigeria
(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 ...
A Space for Genocide: Local Authorities, Local Population and Local Histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda
(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 ...
Voices from the Kavango: A study of the contract labour system in Namibia, 1925-1972
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
This thesis seeks to explore how the life histories and the voices of the contract labourers from the Kavango contribute to our understanding of the contract labour system in Namibia. In particular, it seek to ask what ...
A historical and conceptual analysis of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS),1997 – 2009.
(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 ...