Browsing by Author "Lalu, Premesh"
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Administrative death: Bureaucracy, capital punishment and governmentality in South Africa during the 1960s
van Laun, Bianca Paige (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 ... -
Goema’s Refrain: Sonic anticipation and the Musicking Cape
Layne, Valmont (University of the Western Cape, 2019)This thesis traces the making of a social world of the musicking Cape through sound, which it calls sonic anticipation. Sonic anticipation is threaded through a Cape-based musicking milieu called goema in the Nineteenth ... -
The hand and the head: the handspring puppet company and the arts archive
Minkley, Emma Smith (University of the Western Cape, 2021)My Doctoral dissertation, titled The hand and the head: The Handspring Puppet Company and the arts archive, is focussed on the hand as it appears variously in the production, performance and reception of puppetry as a ... -
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 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 ... -
Producing Sarhili: the colonial archive and the biographical limits of writing a history of a nineteenth century Xhosa king
Slade, Virgil Charles (2010) -
Revisiting Mhlontlo and his legacy
Ndzuzo, Luvuyo (University of the Western Cape, 2017)The study attempts to recover the figure of King Charles Mhlontlo who fell out of favor with his colonial masters after he resisted going to war against his neighbors during the debacle that led to the killing of Hamilton ... -
The sound of war: Apartheid, audibility, and resonance
Erasmus, Aidan (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 ... -
Theorising women: the intellectual contributions of Charlotte Maxeke to the struggle for liberation in South Africa
April, Thozama (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 ...