Browsing Faculty of Arts by Author "Rassool, Ciraj"
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Being / becoming the "Cape Town flower sellers" The botanical complex, flower selling and floricultures in Cape Town
Boehi, Melanie Eva (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 ... -
Biography in and of an archive : the Shelagh Gastrow Collection and South Africa
Kwao-Sarbah, David (University of Western Cape, 2012)This study is about the recent political history of South Africa. It examined the crucial period of late apartheid, through the political transition into democracy. The study was conducted through the lenses of Shelagh ... -
Connectedness and disconnectedness in Thembeyakhe Harry Gwala's biography, 1920-1995: Rethinking Political Militancy, Mass Mobilisation and Grassroots Struggles in South Africa
Dlamuka, Mxolisi Chrisostomas (The University of the Western Cape, 2018)This dissertation is premised on the notions of connectedness and disconnectedness as a contribution to the field of South African biography. I argue that Harry Gwala’s life was characterised by connectedness and ... -
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 ... -
David Cecil Oxford Matiwane and auto/biographic memory: political activism, social pragmatism and individual achievement in twentieth century South Africa
Ndhlovu, Bongani Cyprian (University of the Western Cape, 2016)The main theoretical and empirical interest of this study is the critical examination of the life of David Cecil Oxford (D.C.O.) Matiwane. In it, I critically examine the politics of representing Matiwane’s life and the ... -
From family business to public museum: the transformation of the sacks futeran buildings into the homecoming centre of the district six Museum
Hayes-Roberts, Elizabeth Hayley (University of the Western Cape, 2012)Through a grant from the Atlantic Philanthropies Foundation the District Six Museum Foundation Trust purchased the Sacks Futeran buildings in 2002 with a view to creating new spaces of engagement that worked with exhibitions, ... -
Historic buildings, conservation and shifts in social value at Old Umtali: Contestations of heritage in Zimbabwe
Chipangura, Njabulo (University of the Western Cape, 2012)The mini-thesis will examine the conservation of colonial historic buildings at Old Umtali (today Mutare) in Zimbabwe and the changes that have affected the buildings in terms of use and maintenance of their architectural ... -
A historical and conceptual analysis of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS)
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 ... -
A history and critical analysis of Namibia’s archaeologies
Gwasira, Goodman (University of the Western Cape, 2020)This study critically examines the political, social and institutional settings in which archaeology was introduced in Namibia. I re-examine the idea of archaeology as a scientific and objective discipline that could be ... -
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 ... -
Memory and documentation in exhibition-making: a case study of the Protea village exhibition, a history of paradise 1829 - 2002
Baduza, Uthando Lubabalo (2008)This mini-thesis seeks to interrogate the interplay between memory and documentation in the process of exhibition-making by a looking at the preparation for and mounting of the exhibition, Museum. This will be achieved by ... -
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 ... -
Producing and consuming the Wembley Whopper and the Super Fisheries Gatsby: Bread winners and losers in Athlone, Cape Town, 1950-1980.
Wentzel, Tazneem (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 ... -
(Re)collections in the archive: making and remaking the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) archival collection
Frieslaar, Geraldine Le Anne (University of the Western Cape, 2015)The work of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) conducted between 1956 and 1991 gave rise to a collection of records that traverse 35 years of support work. As a solidarity organisation IDAF provided support to ... -
Social history, public history and the politics of memory in re-making 'Ndabeni'' pasts
Sambumbu, Sipokazi (University of the Western Cape, 2010) -
Southern African human remains as property: Physical anthropology and the production of racial capital in Austria
Schasiepen, Hella Sophie Charlotte (University of Western Cape, 2021)From 1907 to 1909, the Austrian anthropologist, Dr Rudolf Pöch (1870-1921), conducted an expedition in southern Africa that was financed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Pöch enjoyed administrative and ... -
Teaching humanity: Placing the Cape Town Holocaust Centre in a post-apartheid state
Petersen, Tracey (University of the Western Cape, 2015)This dissertation examines the development of Holocaust education in South Africa, specifically in the period of political transition to democracy and the two decades after apartheid. The history of placing the Holocaust ... -
The un/timely death(s) of Chris Hani: discipline, spectrality, and the haunting possibility of return
Longford, Samuel (University of the Western Cape, 2021)This dissertation takes Chris Hani beyond the conventionally biographic by thinking through his multiple lives and deaths and engaging with his legacy in ways that cannot be contained by singular, linear narratives. By ... -
'Weaving the past with threads of memory': narratives and commemorations of the colonial war in southern Namibia
Biwa, Memory (University of the Western Cape, 2012)This study seeks to contribute to the literature on the colonial war, genocide and memory studies in Namibia. I review the way in which communities in southern Namibia have developed practices in which to recall and re-enact ...