Magister Artium - MA (History)
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The cox collection, the museums of Malawi and the politics of repatriation, 1892-2016
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)A wide range of scholarly inquiries have engaged with how museums all over the world deal with societal issues and the way the public interacts with the museum as a space of transaction and knowledge production. In Malawi, ... -
The suppression of communism, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the instrumentality of fear during apartheid
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)Between the 1917 Russian Revolution and demise of the Soviet Union, the communist Other, as godless deviant and arch enemy of the capitalist state, inhabited a specific space in the minds and imaginations of much of the ... -
West Africans in Cape Town : immigration and struggles over documentation, 1994-2016
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)International migration has been a growing phenomenon in the West African community from the late 1960s as the colonial period came to an end and most West African countries gained their independence. During this period ... -
An investigation of Zimbabwe's contemporary heritage practices of memorializing war : a case study of the Heroes' Acres in Matabeleland South Province
(University of the Western Cape., 2011)The study through the topic: An investigation of Zimbabwe's contemporary heritage practices of memorializing war: A case study of the Heroes' Acres in Matabeleland South Province focuses on post liberation war memorialisation ... -
'Looking good, clean and fresh' : visual representations of the self in the Van Kalker Studio, Cape Town 1939- 1978
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)This mini-thesis attempts to analyse the way in which Van Kalker photographs enabled representations of the self and allowed sitters a means through which to assert themselves visually especially when considered against ... -
The sale of the farm Melkboschkuil and the start of copper mining in Namaqualand (1850 – 2000)
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)This thesis relates what is referred to in the text as a 'chronicle' of the history of the Cloete family of Springbokfontein and surrounding areas in Namaqualand, with particular attention to the issue of a land transaction ... -
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 ... -
Maritime archaeology and its publics in post-apartheid South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)Since the end of apartheid and with that the construction of a new South Africa, archaeology has experienced what can be seen as a resurgence in the public domain. With the creation of a new nation imagined as existing ... -
Historic Buildings, Conservation and Shifts in Social Value at Old Umtali : Contestations of Heritage in Zimbabwe
(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 ... -
Conserving spaces of memory and heritage: the complexities, challenges and politics of the stone wall project on bluestone quarry at Robben Island
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)This thesis is a critical study of a conservation project on restoration of a Stone Wall at Bluestone Quarry on Robben Island, a world heritage site. The Stone Wall was built by the ex-political prisoners, in the early ... -
A triangulation of relationships: Godfrey Wilson, Zacharia Mawere and their Bemba informants in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia, 1938–1941
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)The rich corpus of postcolonial scholarly engagement on indigenous intermediaries, interpreters, clerks and assistants has a made a strong argument for the active participation of African agents in social scientific knowledge ... -
Théâtres and mikilistes: Congolese films and Congolese diasporic identity in the post-Mobutu period (1998-2011)
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The meanings of heritage practices, spaces and sites in the Busoga kingdom, ‘Uganda’ in the twenty first century
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)This study investigates how the heritage of Busoga has been (re)presented in the local as well as in the national domain. Busoga is a territory and kingdom in east-central Uganda. It is one of the kingdoms that were found ... -
Christianity, education and African nationalism: an intellectual biography of Z.K. Matthews (1901-1968)
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)My study begins by looking at the ways in which ZK Matthews has been remembered. I raise questions about his legacy in the post-apartheid period, in relation to the limited ways in which he has been studied and in relation ... -
The making of Ruacana as place and its construction as future heritage
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)Ruacana is a town in northern Namibia, located on the border with Angola on the Kunene River. It is about 150 kilometres north of Oshakati. The town was established in the early 1970s by the South West Africa Water and ... -
Kleinplasie living open air museum: a biography of a site and the processes of history-making 1974 – 1994
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)In 1974 an Agricultural Museum Committee was established at the Worcester Museum which ultimately led to the development in 1981 of the Kleinplasie Open Air Farm Museum.This began a new phase in the museum’s history, one ... -
An uncertain remaking: Changing the Hout Bay Museum, 1979 -2013
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)This mini-thesis is premised on the notion that museums in the past operated from a platform of certainty. Objects had always been the heart and soul of museums and were seen to provide factual evidence, especially in ... -
Living memory in a forgotten war zone: the uKwangali district of Kavango and the Namibian liberation struggle, 1966-1989
(2008)Ukwangali district is located in the western part of the Kavango region approximately 70 kilometers west of the regional town Rundu. This thesis explores and documents the local political dimensions which prevailed in the ... -
Biography in and of an archive : the Shelagh Gastrow Collection and South Africa
(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 ...
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