Browsing Magister Artium - MA (History) by Title
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Madeirans in Cape Town: Immigration documentation, marriage and settlement, 1900s to the 1970s
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)This thesis traces the immigration of Madeirans to Cape Town and their settlement from the 1900s to the 1970s. It focuses on how exclusionary legislation from 1902 affected Madeiran entry, how they managed to circumvent ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Memory and representation: Robben Island Museum 1997-1999
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)The notion of what constitutes a nation has been a subject of many debates. The nation, like individual is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice and devotion. The post aprtheid project of reconciliation ... -
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 ... -
Oral history in the exhibitionary strategy of the District Six Museum, Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)District Six was a community that was forcibly removed from the centre of Cape Town after its demarcation as a white group area in 1966. In 1989, the District Six Museum Foundation was established in order to form a project ... -
The palaces of memory: a reconstruction of District One, Cape Town, before and after the Group Areas Act
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This thesis started off as a biographical discussion on my association with District One. I was able to widen the scope of this thesis as my research brought more information to light with regard to the city’s past. The ... -
A People's History of South Africa: Gold and Workers
(University of the Western Cape, 1980)In black societies, 'cattle were used for religious ceremonies and also for lobola, which was an important part of the economy. Lobola. was an exchange of cattle for a fruitful marriage. If the This volume is the first in ... -
Political autobiography, nationalist history and national heritage: the case of Kenneth Kaunda and Zambia
(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 ... -
The politics of production of archaeological knowledge :a case study of the later stone age rock art paintings of Kasam, Northern Zambia
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)The main purpose of this study was to investigate and examined the politics in the production of archaeological knowledge especially in rock art, at academic, heritage institutions and national and global level. It aims ... -
The politics of representation in the inanda heritage route: A case study of the Phoenix Settlement, Ohlange Institute and Inanda Seminary
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)The thesis is a case study of three main sites on the Inanda Heritage Route, namely, the Phoenix Settlement, Ohlange Institute and Inanda Seminary. This is an important heritage route in post-apartheid KwaZulu-Natal, ... -
Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)It is now forty years after the start of African Socialism, or Ujamaa, in Tanzania. This study examines to what extent Tanzanians still tell their national history in ways which feature the important themes of social change ... -
Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania
(University of Western Cape, 2008)It is now forty years after the start of African Socialism, or Ujamaa, in Tanzania. This study examines to what extent Tanzanians still tell their national history in ways which feature the important themes of social ... -
Popular history in South Africa in the 198Os: the politics of production
(University of the Western Cape, 1994)Popular history, like indeed other histories, is informed by different ideas about the relationship between the past, the present and the political uses of history. However, a major problem in trying to explore these ideas ... -
Portrait of a mobile political subject: The figure of the Afghan Mujahedeen in South Africa in the 1980s.
(University of Western Cape, 2019)This mini-thesis engages with the period of the Cold War between 1979 and 1989 to examine the shifts and contradictions that emerged around the figure of the “terrorist” and the “freedom fighter with a focus on the Afghan ... -
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 ... -
Re-articulating history: historical play, nation, text
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)This dissertation was divided into two parts. In the first part questions of representation and textuality in the discipline of history will be explored with the aim of positing the historical play as productive for the ... -
Re-articulating History: Historical Play, Nation, Text .
(University of Western Cape, 2006)The writing of history in postapartheid South Africa constitutes a crisis for the discipline of history as, I argue, it requires the discipline to confront its role in contributing towards the constitution of the condition ...