Browsing Magister Artium - MA (History) by Author "Hayes, Patricia"
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Cape-Helena: An exploration of nostalgia and identity through the Cape Town - St. Helena migration nexus
Samuels, Damian (University of the Western Cape, 2018)For an Island measuring merely 128 square kilometers, and in spite of its remote location in the mid-South Atlantic, St. Helena “punches way above its weight in history”, earning and occupy ... -
Cape-Helena: An exploration of nostalgia and identity through the Cape Town - St. Helena migration nexus
Samuels, Damian (University of the Western Cape, 2018)In the following two chapters I will attempt to offer a more systemic account of St. Helena immigration to South African between 1838 and 1948. To date, no such study has been undertaken, ... -
Gender politics and problems in Southern Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Swaziland and Namibia in the post-colonial/apartheid era.
Mngomezulu, Bhekithemba Richard (University of Western Cape, 1997)The study of gender is crucial for the achievement and sustainability of the democratic ethos in Southern Africa. The substantial·literature in this field attests· to this notion1 '. It could help us understand why ... -
Inside and outside the family album: Making, exhibiting and archiving the photograph in the South African National Gallery and the National Library of South Africa
Becker, NatashaOne of the first things that reached me about photography was how a photograph tells a story or stories. This experience is perhaps most common when viewing personal photographs. A few years ago I was looking through a ... -
Living memory in a forgotten war zone: the uKwangali district of Kavango and the Namibian liberation struggle, 1966-1989
Karapo, Herberth Kandjimi (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 ... -
'Looking good, clean and fresh': Visual representations of the self in the Van Kalker Studio, Cape Town 1939-1978
Frieslaar, Geraldine Leanne (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 palaces of memory: a reconstruction of District One, Cape Town, before and after the Group Areas Act
Weeder, Michael Ian (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 ... -
The suppression of communism, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the instrumentality of fear during apartheid
Longford, Samuel (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 ... -
Visual entanglement: Political and aesthetic connotations of Gladys Mgudlandlu’s work
Hlekiso, Bongiwe (University of the Western Cape, 2019)This study focuses on how we can interpret political meanings embedded in Gladys Mgudlandlu’s work by concentrating on her landscapes, murals, and portraits during the period of the 1960s – 1980s. The core of my thesis ... -
Visual technologies and the shaping of public memory of disappeared persons in Cape Town (1960-1990)
Rahman, Ziyaad (University of the Western Cape, 2021)The starting point of this thesis is the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Missing Person’s Task Team (MPTT), two instruments of the post-apartheid government, both of which have directly ... -
Visualizing the body: Photographic clues and the cultural fluidity of Mbopo institution, 1914-2014
Udo, Nsima Stanislaus (University of the Western Cape, 2018)The mbopo institution, popularly known as the “fattening room” is a cultural rite of passage for young virgins, who are being prepared for marriage among the Ibibio/Efik people of southern Nigeria. It is a complex cultural ... -
Voortrekker Road palimpsest: A study in social, spatial and temporal flux in the city
Ferguson, Sophia Margaretha (University of the Western Cape, 2020)With its Afrikaner Nationalist past and its current status as an Afropolitan hub, Voortrekker Road simultaneously constitutes a place of separation and transgression, resulting in a quotidian tableau of urban life that ...