Browsing Magister Artium - MA (History) 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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Social history, public history and the politics of memory in re-making 'Ndabeni'' pasts
Sambumbu, Sipokazi (University of the Western Cape, 2010)