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'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 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 ...
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 ...
Exhumations, reburials and history making in post-apartheid South Africa.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This mini-thesis, ‘Exhumation, Reburial and History Making in South Africa’, is concerned with an analysis of the practices of exhumation and reburial through discussing the case studies of the Iron-Age archaeological site ...
Visual entanglement: Political and aesthetic connotations of Gladys Mgudlandlu’s work
(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 ...