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Listening and reading: Leon Levson’s ‘native studies’ photographs in the anti-apartheid Mayibuye archives
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
The thesis focuses on Leon Levson’s ‘native study’ photographs, taken in the 1940s in the rural areas of Transkei and Bechuanaland. These photographs are housed at the UWC-Robben Island Museum-Mayibuye Archives as part of ...
Voortrekker Road palimpsest: A study in social, spatial and temporal flux in the city
(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 ...
From Volksmoeder to Igqira: Towards an intellectual biography of Dr Vera Bührmann (1910-1998)
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This biography of Dr Vera Bührmann is an intersectional and interdisciplinary investigation of an unusual Afrikaner woman who occupied several unusual places in South African society. Through rigorous archival research and ...
The African child and the hidden curriculum at Blythswood Institute: Three snapshots
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
This mini-thesis seeks to understand how the colonial and apartheid state imagined the African child in South Africa through education policies and their associated hidden curriculum. It asks what educational project was ...
Visual technologies and the shaping of public memory of disappeared persons in Cape Town (1960-1990)
(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 ...
Being and neoliberalism: A conceptual history of the subject
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
The idea of neoliberalism, as both a guiding principle for economic policy decisions and a governing rationality, is a pertinent issue of our time. The concept itself is often used to describe the contemporary mode of ...
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, ...
Things pretty dull: materiality and the making of Muizenberg in the 20th and 21st centuries
(University of the Western Cape, 2023)
The purpose of this research is to explore processes of historical production and ideas about public space in Muizenberg, South Africa. It argues that the dominant narrative told about Muizenberg from the late nineteenth ...