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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 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 ...
Théâtres and mikilistes: Congolese films and Congolese diasporic identity in the post-Mobutu period (1998-2011)
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
Living memory in a forgotten war zone: the uKwangali district of Kavango and the Namibian liberation struggle, 1966-1989
(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 ...
Kleinplasie living open air museum: a biography of a site and the processes of history-making 1974 – 1994
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
In 1974 an Agricultural Museum Committee was established at the Worcester Museum which ultimately led to the development in 1981 of the Kleinplasie Open Air Farm Museum.This began a new phase in the museum’s history, one ...
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 ...
The everyday life and the missing: Silences, heroic narratives and exhumations.
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This mini-thesis draws on the biographical materials of activists; Zubeida Jaffer,
Nokuthula Simelane and Siphiwo Mthimkulu in order to investigate their representation as
South African Anti-Apartheid activists. Within ...
Visualizing Volkekunde: Photography in the Mainstream and Dissident Tradition of Afrikaner Ethnology, 1920-2013
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This mini-thesis explores the role of photography in the mainstream and dissident tradition of Afrikaner ethnology (volkekunde) from the time of its establishment at Stellenbosch University in the 1920s through to its ...
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 ...