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Richard Turner's contribution to a socialist political culture In South Africa 1968-1978
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This thesis evaluates Turner's capacity to encourage a shift in white politics towards New Left radicalism. Despite Turner's influence on many, tensions arose between Turner's politics and more orthodox forms of socialism, ...
The Impasse of Violence : writing necklacing into a history of liberation struggle in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This thesis falls within the category of historical studies that is concerned with a difficult legacy of South Africa's liberation struggle, namely the practice of necklacing that accompanied it. My interest in the practice ...
Then and Now: Activism in Manenberg, 1980 to 2010
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
The study analysed the politics of resistance in Manenberg placing it within the over arching mass defiance campaign in Greater Cape Town at the time and comparing the strategies used to mobilize residents in Manenberg in ...
Social history, public history and the politics of memory in re-making 'Ndabeni'' pasts
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Saul Januarie: Biography of a wagon-maker and blacksmith from Worcester, Western Cape, South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
Saul Januarie was born in Worcester in 1903. He spent his childhood years in the town of Touwsriver and then returned to Worcester as an adult where he married and spent the remainder of his life. He became well-known as ...
Memory and representation: Robben Island Museum 1997-1999
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)
The notion of what constitutes a nation has been a subject of many debates. The nation, like individual is the culmination of a long past of endeavours, sacrifice and devotion. The post aprtheid project of reconciliation ...
Re-articulating history: historical play, nation, text
(University of the Western Cape, 2006)
This dissertation was divided into two parts. In the first part questions of representation and textuality in the discipline of history will be explored with the aim of positing the historical play as productive for the ...
The history of History in South African secondary schools, 1994-2006
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
This MA thesis investigates the decision to marginalize History in C2005 at a time when there were expectations of the importance of the discipline in a democratic South Africa. It argues that the marginalization of the ...
The Kavango Legislative Council 1970-1979: a critical analysis
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
Namibia was under South African rule until March 1990. On 11 September 1962, the Odendaal Commission was set up by the State President of South Africa to enquire into the welfare and progress of all the inhabitants of South ...