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Teaching humanity: Placing the Cape Town Holocaust Centre in a post-apartheid state
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This dissertation examines the development of Holocaust education in South Africa,
specifically in the period of political transition to democracy and the two decades
after apartheid. The history of placing the Holocaust ...
'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 ...
A multisemiotic discourse analysis of race in apartheid South Africa: The case of Sandra Laing
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
In this thesis I investigate the reconstruction of the life history of Sandra Laing
and the recreation of the apartheid context by analyzing two artefacts. These
main artefact for investigation is the movie Skin, by ...
Molla's music
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
Molla's Music is a novella about Maureen (Molla), a white Afrikaans woman born in 1935 in Cape Town, who faced poverty and abandonment before apartheid and who, during apartheid, faced the choice between an unwanted pregnancy ...
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 ...
Current manifestation of trauma experienced during forced removals under apartheid: interviews with a former “VLAKTE” inhabitant
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Much has been researched in South Africa about the trauma of losing one’s home, one’s community and rebuilding one’s life in a new environment. Several books have been published tracking the lives of the forcibly removed ...
Cape Town City Libraries: 1952-1972
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
The purpose of the study is to investigate the history and development of the Cape Town City
Libraries (CTCL) from 1952-1972 and examine the effect of apartheid legislation on establishing a public library system. The ...
Digital storytelling and the production of the personal in Lwandle, Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2019)
Digital storytelling is a workshop-based practice, originally developed by the Californiabased nonprofit StoryCenter, in which people create short, first-person digital video
narratives based on stories from their own ...
Current manifestation of trauma experienced during forced removals under apartheid: interviews with a former "Vlakte" inhabitant
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Much has been researched in South Africa about the trauma of losing one's home, one's community and rebuilding one's life in a new environment. Several books have been published tracking the lives of the forcibly removed ...
Music memoir as an evocation of cultural legacy: The Zayn Adam story
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
Musicians of colour are under-represented in the South African archive, in part due to the ravages of apartheid and the lack of resources to chronicle their trajectories outside of the production of their music alone.
In ...