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The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The second half of the 1990's was marked by a significant reworking of memory and history in South Africa. WHilst the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) was involved in its hearings on amnesty applications and gross ...
Rundu, Kavango: a case study of forced relocation in Namibia, 1954 to 1972
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This research dealt with the following cases of relocation that occurred in Rundu, namely: Nkondo village in the 1950s, forced removal to karapamwe Black Township in 1968, and the relocation of Sarusungu and Bangarangandja ...
Visualizing the body: Photographic clues and the cultural fluidity of Mbopo institution, 1914-2014
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The mbopo institution, popularly known as the “fattening room” is a cultural rite of passage for
young virgins, who are being prepared for marriage among the Ibibio/Efik people of southern
Nigeria. It is a complex cultural ...
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 ...
A visual struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting narratives, interpreting photographs (1850-1930)
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
‘A Visual Struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting narratives, interpreting photographs (1850 –
1930)’ is a study that requires an engagement with the historiography of the Portuguese
empire, with reference to Mozambique. ...
Social and political history of Wollo Province in Ethiopia: 1769-1916
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
Wollo, formerly referred to as ―Bete Amhara,‖ refers to a region of Amharic-speaking Christians. It was one of the oldest provinces of Ethiopia; located in the north-eastern part of Ethiopia at the cross- roads of the Red ...
The sound of war: Apartheid, audibility, and resonance
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This study approaches the field of military history with approaches to the study of sound in order to
interrogate the concept of war that underpins military historiography as a disciplinary formation. It
delineates the ...
The Sound of the Unseen
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This work of fiction explores the themes of relational dynamics, oppression, intergenerational trauma, and the healing and self-actualisation that can be obtained by helping others. It incorporates numerous historical ...
Epistemicide: A conceptual analysis in African epistemology
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
Many social scientists, philosophers and theorists have applied Boaventura de Sousa
Santos’s conceptual neologism, ‘Epistemicide’, in various fields, in singular reference
to a set of mutually distinct phenomena. This ...
History of southern sotho literature as system, 1930-1960
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)
Distinct from the traditional text analysis whereby little or no attention is paid to
factors controlling the emergence and being of a text and their possible input, and
studying certain recognised authors and recognised ...