Browsing Magister Artium - MA (History) by Author "Witz, Leslie"
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The cox collection, the museums of Malawi and the politics of repatriation, 1892-2016
Mtotha, Comfort Tamanda (University of the Western Cape, 2016)A wide range of scholarly inquiries have engaged with how museums all over the world deal with societal issues and the way the public interacts with the museum as a space of transaction and knowledge production. In Malawi, ... -
Exhumations, reburials and history making in post-apartheid South Africa.
Karating, Robin-lea (University of the Western Cape, 2018)This mini-thesis, ‘Exhumation, Reburial and History Making in South Africa’, is concerned with an analysis of the practices of exhumation and reburial through discussing the case studies of the Iron-Age archaeological site ... -
The Group Areas Act and Port Elizabeth's heritage: a study of memorial recollection in the South End Museum
Kadi, Palesa (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 ... -
An investigation of Zimbabwe's contemporary heritage practices of memorializing war : a case study of the Heroes' Acres in Matabeleland South Province
Magadzike, Blessed (University of the Western Cape., 2011)The study through the topic: An investigation of Zimbabwe's contemporary heritage practices of memorializing war: A case study of the Heroes' Acres in Matabeleland South Province focuses on post liberation war memorialisation ... -
Kleinplasie living open air museum: a biography of a site and the processes of history-making 1974 – 1994
Jonas, Michael Jesaja (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 ... -
The lives and deaths of memorials: The changing symbolism of the 1938 Voortrekker centenary monuments
Uys, Robert Benjamin (University of the Western Cape, 2019)This thesis is concerned with the lives and deaths of four 1938 Voortrekker Centenary Monuments. The 1938 Voortrekker Centenary saw the construction of more than 500 centenary monuments. Each one of these structures has ... -
The making of Ruacana as place and its construction as future heritage
Kapuka, Nehoa Hilma (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 ... -
Maritime archaeology and its publics in post-apartheid South Africa
Wares, Heather Lynne (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 meanings of heritage practices, spaces and sites in the Busoga kingdom, ‘Uganda’ in the twenty first century
Lubwama, Nabirye Zaina (University of the Western Cape, 2012)This study investigates how the heritage of Busoga has been (re)presented in the local as well as in the national domain. Busoga is a territory and kingdom in east-central Uganda. It is one of the kingdoms that were found ... -
Memory and representation: Robben Island Museum 1997-1999
Solani, Noel Lungile Zwelidumile (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 ... -
Oral history in the exhibitionary strategy of the District Six Museum, Cape Town
Julius, Chrischené (University of the Western Cape, 2007)District Six was a community that was forcibly removed from the centre of Cape Town after its demarcation as a white group area in 1966. In 1989, the District Six Museum Foundation was established in order to form a project ... -
The politics of production of archaeological knowledge :a case study of the later stone age rock art paintings of Kasam, Northern Zambia
Lishiko, Billiard Berbbingtone (University of the Western Cape, 2004)The main purpose of this study was to investigate and examined the politics in the production of archaeological knowledge especially in rock art, at academic, heritage institutions and national and global level. It aims ... -
Re-articulating history: historical play, nation, text
Van Bever Donker, Maurits Michiel (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 ... -
Re-articulating History: Historical Play, Nation, Text .
van Bever Donker, Maurits Michiel (University of Western Cape, 2006)The writing of history in postapartheid South Africa constitutes a crisis for the discipline of history as, I argue, it requires the discipline to confront its role in contributing towards the constitution of the condition ... -
The South African Jewish Museum and the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum: Serving different publics in two community museums in the Western Cape
Buthelezi, Vincent Vusi (University of the Western Cape, 2005)The 1990s came with many changes and developments in South Africa, especially in the political and social lives of people and their public institutions. The concept of transformation and transition became a household word, ... -
Things pretty dull: materiality and the making of Muizenberg in the 20th and 21st centuries
Hiscock, Jenna (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 ...