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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 ...
Power relations in landscape photographs by David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
How far can landscape photographic images allow us to interrogate the extent to which collective socio-political, cultural and economic aspirations of marginalised South Africans have, or have not, been achieved since the ...
Administrative death: Bureaucracy, capital punishment and governmentality in South Africa during the 1960s
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
On 15December 2011, the now ousted South African President Jacob Zuma officiated the opening of the Gallows Memorial Museum at the Pretoria Central Correctional Facility, a project undertaken by the Department of Correctional ...
Missing-ness, history and apartheid-era disappearances: The figuring of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, Tobekile ‘Topsy’ Madaka and Sizwe Kondile as missing dead persons
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The argument of this dissertation calls for an abiding by missing-ness as it relates to apartheid-era disappearances. I am concerned with the ways in which the category missing is articulated in histories of apartheid-era ...
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 ...