Browsing by Author "Rousseau, Nicky"
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The 1945 General Strike in Northern Nigeria and its Role in Anti-Colonial Nationalism
Yohanna, Stephen (University of the Western Cape, 2014)This thesis follows the course of the Nigerian general strike of 1945 in the Northern provinces, a previously under-researched region. It examines some of the many ways in which the strike has been understood in the academy, ... -
The African child and the hidden curriculum at Blythswood Institute: Three snapshots
Nogqala, Xolela (University of Western Cape, 2021)This mini-thesis seeks to understand how the colonial and apartheid state imagined the African child in South Africa through education policies and their associated hidden curriculum. It asks what educational project was ... -
The everyday life and the missing: Silences, heroic narratives and exhumations.
Mendes, Rosália (University of Western Cape, 2020)This mini-thesis draws on the biographical materials of activists; Zubeida Jaffer, Nokuthula Simelane and Siphiwo Mthimkulu in order to investigate their representation as South African Anti-Apartheid activists. Within ... -
The Impasse of Violence : writing necklacing into a history of liberation struggle in South Africa
Moosage, Riedwaan (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 ... -
In the shadows of the archive: Investigating the Paarl March of November 22nd 1962
Van Laun, Bianca Paigè (University of the Western Cape, 2012)This thesis is concerned with an uprising which occurred during the early morning hours of the 22nd of November 1962 in Paarl- a small agricultural town some 60 kilometres northeast of Cape Town. On this occasion a group ... -
Memory, trauma, silences: Narratives of the 1982 Maseru Invasion
Mahula, Pulane Matsietsi (University of the Western Cape, 2017)The aim of this mini-thesis is to interrogate an incident that happened in Lesotho in 1982, where the South African Defence Force (SADF) invaded the capital, Maseru, under the guise of searching for ANC operatives and ... -
Popular history in South Africa in the 198Os: the politics of production
Rousseau, Nicky (University of the Western Cape, 1994)Popular history, like indeed other histories, is informed by different ideas about the relationship between the past, the present and the political uses of history. However, a major problem in trying to explore these ideas ...