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Oral history in the exhibitionary strategy of the District Six Museum, Cape Town
(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 ...
Imagining the real-magical realism as a post-colonial strategy for narration of the self in Zakes Mda's Ways of dying and the Madonna of Excelsior
(University of the Western Cape, 2007)
The thesis examines the role of magical realism as a postcolonial trope in Ways of Dying and The Madonna of Excelsior. It begins by stating that the author uses magical realism as an alternative strategy for self narration ...
Popular histories of independence and Ujamaa in Tanzania
(University of the Western Cape, 2008)
It is now forty years after the start of African Socialism, or Ujamaa, in Tanzania. This study examines to what extent Tanzanians still tell their national history in ways which feature the important themes of social change ...
Remaking /Xam narratives in a post-apartheid South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Public history has become a dynamic new field of study in South African historiography during the post-apartheid period. As a field of applied history, it has been engaged with analysing the highly contested nature of ...
The South African Jewish Museum and the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum: Serving different publics in two community museums in the Western Cape
(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, ...
Revisiting Mhlontlo and his legacy
(University of the Western Cape, 2017)
The study attempts to recover the figure of King Charles Mhlontlo who fell out of favor with
his colonial masters after he resisted going to war against his neighbors during the debacle
that led to the killing of Hamilton ...
We cannot carry our own poverty: Native Affairs, welfare reform and the development of an 'inclusive' social pension system in South Africa, 1936 - 1959
(The University of the Western Cape, 2017)
“We cannot carry our own poverty”: Native Affairs, welfare
reform and the development of an ‘inclusive’ social pension
system in South Africa, 1936 – 1959
An ‘inclusive’ system of state social pensions was introduced ...
The 1945 General Strike in Northern Nigeria and its Role in Anti-Colonial Nationalism
(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, ...
Inside and outside the family album: Making, exhibiting and archiving the photograph in the South African National Gallery and the National Library of South Africa
One of the first things that reached me about photography was how a photograph tells
a story or stories. This experience is perhaps most common when viewing personal
photographs. A few years ago I was looking through a ...
The historical productions of Cecil John Rhodes in 20th century Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
This thesis analysed the historical productions of Rhodes in 20th century Cape Town. The critique of this study was that Cape Town embodies the history of imperialism in maintaining the memory of Rhodes. The thesis examined ...