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Re-humanisation, history and a forensic aesthetic: Understanding a politics of the dead in the figuring of Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka’
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
In 1987 Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka was abducted, tortured, killed and her body dumped by apartheid security police. She was an uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), commander ...
Anthropology and literature: Humanistic themes in the ethnographic fiction of Hilda Luper and Edith Turner
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
This mini-thesis makes an argument for the significance of a female-dominated hidden tradition of experimental ethnographic writing in British social anthropology. It argues that the women anthropologists who experimented ...
“It’s My House and I Live Here”: The Mobilisation of Selective Histories for Claims of Belonging in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This mini thesis seeks to explore two legacies of apartheid: the insecurity of decent and available housing that has led to a housing crisis, and the insecurity of Coloured identity as caused by apartheid’s racial and ...
Visual Storytelling in the Cape Flats Gang Biopics Noem My Skollie (2016) and Ellen: Die Storie van Ellen Pakkies (2018)
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This M.A. mini-thesis seeks to open up the post-apartheid South African biopic as a topic for serious historical scrutiny. While book-length written biographies published in the post-apartheid (and apartheid periods) are ...
"Have we no right to organise?" Black political organisations and farmworkers struggles in the Western Cape: 1912 - 1930
(University of the Western Cape, 1991)
This study is primarily a history of black political organisations and their attempts to organise farmworkers in the rural Western Cape
(1912 1930) with special reference to the Boland. The attempts made by these organisations ...
Listening and reading: Leon Levson’s ‘native studies’ photographs in the anti-apartheid Mayibuye archives
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
The thesis focuses on Leon Levson’s ‘native study’ photographs, taken in the 1940s in the rural areas of Transkei and Bechuanaland. These photographs are housed at the UWC-Robben Island Museum-Mayibuye Archives as part of ...
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 ...
Exhumations, reburials and history making in post-apartheid South Africa.
(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 ...
Producing and consuming the Wembley Whopper and the Super Fisheries Gatsby: Bread winners and losers in Athlone, Cape Town, 1950-1980.
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Wembley Roadhouse and Super Fisheries have cemented themselves as food
institutions on the Cape Flats. Family-owned take-aways establishments that
appeared on the black periphery and catered for the black consumer ...
Visual entanglement: Political and aesthetic connotations of Gladys Mgudlandlu’s work
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This study focuses on how we can interpret political meanings embedded in Gladys
Mgudlandlu’s work by concentrating on her landscapes, murals, and portraits during
the period of the 1960s – 1980s. The core of my thesis ...