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Goema’s Refrain: Sonic anticipation and the Musicking Cape
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis traces the making of a social world of the musicking Cape through sound, which it
calls sonic anticipation. Sonic anticipation is threaded through a Cape-based musicking
milieu called goema in the Nineteenth ...
The lives and deaths of memorials: The changing symbolism of the 1938 Voortrekker centenary monuments
(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 ...
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 ...
Historic buildings, conservation and shifts in social value at Old Umtali: Contestations of heritage in Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2012)
The mini-thesis will examine the conservation of colonial historic buildings at Old Umtali (today Mutare) in Zimbabwe and the changes that have affected the buildings in terms of use and maintenance of their architectural ...
'Looking good, clean and fresh': Visual representations of the self in the Van Kalker Studio, Cape Town 1939-1978
(University of the Western Cape, 2011)
This mini-thesis attempts to analyse the way in which Van Kalker photographs enabled
representations of the self and allowed sitters a means through which to assert themselves visually especially when considered against ...
Traces of forced labour – a history of black civilians in British concentration camps during the South African War, 1899-1902
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
During the South African War of 1899-1902 captured civilians were directed by the British army into military controlled zones and into refugee camps which became known as concentration camps. Established near towns, mines ...
An investigation of Zimbabwe's contemporary heritage practices of memorializing war : a case study of the Heroes' Acres in Matabeleland South Province
(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 ...
The suppression of communism, the Dutch Reformed Church, and the instrumentality of fear during apartheid
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
Between the 1917 Russian Revolution and demise of the Soviet Union, the communist Other, as godless deviant and arch enemy of the capitalist state, inhabited a specific space in the minds and imaginations of much of the ...
The cox collection, the museums of Malawi and the politics of repatriation, 1892-2016
(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, ...
West Africans in Cape Town: Immigration and struggles over documentation, 1994-2016
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
International migration has been a growing phenomenon in the West African community from the late 1960s as the colonial period came to an end and most West African countries gained their independence. During this period ...