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Lowering the gaze: Representations of Muslim women in South African society in the 1990's
(University of the Western Cape, 2004)
Muslim women’s lack of access to mosque space has left them with few opportunities to
direct or influence the interpretation of the theological texts. The mosque is an almost strictly
gendered space that is seen as a key ...
Unfinished lives: The biographies of Nokuthula Simelane
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
Nokuthula Simelane, born near Bethal in Mpumalanga, joined the ANC's armed-wing
uMKhonto we Sizwe (MK) as a courier while studying at the University of Swaziland in the
early 1980s. In 1983 she set out on a mission to ...
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 ...
Culture, History and Politics in Malawi: The Production of National Heritage, 1964-2009
(University of the Western Cape, 2019)
This thesis is essentially about how Malawi’s national heritage was constituted, in
particular how heritage emerged and how it has changed over time. It largely looks at the period
from 1964 to 2009. This is significant ...
Frameworks of representation: A design History of the district six museum in Cape Town
(University of Western Cape, 2020)
Since 1994, the District Six Museum, in constructing histories of forced removals from District Six, Cape Town, commenced as a post-apartheid memory project which evolved into a memorial museum. Design has been a central ...
The African child and the hidden curriculum at Blythswood Institute: Three snapshots
(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 ...
Visual technologies and the shaping of public memory of disappeared persons in Cape Town (1960-1990)
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
The starting point of this thesis is the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
(TRC) and the Missing Person’s Task Team (MPTT), two instruments of the post-apartheid
government, both of which have directly ...
Baswahili and Bato ya Mangala: Regionalism and Congolese diasporic identity in cape town, 1997-2017
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
My research is on regionalism among Congolese migrants of South Africa with the focus on
the tensions between Baswahili (Kivu inhabitants) and Bato ya mangala (Kinshasa
inhabitants) in the city of Cape Town. The two ...
A Space for Genocide: Local Authorities, Local Population and Local Histories in Gishamvu and Kibayi (Rwanda
(University of the Western Cape, 2010)
Soon after the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, in 1994, research around this horrific event flourished. Although a variety of authors of different expertise (journalists, human rights activists, witnesses, academics, both Rwandans ...
The un/timely death(s) of Chris Hani: discipline, spectrality, and the haunting possibility of return
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This dissertation takes Chris Hani beyond the conventionally biographic by thinking through his multiple lives and deaths and engaging with his legacy in ways that cannot be contained by singular, linear narratives. By ...