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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 ...
The sale of the farm Melkboschkuil and the start of copper mining in Namaqualand (1850 – 2000)
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
This thesis relates what is referred to in the text as a 'chronicle' of the history of the Cloete family of Springbokfontein and surrounding areas in Namaqualand, with particular attention to the issue of a land transaction ...
(Re)collections in the archive: making and remaking the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) archival collection
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The work of the International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) conducted between 1956 and 1991 gave rise to a collection of records that traverse 35 years of support work. As a solidarity organisation IDAF provided support to ...
Power relations in landscape photographs by David Goldblatt and Santu Mofokeng
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
How far can landscape photographic images allow us to interrogate the extent to which collective socio-political, cultural and economic aspirations of marginalised South Africans have, or have not, been achieved since the ...
A triangulation of relationships: Godfrey Wilson, Zacharia Mawere and their Bemba informants in Broken Hill, Northern Rhodesia, 1938–1941
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The rich corpus of postcolonial scholarly engagement on indigenous intermediaries, interpreters, clerks and assistants has a made a strong argument for the active participation of African agents in social scientific knowledge ...
Night writing: The textual ideation of Andrew Jeptha
(University of the Western Cape, 2015)
The publication A South African Boxer in Britain contains the unique
aesthetic of the Cape Town born boxer Andrew Jeptha, the first black fighter
to win a British welterweight title in 1907. The booklet was published in ...