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Connectedness and disconnectedness in Thembeyakhe Harry Gwala's biography, 1920-1995: Rethinking Political Militancy, Mass Mobilisation and Grassroots Struggles in South Africa
(The University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This dissertation is premised on the notions of connectedness and disconnectedness as a
contribution to the field of South African biography. I argue that Harry Gwala’s life was
characterised by connectedness and ...
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 ...
Administrative death: Bureaucracy, capital punishment and governmentality in South Africa during the 1960s
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
On 15December 2011, the now ousted South African President Jacob Zuma officiated the opening of the Gallows Memorial Museum at the Pretoria Central Correctional Facility, a project undertaken by the Department of Correctional ...
Cape-Helena: An exploration of nostalgia and identity through the Cape Town - St. Helena migration nexus
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
For
an
Island
measuring
merely
128
square
kilometers,
and
in
spite
of
its
remote
location
in
the
mid-South
Atlantic,
St.
Helena
“punches
way
above
its
weight
in
history”,
earning
and
occupy ...
Cape-Helena: An exploration of nostalgia and identity through the Cape Town - St. Helena migration nexus
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
In
the
following
two
chapters
I
will
attempt
to
offer
a
more
systemic
account
of
St.
Helena
immigration
to
South
African
between
1838
and
1948.
To
date,
no
such
study
has
been
undertaken,
...
Sonic Afrofuturism: Blackness, electronic music production and visions of the future
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
This thesis is an exploration and analysis of the ways in which we might use varying forms of Black thought, theory, and art to think Blackness anew. For this purpose I work with electronic music from Nigeria and Detroit ...
From homestead to roadside to gallery: The social life of late twentieth century and early twenty-first century Zulu ceramics
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
My research considers the vessels of select women ceramists in and from rural KwaZulu-Natal and reflects on the changing contexts in which their work is utilized, consumed and displayed. The emphasis of my research is on ...
Missing-ness, history and apartheid-era disappearances: The figuring of Siphiwo Mthimkulu, Tobekile ‘Topsy’ Madaka and Sizwe Kondile as missing dead persons
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The argument of this dissertation calls for an abiding by missing-ness as it relates to apartheid-era disappearances. I am concerned with the ways in which the category missing is articulated in histories of apartheid-era ...