• Die "arm-blanke" verskynsel in die Suid-Afrikaanse-Republiek tussen die jare 1882 en 1899 : 'n sosiaal-historiese studie 

  Pelzer, Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus (University of Pretoria, 1937)
• Migration in an 'Age of Uncertainty' : the creation of a Polish community in the Vaal Triangle, South Africa (1980-1989) 

  Van Ingen-Kal, Michaela (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This thesis analyses Polish migration to South Africa, specifically the wave of migrants who came to South Africa during the 1980s. Everett Lee’s theory of migration is used as a framework to analyse this phenomenon. This ...
• The great storm of South Africa’s liberation struggle : bridging the gap between APLA and post-apartheid public & collective memory 

  Dlanga, Olwethu (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The post-apartheid liberation historiography has been constructed and curated in a way that influences public and collective memory to assume that only one liberation movement (the African National Congress) was involved ...
• The South African War and Afrikaner nationalism in Afrikaans-language films and television : changing representations circa 1930s - 2000s 

  Verkerk, Domonique-Marie (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The South African War is an important historical event for Afrikaners, not only because of the suffering endured, but also for how the war came to symbolise Afrikaner identity and ethno-nationalism. The South African War ...
• Cruel and unusual : aversion therapy and apartheid South Africa’s struggles with white ‘deviant’ behaviour and sexuality 

  Clarke, Brittany (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study investigates the role of science, religion, and race in the abusive use of aversion therapy practices in South Africa during the apartheid era to deal with white ‘deviant’ behaviours. Existing literature on ...
• From the Steppes to the Hagia Sophia : a select historiographical study of Early Ottoman Culture 

  Sanderson, Christopher Llewellyn (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  From the Steppes to the Hagia Sophia: A select Historiographical Study of early Ottoman culture, is a literary analysis of the historiography covering the cultural practices of the Ottoman state and its people between 1299 ...
• Capturing the past : the Khoisan in films and museums exhibitions 

  Hansen, Birgit Ursula (University of Pretoria, 2022-11)

  This thesis analyses the representation of the Khoisan in two very distinct visual media, film and formally curated exhibitions in the mid to late 20th century. Films and museum exhibitions are read in relation to the ...
• Music, "Movement and Displacement" : Black Musical Innovations,1920s-1960s 

  McGregor-Langley, Ruby (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Music, ‘Movement and Displacement’: Black Musical Innovations, 1920s-1960s, is an investigation of the emergence of music genres and performance styles in urban Black South Africa from the 1920s to the 1960s. The research ...
• Museums, archives and tourism : a synergized relationship 

  De la Harpe, Michelle (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study attempts to examine the relationship between archives, tourism and museums by positioning museums as a conduit between them. It takes a closer look at this triangular relationship by first considering the history ...
• From 'Percy’s Pitch' to 'Percy’s Itch' : An intellectual biography of Percy Qoboza 

  Lotter, Duncan Rudolf (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This dissertation is an intellectual biography of one of South Africa’s most renowned journalists, Percy Qoboza. Qoboza grew up in the culturally vibrant suburb of Sophiatown and attended the Anglican mission school, St ...
• Pioneering Portuguese of southern Africa (1482-1884) 

  De Caires, Daniel Augusto (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  In this study the impact and influence of the pioneering Portuguese in southern Africa is investigated. The history of the Portuguese in Africa is often overlooked and usually confined to the early years of European ...
• The gendered South African archivist : invisible voices through the twentieth century 

  Cox, Wendy (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  This study explores the history and development of what would become the South African public archive through the twentieth century. The “invisible voices” in the title refer to women archivists in the South African public ...
• Urban tourism : a comparative tale of two cities, Cape Town and Tshwane 

  Henning, Ruan Klerk (University of Pretoria, 2022)

  Urban tourism has become an important sector within the global tourism industry as it is able to serve a range of tourists and contribute to the local economy. The urban environment usually is seen as “standing alone” with ...
• Die geskiedenis van die Nasionale Dieretuin van Suid-Afrika, Pretoria, 1899-1984 

  Oberholster, Johett Maria Martine (University of Pretoria, 1992)

  Afrikaans: Hierdie studie handel oor die geskiedenis van die totstandkoming en die ontwikkeling van die Nasionale Dieretuin van Suid-Afrika tot 1984. Dit was deur die volgehoue ywer van dr. J.W.B. Gunning, toenmalige ...
• Ds. D.P.M. Huet : 'n historiese oorsig van sy dienstyd in Suid-Afrika (1854-1867) 

  Hough, Jasper Anthonie (University of Pretoria, 1962)

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• The politics and patina of lace craft : a critical assessment of the significance of South African ‘Koppies’ Lace 

  De Beer, Adam (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Textiles are an important part of social history and often neglected in museum collections. Lace objects are textiles with an unambiguous European heritage. Examples of this kind of tangible heritage object are found in ...
• The South-West African frontier and the unification of South Africa, 1883-1915 

  Beckvold, Christopher Henry (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This thesis considers the relationship between Germany’s South-West African colony and its British South African counterparts (the Cape Colony, Natal, Rhodesia and, after the second Anglo-Boer War, the Orange River Colony, ...
• Memory, heritage and the spaces between : a District Six Museum biography 

  Bennett, Bonita (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This study affirms the value inherent in memory work, demonstrating that it can create empowering pathways through which to activate personal, community and by extension, national healing- the latter being a constant ...
• From Pharology to Tourism : Shining a Light on South African Lighthouses 

  Nel, Helen (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Lighthouses have long been the focus of naval navigation and romantic literature. Until recently, this was seen as the core purpose of the coastal structures, but lighthouses have begun to take on a new role in the sphere ...
• Throwing the bones : postsecondary education in Mamelodi, 1947 to 2017 

  Smith, Edwin T. (University of Pretoria, 2021-06-14)

  This dissertation explores the history of postsecondary education institutions in Mamelodi, a black township in Pretoria East, with a view to discerning why Mamelodi, having had postsecondary education institutions for ...

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