William Anderson Soga is considered the first indigenous Western-educated medical doctor in the region that would become South Africa. As a medical missionary he epitomized the union of medicine and religion to promote ...
Dlamini, Jacob; Hassim, Shireen; Phillips, Laura Helen; Saunders, Chris; Simpson, Thula; Thumbran, Janeke; Magaziner, Daniel(Cambridge University Press, 2024-03)
In this wide-ranging conversation, six scholars of South Africa detail threads of continuity and change in the historiographies, popular memories, archives, research agendas, methodologies, and within the South African ...
This article examines the shift in the bilateral relationship between the United States and South Africa that occurred during the period of the Carter administration. The White House, guided primarily by Carter’s deep ...
Domenech-Carbo, Antonio; Scholz, Fritz; Brauns, Michael; Tiley-Nel, Sian; Van Bennekom, Joosje; Van Bork, Ellen; Barrio, Joaquin; Martinez-Caballero, Santiago; Oliver, Arturo; Aguilella, Gustavo; Martinez, Betlem; Domenech-Carbo, María Teresa(Elsevier, 2023-07)
The use of repetitive voltammetry for dating archaeological gold objects is described. The method involves the record of the gold- silver-, and copper-related voltammetric responses obtained for metal nanosamples attached ...
After the ANC was banned in 1960 and was thus forced to move
underground, the organisation's leadership in exile realised that a propaganda
and communication organ had to be launched as matter of priority. This
realisation ...
Venter, Isabella Jacoba(University of Pretoria, 2017-08)
This study seeks to explore the relationship between gender and race within South Africa during the period between January 1911 and December 1919, when gender and race related rights were in flux. It focuses specifically ...
Herselman, Charlene(University of Pretoria, 2023-10-08)
This thesis investigates the impact of tourism on historical heritage sites when filming and concomitant film-associated tourism occurs there. It argues that film tourism is one of the most influential sectors in the tourism ...
Mlambo, Alois S.(University of the Free State, 2023-12)
The article explores Zimbabwe’s history of racism,
ethnicity, and other forms of “othering” from 1890 to
2020 and argues that, although scholars of Zimbabwe’s
past have, hitherto, shied away from using the term,
these ...
Sieber, Nina Raine(University of Pretoria, 11-07-2024)
In the fight against the international climate crisis, the opinions of small island nation
states echo with a unique resonance. These islands, though small in size, and often
marginalised in earth’s oceans, are bearing ...
#ThisFlag movement was started by Pastor Evan Mawarire in April 2016 bemoaning the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy at the hands of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) government under President ...
Mouton, Dawid J.(Historical Association of South Africa, 2023-11)
This article investigates the experiences of the 1st Battalion of the Manchester Regiment in the Battle of Elandslaagte fought on 21 October 1899 during the South African War of 1899 to 1902. This was the Manchesters’ first ...
Binedell, Justine Paige(University of Pretoria, 2024-07-03)
Film festivals globally are at the nexus of cinema, academic discourse and the cinema-viewing public. The structural framework of a festival allows multiple forms of engagement and development to take place, using discussion ...
Men are less vulnerable to HIV acquisition than women, but have poorer HIV-related health outcomes. They access HIV services less, and are more likely to die on antiretroviral therapy. The adolescent epidemic presents ...
Myburgh, Pieter Abraham(University of Pretoria, 1993)
Afrikaans: Sedert Jan van Riebeeck se vestiging van 'n verversingspos
aan die Kaap en die gepaardgaande daarstelling van 'n
regeringstelsel in 1652, tot die aanstelling van die
kommissie van ondersoek na die argiewe van ...
Despite its popularity in urban studies, the smart city (SC) concept has not focused sufficient
attention on citizens’ quality of life (QoL) until relatively recently. The aim of this study is, therefore,
to examine the ...
This article recovers the role of Noel Mukono in Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle. The defence chief of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1964 to 1973, his pioneering role in instigating the armed struggle ...
COVID-19 brought travel as we know it to a complete standstill. At the time it was believed that the impact of
the pandemic was unprecedented and that the projected recovery would need to be both different and
transformative. ...
Gwande, Victor Muchineripi; Mlombo, Abraham(Brill Academic Publishers, 2023-08)
This paper discusses relations between South Africa and Southern Rhodesia from 1939 to 1948. The article begins in 1939 when the outbreak of the Second World War brought mixed fortunes for the two neighbours. For Southern ...
McCullough, Tanita Cyrielle(University of Pretoria, 2024-02-13)
Considering the historical background of pandemics, global pandemics have played an enormous role in shaping the tourism landscape. This dissertation intends to improve understanding of the impact of pandemics on tourism ...
This doctoral study uses social dance as a lens to reflect on race relations and class divisions in the greater Johannesburg region. It offers a new perspective by exploring why and how communities chose and recreated ...