From especially the 1950's, campaigns had been launched by the Afro-Asian nations in the United Nations for the institution of mandatory sanctions against South Africa. In all the early campaigns, South Africa had rather ...

In 1885 Adele Steinwender arrived in South Africa from Germany. Her vocation was that of a teacher, but unlike the majority of white women who moved to the colonies to teach, Steinwender taught the children of the missionaries, ...

The historiography of aviation has tended to view the realms of civil and military aviation as disparate endeavours whose development has by and large followed separate paths. In considering the earliest years of flying ...

This is a study of the transition to democracy in South Africa. Within a broad theoretical framework it poses and addresses the seminal historical question of why apartheid ended as it did, and why democracy superseded ...

This inquiry provides a narrative on the experiences of white Afrikaner females during 1980 and 1990 in South Africa. The Defence Amendment act of 1967 declared that every white male is to complete compulsory military ...

Henri-Alexandre Junod was a missionary and a prolific student and writer, whose interests also included the natural sciences and anthropology. In the last two decades he has increasingly come under the spotlight of scholarly ...

Economic pressure in the aftermath of the Second World War (1939-1945), resulted in many individuals and families emigrating from the Netherlands to South Africa. This group of emigrants represented a wide variety of ...

The purpose of this dissertation is to construct a corporate biography of Schlesinger with a view to establishing the extent to which he and his media empire gave effect to American cultural imperialism. In particular, the ...

This dissertation puts into historical context allegations of farm labour abuse during the period 1948 to 1960 on the eastern Transvaal Highveld. It not only gives an exposition of these events, but importantly analyses ...

Tourism has received much attention in recent years in the academic environment with regard to the negative impacts of tourism (Meethan et al., 2006; Hall & Lew, 2009; Wall & Mathieson, 2006; Wang, 1999; Cooper et al., ...