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  • 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 ...
  • Prelude to unilateralism : foreclosed independence bids in Pre-Federation Southern Rhodesia, 1948 and 1950 
    Marmon, Brooks (Routledge, 2022)
    This article recovers two resolutions, in 1948 and 1950, respectively, by the all-white parliament in Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) that expressed support for the colony’s independence within the British Commonwealth. ...
  • Decolonizing climate change–heritage research 
    Simpson, Nicholas P.; Clarke, Joanne; Orr, Scott Allan; Cundill, Georgina; Orlove, Ben; Fatoric, Sandra; Sabour, Salma; Khalaf, Nadia; Rockman, Marcy; Pinho, Patricia; Maharaj, Shobha S.; Mascarenhas, Poonam V.; Shepherd, Nicholas; Sithole, Pindai M.; Ngaruiya, Grace Wambui; Roberts, Debra C.; Trisos, Christopher H. (Nature Research, 2022-03)
    Climate change poses a threat to heritage globally. Decolonial approaches to climate change–heritage research and practice can begin to address systemic inequities, recognize the breadth of heritage and strengthen adaptation ...
  • The 1914 South African industrial strike : the first internal deployment of the Union Defence Force 
    Geyer, Rene (Routledge, 2023)
    The first internal deployment of the Union Defence Force (UDF) since its inception in 1912 was to suppress a violent labour strike in January 1914. Because the inexperienced UDF was still assimilating various British and ...
  • General Louis Botha’s role in the South African War, 1899–1902 
    Pretorius, F. (Fransjohan) (Taylor and Francis, 2022)
    This study investigates the role played by General Louis Botha in the South African War of 1899 to 1902 and assesses his military skills in his encounters with the British forces in both the set-piece battle phase in the ...
  • The Namibian war : challenges to the Anglo-German relationship in Southern Africa 
    Beckvold, Christopher Henry (Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2021-07-23)
    Events associated with the Namibian War (1904-1908) offer a glimpse into Anglo-German antagonism in Southern Africa. The Namibian War enveloped German South-West Africa (GSWA), but its effects radiated to the German colony’s ...
  • Remembering Jeremy Gale Silvester 
    Simpson, Thula; Ashipala, Ndapewoshali Ndahafa; Shiweda, Napandulwe; Wallace, Marion; Henrichsen, Dag; Miescher, Giorgio; Rizzo, Lorena (Routledge, 2021)
    Jeremy Silvester died on 5 July 2021, aged 58, following a struggle with Covid-19. In the 1980s, while a doctoral student at the School of Oriental and African Studies, he was also a member of the London-based Namibia ...
  • ‘Reflections on lockdown’ 
    Simpson, Thula; Gopalan, Karthigasen; Madida, Sipokazi; Swart, Sandra (Routledge, 2021)
    On 27 March 2020, South Africa officially entered a 21-day lockdown to limit the spread of the COVID-19 disease, which had first been detected in China towards the end of the previous year. There was much talk at the time ...
  • The South African National War College military history staff ride as a deep learning experience 
    Jacobs, James; Wassermann, Johannes Michiel (Stellenbosch University Library and Information Service, 2021-05)
    In this article, based on a study rooted in interpretivism, the South African National War College military history staff ride, as an education and training method related to the curriculum of the senior staff programmes ...
  • Blazing the trail in gender history : the amazing profile and work of dr Annie Devenish 
    Nyamunda, Tinashe (Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2021-07-23)
    Dr Annie Devenish is a historian and researcher with interest in gender, activism and identity in the global South, and how practices of history can be harnessed to transform society. She teaches in the Department of History ...
  • Gendered raptures and continuities in the Venda traditional leadership from C.1990 to 2020 
    Mulaudzi, Lufuno J.P.; Kriel, Lize (Faculty of Humanities, University of the Free State, 2021-12-31)
    This article approaches traditional leadership disputes amongst and within Venda royal houses over the past three decades (from the end of grand apartheid to the presidency of Mr Cyril Ramaphosa) while investigating the ...
  • Making a case for the spiritual significance of Dinkho tsa Badimo as sacred ceramics in museum collections 
    Hoeane, Mabafokeng; McGinn, Isabelle (Institute for Afro-Hellenic Studies, 2021)
    Ceramics as cultural heritage objects have been extensively studied with the main focus being on their functions as vessels used for the transportation, storage, processing and serving of food, and through this study of ...
  • Empowering women through community-based tourism the Western Cape, South Africa 
    McCall, Chanel Emily; Mearns, Kevin Frank (Cognizant Communication Corporation, 2021-07)
    Tourism has received considerable attention in recent years with regards to the impacts of tourism and its ability to contribute toward sustainability. This article focuses on the positive impact communitybased tourism ...
  • The Jester in Verwoerd’s court : English Press cartoons, 1959–1965 
    Van der Merwe, Ria (Routledge, 2021)
    The political cartoon has proven to be an effective means not only to mock but also to criticise the government of the day and to expose its abuse of power. The visual nature of cartoons, combined with humour, enables ...
  • ‘Open for business’ but bankrupt : currencies, the ‘new dispensation’ and the Zimbabwean economy 
    Nyamunda, Tinashe (Sage, 2021-03)
    The paper examines the Mnangagwa government’s economic policies in Zimbabwe. It looks at its ‘new’ dispensation economic policies, passed off as creating a middle-income economy by 2030. The study suggests that these ...
  • ‘Bogey bogey stuff’ : gold coastism, federation, and white backlash in southern Rhodesia, 1951-56 
    Marmon, Brooks (Routledge, 2022)
    This article explores the apprehension white Rhodesians evinced towards the transformation of the Commonwealth and initial signs of African decolonisation, especially in colonial Ghana. Whites informally dubbed these ...