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Research Articles (Historical and Heritage Studies)
Recent Submissions
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García, María M.; Abunge, Caroline; Bandeira, Salomão O.; Cheupe, Christopher; Combane, Dadivo J.; Daw, Tim; O’Neill, Elizabeth M.D.; Hertz, Tilman; Mubai, Marlino Eugenio; Muthiga, Nyawira; González, Taís S.; Shauri, Halimu
(Wiley, 2024-08)
As sustainability scientists increasingly put forward the relevance of process-relational approaches to make sense of social-ecological phenomena, an inquiry on which methods would fit a process-relational approach is ...
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Nyamunda, Tinashe
(Routledge, 2023)
This article is an introduction to a special issue on the hundred year scholarly reflections on the Rhodesian referendum and subsequent attainment of Responsible Government status. Foregrounded by an assessment of factors ...
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Pretorius, Fransjohan
(Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2024-12)
This study investigates the role played by the British Military Intelligence Division and more
specifically, its subdivision, the Field Intelligence Department, in South Africa during the
Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902.
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Chetty, Suryakanthie
(Royal Society, 2025-04)
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 ...
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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 ...
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Michel, Eddie
(Routledge, 2024)
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Muzambi, Prosper; Dombo, Sylvester
(AOSIS, 2023-12-26)
#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 ...
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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 ...
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Gittings, Lesley; Colvin, Christopher; Hodes, Rebecca
(Routledge, 2023-01)
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 ...
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Chang, Songling; Smith, Melanie Kay
(MDPI, 2023-04)
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 ...
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Marmon, Brooks
(Routledge, 2023)
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 ...
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Harris, Karen Leigh; Botha, Christoffel Rudolph
(AfricaJournals, 2023)
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. ...
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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 ...
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Michel, Eddie
(Routledge, 2022)
This article explores the pragmatic stance that the United States adopted, during the Nixon era, regarding relations with Pretoria. The Nixon administration believed that Washington needed to prioritise the protection of ...
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Krozewski, Gerold; Nyamunda, Tinashe
(Cambridge University Press, 2023-09)
No abstract available.
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Ndakaripa, Musiwaro
(Routledge, 2023)
Zimbabwe’s 30 July 2018 elections took place after ‘a military assisted transition’ that ousted Robert Mugabe and installed Emmerson Mnangagwa as president in November 2017. Initially, the new government projected a reformist ...
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Gittings, Lesley; Hodes, Rebecca; Kom, Phakamani; Mbula, Sinebhongo; Pantelic, Marija
(Taylor and Francis, 2024)
Adolescents and men are two populations that perform poorly within the HIV cascade of care, having worse AIDS-related health outcomes, and experiencing higher levels of HIV-related stigma. This paper explores institutional ...
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Paleker, Gairoonisa
(Routledge, 2023)
Turmeric has a long history of use in South and Southeast Asia going back thousands of years. Its first known reference is found in the Atharva Veda, one of the four Vedic texts of Hinduism. In Sanskrit it has over fifty ...
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