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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-05)When Jimmy Carter took office as President of the United States in January 1977, he faced a difficult task: human rights activists worldwide expected him to take serious action against the South African Government ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-05)A recent resurgence of interest in the political history of late colonial and post-colonial Zambia is shaped by an unspoken national debate that seeks to explain Zambia's economic and social decline since the 1970s. ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-11)This article traces the origins and development of Zimbabwe's textile industry from the early colonial period to 1965, highlighting the role of the British Cotton Growing Association (BCGA) and the Empire Cotton Growing ...
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(2006-11)Hierdie artikel ondersoek 'n aspek van die nadraai van die Naturellen Grond Wet van 1913, naamlik die kommentaar van swart Suid-Afrikaanse leiers op die Wet en die gevolge daarvan van 1913 tot 1936. Die artikel beklemtoon ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-11)Sjinese arbeid het 'n integrale deel van die grootskaalse migrasie van mense tydens die internasionale era van industriële kapitalisme uitgemaak. Die ontwikkelende ekonomieë van koloniale mynbou, plantasie- en spoorwegon ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-11)In the nineteenth century four Portuguese travellers visited the Transvaal, namely Joaquim de Santa Rita Montanha (1806-1870) in 1855-1856, Diocleciano Fernandes das Neves (1829-1883) in 1860-1861, Fernando Augusto da Costa ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-11)Landownership has always been an emotive and political issue in Southern Africa. This was also the case during the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), especially in the Klip River County in the Colony of Natal. After the ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2006-11)In hierdie artikel word ondersoek ingestel na die ooreenkomste in die wyse waarop Suiderlinge in die Verenigde State van Amerika en Afrikaners in Suid-Afrika onderskeidelik na die Burgeroorlog van 1861-1865 en die ...
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(Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa, 2007)In 1881, (or 1880 if the historian Heese is right) just at the time of the Anglo-Transvaal War, a play was published in London called The Struggle for Freedom or, The Rebellion of Slagters Nek, written under the pseudonym ...
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(South African Historical Society, 2007)No abstract available
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(Otjivanda Presse, 2007)During the last few decades, maritime archaeology has developed into an internationally accepted field of specialisation within the discipline of archaeology. It has, however, only gained academic recognition in Southern ...
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(Cambridge University Press, 2007-03)The great migration from the tsarist empire, sparked by the assassination of Alexander II, in 1881, saw two to three million east European Jews re-settling in the great cities of the Atlantic world before the First World ...
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Entering the ballroom : a history of ballroom dancing in South Africa to the mid twentieth century (South African Society of Cultural History, 2007-06)Ballroom dancing remains a popular cultural pastime in the twenty first century. Although it originated way back in fourteenth century Europe, the current techniques were standardized only shortly before the Second World ...
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(Taylor & Francis, 2007-09)The current SADC mandated mediation on Zimbabwe, led by President Thabo Mbeki of South Africa, opens a narrow window of opportunity to avoid further deterioration in Zimbabwe's political and economic fortunes. Brought ...
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(South African Society of Cultural History, 2007-11)The Moslem threat in the Middle Ages led Europeans, especially the Portuguese, to search for the legendary Christian priest-king, Prester John, as an ally. Originally they believed his mighty empire to be somewhere in ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2007-11)Vir die Portugese was Ilha de Moçambique [Mosambiek-eiland] vanaf die begin van die sestiende eeu die belangrikste aandoeningspunt op die Carreira da Índia, die heen- en terugvaart tussen Portugal en Indië. Nadat die ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2007-11)By 1830, almost two hundred years after Europeans had settled at the Cape of Good Hope for the first time, South Africa was still inadequately mapped. Apart from the route maps of early travellers such as Barrow (1805), ...
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(Historical Association of South Africa, 2007-11)Hierdie artikel is gebaseer op 'n kritiese beskouing van die boek van Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, A Human Being Died That Night, wat wye lof uitgelok het. In haar gesprekke met Eugene de Kock (voormalige aanvoerder van ...
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Not lost without a trace : The DEIC ship Vlissingen, assumed to have foundered near Meob Bay in 1747 (Otjivanda Presse, 2008)The Meob Bay shipwreck project was initiated in January 1993, when some copper coins that had been washed ashore were identified by the author. All coins are VOC (Verenigde Oostindische Compagnie, United Dutch East India ...
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(South African Society of Cultural History, 2008)This article is an investigation into the role played by two foreign institutions in a museums survey in the 1930s that resulted in the publication of a Report and a Directory which deal to some extent with South African ...
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