• Die metaalbewerkers van Phalaborwa 

  Pistorius, Julius Cornelius (University of Pretoria, 1989)

  English: In a regional survey in an area around Loolekop which represents the central carbonatite pipe of the Palabora Igneous Complex, about fifty historical known sites were identified and divided into three groups ...
• Foragers and trade at Little Muck Shelter, middle Limpopo Valley 

  Barnard, Chanté (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-29)

  Southern African trade has primarily been examined through farmer archaeological sequences. One reason for this approach is that trade opportunities along the East African coastline, and the subsequent appearance of trade ...
• Unlearning and relearning fresh produce markets : a study of the social and economic forces that shape the Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market 

  Malungane, Makhanana (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The Johannesburg Fresh Produce Market (JFPM) is the largest fresh produce market in Africa, in terms of volume and turnover, and plays a central role in making fresh produce accessible across Gauteng and surrounding areas ...
• From the Camps to Covid : an ethnographic history of Boererate amongst Afrikaans women 

  Blackbeard, Jeanie (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-21)

  In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Afrikaans women in South Africa harnessed the power of Boererate not only as a healing tradition but as a living, adaptive agent with the ability to connect people and subtly reshape ...
• The stone tool sequence at little muck shelter, middle Limpopo valley : pre- and post-contact forager technologies 

  Pentz, Justin (University of Pretoria, 2023-08-31)

  The Later Stone Age of the middle Limpopo Valley is known through several excavated shelters and subsequent lithic analyses. Scholars have argued that it demonstrates a series of changes that appear linked to shifts in the ...
• 'Uchuuzi na Umachinga', street business in Dar es Salaam : challenges, problems, and prospects 

  Lwakatare, Brenda (University of Pretoria, 2024-03-31)

  Street vending business plays a significant role in Dar es Salaam City's informal economy, providing livelihoods and local food accessibility. However, the government still views street vendors as a nuisance to the city ...
• Towards financial inclusion? A study of the co-operative and digital lending models in Kenya 

  Magale, Eric Gwandega (University of Pretoria, 2024-01-22)

  Financial inclusion emerged around the mid-2000s as a developmental strategy that proposed the tailoring of financial services of different kinds to the poor as a means of tackling poverty and inequality. This thesis ...
• People in spaces : early second millennium AD occupation sequences at the Mbere Complex 

  Kuhlase, Siphesihle (University of Pretoria, 2023-09-25)

  Interactions between foragers and farmers in southern Africa has been extensively researched. Their social relations of these two groups, included the introduction of new settlement and subsistence patterns, as well as ...
• A praxis of policy : negotiating the ethics of a duty to care among healthcare Workers in Gauteng, South Africa 

  Madwatte, Gwaha A. (University of Pretoria, 2023-11-27)

  This dissertation explores healthcare workers’ praxis of biomedical ethics in a healthcare system that has been ravaged by structural challenges evidenced by poor management, shortages of biomedical supplies, staff, and ...
• Die sosiale eenhede van die Bakoni ba Dikgale wat die beginsel van verwantkap as grondslag het 

  De Beer, Frederik Coenraad (University of Pretoria, 1979-05)

  The Bakoni ba Dikgale seceded from the Bakoni ba Matlala shortly after 1700 and established themselves in the present tribal area, 50 km North-East of Pietersburg, where they came into contact with Venda and Ndebele groups ...
• A different class? Basotho women informal cross-border traders to Botswana 

  Maphosa, Keneuoe (University of Pretoria, 2023-10-26)

  In the global landscape of informal cross-border trade, Basotho women emerge as a distinctive and dynamic force, defying traditional gender norms and shaping the economic landscape of the Southern African region within ...
• Human social networks and migration patterns in southwestern Zimbabwe into South Africa 

  Chibwe, Lydia T. (University of Pretoria, 2023-08-31)

  The issue of migration has remained one of the most pressing contemporary issues facing nation-states. To this extent it has become a topic of global, humanitarian, foreign and domestic affairs with some calling for open ...
• Gender and socio-ecological resilience to climate change : a transformative approach in selected post-fast track resettlement farms in Zvimba East District, Mashonaland West Zimbabwe 

  Karuma, Praise Gamuchirai (University of Pretoria, 2023-09-10)

  The study focused on how gender influences the socio-ecological resilience of women to climate change in selected Post-Fasttrack Resettlement Farms (PFTRFs) in Zvimba East District. The study analyses the level of women’s ...
• The impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women street traders selling food : a case study in the Marabastad area of Pretoria 

  Setuke, Tshiamo Caroline (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-12)

  This dissertation explores and analyzes the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on women street traders in the Marabastad area of Pretoria. The research for this dissertation was conducted from a socio-economic perspective as ...
• South Africa's counhter human trafficking approach : global commitments, domestication, progress and challenges 

  Sagandira, Tabitha (University of Pretoria, 2023-11)

  This study discusses South Africa's commitment to combat the scourge of human trafficking, a pervasive global crime with profound economic and social repercussions. The illicit trade in humans not only results in remittance ...
• Livestock management strategies in the 13th Century Mapungubwe Hinterland 

  Hopf, Tyron Denis (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Livestock were a key social and economic component of agropastoral Middle Iron-Age societies who occupied Middle Limpopo River valley between during the early second millennium CE. This period witnessed rapid developments ...
• Psychiatric treatment at a forensic psychiatric hospital in South Africa : an ethnographic inquiry 

  Pillay, Indira (University of Pretoria, 2023-06-20)

  The tragic deaths that resulted from the closure of the Life Esidimeni mental health facility in Gauteng, South Africa, questioned many facets of mental health care, patients’ rights, and the agents of power in health care. ...
• An actor oriented history of Mbare Musika fresh produce market, Zimbabwe 1930-2019 

  Hahlani, Stephen (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-11)

  This thesis is an account of Mbare Musika Fresh Produce Market, in Harare, Zimbabwe, since 1930. The study is a response to the dominant notion in literature and media that Mbare Musika is disorganised and chaotic. It ...
• Feminisation of migration, precarious occupations, and workplace-based stokvels. A case of Zimbabwean women migrants working in the hospitality industry in South Africa 

  Muzeza, Kundai (University of Pretoria, 2023-08)

  Historically in Africa, migration has been a male dominated phenomenon. However, over the past few decades there has been a change of trend in the migration predicament, with an unprecedented number of women joining the ...
• A qualitative analysis of the informal social networks of street traders in the Pretoria Central Business District, South Africa 

  Khuzwayo, Fanelesbonge (University of Pretoria, 2023-12)

  The study investigates informal social networks’ role, contribution, and significance to street traders within the Pretoria Central Business District (CBD). This locale was considered ideal for this study because the City ...

View more