• Sechaba as mondstuk in die ANC se stryd teen blanke oorheersing, 1967-1989 

  Jacobs, Johan (University of Pretoria, 1992)

  After the ANC was banned in 1960 and was thus forced to move underground, the organisation's leadership in exile realised that a propaganda and communication organ had to be launched as matter of priority. This realisation ...
• Race and gender discourse in the South African Lady’s Pictorial and Home Journal and selected books reviewed (1911-1919) 

  Venter, Isabella Jacoba (University of Pretoria, 2017-08)

  This study seeks to explore the relationship between gender and race within South Africa during the period between January 1911 and December 1919, when gender and race related rights were in flux. It focuses specifically ...
• The past is a destination : outlander and film tourism at historical heritage sites 

  Herselman, Charlene (University of Pretoria, 2023-10-08)

  This thesis investigates the impact of tourism on historical heritage sites when filming and concomitant film-associated tourism occurs there. It argues that film tourism is one of the most influential sectors in the tourism ...
• Sinking Seychelles : tourism to the rescue? 

  Sieber, Nina Raine (University of Pretoria, 11-07-2024)

  In the fight against the international climate crisis, the opinions of small island nation states echo with a unique resonance. These islands, though small in size, and often marginalised in earth’s oceans, are bearing ...
• Curating a Counter-Archive : a historical examination of South African film festivals 

  Binedell, Justine Paige (University of Pretoria, 2024-07-03)

  Film festivals globally are at the nexus of cinema, academic discourse and the cinema-viewing public. The structural framework of a festival allows multiple forms of engagement and development to take place, using discussion ...
• Die geskiedenis van die staatsargiefwese in Suid-Afrika, 1876-1910 

  Myburgh, Pieter Abraham (University of Pretoria, 1993)

  Afrikaans: Sedert Jan van Riebeeck se vestiging van 'n verversingspos aan die Kaap en die gepaardgaande daarstelling van 'n regeringstelsel in 1652, tot die aanstelling van die kommissie van ondersoek na die argiewe van ...
• Looking to the past to travel in the future : post pandemic tourism 

  McCullough, Tanita Cyrielle (University of Pretoria, 2024-02-13)

  Considering the historical background of pandemics, global pandemics have played an enormous role in shaping the tourism landscape. This dissertation intends to improve understanding of the impact of pandemics on tourism ...
• Dancing the night away : a history of Johannesburg’s social dancing worlds, 1920s to 1950s 

  Green, Alida Maria (University of Pretoria, 2024)

  This doctoral study uses social dance as a lens to reflect on race relations and class divisions in the greater Johannesburg region. It offers a new perspective by exploring why and how communities chose and recreated ...
• En-route with the hidden figures of classical music : a female note (1750 - 1830) 

  Wilsnach, Noelien (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-14)

  The contributions of female musicians, performers and composers of the eighteenth century are often overlooked by modern historians, archivists and heritage practitioners, especially as it pertains to the formulation, ...
• The Mancunians at war : a new military history of the Manchester Battalions during the South African War, 1899-1902 

  Mouton, Dawid J. (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This thesis investigates the experiences of British soldiers during the South African War (1899 – 1902), from the perspective of the Manchester Regiment, as a subset of New Military History. To reconstruct their experiences, ...
• ”Model native townships” in Suid-Afrika : “the pinnacle of perfection”? ʼn historiese evaluering, ca. 1900’s-1940’s 

  Sevenhuysen, Katharina (University of Pretoria, 2023-10)

  The “model native township”-phenomenon with its embodiment in a number of black urban townships in South Africa during the first half of the 20th century is the focus of this study and is investigated from a historical ...
• Zimbabwean cross border women traders : popular perceptions and scholarly discourse 2000-2020 

  Nherera, Kudzai Varaidzo (University of Pretoria, 2023-12-01)

  This study focuses on popular and scholarly perceptions of Zimbabwean Cross Border women traders from 2000 -2020 by highlighting the experiences of Zimbabwean women who engage in informal cross-border trade between ...
• A history of the Nigerian federal government’s national tourism governance system 1962 - 2006 

  Uwagboe, Osariemen Osunde (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This study explores the history of governance institutions and policies of the Nigerian Federal Government from the country’s independence in 1960 until 2006 a topic, hitherto, not subjected to scholarly historical analysis. ...
• The United Nations and apartheid : a source appraisal (1946-1976) 

  Goolam Mahomed, Nusrat (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Apartheid is a system of racial classification unlike no other that existed in South Africa from 1948-1994. Before apartheid, South Africa had long practised racial discrimination. Indeed, at its very first meeting in 1946, ...
• The novel poor white problem : South Africa and the American South in comparison 1850-1950 

  Pretorius-Nel, Sian Eve (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  Poor whites are not solely limited to one single country and neither was the poor-white problem. As such poor whites lend themselves to comparative study, and in this case South Africa (SA) and the American South (AS). ...
• Meddling Mendel : Jewish immigrant, NP member and detainee attorney (1911 - 2001) 

  Schnell, Robyn (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This study constructs the biography of an individual as a fragmented subject, Mendel Levin. Mendel Levin was a Latvian-born Jewish immigrant who arrived in South Africa in 1921. He practised as an attorney and represented ...
• Die "arm-blanke" verskynsel in die Suid-Afrikaanse-Republiek tussen die jare 1882 en 1899 : 'n sosiaal-historiese studie 

  Pelzer, Adriaan Nicolaas Petrus (University of Pretoria, 1937)
• Migration in an 'Age of Uncertainty' : the creation of a Polish community in the Vaal Triangle, South Africa (1980-1989) 

  Van Ingen-Kal, Michaela (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  This thesis analyses Polish migration to South Africa, specifically the wave of migrants who came to South Africa during the 1980s. Everett Lee’s theory of migration is used as a framework to analyse this phenomenon. This ...
• The great storm of South Africa’s liberation struggle : bridging the gap between APLA and post-apartheid public & collective memory 

  Dlanga, Olwethu (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The post-apartheid liberation historiography has been constructed and curated in a way that influences public and collective memory to assume that only one liberation movement (the African National Congress) was involved ...
• The South African War and Afrikaner nationalism in Afrikaans-language films and television : changing representations circa 1930s - 2000s 

  Verkerk, Domonique-Marie (University of Pretoria, 2023)

  The South African War is an important historical event for Afrikaners, not only because of the suffering endured, but also for how the war came to symbolise Afrikaner identity and ethno-nationalism. The South African War ...

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