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(University of Pretoria, 2019)The problem this dissertation engages with is the role of state-defined pathways available for ‘legal’ Caribbean migrants to South Africa, to effectively become South African citizens through practices of assimilation; ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2019-06)It is now history that the transformation efforts initiated by the ‘gang of three’ culminated in the unanimous approval of the Transformation Charter) during the 2008 biannual conference of the Association of Southern ...
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(Brill Academic Publishers, 2017-01)„Belief‟ in the study of religion has been vexed by complexities underlying the relationship between language, cognition, and religious behavior. Drawing on anthropological, sociological, and psychological literature, ...
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(MDPI Publishing, 2016-07)“Belief” as an analytical tool and critical category of investigation for the study of religion has been a resurging topic of interest. This article discusses the problems of language and practice in the discussion of ...
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(South African Society for Cultural History, 2021-12-01)Narratives about South African industrialisation, especially regarding the mining sector, have not paid adequate attention to small scale (artisanal) mining operations and the communities who worked them. This article ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2017)The management of informality by the state has a long and complicated history in Johannesburg. This dissertation deals with one recent element of that history: the relationship between informal street traders and the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2020)2019 marked 10 years since the beginning of the Boko Haram insurgency. While violent conflicts hardly ever have straightforward explanations, the narrative on the insurgency has been reductionist – largely addressing the ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2006-09-20)The southern Mozambique/ South Africa borderland is a landscape epitomised by fluctuation, contradiction and constant transformation. It is a world betwixt-and-between Mozambique and South Africa. The international border, ...
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(Routledge, 2013-09)Labour migration has long been a recurrent topic in southern Africa, owing to the appearance of industrialised mining production in the mid-nineteenth century, and its overall effects on land and agriculture. In Mozambique, ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2014)In the years approaching President F.W. De Klerk’s announcement in 1990 that South Africa’s policies would be reformed a number of the right wing groups realised that apartheid would come to an end. This dissertation deals ...
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(Routledge, 2019)South Africa is reported as one of the countries with a high burden of tuberculosis (TB). In response to the epidemic, the country’s national Department of Health attempted to improve access to health care and TB treatment ...
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(Antiquity Publications, 2015-06)The final two millennia of southern Africa’s Later Stone Age saw considerable shifts in subsistence, settlement and production patterns. Much of these changes coincided with the arrival of agriculturalists bringing crops, ...
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(Springer, 2013-12)For ceramics to be relevant in the Southern African Iron Age, archaeologists must broaden their theoretical base to include social and other contexts when interpreting material culture items such as pottery. Pottery ...
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(CSSALL Publishers, 2012)In contemporary public debates regarding the significance of social mobility, new cultures of consumption and the black middle class, the point is often made that Africans living in urban areas before the onset of ...
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(Western Academic & Specialist Press, 2003)The Keep River region has a complex body of engraved and painted rock-art, distinct from but with links to regions to the east, west and south. At least four major periods of figurative rock-art have been identified with ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2016)This thesis examines the rise and fall of a coconut-based enclave economy in the administrative post of Micaúne in the district of Chinde, Zambézia Province. Residents of Micaúne derived their livelihoods from the coconut ...
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(Maney Publishing, 2013)A study of the composition and phase distribution of the corrosion layers on three ferrous objects, excavated at K2 (Bambandyanalo), an archaeological site in South Africa, was conducted. The objective of the study was ...
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(University of Pretoria, 2005-02-19)During the 1990s, most African countries experienced what has been termed their ‘second independence’ (cf. Bratton and Hyden 1992), a period of political upheaval and transformation leading to the introduction of democratic ...
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(Wiley, 2019-08)Fourteen glass beads and one glass fragment from Khami‐period (ad 1400–1830) sites of Danamombe, Naletale, Gomoremhiko, Nharire and Zinjanja, in Zimbabwe, were analysed by pXRF and Raman spectroscopy with the intention of ...
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(South African Archaeological Society, 2018-06)Since the current era under my leadership began with the publication of the December 2015 issue of the South African Archaeological Bulletin (SAAB), I have been building the SAAB house, putting nails on its roof (December ...
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