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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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). ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
This article explores the emergence and destruction of the Zimbabwe Times, a weekly, later daily newspaper in Rhodesia. Covertly aligned to the Patriotic Front, an uneasy coalition of Zimbabwe’s two leading liberation ...