• Operation Refugee : the Congo Crisis and the end of humanitarian imperialism in Southern Rhodesia, 1960 

  Marmon, Brooks (Routledge, 2022)

  Thousands of whites fled the former Belgian Congo in the weeks after independence. This movement had a significant impact on the politics of Southern Rhodesia. Disquieted whites in Rhodesia feared they might face a similar ...
• ‘You haven’t been too horrible to us recently’ : Lyndon Johnson and apartheid South Africa 

  Michel, Eddie (Routledge, 2021)

  This analysis explores the efforts of the Lyndon Johnson Administration, for both moral and pragmatic reasons, to distance itself from apartheid South Africa during the 1960s. By 1964, the bilateral relationship with ...
• Of unknown men : Rembrandt or not? A South African provenance story 

  De Kamper, Gerard Christiaan; McGinn, Isabelle (Routledge, 2021)

  The artist Rembrandt van Rijn (1606–1669) is a highly regarded master of the Dutch Golden Age, and consequently the subject of extensive international research. Museums worldwide give him pride of place in their collections. ...
• Boerekrygsgevangenekuns vervaardig op St. Helena gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog, 1899-1902 

  Heunis, Victoria Regina; Pretorius, F. (Fransjohan) (South African Society of Cultural History, 2020-07)

  In hierdie studie word die krygsgevangenekuns wat op St. Helena vervaardig is deur middel van ʼn kultuurhistoriese benadering bekyk – die motiverings waarom dit vervaardig is, die gereedskap waarmee, en beskikbare ...
• Verhouding tussen SJP (Paul) Kruger en JF Celliers in die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, 1873-1895 

  Bergh, Johannes Stephanus (South African Society of Cultural History, 2020-07)

  Johannes Francois Celliers was van 1873 tot 1887 redakteur van De Volksstem in Pretoria en Volksraadslid tot 1895 met sy afsterwe. Na sy vestiging in Transvaal het hy SJP (Paul) Kruger bykans vanuit die staanspoor ...
• Contested memories and reinvention of spaces: case studies illustrating strategies in the preservation of public monuments in South Africa 

  McGinn, Isabelle; De Kamper, Gerard Christiaan (South African Museums Association, 2019-12)

  Throughout history, society has celebrated and elevated events and people with visible monuments, structures, or sculptures in prominent public positions for symbolic, historical, powerful veneration, admiration and ...
• Of libraries, books, and reading : a journey of meaning making 

  Smith, Edwin T. (Tydskrif vir Letterkunde Assosiasie, 2020)

  In this essay I seek to demonstrate how an iterative reading of Archie L. Dick’s The Hidden History of South Africa’s Book and Reading Culture (2012), read through a life history lens, makes meaning of the lived experiences ...
• New technologies in the field of tourist guiding: threat or tool? 

  De la Harpe, Michelle; Sevenhuysen, Karina (Istanbul University, 2020-03)

  This article examines the impact of new technologies on the field of tourist guiding. It has been found throughout the preliminary research that a large gap in this field exists in academic literature. It is therefore ...
• Die geskiedenis van die Nasionale Dieretuin van Suid-Afrika, Pretoria, 1899-1984 

  Oberholster, Johett Maria Martine (University of Pretoria, 1992)

  Afrikaans: Hierdie studie handel oor die geskiedenis van die totstandkoming en die ontwikkeling van die Nasionale Dieretuin van Suid-Afrika tot 1984. Dit was deur die volgehoue ywer van dr. J.W.B. Gunning, toenmalige ...
• Ds. D.P.M. Huet : 'n historiese oorsig van sy dienstyd in Suid-Afrika (1854-1867) 

  Hough, Jasper Anthonie (University of Pretoria, 1962)

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• The politics and symbolism of the #ThisFlag in Zimbabwe 

  Mawere, Tinashe (University of Pretoria, Department of Political Sciences, 2020-05)

  In the context of the hashtag movement #ThisFlag, this paper examines the sensual affects drawn from flag symbolism and why the Zimbabwean flag is policed by the state. It uses the symbolism and politics of the hashtag ...
• The "logic" of Renamo civil war violence : trans-border communities and Renamo incursions in Eastern Zimbabwe, 1980s-1992 

  Mwatwara, Wesley (University of Free State, 2020-07)

  This study investigates the dynamics of civil war violence by Renamo forces among trans-border communities in Honde Valley from the early 1980s to 1992 when the Mozambican Civil War ended. In its venture to understand ...
• The politics and patina of lace craft : a critical assessment of the significance of South African ‘Koppies’ Lace 

  De Beer, Adam (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Textiles are an important part of social history and often neglected in museum collections. Lace objects are textiles with an unambiguous European heritage. Examples of this kind of tangible heritage object are found in ...
• The South-West African frontier and the unification of South Africa, 1883-1915 

  Beckvold, Christopher Henry (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This thesis considers the relationship between Germany’s South-West African colony and its British South African counterparts (the Cape Colony, Natal, Rhodesia and, after the second Anglo-Boer War, the Orange River Colony, ...
• Memory, heritage and the spaces between : a District Six Museum biography 

  Bennett, Bonita (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  This study affirms the value inherent in memory work, demonstrating that it can create empowering pathways through which to activate personal, community and by extension, national healing- the latter being a constant ...
• From Pharology to Tourism : Shining a Light on South African Lighthouses 

  Nel, Helen (University of Pretoria, 2021)

  Lighthouses have long been the focus of naval navigation and romantic literature. Until recently, this was seen as the core purpose of the coastal structures, but lighthouses have begun to take on a new role in the sphere ...
• “What’s in the box?” – Archives, history skills and honours students 

  Harris, Karen Leigh; Van der Merwe, Ria (Yesterday & Today, 2020)

  Historical thinking skills have become the mantra of the history profession. The aims, objectives and outcomes of history classes and courses at both secondary and tertiary level resonate with the inclusion of the skills ...
• Specters of Cape Town : heritage, memory, and restitution in contemporary South African art, architecture, and museum practice 

  Joffe, Daniela Francis; Shepherd, Nicholas (Routledge, 2020)

  Cape Town is home to a series of extreme disjunctive arrangements of wealth and poverty. Key to understanding the city is the deep inscription of historical injustice and its expression in contemporary forms of social ...
• Throwing the bones : postsecondary education in Mamelodi, 1947 to 2017 

  Smith, Edwin T. (University of Pretoria, 2021-06-14)

  This dissertation explores the history of postsecondary education institutions in Mamelodi, a black township in Pretoria East, with a view to discerning why Mamelodi, having had postsecondary education institutions for ...
• Division to save the country is wisdom : the short life of the Zimbabwe National Party and its lasting impact on Zimbabwe’s liberation struggle, 1961-1963 

  Marmon, Brooks (IJAHS African Studies Center, 2020)

  The Zimbabwe National Party (ZNP), an anti-colonial nationalist movement in Southern Rhodesia, was a prominent force on the colony’s political scene for only a matter of months in 1961 before collapsing ...

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