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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Smith, E.T.(South African Society of Cultural History, 2022-06)
‘Rondavels: From Mamelodi to the presidential library and archives’ considers the
recently unveiled architectural design of the fi rst presidential library on the African
continent, the Thabo Mbeki Presidential Library. ...
Marmon, Brooks(University of the Free State, 2022-12-31)
This research note recovers the career and personal
papers of Philip Warhurst, a British historian who taught
at universities in Rhodesia and South Africa from the
1960s until the 1990s. The note simultaneously reviews
the ...
Dark tourism is one of the fastest-growing tourism industries around the world, inextricably linked to museums with dark pasts. These
museums are attractions and destinations associated with death, tragedy or suffering, ...
Marmon, Brooks(Cambridge University Press, 2023-04)
As soon as the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland was formed in 1953, disgruntled white settler
politicians in the new polity pushed for the reconfiguration of its borders. Driven by decolonisation
struggles across ...
Despite it being widely recognised that the Bushmen of southern Africa have the oldest DNA in the world, and
that they are the first peoples of the region, their voices are often the last to be heard in matters pertaining ...
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 ...
Drawing on archival material from the National Archives of Zimbabwe, Adam Matthews Digital Archives and newspaper reports, this study locates Southern Rhodesia’s tobacco industry within post-war currency developments and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Seventy years ago, an association of three colonies in what European imperialists then dubbed British Central Africa came into being. The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (hereafter the Federation) – a union of Southern ...
The rapid collapse of European empires in Africa transformed the politics of the white settler dominated states at the south of the continent. In what briefly remained ‘British Central Africa’, the rise of sovereign states ...
This article explores the reception of the contraceptive implant, Implanon, by healthcare workers and patients in family planning units in South Africa’s public health sector. Based on observations conducted at public ...
Smith, Edwin T.(University of Pretoria, Institute for Strategic Studies, 2022)
The publication of Cuba and Africa 1959–1994: Writing an Alternative Atlantic History
is not just timely. The study is also a critical resource to assist modern society,
particularly Africans, to grapple with the legacy ...
This study investigates the role of science, religion, and race in the abusive use of aversion therapy practices in South Africa during the apartheid era to deal with white ‘deviant’ behaviours. Existing literature on ...