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  • Van Tafelvallei na Vergelegen : die lewe en wêreld van Anna Margaretha Siek (1695-c1771)  
    Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem) (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2013-11)
    Anna Margaretha Siek, daughter of a potter from Bremen, grew up at the turn of the 17th Century when Simon van der Stel, and subsequently his son Willem Adriaan, were governors at the Cape. By this time the Cape was not ...
  • Vele wonings : die lewe en tuistes van Catharina van Paliacatte 
    Le Roux, S.W. (Schalk Willem) (South African Society of Cultural History, 2011-06)
    Catharina of Paliacatte landed in Table Bay on 21 February 1657 after she was “eternally” banned from Batavia. This was on the same day that Jan van Riebeeck, through his granting of land to the Free Burghers, forever ...
  • Victorian domestic interiors as subliminal space 
    Karusseit, Catherine (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2007)
    The Victorian notion of beauty was encapsulated in their obsession with the ideology of respectability. Respectability, a complex combination of moral, religious, economic and cultural systems,was organised around an ...
  • Victorian respectability and gendered domestic space 
    Karusseit, Catherine (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2007)
    The ideology of respectability, the essential objective of Victorian existence, was a complex combination of moral, religious, economic and cultural systems. Respectability dictated specific gender definitions and was ...
  • The vitality of native grassland plants in current urban climatic conditions in Gauteng, South Africa 
    Van der Walt, Martine; Berner, Jacques M.; Breed, Christina A. (Elsevier, 2024-01)
    Plants are essential components of urban microclimates, as they can help mitigate some of the adverse effects of urbanisation, enhance environmental quality, and thus contribute to overall species well-being and the ...
  • Vryheidspark and other governmonumentalities : walking and working through Pretoria, government capital 
    Kistner, Ulrike (Department of Visual Arts, University of Pretoria, 2012)
    Approaching the city of Pretoria/Tshwane from the south, one is greeted by three monumental structures perched atop three hills surrounding Pretoria, from west to east: the Voortrekker Monument, Freedom Park, and the ...
  • When first we practice to deceive - dubious and dutiful architects 
    Fisher, Roger C. (South African Institute of Architects, 2014-11)
    It sounds as if it should be Shakespeare, but these lines are in fact taken from Marmion, an epic Scottish poem by Walter Scott about the Battle of Flodden Field (1513), published in 1808. And it was written at around ...
  • Wupperthal, an object of people and place 
    Franklin, Marike; Breed, Ida (Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 2017)
    Wupperthal is a place that reflects an intimate relationship between man and nature and stands as an object within the landscape. It is one of the best-preserved mission stations in the Western Cape that still functions ...