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Let Mrs Mafekeng stay : an evaluation of the Paarl riots of 1959
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2017)In South African historical research, the Paarl riots of 9 -10 November 1959 have been viewed fleetingly as an episode centred around Elizabeth Mafekeng¹, a trade union activist of the 1940s and 1950s. ...
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Die geskiedenis van Afrikanerbetrokkenheid in die Rhodesiese tabakbedryf (1890-1980)
(The Historical Association of South Africa, 2011-11)Die tabakbedryf in Rhodesië (vandag Zimbabwe) het ongetwyfeld 'n kardinale rol in die ekonomiese ontwikkeling van Rhodesië gespeel. Sedert die Britse kolonialisering van Rhodesië gedurende die 1890's het die klem van ...
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The over the orange times, World War One imaginary : an explanation
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2016-05)Are centenaries surely not the best times imaginable for fabrication, invention or otherwise making it up? Conventionally, it is nationalists who refract the history of their countries through heroic narratives - including ...
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Politics under conditions of war : the effect of the War Measures Acts on political struggles within the South African Mine Workers’ Union, 1939-1947
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)The South African Mine Workers’ Union, or MWU, was one of the most prominent white trade unions of 20th-century South Africa and active in one of the country’s key industries, namely gold mining. In the aftermath of the ...
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Stumbling on Civvy Street : the re-adjustment of white South African war veterans to life in post-war society, 1918-1928
(Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2016)The First World War ended in November 1918. As the ink dried on the last treaty in August 1920, the conflict was officially resolved in legal terms. However, this legal finality did not extend to the lives of the soldiers ...
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Die Eerste Wereldoorlog as faktor in die Suid- Afrikaanse toetrede tot die internasionale gemeenskap
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2016-03)When the First World War started on 4 August, 1914, the Union of South Africa was barely four years old. In international terms the country was on the far end of the world and not very important. In addition, the country ...
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Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders : a shift in power relations
(North-West University, 2015-07)The stability of the apartheid system and the Afrikaners’ monopoly of power have been the subject of exhaustive scholarly analyses; by contrast, there have been few in-depth analyses of the unexpected transfer of power ...
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Profits, harvests or public revenue? Divergent interests and guano fertiliser struggles in the Cape Colony; c. 1872–1910
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2015-11)During the first 50 years of its existence, the Cape guano trade was controlled by entrepreneurs who were profit and export orientated. They used their control over certain offshore islands through long-term exploitation ...
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Kruger’s lost voice : nation and race in pre-World War 1 Afrikaans music records
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2015-05)On a theoretical level, popular music records serve as artefacts of the social and cultural networks in which their particular performers are embedded. Seen from this perspective, the appearance of the earliest Afrikaans ...
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Historic bells in Moravian Missions in South Africa's Western Cape
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2014-11)The Moravian Church was the first denomination to begin with missionary work among the indigenous people in South Africa and today the church still has a very strong presence in the country. After opening their first mission ...
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The Helpmekaar : rescuing the “volk” through reading, writing and rithmetic, c. 1916–c 1965
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2015-11)This article looks at the establishment and shifting role of the Helpmekaar Society of the Cape Province as welfare catalyst, set up in the aftermath of the Rebellion of 1914-15. Driven by Afrikaner ethnic nationalist ...
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J.H. Hofmeyr and the Afrikaner Bond: A challenge to William Milton’s “Englishness” and the advance of the “coloured” cricketer
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2014-03)In the late nineteenth century, the Western Province CC - with William Milton dominant - strengthened its position as Cape cricket's controlling power. Their intention was to become the "MCC of southern Africa" in keeping ...
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Nelson Mandela se houding teenoor die kommunisme
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2014-11)Die doel van dié artikel is om wyle oudpres. Nelson Mandela se houding teenoor die kommunisme, wat 'n wit vlek in die geskiedenis vorm, uit te lig en die mitevorming rondom die saak op 'n akademiese wyse af te breek. Die ...
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Caught in a stranglehold between resistance and reform: The Mine Workers' Union and rightwing politics in South Africa, 1979-1997
(2014-12)The National Party government’s acceptance of the recommendations of the Wiehahn Commission of Enquiry in 1979, i.e., that job reservation be abolished and African trade unions be legalised, came as a huge shock for the ...
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An unlikely union : exploring the possibilities of Afrikaner and black women’s organisations cooperating in the Women’s National Coalition, 1991-1994
(School of Basic Sciences, North-West University, 2014-12)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die Women’s National Coalition (WNC) is in 1992 gestig om gelykberegtiging vir vroue in demokratiese Suid- Afrika te verseker. Inligting oor vroue se behoeftes en aspirasies sou ingesamel word en ...
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White settlement and irrigation schemes : CF Rigg and the founding of Bonnievale in the Breede River Valley, 1900-c.1953
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013-12)The idea to initiate irrigation development as part of a white colonisation scheme and a political movement to settle Britons on land in South Africa dates back to the culmination of British imperialism in the late nineteenth ...
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Die troebel toekoms van die Afrikaners en Afrikaans
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2014-12)Die opkoms van die Afrikaners as ’n verpolitiseerde etniese groep, wat onder die Nasionale Party in beheer van die staat was, en van Afrikaans as amptelike taal, was een van die belangrikste politieke ontwikkelings in ...
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Die debat oor die posisie van Afrikaans aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch : 'n ontleding
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2008-09)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die debat oor die plek van Afrikaans en Engels as onderrigmedium aan die Universiteit Stellenbosch het sedert sy begin in 2002 nie baie duidelikheid verskaf nie. In dié artikel word ’n poging ...
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Die Konferensie van Kabwe en die ANC/SAKP se gewapende stryd
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2011-12)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die ANC/SAKP se bewerings dat sy gewapende stryd ’n hoë morele inhoud had, word in dié artikel onder die loep geneem. Die gevolgtrekking is dat dit tot 1983 inderdaad ten doel gehad het om burgerlike ...
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Die vestiging van Solidariteit se Helpende Hand as ’n suksesvolle gemeenskaps gebaseerde welsynsorganisasie
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2011-03)AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die vakbond Solidariteit, voorheen bekend as die Suid-Afrikaanse Mynwerkersunie, was waarskynlik die eerste vakbond in Suid-Afrika om sy eie, private welsynsdepartement tot stand te bring. Die ...
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Hunting status? Power and buffalo shooting in the Albany and Bathurst districts of the Cape Colony c. 1892-1916
(North-West University, 2013-11)The hunting of buffalo in the Bathurst district of the Cape Colony during the closing decades of the 19th Century serves as a case study of the system of issuing permits to shoot big game introduced by the Game Act of 1886, ...
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Creating order and stability? The Dairy Marketing Board, milk (over)production and the politics of marketing in colonial Zimbabwe, 1952-1970s
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013-11)This article examines the efforts of the Dairy Marketing Board (DMB) in stabilising the dairy industry in the wake of difficulties that emerged in the production and marketing of dairy products after World War Two. It ...
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"Discontented scoundrels who crowd the mercantile marine today" : labour relations regimes of the Cape Ichaboe guano trade, c. 1843-1898
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013-05)The scraping of guano on offshore islands in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans during the mid- to late nineteenth century was an essentially primitive industry. As guano is a natural product with no further need for processing, ...
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Bantu education : destructive intervention or part of reform
(North-West University, 2012-12)The introduction of public education for blacks in 1953 and the withdrawal of state subsidies from mission schools were among the most controversial measures that the National Party (NP) government took. In introducing ...
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"Wees jouself" : Afrikaner kultuurorganisasies in Rhodesie (1934-1980)
(North-West University, 2013-07)The problem of minority groups in host countries to preserve their culture is a world-wide phenomenon. In the history of Southern Africa the Afrikaners fundamentally experienced the same obstacles and restrictions concerning ...
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Changing attitudes of South Africans towards Italy and its people during the Second World War, 1939 to 1945
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013-05)The emphasis of this article falls on South African wartime attitudes towards Italy structured around the differentiation in attitudes between the Union government; the domestic sphere; and the armed forces. On 11 June ...
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The Simon van der Stel Festival : constructing heritage and the politics of pageantry
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013-11)The Simon van der Stel Festival was celebrated as an annual event in Stellenbosch from 1967 to 2000, celebrating the town's colonial-Dutch heritage in the form of a birthday celebration dedicated to its founder. In particular ...
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"Running twice as fast while remaining in the same position" : settler wheat production in Southern Rhodesia, c.1928-1965
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2013-05)Given that temperate conditions are essential for wheat production, Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia), located in the tropics, is certainly not an ideal wheat producing area. As such, each year reports circulate in the ...
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Die wynmakerfamilie van Zonnebloem, Simondium, 1915-1963
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2012-11)Die verhaal van Zonnebloem wyn wentel om Marie Furter-Crouse en die drie manlike wynmakers van Zonnebloem-plaas: haar pa, Willem Furter wat haar die kuns van wynmaak geleer het, haar swaer, John de Villiers, en haar eggenoot, ...
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Business, state and society - doing business apartheid style : the case of Pep Stores Peninsula Limited
(North-West University, 2012-01)This article uses the Pep Stores Peninsula Ltd case study (1973-1974) as a window on State-Business relationships during apartheid and to highlight the dynamics and outcomes generated by the combination of state controlled ...
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