Browsing Research Articles (History) by Title
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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Cuito Cuanavale - wie het werklik Gewen? 'n Strategiese en Operasionele Ontleding
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy)Publisher's version, 1998)The Angolan campaign of 1987- '88 came as the culmination of a long and bitter war between South Africa and Swapo. Although South Africa's underlying intention was to limit Swapo's guerilla war to the territory of Ovambo, ... -
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 ... -
"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, ... -
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 ... -
From J.J. 'Boerjong' Kotze to Hansie Cronje : Afrikaners and cricket in twentieth-century South Africa-diffusion and representation
(Taylor & Francis, 2011-01)This essay briefly traces the trajectory of late-nineteenth-century Afrikaner involvement in cricket. It then examines in greater depth the circumstances which during the first half of the twentieth century militated against ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
History, politics and dogs in Zimbabwean literature, c.1975–2015
(Van Schaik Publishers, 2018)Zimbabwean fiction writers have engaged with dogs as objects, subjects and even actors. This essay focuses on the pivotal forty-year period between 1975 and 2015, which saw the end of white rule, the rise of an independent ... -
How was the fertility transition carried out? Analysis of fertility control strategies and their evolution in rural Aragon, Spain (1880-1955)
(Universidad de Murcia, 2018-12)The aim of this article is to analyse the fertility control strategies employed by families during the fertility transition and to understand their evolution over time.To achieve that goal,this study identified the use and ... -
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, ... -
Iraq 2003 (Part 1) : the road to war
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2004)Most wars in the post-Second World War era, Vietnam included, have been pretty controversial. This has especially been regarding the motivation for the wars. But also the conduct of the conflicts – the strategy, operations ... -
Iraq 2003 (Part 2) : the road to Baghdad
(Stellenbosch University, Faculty of Military Science (Military Academy), 2004)The attack on Iraq, or Operation Iraqi Freedom as it was called, would be very different from its predecessor Operation Desert Storm, 12 years before. The main strategic difference was, of course, the fact that Desert Storm ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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. ...
