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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. ... -
Let Mrs Mafekeng stay : an evaluation of the Paarl riots of 1959
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2017-05)In South African historical research, the Paarl riots of 9-10 November 1959 have been viewed fleetingly as an episode centred around Elizabeth Mafekeng,[1] a trade union activist of the 1940s and 1950s. On closer examination, ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
A perfect storm : the ramifications of Cape Town’s drought crisis
(AOSIS, 2018)By 2018, the City of Cape Town (CCT) suffered a third consecutive year of serious drought. This article investigates the chronology of the drought and the various measures imposed by the city council to preserve dwindling ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The riddle of Rosalind Ballingall : poster girl for hippie counterculture in Cape Town in the late 1960s
(North-West University, 2017-07)This article examines the short-lived hippie phenomenon in Cape Town during the late 1960s through the lens of the disappearance of a young woman from the University of Cape Town in the Knysna forests in 1969. It seeks to ... -
"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 ... -
Sanlam-amptenare uit die volk gebore om die volk te dien?
(Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, 2018)Die Suid-Afrikaanse lewensversekeringsmaatskappy Sanlam het in 1918 die lewenslig aanskou te midde van verskeie verweefde ekonomiese, politieke en maatskaplike faktore wat meegewerk het om ’n taamlik stewige stigtingstydperk ... -
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 ... -
The South African Labour Movement's responses to declarations of Martial Law, 1913-1922
(University of Stellenbosch, Faculty of Military Science, 2003)The first two decades of South Africa's history is characterised as a period of serious endemic industrial unrest and violence, when the labour movement and capital were involved in regular conflict over labour issues and ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
War and reconstruction : four comparative case studies
(Open Journal Systems, 2003)ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Traditionally defeated nations or peoples were regarded as at the mercy of the victorious powers. They were either incorporated into the power structure of the dominant power as a vassal or annexed by the ... -
Water as agent for social change, 1900–1939 : two case studies of developmental state approaches in establishing irrigation schemes
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2018-11)The advent of the Union of South Africa in 1910, and especially the creation of the Union’s Irrigation Department in 1912, signalled the beginning of large-scale state investment in water storage infrastructure and the ... -
"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 ... -
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 ...
