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Hunger and power : politics, food (in)security and the development of small grains in Zimbabwe, 2000-2010
(The Historical Association of South Africa, 2022-05-01)White maize sadza is the most eaten food in Zimbabwe. Yet, over the decade of the 2000s, its consumption was threatened by drought and consequent acute food shortages. Small grains - sorghum and millet - offered a panacea ... -
Between drought and deluge : a history of water provision to Beaufort West, ca. 1858-1955
(NWU, 2020)Beaufort West was the first rural town in South Africa to receive municipal status as early as 1837. Situated in the arid interior of the country, the town has struggled with water provision and sufficient water supplies ... -
Short-lived tolerance. An euphoria of the 1938 Voortrekker Centenary as in the editorials of a local newspaper : the George & Knysna Herald
(NWU, 2019)There have been many studies on the Voortrekker Centenary of 1938 and the unforeseen consequences it had, including the subsequent surge of Afrikaner nationalism and political developments. As the wagons moved across South ... -
Precarious freedom : manumission in eighteenth-century Colombo
(Oxford University Press, 2020-09-04)In the historiography of slave-owning societies, manumission has been a contentious topic. Based on the assumption that manumission rates and the level of cruelty in a slave-owning society were closely related, historians ... -
Reclaiming school athletics in Cape Town’s underclass, 1933–1955
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2022-05-01)This article endeavours to make a significant contribution to the broadening of local school athletics history in Cape Town. By focusing on certain historical documents, the article explores the state and scope of athletics ... -
Food, nutrition and the Afrikaans housewife in Die Huisvrou, 1922-1945
(Historical Association of South Africa, 2020-05)Within Die Huisvrou, a South African magazine that claims to be one of the first periodicals for Afrikaans women, lie a myriad of curious recipes, nutritional tips and expectations about the relationship between women and ... -
Cults, crosses, and crescents : religion and healing from colonial violence in Tanzania
(MDPI, 2019-09-08)More often than not, Africans employed local religion and the seemingly antagonistic faith of Christianity and Islam, to respond to colonial exploitation, cruelty, and violence. Southern Tanzanians’ reaction during the ... -
Not the peace train but the piece train
(ASSAf, 2020-05-27)In what should fall foul of any literary trades description Act, Charles van Onselen describes his latest work as a ‘little book’ (p.14). It is, as anyone who opens The Night Trains will quickly discover, anything but ... -
Dr. Albert Hertzog se bemoeienis met die Mynwerkersunie
(AOSIS, 2006)In 1975 het Dan O’Meara die boek van L Naudé, Dr A. Hertzog, die Nasionale Party en die Mynwerkers, vir die South African Labour Bulletin geresenseer. Daarin bespreek O’Meara die stryd en motiewe van die Afrikaner politieke ... -
Water contestations in the Little Karoo : liaisons between the Calitzdorp irrigation board and the Calitzdorp (Kannaland) Municipality, 1912- 2013
(AOSIS, 2015-12-31)Although a good agricultural-yielding region when adequate rainfall is available the Little Karoo is plagued by regular, recurring and sometimes devastating droughts. In a rural town like Calitzdorp, where the same water ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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, ... -
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. ... -
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 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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