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‘Boks and bullets, coffins and crutches’ : an exploration of the body, mind and places of ‘Springbok’ South African soldiers in the First World War
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In 1914-'18 the Great War, as it is still widely known today, engulfed the world, including the recently-founded Union of South Africa. As opposed to other empire and Allied states, the Union’s experience ...
Perspectives on masculinity, femininity and the South African military : gender relations with specific focus on the impact of the South African Army Women’s College and the SADF (1971-1998).
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-12)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The South African Army Women’s College (1971 – 1998) has largely been ignored
by many books that have been written about the history of the South African Defence Force.
It is necessary to investigate ...
Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. A comparative study of the Malayan Emergency 1948 to 1960 and the Rhodesian Civil War 1964 to 1979
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2016-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines the relationship between particular tactics and strategies of two case studies, the Malayan Emergency (1948-1960) and the Rhodesian Civil War (1964-1979). Two chapters illuminate ...
Taal, kultuur en konflik in die Karoo : ’n historiese gevallestudie van blanke konflikte op Graaff-Reinet, circa 1904 - 1928
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The aim of this research is to develop a specific period in the history of the
historically important Karoo town of Graaff-Reinet. The importance of the period
under discussion lies in the fact that ...
Upsetting the applecart : government and food control in the Union of South Africa during World War II c. 1939-1948
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis attempts to evaluate the influence of the Second World War on the South African
food position in the years 1939 to 1948 by studying a selection of specific foodstuffs and
their availability ...
Kommunisme, Suid-Afrika en die Koreaanse oorlog 1950 – 1953
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The Cold War was regarded as a struggle between East and West, and was based on
ideological differences, socialism as opposed to capitalism. Socialism represented a
dictatorship as opposed to capitalism ...
South Africa’s home policy and its foreign relations : a study of transitions since 1990
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2015-03)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis is a study of South African transitions. A transition, within the
context of South African contemporary history, usually refers to the period in
the early 1990s when South Africa underwent ...
'n Genealogiese studie van die Petrus Johannes-tak van die Botes-stam met besondere verwysing na die Weltevrede-plase in die distrik Prins Albert
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 1988-12)
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"Skarrelling" : a socio-environmental history of household waste in South Africa
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study excavates a century’s worth of the history of household waste in South
Africa, from 1890-1996. It shows that waste history is entangled with histories of
disease and poor sanitation, advances ...
Hunting and power : class, race and privilege in the Eastern Cape and the Transvaal Lowveld, c. 1880-1905
(Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2014-04)
ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines the identity of hunters, sportsmen and their associated communities in
two diverse regions of southern Africa during the last two decades of the nineteenth and the first
decade ...