Browsing New Contree: 2014 No 71 by Title
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The appearance and significance of Rastafari cultural aspects in South Africa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article explores the presence and importance of Rastafari cultural features in South Africa. These cultural aspects include symbols and language that have become popular in South Africa from 1997 when the movement was ... -
Churchill’s British atomic relations with Malan’s government in South Africa, 1951-1954.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)In 1951 Churchill assumed office for the second time as Prime Minister of Britain and renewed the effort to sway once again a Commonwealth sentiment on a Nationalistic DF Malan in their atomic relations. The period marked ... -
Cruywagen, D. 2014. Brothers in war and peace: Constand and Abraham Viljoen and the birth of the New South Africa. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)No abstract available -
Moon sightings and the quest for Muslim solidarities in twentieth century Natal.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article examines local contestations over Ramadan moon sightings among Muslims in twentieth century Natal, South Africa, as a window to debates about authority, identity and Muslim unification. The issue was ... -
The rise of a raiding state: Makaba II’s Ngwaketse, c. 1780-1824.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)Though long acknowledged for their military prowess under Makaba II (ruled c. 1780-1824), the emergence of the Ngwaketse among the southern Tswana in the pre-difaqane era has not been sufficiently accounted for, and ... -
Sleigh, D. & Westra, P. 2013. The taking of the slaver Meermin, 1766. [Book review]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)No abstract available -
Sotho-Tswana mythic animals: Stratagem for environmental conservation.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)This article argues that pre-colonial indigenous knowledge placed restrictions on the use of certain animals and perceived them as sacred. This policy was often successful as several species of wildlife are to be found ... -
An unlikely union. Exploring the possibilities of Afrikaner and black women’s organisations cooperating in the Women’s National Coalition, 1991-1994.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)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 in ‘n Vrouehandves saamgevat ... -
Van den Bergh, G.N. 2013. Christiaan de Wet Annale 11: Die Anglo-Boereoorlog in die Potchefstroom omgewing. [Boek resensie]
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)No abstract available -
White man’s disease, black man’s peril?: Rinderpest and famine in the eastern Bechuanaland Protectorate at the end of the 19th century.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2014)During the late nineteenth century, a pandemic of Rinderpest exterminated large numbers of cattle in Southern Africa. Although in the Bechuanaland Protectorate the disease killed cattle only for two years between 1896 ...
