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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
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
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 ...
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 ...
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
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...