Browsing New Contree: 2013 No 66 by Issue Date
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The usable past and socio-environmental justice: From Lady Selborne to Ga-Rankuwa.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This article presents a case study in forced removals and their ramifications from 1905 to 1977 from the perspective of socio-environmental history. It depicts environmental damages and misunderstandings suffered due to ... -
The Graaff-Reinet municipal location: unemployment and poor relief during the Great Depression of 1929-1933.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)By focusing on a medium-sized rural town in South Africa during the period of the Great Depression broadly resulted in showing the effects and reactions that were, in general, indicative of worldwide trends but with ... -
Jacklin, H. & Vale, P. 2009. Re-imagining the Social in South Africa: critique theory and postapartheid society. [Book review]
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History, historians and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)Whether or not the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) intended to write history, it certainly engaged with the past while historians were virtually absent. This article therefore sets out to take ... -
Counterurbanisation and the emergence of a postproductivist economy in South Africa’s arid Karoo region, 1994-2010.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)This review article serves to broach the concept of the “post-productivist countryside” where the primacy of agricultural production is supplanted by tertiary industries such as tourism, recreational farming, and arts ... -
From fund-raising to Freedom Day: the nature of women’s general activities in the Ossewa-Brandwag, 1939-1943.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The Ossewa-Brandwag (OB) was a mass-movement that originated as a result of the euphoria created by the 1938 Centenary Celebrations of the Great Trek in South Africa. With far-reaching and very ambitious aims the OB was ... -
Mapping free Indian migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930.
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)The history of indentured Indians has been well documented in South African historiography in terms of migration and settlement. Shipping lists, which meticulously recorded the biographical details of each labourer, ... -
"Wees jouself": Afrikaner kultuurorganisasies in Rhodesië (1934-1980).
(School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University, 2013)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 ... -
Pienaar, UdV. 2012. A cameo from the past: the prehistory and early history of the Kruger National Park. [Book review]
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Schoeman, K. 2011. Cape lives of the eighteenth century. [Book review]
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Bottomley, E. 2012. Armblankes. [Boek resensie]
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