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Umthetho uthi: commuting stories of minibus taxi commuters and taxi drivers during the COVID-19 pandemic in Durban, South Africa

Kweyama, Hlengiwe Khululiwe (2023)

The COVID-19 outbreak in late 2019 illustrated how biological facts and social processes often intersect to account for differential epidemiological patterns of disease outbreaks. In South Africa, the legacy of apartheid, ...
An archaeological investigation of the Bakgatla Baga Kgafela at Mabeleapodi, Pilanesberg National Park, North West Province

Fairhurst, Sky-Lee (2023-01)

This dissertation, a collections-based study, applies a microscale approach to the study of the unanalysed material excavated from five midden features from three (Kgosing, Morêma, and Tshukudu) of the five sections that ...
Ritual, liminality and communitas in Wiccan Open Circles and covens in Canada and the United States

De Klerk, Cherie (2022-09)

Wiccan Open Circles, have been in existence since the early 1960’s, which developed from an Outer Court system of Wicca. Since the individual small coven groups could not accommodate the growing interest in the religion, ...
Beyond criminalized identities, a qualitative analysis of the lived experiences of sex workers in Cape Town

Futshane, Vuyokazi (2022-01)

In various parts of the world, including South Africa, sex work is highly stigmatised and the buying and selling of sex is illegal. As such sex workers are profoundly marginalised, and as a by-product of criminalisation, ...
Male-biased migration from East Africa introduced pastoralism into southern Africa

Vicente, Mário; Lankheet, Imke; Russell, Thembi; Hollfelder, Nina; Coetzee, Vinet; Soodyall, Himla; Jongh, Michael D.; Schlebusch, Carina M. (2021-12-07)

Abstract Background Hunter-gatherer lifestyles dominated the southern African landscape up to ~ 2000 years ago, when herding and farming groups started to arrive in the ...
Late 19th-century railroad workcamps associated with the Nzasm Oosterlijn: an archaeological survey

Fivaz, Heidi (2021-01)

A significant economic and political endeavour of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) was the construction of the Nederlandsche Zuid-Afrikaansche Spoorweg-Maatschappij (NZASM) Oosterlijn – or Delagoa Bay-Pretoria railway ...
Social control in the 20th century and its impact on households: A case study of disarticulation from Sophiatown to Meadowlands, Soweto

Shiba, Thando Monica (2021-05-18)

In South Africa, racial discrimination was witnessed through renowned segregationist acts including the Group Areas Act (No:41) of 1950, which forcibly displaced families from their homes and triggered significant social ...
The material culture of the Kwena Tribe of the Tswana

McDonald, C. A. (1940-03)

This study, which, to a large extent, consists of reproductions of photographs taken by myself and drawings made by myself, is the outcome of two months' work among the Kwena tribe of Tamposstad, fifteen miles north-east ...
The library as place : a study of the experiences and perceptions of community libraries users in the Moretele Local Municipality

Sepeng, Itumeleng (2020-02)

In this dissertation I examine the public's use of two community libraries in the Moretele local municipality. My research focused on who uses the libraries, for what purpose the libraries are being used, and patrons’ ...
The displacement of a Northern Cape community : an anthropological research

Becker, Elize (2020-01)

Displacement in the South African context is a complex and diverse phenomenon which is under-researched, particularly from the point of view of post-resettlement stress. The Meetse-a-tala community from Groenwater, ...
Engendering the rock art archaeology of the north Eastern Cape, South Africa Ritual specialists, novices, and social conditioning

Green, Dawn (2020-01)

Rock art affords unique opportunities for engendered research because it provides emic views of how specific people re-presented themselves. My feminist study investigates under-researched ‘San/Bushman’ gendered identities ...
Towards the cattle economy: understanding the different economic logic of stokvels at Esihlengeni in Vryheid, Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa

Radebe, Nompumelelo Zodwa (2019-01)

This study explores the phenomenon of stokvels − membership-based savings schemes providing for the social and financial wellbeing of their members as well as entertainment (Lukhele, 1990). The purpose of the study is to ...
The 1806 Battle of Blaauwberg: an archaeological perspective

Hutten, Willem (2019-01)

British forces captured the Cape of Good Hope from the Batavian Government in 1806. The archaeological investigation into the Battle of Blaauwberg aims to identify the strategic use of the landscape by both sides focusing ...
The search for the slave ship Meermin : developing a methodology for finding inter tidal shipwrecks

Boshoff, Jaco Jacqes (2018-01)

This thesis describes the development of a methodology to find inter tidal shipwrecks. The discussion revolves around finding a particular shipwreck – that of the Dutch slaver Meermin. The story of the revolt on the Meermin ...
The economics of trade on the Eastern Cape Frontier, 1820-1860: a study of the glass and metal artefact assemblages from Huntley Street, Farmerfield and Fort Double Drift

Palk, Debbie (2018-01)

The collections-based research reported upon in this dissertation focuses on three sites in the Eastern Cape: Huntley Street in Grahamstown, Farmerfield, a nearby Wesleyan mission station, and Fort Double Drift, a British ...
A comparative morphological and morphometric study of the cranial and post-cranial osteology of South African hares - Cape hare (Lepus capensis) and Scrub hare (Lepus saxatilis) and its application in archaeozoology

Scott, Karin (2018-01)

This archaeozoological study was undertaken to distinguish between the two hare species of South Africa, Lepus capensis (Cape hare) and Lepus saxatilis (scrub hare), from fragmentary archaeological faunal remains. It was ...
Lived experiences of rastafari women in Tshwane, South Africa: an anthropological perspective

Mosala, Tsholofelo (2017-11)

Rastafari (this term is preferred to Rastafarianism) is known as a movement which originated in Jamaica and has since spread throughout the world. The movement has attracted much attention from the public and media worldwide ...
A historical archaeological inverstigation into two recent households of the Motse, Botshabelo Mission Station, Middelburg, Mpumalanga, South Africa

Booth, Caroline Rosine Claude Christiane Chislaine (2017-01)

The archaeological research was conducted at Botshabelo, a nineteenth century Berlin Mission Society station located outside Middelburg, Mpumalanga. It focuses primarily on the collection of residential houses and homesteads ...
The wife of Manoah, the mother of Samson

Le Roux, Magdel (2016)

The last account of the judges is that of Samson (Judges 13–16). This account has all the elements of a blockbuster. All the indications are that Samson would be an extraordinary person. And yet, even though Samson may be ...
Kohenim travelling south. The Queen of Sheba in Ethiopian and Lemba tradition

Le Roux, Magdel (SASNES (Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies), 2004)

Similar to oral traditions, written histories may exist in more than one version. The biblical story of the Queen of Sheba's visit to King Solomon has undergone an extensive elaboration in different literary traditions. ...

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