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This study of the working career of Jacob Daniel Du Plessis Basson (1918 - 2012), a South African politician, covers the years from when he started to work in politics in 1937 until 1989, when he finally retired from full ...
The thesis examines the dynamic and perplexing relations between the Kingdom of Shawa and the Tulama, aka the Shawan Oromo, in central Ethiopia from ca. 1700 to the1880s. A history of the kingdom of Shawa and the Tulama ...
This Ph.D. thesis is an examination into the history of prostitution in Cape Town from 1868 to 1957, a period that began with societal and legal toleration of the sex trade through government regulation and ended with ...
This thesis historicizes the paradox of the survival of the institution of
chieftainship in Zimbabwe from near demise at independence in 1980, when it
was largely considered as a discredited institution due to its ...
In this doctoral thesis I advance a new interpretation of the social and economic history of
Ethiopia beginning with the turn of the twentieth century and ending with the third decade of
that century. One of my achievements ...
In hierdie proefskrif word die agtergrond van die pre-koloniale stand van die destydse Kaapkolonie geskets en die historiese ontstaan van een gemeenskap word as tersaaklike voorbeeld behandel. Die verhouding wat met verloop ...
This thesis focuses on the attitudes and policies which shaped the history of pulmonary tuberculosis in the Cape from 1870 to 1920 and culminated in the passing of the Public Health Act, Act 36 of 1919. It was this act ...
The thesis commences by elaborating on the concept of vertical envelopment as a form of military manoeuvre and defining airborne operations as comprising parachute, helicopter and air-landed actions. It goes on to describe ...
The Overberg, incorporating the present-day districts of
Swellendam, Caledon and Bredasdorp, forms a geographic microcosm
in the south-western Cape. The area, with its Mediterranean
climate and undulating hills of ...
The Banco de Moçambique (Bank) was established in May 17, 1975. The 1920 Brussels Conference recommended that in countries without a central bank, it should be created. The ‘Bank’ followed the new model of emerging countries’ ...
The aim of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was to represent the interests of all South African students nationally and internationally. The challenge then to the liberal NUSAS leadership was how to ...
This thesis attempts to address how and why North Shäwa deteriorated from a political heartland to a region of impoverished peasants by the beginning of the 20th century. One of the factors that determine the selection of ...
This thesis is a transdisciplinary study of leading South African Marxist intellectual, political activist and sociologist of language Neville Edward Alexander’s written work in English. It is an attempt to explore the ...
This dissertation studies the First World War South African campaign in German South West Africa from 1914 until 1915. The campaign was characterised by the high mobility of the Union’s mounted soldiers which enabled swift ...
In die perswese van Suid-Afrika het Die Burger gedurende
die dertiger- en veertigerjare ’n besondere plek beklee. A1
was dit nie ’n koerant met reusesirkulasiesyfers nie, is dit
gerespekteer omdat dit onder meer ’n ...
Hierdie verhandeling is 'n historiografiese studie oor die
geskiedskrywing wat in Die Huisgenoot verskyn het in die tydperk 1923 - 1949. J.M.H. Viljoen, self
'n opgeleide historikus, het as redakteur doelbewas persone ...
The 1961 general election has not received much publicity over the years possibly because it was overshadowed by the referendum of the previous year. It was regarded at the time as being a comparatively unexciting election ...
The Transvaal Colony experienced a huge problem with the scarcity of African labour for the
mines and for the farms after the South African War. From 1901 to 1906 African labourers
displayed great reluctance to meet the ...
This thesis provides a survey and an analysis of South Africa's relations with the British Commonwealth (Commonwealth of Nations) between the years 1945 and 1961. It outlines and explains the deterioration of this relationship ...