• The political life of Jacob Daniel Du Plessis ‘Japie’ Basson 1937–1989 

  Murray, Paul Leonard (2022-01)

  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 dynamics of Tulama Oromo in the history of continuity and change, ca. 1700-1880s 

  Tsegaye Zeleke Tuffa (2021-01)

  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 ...
• Carnal vigilance, vending vice: race, gender and sexual commerce in Cape Town, 1868-1957 

  Gonzalez-Stout, Corina (2021-11)

  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 ...
• A comparative study of the politics of chieftaincy and local government in colonial and postcolonial Zimbabwe, 1950-2010 

  Ncube, Godfrey (2020-09)

  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 ...
• Land tenure reform and socioeconomic structures in Dabra Marqos (Gojjam), Ethiopia : c1901-1974 

  Daniel Dejene Checkol (2020-02)

  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 ...
• Buisplaas: ‘n histories-analitiese ondersoek na die ontstaan en voortbestaan van ‘n minderheidsgemeenskap in die Wes-Kaap vanaf 1863 tot 2018 

  Le Roux, Antoinette (2018-11)

  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 ...
• Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Cape Town and Karoo, 1870-1920 : policy and attitudes 

  Zangel, Valerie Anne (2017-10)

  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 airborne concept in the South African military, 1960-2000 : strategy versus tactics in small wars 

  Alexander, Edward George McGill (2016)

  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 ...
• A changing rural economy and its implications for the Overberg, 1838-1872 

  Wilson, Julianne Elizabeth (1990-11)

  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 ...
• Republiek Lydenburg, 1856-1860 

  Du Plessis, Tjaart Andries (1931)
• The Bank of Mozambique : historical review from 1975 to 2010 

  Pateguana, Carmelia (2016-05)

  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’ ...
• A history of the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), 1956-1970 

  McKay, Clare Elizabeth Anne (2015-08)

  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 ...
• Socio-economic history of North Shawa, Ethiopia (1880s-1935) 

  Deschasa Abebe Demisie (2015-01)

  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 ...
• Dialogical narratives : reading Neville Alexander's writings 

  Dollie, Na-iem (2015-09)

  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 ...
• Manoeuvre warfare in the South African campaign in German South West Africa during the First World War 

  Garcia, Antonio (2015-02)

  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 ...
• Burger se rol in die Suid-Afrikaanse partypolitiek, 1934-1948 

  Joubert, Jurie Jacobus (2015-02-13)

  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 ...
• Geskiedskrywing in Die Huisgenoot, 1923-1949 

  Joubert, Jurie Jacobus (1983-11)

  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 in the Republic of South Africa 

  McConnachie, Anthony John (1999-11)

  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 ...
• An analysis of African reluctance to meet the labour demands of the Transvaal colony as expressed in the Labour Commission of 1903 and the South African Native Affairs Commission, 1903-1905 

  Masina, Edward Muntu (2002-02)

  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 ...
• An analysis of South Africa's relationship with the Commonwealth of Nations between 1945 and 1961 

  Makin, Michael Philip (1996-04)

  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 ...

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