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The Barolong boo Ratshidi is part of the Batswana ethnic group who still uses traditional healing practices to maintain their health because these practices are the backbone of African culture. However, the Barolong boo ...
The dynamics of skirmishes during a war differ quite a bit from formal engagements. The skirmish on Vegkop during the latter part of the South African War of 1899 to 1902 is a typical example of such an incident. Through ...
Northern Ghana had early contact with Muslims and Islam because of long-distance trade. It was Mande Muslim traders and clerics who were involved in this trade. They carried Islam alongside their trading activities into ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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, ...
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Background
Hunter-gatherer lifestyles dominated the southern African landscape up to ~ 2000 years ago, when herding and farming groups started to arrive in the ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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’ ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...