Browsing Doctoral Degrees (History) by Title
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Daily struggles : private print media, the state, and democratic governance in Zimbabwe in the case of the Africa Daily News (1956-1964) and the Daily News (1999-2003).
(2014)This thesis employs Jurgen Habermas’ theory of public sphere as an analytical tool to consider the role played by two popular private newspapers in the struggle for democracy in Zimbabwe, one case from colonial Rhodesia ... -
The destruction and remarking of 'community' : a case study of the magazine barracks residents' relocation to Chatsworth.
(2016)The forced removals resulting from the implementation of the National Party Government’s Group Areas Act (1950) have had drastic implications for millions of South Africans across the country. Not surprisingly, there is a ... -
Durban 1824-1910 : the formation of a settler elite and its role in the development of a colonial city.
(1994)The formation of a settler elite and its role in colonial Durban's urban development between 1854 and 1910 have been studied. In this instance of early colonial capitalism, local business leaders readily established an ... -
The Federal Party, 1953-1962 : an English-speaking reaction to Afrikaner nationalism.
(1979)No abstract available. -
From genocide to Gacaca : historical and socio-political dynamics of identities in the late twentieth century in Rwanda : the perspective of the Durban based Rwandese.
(2008)In April 1994 Rwanda encountered the most gruesome political conflict, which was widely motivated by decades of ethnic tension, and resulted in the massive participation of ordinary Hutus slaughtering Tutsis, who are a ... -
From Stinkibar to Zanzibar : disease, medicine and public health in colonial urban Zanzibar, 1870-1963.
(2009)Until recently, scholars of Zanzibar history have not greatly focused on study the history of disease, western medicine and public health in the colonial period. This thesis covers these histories in urban Zanzibar from ... -
A history of political violence in KwaShange, Vulindlela district and of its effects on the memories of survivors (1987-2008)
(2013)The political violence and vigilante activities that characterised Natal and Zululand between 1985 and 1996 had numerous causes. The formation of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in 1983 contributed to the rise of ... -
The idea of a hermeneutic of history.
(1982)Constantly confronted by history, man has what may be termed a natural impulse to make sense of the past. And indeed, the past cannot be understood without also understanding the present. Thus that fundamental historical ... -
The levying of forced African labour and military service by the colonial state of Natal.
(1995)Abstract available in pdf file. -
No easy walk : building diplomacy in the history of the relationship between the African National Congress of South Africa and the United States of America, 1945-1987.
(2008)This dissertation examines the attempts of the African National Congress -
Our victory was our defeat : race, gender and liberalism in the union defence force, 1939-1945.
(2006)The Second World War marked the point at which South Africa stood at a crossroads between the segregation which came before it and apartheid that came after. Over the past twenty years social historians have placed greater ... -
The question of 'Indian penetration' in the Durban area and Indian politics, 1940-1946.
(1983)No abstract available. -
A severed umbilicus : infanticide and the concealment of birth in Natal, 1860-1935.
(2011)This dissertation is an historical examination of the crimes of infanticide and the concealment of birth in Natal between 1860 and 1935, where more than thirty such cases were tried before the Supreme, Magistrate, and ... -
Society, economy and criminal activity in colonial Natal, 1860-1893.
(1993)No abstract available. -
The South African Jewish Board of Deputies and politics, 1930-1978.
(1995)The pivot around which the controversy over the Board's political policy revolved was the question whether a collective Jewish attitude towards the government's racial policies should be formulated, or whether this was the ... -
The South African parliamentary opposition, 1948-1953.
(1989)The primary focus of the thesis is the attempt by the United Party, between 1948 and 1953, to regain political power. It argues that although policy issues were important, insufficient attention has thus far been paid ... -
States of mind : mental illness and the quest for mental health in Natal and Zululand, 1868-1918.
(2004)In KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, many of those who search for solace from mental illness draw on one or more of the three vigorous therapeutic traditions of healing to which the region is heir. Western psychiatry and its ...