Browsing Masters Degrees (History) by Title
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Demystifying the Muslimah : changing subjectivities, civic engagement and public participation of Muslim woman in contemporary South Africa.
(2015)This study interrogates the validity of generalizations about Muslim women. While Islam is undoubtedly important in the lives of most practising Muslim women, rather than regarding their actions and behaviours as governed ... -
The development of African agriculture in Southern Rhodesia with particular reference to the interwar years.
(1979)No abstract available. -
Divided facilities : early cottage hospitals and the provision of health care Services in Natal, 1880-1910.
(2018)This dissertation investigates the history of the introductory of the cottage hospital system in the colony of Natal. This thesis examines the history of three cottage hospitals that were erected in Natal from the late ... -
Economic rationality or religious idealism : the medieval doctrines of the just price and the prohibition of usury.
(1982)No abstract available. -
The end of the future : the development of the South African Chemical and Biological Weapons Research Programme, 1981-1991.
(2002)This thesis is an examination of the relationship between the institutional and practical workings of the late Apartheid state's Chemical and Biological Weapons Research Programme, code-named Project Coast. It is written ... -
Exploring the migration experiences of Muslim Yao women in KwaZulu-Natal, 1994-2015.
(2016)There is very little to no research accessible on Muslim Yao women in South Africa; the available literature focuses primarily on Muslim Yao male migrants. This study critically examines the lived migration experiences of ... -
Financing colonial rule : the hut tax system in Natal, 1847-1898.
(1985)The functioning of African societies in the colonial environment has become a popular subject of research by historians. However, these are areas of neglect insofar as the investigation of the economic role of Africans in ... -
Frederick Robert Moor and native affairs in the colony of Natal, 1893 to 1903.
(1980)This dissertation is concerned with the public life of Frederick Robert Moor during the period 1893 to 1903. Moor served as Secretary for Native Affairs during the first ten years of responsible government in Natal in the ... -
From "conscience politics" to the battlefields of political activism : the Liberal Party in Natal, 1953 to 1968.
(1999)This thesis examines the ways in which the Liberal Party - the Natal Division in particularattempted to become an effective political force in South Africa. The Party was fanned in May 1953 as a non-racial political ... -
From both sides of the bed : a history of doctor and patient AIDS activism in South Africa, 1982-1984.
(2004)This thesis explores the history of AIDS activism 'from both sides of the bed', by doctors and gay patients, in the 1980s and early 1990s. Such AIDS activism was formed in opposition to dominant racist and homophobic framings ... -
From mission school to Bantu education : a history of Adams College.
(1990)In 1835 the first American Board missionaries arrived in South Africa and a mission station was built at Amanzimtoti. Adams College, then known as Amanzimtoti Institute was established in 1853 by the American Board with ... -
A historical overview of the origins of anti-shark measures in Natal, 1940-1980.
(2006)This thesis studies the origins of anti-shark measures in Natal, highlighting the relationship between beach recreation, anti-shark measures and the important influence of human perceptions of sharks. It focuses on key ... -
A history of the professionalisation of human resource management in South Africa : 1945-1995.
(2004)Human resource management as practiced today within organisations carries a century of history. Focus has shifted from its simple origins as a welfare concern for the lot of workers by certain enlightened employers in Great ... -
Ideal, reality and opposition : white women in Durban, 1900- 1920.
(1991)In 1900 Durban's white' society closely resembled its British counterpart. As in Britain an ideal of womanhood encompassed various generalisations concerning woman's true nature and purpose. Women were upheld as pure, ... -
Identities, memories, histories and representation : the role of museums in twentieth century KwaZulu-Natal.
(2003)The history of museums in South Africa dates back to 1825 when the South African Museum (SAM) was established in Cape Town. Initially museums in South Africa were established for science and local history was seen as ... -
The impact of the white settlers on the natural environment of Natal, 1845-1870.
(1998)As no other study of settler impact on the Natal environment exists for the early colonial period, this thesis is a pioneering work. It aims to document the changes white settlers made to the natural environment of Natal ... -
The incorporation of Alfred County: aspects of colonial Natal's annexation strategy and subsequent consolidation on the South-Western Frontier 1850s-18180s.
(1995)The official and permanent British occupation of the Cape was finalised by the convention concluded in London on 13 August 1814, when Britain decided to retain the strategic Cape from the United Province!:» of the Netherlands. ... -
The interaction between the missionaries of the Cape eastern frontier and the colonial authorities in the era of Sir George Grey, 1854-1861.
(1984)In the work of radical historians and in Xhosa tradition the Cattle Killing has become the supreme example of the deliberately destructive impact of a colonial governor, helped by missionaries, on the Black peoples of the ... -
A laboratory of change : a critical study of the Durban Medical School and its community health experiment, 1930-1960.
(1999)No abstract available.