Browsing Masters Degrees (History) by Title
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Labouring under the law : gender and the legal administration of Indian immigrants under indenture in colonial Natal, 1860-1907.
(2005)This study is a gendered historical analysis of the legal administration of Indian Immigrants in British Colonial Natal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By focusing primarily on the attempts of the ... -
Mariannhill Mission and African education, 1882-1915.
(1993)In 1880 a group of 31 Trappist monks arrived in South Africa for the first time. Two years later they founded the now famous Mariannhill mission in the vicinity of Pinetown, west of Durban. The purpose of this thesis ... -
Marxism and history : twenty years of South African Marxist studies.
(1988)This thesis attempts to contextualize the emergence and development of South African Marxist studies in terms of political and economic changes in South Africa, the influence of overseas Marxist and related theories and ... -
The mobilization of history and the Tembe chieftaincy in Maputaland, 1896-1997.
(2002)"The Mobilization Of History And The Quest For The Tembe Chieftaincy in Maputaland: 1896-1997," is a study of conflicts emerging in post-apartheid rural KwaZulu Natal, South Africa. Under the white rule that extended ... -
Mobilization, conflict and repression: the United Democratic Front and political struggles in the Pietermaritzburg region, 1983-1991.
(1996)In the eight years of its existence, from 1983 to 1991, the United Democratic Front had a major impact on the pace and direction of political struggles in South Africa. The UDF was a loose alliance of organizations, whose ... -
Moderate witness : the English language press and liberal discourse in militarized South Africa, 1976-1988 : a case study of the Natal Witness.
(2010)This thesis investigates the English language press and its coverage of protest struggles and backlash, border wars and related militarisation of society in the critical years of South African political change between ... -
The Natal inter-race tournament of the 1950s : reinforcing or undermining race identities?
(2013)This dissertation focuses on the inter-race soccer tournament which was held in Natal between 1946 and 1960 under the auspices of the Natal-Inter-Race Soccer Board. The tournament was played between Coloured, Indian and ... -
Natal's "Native" education, 1917-1953 : education for segregation.
(1990)The Natal Education Department's "Native" education system which functioned from 1910 to 1953 has often been termed a good example of "liberal" education for Africans. However an investigation into the administrative ... -
The opposition to General J.B.M. Hertzog's segregation bills, 1925- 1936 : a study in extra-parliamentary protest.
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Patterns and shifts in cultural heritage in KwaZulu-Natal : selected case studies, 1977-1999.
(2001)An analysis of why cultural heritage sites are created, preserved, and developed is what concerns the pages of this study. It identifies patterns and shifts in cultural heritage preservation in the period between 1977 ... -
The progress of land reform in South Africa 1994-2008 : two case studies from KwaZulu-Natal.
(2008)No abstract available. -
A social history of the experiences of africans with physical disabilities who were associated with the Cripple Care Association (renamed the association for the physically challenged) in KwaZulu-Natal, 1970s to 2000s.
(2017)This thesis provides an analysis of the social experiences of people with disabilities who belonged to the Cripple Care Association (CCA), which was later, renamed the Association for the Physically Challenged (APC). The ... -
A state of exile : the ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe in Angola, 1976- 1989.
(2002)After its banning in 1961 the ANC, together with the South African Communist Party, adopted the armed struggle. Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) was formed and had its debut in December of the same year. When the MK command was ... -
'Stink, maar uit die verkeerde rigting' : pollution, politics and petroleum refining in South Africa, 1948-1960.
(2004)This dissertation analyses the history of the politics of pollution and petroleum refining in South Africa during the first decade of Apartheid, focusing on the country's first two oil refineries, both of which were built ... -
Strangers in a strange land : undesirables and border-controls in colonial Durban, 1897-c.1910.
(2007)This dissertation investigates the regulation of cross-border mobility and the formation of Natal, and nascent South African, immigration policy in the late colonial period. Natal's immigration technologies were at the ...