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    An early modern entrepreneur: Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen and the creation of wealth in Dutch colonial Cape Town, 1702–1741 

    Groenewald, Gerald (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
    This article uses the career of Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen at the Cape between 1702 and 1741 to illustrate the mechanisms free burghers could use to create wealth in an economically restrictive environment. By making use ...
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    Places for all? Cape Town's public library services to gays and lesbians 

    Hart, Genevieve; Mfazo, Ncumisa (Library and Information Association of South Africa, 2010)
    The article reports on an investigation of the provision of gay and lesbian literature and of information services to gays and lesbians in Cape Town’s public libraries. Although by definition public libraries serve all ...
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    Cape Town as Africa's gateway for tourism to Antarctica - development potential and need for regulation 

    Boekstein, Mark (2014)
    Cape Town is one of the five Antarctic gateway cities from which ships and aircraft travel to and from various parts of Antarctica and the sub-Antarctic islands. Gateway cities are used by government scientific expeditions, ...
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    False fathers and false sons: Immigration officials in Cape Town, documents and verifying minor sons from India in the first half of the twentieth century 

    Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma (University of the Western Cape, 2014)
    This article examines the rituals of admission to Cape Town, developed by the immigration bureaucracy at the port, for minor sons from India. It provides a context for why the entry of sons of established Indian residents ...
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    Texting literacies as social practices among older women 

    Dyers, Charlyn (Stellenbosch University, 2014)
    While many studies on mobile messaging have tended to focus on the communicative practices of the urban young, this paper considers the role of mobile messaging (also called texting) both as a social practice as well as ...
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    Quartering the city in discourse and bricks: Articulating urban change in a South African enclave 

    Rink, Bradley M. (Springer, 2016)
    Focusing on the urban enclave in Cape Town known as De Waterkant, this paper examines the product and process of ‘quartering’ urban space—shaping urban space as the locus for the symbolic framing of culture. This paper ...
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    Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant 

    Rink, Bradley M. (Springer, 2008)
    This paper will reflect on research currently in progress in Cape Town's De Waterkant neighbourhood—an area also known as Cape Town's 'gay village'. This paper engages the literature of utopia as a framework of analysis ...
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    Coming home, coming out: Achmat Dangor's journeys through myth and Constantin Cavafy 

    Field, Roger (Taylor & Francis Group, 2011)
    Despite his international status, the impact of Constantin Cavafy’s poetry on South African letters has gone largely unnoticed. This article draws attention to the range of Cavafy's, influence on the local poets, writers, ...
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    Searching for new library models: Two South African case studies of services to youth 

    Hart, Genevieve (2012)
    South Africa is a youthful society with 54% younger than 24 years. South African young people face disproportionately high rates of unemployment, HIV-AIDS infection, and violent crime. Even in post-apartheid South Africa, ...
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    City of Cape Town libraries' segregated history: 1952-1972 

    Laishley, Kathleen; Zinn, Sandy (University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2015)
    This article investigates the history and development of the Cape Town City Libraries (CTCL) from 1952-1972 and examines the effect of apartheid legislation on establishing a public library system. Legislation introduced ...
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