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An early modern entrepreneur: Hendrik Oostwald Eksteen and the creation of wealth in Cape Town, 1702–1741
(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 ...
Utopia Live: Singing the Mozambican struggle for national liberation
(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
This article engages a historical reconstruction of the formation of Makonde
revolutionary singing in the process of the Mozambican liberation struggle. The
history of ʻUtopia liveʼ is here entrusted to wartime genres, ...
Contestations over knowledge production or ideological bullying? A response to Legassick on the workers' movement
(Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
The key characteristic of the vast amount of literature on the South African workers
ʼ movement in the post-1973 period is the denial that the class and national
struggles were closely intertwined. This denial is underpinned ...
Demanding satisfaction: Violence, masculinity and honour in late eighteenth century Cape Town
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2009)
This article analyses two separate cases of public violence which took place in
Cape Town in the summer of 1772/3. At surface level they appear to be very different
in character. One was a scrap among low-ranking soldiers ...
Decolonization of a special type: rethinking Cold War history in Southern Africa
(History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
Introduction: This special issue of Kronos: Southern African Histories speaks to this imbalance,
contributing in small measure to a recent turn in Cold War studies that has
sought to incorporate regional perspectives ...
Family law and "the great moral public interests" in Victorian Cape Town
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
In the wake of the mineral revolution, and the Cape Colony’s attainment of
responsible government, Cape Town’s population doubled in the nineteenth century’s
latter years. Its largely British ruling class, seeing ...
Laughing with Sam Sly: The cultural politics of satire and colonial British identity in the Cape Colony, c. 1840-1850
(Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2010)
This article examines Sam Sly’s African Journal (1843–51), a literary and satirical
newspaper published by William Layton Sammons in Cape Town. It contends
that the newspaper utilised satire to forge British cultural ...