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Community as utopia: Reflections on De Waterkant
(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 ...
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 ...
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 ...