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Whiteness and destitution: Deconstructing whiteness and white privilege in postcolonial Zimbabwe
(University of the Free State, 2022)English: This research entailed an ethnographic and netnographic study of white destitution to establish how white destitution is understood and framed differently in the changing material and political contexts of ... -
Power-sharing in South Africa's municipalities: The case of Ekurhuleni and Nelson Mandela Bay Metropolitan municipalities from 2016
(University of the Free State, 2022)English: Local government power-sharing and coalitions are likely to increase in South Africa given the ANC's declining electoral dominance as demonstrated by the 2016 and 2021 election outcomes. This has sparked increased ... -
Posthuman security and landmines: Gendered meaning-making and materialities in the North-Eastern border area of Zimbabwe
(University of the Free State, 2022)English: This empirical study of landmines, gendered meaning-making and matter in the border area of Mukumbura, Northern Zimbabwe, was inspired by the everyday experiences of men and women as a consequence of their living ... -
Navigating between the sacred and the profane: Mohokare sacred sites, spiritual tourism and the challenges in the formal heritage sector
(University of the Free State, 2022)English: After the democratic election of 1994 in South Africa, many Basotho who were dispossessed of their ancestral land west of the Mohokare River in the Free State Province of South Africa in the late 19th century ... -
People, nature and resources: Managing land-use conflicts in Ngamiland, Botswana
(University of the Free State, 2022)English: Land-use conflicts between communities and protected-area management authorities are recurrent in African countries. These are attributed to opposing needs, interests and preferences regarding land utilisation. ... -
Longitudinal trajectories of identity formation and resilience development in adolescents living in disadvantaged communities
(University of the Free State, 2022)Transitioning to adulthood is a core task which requires of adolescents to work on defining their sense of self. Indeed, they have to overcome an identity crisis in order to establish a coherent sense of self. Consequently, ... -
Interethnic conflict and the role of traditional leaders in the truth and reconciliation programme in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of Congo
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)This empirical research was built on the failure of military operations, and formal peacebuilding processes sought to curb the interethnic conflicts revolving around the issues of land, citizenship and political power in ... -
The inner workings and logics of intersectionality: an analysis of gendered (in)security in Rwanda
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)Resisting a single-axis framework and adopting intersectionality in gendered security research and practice ensures that more inclusive and holistic security, and thus sustainable peace, is achieved in post-conflict ... -
International diplomacy and big business in Namibia: the case of the Rossing Uranium mine
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)In the 1970s, Rio Tinto Zinc’s Rössing Uranium mine became a symbol of injustice for Namibian nationalists and international opponents of South African rule. Yet, counter-intuitively, the mine survived decolonisation in ... -
Caregiving: a feminist perspective on the lived experiences of caregivers in Harare
(University of the Free State, 2021-10)In the light of the exponential increase in the population of the elderly, studies have predicted the care crisis of this population group unless adequate measures are taken. This qualitative gender-sensitive case study, ... -
Incorporating African Indigenous Knowledge Systems into the Basic Education curriculum: Experiences from two schools in the Gauteng and kwazulu-Natal Provinces, South Africa
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)South Africa is a proudly and richly diverse country with several indigenous groups across its nine provinces. Indigenous people have a vast array of knowledge by which they have lived and sustained their livelihoods for ... -
Marian shrine pilgrimages: a multi-sited exploration of Ngome, Maseru Farm and Ha Ramabanta
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)Pilgrimages take place all over the world for various reasons which range from spirituality to tourism. These are journeys embarked on by a group of people or an individual, stretching from one place to the other. In South ... -
Democratisation and state-building in Lusophone African states: the cases of Cape Verde and Mozambique
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)Despite promising prospects to political transition towards a democracy, over the last 25 years, Lusophone African states, achieved very different political and economic outcomes in relation to democratization and human ... -
A history of the production of statistics in Zambia, 1939-2018
(University of the Free State, 2021)This thesis examines the development of statistics in Zambia in the period 1939-2018. It builds on studies concerned with the quality of data produced in Africa by unravelling the main forces that shaped the making of ... -
‘Angels and Demons’? the Dutch Reformed Church and Anticommunism in Twentieth Century South Africa
(University of the Free State, 2021-11)Afrikaner memories of apartheid are filled with images of an omnipotent communist threat, or the so-called Rooi Gevaar (Red Peril). This thesis explains why and how the Dutch Reformed Church of South Africa (DRC), the ... -
Organised secondary industry and the state in Zimbabwe, 1939-1979
(University of the Free State, 2018-11)English: This thesis examines the relationship between organised secondary industry, the state and other economic interest groups (farmers, miners and commerce) over industrialisation in Southern Rhodesia (Colonial Zimbabwe) ... -
Botswana-South Africa economic relations: a history, 1966-2014
(University of the Free State, 2019-02)English: This thesis examines economic relations between Botswana and South Africa from 1966 to 2014 from Botswana’s perspective. It begins by describing different historical junctures in the economic history of the two ... -
Conflict and cooperation: "new farmers" in Zimbabwe, 2000-2015
(University of the Free State, 2019-02)English: This thesis explores the Fast Track Land Reform Program (FTLRP) in Mashonaland Central Province, Zimbabwe from 2000 to 2015. It investigates the impact of continuous lawlessness and new farmer relations on ... -
A history of archives in Zambia, 1890-1991
(University of the Free State, 2019-02)English: This thesis examines the significant role of national archives’ legislative framework, and of archival practices of appraisal, preservation and management, in the creation, positioning and formation of an identity ... -
A history of Rhokana/Rokana Corporation and its Nkana Mine Division, 1928-1991
(University of the Free State, 2018-02)English: This dissertation is a detailed historical account of the corporate structure, labour relations and profitability of the Rhokana Corporation and its Nkana mine. Thematically and chronologically organised, it starts ...
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