Doctoral Degrees (Centre for Africa Studies)
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‘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 ... -
Zimbabwe-South Africa interstate relations, 1980-1999
(University of the Free State, 2018-12)English: The thesis is an examination of Zimbabwe’s interstate relations with South Africa between 1980 and 1999. Using sources that include diplomatic correspondence, newspapers, legislative debates, official reports ... -
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 ... -
Staying on the margins: Konkomba mobility and belonging in Northern Ghana, 1914-1996
(University of the Free State, 2018-11)English: This thesis examines Konkomba mobility and the contestations it generated about their belonging in northern Ghana. It analyses the social and political context within which this mobility occurred and argues that ... -
Differenciating dysfunction: domestic agency, entanglement and mediatised petitions for Africa's own solutions
(University of the Free State, 2018-07)Africa’s optimistic expressions of a reawakening, a rising, to its own solutions remain nervously alive, albeit haunted by the reversals that quenched all previous enthusiasms concerning a rebirth. Still, this study draws ... -
Knowledge transfer and British expertise in Zambian urban planning
(University of the Free State, 2017-03)English: This thesis examines the relationship between the history of technical assistance and present day urban planning practice in Zambia and builds on multiple literatures spanning the field of planning history, technical ... -
State, civil society and the politics of economic indigenisation in Zimbabwe, 1980 to 2016
(University of the Free State, 2017-03)English: Using a broad civil society conceptual framework, this thesis examines the relations between the state and interest groups concerned with economic indigenisation in Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2016. During this period, ... -
Government, community and the university in Africa today: the case of the National University of Lesetho
(University of the Free State, 2017-01)This study is an investigation into relations of power between government, community and the university in Africa today. The purpose of the study is to examine the nature of contestations and contradictions among triadic ... -
The India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) collective and the socio-political construction of security
(University of the Free State, 2017-02)English: The focus of this thesis is on the formation and functioning of the India-Brazil-South Africa (IBSA) collective. The study aims towards an understanding of whether and to what extent the IBSA collective is ... -
Corrective rape and black lesbian sexualities in contemporary South African cultural texts
(University of the Free State, 2017-01)The increased visibility of black lesbian identities in South Africa has been met with a severe backlash in the form of what activists term corrective rape. South African newspapers started to report on the incidence of ... -
A survey of sacred sites and construction of sacredness of space in the Free State
(University of the Free State, 2016)English: The research presented in this thesis focuses on the nature and extent of sacred sites in the Eastern Free State, namely Mautse, Motouleng, Modderpoort and Oetsi. An explorative survey was required because of the ... -
Pilgrimage to sacred sites in the Eastern Free State
(University of the Free State, 2016-01)English: There are many pilgrimages and revered forms of travel in South Africa. However, no systematic anthropological studies have been conducted into these journeys. Filling this void, this is a multisite ethnographic ... -
South Africa and the 'Congo Crisis', 1960-1965
(University of the Free State, 2016-02)English: On 30 June 1960, the Belgian Congo gained independence. Congo’s newfound freedom was soon disrupted by a period of severe socio-political chaos and conflict that became known as the ‘Congo crisis’. The exact nature ... -
Financing rebellion: the Rhodesian state, financial policy and exchange control, 1962-1979
(University of the Free State, 2015-11)English: This thesis examines the history of finance and exchange control under the Rhodesian Front (RF) government between 1962 and 1979. Outlining the background to Southern Rhodesia’s incorporation within Britain’s ... -
Deviance and colonial power: a history of juvenile delinquency in colonial Zimbabwe, 790-c.1960
(University of the Free State, 2016-02)English: This thesis is the first comprehensive study of juvenile delinquency in colonial Zimbabwe. Based on a detailed reading of archival sources generated by central government in various departments, urban municipalities, ... -
‘Mabhurandaya’: the Malawian diaspora in Zimbabwe: 1895 to 2008
(University of the Free State, 2015-11)English: This thesis historicizes the connections between identity, marginality and agency amongst an African diasporic community in Zimbabwe. It uses the case of people of Malawian ancestry or Mabhurandaya as a window ...
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