Doctoral Degrees (Centre for Africa Studies)
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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 ... -
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, ... -
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 ... -
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 ...
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