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Reinterpreting Millenarian Sentiments at the Dutch Cape Colony

BMGN: Low Countries Historical Review, 2023
During the long nineteenth century, European colonists, in among others Asia and Africa, were often confronted with self-proclaimed prophets who predicted an apocalyptic uprising which would bring about a new era of peace and independence from European ...
Anne Marieke van der Wal
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Voices Past and Present - A comparison of Old Cape dialectal, Bushman and Khoikhoi words

, 2020
The preservation of South Africa’s indigenous languages – the extinct Bushman and Khoikhoi languages in particular – is a pressing concern. Voices Past and Present serves as a comprehensive, scholarly and practical source for documenting and preserving ...
P. Raper
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The Ethnonyms ≠Aunin, Topnaars, and !Naranin

Names, 2010
The ≠Aunin, also called Topnaars and !Naranin, are an exceptional people, currently regarded as Nama (Khoikhoi) but thought to be originally San (Bushmen).
Peter E Raper
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Voor 1652 – Vakhistorici se interpretasies van die vroeë SuidAfrikaanse geskiedenis

Contree, 2012
During the last few decades scholars from various disciplines, such as paleonthology, archeology, anthropology and linguistics, have steadily increased our knowledge of early South African history.
Pieter de Klerk
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The black female body: Representation of the erotic in contemporary visual art in Africa

E-REA, 2021
Black sexual politics and its interaction with the eroticized female body in African art are still surprisingly underexplored topics in African academia (“African” not “Africanist”, to follow the distinction made by Jones in “African Scholarship ...
Tayler FRIAR
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Integrasieprosesse in die vroeë Kaapkolonie (1652-1795) binne vergelykende konteks – ‘n historiografiese studie

Contree, 2010
During the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries a number of European countries founded settlements on the American and African continents. The colonizing powers sent settlers from Europe and slaves from Africa and Asia to their colonies.
Pieter De Klerk
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Selected 20th and 21st century representations of tribalism and modernity in South African literature: reassessing socio-historical process through (re)considerations of works of verbal art

Ilha do Desterro, 2011
  Opening with a brief historical contextualisation, the article takes the reader back to humanity’s prehistoric origins in southern Africa, then to its (and mankind’s) earliest known culture, that of the San/Bushmen, followed by the (returning ...
Annie Gagiano
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STRATEGIC MILITARY COLONISATION: THE CAPE EASTERN FRONTIER 1806–1872

Scientia Militaria, 2012
The Cape Eastern Frontier of South Africa offers a fascinating insight into British military strategy as well as colonial development. The Eastern Frontier was for over 100 years a very turbulent frontier.
Mark Oranje, Linda Robson
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Indigenous Common Names and Toponyms in Southern Africa

Names, 2017
The primary process of toponymic formation by the earliest indigenous inhabitants of the African sub-continent, the Bushmen and Khoikhoi, was evolutionary.
Peter E. Raper
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“THE WAR TOOK ITS ORIGINS IN A MISTAKE”: THE THIRD WAR OF DISPOSSESSION AND RESISTANCE IN THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE COLONY, 1799–1803

Scientia Militaria, 2014
The early colonial wars on the Cape Colony’s eastern borderlands and western Xhosaland, such as the 1799–1803 war, have not received as much attention from military historians as the later wars.
Denver Webb
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