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Die dekaan van die Militêre Akademie in historiese perspektief
Pieter Kapp and
Historia 44, pp 207 –227 (1999)
Die Suid-Afrikaanse Militêre Akademie vier met die eeuwending in 2000 sy halfeeufees. Die aanstelling, taak en posisie van die Dekaan van die instelling, sedert 1961 die Fakulteit Krygskunde van die Universiteit van Stellenbosch, het die afgelope 50 jaar betekenisvolle veranderinge ondergaan, veranderinge wat teweeggebring is deur die behoeftes van die Weermag as "kliënt" van die Akademie, die Akademie se eie, interne behoeftes as akademiese instelling, asook algemene ontwikkelinge in hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. &apos;n Sleutelvraagstuk deur die jare was hoe om militêre behoeftes en universitêre vereistes by die Militere Akademie met mekaar te versoen : Moes die Dekaan as akademiese hoof van dié instelling in die eerste plek akademikus of militêr wees? Of, moes die ampte van Dekaan en Bevelvoerder in een pos saamgevoeg word?
Radikale verstehen nodig : redaksioneel
Historia 44, pp 253 –254 (1999)
Die rekenaarrevolusie van die tweede helfte van die twintigste eeu is een van die belangrikste ontwikkelinge om &apos;n regstreekse invloed op die dissipline van geskiedenis uit te oefen. Bykans alle fasette van wetenskaplike aktiwiteit wat historici ondemeem, word in een of ander opsig regstreeks deur die rekenaartegnologie geraak. Daar is selfs sprake daarvan dat die silikonbrein dinge beter as die historikus kan doen.
Radical verstehen necessary : editorial
Historia 44, pp 255 –256 (1999)
The computer revolution of the second half of the twentieth century was perhaps the major technological development that asserted an influence on the discipline of history. Almost all facets of scientific activity which historians resort to, have been affected directly in some way or another by computer technology. There are even rumours that the silicon brain can do certain things better than the historian.
Learning, technology and history
Arne Solli and
Historia 44, pp 257 –275 (1999)
Since the late 1980&apos;s the number of students both in Norwegian universities in general as well as at our History Department at the University of Bergen increased substantially. This influx was due to both larger birth cohorts and the government&apos;s use of the educational system to camouflage youth unemployment. The trend coincided with an incipient change in pedagogical methods, or at least an understanding of the necessity to change. At many university faculties there was a deep concern that Norwegian undergraduates wrote too few papers. Among history students the main activity was the passive reception of facts and opinions expressed by lectures.
Progress in history : using some ideas in theoretical physics to adapt linear and cyclical concepts of progress in history
Historia 44, pp 276 –286 (1999)
The movement of human experience from one point in time to another is elemental to the study of history. Progress in history has been analysed in linear, cyclical and sequential frames of reference, which have been refuted by historians for various reasons. Another method not yet employed by historians is to look at conceptualising the effect of the combination of the theories of relativity and quantum physics by Stephen Hawking in his work entitled : A brief History of time. This is not to suggest that history follows pathways which humans can accurately determine as some of the laws in physics do. History should propose and motivate itself as a science with its own identity and forms of enquiry but cannot total remove itself from general scientific discourse?
Die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis in vergelykende perspektief - &apos;n metodologiese ondersoek
Historia 44, pp 287 –306 (1999)
Daar het vanaf die sestigerjare &apos;n hele aantal wetenskaplike studies verskyn waarin aspekte van die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis met die geskiedenis van ander lande vergelyk word. L. Hartz se The founding of new societies was &apos;n baanbrekerswerk waarin daar historiese vergelyking tussen Suid-Afrika, die Verenigde State van Amerika, Kanada, die Latyns-Amerikaanse lande, Australië en Nieu-Seeland gedoen is. In die tagtiger- en negentigerjare het die getal vergelykende studies heelwat toegeneem. Vergelykinge ten opsigte van die Amerikaanse en die Suid-Afrikaanse geskiedenis is veral gewild, soos blyk uit die werke van Boucher, Fredrickson, Lamar & Thompson, Cell, Gump, Beinart & Coates en Marx.
Traditional leaders of the Bakgatla-ba-ga-Kgafela and their succession story
Historia 44, pp 328 –344 (1999)
The name Bakgatla is shared by several groups of Bantu-speaking people inhabiting the central and western districts of the Transvaal and the south-eastern parts of Botswana.
The role of black South African soldiers in the Second World War : a contested contribution
Historia 44, pp 345 –364 (1999)
Approximately 76 000 black South Africans joined the Union Defence Force (UDF) during the Second World War, thus constituting one quarter of the active South African forces supporting the Allies&apos; war effort. In addition, there were also a large number of unattested blacks (between 15000 and 22 500) as well as an unspecified number of "casual labourers" in military bases throughout the country . The main aim of the article is to address and assess the issue of the contribution of these black men to the Allied War effort. To reach such an assessment might be easier said than done because of the difficulty of precisely defining and evaluating a "contribution".
Stellenbosch tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog
Historia 44, pp 365 –389 (1999)
Ten spyte daarvan dat Stellenbosch ver verwyderd was van die hoof-arena van die oorlogsbedrywighede gedurende die Anglo-Boereoorlog van 1899-1902, is die gemeenskap daarvan, soos die gemeenskappe van elke dorp in Kaapland, deur die oorlog geraak. Alhoewel daar niks opspraakwekkends, soos &apos;n veldslag in die dorp of in die onmiddellike omgewing van die dorp, plaasgevind het nie, het die oorlog verdeeldheid en rassespanning in die gemeenskap veroorsaak. Die feit dat daar studente en skoliere vanuit die Transvaal en die Oranje-Vrystaat op Stellenbosch studeer het; die aanwesigheid van die Britse "remount camps", en omdat daar vir korter of langer tydperke verskeie Britse militêre afdelings gestasioneer was (Stellenbosch was &apos;n belangrike punt op die westelike aanvalslinie van die Britte), het tot hierdie spanning in die gemeenskap bygedra.
Game protection in the Orange Free State 1848-1910
Historia 44, pp 390 –408 (1999)
The history of wildlife protection in Southern Africa has been neglected by professional historians, leaving the task almost entirely in the hands of journalists and natural scientists, untrained in the procedures of historical research. Until recently the radical revisionists focussed the attention largely on urban transformation. It was only during the late 1980&apos;s that the crucial links between town and countryside began to be explored and wildlife, next to land and labour, came into the picture.
Grondregte in die proses van dorpsontwikkeling vir swartes in die Schweizer-Reineke gebied tot 1962
Susan J. Bester and
Historia 44, pp 409 –423 (1999)
Die reg om grond aan &apos;n ieder en elk, is tans &apos;n baie prominente punt van bespreking in Suid-Afrika. Om die proses van grondtoewysing en ontwikkeling in Schweizer-Reneke te verhelder, word die volgende ter toeligting voorgehou : In die Deklarasie van Menseregte, wat deur die meeste lande erken word, is die reg op eienaarskap, en ook by implikasie individuele grondregte, as &apos;n siviele reg opgeneem. Reeds in 1962 is die individu se reg tot grond ook in die Civil Rights Act opgeneem. Binne hierdie westerse beskouing kan &apos;n wettige eienaar van grond byvoorbeeld die grond verkoop en / of verpand. Saam met die reg wat sodanige persoon op grond het, het die persoon ook die reg op die opbrengs wat die grond mag oplewer.
Die glans van die verlede : besprekingsartikel
Historia 44, pp 424 –435 (1999)
Dit was Jean Jacques Rousseau wat gesê het dat hy dinge wat voor sy oë afspeel, nie kan sien nie. Hy kan net die dinge sien wat as herinneringe in sy gees werksaam is. Hierdie woorde word weer by &apos;n mens wakker gemaak wanneer jy onder die beset kom van die intellektuele aktiwiteite op die gebied van die historiografie in die Lae Lande en Duitsland. &apos;n Mens hoef maar tydskrifte soos Theoretische Geschiedenis, Historisch Nieuwsblad en Feit en Fictie onder oë te neem om dit te besef. Die glans van die verlede verdof nie, dit word trouens teenwoordig weer helderder in die lig geplaas. Die interessante debatte oor die struktuur van die geskiedenis, die narratiewe vorm en die doel en funksie van geskiedenis weerspieël hierdie glans.
The Cape Diaries of Lady Anne Barnard 1799-1800, vols 1 and 2, M. Lenta, B. Le Cordeur (eds.) : book review
Historia 44, pp 436 –438 (1999)
This latest collection of Lady Anne Barnard&apos;s writing consists of the previously unpublished and unrevised diaries she kept in the Cape between 1799 and 1800. Each of the Van Riebeeck Society publications covers a year of her reflections on life at the Cape. In this sense the diaries are a sequel to her published journals, The Cape Journals of Lady Anne Barnard 1797-1798, edited by A. M. Lewin Robinson with Margaret Lenta and Dorothy Driver, also published by the Van Riebeeck Society (Cape Town, 1994) and are also a companion to the letters she wrote to Henry Dundas, The Letters of Lady Anne Barnard to Henry Dundas, edited by A. M. Lewin Robinson and published by Balkema (Cape Town, 1973).
Mein Freund Maleboch, Ulrich van der Heyden, Konrad Sontag (eds.) : book review
Historia 44, pp 438 –440 (1999)
The text published as Mein Freund Maleboch is the section of Berlin missionary Christoph Sonntag&apos;s dairy, which describes the Boer conquest of the Bahananwa of Blauberg during the winter of 1894 in the Northern Province of present-day South Africa. The actual transcription of the diary is preceded by a 21-page introduction, jointly compiled by Van der Heyden and Konrad Sonntag, the son of the missionary. This informative section contextualises the Boer-Bahananwa conflict chronologically and geographically.
Effective History Grade 12 A skill-based approach in compliance with Curriculum 2005, A.S. Nxele, M. Sibiya, J. de Villiers : book review
Historia 44, pp 440 –441 (1999)
Die uitsluitlike doel met hierdie boek is om as voorgeskrewe bron te dien vir hoërskool leerlinge met geskiedenis as vak. Dit op sigself is prysenswaardig, aangesien dit die feitelike gegewens aanbied om aan te pas by die uitkomsgebaseerde onderwys stelsel. Die sillabus in Algemene Geskiedenis en Suid-Afrikaanse Geskiedenis vir standerd 12 leerlinge word in hierdie werk behandel.
Suid-Afrikaanse genealogiese verwysingsgids / South African genealogical reference guide : book review
Historia 44, pp 441 –442 (1999)
Hierdie tweetalige publikasie bestaan uit vier dele. Deel I, wat byna twee derdes van die boek beslaan, bevat &apos;n lys van navorsers en hul belangstellingsvelde, dit wil sê die families waaroor hul navorsing doen. Die lys is egter nie alfabeties volgens die navorsers se vanne gerangskik nie, maar volgens die familiename (vanne) waaroor navorsing gedoen word. By verskeie familiename is daar dan ook meer as een inskrywing.
Tibbie (Rachel Isabella Steyn), 1866-1955. Haar lewe was haar boodskap, Elbie Truter : boekresensie
Historia 44, pp 442 –443 (1999)
Met Tibbie neem Elbie Truter die leser op &apos;n uitgebreide lewensreis in die geskiedenis van die vrou van die eertydse Oranje-Vrystaatse president. M. T. Steyn. Sy verkies ook om Rachel Isabella Steyn, alombekend as Tibbie, hoofsaaklik self aan die woord te stel. Hierdie is eerstehandse indruke wat, vanuit &apos;n akademiese oogpunt beskou altyd verwelkom word.
Witnesses To War. Personal Documents of The Anglo-Boer War from the collections of The South African Library, Karel Schoeman (ed.) : book review
Historia 44, pp 444 –445 (1999)
Karel Schoeman has assembled and edited an anthology of documents relating to the war of 1899 to 1902 held by the South African Library in Cape Town. He states that the selection was made at random from material in the Library, but that &apos;the writings of the famous or prominent have as far as possible been avoided&apos;. Virtually all the people quoted were living in some part of South Africa during the war.
Soweto A History, Phillip Bonner, Lauren Segal : interactive publications
Historia 44, pp 445 –447 (1999)
The name "Soweto" is an international household word but, staggeringly, a systematic history of the place and its people has never been attempted. Soweto A History makes no claim to fill this gap. Indeed, with a total length of 162 pages, of which almost half is taken up by photographs, it could hardly hope to do so. It is, however, a very welcome beginning.
JLVS History reference library : book review
Historia 44, pp 448 –450 (1999)
Die bestudering van geskiedenis is lank nie meer &apos;n steriele proses van kommunikasie tussen die leser en die teks nie. Die veelkantigheid van die teks as primêre dokument en die verstaansproses wat daarin opgesluit is, dwing die historikus voortdurend tot die besef dat die &apos;lees&apos; van die verlede &apos;n interpretatiewe denksprong verteenwoordig wat ver bo enige subjektiewe denkaannames kan uitstyg.