History

Interdisciplinary Approaches to African History: Great Zimbabwe Case Study Question 1 Discuss how Linguistics, Anthropology, Archaeology, and Geography have enriched history writing on Africa using Great Zimbabwe as an example. Question 2 Critically discuss how European thinkers and colonialists used pseudo-scientific racism to justify slavery during the 19thcentury with reference to the storyof Sarah Baartman. Question 3 Explain how ideas of the Enlightenment in the […]

South African History Essays: Hertzog, Bantustan Policy, and the ANC in the 1940s Topic 1: Analyse the reasons why General JBM Hertzog implemented the Representation of Natives Act in 1936. Topic 2: “The apartheid state’s Bantustan (“homeland”) policy was from its inception in 1959 doomed to fail.” Do you agree? Give reasons for your answer Topic 3: “The impact of the Second World War on […]