Johannes Machinya - The role of the indigenisation policy in community development: A case of the Zvishavane community share ownership trust, Zvishavane district, Zimbabwe
Sifiso Ndlovu - Nation-building and ethnic identity in post-apartheid South Africa: The case study of former KwaNdebele in the rainbow nation
Nyonde Ntswana - New Urban-rural configurations in the South African working class: Prospects for Social Movement Unionism in the Platinum Belt in Limpopo Province
Dineo Skosana - How are graves subject to local and national contestations in post-apartheid South Africa? A study of the intersection of the mineral and the heritage legislations, and the policy’s function on the relocation of graves in Witbank
Danai Mupotsa - White Weddings
Pat Gibbs - Coal Capital: The Shaping of social relations in the Stormberg, 1880-1910
Sarah Godsell - Hammanskraal: Blurred Borders
Michelle Hay - South Africa’s Land Reform in Historical Perspective: Land settlement and agriculture in Mopani district, Limpopo Province, 19th century to 2015
Tshepo Moloi - Black Politics in Kroonstad: Political Mobilisation, Protests, Local Government, and Generational Struggles, 1976-1995
Nqobile Zulu - Analysis of the post 1980s transition form pastoral to game farming in South Africa: A case study of the marico district
Past MA Students
Sabelo Ndlovu - Everyday lives of the operatives particularly ‘Freelance operatives'
Saneze Tshayana - Surveillance strategies used and counter-intelligence operations carried out by underground members of liberation movements
Sasha Rai - Masculinity and Sexual Violence in early 20th century Transvaal - Gauteng
Ripfumelo Sithole - How ideas about masculinity perpetuate sexual violence against women and act as a force fuelling diseases such as HIV/AIDS and STI’s
Ntombi Mpofu - The environmental impacts of mining on small towns: The case of the Grootegeluk Coal Mine in Lephalale (Ellisras) 1960-2010.
Nicola van der Merwe - Gambling in the Bophuthatswana Sun - This Master of Arts thesis in History will investigate the effects of the Sun City casino on Bophuthatswana
Stanley Malindi - The impact of platinum mining on traditional communities: A Bapo-Ba-Mogale case study
Itumeleng Mafatshe - Does political activism amongst female members of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in a branch in Seshego (Limpopo Province) aged 18-35 years challenge or reinforce the hegemonic constructs of gender roles within the organisation?
Carolien Greyling - From Apartheid to Democracy: The origins and evolution of Ultra Conservatives in Ermelo, 1960-1994
Edward Cavangh - Land and Sovereignty on the Upper Orange River: Select Polities Compared
Dineo Skosana - Youth and Politics in a democratic South Africa : an ethnography of youth political subjectivity in Khutsong
Liezemarie Johannes - Social Mobility and Class Formations: The Case of High End Gated Communities on the West Rand of Johannesburg
Molemo Moila - Youth and politics in a democratic South Africa: An ethnography of youth political subjectivity in Khutsong
Vusi Kumalo - African bussineses in Evaton: their survival and decline from 1904 to 1950s
Kathleen Ebersohn - Exploring the complex and often contradictory history, place, gender and race shape the identities of coloured men in Buysdorp, Limpopo
Phindile Kunene - From Apartheid to Democracy: A comparative analysis of local struggles Phomolong Township, Free State
Kwezi Mkhize - Imagining Communities of Difference
Tamia Botes - Where Have the Midwives Gone?. Everyday Histories of Voetvroue in Johannesburg Department Anthropology
Othandwayo Mgqoboka - I am interested in Black Womxn and the histories of Black Radicalism. Department Sociology
Kebotlhale Motseothata - The representation of women in the visual narratives of the armed struggle for liberation. Department African Literature.
Samantha Issack - Forced removals in the periphery: How did women in Ladysmith experience forced removals? Department: Politics
Laurence Stewart - "I See You in the Soil: The ICU in the Western Transvaal, 1926-1938", History Department
Past Honours Students
Thando Mcunu - The current urban water crisis within parts of the West Rand
Zuko Zikalala - Binyavanga Wainaina’s memoir - the canon, and the manner by which social lives and lived experiences are articulated.
Keyan Jardine - The Wild West: the Formation, hibernation and continuation of gang activity in westbury, johannesburg, circa 1970 - 2015
Mbali Mazibuko - Mzimhlope womens hostel
Bambino Stewart - Changes in shop steward class position and union service delivery. A case study of Anglo American mine 1992-2014
Anjuli Webster - Informal economies and provisioning in urban and possibly peri-urban settings in Gauteng (Johannesburg) and the North West Province (Brits and Majakaneng)
Rosina Mabapa - The study of domestic workers in the small mining town of Kriel
Ripfumelo Sithole - Ethnography of Changing Gender Roles - Male Nurses and Female Construction Workers in Giyani
Funeka Manzi - The izikhothane who live in the Vaal region
Evan Jacobs - To identify the types of relationships that are formed within a shared economy
Sally Crompton - The Lindela Repatriation Centre
Rixile Bandi - The participation of workers in unions and the effect that has on conflict in the workplace
Temba Middelman - The social and ecological impact of Hartebeestpoort Dam
Ayesha Krige - How politically active women understand their personal politics
Bianca Masuku - Bodies in crisis: narratives of sexual violence and suffering in young South African women in the township of Mamelod
Kgopolo Makgopela - How has the role of the Merafong demarcations Forum changed after Khutsong reintegration to Gauteng’s Merafong Municipality?
Penelope Makgathi - Mazista: Before and After the Skierlik Massacre
Stanley Malindi - What Light can the workings of Traditional Courts in and around Gopane throw on the role of Traditional Courts in a modern democratic South Africa?
Tiffany Ebrahim - The agency of young mothers in Bushbuckridge: the extent to which motherhood elevates womanhood
Baitse Xheko - Youth Employment/Unemployment and the Education System in South Africa: The Life Chances experiences of Young People in Top City in the immediate Post-High School Years: A Liminal Space in Contemporary South Africa
Jessica Mthimkulu - Identifying with SABC1: How youths aged 18-24 from the Sebokeng Township identify with SABC1's prime-time programming
Sinoxolo Khowane - Weaves or natural hair:black women's hair politics in Hammanskraa
Anneke le Roux - An analysis of the political climate of Bela Bela (formerly known as Warmbaths) in the Limpopo Province
Robert Mulligan - Taiwanese support entrepreneurship in Ladybrand
Naadira Munshi - Sleeping Below Barbed Wire: The Economic and Social Lives of Bangladeshi Men in a South African Town and Township
Micha Reddy - Darlings No Longer’: Tswana Mineworkers and Labour Unrest on the Platinum Mines of Bophuthatswana, 1986-1994
Shoeshoe Setai - Gender, Socio-Economic & Race factors influencing Phuthaditjhaba Parents’ choice of High School
Kirsty Smith - How do the ANC Youth League and DA Youth mobilise young people in Meyerton, and how do young people respond to these strategies of mobilisation?
Sarah Delius - Dynamics of labour tenancy and the role of wage labour
Isabella Kentridge - Now we are Coloureds’1:Race, Place and Community in Kroonstad, 1930 - 2
Masheletse Maboya - The Grievances of the Young - The Politics of Youth Consciousness in Boipatong
Laura Philips - We have come a long way, jong' Reconstructing the lives of retired domestic workers in Hammanskraal
Thabang Sefalafala - Why do Members of the National Union of Mineworkers join legal aid insurance schemes? – A case study of Doorienfontien Gold Fields (Carletonville)
Lukas Spiropoulos - Migration into Welkom: Decline and transformation in a gold mining town since 1980
Michelle Hay - A social history of Dobsonville
Kathleen Ebersohn - "I keep it in": They do not speak, they are not spoken to!Notions of masculinity negotiated through the silent spaces of fathers and sons in the colored community of Mangete, Kwa-Zulu Natal.
Sarah Godsell - Rooiberg: Transformation and Transition in a Small Mining Town
Dineo Skosana - Traditonal Authority in the context of democratic governance: A case study of a dynastic dispute in Vaaltyn
Faeeza Ballim - Indian traders, economic prosperity, group areas and town planning in the small town of Mokopane
Kabelo Maleke - Finding Tolerance: a Case Study of Homophilia in Rustenburg
Liezemarie Johannes - Do experience of political violence emanating from youth movements influence political culture? : A case study of the ‘Black Cats’ movement in Wesselton 1989-1994
Musa Malabela - Is the ward system working as the South African government envisaged
Tanaka Denzel Machaka - History Department. Love, Exile and Liberation: Exploring the Life story of Elinor and Maxwell Sisulu (1985-1999).
Dineo Mtetwa - Department of Anthropology. Womxn in taxis: an intersectional analysis of the participation of womxn in the Dobsonville Roodepoort Leratong Johannesburg Taxi Association
Dani Cooper – History Department. The life, political activities and legacy of Mary Moodley, a South African community activist, 1914 -1979.
Casey Fern – History Department. British Nurses and Everyday Nursing Practises: the making of public health discourses and policy in early twentieth century South Africa.
Sihle Luma - History Department. Boxing in Orlando and Dube during the 1960s and 1970s Apartheid South Africa
Christina Meletakos – History Department. South African Exile and the politics of everyday life in Harare, Zimbabwe, c. 1980-early 1990s
