Council Members
Julie Parle, President Print E-mail

Julie is an Associate Professor in the Department of History, UKZN (Howard College). She is interested in histories of mental health and illness, psychiatry, and medicine, and on the ethical use of state archival records relating to institutionalized psychiatric patients. Currently engaged in research on the histories of emotions, the family and class in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, especially in KwaZulu-Natal; and with colleagues, a critical history of McCord “Zulu” Hospital. She teaches on topics such as Health and healing in Africa: the history of epidemics; world history to 1700. Julie is also concerned with developing Southern African students’ participation in the discipline and practice of History.

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Ackson M Kanduza, Vice President Print E-mail
Ackson Kanduza

Ackson is Associate Professor of  History Department at the University of Botswana and publishes on the political economy of underdevelopment and teaches histories of West Africa, slavery, colonialism and historical research methodology. Ackson says that this photo 'shows my rural and  agricultural background and my capacity to change with technology. An agriculture-based breakfast is good for history.' After his morning coffee, he is busy teaching and working with post-graduate students.

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Thembisa Waetjen, Secretary Print E-mail

Thembisa holds a Senior Lecturer post in the Department of History, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Howard College). She is interested in the politics of gender and culture, and the way they inform debates about modernity and national identity. 

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Anton Ehlers, Treasurer Print E-mail

Anton is a Professor of History at Stellenbosch University, who specialises in South African economic history with a particular interest in business, banks, retail and non-profit organisations. He teaches 20th century South African history, European history and methodology.

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Prinisha Badassy, Student Rep Print E-mail

Prinisha is a  PhD candidate in History at UKZN, currently writing her thesis on the crime of infanticide in the Natal between the years 1880 and 1935. She has also published on the history of Indian interpreters within the British Empire as well as, on the complicated, sometimes lethal, relationship between masters and servants in colonial Natal.


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Emile Coetzee, Student Rep Print E-mail

Emile is currently a MA History student at the University of Johannesburg. He completed a Post-Graduate Diploma in Museum Sciences, is a registered Tourist Guide and works as an assistant to UJ's archives on the Doorfontein campus.  He is interested in the history of the right-wing organizations in South Africa and South Africa's political history in the 20th Century.

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Gerald Groenewald Print E-mail

Gerald holds a post of Senior Lecturer at the University of Johannesburg. His main research interest is the development of a unique society at the Cape of Good Hope during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. He has published (with Nigel Worden) Trials of Slavery, 1705-1794 as well as several articles and essays on topics ranging from slavery and gender and family history to the social and economic history of early modern Cape Town.

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Karen Harris Print E-mail

Karen is a Professor at the University of Pretoria, lecturing in history as well as heritage and cultural tourism. She is also the director of the University of Pretoria Archives. Karen specialises in the field of diasporic Chinese studies. She is an executive board member of the International Society for the Study of Chinese Overseas (ISSCO) and a ministerial appointee to the (South African) National Archives Advisory Council.

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Simonne Horwitz Print E-mail

Simon is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at the University of Saskatchewan. An Alumni of Wits University, she did an M.Sc and D.Phil in history of medicine and African studies at Oxford University. Her research interests include the histories of hospitals, nursing, leprosy and HIV/AIDS.

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Lize Kriel Print E-mail

Lize is an Associate Professor in the department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria. She is interested in the making and circulation of historical knowledge and focuses primarily on the role of missionary manuscripts and publications. 

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Harvey M. Feinberg Print E-mail

Harvey is Professor Emeritus of History at the Southern Connecticut State University in New Haven,  U.S.A. and a research collaborator with historical studies at University of Pretoria. He is interested in the aftermath of the Natives Land Act, 1913-1948; in farms owned by black South Africans in the Transvaal and in changes in land policy after 1918. He is involved in teaching and seminars in South AFrican history for graduate students and senior history majors.

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