INTRODUCTION

The Executive Committee of the SAHS decided at its previous meeting to focus on the improvement of communication within the Southern African Historical Community.  The issuing of two extensive newsletters (on per semester) per year is one way through which the Society wants to achieve this aim.  The Society is totally dependent on the various History Departments for relevant content for the newsletter.  We therefore want to appeal to HOD’s and members of the Society to forward relevant news items to the secretary (Anton Ehlers, e-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) of the SAHS on an ongoing basis.  As with the first newsletter a special call for information on the activities of Departments will be sent out (early in the fourth term).  Due to the timing of the call for information for the first newsletter and various other reasons many Departments were not in a position to respond in time.  We will however publish the reports of these Departments in the newsletter planned for the second semester. 

OBITUARY:  Prof SB (Burridge) Spies

We regret to inform members that Professor SB (Burridge) Spies passed away at the age of 78 on 22 July 2008. He was on the staff of the Unisa History Department for 30 years and he retired in 1995. Spies was best known for his highly acclaimed work, Methods of barbarism? Roberts Kitchener and civilians in the Boer republics, January 1900 to May 1902, which was first published in 1977 and which led to new directions in studies about the South African War. He also published widely on South Africa and the First World War, and he acted as editor for several books. Spies was deeply committed to teaching and he encouraged many students throughout his long teaching career and he also supervised the doctoral and masters thesis of many prominent South African historians. 

SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL JOURNAL

The partnership between the South African Historical Journal and Routledge (Taylor and Francis Group) and Unisa Press has now been formalised and four issues of the journal will appear this year, the first of them very shortly. We hope that you will enjoy the articles and reviews in the 2008 journals and welcome your comments and suggestions. The Society receives a number of copies of the journal for our members from the publishers but we can no longer afford to send them to members who are not fully paid up, as we have sometimes done in the past. So please note that if your subscriptions for 2008 are not up to date, you will not be receiving your copies of the journal. 

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH WEST, POTCHEFSTROOM CAMPUS:  SUBJECT GROUP HISTORY AND ANCIENT CULTURE 

Contact number of Department

• Prof. J.A. (Kobus) du Pisani

     018-2991594 (office)

• Prof. G.J.J. (Gerhard) Oosthuizen

     018-2991597 (office)

     018-2991754 (secretary) 

Research projects

• Prof. J.A. (Kobus) du Pisani
  • History of the Bahurutshe ba ga Moiloa at Braklaagte (Lekubu) - completed
  • Cultural heritage management plans as component of environmental management – running
• Prof. G.J.J. (Gerhard) Oosthuizen
  • Trans border operations (since 1975) during the so-called Bush War, 1966-1988

Publications

• Articles
  • Prof J.A. (Kobus) du Pisani
    • Sustainable Development – historical roots of the concept. Environmental Sciences (UK), 3(2) June 2006: 83-96.
    • Water resources and water management in the Bahurutshe heartland. Water SA 32(3) July 2006: 445-451 (with S. van Niekerk).
    • Assessing the performance of SIA in the EIA context: A case study of South Africa. Environmental Impact Assessment Review (UK), 26(8) November 2006: 707-724 (with L.A. Sandham). November.
    • One-way traffic or highway to mutual benefit? Part 1: China and Africa in the era of Mao Zedong. New Contree, no. 52  November 2006: 1-23.
    • Ná die Waarheids- en Versoeningskommissie: uitdagings aan die historikus in 'n demokratiese Suid-Afrika. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 47(1) Maart 2007: 1-12.
    • 'n Hongaarse entrepreneur in die ZAR: A.H. Nellmapius se vervoerskema na Delagoabaai, 1874-1883. Historia, 52(2) November 2007: 83-111 (with J.J. Hugo).
    • One-way traffic or highway to mutual benefit? Part 2: China and Africa since 1976. New Contree, no. 53. May 2007: 1-28.
    • Nuwe wyn in ou sakke? Hoe die morele grondslag van volhoubare ontwikkeling geskuif het. Koers, 72(2) 2007: 193-218.
  • Prof. G.J.J. (Gerhard) Oosthuizen
    • Regiment Mooirivier, Potchefstroom: grensdienservaring van ‘n Pantserburgermageenheid, 1975-1989.  Joernaal vir Eietydse Geskiedenis, vol. 31 (3), December 2006.
    • Die Bahurutshe van Lehurutshe (Marico-distrik): stryd teen blanke dominansie, 1852-1916. New Contree, no 54, November 2007

Conferences attended and papers delivered (last two years)

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  • Prof. J.A. (Kobus) du Pisani
  • 12th Annual Conference of the International Association for Impact Assessment, South African affiliate, KwaMaritane, Pilanesberg, North West Province, 28-30 August 2006.
    • Paper (with Luke Sandham):  Assessing the performance of SIA in the EIA context: A case study of South Africa.
    • Poster presentation (with Luke Sandham):  The practice of SIA in the North West Province, South Africa: evaluation and recommendations for improvement.
  • South African Society for History Teaching Annual Conference, Potchefstroom, 21-22 September 2006.
    • Paper:  Learners, teachers, professors and historical consciousness
  • Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, 10th International Conference: Asia-African Network in the 21st century, 18 May 2007.
    • Paper: (with Kwang-Su Kim):  China and Africa: One-way traffic or highway to mutual benefit?
  • Fourth International Conference of the European Society for Environmental History, Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 5-9, 2007.
    • Paper:  African and European Views of Sustainable Development, 1992-2002
  • Biennial conference of the Southern African Historical Society, University of Johannesburg, June 24-27, 2007.
    • Paper:  “From rescuing the environment to rescuing the poor” - a historical perspective of African views of sustainable development between the Earth Summit (1992) and the World Summit on Sustainable Development (2002)
  • Seventh European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, 26 February - 1 March 2008.
    • Paper:  The "good old days" when there were no homosexuals among Afrikaner men

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  • Prof G.J.J. (Gerhard) Oosthuizen
  • Conference on Wars and conflicts in Africa, University of Texas, Austin, USA, 28-30 March 2008.
    • Paper:  “The apartheid myth of an invincible South African Defence Force: Operation Askari, 1983-1984

Editorial panels

• Prof. J.A (Kobus) du Pisani

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  • Global Environment (Florence, Italy)
  • International Area Review (Seoul, Korea)
  • Journal for Contemporary History (Bloemfontein, South Africa)

Community projects

• Prof J.A. (Kobus) du Pisani
  • Serve on the committees of Vredefort Dome Heritage (chairperson) and Heritage Potchefstroom (additional member).

Student numbers

Under graduate students: 181 

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH WEST, VAAL TRIANGLE CAMPUS 

Water history research group

Towards the end of 2007 the water history research group at NWU's Vaal Triangle campus was accorded the status of a developing research niche area by the NRF.

The RNA is ostensibly trans-disciplinary in orientation, but substantial attention is given to the historical dimensions of water studies in South Africa.  Reports completed by the group since 2005 are:

• CM Gouws, K Reyneke, JWN Tempelhoff, ES van Eeden, D van Niekerk, and R Wuriga, The December 2004-January 2005 floods in the Garden Route region of the Southern Cape, (North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, May 2005).
• Martin Ginster, Ina Gouws, Johann Tempelhoff, Marika van der

Walt and Rabson Wuriga, Water in the Kgetlengrivier Local Municipality:

     The case of Koster (North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, May 2006).

• CM Gouws, C Gouws, R Mathipa, K Motumi, JWN Tempelhoff, and M

Viljoen, Perspectives on Emfuleni’s aquatic commons: a qualitative study on the Vaal River Barrage, Report 3/2007, (North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Released 2007.09.19). 

They are currently busy with a report on the environmental health of the Vaal River in the vicinity of Parys, Northern Free State. 

Prof. Elize van Eeden is continuing with comprehensive research on the Wonderfonteinspruit Catchment where mine water pollution has been responsible for creating what has been described by environmental experts as a national disaster. 

In April 2008 the RNA presented an international conference in conjunction with the International Water History Association and South Africa's Water Research Commission in the Drakensberg. The conference, entitled “Exploring trans-disciplinary discourses: water, history and the environment” in Africa was attended by more than 30 participants from Asia, Africa, Western Europe and the United States of America.  

The July issue of TD, The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa (Volume 4 No. 1) will feature a number of the papers presented at the conference. 

The RNA also produced its second Masters thesis:

• Claudia Gouws, Water en sanitasie in die landelike Hoëveldse woning 1840-1910: ‘n kultuurhistoriese studie, (North-West University, Vanderbijlperk, 2007).

RHODES UNIVERSITY 

Address and contact numbers of Department

P O Box 94

Grahamstown 6140

Tel: 046 603-8330

Fax: 046 622-5049

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Current staff

• Professor P.R. Maylam  (Head of Department)
• Professor J. Cobbing
• Professor J. Wells
• Professor G. Baines
• Ms C. Tsampiras
• Dr A. Kirkaldy
• Dr E. Msindo

Visiting academics

• Dr Hugh Macmillan spent three months at Rhodes (April to June 2008) as the Hugh Le May fellow, working on a major project on the ANC in exile in Zambia.
• Professor Luise White from the University of Florida visited the university for two weeks from late May 2008, working through the Ian Smith papers in the Cory Library.

Research projects

• Gary Baines continues to work on the memory of South Africa’s border wars.
• Julie Wells is completing a project on the 1819 Battle of Grahamstown (Egazini).
• Carla Tsampiras is pursuing her research into responses to the HIV/AIDS pandemic in South Africa in the 1980s and early 1990s.
• Enocent Msindo is working on government propaganda in Rhodesia during the late colonial era.
• Alan Kirkaldy is working on sexuality at Rhodes, and on land management/game farming in the Eastern Cape.

Publications

• Gary Baines
  • Books
    • Co-edited with Peter Vale, Beyond the Border War New Perspectives on South Africa’s late Cold War Conflicts, UNISA Press, 2008.
  • Articles
    • ‘The Master Narrative of South Africa’s Liberation Struggle: Remembering and Forgetting June 16, 1976’, International Journal of African Historical Studies
    • An entry on ‘Popular Music of Sub-Saharan Africa’ in The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Culture: Volume 5: Sub-Saharan Africa.
• Julie Wells
  • Books
    • Rebellion and Uproar: Makhanda and the Great Escape from Robben Island, 1820 (Hidden Histories Series), UNISA Press in 2007
  • Articles
    • “Forging unity in diversity? Today’s South African heritage practice and the post-apartheid recovery process”, International Journal of Diversity in Organisations, Communities and Nations, 2007 (electronic journal)
• Enocent Msindo
  • Articles
    • “Ethnicity and nationalism in urban colonial Zimbabwe: Bulawayo 1950-1963”, Journal of African History.

Conferences attended

•  
  • Paul Maylam
    • Annual meeting of the Japan African Studies Association at Nagasaki in 2007
      • Paper:  “Archetypal hero or living saint? The veneration of Nelson Mandela”
    • British World Conference in Bristol, July 2007
      • Paper:  “Man of two worlds?  Cecil Rhodes and the making of a ‘soutie’ identity”.
  • Gary Baines
    • Conference on ‘War, Virtual War and Human Security’ by Inter-Desciplinary.Net, Budapest, May 2007.
      • Paper: “Breaking Ranks: Secrets, Silences and Stories of South Africa’s “Border War”
    • Basler Afrika Bibliographien Seminar, Basel, Switzerland, December 2007.
      • Paper: ‘The Battle for Cassinga: Conflicting Narratives and Contested Meanings’
  • Alan Kirkaldy
    • The international conference “A World Elsewhere: orality, manuscript and print in colonial and post-colonial cultures” in Cape Town, 2007.
      • Paper: “Illuminating the Darkness: Missionary attempts to decode and inscribe themselves on the environment of Vendaland in the nineteenth century”
    • The international conference entitled “Christian Missions in 19th and 20th Century South Africa”, hosted by the Berlin Society for Mission History and the History Department at Rhodes University in July 2007.
      • Paper (with L Kriel): ‘Praying is the work of men, not the work of women’: Missionary reportage on responses to their conversion strategies as a source to configure gender politics in pre-colonial African societies’.

Postgraduate studies completed

• MA
  • Sean Greyling, “Rhodes University during the Segregation and Apartheid Eras, 1933 to 1990” (earned a distinction).

Student numbers 

Prizes

• Carla Tsampiras won the Vice-Chancellor’s Distinguished Teaching Award for 2007.

UNIVERSITY OF THE FREE STATE 

Address and contact numbers of Department

Department of History

University of the Free State

P. O. Box 339

Bloemfontein

9300 

Mrs J. Viljoen – secretary:  051 – 401 2330

Prof. André Wessels – departmental chairperson:  051 – 401 2488

Fax:  0865185582 or 051-4445803 

Current staff

• Prof. André Wessels (departmental chairperson)
• Dr J-A. Stemmet
• Dr M.M. Oelofse
• Mr C.M. Twala
• Mr Q.T. Koetaan
• Mrs I.S. Bredenkamp (new appointment, three-year contract)
• Mrs J. Viljoen (secretary)

Research projects

• Prof. André Wessels
  • The history of the Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902) and its consequences
  • The history of the South African National Defence Force, with special reference to the South African Navy
• Dr Jan-Ad Stemmet
  • Censorship, and freedom of speech
  • Media history
• Dr Marietjie Oelofse
  • Women as victims and their testimonies:  an oral history project
• Dr Jan-Ad Stemmet and Dr Marietjie Oelofse
  • Poverty in twentieth-century South Africa

Publications

• Books
  • Wessels, Lord Kitchener and the war in South Africa 1899-1902.  Stroud (England):  Sutton Publishing Limited, 2006.  xxvi plus 371 pages.  ISBN 0-7509-4557-5.

• Articles
  • A. Wessels, "Buitelandse vlagvertoonbesoeke aan Suid-Afrikaanse hawens" (3 parts), Journal for Contemporary History 31(1), June 2006, pp. 81-98;  31(2), September 2006, pp. 78-102, and 32(1), June 2007, pp. 222-247.
  • A. Wessels, "The South African Navy during the years of conflict in Southern Africa, 1966-1989", Journal for Contemporary History 31(3), December 2006, pp. 283-303.
  • A. Wessels, "Skout-admiraal (JG) André Burgers se vlootherinneringe aan die jare van die 'grensoorlog', 1966 tot 1989", Journal for Contemporary History 31(3), December 2006, pp. 304-325.
  • A. Wessels, "Veertig jaar se ondersteuning ter see.  Gevegsteunskepe in die Suid-Afrikaanse Vloot, 1967-2007 (1):  SAS Tafelberg en SAS Drakensberg", Journal for Contemporary History 32(2), December 2007, pp. 164-182.
  • D. du Bruyn and A. Wessels, "Vrees as factor in die regse blanke politiek in Suid-Afrika tydens die eerste dekade van die apartheidsera, 1948-1958", Journal for Contemporary History 32(2), December 2007, pp. 78-94.
  • J-A. Stemmet, "Troops, townships and tribulations:  deployment of the South African Defence Force (SADF) in the township unrest of the 1980s", Journal for Contemporary History 31(2), September 2006, pp. 178-193.
  • C. Twala and L. Barnard, "The incorporation of Botshabelo into the former Qwaqwa homeland:  a logical consequence of the apartheid system?", Journal for Contemporary History 31(1), June 2006, pp. 162-177.
  • C. Twala, "The Bethany Mission Station:  the first successful land claim in the Free   State", Journal for Contemporary History 32(1), June 2007, pp. 1-14.
  • C. Twala, "The emergence of the student and youth resistance organizations in the Free State townships during the 1980s:  a viable attempt to reorganize protest politics?", Journal for Contemporary History 32(2), December 2007, pp. 39-55.

Conferences attended and papers delivered

• A Wessels

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  • The 33rd Congress of the International Commission of Military History, Cape Town, 17 August 2007.
  •  
    • Paper:  "A rapid reaction force for Africa, with special reference to Southern Africa and the role that the South African National Defence Force can play"
  • Pre-conference workshop of the South African Communication Association, Bloemfontein, 19 September 2007.
    • Paper:  "How to publish and not to perish" (keynote paper)

MM Oelofse

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  • Annual National Oral History Conference, Polokwane, 24 October 2007.
    • Paper:  "Remembering the truth:  an oral history perspective on the victim hearings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission"

Postgraduate studies completed in 2008

• Ph.D
  • J. Buys, The transformation of the South African Police from a military force to a service delivery agency, 1980-1998:  a historical assessment.  Supervisor:  Prof. S.L. Barnard.

Student numbers (first semester 2008)

NRF ratings

• André Wessels:  C1

New modules and courses

• New undergraduate courses (first-, second- and third-year levels), as well as a new Honours course and a new structured M.A. (coursework) will be presented from 2010 onwards.

STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY 

Address and contact numbers

Private Bag X1, Matieland 7602, South Africa

Tel:  021 8082177

Fax:  021 8082389

E-mail:  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

Conferences attended and papers delivered

Anton Ehlers

• Business History Conference 31 May-2 June 2007, Cleveland, Ohio “Entrepreneurial Communities”.
  • Paper:  Renier van Rooyen and Pep Stores Limited:  The Genesis of a South African Entrepreneur and Retail Empire.
• Association of Business Historians Annual Conference 4 -5 Julie 2008, University of Birmingham, England:  “Business History After Chandler”.
  • Paper:  Black economic empowerment, apartheid style:  The case of Pep Stores Peninsula Limited, 1973-1974.

Albert Grundlingh

• Biennial conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, 7-9 July 2008 (Grahamstown, South Africa).
  • Paper:  "Are we Afrikaners getting too rich?' Cornucopia and change in Afrikanerdom in the 1960's".
• Sport History and Sport Studies in Southern Africa.  International Conference at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 29 June - 3 July 2008.
  • Paper:  Rands for Rugby:  Ramifications of the Professionalisation of South African Rugby, 1995-2007.

Sandra Swart

• Biennial conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, 7-9 July 2008 (Grahamstown, South Africa).
  • Paper:  “The laughter of the Afrikaner” – towards a social history of humour.
• Sport History and Sport Studies in Southern Africa.  International Conference at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, 29 June - 3 July 2008.
  • Paper:  Thoroughbreds? Four centuries of race and racing in southern Africa.

• Articles
  • BOTHA RP. On homesign systems as a potential window on language evolution. Language & Communication 2007; 27: 41-53.
  • BURDEN M. Museums and the Intangible Heritage: the Case Study of the Afrikaans Language Museum. International Journal for Intangible Heritage 2007; 2 : 81-92.
  • CALLISTER G. Patriotic duty or resented imposition? Public reactions to military conscription in white South Africa. 1952-1972. Scientia Militatia: South African Journal of Military Studies 2007; 35(1) : 46-67.
  • DUFF S E. "Oh! for a blessing on Africa and America": The Mount Holyoke System and the Huguenot Seminary, 1874-1885'. New Contree 2005; 50: 95-109.
  • EHLERS A. "Negentiende- en Twintigste- Eeuse Plattelandse Afrikaanse Trustmaatskappy en Eksekuteurskamers: 'n Evaluering van hulle Kenmerke, Bydrae en Agteruitgang. Historia 2007; 52(2) : 50-82.
  • EHLERS A. Trust companies and boards of executors vs banks: Aspects of the battle for corporate trusteeship and trust business in South Africa up to 1940. South African Journal of Economic History 2007; 22(1&2): 22-50.
  • EVERINGHAM M, JANNECKE C, PALMER R. "Getting your Own Back: Land Restitution Among the Oneida Indians of North America and the Tsitsikamma Mfengu of South Africa. Safundi:Journal of South African and American Comparative Studies 2007; 8(4) : 435-458.
  • GRUNDLINGH AM. Revisiting the "old" South Africa: Excursions into South Africa's tourist history under apartheid, 1948-1990. South African Historical Journal 2006; 56 : 103-122.
  • GRUNDLINGH AM. Die historiese in die hede: Dinamika van die De la Rey-fenomeen in Afrikanerkringe, 2006-2007. New Contree 2007; 53(1) : 135-158.
  • GRUNDLINGH AM. "Are we Afrikaners getting too rich?' Cornucopia and change in Afrikanerdom in the 1960's" in Journal of Historical Sociology, 3, September 2008.
  • HAARHOFF J, KORF L. ABA Brink - pioneer of South African engineering geology. Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Natuurwetenskap en Technologie 2007; 26(2) : 139-150

• • KORF L. Podium and/or Pulpit? D.F. Malan's role in the politicisation of the Dutch Reformed Church, 1900-1959. Historia 2007; 52(2) : 214-238.
  • POTGIETER TD, GRUNDLINGH AM. Admiral Elphinstone and the Conquest and Defence of the Cape of Good Hope, 1795-96. Scientia Militaria: South African Journal of Military Studies 2007; 35(2) : 39-67.
  • SCHOLTZ WL VON R. Die Ontwikkeling van die S.A. Leër in die Grensoorlog, 1966-1989. Journal for Contemporary History/joernaal Vir Die Eietydse Geskiedeness 2006; 31(3) : 112-130.
  • SWART SS. "But Where's the Bloody Horse?": Textuality and Corporeality in the "Animal Turn". Journal of Literary Studies/tydskrif Vir Literatuur Wetenskap 2007; 23(3) : 271-292.
  • SWART SS. "Motherhood and Otherhood" - gendered citizenship and Afrikaner women in the South African 1914 Rebellion. African History Review 2007; 39(2) : 41-57.
  • VISSER WP. Afrikaner responses to post-apartheid South Africa: Diaspora and the re-negotiation of a cultural identity. New Contree 2007; 54 : 1-24.

International conference proceedings

• VISSER WP. "Labour and Right-wing extremism in the South African context - A historical overview". International Conference of Labour and Social History, Linz, 2006. AK-Bildungshaus Jägermayrhof, Linz, Austria, Akademische Verlagsanstalt, Oststraße 41, Leipzig 2007: 125-148.

Books

• GILIOMEE HB. Nog altyd hier gewees: Die storie van 'n Stellenbosse gemeenskap. NB (Tafelberg) Uitgewers, Cape Town, South Africa 2007:252 pp.
• VAN SITTERT L, SWART SS. Canis Africanis. A Dog History of Southern Africa. Brill, Leiden Boston, Netherlands 2008:295 pp.

Chapters in Books

• BANKOFF G, SWART SS. "Together yet apart": Towards a horse-story. In Breeds of Empire. The "Invention" of the horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950, Nias Press (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007: 153-154.
• BANKOFF G, SWART SS. Breeds of Empire and the 'Invention' of the horse. In Breeds of Empire. The "Invention" of the horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950, Nias Press (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007: 1-18.
• GRUNDLINGH A. "Rands for rugby: Ramifications of the professionalisation of South African rugby, 1995-1997" in G Ryan (ed.), Changing face of rugby, Cambridge Scholars Press, 2008.
• SWART SS. Riding High - Horses, Power and Settler Society in southern Africa, c. 1654 - 1840. In Breeds of Empire. The "Invention" of the horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950, Nias Press (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007: 123-140.
• SWART SS. The "Ox that deceives": The meanings of the "Basotho Pony" in Southern Africa. In Breeds of Empire. The "Invention" of the horse in Southeast Asia and Southern Africa 1500-1950, Nias Press (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies), Copenhagen, Denmark, 2007: 141-150.
• VISSER WP. "A racially divided class. Strikes in South Africa, 1973-2004. In Strikes around the world 1968-2005. Case-studies of 15 countries, Aksant Academic Publishers, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 2007: 40-60.
• VISSER WP. "Afrikaner anti-communist history production in South African historiography". In History making and Present Day Politics. The Meaning of Collective Memory in South Africa, Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, Uppsala, Sweden, 2007: 306-370.

Doctoral completed

• KGARI-MASONDO MC. "A Superstitious Respect for the Soil"?: Environmental history, social identity and land ownership - a case study of forced removals from Lady Selborne, c.1905 to 1977. DPhil, 2007. 322 pp. Promotor: Swart SS.
• NYANGONE N. South Africa's relations with Gabon and the Ivory Coast: 1969-1994. DPhil, 2007. 254 pp. Promotor: Grundlingh AM.

Masters completed

• CALLISTER G. Compliance, Compulsion and Contest: Aspects of Military Conscription in South Africa. 1952-1992. MA, 2007. 164 pp. Studieleier: Grundlingh AM.
• KERSEBOOM S. 'Our Khoi Heroine'. Remembering and Re-Creating Sara Baartman in Post Apartheid South Africa, 1994-2007. MA, 2007. 162 pp. Studieleier: Swart SS.

NRF ratings

• Albert Grundlingh: B1
• Sandra Swart:  Y1

Visiting academics

• Dr Crystal Jannecke:  Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship 2007 and 2008
• Prof Trevor Getz from San Francisco State University:  Fullbright Scholarship Programme
• Prof Cathy Burns (UKZN) was an invited speaker to our department and delivered two excellent papers - one on the use of history in understanding contemporary issues surrounding mother-to-child HIV transmission and one on the politics of South African universities, through the lens of a recent campus rape at UKZN.
• Prof FA Mouton (Unisa) was an invited speaker to our department and delivered an excellent paper:  “‘Keeper of her father’s flame’: Filial piety, historical truth and Bettie Cloete’s authorised biography of F.S. Malan”.  The paper is an attempt to get behind Cloete’s monument to her father by investigating the reasons why the senator ensured that his daughter would write his biography, and to evaluate his role in determining the nature and content of the book.

Student numbers 2008 

UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA 

Contact number of department

History office email address office no. tel.

[Tel. numbers: note that the part after 355- is the internal extension;

e.g. 355-5050 is ext. 5050.]

Head of Department: [VACANT] 355-5050

Ms G. Thabeng Personal Assistant & Secretary to Head

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STAFF (History Division and Archaeology Unit) 

Barei, Mr. G B

Lecturer in History

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BA, PGDE (UB), MA & MPhil (SOAS, London)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Political history of Botswana; contemporary chieftainship in

Botswana; nationalism and Islam in North Africa; labour in Algeria and Tunisia. 

Bennett, Dr B.S.

Senior Lecturer in History

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MA (Canterbury), PhD (Cambridge)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Modern British politics; religious history; colonial Botswana;

New Zealand; the British Empire. 

Bolaane, Ms. M.M.

Lecturer in History

< This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it > 239/ 355-2670

DSE, BEd, (UB) MA (SOAS, London), DPhil (Oxford)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Pastoralism and development in eastern Africa; colonial

policies and land use in East Africa; Gender studies and education. 

Gumbo, Mr. G.B., Lecturer in History (study leave)

BA, PGDE, MA (UB)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Economic history; peasantry in Botswana especially and Third

World in general, and modern world economic concerns. 

Kanduza, Prof. A.K.

Associate Professor in History

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Dip.Ed.(Kabwe),BA Ed & MA (Zambia), PhD. (Dalhousie), PDI Law (Zambia)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Behavioural change and HIV/AIDS; Swaziland socioeconomic change since 1931 & South Africa’s economic hegemony since 1965. 

Merlo, Ms S.

Lecturer in Archaeology

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BA & MA (Padova) MPhil (Cambridge)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: GIS and Remote Sensing applications; landscape archaeology;

Saharan archaeology; theories of archaeological representation 

Mgadla, Prof. P.T.

Associate Professor in History

A.T.C (Francistown), BA+CCE (UBS), MA & PhD (Boston)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Political, educational and mission history in southern Africa

with special reference to Botswana. 

Makgala, Dr C.J.

Senior Lecturer in History

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BA, PGDE (UB), MPhil & PhD (Cambridge)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Indirect rule, race & tribal relations, democracy & partisan

politics, intra elite politics; NAMPAD, refugees & illegal immigrants; witchcraft and magic 

Mokopakgosi, Dr. B.T., Senior Lecturer in History (on secondment)

BA+CDE (UBS), MA (Johns Hopkins) PhD (SOAS)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Mining and labour Issues in southern Africa, with special

reference to Namibia. 

Molefi, Dr. R.K.K

Senior Lecturer in History

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BA (UB), MA & PhD (Dalhousie)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Medical history of Botswana, especially epidemics and

nutrition; southern African sports history; eastern African ecology 

Mooketsi, Ms. C (on study leave)

Lecturer in Archaeology

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BA & PGDE (UB), MPhil (Bergen)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Bioarchaeology, palaeo-faunal record of Botswana and

Southern Africa. 

Morapedi, Dr. W.G.

Lecturer in History

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BA, PGDE (UB) MA & PhD (Essex)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Comparative agrarian and peasant studies in Africa and Latin America, with special reference to Botswana and Mexico. 

Mothulatshipi, Ms. S.

Lecturer in Archaeology

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244/152 355-4108

BSc Hons (East Anglia), MSc (London)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Late Iron Age; human responses and environmental change in the Shashe-Limpopo basin; landscape context of human activities. 

Parsons, Prof. Q. N. (on sabbatical till February 2009)

Professor of History

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BA (London), DipAfrStuds & PhD (Edinburgh).

RESEARCH INTERESTS: 19th-20th century Botswana history & biography; Victorian &

Edwardian Britain; history of cinema & popular entertainment. 

Pwiti, Prof.

Lecturer in Archaeology

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BA (Zimbabwe), M. Phil (Cambridge), PhD (Uppsala)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Iron Age; cultural complexity, urbanism & trade on Zimbabwe

plateau, East Coast, Zambezi & Limpopo valleys; rock art; cultural heritage management 

Segobye, Dr. A.K.

Lecturer in Archaeology

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BA & PGDE (Botswana), MPhil & PhD (Cambridge)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Farming communities in Southern Africa; settlement patterns

& land use in prehistoric Botswana; archaeology & public education 

Thebe, Mr P. (Archaeology Unit Coordinator)

Lecturer in Archaeology

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BA (UB), MA (Texas at Austin)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Lithic technology (micro wear), rock art; history of San

speaking people; culture and customs of Botswana 

Dr. A. Tsheboeng, Lecturer in Archaeology (on leave of absence)

BA (UB), MA (York), PhD (London)

RESEARCH INTERESTS: Late farming communities human responses and contribution

to environmental change in the Shashe-Limpopo basin & heritage tourism. 

TECHNICAL STAFF

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Laboratory Technician

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Cartographer

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UNIVERSITY OF PRETORIA, THE DEPARTMENT OF HISTORICAL AND HERITAGE STUDIES 

Address and contact numbers of Department 

Department of Historical and Heritage Studies

University of Pretoria

Pretoria

0002

Telephone:  012-4202323

Fax:  012-4202656

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Current staff 

• Bergh, J.S., Professor, Head of Department.  BA(Hons)(Stell) MA(Unisa) DPhil(Stell) LAkad(SA)
• Ferreira, O.J.O., Honorary Professor. BA(Hons)(UFS) MA DPhil(Pret) DLitt et Phil THED(Unisa) LAkad(SA)
• Phimister, I.R., Honorary Professor. BA(Hons)(Nottingham) BA(Hons Special) DPhil(Rhodesia)
• Harris, K.L., Professor. BA (Hons) MA(Stell) DLitt et Phil(Unisa) HED(Stell)
• Mlambo, A.S., Professor. BA(Hons)(Canterbury UK) MA(SOAS) MA(Wesleyan Connecticut USA) PhD(Duke, North Carolina, USA)
• Pretorius, F., Professor. BA(Hons) MA(Pret) Drs Litt(Leiden) DLitt et Phil(Unisa) LAkad(SA)
• Kriel, L., Associate Professor. BA(Hons) MA DPhil(Pret)
• Grobler, J.E.H., Senior Lecturer.  BA(Hons) MA DPhil(Pret)
• Machaba, A., Lecturer. BA(Hons)(Vista) MA(UP) SED(Vista)
• Sevenhuysen, K.,  Lecturer.  BA(Hons) MA HOD(Pret) L Akad (SA)
• Thotse, M.L., Lecturer. BA(Hons) MA(Pret)  Postgraduate Diploma in Heritage and Museum Studies (Pret)

The Department also utilises, on a limited scale, the expertise of professionals with practical experience as part-time lecturers in Heritage and Museum Studies and Heritage and Cultural Tourism. 

Visiting academics in 2008: 

• Norma Gaines-Hanks and Frances Kwansa from the University of Delaware visited the Department in January 2008.
• On 19 March 2008, Tula Simpson (postdoctoral fellow in the Department from the University of London) delivered a seminar on “’Umkhonto We Sizwe, we are waiting for you’:  The ANC and the Township Rebellion, September 1984 – September 1985”.
• On 23 April 2008, Jane Carruthers (Department of History, University of South Africa) delivered a seminar on “’Wilding the farm or farming the wild?’  The evolution of game farming in South Africa”.
• On 21 May 2008, Luise White (Department of History, University of Florida) delivered a seminar on “’Heading for the gun’:  skills and sophistication in an African guerrilla war”.
• Tod Leedy, University of Florida, visited the Department in May 2008 with a group of students.
• On 29 May 2008, Hermann Giliomee (Department of History, University of Stellenbosch) delivered a seminar on “Great expectations:  president P.W. Botha’s Rubicon speech, 1985”.
• Ms. Susan Tindall is visiting the Department in July and August 2008 as part of an exchange programme with Georgia State University in Atlanta, USA.
• Mamadou Diouf of the Institute of African Studies, Columbia University will visit the Department in August 2008.

Research projects 

• Alois Mlambo and Lizé Kriel in collaboration with Ian Phimister of the University of Sheffield and lecturers of the universities of Botswana, Swaziland and Zambia:  “Hegemony and power:  South Africa and the southern African subcontinent between 1965 and 2006”, with financial sponsorship from the United Kingdom-African Partnership grant of the British Academy.
• Lizé Kriel in collaboration with Archie Dick of the Department of Information Science of the University of Pretoria:  “Transvaal Africans and the ‘civilisation of the written word’:  an assessment of the meaning of German, English and Sepedi missionary publications from c. 1860-1960”.
• Lizé Kriel with historians and anthropologists from Africa, Europe and the USA:  “Religion, space and the shaping of gender encounters in Christianity”.
• Johan Bergh in collaboration with Ian Phimister (University of Sheffield), Hermann Giliomee (University of Stellenbosch), John Darwin (Oxford), Jan-Bart Gewald (Leiden) and Andreas Eckert (Humboldt):  “War, economy and society in southern Africa, 1867-1902, as well as a source publication on the correspondence and public speeches of SJP Kruger (first three of the above historians), with research grants obtained from the LW Hiemstra Trust, the Rupert Education Foundation, Het Jan Marais Foundation and ABSA.

Publications (2007) 

• Articles
• Bergh, J.S., SJP Kruger and the Transvaal hardliners on race policies and practices in the early 1870s, South African Historical Journal 58, 2007, pp. 142-173.
• Ferreira, O.J.O., Byna was Ilha de Mocambique Hollands  en die Kaap die Goeie Hoop nie, Historia 52(2), November 2007, pp. 150-185.
• Ferreira, O.J.O., Preste Joao (Priester Jan) en die Portugese omseiling van die suidpunt van Afrika, Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Kultuurgeskiedenis
• Green, A.M., Entering the ballroom:  a history of ballroom dancing in South Africa to the mid twentieth century, South African Journal of Cultural History 21(1), 2007, pp. 93-109.
• Grobler, J.E.H. & B.J. van Wyk, South Africa’s transition to democracy:  The balance of power and structural economic change, Journal for Contemporary History 32(1), June 2007, pp. 35-53.
• Kriel, L., Reverend Watkins’s books, Innovation:  a journal for appropriate librarianship and information work in Southern Africa 35, 2007, pp. 17-25.
• Larmer, M., ‘More fire’ next time? Journal of Asian and African Studies 42(1), February 2007, pp. 25-37.
• Liebenberg, E., Mapping South Africa in the mid nineteenth century:  the cartography of James Centlivres Chase, Historia 52(2), November 2007, pp. 1-18.
• Phimister, I. & B. Raftopoulos, Desperate days in Zimbabwe, Review of African Political Economy 34, 2007, pp. 573-580.
• Sevenhuysen, K. & P.J.H. Titlestad, The struggle for freedom:  Shakespeare on the Eastern Frontier, Shakespeare in Southern Africa:  Journal of the Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa 19, 2007, pp. 25-36.
• Van Onselen, C., Jewish police informers in the Atlantic world, 1880-1914, Historical Journal 50(1), 2007, pp. 119-144.
• Verbeeck, G., Die wraak van vergifnis:  moraliteit, geskiedskrywing en politiek in Suid-Afrika, Historia 52(2), November 2007, pp. 239-266.

• • Grobler, J.E.H., The Anglo-Boer War diary of Johanna van Warmelo (Brandt).
  • Grober, J.E.H., Uitdaging en antwoord.  ‘n Vars perspektief op die evolusie van die Afrikaners.
  • Harris, K.L., “Scattered and silent sources:  researching the overseas Chinese in South Africa” in C.B. Tan, C. Storey & J. Zimmermann (eds), Chinese overseas:  migration, research and documentation.
  • Harris, K.L., “A century of not belonging − the Chinese in South Africa” with D. Accone in K.E. Kuah Pearce & A. Davidson (eds), Power of memories:  negotiating belonginess in the Chinese Diaspora.
  • Harris, K.L., “The Chinese indentured labourers” in N. Brodie (ed.), The Jo’burg book − it’s people, places history.
  • Mlambo, A.S. (ed.), African scholarly publishing essays.
  • Van Onselen, C., The fox and the flies:  the world of Joseph Silver, racketeer and psychopath.

Conferences attended and papers delivered (2008) 

• J.S. Bergh
  • Biennial conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, 7-9 July 2008 (Grahamstown, South Africa).
    • Paper:  “A 19th century Transvaal perspective on the South African land question”
• J. Grobler
  • Nasionale konferensie van die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Kultuurgeskiedenis, 16-17 Mei 2008 (Pretoria, Suid-Afrika).
    • Paper:  “Toerisme as nuwe toekomsmoontlikheid van die verlede”
• K.L. Harris
  • National conference of the South Africa Society for Cultural History, 16-17 May 2008, (Pretoria, South Africa).
    • Paper:  “Active Archives:  the University of Pretoria”
  • Biennial conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, 7-9 July 2008 (Grahamstown, South Africa)
    • Paper:  “The Chinese crisis, BEE and the past”
  • Knowledge, archives and records management conference, 5-8 May 2008 (Polokwane, South Africa).
    • Paper:  “Marketing your archives”
• A.S. Mlambo,

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  • Biennial conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, 7-9 July 2008, (Grahamstown, South Africa).
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    • Paper:  “’This is our land’:  race and land in Zimbabwe, 1890 to 2005”

• F. Pretorius,
• Conference entitled “Justifying war:  propaganda, politics and war in the Modern Age”, 8-10July 2008 (University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent, England).
  • Paper:  “Boer propaganda during the South African War, 1899-1902”
• Simposium van die Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns oor “Grondhervorming en diversiteit”, 19-20 Junie 2008, (Stellenbosch, Suid-Afrika).
  • Paper:  “’Die strewe na ‘n beter balans.’  Die geskiedenisprojek van die Geskiedeniskommissie van die Suid-Afrikaans Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns”
• M.L. Thotse
• 7th conference of the International Society for the Oral Literatures of Africa (ISOLA), 11-15 June 2008 (Lecce, Italy).
  • Paper:  “’Psatla nkgashana’:  African traditional telepathy”

• Masters (Course Work)

• • B. Brammer, “Adele Steinwender:  observations of a German woman living on a Berlin Mission Station as recorded in her diary”
  • J. Pieterse, “Onluste in Pondoland, c. 1960”
  • E.P. Rocha, “From Jubiabá to Phalarope  the question of exclusion in Brazilian and South African literatures”
• Masters
  • C. Bevan (Van der Walt),“Putting up screen:  a history of television in South Africa, 1929-1976”
  • V.R. Heunis, “Monumente en gedenktekens opgerig tydens die simboliese ossewatrek en Voortrekkereeufees, 1938”
  • C.P. Jooste, “Machadodorp:  tot en met dorpstigting, 1904”

• Doctorate
  • W.J. Pretorius, “Heidelberg en die Anglo-Boereoorlog, 1899-1902”

Student numbers (2008) 

NRF ratings 

Two members of the Department, Johan Bergh and Fransjohan Pretorius received ratings from the NRF.  Charles van Onselen, research professor at the University of Pretoria, who is involved in teaching an honours course in the Department, received an A rating from the NRF, which is at present under review. 

Community projects 

The disciplines of History, Cultural History, Heritage and Cultural Tourism and Heritage and Museum Studies presented in the Department, serve the community directly and indirectly, as the contents of these disciplines deal with aspects concerning the community.  Skills and topics, which are dealt with in these courses, include documenting the oral history of various cultural groups in South Africa, family history and the documenting and conservation of the living culture of various communities in South Africa.

In these courses, students are trained to become leaders and facilitators of history and heritage in their communities.  An awareness of the opportunities available in the tourism and heritage industries is also developed. 

Individuals, organisations and institutions constantly approach the Department with queries relating to history, aspects on heritage, heritage sites, historical buildings, heritage conservation, cultural tourism and questions on museological aspects.  All lecturers in the Department are involved in answering these questions particularly in their field of specialisation.  The feedback has always been favourable. 

Various members of the Department are sporadically involved in the channelling of expertise to the broader public and community.  Examples are:

• presenting of lectures on historical topics to non-professional audiences at schools, youth and senior cultural organisations, readers’ circles and art festivals.
• answering of queries from the public including scholars, teachers, community leaders, journalists and other media.
• acting as advisors to and participating in radio talks and television programmes.
• participating in the organisation of commemorations and celebrations.

With regard to professional involvement of staff members in community activities, the Department renders a service on national level in the following ways:

• advisors to and participation in heritage task groups

M. Van Heerden:  South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) Audit 2006:  Team leader for Heritage Audit of three ministerial houses in Pretoria and the Union Buildings.

• participation as ministerial-appointed members in national councils and panels

K.L. Harris:  National Archives Advisory Council (2005 -    )

F. Pretorius:  Research Advisory Council of the Heritage Council of South Africa (since 2006)

M. van Heerden:  Northern Flagship Institute (2 terms – 2003-2009) 

The Department is also involved in continuing education through the following initiatives:

• The Heritage and History Centre

The Heritage and History Centre is primarily involved with various aspects related to the B Heritage and Cultural Studies programme.  It is specifically involved in facilitating the practical component of the honours course (BHCS), with the operation of “UP Campus Tours”.  The Centre also coordinated the accreditation of students as Gauteng registered tour guides with the SA Tourism Board in collaboration with the Unisa African Centre for Arts, Culture and Heritage studies.  In addition, the Centre also acted as a forum for community related heritage and tourist projects and events.

The Heritage and History Centre is also in the process of establishing various short courses through the campus company Continuing Education at University of Pretoria (Pty) (Ltd) (CE at UP).  Courses will be presented for tour guide registration with the SA Tourism Board at provincial level, as well as national accreditation for all nine provinces.  In addition, there will be refresher courses for currently registered tour guides.  These courses will be offered at affordable and competitive prices as a service to the community.  Moreover, the idea is to use the funds generated from this effort to subsidise the students enrolled for the BHCS degree to obtain their professional registration and Gauteng accreditation.

• UP Campus Tours

As already mentioned, as part of one of the modules in the Honours degree in Heritage and Cultural Tourism −Trends in Heritage and Cultural Tourism − students have to participate in the practical running of a tour operating organisation.  This organisation, entitled “UP Campus Tours”, offers customised tours on the University’s Main Campus to a wide range of visitors, including high profile visiting academics, foreign dignitaries, exchange students, first year students, prospective students, parents, new academic and administrative staff, sundry visitors as well as school groups.

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  The following are tours offered by UP Campus Tours:

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  • General Campus Tours (Historical overview of Faculty Buildings and campus in general)
  • Cultural Campus Tours (Cultural Affairs and on campus Museums)
  • Historical/Architectural Campus Tours (History of both the campus and its buildings)
  • Science Campus Tours (Tours focusing on the Sci-Enza and Camera Obscura)
  • Natural Sciences Campus Tours (Tour of the Botanical Gardens on campus)
  • Introductory Campus Tours (Introducing prospective students and parents to the campus)

Visiting fellowships 

Tula Simpson (postdoctoral fellow in the Department from the University of London). 

General: 

The Department’s student organisation, Histeria, provides a special service to students in channelling student enthusiasm for historical, cultural and heritage studies.  Events, like braais, movies on historical events, museum visits, talks, outreach programmes and projects are planned throughout the year.

Histeria, started of its activities for 2008 with the showing of the film 300 on 10 April 2008.  Students also enjoyed wine and pizza while watching and discussing the film.  On 20 May 2008, students watched The other Boleyn girl. 

UNISA 

Address and contact numbers of Department: UNISA

Department of History, UNISA, PO Box 392, 0003

Admin officer: Ms A Theron, 012-429-6842, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  

Current Staff

Head of the Department

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  • Prof Russel Viljoen (NRF-rated) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Associate Professors

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  • Prof Jane Carruthers (NRF-rated) ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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  • Prof Alex Mouton  (NRF-rated) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Senior Lecturers

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  • Dr Tilman Dedering (NRF-rated) This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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  • Ms Melanda Blom This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • Ms Henriëtte Lubbe This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
  • Ms AH van Wyk This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Retired

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  • Prof Japie Brits and Ms Judith Taylor retired at the end of 2007

Dr Mucha Musemwa has left UNISA and has been appointed at Wits 

Recent Deaths

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  • Two of our ex-colleagues have died in July 2008
    • Prof Burridge Spies
    • Mr Louis Claassen

Visiting academics

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  • Prof Dunbar Moodie
  • Prof Allesandro Truilzi

Research Fellows:

• Prof Gerrit Schutte
• Prof Norman Etherington
• Prof Zolani Ngwane
• Prof Andy Manson
• Prof John Higginson
• Prof Dunbar Moodie
• Prof Alan Jeeves
• Dr Bridget Theron.

Research projects and work in progress

• Russel Viljoen: with Robert Ross and Fiona Vernal
  • The Census of 1849
• Henriëtte Lubbe
  • History of mentality (eg voting behaviour, identity issues, cross-cultural interaction, etc); history of water; history of sport; Distance education
• Alex Mouton
  • FS Malan
• Dionē Prinsloo
  • Hannes Hattingh
  • Movement Save Church Square
  • Flemish-Afrikaans cultural links
  • Afrikaans women in the 20th century

Conferences attended, papers delivered and publications: January to July 2008:

• Prof Russel Viljoen:
  • Second Annual Conference of the Art Historical Work Group of South Africa, 13-14 March 2008: Space and Place and/or Spaces and Places: Production, Process and Contestation
    • Paper:  "Capturing, Categorising and Caricaturing the Khoikhoi in Cape colonial Art". Charles Davidson Bell and his depiction of Khoikhoi identities at the Cape during the mid-19th century"
• Prof Jane Carruthers:
  • Literary Studies and Environmental Studies in Africa. Kansas University, Lawrence, Kansas. March 2008.
    • Paper:  Romance, reverence, research rights: Writing about elephant hunting and management in southern Africa, 1850-2007’
  • Royal Society of South Africa, Centenary Conference, Cape Town, April 2008.
    • Paper:  ‘From eradication to husbandry: Game ranching in South Africa, c.1960 to the present’
  • Plenary speaker: closing session. Conference: Civilizing nature: National parks in transnational historical perspective. German Historical Institute, Washington DC. June 2008.
  • Historical Association of South Africa Conference, Grahamstown, July 2008.
    • Paper:  ‘“Wilding the farm or farming the wild?” The evolution of game ranching in southern Africa, 1960s to the present’
  • Seminar series in Environmental and Agricultural History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Department of History, February 2008.
    • Paper:  ‘“Wilding the farm or farming the wild?” The evolution of game ranching in southern Africa, 1960s to the present’
• Dr Tilman Dedering

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  • Associations of German and Swiss Africanists (VAD & SGAS) International Conference on African Studies: Frontiers and Passages, Freiburg & Basel, 14-17 May 2008

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    • Paper:  ‘Petitioning Geneva. The politics of protest in Namibia after the First World War’

• Me Henriëtte Lubbe
  • International Conference on Exploring Transdisciplinary Discourses: Water, Society and the Environment in Africa’ (20-24 April 2008) The Nest, Drakensberge.
    • Paper:  ‘The history of water as a medium for exercise, fitness training and rehabilitation in South Africa from the late 1980s to the present’
  • International Conference on the History of Sport and Sport Studies in South Africa’, 30 June-1 July 2008, Stellenbosch.
    • Paper:  ‘The history of aquatic exercise in the rehabilitation and cross-training of athletes in South Africa since the early 1990s’
• Dr Dionē Prinsloo
  • Conference of Association for South African indexers and bibliographers, Johannesburg  7 May 2008.
    • Paper:  ‘An overview of the role of Afrikaans women in the 20th century’
• Mr Nicholas Southey
  • Migration and Culture in the Dutch Colonial World conference, University of Stellenbosch, 25 – 28 March 2008.
    • Paper:  ‘The study of heritage in South African universities with special reference to Gauteng’

Publications

• Books
  • Jane Carruthers
    • Lead author for chapter 1 in the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s Scientific Assessment of Elephant Management in South Africa, 2007, which will be published during 2008 by Wits University Press: R.J. Scholes and K.G. Mennell (eds) Assessment of South African Elephant Management.
    • Consultant editor for: J. Stevenson-Hamilton, South African Eden. Penguin Modern Classics, 2008.
    • P. Bonner, A. Esterhuysen and T. Jenkins, eds, The Search for Origins: Science, History and South Africa’s Cradle of Humankind. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand Press, 2007. Chapter entitled, ‘Early Boer Republics: Changing political forces in the Cradle of Humankind, 1830s to 1890s.’
    • P. Delius, ed., Mpumalanga: History and Heritage. Pietermaritzburg, University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2007. Chapter entitled, ‘Nature conservation and natural resource management: 1870s-2000’.

• Articles
  • Jane Carruthers
    • ‘Scientists in society: A History of the Royal Society of South Africa’, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 63, 2008:1-30.
    • ‘Conservation and wildlife management in South African national parks 1930s-1960s’, Journal of the History of Biology, 41, 2008: 203-236.
    • ‘“South Africa: A world in one country”: Land restitution in national parks and protected areas’, Conservation and Society, 5(3) 2007:292-306.
    • ‘Influences on wildlife management and conservation biology in South Africa c.1900 to c.1940’, South African Historical Journal 58, 2007:65-90.
  • Ms Annie van Wyk
    • “Die Rol van die Verligtes in die Grondwetlike Onderhandelinge”,  Historia, vol 53, no 1, May 2008,  pp 197-225.

Student numbers 

Community projects

• Dionē Prinsloo has been appointed as external advisor: Public Place and Street Names, Tshwane Metropole

New modules and courses

• Extensive re-writing and development of new courses are on track for 2010.

General

• Editors
  • Johannes du Bruyn, Nicholas Southey and Russel Viljoen are the editors of the Unisa Press publication series: Hidden Histories
  • Russel Viljoen, Greg Cuthbertson and Etta Lubbe are the editors of the African Historical Review
  • Alex Mouton is an editor of Historia
  • Nicholas Southey is the editor of The South African Historical Journal
• Jane Carruthers is as member of the programme organizing committee: World Environmental History Congress to be held in Copenhagen, August 2009.
• Henriëtte Lubbe has been invited to visit the CSIU (Central Susquehanna Interim Unit) in Pennsylvania (USA) in August 2008 in order to share ideas around tutorial materials development and the training of History teachers via distance education.

UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL 

Address and contact numbers of department

http://www.history.ukzn.ac.za

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