HISTORY

Badroodien, A. & Jensen, S. (2004) Fragments of a coloured history: migration, governmentality and race in Cape Town. (Paper presented at the Township Now Conference, the WITS Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), Richard Ward Building, Johannesburg, 9-11 June).

Chisholm, L. (2008) Migration, citizenship and South African history textbooks. South African Historical Journal. 60(3):353-374.

This article examines how the nation and citizenship are addressed in new South African history textbooks with reference to two key issues: changing approaches to textbook analysis, migration and xenophobia. Constructions of the nation take on special significance in this context. The article uses an approach that considers both representational issues as well as the uses of textbooks in classr...

Chisholm, L. (2008) Xenophobia and school history textbooks. HSRC Review. 6(2):27-28.

In the same week that xenophobic attacks were launched against foreigners in Gauteng, Zulu ethnic nationalists burnt history textbooks in KwaZulu-Natal. Xenophobes were characterised as `the class of 1994. The link between nationalism, xenophobia and how we understand our history is a close one, says Linda Chisholm.

Chisholm, L. & Morrow, S. (2007) Government, universities and the HSRC: a perspective on the past and present. Transformation. 63:45-67.

The article considers the history of the HSRC's relationship with government and universities in three periods (1917-1945, 1945-1990 and 1990-2005), characterising the first as relatively harmonious, the second as conflictual and the third as uneasy. Underpinning this relationship is the nature of the funding of research in universities and entities such as the HSRC. This article explores from...

Chisholm, L. (2007) Migration, xenophobia and South African history textbooks. (Paper presented at South African History Society Conference, University of Johannesburg, 24-27 June).

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Chisholm, L. (2005) The history curriculum in the (revised) national curriculum statement: an introduction. In Toward new histories for South Africa: on the place of the past in our present. Jeppie, S. (ed). Lansdowne: Juta. 177-188.

History does not refer merely, or even principally, to the past. On the contrary, the great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are consciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.

Field, S., Meyer, R. & Swanson, F. (eds). (2007) Imagining the city: memories and cultures in Cape Town. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

Cities are not only made of buildings and roads, they are also constructed through popular imagination and spaces of representation. Imagining the City: Memories and Cultures in Cape Town presents an array of oral and visual histories drawn from people, who live, work and creatively express themselves in the city. This book explores the apartheid legacies of the city and demonstrates that cu...

Gasa, N. (ed). (2007) Women in South African history: Basus'iimbokodo, bawel'imilambo / they remove boulders and cross rivers. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

In this fascinating collection, full of different textures, narratives and nuances, sixteen authors have begun to tackle the task of writing South Africa's history from an overtly feminist perspective, giving readers an opportunity to understand and reflect on debates about real women's power in completely new and fresh ways. Taking readers on an eclectic journey through the major themes of...

Heugh, K. (2010) Histoire, recherche actuelle et salle de classe: approches multilingues pratiques pour former les enseignants en Afrique. In: Chatry-Komarek, M. (ed). Professionnaliser les enseignants de classes multilingues en Afrique. Paris: L'Harmattan. 35-68.

Houston, G. (2004) The post-Rivonia ANC/SACP underground. In The road to democracy in South Africa, Volume 1, 1960-1970. South African Democracy Education Trust Cape Town: Zebra Press. 601-660.

Jeppie, S. & Diagne, S.B. (eds). (2008) The meanings of Timbuktu. Cape Town: HSRC Press.

"Salt comes from the north, gold from the south, but the word of God and the treasures of wisdom are only to be found in Timbuktu." 15th-century Malian proverb. In a joint project between South Africa and Mali, a library to preserve more than 200 000 Arabic and West African manuscripts dating from the 13th to the 19th centuries is currently under construction. It is the first official cultur...

Kok, P., Van Zyl, J. & Pietersen, J. (2006) The history and methodology of the HSRC surveys. In Migration in South and southern Africa: dynamics and determinants. Kok, P., Gelderblom, D. & Van Zyl, J. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 292-306.

Kruss, G. (2005) Distinct pathways: tracing the origins and history of private higher education in South Africa. Globalisation, societies and education. 3(3):261-279.

Magubane, B. (2000) African sociology: towards a critical perspective: the collected essays of Bernard Makhosezwe Magubane. (African renaissance series). Trenton, N.J.: Africa World Press.

Selected essays by B.M. Magubane which contain his sociological and political writings on African political history, political economy and political philosophy and constitute a vital portion of a monumental legacy to later generations.

Morrow, S. (2006) Fort Hare in its local context: a historical view. In Within the realm of possibility: from disadvantage to development at the University of Fort Hare and the University of the North. Nkomo, M., Swartz, D. & Maja, B. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 85-103.

Morrow, S. (2004) Book review: Illiffe, J. (2002) East African doctors: a history of the modern profession. Kampala: Fountain Publishers. 336 p. ISBN 9970023039. African book publishing record (ABPR). xxx (2):122.

Morrow, S. (2004) Book review: Stiff, P. (2002) See you in November: the story of an SAS assassin. Johannesburg: Galago Publications. 312 p. ISBN 1919854053 and Stiff, P. (2001) Warfare by other means: South African in the 1980s and 1990s. Johannesburg: Galago Publications. 600 p. ISBN 1919854010. African book publishing record (ABPR). xxx (2):120.

Morrow, S. (2004) Don't bite the hand that feeds you: South African education NGOs in a period of change. In Changing class: education and social change in post-apartheid South Africa. Cape Town: HSRC Press. 317-337.

This chapter outlines the history of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in the field of education in South Africa, in particular this sector's transition from the struggle against apartheid to the period of majority rule. It outlines the relationship of education NGOs with government, sees as a funder, and with other donors. It discusses tensions between service delivery and critical advoc...

Muzondidya, J. (2009) From buoyancy to crisis, 1980-1997. In: Raftopoulos, B. & Mlambo, A.S. (eds). Becoming Zimbabwe: a history from the pre-colonial period to 2008. Harare: Weaver Press. 167-200.

Zimbabwe's post-colonial history has become the subject of many interpretations. This chapter examines the changes in the history of the country from the years of economic buoyancy and politics of reconciliation in the early 1980s, through the crisis of unity in the Gukurahundi period up to the crisis of the state in the late 1990s. The main themes addresses are contestations over the restructu...

Muzondidya, J. (2009) Race, ethnicity and the politics of positioning: the making of coloured identity in colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1980. In: Adhikari, M. (ed). Burdened by race: coloured identities in southern Africa. Cape Town: Juta. 156-184.

This chapter examines the growth of a distinct coloured group consciousness in Zimbabwe. The history of this group has not only been marginalised in political and academic discourses but has also been subject to widespread popular misconception. One of the most prevalent fallacies is the notion that coloured identity is a biologically determined, inherent quality derived from miscegenation. ...

Ntshingila, L., Kanjee, A. & Frempong, G. (2009) Provincial trends in education financing: a review of the last 15 years. (Paper presented at the HSRC Social Sciences Research Conference, Birchwood Conference Centre, Benoni, 16 September).

Prosalendis, S. & Kolbe, P. (2005) Potent spaces, story places: teaching history through museums. In Towards new histories for South Africa: on the place of the past in our present. Jeppie, S. (ed). Lansdowne: Juta. 130-139.

Ralinala, R.M., Sithole, J., Houston, G. & Magubane, B. (2004) The Wankie and Sipolilo campaigns. In: The road to democracy in South Africa, Volume 1 (1960-1970). Cape Town: Zebra Press. 479-540.

Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Kalichman, S.C. & Simbayi, L.C. (2009) Introduction and overview. In: Rohleder, P., Swartz, L., Kalichman, S.C. & Simbayi, L.C. (eds). HIV/AIDS in South Africa 25 years on: psychosocial perspectives. New York: Springer. 1-9.

Much has happened since the first appearance of AIDS in 1981: it has been identified, studied, and occasionally denied. The virus has shifted host populations and spread globally. Medicine, the social sciences, and world governments have joined forces to combat and prevent the disease. And South Africa has emerged as ground zero for the pandemic. The urgent lessons in this book apply both glob...

Sithole, P. & Mbele, T. (2008) Fifteen year review on traditional leadership: a research paper. (Commissioned by the Office of the Presidency, March).

This study looks at policy and legislative issues as reflected in the government processes in the past fifteen years with reference to traditional leadership. It has looked at this through a review of policy documents, through interviews with key stakeholders in the process and through an examination of scholarly debates on traditional leadership in South Africa. The scholarly debates are quite...

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Wentzel, M. & Tlabela, K. (2006) Historical background to South African migration. In Migration in South and southern Africa: dynamics and determinants. Kok, P., Gelderblom, D., Oucho, J.O. & Van Zyl, J. (eds). Cape Town: HSRC Press. 71-96.