{"title":"“Bantustan States”","authors":"A. Lissoni, Shireen Ally","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1596405","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1596405","url":null,"abstract":"In 1951, South Africa’s apartheid state passed the Bantu Authorities Act that parcelled the entire population of black Africans into ten ethnically defined selfgoverning “homelands” or bantustans, four of which were eventually given so-called “independence.” Presented by Pretoria as a form of black self-determination, they were rejected by the liberation movement and its supporters as a political fraud: reservoirs of cheap African labour ruled by “puppet” governments, often consisting of illegitimately installed chiefs (and white civil servants on secondment from Pretoria), governed by tribal custom and coercive force. Bantustanisation was, of course, an historical failure.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"1 - 3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1596405","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41923853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Second Colonial Occupation: Development Planning, Agriculture, and the Legacies of British Rule in Nigeria","authors":"Joseph Udimal Kachim","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1507287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1507287","url":null,"abstract":"The issue of development in Africa is an extremely lively discourse, not only among academics but also among development experts and politicians. Using extensive archival data both in Nigeria and the United Kingdom, Bekeh Ukelina puts development in historical perspective by arguing that the problems of development in contemporary Africa cannot be understood without understanding its antecedents in the late colonial period. The book focuses on colonial development planning in Nigeria, and discusses how ideological bias and structural imbalances within the colonial system explain the failure of development planning, and the subsequent trajectory of development processes in Nigeria. Tracing the late colonial development approach to Joseph Chamberlain’s ideology of “constructive imperialism,” Ukelina explores colonial development shifts from the 1890s to the 1940s and suggests that Chamberlain’s idea of constructive imperialism called for increased investment in the colonies in the 1890s. This idea, according to Ukelina, was rejected by the imperial government and the first phase of the colonial occupation continued to be characterised by imperial exploitation of colonies without any substantial resource investment.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"192 - 195"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47550334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990, by Martin Legassick","authors":"Stephen Volz","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1507265","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1507265","url":null,"abstract":"(2018). Hidden Histories of Gordonia: Land Dispossession and Resistance in the Northern Cape, 1800–1990, by Martin Legassick. African Historical Review: Vol. 50, “Bantustan States”, pp. 175-177.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"175 - 177"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41986310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"State “Infrastructural Power” and the Bantustans: The Case of School Education in the Transkei and Ciskei","authors":"S. Meny-Gibert","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2019.1580422","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2019.1580422","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article I explore the authority of the state (and its “infrastructural power”) in school education in the Eastern Cape bantustans during and after “homeland” rule. I focus my narrative on the period of the 1970s, when the Transkei obtained independence and the education systems expanded substantially in both the Ciskei and Transkei. I will show that the education administrations in the Ciskei and Transkei retained weak control over the expansion of the education system, and weakly and unevenly supervised the work of teachers and the allocation of education resources in schools. Professional teacher associations played a role in containing protest against the bantustan state and the policy of separate development, but they could not cajole the compliance of a demoralised and stressed teaching population as education massified in both bantustans. Further, the education administrations struggled to regulate social relations in a way that supported the routine provision of education. While the force of a despotic “state” could sometimes be sharply felt when teachers voiced political dissent in the Transkei and Ciskei, many schools were governed with a good deal of autonomy from the bantustans’ administrations. In the post-apartheid period, the state administration remains weak in authority in the education sector. I explore some of the reasons for this continuity and its implications for education provision in the Eastern Cape today. While I make my argument for weak state infrastructural power in the case of the Transkei and Ciskei, I show that my argument may have broader relevance to other bantustans and other sectors (i.e. apart from education) in the country.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"46 - 77"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2019.1580422","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45424241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Birders of Africa: History of a Network","authors":"Admire Mseba","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1507332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1507332","url":null,"abstract":"(2018). Birders of Africa: History of A Network, by Nancy J. Jacobs. African Historical Review: Vol. 50, “Bantustan States”, pp. 196-198.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"50 1","pages":"196 - 198"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2018.1507332","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45651489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Mothers of South African Anthropology","authors":"R. Daglish","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2017.1402855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2017.1402855","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The role of women in academia is a topic that has been routinely overlooked in previous decades. This review article discusses the contributions of three recent monographs that are attempting to correct this tendency, Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and Her Interpreters, Dorothea Bleek: A Life of Scholarship, and Pioneers of the Field: South Africa’s Women Anthropologists. These works have helped not only to begin dialogues about the fundamental efforts of female anthropologists in shaping South African intellectual history and anthropology, but also to show how this greater clarity is necessary to finally correct some of the lingering imbalance that remains from prior draconian racial rhetoric.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"102 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2017.1402855","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45675634","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Coloured Cabinets: A Reflection on Material Culture as a Marker of Coloured Identity in Cloetesville, South Africa","authors":"Stephané E. Conradie","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2018.1423763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2018.1423763","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In coloured neighbourhoods of the Western Cape in South Africa, there are objects in people's homes that live in a unique historical and cultural moment. This article reports on an examination, in the neighbourhood of Cloetesville, Stellenbosch, of how these objects inside residents’ homes tell a story of a creolised people and the locations in which they are situated. In the case of Cloetesville, as in many neighbourhoods that arose from a history of forced removals, many people experience various social and economic problems. Coloured people's identities are commonly thought to rest in these problems. This article, however, seeks to suggest an alternative way of exploring coloured identity through looking at objects in households and broader living environments. Thus, I hope to provide insight into different yet distinct experiences by contributing new perspectives through looking at nostalgic and ordentlike (respectable) sentiments of belonging. Specifically cabinets in living rooms are conceptualised as repositories of such sentiments in the home, and how the objects residing in the home have the power/ability to symbolically ground their owners in the neighbourhood of Cloetesville.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"1 - 21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2018.1423763","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43126184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“Comrade Mzala”: Memory Construction and Legacy Preservation","authors":"Percy Ngonyama","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2017.1415498","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2017.1415498","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Adopting the broad inter-disciplinary concept of “memory” and its construction in a public sphere, I examine some of the ways in which memories of Jabulani Nobleman Nxumalo, known as “Comrade Mzala” in liberation struggle circles, have been constructed and kept alive since his passing. A leading activist of the ANC, MK and the SACP, Mzala succumbed to an illness in a London hospital on February 22, 1991. A number of commemorative events and other activities, including grass-roots and branch-level initiatives, media releases, memorial lectures, colloquia and speeches and tributary statements, are analysed. Their tone, emotion, style and implicit objectives are explored. Notwithstanding the ubiquitous recognition of Mzala's liberation struggle credentials and intellectual prowess, there is no homogeneity in the manner he is remembered and celebrated; nor is there agreement in the reading of Mzala in a post-apartheid South Africa and its associated political and socio- economic context. Moreover, whilst it is predominantly organisations and individuals within the Tripartite Alliance who have been the main proponents of remembering, honouring and memorialising Mzala, there are others, outside of the Alliance and even antagonistic, who find inspiration in his radical world outlook, work and persona; and often use their memory of Mzala to critique the current political and economic conjuncture.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"101 - 72"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2017.1415498","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46546317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Making Sense of Somali History: Volume One","authors":"M. Ingiriis","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2017.1402856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2017.1402856","url":null,"abstract":"(2017). Making Sense of Somali History: Volume One. African Historical Review: Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 119-122.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"119 - 122"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2017.1402856","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45911850","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Legacy Underplayed or Ignored? Tsietsi Mashinini: The Forgotten Warrior of South Africa's Liberation Struggle","authors":"K. Maphunye","doi":"10.1080/17532523.2017.1414675","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17532523.2017.1414675","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Tsietsi Mashinini symbolises youth resistance to racism and imperialism after he heroically led the June 16 1976 Soweto student uprisings that defied South Africa's apartheid government. Subsequently, the United Nations condemned apartheid as a crime against humanity, but Tsietsi became a political exile at the tender age of 19. In exile, he formed the South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO) together with his comrades from the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC) that was banned by Pretoria in 1977 along with numerous other organisations. Ironically, Tsietsi's individual and collective legacy is underplayed or ignored in contemporary South Africa. His illustrious role has only grudgingly been recognised long after South Africa achieved liberal democracy in 1994. Yet Tsietsi's heroism and legacy inspired the students that he led when confronting the apartheid system. Like Tsietsi, thousands left the country to join the anti-apartheid liberation struggle. Thus, his activities remain etched deeply in their minds whenever they reflect on his legacy annually during the 1976 uprising's anniversary, now called Youth Day. Others put increasing pressure on apartheid at home until it relinquished power through negotiations. This article examines Tsietsi Mashinini's legacy and his contribution to South Africa's freedom struggle based on a review of the literature, historical records and media reports, theoretical reflection guided by Rational Choice Theory and Game Theory, and an analysis of the awards given to freedom struggle stalwarts and other South African luminaries. It concludes with observations on Tsietsi Mashinini's legacy, with the author's contention that his legacy—underplayed or ignored—will forever haunt post-1994 South Africa's democracy.","PeriodicalId":41857,"journal":{"name":"African Historical Review","volume":"49 1","pages":"22 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17532523.2017.1414675","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42268503","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}