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{"title":"Guerilla Radios in Southern Africa. Broadcasters, Technology, Propaganda Wars, and the Armed Struggle","authors":"P. Brooke","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1988690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1988690","url":null,"abstract":"Guerrilla Radios makes an original and important contribution to the literature on southern Africa’s liberation struggles. The collected essays showcase the work of both new and established writers to argue that radio broadcasting was a crucial weapon in the armoury of liberation movements, especially while they were operating in exile. Zimbabwean liberation broadcasting (or ‘guerrilla radios’) dominates the book, but there are also chapters on South African, Namibian, Angolan and Mozambican radio stations in the period from the 1960s to the early 1990s. The authors clearly demonstrate that political elites on both sides of the liberation divide put great emphasis on control of the media and shared a belief in the importance of winning the war for hearts and minds. They argue that the media war was every bit as important as the military conflict between African nationalism and settler colonialism, which has so far received far more attention from historians. The settler media machine maintained ostensible dominance throughout the period in the form of generously funded state broadcasters such as Radio Republic South Africa, as illustrated by Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu’s chapter. Although it is not discussed here, the same was true of the press. But Guerrilla Radios argues persuasively that the radio stations set up in exile by anti-colonial liberation movements and run on a shoestring had an impact that went far beyond their limited technical and budgetary firepower. Listeners to guerrilla radio stations recall that although they often struggled to get a good signal and lived in fear of being caught, hearing subversive voices or even just strains of machine gun fire – the signature of the African National Congress (ANC)’s Radio Freedom – was enough to revive their spirits in the darkest of times. TshepoMoloi’s chapter on Radio Freedom and Black Consciousness uses oral history interviews and published memoirs to give a rich account of the psychological impact of hearing liberated voices on the airwaves, sometimes persuading young South Africans to join uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) in exile in the wake of the Soweto uprising and repression of 1976–1977. An MK veteran, Wonga Welile Bottoman, recalls how","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47453849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forging an Alternative to Separate Development: Afrikaner Sociology, the Apartheid State, and the ‘Coloured’ Question (c.1932–1984)","authors":"Janeke Thumbran","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2022.2055130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2055130","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article makes an intervention into the historiography which has positioned Afrikaner sociology as an unambiguous instrument of the apartheid state. In doing so, the article examines how leading Afrikaner sociologists used Parsonian structural functionalism to engage with the coloured question in the 1970s – articulated as the conundrum of where to position coloureds politically in the absence of direct representation in parliament. The primary argument is that this form of differentiated knowledge production was ‘alternative’ in the context of Afrikaner sociology’s early ties to Afrikaner nationalism because it challenged Verwoerdian separate development and replaced it with the idea that coloureds shared ‘common values’ with white society. This argument is made by tracing how Afrikaner sociologists’ calls for coloured representation gained momentum in the early 1970s, initiating a set of reforms which may be viewed as a resolution to the coloured question through the establishment of the Tricameral Parliament in 1984.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48537580","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No Asylum from Her Majesty: The British FCO and Complicity with Apartheid","authors":"Billy Keniston","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2022.2031264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2031264","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Jeanette and Katryn Schoon were assassinated on 28 June 1984, the victims of a parcel bomb sent to Angola by the apartheid state's security services. To understand the state's decision to assassinate the Schoons, it is necessary to look back to the Schoons' time in Botswana, where they were members of the African National Congress (ANC)'s exile structures for six years, from 1977 to 1983. I argue that the Schoons’ forced departure from Botswana in 1983 was profoundly influenced by the British government, working in support of the apartheid state. Furthermore, I argue that the UK’s complicity in this instance placed the Schoons in an unnecessarily precarious position. Without recourse to asylum in the UK, the Schoons were forced to seek refuge in a nation locked in an extended armed conflict with South Africa, and they were therefore within striking range of the apartheid state’s security forces. It seems the notion that the Schoons might end up somewhere even less safe than Botswana did not enter the equation for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO). Their only real concern was to get the Schoons away from the precious citizens of the United Kingdom.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45860259","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Pitch Battles: Sports, Racism and Resistance","authors":"Chris Bolsmann","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1960592","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1960592","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45015697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place","authors":"Nathan J. P. Hein","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1980818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1980818","url":null,"abstract":"Ashwin Desai’s Wentworth: The Beautiful Game and the Making of Place covers the history of Wentworth, a former coloured group area located in Durban, from the mid-twentieth century to the early twe...","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45231927","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reciprocity and the Moral Economy of Exchange in African ‘Tealess’ Tea Parties in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, c. 1945–1950s","authors":"Perseverence Madhuku, Joseph Mujere, Barbara Mahamba","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2022.2036802","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2036802","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent decades, historians’ understanding of colonialism has been significantly enriched, going beyond the central concepts of resistance and negotiation. Several works have been produced on various aspects of African lives in colonial cities. Yet African organisational life and networks of solidarity in such ‘restrictive’ urban spaces have been largely overlooked. In this article, we examine African ‘informal’ leisure parties known as tea parties (matiyipati) and their role as economic circuits for the African underclass in Harari Township in Salisbury. Although Africans in urban areas were offered few opportunities in the colonial economy, they were capable of exploiting the crevices in the colonial system to create an alternative, underground economy that enabled them to survive in the city. Drawing on archival sources and oral interviews, this article argues that not only were tea parties arenas for alcohol consumption and cultural resistance but they were also essential platforms for chatting new livelihoods. The moral discourse of both the organisers and patrons was founded on the premise of the right to subsistence livelihoods. As a result, the exchange at these parties remained embedded in wide socio-cultural systems of which reciprocity formed an integral part.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44136340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reconstructing a Socio-Political Narrative of High School Athletics in the Oppressed Communities of the Greater Cape Peninsula, South Africa, 1973–1994","authors":"Roderick Willis","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.2009015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.2009015","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reconstructs the history of the Western Province Senior Schools Sports Union with specific reference to high school athletics in the oppressed communities of the greater Cape Peninsula. The article looks specifically at the athletics competitions that took place at the Athlone Stadium and gives a tabular presentation of athletics competitions during the period under review. It presents the performances of outstanding athletes and juxtaposes these against White, establishment athletes. It provides an overview of the role of the South African Council on Sport (SACOS) and the impact it had on the participation of high school students in sport. Finally, the article looks at the socio-political factors that led to the demise of the Union in 1994.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41773708","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Shadow of Liberation: Contestation and Compromise in the Economic and Social Policy of the African National Congress, 1943–1996","authors":"H. Marais","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2021.1988691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2021.1988691","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46493901","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Ohm Krüger: Context, Appropriation and Irony","authors":"M. Titlestad","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2022.2061588","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2061588","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ohm Krüger premièred in Berlin in 1941 and was widely praised by audiences, critics and the Nazi high command. Joseph Goebbels, the Reich’s Minister of Propaganda, instituted a special award to honour the film, Film der Nation (Film of the Nation), and it was pronounced reichswichtig (important to the state). Ohm Krüger places in parallel the Boer War (1899–1902) 1 1 I have elected to use ‘Boer War’ instead of the more current and correct ‘South African War’ because the former accords more usefully with the language of comment and critique from 1900 to 1941. and the rise of German National Socialism. Presenting these histories as contiguous generates a series of ironies that undermine the film’s propagandist intentions. This is most striking in the concentration camp sequences at its climax. In order to consider the ways in which these scenes are at cross purposes with the ideological logic of the film, this article contextualises Ohm Krüger’s production, reviews the dynamics of its appropriation of the Boer cause, and dwells on its self-subversion. The argument concludes that totalitarianism is based, in part, on inculcating a mindset in its subjects consisting of their capacity to overlook contradictions between hegemony and reality.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42412180","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Vredeskoppie and the Afrikaner Nationalist Myth of Benevolent Paternalism","authors":"Jacobus Adriaan du Pisani","doi":"10.1080/02582473.2022.2036801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2022.2036801","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Ikalafeng, kgosi of the Bahurutshe ba ga Moiloa at Dinokana since 1877, hoped to get British support to rid his people of Boer domination and engaged in acts of defiance against the Boers. Early in 1882 a Boer commando, accompanied by General Piet Joubert, the commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, moved against the inhabitants of Dinokana, disarmed them, forced them to dismantle the fortifications around Dinokana and use the stones to build a ‘peace memorial’ (vredeskoppie), and imposed a heavy fine on them, which resulted in the loss of 20 per cent of their livestock. They were humiliated and impoverished, and did not recover from this setback. This article analyses Afrikaans-language narratives of these events written during the twentieth century from a pro-Boer perspective to show how they contributed to the mythology of apartheid.","PeriodicalId":45116,"journal":{"name":"South African Historical Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.4,"publicationDate":"2021-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49241008","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}