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Performing the struggle against apartheid opposing apartheid on stage: King Kong the musical
(Cambridge University Press, 2023)Tyler Fleming’s book provides an account of the first production of ‘King Kong’ — a musical theatre production based on the life of the boxer Ezekiel Dlamini — in 1959. This musical rankled the apartheid state partly ... -
A “poor man’s pleasure”: The cinema house and its publics in twentieth century South Africa
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2023)What do cinema houses have to tell us about the experience ofcollective leisure in early twentieth-century South Africa? Thisarticle considers how the cinema house points to unprecedentedsocial conditions that allowed the ... -
Religious leaders as agents of Lgbtiq inclusion in east Africa
(Oxford University Press, 2023)When Ugandan parliamentarians passed a new Anti-Homosexuality Bill in March 2023, they reportedly did so under pressure from, and with the enthusiastic support of, religious leaders.1 In other African countries, too, recent ... -
The ‘Rough edge of deterritorialisation’: Contemplation
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)To frame this paper, which given its focus on the installation Red should ostensibly deal with a question of aesthetics and technology, with an epigraph that situates the contemplative capacity of a cow alongside the echo ... -
Sara's suicide: History and the representational limit
(University of the Western Cape, 2000)This paper deals with cognitive failures and historiographical blind spots in legal and historical representations of the colonised subject. It concerns an archival fragment from the seventeenth century - the suicide of a ... -
Staging historical argument: History I at the University of the Western Cape
(Routledge, 1996)This article focuses on the lecture-room debates which have been the central feature of the first-year history course at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) since 1993. The UWC History Department takes the position ... -
Uncontained and the Constraints of Historicism as Method: A reply to Mario Pissarra
(Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI), 2013)Mario Pissarra’s rigorous and considered critical review of Uncontained: Opening the Community Arts Project archive (2012) marks a significant contribution to starting a discussion that the book and exhibition aimed to ... -
Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?
(Cogent OA, 2018)This study evaluates durable solutions in relation to refugees from East Africa. It particularly focuses on the Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The study is based on the ... -
Understanding refugee durable solutions by international players: Does dialogue form a missing link?
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2018)This study evaluates durable solutions in relation to refugees from EastAfrica. It particularly focuses on the Great Lakes countries of Rwanda, Burundi,Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. The study is based on the ... -
The virtual stampede for Africa: Digitisation, postcoloniality and archives of the liberation struggles in Southern Africa
(University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2007)This article presents a polemical argument for a politics of digitisation that aims to politicise the archival disciplines while making sense of the conjuncture in which digitisation initiatives are mooted in Southern ... -
When was South African history ever postcolonial?
(History Department, UWC, 2008)In this article I argue that what enabled affiliation to the larger political project against apartheid was precisely the production of a subject that was always, and necessarily, threaded through a structure of racial ... -
Worrier state: Risk, anxiety and moral panic in South Africa
(SAGE Publications, 2023)While reading Nicky Falkof’s Worrier State: Risk, anxiety, and moral panic in South Africa, I couldn’t help but think of the video of Nina Simone being interviewed that often floats around social media where she is asked ...