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Memory, oral history and conservation at Robben Island's Bluestone Quarry
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
This article is a critical examination of a conservation project on the restoration of the Stone Wall at Bluestone Quarry on Robben Island, a world heritage site. The project attracted different stakeholders with diverse ...
Changing urbanscapes: Colonial and postcolonial monuments in Windhoek
(Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2018)
This article investigates how recently-constructed sites that anchor memories of anti-colonial
resistance and national liberation have changed the urban landscape of the Namibian capital,
Windhoek. The discussion is ...
Little Amal
(José Frantz, 2020)
When South Africa celebrated Heritage Day this year, Boschendal Estate in Franschhoek provided an ideal backdrop for the first steps of Little Amal, a three-metre puppet created by the Handspring Puppet Company from South ...
Feminist activist archives: Towards a living history of the Gender Education Training Network (GETNET)
(UNISA Press, 2018)
This article engages the dilemmas and challenges of writing histories of the recent past, and of the political agendas of intervening in those histories in the present. This is done through producing an archive of documentation ...
Fanon in drag: Decoloniality in sociolinguistics?
(Wiley, 2017)
In focus in this paper is the genre of drag, and the uses to which it is put by its proponents in subverting conventional and repressive (Western) models of gender, sexuality and race. We raise the question of to what ...
Performative ethnography: difference and conviviality of everyday multiculturalism in Bellville (Cape Town)
(Taylor & Francis, 2017)
The paper explores the benefits of performative ethnography as a methodological intervention. The intervention discussed in this paper utilizes the persuasive power of aesthetics and performance to attain participation ...
Debates on memory politics and counter-memory practices in South Africa in the 1990s
(UNISA Press, 2018)
Memory politics are often regarded as the “soft” issues contested in the aftermath of political and social upheaval. Yet critical public debates on memory, justice, impunity and reconciliation in South Africa prompted by ...
Translanguaging and English-African language mother tongues as linguistic dispensation in teaching and learning in a black township school in Cape Town
(Routledge, 2018)
Drawing on the notion of translanguaging, I show how learners in a
Black township secondary school in Cape Town use their
multilingual repertoire to achieve power, agency and voice. I use
the conceptualisation of the ...
Ecumenical ecclesiology in the African context: towards a view of the church as Ubuntu
(Stellenbosch University, 2018)
This purpose of this essay is to provide an overview of approaches to ecclesiology in the African context with specific reference to various institutional expressions of the ecumenical movement. While wider ecumenical ...
Missing and missed: Rehumanisation, the nation and missing-ness
(University of the Western Cape, 2018)
The bringing together of two lines of research that have previously been treated separately – namely the missing/missed body of apartheid-era atrocities and the racialised body of the colonial museum – animates this issue ...