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    • The letters of Sushila Gandhi: From press worker to managing trustee of Phoenix settlement in South Africa, 1927 to 1977 

      Mesthrie, UD (SAGE Publications, 2023)
      On 18 March 1949, Sita Gandhi, the eldest daughter of Manilal and Sushila Gandhi, responded to a request for information from Louis Fischer who was writing his biography of Mohandas Gandhi. The 21 years old had taken over ...
    • Mapping Bodies 

      Minkley, Emma (University of the Western Cape, 2018)
      The images in the visual essay that follows this text are drawn from a set of partnered art events, the Museum of Truth and Reconciliation and Double Portrait/Haunting Objects. The latter took place at the University of ...
    • Missing and missed: Rehumanisation, the nation and missing-ness 

      Rousseau, Nicky; Moosage, Riedwaan; Rassool, Ciraj (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 ...
    • Mueda massacre: the musical archive 

      Israel, Paolo (Taylor & Francis, 2017)
      As in Pidjiguiti in Guiné-Bissau or Baixa de Cassanje in Angola, the massacre that occurred in the northern Mozambican town of Mueda on 16 June 1960 has been inscribed in the nationalist narrative as the breaking point ...
    • Of borders and crossings: The lives of a healer in northern Mozambique 

      Israel, Paolo (Journal of Southern African Studies, 2022)
      Background: Daria Trentini’s book is a narrative exploration of the life and practice of a healer in the northern Mozambican city of Nampula. Ansha, the titular protagonist, was a Makonde migrant from the province of Cabo ...
    • Paper regimes 

      Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma (University of the Western Cape, 2014)
      In 1915 Baba Bapoo, a store assistant in Cape Town, was thrown into a state of great mental and emotional stress when he lost his permit en route to India. This was the only document that could guarantee his re-admission ...
    • The political sublime: reading Kok Nam, Mozambican photographer (1939-2012) 

      Assubuji, Rui; Hayes, Patricia (University of the Western Cape, 2013)
      Kok Nam began his photographic career at Studio Focus in Lourenço Marques in the 1950s, graduated to the newspaper Notícias and joined Tempo magazine in the early 1970s. Most recently he worked at the journal Savana as a ...
    • Re-locating memories: transnational and local narratives of Indian South Africans in Cape Town 

      Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma (SAGE Publications, 2017)
      This article plays on the word re-location to examine the memories of Indians in South Africa through oral histories about relocation as a result of the Group Areas Act, to memories of parents and grandparents relocating ...
    • Red assembly: The work remains 

      Witz, Leslie; Pohlandt-McCormick, Helena; Minkley, Gary; Mowitt, John (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
      The work that emerged from the encounter with Red, an art installation by Simon Gush and his collaborators, in the workshop ‘Red Assembly’, held in East London in August 2015, is assembled here in Kronos, the journal of ...
    • Santu Mofokeng, photographs: 'the violence is in the knowing' 

      Hayes, Patricia (Wiley - Blackwell Publishing, 2009)
      Born in 1956, Santu Mofokeng formed part of the Afrapix Collective that engaged in exposé and documentary photography of anti-apartheid resistance and social conditions during the 1980s in South Africa. However, Mofokeng ...
    • Shades of empire: police photography in German South-West Africa 

      Rizzo, Lorena (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
      This article looks at a photographic album produced by the German police in colonial Namibia just before World War I. Late 19th- and early 20th-century police photography has often been interpreted as a form of visual ...
    • Speak out on poverty: Hearing, inaudibility, and citizenship in post-apartheid South Africa 

      Rousseau, Nicky (WILEY, 2019)
      In 1998, Speak Out on Poverty held hearings across South Africa shortly after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) completed eighteen months of highly publicized, nationwide hearings at which victims testified. ...
    • Speaking about building Rylands (1960s to 1980s): a Cape Flats history 

      Dhupelia-Mesthrie, Uma (Taylor and Francis, 2014)
      This article draws on oral histories of Rylands, a former Indian group area on the Cape Flats. It shifts focus from narratives of dispossession to narratives of the making of a relocation site. The Cape Flats has generally ...
    • Towards a critical heritage studies 

      Rassool, Ciraj (Taylor & Francis, 2013)
      Anna Karlström’s article made me think of the inaugural conference of the International Association of Critical Heritage Studies held in Gothenburg in June 2012. At the conference, heritage scholars and graduate ...
    • Traversing ethical imperatives: Learning from stories from the field 

      Treharne, Gareth J.; Mnyaka, Phindezwa; Marx, Jacqueline (Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, 2018)
      In this chapter we integrate the lessons that are shared across this handbook through the rich, storied examples of ethics in critical research. We outline central themes to the handbook that cut across all of the sections. ...
    • Unspoken inequality: How COVID-19 has exacerbated existing vulnerabilities of asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in South Africa 

      Mukumbang, Ferdinand C.; Ambe, Anthony N.; Adebiyi, Babatope O. (Springer Nature, 2020)
      An estimated 2 million foreign-born migrants of working age (15-64) were living in South Africa (SA) in 2017. Structural and practical xenophobia has driven asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented migrants in SA to ...
    • Untangling the Lion's Tale: Violent masculinity and the ethics of biography in the 'Curious' case of the apartheid-era policeman Donald Card 

      Bank, Leslie J.; Bank, Andrew (Routledge Taylor Francis Group, 2013)
      Donald Card (1928–) is a former policeman in South Africa who became the subject of international media attention on 21 September 2004. In a highly publicised and symbolic ceremony of reconciliation inaugurating the ...
    • ‘The voices of the people involved’: Red, representation and histories of labour 

      Witz, Leslie (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2016)
      The installation artwork Red by Simon Gush (with his collaborators James Cairns and Mokotjo Mohulo) evokes two senses of representation. One is of symbolism, meaning, visual strategies, juxtapositions, silences and so on. ...