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Re-locating memories: transnational and local narratives of Indian South Africans in Cape Town
(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 ...
Betwixt the oceans: The Chief Immigration Officer in Cape Town, Clarence Wilfred Cousins (1905–1915)
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
Drawing on the personal and official papers of an immigration officer, this article highlights his personality, social life, and the quotidian aspects of his work at the port. By placing the officer at the centre, instead ...
Durban and Cape Town as port cities: Reconsidering Southern African studies from the Indian Ocean
(Taylor & Francis, 2016)
This special issue arose out of a workshop titled ‘Durban and Cape Town as Indian Ocean Port
Cities: Reconsidering Southern African Studies from the Indian Ocean’, held at the University of the Western Cape in September ...
Speaking about building Rylands (1960s to 1980s): a Cape Flats history
(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 ...
False fathers and false sons: Immigration officials in Cape Town, documents and verifying minor sons from India in the first half of the twentieth century
(University of the Western Cape, 2014)
This article examines the rituals of admission to Cape Town, developed by the immigration bureaucracy at the port, for minor sons from India. It provides a context for why the entry of sons of established Indian residents ...
Paper regimes
(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 ...
Cape Indians, Apartheid and Higher Education
(University of the Western Cape, 2013)
On a Sunday afternoon, 15 November 2009, the Luxurama Theatre in Wynberg was filled to capacity as Indians in Cape Town gathered to launch the Cape Town 1860 Legacy Foundation in preparation for the 2010 events commemorating ...