TUESDAY, 20 JUNE 2017

17:00-18:00

EARLY REGISTRATION: John Moffat Building Foyer

18:00 EXHIBITION LAUNCH AND COCKTAIL RECEPTION: Fassler Gallery, John Moffat Building

‘WORKING HISTORY, HISTORY WORKING - 40 YEARS OF THE WITS HISTORY WORKSHOP’

Wed, 21 June

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WEDNESDAY, 21 JUNE 2017

07:00-09:00

REGISTRATION: John Moffat Building Foyer

09:00-10:30

SESSION 1: DOROTHY SUSSKIND AUDITORIUM (A1), John Moffat Building PLENARY OPENING SESSION Official Opening: Dean of Humanities, Professor Ruksana Osman President’s Welcome: Mucha Musemwa Keynote address: Nwando Achebe – ‘Path to Understanding and Knowing: My Journey Into Being – Africanist, Gender Historian’

10:30-11:00

TEA / COFFEE: John Moffat Building Foyer

11:00-12:30

SESSION 2A: A1 Chair: Sandra Swart Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa – A Century On Brian Willan - Native Life in South Africa and Brotherhood

Khwezi Mkhize - Sol Plaatje and the Black Political Imagination

Keith Breckenridge - African Progressivism, Land and Law: Rereading Plaatje's Native Life

SESSION 2B: A2 Chair: Laura Efron Slavery, Marriage, Raids

Ettore Morelli - On the Hunt: Cattle, Beasts of Prey, and Captive Slavery on the Precolonial South African Highveld, c. 1822-1871

Joel Quirk - Native’ Marriage, ‘Domestic’ Slavery and the ‘Civilising Mission’ in Africa

Sarah Delius - The

SESSION 2C: A3 Chair: Thula Simpson “People’s Power,” “Workers’ Control” and Grassroots Politics in South Africa: Rethinking Practices of Self-Organization and Anti-apartheid Resistance in the 1980s Sian Byrne, Nicole Ulrich, Lucien van der Walt - Red, Black and Gold: FOSATU, South African ‘Workerism,’

SESSION 2D: FWS Chair: Schalk van der Merwe Nationalistic Newspapers or Not? Portia Sifelani - The Zulu pages of the Bantu World: Progress, Black Consciousness and Perceptions about White People 1932-1952

Eleanor Bron-Swart - Monarchists and traitors: Newspaper Framing of Group

SESSION 2E: TUT 001 Chair: Cornelis Muller War and Society Jacques de Vries, Anri Delport - “Now See Hear Nancy”: Sight and hearing loss of Springbok soldiers on the Somme, 1916-1918

Kyle Harmse - “An Experiment” in Race Relations: The Formation of the Cape Corps in the First World War

Esté Mari Kotzé -

SESSION 2F: TUT101 Chair: Rebecca Lee Ivory, Horses, Dagga and Abalone - Legal and Illegal Trade Linell Chewins - The Relationship Between Controlling Scarce Exotic Trade Goods and Building Political Power at Delagoa Bay, Mozambique, 1721-1731

Chris Holdridge - Bomb Plots and Pro-Boers in New Orleans: Samuel Pearson,

Wed, 21 June

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William Beinart - Agrarian issues in Native Life

Long Durée: The Intersections of Marriage and Slavery in Sierra Leone

Joshua Z. Walker - Husbands, Owners, or Both? Presbyterian Missionaries and the Slavery/Marriage Question in Colonial Congo

‘Syndicalism’ and the Nation

Leroy Maisiri - Recovering Alternative Emancipatory Trajectories in South Africa: The Independent Left, the MWT and the 1980's "People's Power" Movement

D. Zelenova, V. Kruchinsky - Personal Narratives of Reclaiming the Power in the 1980s’ South Africa

Jonathan Payn - Asinamali! (Re)Building a United Front of Communities and Workers: Contemporary Struggle, Neoliberalism and the 1984-85 Vaal Uprising

Identities and Verwoerd’s ‘Unified White’ Republic.

Sylvester Dombo, Joseph Mujere - African Newspapers, Nationalism and the Construction of a ‘Sell-out’ Identity in Rhodesia

Jephias Andrew Dzimbanhete - Silencing the Past or the Future? Distortions of Zimbabwean Liberation War History by Zimbabwean Newspapers

More than just ‘pretty girls and beer’ – White South African women and World War II

Dostin Lakika - ‘Living the past in the present’: A Reconstruction of the Memories of War and Violence of former Congolese (DRC) Soldiers Living in South Africa

Anglo-American Relations, and the Laws of Neutrality During the South African War

Thembisa Waetjen - From Noxious Weed to Dangerous Drug: Criminalising Dagga in South Africa, 1905-1928

Karen L Harris - Entangled Chinese Diasporas: Molluscs, Ungulates and Equidae

12:30-13:30

LUNCH: John Moffat Building Foyer / Library Lawns

Wed, 21 June

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13:30-15:00

SESSION 3A: A1 Chair: Paul Landau Awkward Biographies I – Zimbabweans

Timothy Burke - Off the Path: Agency and Individual Experience in Zimbabwe

Allison K. Shutt - Jasper Savanhu: History and Historiography

Jonathan Zilberg - That awkward place called truth and consequence in modern African Art History: The case of Frank McEwen and Shona sculpture from Zimbabwe

SESSION 3B: A2 Chair: Robert Houle New Histories of KwaZulu-Natal Jill E. Kelly - “If we had written an ordinary letter you would not have replied”: Revisiting the 1959 Women’s Rebellions in Natal

Nafisa Essop Sheik - Eating with Both Sides of the Jaw: The 1887 Natives Christian Marriages Act and the Unmaking of Moral Reform in Natal

T.J. Tallie - Sobriety and Settlement: the Racialized Politics of Alcohol Use in Colonial Natal, 1850-1910

SESSION 3C: A3 Chair: Natasha Erlank Constructing Gender in 20th century Transvaal Catherine Burns - City of Women - Johannesburg: The Early Years 1900 to 1940

Sasha Rai - Laws of Love: Masculinity, Intimacy and Domesticity in the Transvaal, 1946-1948

Keyan Jardine - Fast Guns, Spaldings, and Masculinity in the Gangs of Westbury, Johannesburg, 1969-1984

SESSION 3D: FWS Chair: Luvuyo Wotshela Unsettled Everyday Lived Experiences Kudakwashe Chitofiri - Heritage of Racial Segregation: The African Ghetto in Colonial Zimbabwe

Bokang Mpeta, Johan Fourie, Kris Inwood - Black Living Standards in South Africa Before Democracy: New Evidence from Heights

Thembi Luckett - Historical Progress, Utopias and the Politics of Everyday Life in Lephalale

Vuyolwethu Toli - Bodies in Physical Places: the Intersectional Experience of Not Being the Somatic Norm for Room Attendants at Rhodes University’s Housekeeping Division

SESSION 3E: TUT 001 Chair: Stephen Sparks Restructuring Late Apartheid Capital Faeeza Ballim - The Techno-politics of the Late Apartheid Era: Eskom and Neo-liberalism

Hilary Lynd - “The Soviet Union is for South Africans a Big Crystal Ball”: Others, Brothers, and the End of the Soviet-ANC Partnership

Christopher Williams, Claire Hurst - Assessing South Africa’s China Choice

SESSION 3F: TUT101 Chair: Marc Epprecht Looking Back, Looking Forward - New Ways of Historicising Barend van der Merwe, Mianda Erasmus - Adler and Smuts: How the Theory of Holism Contributed to the Development of Psychology

Rebekah Lee - Encounters and conversions: Historicizing Cultures of Death in South Africa

Sandra Swart - Blood, Bones and Baboons – Ways of Knowing in South Africa’s Environmental History

Musinguzi Kahimbaara - Aspects of Memory in Jacob Dlamini's Native Nostalgia

Wed, 21 June

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15:00-15:30

TEA / COFFEE: John Moffat Building Foyer

15:30-17:00

SESSION 4A: A1 Chair: Khumisho Moguerane The History and Future of Land Rights in South Africa

William Beinart - Do, and should, rural African families own their land? – A Historical and Legal Perspective

Michelle Hay - Customary Tenure outside of chieftaincies? Rethinking Narratives of Land Tenure and Rural Leadership in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Luvuyo Wotshela - The Socio-legal Ramifications of the Upgrading of Land Tenure Rights

SESSION 4B: A2 Chair: Enocent Msindo Contested Possibilities: The South Africa- Zimbabwe Border and Movements within and Across It Francis Musoni - Contested Illegality: South Africa’s Ban on ‘Tropical Natives’ and the Surge of Border Jumping from Zimbabwe, 1913-1933

Noa Levy - Borderline Youth: Independent Children and Youth in Beitbridge, Musina and the Spaces Between them

Olivia Klimm - Bribery and Belonging: The Case of the South African Officials at the Border with Zimbabwe

Nedson Pophiwa - Cashing in on Mobility: Cross-border Shopping and the

SESSION 4C: A3 Chair: Anne Heffernan What can’t be said – Rumour, Witchcraft, and Marginalized Historical Narratives Franziska Rueedi - 'And then we heard that the Theleweni are going to attack’: Rumour and conflict in the Natal Midlands

Saneze Tshayana - Speaking the Unspoken: Literature, Counterinsurgency and the Limits of the TRC Archive

Job Zwane - Wicked and Greedy: Gossip and Rumour Around Nurses in *Modimolle Community Hospital

SESSION 4D: FWS Chair: Glen Thompson Late Apartheid Sporting Politics Gustav Venter - Covert Moves on Grey Squares: Chess, Apartheid and South Africa’s Sporting Isolation in the 1970s

Derek Charles Catsam - A Sleazy, Grubby, Nasty Tale: The 1981 Ireland Rugby Tour to South Africa

Robert Morrell - Touch Rugby, Masculinity and Progressive Politics in Durban, South Africa, 1985-1994

SESSION 4E: TUT 001 Chair: Julian Brown Struggles for Democracy Lucien van der Walt - “One Great Union of Skilled and Unskilled Workers, South of the Zambezi”: Garveyism, Liberalism and Revolutionary Syndicalism in the ICU in Namibia, South Africa, Zambia and Zimbabwe, 1919-1949

Chitja Twala - The Qwaqwa Homeland Government and the Nuances of Political Transition and Integration into the Free State Province, 1989-1999

Tara Weinberg - Land, Law and Apartheid’s Legacy: The Role of Communal Property Associations in South Africa

Naadira Munshi - Trade Unionism in

SESSION 4F: TUT101 Chair: Jochen S. Arndt Post-independence Contestations and Political Pluralism Hezron R. Kangalawe - The Land Question in the State Plantation Forestry in Tanzania – the Sao Hill Forestry, 1962-2015

Thembani Dube - Collective Guilt and Healing Within a Historical Perspective: Lessons from the Gukurahundi Conflict

James Hlongwana - “A model without plenty”?: A Critical Assessment of the “Winner takes all” Concept in Mozambican politics 1992-2016

Justin Pearce - Contested History and Political Claim-making in Central Mozambique

Wed, 21 June

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Political Economy of the Zimbabwe- South African Borderland

Post-apartheid South Africa: The case of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU)

17:00-18:00

SESSION 5: DOROTHY SUSSKIND AUDITORIUM (A1), John Moffat Building

Plenary Discussion: Wits History @ 100!

Panelists: Cynthia Kros, Sekiba Lekgoathi, Noel Garson

Chair: Shireen Hassim

18:00-19:30

BOOK DISCUSSION: DOROTHY SUSSKIND AUDITORIUM (A1), John Moffat

Tribing and Untribing the Archive

THURSDAY, 22 JUNE 2017

09:00-10:00

SESSION 6: DOROTHY SUSSKIND AUDITORIUM (A1), John Moffat Building

Welcome Address: Vice Chancellor – Wits University, Professor Adam Habib

Plenary Discussion: Teaching History in Schools: Captured Curriculum/Political Pedagogy?

Panelists: Mumsy Malinga, Maryke Bailey, Amanda Esterhuysen and Sifiso Ndlovu

Chair: Catherine Burns

10:00-10:30

TEA / COFFEE: John Moffat Building Foyer

Thurs, 22 June

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10:30-12:00

SESSION 7A: A1 Chair: Rebecca Swartz Shifting Definitions of Childhood Lance van Sittert - Making Modern Families: Child Adoption in Beaufort West c.1910-60

Marijke du Toit - Material Imaginaries of Childhood and Familial Relationships in the Early Twentieth Century Archives of the South African Children’s Protection Act

Nonye I.S. Nnamezie, Kabir Abdulkareem - Reflecting Childhood in African History: A Study of Child Labour in South Africa

SESSION 7B: A2 Chair: Lize Kriel Men, Women and Magazines in ‘White South Africa’ During the First Half of the Twentieth Century Isabella Venter - The Modern Girl and the Lady: Negotiating Modern Womanhood in a South African Magazine, 1910-1920

Stella Viljoen - The First South African Men’s Magazine and the Sex Appeal of the Flapper

Amy Rommelspacher - Exploring Nutrition and the Identity of the Afrikaans Housewife: 1922-1945

Sarah Schwab - Of Housewives and Heroes: Gender and Ethnic Identity in German-South African Periodicals During the First Half of the 20th Century

SESSION 7C: A3 Chair: Liz Thornberry Histories from the Courts

Chavonne Cupido - Narratives of Mariticide: Female Spousal Murders and the Emergence of the South African Criminal Procedure Act, 1910 – 1935

Julie Parle - ‘Mercy killings and the bounds of compassion’: Towards a History of Euthanasia in Twentieth-Century South Africa

Susanne M. Klausen - Lovers in a Dangerous Time: The Immorality Act (1950) and the Danger of Cultural Blurring Posed by Interracial Bonds of Affection

Chet Fransch - More than a simple case of rape: The State v. Gulzaar Ebrahim, 1970-1972

SESSION 7D: FWS Chair: Franziska Rueedi Re-figuring the Bantustan Ashley Nichole Parcells - “The Empire that Shaka Zulu was unable to bring about”: The Making of the KwaZulu Bantustan, 1967 to 1970

Laura Phillips - Business in the Bantustans: Class Formation and New Capital in Lebowa, 1972 – 1994

Laura Evans - Contextualising Apartheid at the End of Empire: Repression, 'Development' and the Bantustans

Gary Minkley, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick - The Graves of Dimbaza – Dependent Space

SESSION 7E: TUT 001 Chair: Thembani Dube Ethnic Sovereignty

H.P. Dlamini, N.F. Awasom- Towards Understanding Irredentism in Southern Africa: The Case of the Border Restoration Saga between South Africa and Swaziland

George Bishi - Restitution, Claims and Succession: Dimensions of Claims to Chieftainship in Contemporary Zimbabwe

Albano Agostinho Troco - Determinants of Successful Secessions in Post-colonial Africa: The Case of South Sudan

SESSION 7F: TUT101 Chair: Neil Roos African Politics and Transnational Interventions and Ideologies in the Post-WWII Era Georgi Verbeeck - A common Volk of Flemings, Dutch and Afrikaners? Trajectories of Global Fascism in the Low Countries and South Africa

Ismay Milford – Whose Emergency?: Central African Leaders in Britain, 1959-61

Eddie Michel - Conflicting Visions of Morality: U.S. Foreign Policy Towards Rhodesia During the 1970s

Laura Efron - Radical South Atlantic: The Circulation of Latin American Ideas in South Africa (1980s)

Thurs, 22 June

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12:00-12:45

Presidential Address: Mucha Musemwa

DOROTHY SUSSKIND AUDITORIUM (A1), John Moffat Building

13:00-14:00

LUNCH: John Moffat Building Foyer / Library Lawns

14:00-15:30

SESSION 8A: A1 Chair: Stacey Sommerdyk Genocidal Violence in Africa

Mohamed Adhikari - Raiders, Slavers, Conquistadors, Settlers: The Role of Civilian-driven Mass Violence in the Extermination of Indigenous Canary Islanders

Ronel Koekemoer - “The Word ‘Afrikaners’ Means Africans—In Dutch”: Genocidal Mythologies and the Making of the South African Trekboer

Thierry Rousset - The Invisible Hand of the Market: San Genocide and the Child Labour Supply in Graaff-Reinet c.1809-1853

SESSION 8B: A2 Chair: Derek Catsam Liberation Movement Camps Kwandi Kondlo - PAC Camps and the Generation of Internal Conflict During the Exile Period – A case Study of Ruvu Camp in Tanzania

Christian A. Williams - The Camp and the Postcolony: Seeing Postcolonial Southern Africa through SWAPO’s Exile Camps

Helder Adegar Fonseca - Liberation Movements Camps and Facilities in Southern Africa: An Extensive Historical Analysis (1961-1974)

Colin Darch, Paolo Israel - FRELIMO’s Presentation of the “Traitors” at the

SESSION 8C: A3 Chair: Lucien van der Walt Out of Time? State, Labour and White Workers’ Experiences in Southern Africa, 1930s-1990s - Panel I: White Workers in the Racial State: Discipline and Negotiation Wessel Visser - The Mine Workers’ Union and the Closed Shop Principle: Sheltered Employment and Afrikaner Working-Class Identity in the Mining Industry, 1929-1948

Duncan Money - ‘The North Union will go down’: White Workers, Industrial Relations, and the State During and After Zambian Independence, 1958-

SESSION 8D: FWS Chair: Sekibakiba Lekgoathi Cultural Politics, Activism and the Media Schalk van der Merwe - Mythology, Class Division and Establishing “Authority” over Afrikaans Popular Culture, 1929 – 1938

Vincenza Mazzeo - SPEAKing a History of “Medical Feminism” and Women’s Health Activism in South Africa, 1982-1994

Christian John Makgala - The Rise and ‘Surprising’ Fall of the Motswana Woman Magazine amidst a Burgeoning Gender Movement in Botswana, 1993-1995

SESSION 8E: TUT 001 Chair: Rebecca Hodes Women and Emancipatory Politics

Holly Y. McGee - “No Mercy” on Native Women: Fact, Slander, and a Banished Mother in Basutoland

Sarah Bruchhausen - Women, Emancipatory Politics and the Mpondo Revolts

Petunia Mabokela - Looking at the Beginning from the End: The Life Experiences of Women Living Under Traditional Authority in Makapanstad from Segregation to Democracy

SESSION 8F: TUT101 Chair: Leslie Witz Recuperative Usable Histories Steven Kotze - 'The hoe burns on the back': The Concealed Contribution of Women in the Agricultural Economy of Natal and the Zulu Kingdom

Annie Devenish - Decolonising Slave Histories in Cape Town City: Cosmopolitanism, Trade and Community in the Indian Ocean World

Marc Epprecht - History in the Greater Edendale Development Initiative: Finding a Usable Past as a Tool for Community Development

Thurs, 22 June

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Nompilo Ndlovu - Traditionalism/Ancestralism in Memory-making, Memorialization and Healing of Gukurahundi Violence

Nachingwea Camp, 1975: Political Performance and the Rhetorical Reframing of Historical Narrative

1970

Nicola Ginsburgh - White Workers Under the Rhodesian Front Years, 1962-1980

Neil Roos - White Labour in the Apartheid Public Service: Class, Race and the Public Secret

Baxter Tavuyanago - #Colonial Historical Monuments Must Fall: Debates Around the Re-Naming of Colonial Relics in Independent Zimbabwe and South Africa

15:30-16:00

TEA / COFFEE: John Moffat Building Foyer

16:00-17:30

SESSION 9A: A1 Chair: Allison Shutt Awkward Biographies II - Trans-National Lives Goolam Vahed - The Past in the Present: Writing the South African Gandhi

Henry Mitchell - ‘The Myths of Kerementi’: Interpreting the Intellectual Biography of Clements Kadalie, 1930-1970

Nancy Jacobs - Washington Okumu: The Life and Work of

SESSION 9B: A2 Chair: Gary Minkley Historicising the Archives John Wright - Southern Africa before Colonial Times

Carolyn Hamilton - The Portmanteau Problem, and How Oral Traditions Got Positioned as Archive’s Other

Jochen S. Arndt - Reclaiming or Modernizing the Past? Historicizing the Hlubi Nation’s Ongoing Efforts to have isiHlubi

SESSION 9C: A3 Chair: Lucien van der Walt Out of Time? State, Labour and White Workers’ Experiences in Southern Africa, 1930s-1990s - Panel II: Precariously White? Rethinking Social Histories of White Subalterns Thomas Lesaffre - From Poverty To Whiteness: French Labour Force Migration During Apartheid

Keegan Medrano -

SESSION 9D: FWS Chair: Sandra Swart Knowing the Environment Meredith McKittrick - From Germany to the Desert: A Tale 0f Two Farmers and the Origins of Popular Climatology in Southern Africa

Enocent Msindo, Asa Mudzimu - Evictions, Migrations and Colonial Medicine in Gokwe, 1950s onwards

Katie McKeown - Conserving Indigenous

SESSION 9E: TUT 001 Chair: Susanne Klausen Social Movements and South Africa: Global Perspectives Cornelis Muller - ‘I’ve upset their applecart’: Emily Hobhouse’s Activism as Non-State Actor During the Period of Reconstruction, 1902-1910

Ana Stevenson - The Gender-Apartheid Analogy in the Transnational Feminist Imagination,

SESSION 9F: TUT101 Chair: TJ Tallie Impetuous Race Politics Mandisa Mbali - ‘A forum for political debate’: Race, Humanitarianism and South African Red Cross Incident 1986

Rebecca Hodes - Plastic Demons: anti-Semitism and the Fungibility of Race in South Africa

Caio Simões de Araújo - Poor settlers, Rich Neighbours: Race, Class and Colonial

Thurs, 22 June

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an Intelligence Asset

Recognized as a Distinct Nguni Language in Order to Affirm a Separate Hlubi Kingship in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Joel Pearson - Document Wars and the Integrity of Local Archives: the Case of Mogalakwena Local Municipality

The Kitchen Bantustan: Blurred Lines, Class and White South African Family Structures

Danelle van Zyl-Hermann - White Workers and the Politics of Reform: Rethinking Race, Class and Citizenship in Late Apartheid South Africa

Bill Freund - White People Fit for a New South Africa? State Planning, Policy and Social Response in the Parastatal Cities of the Vaal, 1940-1990

Species? Histories of Animal Translocations in Southern Africa

Joshua Chakawa , Ivan Marowa - Negotiating the Zambezi River: The Second Chimurenga and Memories of ZIPRA Combatants, 1968-1979

1972-2002

Anne Heffernan - ‘Migrant’ Teachers and the Propagation of Black Consciousness, 1972-76

Anxiety in Mozambique

Noxolo Ntaka - The Dialectic Between Being Black and Violence: A Questioning of Settler-Colonialism

18:00-19:30

BOOK LAUNCH - DOROTHY SUSSKIND AUDITORIUM (A1), John Moffat Building

‘Out of History’ and ‘Unsettled History’

Fri, 23 June

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FRIDAY, 23 JUNE 2017

09:00-10:00

SESSION 10: DOROTHY SUSSKIND AUDITORIUM (A1), John Moffat Building

BUSINESS MEETING, SOUTHERN AFRICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY - All members welcome!

10:00- 10:30

TEA / COFFEE: John Moffat Building Foyer

10:30-12:00

SESSION 11A: A1 Chair: Khumisho Moguerane Rethinking Tribalised Perspectives on the Past John Wright - Thoughts on Tribalizing in Colonial Natal, Mid-19th to Early 20th Century

Cynthia Kros - African Knowledge-Producers in Conversation with James Stuart and Henri-Alexandre Junod

Anneliese Mehnert - A Re-Consideration of the H-A Junod Collection in Response to the Call for Decolonisation

SESSION 11B: A2 Chair: Glen Ncube Intersections of History, Politics and Culture with Expressive and Performance Discourses Wonderful G. Bere - Performance Spaces as Sites of Memory

Douglas Mpondi - The Contested History and Politics of Black Economic Empowerment and Indigenization In Post-Independence Zimbabwe

Samuel Ravengai - Rhodesian Discourse, Power and the Field of Cultural Production in Zimbabwe

Praise Zenenga -

SESSION 11C: A3 Chair: Annie Devenish Space and Places of Public History Matthew Keaney - Decolonizing Reading and Democratizing History: Resource Centres and “People’s Education” in South Africa c. 1980s - 1990s

Leslie Witz - What is our history? The SACHED / Wits History Workshop Write Your Own History Project, the Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum and the University of the Western Cape Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Archive

Samuel Umoh Uwem, Oyewo Adetola Elizabeth, Isaac Makinde Akande - Ditsong Natural

SESSION 11D: FWS Chair: Helena Pohlandt-McCormick Archive Voices Ria van der Merwe - From a Silent Past to a Spoken Future: Black Women’s Archival Voices

Ivan Marowa, Sylvester Dombo - Silenced Voices Today, Important Whispers Tomorrow: Contesting and Retrieving the Future from Archives

Natalia Cabanillas - Archiving Beyond the State: Activism to Create LGTBI Existence

SESSION 11E: TUT 001 Chair: Ian Macqueen Disputed Pasts – Apartheid Rewritten Emile C. Coetzee - Justice PM Cillié’s Report on the 1964 Arms Procurement Commission

Scott Couper - ‘Some Sinister Thing Must Have Happened’: A Critical Source Analysis of Albert Luthuli’s Inquest

Lieneke de Visser - Constructing History: The Story of Flag Mokgomane Boshielo’s Death

Garth Benneyworth - Rivonia Uncovered

SESSION 11F: TUT101 Chair: Andrew Bank Unsettling Lives - Historical Actors that Challenge the Narrative Debbie Whelan - An Unlikely Association: James Allison and Langalibalele ka Mthimkhulu

Clement Masakure - The Pioneer Generation of Medical Auxiliaries and Early Hospitals in Colonial Zimbabwe, ca.1890s to 1930s

Liz Thornberry - African Law Agents and the Development of Black Politics

Fri, 23 June

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Staging the Crisis: Making History in Zimbabwean Theatre: 1998-2008

History Museums; Drivers of Reconstruction of the Past and Nation Building

Temba Middelmann - Imagining the Future through the Past: Constitution Hill’s role in Public History and Memory

12:00-13:00

LUNCH: John Moffat Building Foyer / Library Lawns

13:00-14:30

SESSION 12A: A1 Chair: Lize Kriel New Histories of SA Christianity Panel Robert Houle - Breaking Free of the Stones: Revival and Rethinking “Church” in early Twentieth-Century Natal

Henry Mitchell - Malawian intellectuals, Christianity and the Millennium in 1920s Johannesburg

Joel Cabrita - Teaching the Spirit: Bible Schools and Alternative Religious Education in

SESSION 12B: A2 Chair: Nancy Jacobs Awkward Biographies III - Late Apartheid Lives Andrew Bank - ‘Moving towards the human’: An Intellectual Biography of Iona Simon Mayer (1923-)

Paul Landau - Awkward Bio/Autobiographies from a Revolutionary Moment in South Africa's History: 1960-63

Meghan Healy-Clancy - ‘Which new era would that be?’

SESSION 12C: A3 Chair: Anton Ehlers Colonial Economic Prospections and Concessions Garth Tai-shen Ahnie - The Small Matter of £3: How the Kruger Concessions led to the Braamfontein Explosion of 1896

Timo Särkkä - The Gold of Ophir: The Zambesia Exploring Company and the Structure of Mining Finance, 1891-1914

Abraham Mlombo - The Political Economy of the British South Africa Company in Southern Rhodesia, 1889 - 1923

SESSION 12D: FWS Chair: Robert Morrell South African Sport – Inclusivity/Exclusivity Dean Allen - Empire, War and Cricket in South Africa: Logan of Matjiesfontein

Glen Thompson - Surfing with the ‘dark nations’: Hawaiian Surfers and Silencing of Black Surfing in South Africa During Apartheid

Cobus Rademeyer - Abilitating Disabilities: The Rise of Sport for People with Disabilities in 21st Century South Africa

SESSION 12E: TUT 001 Chair: Tinashe Nyamunda Dynamics of Belonging, Access to Land, and Social Relations in Zimbabwe: from Precolonial Times to the Post Agrarian Reform era Admire Mseba - Narrative, Ritual and the Politics of Land and Authority in Precolonial Northeastern Zimbabwe.

Joseph Mujere - African Farmers and the Politics of Freehold Land

SESSION 12F: TUT101 Chair: Praise Zenenga Soundscapes: The Making of Community, Space and Historical Narrative Maria Suriano - The Life History of W.O. Nyange: Fifty Years of Involvement in Tanzanian Community building

Zoe Groves - Exploring the Gule Wamkulu in the Zambezi Region: Past and Present

Sayaka Kono - Talking to the “Nation”: The Role of Radio Sesotho in the Nation-Building

Fri, 23 June

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Swaziland

Natasha Erlank - Motorbikes and Ministry: Anglican and Presbyterian Ministers in the Transkei and Ciskei, 1960-1990

Nadine Gordimer and the History of the Future in Apartheid South Africa

Tapiwa Madimu - Towards Financial Inclusion? - The Post Office Savings Bank in Southern Rhodesia, 1905-1945

Ownership in Victoria District, Southern Rhodesia, 1890-1930.

Anusa Daimon - In the Shadows of the Third Chimurenga?: Migrant Farm Workers and the Ambiguities of Success in Post-Agrarian Zimbabwe

Joyline Takudzwa Kufandirori - Locating the Struggles over Property and Land Use, Mashonaland Central Province, 2000-2015

Attempt of Qwaqwa in the Late 1970s

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi - International Solidarity and Support for the African National Congress’s Radio Freedom, 1963-1991

14:40-16:10

SESSION 13A: A1 Chair: Noor Nieftagodien Reflections on Southern African Historiography Andrew Macdonald - South Africa’s Migrant Histories in Comparative Perspective

Thula Simpson - The Liberation Struggle and South African Historiography

Nathan Moyo -

SESSION 13B: A2 Chair: Meghan Healy-Clancy Educational Reform Rebecca Swartz - Educating Emotions in Natal, 1854-1860

Bronwyn Strydom - The roaring twenties? The evolution of institutional identities at the Transvaal University College in the 1920s

Ivo Mhike - State Paternalism, White

SESSION 13C: A3 Chair: Linell Chewins Transnational Trails in the 18th Century Stacey Sommerdyk - Africans beyond Africa: Tracing the Paths of Enslaved Africans across the Atlantic in the Eighteenth Century

Calvin Jordan - The English East India Company at the Cape of Good Hope, 1795-1803: Transoceanic connections

SESSION 13D: FWS Chair: Faeeza Ballim Business, Capital and the Economy

Anton Ehlers - The Cape Helpmekaar and the Afrikaner Conversion to Capitalism, c1916-c1930

Herbert Ndomba - Making Peasant Tobacco Industry a Reality: Success and Challenges in

Fri, 23 June

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Liberation Historiography and the Post-colonial African State: In Search of new Representations of Nationhood through Critical History

Stephen Sparks - The Peculiarities of South African History: Thompsonian Social History and the South African Sonderweg

Poverty and Educational Reform in Southern Rhodesia, 1935-1940s

Clive Glaser - Nostalgia for a Beating: Discipline, Generational Authority and Corporal Punishment at a Soweto High School, 1960-2000

Christie Swanepoel - Successful Integration? Evidence of French Huguenots from Dutch colonial South Africa

Southern Tanzania, 1930-1950

Victor M Gwande - Federation, Factories and Foreign Capital: Economic Growth in Southern Rhodesia, 1953-1956

Tinashe Nyamunda - The Making of Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation

16:10-16:30

TEA / COFFEE: John Moffat Building Foyer

16:30-17:30

Session 14 PLENARY CLOSING SESSION DOROTHY SUSSKIND AUDITORIUM (A1), John Moffat Building

Disputed Pasts, Fractured Futures: What is the Work of History? – Reflections and Closing Remarks Shireen Hassim, Anne Heffernan, Thula Simpson and Enocent Msindo

19:00 GALA DINNER: Shine Studios, Braamfontein Dress: Smart Casual/Traditional and bring your dancing shoes!

END!

*A1, A2, A3, FWS (Far West Studio) – Old John Moffat Building

*TUT 001, TUT101 – New John Moffat Building