Goolam Vahed

Arianna Lissoni

Nnamdi Elleh

Ali Khangela Hlongwane

Hilton Judin

Faeeza Ballim

Sally Gaule

Kelly Gillespie

Tara Weber

Eric Itzkin

Roshan Dadoo

Yasmin Mayat

Brendan Hart

Temba Middelmann

Barbara Morovich

Pauline Guinard

Muchaparara Musemwa

This edited collection looks at ruins and vacant buildings as part of South Africa’s oppressive history of colonialism and apartheid and ways in which the past persists into the present

The persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid

Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to questions of power, liberation and public history in the making and remaking of the South African nation. Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu analyse an array of these liberation heritage sites, including the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, the Apartheid Museum and the Mandela House Museum, foregrounding the work of migrant workers, architects, visual artists and activists in the practice of memorialisation. As they argue, memorialisation has been integral to the process of state and nation formation from the pre-colonial era through the present day.

Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space

Public History and Culture in South Africa

Ali Khangela Hlongwane

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