Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

This book examines the active role played by Africans in the pre-colonial production of historical knowledge in South Africa, focusing on perspectives of the second king of amaZulu, King Dingane. It draws upon a wealth of oral traditions, izibongo, and the work of public intellectuals such as Magolwane kaMkhathini Jiyane and Mshongweni to present African perspectives of King Dingane as multifaceted, and in some cases, constructed according to socio-political formations and aimed at particular audiences. By bringing African perspectives to the fore, this innovative historiography centralizes indigenous African languages in the production of historical knowledge.

The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom

African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona

Counter-memories of June 1976

The Soweto Uprisings

Rachel King

Fred Morton

Amanda Esterhuysen

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi

Muchaparara Musemwa

Cynthia Kros

Helen Ludlow

Geoffrey Blundell

Jan Boeyens

Lize Kriel

Grant McNulty

Hlonipha Mokoena

Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu

Himal Ramji

Justine Wintjes

Archives of Times Past' explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa's time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: 'How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?'0The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these experts encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook.0The essays are written at a time when public discussion about the history of southern Africa before the colonial era is taking place more openly than at any other time in the last hundred years They will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and heritage, museum practitioners and the general public.

Conversations about South Africa’s Deep History

Archives of Times Past

Ali Khangela Hlongwane

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

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

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