A Century of the Wits History Department: 1917–2017

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Notes

1 The Department would also like to acknowledge the editorial assistance of Angela Ferreira.

2 W.M. Macmillan, My South African Years: An Autobiography (David Philip, Cape Town, 1975), 148–149.

3 Central Block was officially renamed Robert Sobukwe Block on 18 September 2017.

4 Macmillan, My South African Years, 114–115.

5 Macmillan, My South African Years, 167.

6 W.M. Macmillan, The South African Agrarian Problem and its Historical Development (Witwatersrand: Central News Agency, for the Council of Education, 1918.)

7 W.M. Macmillan, The Cape Colour Question: A Historical Survey (London: Faber & Gwyer, 1927).

8 W.M. Macmillan, Bantu, Boer, and Briton: The Making of the South African Native Problem (London: Faber & Gwyer, 1929).

9 W.M. Macmillan, Complex South Africa: An Economic Foot-Note to History (London: Faber & Faber, 1930).

10 Macmillan, The Cape Colour Question, 10.

11 Macmillan, My South African Years, 188–189.

12 ‘“You will be foolish enough” – Minister to Joint Council – Remarkable Letter – And the Retort Courteous’, Rand Daily Mail, 10 November 1932, 10.

13 Macmillan, My South African Years, 223–230.

14 Margaret Ballinger to Macmillan, 6 January 1936, Macmillan Papers, Bodleian Library, University of Oxford.

15 S.H. Frankel, An Economist’s Testimony: The Autobiography of S. Herbert Frankel (Oxford: Oxford Centre for Postgraduate Hebrew Studies, 1992), 28.

16 Margaret Ballinger to Macmillan, 20 March 1935. Macmillan Papers.

17 L. Fouché, ed., Mapangubwe: Ancient Bantu Civilisation on the Limpopo (London: Cambridge University Press, 1937), 178.

18 See A.P. Newton, E.A. Benians, and Eric A. Walker, eds, The Cambridge History of the British Empire. Vol. 8 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1936).

19 Eric Axelson, South-East Africa: 1488–1530 (Longmans, Green & Co., 1940).

20 P. Harries and C. Saunders, ‘Eric Axelson and the History of Portugal in Africa’, South African Historical Journal, 39 (1998), 168–169.

21 J. S. Marais, The Fall of Kruger’s Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961).

22 J.S. Marais, The Colonisation of New Zealand (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1927).

23 J.S. Marais, The Cape Coloured People, 1652–193 (Rhode Island: AMS Press, 1939).

24 J.S. Marais, Maynier and the First Boer Republic (Cape of Good Hope: M. Miller, 1944).

25 J.S. Marais, The Fall of Kruger’s Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961).

26 B.K. Murray, Wits: The Open Years, A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 1939–1959 (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 1997), 247.

27 M. Hooker, ‘The Place of Bishop Colenso in the History of South Africa’ (PhD thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, 1953); D. Williams, ‘The Missionary on the Eastern Frontier of the Cape Colony, 1799–1853’ (PhD thesis, University of the Witwatersrand, 1959); S.B. Spies, Methods of Barbarism? Roberts and Kitchener and Civilians in the Boer Republics, January 1900–May 1902 (Cape Town: Human & Rousseau, 1977).

28 N.G. Garson, The Swaziland Question and a Road to the Sea, 1887–1895 (Cape Town: Archives Yearbook for South African History, 1957).

29 A. Keppel-Jones, When Smuts Goes: A History of South Africa from 1952 to 2010 (London: Gollancz, 1947).

30 Murray, Wits, the ‘Open’ Years, 249.

31 A. Keppel-Jones, South Africa: A Short History (London: Hutchinson’s University Library, 1949).

32 University of Cape Town, The Open Universities in South Africa: Published on Behalf of the Conference of Representatives of the University of Cape Town and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Held in Cape Town on 9, 10, and 11 January 1957 (Witwatersrand University Press, 1957).

33 N.G. Garson, ‘South Africa and World War I’, The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 8, 1 (1979).

34 C.I. Hamilton and A. Virga, eds, ‘The Late Medieval and Renaissance Italian City-State and Beyond: Essays in Honour of M.E. Bratchel’, The Southern African Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 22/23 (2012/2013).

35 B.K. Murray, The People’s Budget 1909/10: Lloyd George and Liberal Politics (Oxford University Press, 1980).

36 B.K. Murray, Wits, the Early Years: A History of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and Its Precursors, 1896–1939 (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1982).

37 Murray, Wits, the ‘Open’ Years.

38 P. Lewsen, The First Crisis in Responsible Government in the Cape Colony (Cape Town: The Archives Year Book, 1943); John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman (Johannesburg: Ad. Donker, 1982).

39 P. Lewsen, Selections from the Correspondence of J.X. Merriman, 1870–1890; Selections from the Correspondence of J.X. Merriman, 1890–1898; Selections from the Correspondence of J.X. Merriman, 1899–1904; and Selections from the Correspondence of J.X. Merriman, 1905–1924 (Cape Town: Van Riebeeck Society, 1960, 1963, 1966, 1969).

40 P. Lewsen, John X. Merriman: Paradoxical South African Statesman (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1982).

41 C. Saunders, ‘Phyllis Lewsen’s Writing: An Appreciation’, South African Historical Journal, 28, 1 (2009), 35.

42 S. Pienaar, ‘Interview with Phyllis Lewsen’, South African Historical Journal, 28, 1 (1993), 15–32.

43 P. Lewsen, Reverberations: A Memoir (Cape Town: UCT Press, 1996).

44 H. Giliomee, Historian: An Autobiography (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2016).

45 Macmillan, My South African Years.

46 Arthur Keppel-Jones, A Patriot in Search of a Country (British Columbia: University College of the Cariboo Print Services, 2003.

47 Lewsen, Reverberations.

48 J. Starfield and S. Krige, ‘Phyllis Lewsen: A Tribute’, Southern African Historical Journal, 44, 1 (2009), 184–194.

49 R.L. Cope, The Ploughshare of War: The Origins of the Anglo–Zulu War of 1879 (Pietermaritzburg: University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 1999).

50 R.L. Cope, ‘Shepstone, the Zulus, and the Annexation of the Transvaal’, South African Historical Journal 4, 1 (1972), 45–63.

51 T.L. Hodgson, The Journals of the Rev. T. L. Hodgson: Missionary to the Seleka-Rolong and the Griquas, 1821–1831, ed. R.L. Cope (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press for African Studies Institute, 1977).

52 Cope, The Ploughshare of War.

53 P.L. Bonner ‘The Rise, Consolidation and Disintegration of Dlamini Power in Swaziland Between 1820 and 1889’ (PhD thesis, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 1977).

54 P.L. Bonner, Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires: The Evolution and Dissolution of the Nineteenth-Century Swazi State (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

55 Vice-Chancellor’s Annual Report of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg For the year ended 31 December 1978. Produced by the Office of the Vice–Chancellor, Wits University Central Records and Archives.

56 K. Umlandvo, C. Hamilton, and Swaziland Oral History Project, In Pursuit of Swaziland’s Precolonial Past (Swaziland: Macmillan Boleswa, 1990).

57 P.L. Bonner, ed., Holding Their Ground: Class, Locality and Culture in 19th and 20th Century South Africa (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1989).

58 P.L. Bonner, P. Delius, and D. Posel, eds, Apartheid’s Genesis, 1935–1962 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1993).

59 P.L. Bonner, ‘New Nation, New History: The History Workshop in South Africa, 1977–1994’, The Journal of American History, 81, 3 (1994).

60 L. Callinicos, Gold and Workers, 1886–1924 (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1981); Working Life, 1886–1940: Factories, Townships, and Popular Culture (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1987); and A Place to Live (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1993).

61 P.L. Bonner and L. Segal, Soweto: A History (Cape Town: Maskew Miller Longman, 1998).

62 M.E. Bratchel, ‘Alien Merchant Colonies in 16th-Century England: Community Organization and Social Mores’, Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 14, 1 (1984), 39–62.

63 M.E. Bratchel, Lucca, 1430–1494: The Reconstruction of an Italian City-Republic (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).

64 ‘History’, Times Literary Supplement, 23 June 1995.

65 P. Kallaway, ‘F.S. Malan and the Politics of Cape Liberalism 1890s to1942’ (PhD thesis, University of London, 1972).

66 P. Delius, ‘The Pedi Polity under Sekwati and Sekhukhune, 1828–1880’ (PhD thesis, University of London, SOAS, 1980).

67 P. Delius, The Land Belongs to Us: The Pedi Polity, the Boers, and the British in the Nineteenth-Century Transvaal (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1983).

68 Delius, The Land Belongs to Us, 1,

69 W. Beinart, P. Delius, and S. Trapido, eds, Putting a Plough to the Ground: Accumulation and Dispossession in Rural South Africa, 1850–1930 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1986).

70 P. Delius, A Lion amongst the Cattle: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Northern Transvaal (Portsmouth: Heinemann, 1996).

71 C. Bundy, ‘A Lion Amongst the Cattle: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Northern Transvaal by Peter Delius’, Mail and Guardian, 31 January 1997.

72 C. Kros, ‘Interview with Peter Delius’, South African Historical Journal 37, 1 (1997), 203–207.

73 Bonner, Delius, and Posel, Apartheid’s Genesis.

74 Radical History Review (1990) 46–47.

75 C.I. Hamilton, ‘Seamen and Crime at the Cape, c. 1860–1880’, International Journal of Maritime History, 1, 2 (1989), 1–35.

76 C.I. Hamilton, Anglo–French Naval Rivalry, 1840–1870 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993).

77 C.I. Hamilton, ed., Portsmouth Dockyard Papers, 1852–1869: From Wood to Iron: A Calendar (Winchester: Hampshire County Council, 2005).

78 C.I. Hamilton, The Making of the Modern Admiralty: British Naval Policy-Making, 1805–1927 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011).

79 C. Van Onselen, Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886–1914, Volume 1: New Babylon (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1982); C. Van Onselen, Studies in the Social and Economic History of Witwatersrand, 1886–1914: New Nineveh (Johannesburg: Raven Press, 1982).

80 R. Ally, Gold & Empire: The Bank of England and South Africa’s Gold Producers, 1886–1926 (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994).

81 Paul la Hausse de la Louviere, Restless Identities: Signatures of Nationalism, Zulu Ethnicity and History in the lives of Petros Lamula (c.1881–1948) and Lyman Maling (1889–c. 1936) (Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press, 2000.)

82 E.N. Katz, A Trade Union Aristocracy: A History of White Workers in the Transvaal and the General Strike of 1913 (Johannesburg: African Studies Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, 1976).

83 E.N. Katz, The White Death: Silicosis on the Witwatersrand Gold Mines 1886–1910 (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 1994).

84 C. Kros, The Seeds of Separate Development: Origins of Bantu Education (Pretoria: UNISA Press, 2010).

85 P. Bonner, ‘Keynote Address to the “Life after Thirty” Colloquium’, African Studies, 69, 1 (2010), 13–27.

86 D. Posel and G. Simpson, Commissioning the Past: Understanding South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press, 2002).

87 See the Conference Poster Exhibition Feature on the HW in this issue of the South African Historical Journal: ‘WORKING HISTORY – HISTORY WORKING: 40 Years of the History Workshop.’

88 C. Glaser, ‘Youth Culture and Politics in Soweto, 1958–1976’ (PhD diss., Cambridge University, 1994).

89 S.P. Lekgoathi, ‘Ethnicity and Identity: Struggle and Contestation in the Making of the Northern Transvaal Ndebele, ca. 1860–2005’ (PhD diss., University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, 2006).

90 N. Nieftagodien, ‘The Implementation of Urban Apartheid on the East Rand, 1948–1973: The Role of Local Government and Local Resistance’ (PhD diss., University of the Witwatersrand, 2001).

91 Murray, Wits, the ‘Open’ Years.

92 Delius, A Lion amongst the Cattle.

93 C. Glaser, Bo-Tsotsi: The Youth Gangs of Soweto, 1935–1976 (Oxford: James Currey, 2000).

94 N. Nieftagodien, and S. Gaule, Orlando West, Soweto: An Illustrated History (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012).

95 M. Friedman, The Future is in the Hands of the Workers: A History of FOSATU (Johannesburg: Mutloaste Arts Heritage Trust, 2011).

96 N. Nieftagodien and P. Bonner, Alexandra: A History (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2008).

97 P. Bonner and N. Nieftagodien, Ekurhuleni: The Making of an Urban Region (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012); E. Cavanagh, Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa: Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River (Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); E. Cavanagh, The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902–1994 (New York: Peter Lang, 2011); A. Lissoni, J. Soske, N. Erlank, N. Nieftagodien, and O. Badsha, eds, One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012); T. Moloi, Place of Thorns: Black Political Protest in Kroonstad Since 1976 (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2015).

98 M. Suriano, ‘Leisure, Urban Popular Culture and Strategies of Political Communication in Colonial Tanganyika’ (PhD thesis, Universita’ degli Studi di Napoli L’Orientale, 2007).

99 M. Musemwa, ‘Struggles Over Water: The History and Politics of Urban Water Supply Services in Makokoba Township, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, 1894–1992’ (PhD thesis, University of Minnesota–Twin Cities, 2003).

100 Chonco and Ally who were appointed during Garson’s era in the late 1990s both left academia shortly afterwards.

101 P. Badassy, ‘A Severed Umbilicus: Infanticide and the Concealment of Birth in Natal, 1860–1935’ (PhD thesis, University of KwaZulu-Natal, 2011).

102 A. MacDonald, ‘Colonial Trespassers in the Making of South Africa's International Borders, c. 1900–1950’ (PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, 2013).

103 W. Beinart, P. Delius, and M. Hay, Rights to Land: A Guide to Tenure Upgrading and Restitution in South Africa (Auckland Park: Fanele, 2017); P. Delius, Mpumalanga: An Illustrated History (Johannesburg: Highveld, 2009); P. Delius, A. Schoeman, and T.M. Maggs, Forgotten World: The Stone Walled Settlements of the Mpumalanga Escarpment (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2014).

104 M. Musemwa, Water, History, and Politics in Zimbabwe: Bulawayo’s Struggles with the Environment, 1894–2008 (Trenton: Africa World Press, 2014).

105 C. Glaser, The ANC Youth League (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2013).

106 G.M. Gerhart and C. Glaser, From Protest to Challenge: A Documentary History of African Politics in South Africa, 1882–1990: Challenge and Victory, 1980–1990 (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010).

107 S. Lekgoathi, ‘Radio Freedom, Songs of Freedom and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa (1963–1991)’, in SADET (South African Democracy Trust), ed., The Road to Democracy in South Africa: Vol. 6 (1990–1996) (Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2013).

108 See e.g. A. Lissoni and M. Suriano, ‘Married to the ANC: Tanzanian Women’s Entanglement in South Africa’s Liberation Struggle’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 40, 1 (January 2, 2014), 129–150; M. Suriano, ‘Mzee Waziri Omari Nyange: A Story of Intervention in Tanzanian Nation-Building with Guitar Music, Sung Swahili Poems and Healing’, Journal of African Cultural Studies, 27, 3 (2015), 277–293; M. Suriano and C. Lewis, ‘Afrikaners is Plesierig! Voëlvry Music, Anti-Apartheid Identities and Rockey Street Nightclubs in Yeoville (Johannesburg), 1980s–90s’, African Studies, 74, 3 (2015), 404–428. A. MacDonald, ‘The Gold Kings: Sonū Smugglers in Johannesburg, Durban and Lourenço Marques, 1890s–1920s’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 42, 3 (2016), 483–503; A. MacDonald, ‘Thieves of the Cross: Assyrian Charity Collectors and World History, 1860s–1940s’, Past & Present, 229, 1 (2015), 161–200.

109 It was only in 2015, that the department initiated its first study abroad. A cohort of five students under the mentorship of Musemwa and Sommerdyk embarked on a week-long engaged learning programme to the University of Ghana in Accra. This represented the first stage of its plans to form lasting connections with other African universities, with the end goal being a regular exchange of postgraduate students between itself and other history departments.