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1 SAHJ, ‘SAHJ Podcast, Episode 3: Roundtable on “Teaching Texts”,’ SAHJ Podcast, 13 July 2023, uploaded 14 July 2023, 1:41 hours, https://www.podbean.com/ew/pb-iw3du-14571b8.

2 See T. Simpson, Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2016).

3 D. Posel, The Making of Apartheid 1948–1961: Conflict and Compromise (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991); D. O’Meara, Forty Lost Years: The Apartheid State and the Politics of the National Party, 1948–1994 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1995); S. Dubow, Apartheid, 1948–1994 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014).

4 W. Beinart, Twentieth-Century South Africa (2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001).

5 T. Madiba, ‘History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present – Thula Simpson’, Polity, 9 December 2021, interview video, 12:09 min, https://www.polity.org.za/article/history-of-south-africa-from-1902-to-the-present-thula-simpson-2021-12-09, accessed 9 March 2022.

6 G. Theal, Compendium of South African History and Geography (Lovedale: Lovedale Press, 1874).

7 C. Hamilton, B. Mbenga, and R. Ross, eds, The Cambridge History of South Africa, i: From Early Times to 1885 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010); C. Hamilton, B. Mbenga, and R. Ross, eds, The Cambridge History of South Africa, ii, 1885–1994 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011); R. Ross, A Concise History of South Africa (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).

8 M. Wilson and L. Thompson, eds, The Oxford History of South Africa, i: South Africa to 1870 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969); M. Wilson and L. Thompson, eds, The Oxford History of South Africa, ii: South Africa 1870–1966 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971).

9 F. A. van Jaarsveld, Van van Riebeeck tot Verwoerd 1652–1966: ’n inleiding tot die geskiedenis van die Republiek van Suid-Afrika (Johannesburg: Voortrekkerpers, 1971).

10 T. Simpson, History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present (Cape Town: Penguin Books, 2021).

11 H. Giliomee and B. Mbenga, eds, New History of South Africa (Cape Town: Tafelberg, 2007).

12 See, for example, N. Worden, The Making of Modern South Africa: Conquest, Segregation, and Apartheid, (2nd edn, Oxford: Blackwell, 1995); Ross, A Concise History of South Africa; W. Beinart, Twentieth-Century South Africa (2nd edn, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001); R. Beck, The History of South Africa (Westport: Greenwood Press, 2000); T. R. H. Davenport and C. Saunders, South Africa: A Modern History (5th edn, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2000).

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Laura Phillips

Laura Phillips is a senior lecturer at North-West University, Mahikeng Campus. Her research interests include rural and economic history, and her recent publications include a co-edited special issue titled ‘Revenues, Rule and Redistribution’ in Transformation and ‘Below the Land Deals: Ga-Mphahlele and the Making of Mineral Property’ in the Journal of African History (2022).

Suryakanthie Chetty

Suryakanthie Chetty is a senior lecturer in the Department of History, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her research interest is the history of science, medicine, and technology. Her most recent publication is Reconstructive Surgery and Modernisation in Twentieth-Century South Africa: The Professional and Public Life of Jack Penn (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023).

Lazlo Passemiers

Lazlo Passemiers is senior lecturer in history at the University of the Free State, South Africa. His research interests focus on transnational histories of decolonisation in southern Africa. He is particularly fascinated by the former support networks of southern African liberation movements and the relations that existed between the region’s white minority governments and societies. His first monograph is Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics: South Africa and the ‘Congo Crisis’, 1960–1965 (Routledge, 2019).

Abraham Mlombo

Abraham Mlombo is a lecturer in history at the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He holds a PhD in African History from the International Studies Group at the University of the Free State. His research interests cut across transnational, political, social, and economic history to address issues of imperialism, settler colonialism, colonial resistance, and nationalism in Africa. He is the author of the book Southern Rhodesia–South African Relations, 1923–1953: Settler Colonialism, Political, Economic and Social Ties (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020).

Rebecca Swartz

Rebecca Swartz is a senior lecturer in history at the University of the Free State, South Africa. She completed her undergraduate, honours and master’s degrees at the University of Cape Town, and her PhD at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her research focuses on British imperial histories of childhood, education, and labour. Her first monograph, Education and Empire: Children, Race and Humanitarianism in the British Settler Colonies, 1833–1880, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2019.