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Roundtable on Bernard Magubane

Recollections of Bernard (“Ben”) Magubane

 

Notes

1 My review of the volume was republished as “The Concept of Pluralism: A Critique,” in African Social Studies.

2 My paper was published in African Societies in Southern Africa.

3 The results of this, which also was based on information from then ANC leader Joe Matthews, were M. Legassick.

4 B. Magubane, “Crisis in African sociology,” 8; B. Magubane, “Some methodological and ideological issues in the study of social change in Africa as exemplified in the studies of migrant labor”; B. Magubane, “A critical look at indices used in the study of social change in colonial Africa,” 419–45; B. Magubane and J. O’Brien, “The political economy of migrant labor systems: a critique of conventional wisdom,” 98–103; B. Magubane, “The Xhosa in town revisited,” 1701–15; B. Magubane, “Urban anthropology in Africa: some theoretical issues,” 249–74.

5 Magubane to Legassick, 20/7/1971. This last observation did not stop Magubane from writing “The Poverty of Liberal Analysis: A Polemic on Southern Africa,” in Review.

6 Magubane to Legassick, 1/11/1974.

7 Thompson, L. M. and Butler, Jeff, Change in Contemporary South Africa.

8 Magubane to Legassick, 11/2/1977.

9 M. Legassick, “Perspectives on African ‘Underdevelopment’,” 435-40.

10 Magubane to Legassick, 29/11/1977.

11 Legassick to Magubane, 19/12/1977.

12 Magubane to Legassick, 5/3/1978.

13 Legassick to Seth Leacock, Head, Department of Anthropology, University of Connecticutt, 19/10/1979.

14 I had touched on these issues in an unpublished paper in the 1970s, subsequently published as “British Hegemony and the Origins of Segregation in SA, 1901–1914.”

15 Workersrevolution or racial civil war?, 16–17, 9.

16 Magubane cites this from Lenin, Collected Works, 9, 29. I get it from Lenin, Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic revolution, 16–17.

17 Lenin, “The Revolutionary Proletariat and the Right of Nations to Self-Determination,” [written c. October 1915, first published in 1927], Collected Works, 21, 407–14. Magubane, “Character,” 7 quotes only extracts from this. See on these issues also my Towards Socialist Democracy, Chap. 3.

18 Magubane to Humphries, 27/1/1997.

19 Published by South African Museum and McGregor Museum, 2000. Research in the book led eventually to the repatriation of the remains of a San man and wife, Klaas and Troy Pienaar, from Austria, to where their remains had been taken for racial research by the anthropologist Rudolf Poch who had dug them up mere months after their burial. President Zuma presided over their reburial and personally congratulated Ciraj Rassool and myself.

20 My initial work for SADET is described in “Reflections on Practicing Applied History in South Africa 1994–2002: From Skeletons to Schools.”

21 N. Nieftagodien, “A Tribute to Martin Legassick.”

22 See D. Hemson, M. Legassick, and N. Ulrich, “White Intellectuals and the Revival of the Workers’ Movement,”; See also M. Legassick, “Debating the Revival of the Workers’ Movement in the 1970s: The South African Democracy Education Trust and Post-apartheid Patriotic History.”

23 Friedman, Tomorrow, 92.

24 See Hemson et al., “Revival,” 2; See also R. Lambert and E. Webster, “The Re-emergence of Political Unionism in Contemporary South Africa”; D. Hemson, “Trade Unionism and the Struggle for Liberation in South Africa”; D. Davis, “African Unions at the Crossroads.”

25 See Sithole and Ndlovu, “The Revival of the Labor Movement, 1970–1980,” 2; and the Critique of it in M. Legassick, “Debating the Revival of the Workers’ Movement in the 1970s: The South African Democracy Education Trust and Post-apartheid Patriotic History.”

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