Teaching History in Schools: Captured Curriculum/Political Pedagogy?

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Notes

1. S.M. Ndlovu, ‘A Reassessment of Women’s Power in the Zulu Kingdom’, in B. Carton, J. Laband and J. Sithole, eds, Zulu Identities: Being Zulu, Past and Present (Pietermaritzburg: UKZN Press, 2008), ch. 10; S.M. Ndlovu, ‘Women, Authority and Power in ‘Precolonial’ Southeast Africa: The Production and Destruction of Historical Knowledge on Queen Mother Ntombazi of the Ndwandwe’, in W.H. Worger, C. Ambler and N. Achebe, eds, A Companion to African History (Hoboken NJ: Wiley Blackwell, 2019), ch. 6.

2. C.A. Diop, The Cultural Unity of Black Africa (Chicago: Third World Press, 1978). See also J.H. Clarke, ‘African Warrior Queens’, in I. van Sertima, ed., Black Women in Antiquity (London: Transaction Books, 1990); D. Sweetman, Women Leaders in African History (London: Heinemann, 1982).

3. C.L.S. Nyembezi, Zulu Proverbs, new edition (Pietermaritzburg: Shuter & Shooter, 1990); C. Hamilton, ‘Ideology, Oral Tradition and the Struggle for Power’ (MA dissertation, University of the Witwatersrand, 1985); D. Malcolm, Zulu Proverbs and Popular Sayings (Durban: Griggs, 1949); C.M. Doke, ‘Bantu-wisdom-lore’, African Studies, 6, 3 (1947), 101–120; R.G. Dunning, Two Hundred and Sixty-Four Zulu Proverbs, Idioms etc and the Cries of Thirty-Seven Birds, Fully Translated (Durban: Knox, 1946); F. Mary, ‘Zulu Proverbs’, Anthropos, 7 (1912), 957–963; J.G. Stuhardt, ‘A Collection of Zulu Proverbs’, Nada, 8 (1930), 62–70; S. Nyembezi and O.E.H. Nxumalo, Inqolobane Yesizwe (Pietermaritzburg: Shuter & Shooter, 1997).

4. Nyembezi, Zulu Proverbs, 1.

5. J. Guy, ‘Gender Oppression in Southern Africa’s Pre-capitalist Societies’, in C. Walker, ed., Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 (Cape Town: David Philip, 1990); J. Guy, ‘Analysing Pre-capitalist Societies in Southern Africa’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 14, 1 (1987), 18–37; C. Walker, ‘Gender and the Development of the Migrant Labour System c.1850–1930: An Overview’, in Walker, ed., Women and Gender,168–196.

6. Ibid.

7. S.M. Ndlovu, ‘A Reassessment of Women’s Power in the Zulu Kingdom’. See also, O. Oyewumi, The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourse (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997); O. Oyewumi (ed.), African Gender Studies: A Reader (Hampshire, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

8. J. Martens, ‘Enlightenment Theories of Civilisation and Savagery in British Natal: The Colonial Origins of the (Zulu) African Barbarism Myth’, in Carton et al., Zulu Identities; T.V. McClendon, White Chief, Black Lords: Shepstone and the Colonial State in Natal, South Africa, 1845–1878 (New York: University of Rochester Press, 2010), ch. 5; N. Sheik, ‘Customary Citizens and Customary Subjects: Colonial Respectability and Marriage Law in 19th Century Natal’, paper presented at History and African Studies Seminar, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, May 2009.

9. L. Ngcobo, ed., Prodigal Daughters: Stories of South African Women in Exile (Scottsville: University of Kwa-Zulu-Natal Press, 2012); Z. Magubane, ‘Attitudes towards Feminism among Women in the ANC, 1950–1990: A Theoretical Interpretation’, in SADET, Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 4 [1980–1990], Part 1 (Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2010), ch. 19.

10. Z. Magubane, ‘Women and the Struggle for Gender Inclusivity during the Transition, 1990–1994’, in SADET, Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 6 [1990–1996] (Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2013), ch. 25.

11. P. Kallaway, ‘History in Senior Secondary School CAPS 2012 and Beyond: A Comment’, Yesterday & Today, no. 7 (July 2012), 23–62.

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Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

Author Biographies

SIFISO MXOLISI NDLOVU is Professor of History at the University of South Africa. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the multi-volume series The Road to Democracy in South Africa. He is the author of African Perspectives of King Dingane ka Senzangakhona: The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (Palgrave: UNISA Press, 2017) and co-author with A.K. Hlongwane of Public History and Culture in South Africa: Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space (Palgrave: UNISA Press, 2019).

Mumsy Malinga

MUMSY MALINGA is a History teacher and Faculty Head of Humanities at Redhill School in Morningside, Sandton. Her area of interest is gender studies and social history. She is a PhD student at the University of Witwatersrand researching private school education in the northern suburbs of Johannesburg. The title of her thesis is ‘The Role of Johannesburg Private Schools in Socializing and Gendering the Youth, 1948–1994’. Mumsy is also a History internal moderator for the Independent Examinations Board (IEB). Email: [email protected]

Maryke Bailey

MARYKE BAILEY is a history teacher who is taking a hiatus from full-time teaching. She has been involved in different education-related projects, including resource development and teacher training, on a freelance basis. She enjoys writing about South African educational issues for the mainstream media. Maryke completed a BA with majors in History and Philosophy at Wits University, her BA (Hons) in History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and her MA in Intellectual History at the University of Sussex. Email: [email protected]