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FEATURE: NOT TELLING—SECRECY, LIES AND HISTORY

‘A Blast from the Past’:The Teaching of South African History at an Apartheid University, 1960s–1980s

Pages 49-68 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • 1999 . This was held at the University of the Witwatersrand, 11–14 June
  • Among those who have pointed to this have been Mahmoud Mamdani and Steve Robins, and it was noted again by Colin Bundy in the closing session of the TRC conference
  • Oosthuizen , G. C. 1981 . Challenge to a South African University: The University of Durban-Westville 35 – 7 . Cape Town
  • Ibid., 71
  • Ibid, 40, 50
  • Ibid., 49, 63–7
  • Bhana , S. 1985 . The Problems in History Teaching at the Tertiary Level 12 Durban See, ed.
  • Muller , C. F.J. 1969 . Five Hundred Years: A History of South Africa Pretoria (Muller, the editor, was Professor of History at Unisa, and five of the twelve contributors also came from Unisa
  • Kruger , D. W. 1969 . The Making of a Nation Johannesburg (Kruger lectured at Potchefstroom University from 1946–1966 and was Professor of History at Unisa from 1966 to 1969
  • 1991 . I have decided not to identify the lecturer and thus not the book either which was published in
  • Muller . Five Hundred Years xi, 428
  • These included ‘An Introduction to the Study of History’ (6 pp.);‘Understanding the Past and Present’ (1 p.);‘South African History 1400–1974: An Overview’ (47 pp.);‘The Discovery of the Sea-Route to the East by the Portuguese and Dutch in the 15th and 16th Centuries and its Consequences until 1652’ (13 pp.);and ‘Jan van Riebeeck at the Cape, 1652–1662’ (pp. 9)
  • Muller . Five Hundred Years, 190
  • Ibid., xi-xn
  • Ibid., 430–3
  • Ibid., 43, 46, 50, 54, 62, 64, 72–4, 88, 97–8, 100, 124, 422, 430–4, 444, 450
  • See Kruger, The Making of a Nation, 284–5;the emphasis was in the original notes
  • Lodge , T. 1983 . Black Politics in South Africa since 1945 108 Johannesburg See
  • Saunders , C. 1988 . The Making of the South African Past: Major Historians on Race and Class Cape Town and Johannesburg This article cannot repeat all the arguments of the liberal-radical debate but these are extremely well covered in (and K. Smith, The Changing Past: Trends in South African Historiographical Writing (Johannesburg, 1988)
  • Marks , S. 1970 . ‘Afrikaner and African History’ . Journal of African History , 11 See (A. Atmore and N. Westlake, ‘A Liberal Dilemma: A Critique of the Oxford History of South Africa’, Race, 14 (1972);M. Legassick in African Historical Studies, 3, 2 (1970);M. Legassick, ‘The Dynamics of Modernization in South Africa’, Journal of African History, 13 (1972);S. Trapido, ‘South Africa and Historians’, African Affairs, 71 (1972)
  • Marks , S. 1972 . ‘Khoisan Resistance to the Dutch’ . Journal of African History , 12 See (C. Bundy, ‘The Emergence and Decline of a South African Peasantry’, African Affairs, 71 (1972). His book on the same subject was published in 1979
  • Johnstone , F. R. 1970 . ‘White Prosperity and White Supremacy in South Africa Today’ . African Affairs , 69 See (M. Legassick, ‘South Africa: Capital Accumulation and Violence’, Economy and Society, 3 (1974);‘Legislation, Ideology and Economy in Post-1948 South Africa’, Journal of Southern African Studies, 1 (1974);H. Wolpe, ‘Capitalism and Cheap Labour-Power in South Africa. From Segregation to Apartheid’, Economy and Society, 1 (1972)
  • Saunders , See . The Making of the South African Past 157
  • Bhana . Problems in History Teaching 15–22. The emphasis is mine
  • Bhana , S. See, ‘Student Perception of History’, in Bhana, Problems in History Teaching, 71–2
  • Ibid., 72
  • Bhana . ‘Student Perception of History’, 72

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