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Popularising History in a Changing South Africa

Pages 22-37 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • 1989 . Oxford Today Trinity Issue
  • Proctor , A. “ Towards a New History Curriculum: African and Zimbabwean Experiences ” . Perspectives in Education, 12,1 (Summer 1990/91)
  • Witz , L. 1988 . mite Your Own History 17 Johannesburg Quoted in
  • Mard , G. and Hamilton , G. 1987 . An Appetite for Power: Buthelezi's Inkatha and the Politics of ‘Loyal Resistance’ Johannesburg See
  • Fleisch , B. “ Letter from Jo ” . burg’, Searchlight South Africa, 7 (July 1991)
  • Callinicos , L. and Bozzoli , B. , eds. 1987 . “ ‘The “People's Past”: Towards Transforming the Present’ ” . In Class, Community and Conflict: South African Perspectives Johannesburg For a brief outline of some of the banned history writings, see, ed., See also C. Rajool, ‘Popular History of the Independent Left’ (Paper delivered at the History Workshop's 1990 Popularising History Workshop)
  • Callinicos , L. 1981 . People's History of South Africa: Gold and Workers, 1886–1924 Johannesburg /l
  • The Labour History Group produced six booklets: The ICU (Cape Town, n.d.), The 1922 White Mineworkers’ Strike (Cape Town, n.d.);Workers at War (Cape Town, n.d.);Garment Workers Unite (Cape Town, 1983);Organising at the Cape Town Docks (Cape Town, 1984);and Asinamali Organising in the 1950s (Cape Town, 1985)
  • FOSATU merged with United Democratic Front-affiliated and other independent unions to form COSATU in 1985
  • ILRIG booklets include topics on Bolivia, Brazil, Botswana, Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya and May Day. SACHED LACOM publications include the illustrated labour history, Freedom from Below, and booklets on international labour history, published by Turret Correspondence College, Johannesburg
  • Marie , S. 1986 . Divide and Profit Durban
  • 1987 . Political Economy: South Africa in Crisis Johannesburg COSATU Education Committee
  • 1987 . Five Brave Days: The Strike of 1946 Johannesburg National Union of Mineworkers
  • Monitor: The Journal of Human Rights Trust, cited by JODAC News, 1 (1989)
  • The state has since acknowledged its role in secretly funding the Inkatha trade union, UWUSA, as an alternative to COSATU. See, for example, Business Day, 2 Oct. 1991
  • 1989 . NUMSA Women Organise Johannesburg NUMSA
  • Sitas , A. , ed. 1986 . Black Mamba Rising Culture and Working Life Publications, Durban Some of their works were published in, ed.
  • von , A. 1988 . “ Kotze ” . In Organise and Act Culture and Working Life Publications, Durban
  • von Kotze , A. talking to a paper, ‘Worker's Theatre and Popular History’, presented at the History Workshop's 1990 Popularising History Workshop
  • Brown , J. 1991 . “ ‘Every Picture Tells a Story, Don't It?’ ” . In History from South Africa Edited by: Brown , J. Philadelphia see in et al, eds,(People's College Comics, Down Second Avenue (drawn from E. Mphahlele's autobiography), Equiano: The Slave who Fougfu to be Free, Taxi Driver (based on the research work of P. Delius) and Mhudi (based on S. Plaatje's historical novel). For a review of the first two
  • Kallaway , P. 1986 . “ and P Pearson's discussion about photographs of Chinese miners in ” . In Johannesburg Images and Continuities: A History of Working Class Life through Picmres, 1885–1935 Johannesburg suggests an appropriate approach to visual history for writers of popular history
  • Suttner , R. and Cronin , J. 1986 . Thirty Years of the Freedom Charter Johannesburg
  • UWC People's History Series, Let Us Speak of Freedom (Bellville, n.d.). For a more detailed review of popular history in the Western Cape, see A. Odendaal, ‘Developments in Popular History in the Western Cape in the 1980s’, in Brown et al, History from South Africa.
  • Kruss , G. 1988 . People's Education: An Examination of the Concept 21 Centre for Continuing Education, UWC, Bellville
  • 1985 . Resolutions of the National Consultative Conference on the Crisis in Education NECC) (Johannesburg, Dec.
  • Oakes , D. 1988 . Reader's Digest Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real Story Edited by: Saunders , C. and Bundy , C. Cape Town ed, historical adviser
  • Callinicos , L. Perspectives in Education , 11 For more details on this topic, see, ‘Intellectuals, Popular History and Worker Education’, 1 (Spring 1989), 51–64
  • A fuller account of popular history writing in South Africa up to 1985 can be found in L. Callinicos, ‘The “People's Past”’; see also B. Bozzoli, ‘Intellectuals, Audiences and Histories: South African Experiences, 1978–88’, in Brown et al., History from South Africa.
  • Edgar , R. 1988 . Because They Chose the Plan of God Johannesburg P. la Hausse, Brewers, Beerhalls and Boycotts (Johannesburg, 1988);and J. Wells, The War of Degradation (Johannesburg, 1991)
  • Callinicos , L. 1981 . Gold and Workers, 1886–1924 Johannesburg (was the first volume of the series, followed by Working Life: Factories, Townships and Popular Culture 1886–1940 (Johannesburg, 1987). The third volume,/I Place in the City: The Rand on the Eve of Apartheid will be published in early 1992, also by Ravan Press
  • Working Life was the 1988 recipient of the Noma Award for Publishing in Africa
  • A notable exception was the high school textbook series, History Alive, by P. Kallaway et al The Department of Education and Training, however, barred the series from their schools
  • 1989 . New Nation, New History Johannesburg History Workshop
  • Witz , L. “The Write Your Own History Project’, in Brown et al., History from South Africa.
  • Witz, Write Your Own History, 105
  • Qabula , A. 1989 . Cruel Beyond Belief Culture and Working Life Publications, Durban
  • Mandlenkosi , M. 1984 . The Sun Shall Rise for the Workers , the David Philip Africa South series Johannesburg See, for example, and also Can Themba's writings, published by Ravan Press. Contemporary autobiographies includeP. Tom, My Life Struggle (Johannesburg, 1985);D. Mattera, Memory is the Weapon (Johannesburg, 1987);G. Moloi, My Life vol. 1 (Johannesburg, 1987);and R. Rive, Emergency (Cape Town, 1988)
  • Rassoul , C. and Witz , L. ‘Creators and Shapers of the Past: Khanya College Oral History Projects’ . Perspectives in Education , 11 See, 1 (Spring 1989).In addition, Wits University's Sociology of Work Programme also produces accessible reports of their research on health and safety. See, for example, A Thousand Ways to Die (Johannesburg, 1986). It was produced in collaboration with the National Union of Mineworkers, and published by Learn and Teach Publications
  • Golding , M. “ Writing Organisational History: Some Aspects to Consider ” . (Popularising History Workshop, 1990). See also J. Wright, ‘Popular History in the History Workshop: Some Comments on the Politics of Production’ at the same event
  • 1991 . Striking Back A History ofCOSATU Johannesburg Baskin has since published
  • Golding, ‘Writing Organisational History’
  • 1990 . The Red Flag: The History of the South African Communist Party Johannesburg SACP
  • Understanding History (Johannesburg, n.d.)
  • For a fascinating and provocative case-study on the ‘usable past’ in nineteenth-century eastern Cape history, see J. Peires, ‘Suicide or Genocide? Xhosa Perceptions of the Nongqawuse Catastrophe’, in Brown et at, History from South Africa.
  • Bundy , C. 1986 . Remaking the Past Adult Education and Extra-Mural Studies at the University of Cape Town (See, too, C. Hamilton, In Pursuit of Swaziland's Precolonial Past (Manzini, 1990), a school textbook which employs an innovative oral history methodology
  • For example, union education officers have asked that the COSATU illustrated labour history being prepared include an examination of labour and land struggles of both the precolonial and colonial periods
  • Except for ILRIG's booklet on Mozambique, which tended to skirt what was, at the time, a sensitive subject
  • 1984 . Factories and Families Durban Popular books on women include: Institute of Black Research, J. Barret et aL, Vukani Makhosikazi: South African Women Speak (London, 1985);L. Lawson, Working Women (Johannesburg, 1986);NUMSA, NUMSA Women Organise (Johannesburg, 1989). C. Walker, ed., Women and Gender (Cape Town, 1990) is a more academic collection of studies well worth popularising
  • Injula is published by Culture and Working Life, Durban

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