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No End of a [HistoryJ Lesson: Preparations for the Anglo-Boer War Centenary Commemoration

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Pages 370-387 | Published online: 14 Jan 2009

  • Anglo Boer War Centenary Programme, 1999–2002, http://www.anglo-boer.co.za/cente-nary.htm
  • ‘Anglo Boer War Centenary: Official Guide Commemoration Programme in Kwazulu-Natal’ (no. 4), 9, 11, 13, 3, 8
  • The Anglo Boer War Centennial Battlefield Tour, http://www.toer.co.za/boerwar.htm
  • ‘Berg and Battlefields: A Place To Spread Your Wings’, Uthukela and Umzinyathi Regional Councils (1998), 18;‘Official Guide Commemoration Programme in Kwazulu-Natal’, 2
  • ‘Official Guide Commemoration Programme in Kwazulu-Natal’, 2
  • McFadden , P. 1998 . Dundee Anglo Boer War Centenary 1999–2002, Souvenir Battlefields Booklet and Commemorative Programme 13 Dundee
  • Benneyworth , G. and Barbour , F. 1998 . Diamond Fields Nl2 Battlefields Route 1899–1902, Northern Cape, South Africa 1 – 2 . Kimberley
  • Ibid., 17–18
  • McFadden . Dundee Anglo Boer War Centenary 13, 18
  • Swan , M. 1985 . Gandhi: The South African Experience 86 – 7 . Johannesburg
  • McFadden . Dundee Anglo Boer War Centenary 18
  • ‘Official Guide Commemoration Programme in Kwazulu-Natal’, 2
  • 1998 . The Star, 16 June, quoted in E. Brink and S. Krige, ‘Remapping and Remembering’ the South African War in Johannesburg and Pretoria' (Paper for the ‘Rethinking the South African War’ Conference, University of South Africa Library, Pretoria, 3–5 Aug. 1998), 10
  • 1999 . Speech of President Thabo Mbeki at his inauguration as President of the Republic of South Africa: Union Buildings, Pretoria, 16 June: www.gov.za/speeches
  • ‘Ladysmith Freedom Festival: The Most Vibrant and Exciting Commemoration of the Anglo Boer War and Subsequent Freedom Struggles’, pamphlet (Ladysmith, no date)
  • Rassool , C. and Witz , L. 1993 . Journal of African History , 34 : 447 – 68 . See, ‘The 1952 Jan van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival: Constructing and Contesting Public National History in South Africa’
  • 1952 . South African State Information Service, 300 Years, film
  • 1952 . South Africa's Heritage (1652–1952) Pretoria South Africa State Information Service
  • de Kock , V. 1952 . Our Three Centuries Cape Town
  • 1996. . Speech delivered by Cyril Ramaphosa, at Sharpeville, 10 Dec. Text supplied by the office of the Constitutional Assembly
  • Friedman , R. ‘Tutu Visits War Memorial; “White Bums” Missing from TRC Benches’, Cape Times, 3 July 1996
  • Friedman . ‘Tutu Visits War Memorial’
  • Anglo Boer War Memorial Museum, Black Participation in the Anglo-Boer War (Bloemfontein, no date), 1
  • Ibid., 2
  • Ibid.
  • Warwick , P. 1983 . Black People and the South African War Johannesburg (B. Nasson, Abraham Esau's War: A Black South African War in the Cape. 1899–1902 (Cape Town, 1991);M. Legassick The Battle of Naroegas: Context, Historiography, Sources and Significance’, Kronos 21 (Nov. 1994), 32–60;B. Willian, Sol Plaatje: A Biography (Johannesburg, 1984);J. Comaroff (ed.), The Boer War Diary of Sol T. Plaatje, An African at Mafeking (Johannesburg, 1973)
  • Jeeves , A. 1998 . South African Historical Journal , 39 : 146 ‘New Perspectives in South African War Studies: A Report on the Unisa Conference, August’, (Nov. 1998
  • Bradford , H. 1998 . ‘Gentlemen and Boers: Afrikaner Nationalism, Gender and Colonial Warfare in the South African War’ (Paper presented at the' Rethinking the South African War, 1899–1902' Conference, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 3–5 Aug.
  • Jeeves . ‘New Perspectives’, 154
  • Nasson . Abraham Esau's War 131
  • Delius , P. 1996 . A Lion Amongst the Cattle: Reconstruction and Resistance in the Northern Transvaal 14 Johannesburg
  • Bradford . ‘Gentlemen and Boers’, 18
  • Suttie , M. 1998 . ‘Rethinking the South African War, 1899–1902: The Anatomy of a Conference’ . South African Historical Journal , 39 Nov. (144, 145, 153
  • Carman , J. 1999 . 1 ‘Paradox in Places: 20th Century Battlefields in Long-Term Perspective’ (Paper presented at World Archaeological Congress 4, University of Cape Town, Jan.
  • 1998 . Getaway Top 10 73 Cape Town Reader's Digest and Getaway
  • 1976 . ‘Magersfontein: The Battle of Magersfontein’, pamphlet (Kimberley
  • Barber , F. 1980 . ‘Magersfontein Monuments’, pamphlet (Kimberley
  • Goldblatt , D. 1998 . South Africa: The Structure of Things Then 223 Cape Town
  • Barber, ‘Magersfontein Monuments’
  • 1970 . SA War Graves Board, Ontwerp, Simboliek en Oprigting van die ZARP-Gedenkteken op Berg-en-Dal (quoted in Goldblatt, South Africa, 236
  • Goldblatt . South Africa 233
  • 1998 . Suttie, ‘Rethinking the South African War’, 153. Suttie is making this point in relation to the Unisa conference on the War in August, but we think it can be appropriately assigned to the way the war is memorialised
  • Ryan , S. 1996 . The Cartographic Eye: How Explorers Saw Australia 6 (Cambridge.
  • Smillie , S. 1999. . ‘Boer War's Forgotten Victims’, Sunday Argus, 3/4 Apr.
  • Smillie , S. 1999. . ‘Death of Thousands of Africans in Boer War Camps Come to Light’, Sunday Independent, 16 May
  • Krige , Brink and . ‘Remapping and Remembering’, 2
  • Personal visit to the Vrouemonument, Bloemfontein, April 1995;A. Grundlingh, ‘TheNational Women's Monument: The Making and Mutation of Meaning in Afrikaner Memory of the South African War' (Paper presented at the ‘Rethinking the South African War, 1899–1902’ Conference, University of South Africa Library, Pretoria, 3–5 Aug. 1998), 5–6;L. Kruger, ‘Gender, Community and Identity: Women and Afrikaner Nationalism in the Volksmoeder Discourse of'Die Boerevrou' (1919–1931)' (MSocSci thesis, University of Cape Town, 1991), 142–3. See also the Concentration Camp Garden of Remembrance in Aliwal North where the image of the ‘Boerevrou’ is almost replicated: Goldblatt, South Africa, 236. For an account of images of male supremacy in the commemorative publications of the Vrouemonument, see E. Cloete, ‘The National Women's Monument Brochures: A Rhetoric of Male Supremacy' (Paper presented to the ‘Myths, Monuments, Museums: New Premises?’ Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 16–18 July 1992)
  • ‘Ladysmith Freedom Festival’ (pamphlet)
  • 1999 . ‘The Anglo-Boer War: A Reappraisal’ (final conference announcement and information brochure, Department of History, University of the Orange Free State
  • 1999 . See L. Witz, G. Minkley and C. Rassool, ‘Who Speaks for South African Pasts?’ (Paper presented at the South African Historical Soceity Conference, University of Western Cape, 11–14 July
  • 1999. . Letter from Prof Anton Bekker in Die Burger, 29 July
  • 1996. . This was the strategy adopted in a television series which examined the development of Afrikaans as a language: see Z. Achmat (director), Skerpioen onder die Klip, Idol Pictures
  • Witz , Minkley and Rassool . ‘Who Speaks for South African Pasts’
  • Beangstrom , P. 1999. . ‘Call to Boycott Anglo-Boer War Slated: Lack of Information on Women and Blacks has Led to Exclusion’. Diamond Fields Advertiser, 27 July
  • 1999. . Editor, ‘Remember Together’. Diamond Fields Advertiser, 30 July
  • Beangstrom . ‘Call to Boycott’
  • Abrahams , M. 1999 . ‘Another Frontier: Impressions of Post-Apartheid Transformation of Historical Representation at the McGregor Museum, Kimberley’ (Paper presented at the ‘Tracking Change at the McGregor Museum’ Workshop at the Auditorium, Lady Oppenheimer Hall, McGregor Museum, Kimberley, 27 Mar. 11;see also ‘Steve's Kimberley: The Visitor's Guide to an Undiscovered Gem’, pamphlet (Feb. 1999)
  • Lynch , M. and Bogen , D. 1996 . The Spectacle of History: Speech, Text and Memory at the Iran-Contra Hearings 9 Durham NC
  • Abrahams . ‘Another Frontier’, 10

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