The Historical Association of (HASA)

FINAL PROGRAM

HASA / HGSA Biennial Conference

20-22 June 2018

Black Mountain Leisure & Conference Hotel

Thaba Nchu

WEDNESDAY – 20 JUNE 2018

Time Event Venue

08:30 – 10:30 REGISTRATION FOYER

10:30 – 11:00 WELCOMING ADDRESS: VENUE 1

DR CHITJA TWALA – Head: Department of History

PROF. PULENG LENKABULA – Vice-Rector: Institutional Change, Student Affairs, and Community Engagement, University of the

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11:00 – 12: 00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: VENUE 1

PROF. KWANDI KONDLO Title: On the land question in South Africa - beyond rhetoric and slogans

Chair: Chitja Twala

Time Venue 1 Venue 2 Venue 3 Venue 4

12:00 – 13:00 SOUTH AFRICAN HISTORICAL REBELS & MARTYRS EMILY HOBHOUSE POLITICAL HISTORY APPROACHES & DEBATE

Chair: Chitja Twala Chair: Johann Tempelhoff Chair: Buti Kompi Chair: Grietjie Verhoef

"Sit down, throw away your Revisiting colonial pasts The meaning of Robert Emily Hobhouse and passes, refuse to pay taxes": between historical scholar- Mangaliso Sobukwe: self-biography, 1899- Comparing and contrasting ship and public debate. Representations and 1926: Reflections on black politics in Thaba 'Nchu- Comparisons between misrepresentations of a her letters to R.I. Steyn Mangaung, 1910-1929 Europa (the Low Countries) man of vision in Post- - Helen Dampier & - Peter Limb and South Africa South Africa Rebecca Gill - Georgi Verbeeck - Luvuyo Dondolo Black Consciousness and A contested legacy: Progressive Movements under From South African Does the law serve the The commemoration Apartheid Historical Reductionism to people? The death of Steve and memorialisation of - Ian Macqueen a more Pan-African and the Inquests Act Emily Hobhouse in historical approach - Servaas Rossouw South Africa - Nicodemus Fru Awasom - Cornelis Muller

13:00-14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 – 15:15 WATER SCIENCE & EDUCATION POLITICS ANTI-APARTHEID HISTORIES ON GOVERNANCE STRUGGLES SOUTHERN AFRICA

Chair: Wessel Visser Chair: Boitumelo Moreeng Chair: Munyaradzi Chair: Tania Coetzee Mushonga Identifying the WEF-nexus in ‘One minority of courage Defining and Aiding South Africa's water makes a majority': Longing, love and letters: 'the Namibian Refu- governance (1910-2008) Decoding the complexities An exile writes home gee': A history of the - Johann Tempelhoff of language-in-education - Annie Devenish Chaplaincy to Namib- politics in contemporary ians, 1974-76 Down by the river - Aquatic South Africa (1940s- The role of students and the - Christian Williams science in South Africa (1945- present) youth in advancing political 1998) - Munene Mwaniki consciousness in the in crisis. A - Lani van Vuuren Northern Cape historical analysis of The affordance of an - Thando Hila South Africa's 'quiet Historical inequality in the anarchist/syndicalist diplomacy', circa 1994- National Water Act: Legal approach to the debates The Mass Democratic 2003 pluralism in the former around transformation in Movement as a - Nicole Sithole homelands of South Africa the Higher Education revolutionary phase in the - Bas Rensen sector of South Africa is struggle for South Africa’s In all fairness, can truth necessary liberation lead to reconciliation in - Leroy Maisiri - Kongko Makau Zimbabwe? - Dorothy Goredema Cracks of the South African education system: Origins and reparation methods - Fhatuwani Ramudzuli & Tshepo Raseala

15:15 – 15:45 REFRESHMENTS

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15:45 – 17:00 LAND REFORM & CLAIMS YOUTH RESISTANCE XENOPHOBIA REFLECTIONS ON AGRICULTURE & FARMING

Chair: Bongani Ngqulunga Chair: Charmaine Chair: Nadine Lake Chair: David Morris Hlongwane Expropriating the expropriators: The Methodist church An immigrant English Critical reflections on the land "We are not in exile! We are response to xenophobia in Agriculturalist in the question in modern South Africa in our second home!”: Exile South Africa 2008-2016: era of Apartheid: A - Rachidi Richard Molapo experiences of the Twelve Potential under siege son's critical Disciples of Nelson - Bekithemba Dube retrospective Land reform: South Africa's Mandela, 1960-1991 - Mark Coghlan unfinished business - Chitja Twala & A history of media - Vongai Nyawo Mohlomi Masooa representation of foreign Inarticulate associa- nationals in Post-Apartheid tions of farmers: Con- The Salem Commonage: A ANC students in the Soviet Grahamstown versations, passions study of the approaches of Union (1979-1991): Past - Heather Dixon and daily grind courts towards expert testimony and present realities - Thina - Debbie Whelan in determining land claims in Nzo A bad host?: South Africa's South Africa role in xenophobic violence Agrarian and com- - Jako Bezuidenhout Mankweng Youth Con- since 1994 munity development in gress: An embodiment of - James Hlongwana colonial Zimbabwe: A youth consciousness and case study of Young leadership development – Farmers Clubs with 1974-1994 - Malesela Maepa reference to Mashona- land South, 1963-1979 - Fadzai Mudyiwa & Mark Nyandoro

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17:00 – 17:30 BOOK LAUNCH VENUE 1

BONGANI NGQULUNGA

The man who founded the ANC. A biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme

Chair: Buti Kompi

18:00 – 20:00 WELCOMING COCKTAIL

MC: Jan-Ad Stemmet

Cash bar available

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THURSDAY – 21 JUNE 2018

Time Event Venue

08:00 – 08:30 REGISTRATION FOYER

Time Venue 1 Venue 2 Venue 3 Venue 4

08:30 – 09:45 APARTHEID & NP GOVERNANCE WORLD WAR ERA’S MIGRANT LABOUR LEADERSHIP

Chair: Jan-Ad Stemmet Chair: Stephanie Cawood Chair: Jared McDonald Chair: Gregory Houston

"Every mickle makes a Understanding govern- ‘Fit for duty, unfit for Migrant labour in the (Orange) muckle": The 1979 Cape ment's and civil society's labour': Financial assis- Free State, 1975-1992: Province National Party perspectives on public tance and the rehabili- Regulation and contestation Collection Campaign - Rand participation and engage- tation of South African - Chitja Twala & Peter Limb for rhetoric, resistance, or ment in South Africa First World War ex- reform? - Tania Coetzee servicemen, 1915-1939 Arrival and survival: The - Beaurel Visser - Anri Delport impact of migration on the Service delivery protests social bonds of the people of and quality public ‘We would endeavour to The young Verwoerd as an QwaQwa, South Africa, 1970- education: a toxic mix or weed out the Fascist upcoming academic and 1994 symbiotic existence? element': Italian prisoner- public intellectual - Mzuzomuhle Caluza - Pieter Duvenage - Dipane Joseph Hlalele of-war labour in the Union

of South Africa during A review of spaces of local World War II ‘Mob’ resistance to Apartheid participation in promoting policies: Oral and newspaper - Karen Horn service delivery in South perspectives on police killings Africa General Jan Smuts and in Cato Manor, Durban, 1960 - Amarone Nomdo & the Polish orphans of - Mphumeleli Ngidi Tyanai Masiya & Oudtshoorn, 1943 to 1947 Isaac Khambule - Cobus Rademeyer 6

09:45 – 11:00 CONSPIRACY & SOCIAL HISTORY FINANCIAL HISTORY HOMELINESS, UNANSWERED QUESTIONS URBANISATION & DEVELOPMENT

Chair: Cobus Rademeyer Chair: Annie Devenish Chair: Karen Horn Chair: Wouter de Wet

Aliens, Jews and Gypsies. Factors that influenced the Black lives matter: On home and homeliness as Conspiracy theories and professional development Sanlam's early insurance research direction in South historical consciousness of black South African of the black market, 1918- African historiography - Jan-Ad Stemmet nurses in the period 1908- 1950 - Elize van Eeden & 1994 - Grietjie Verhoef & Sulevi Riukulehto Was Lionel Schwartz - Joan Esterhuizen & Simone Halleen murdered? An investigation Gisela van Rensburg The making of juvenile into the role played by Agent Insurance and the delinquency in South Africa, Schwartz with the revealing of The downtrodden yet vital market: Regulation in the 1910-1948 alleged arms procurement members of society: insurance industry since - Charmaine Hlongwane irregularities as indicated in Domestic workers and their the 1980s the 1964 Commission of plight - Grietjie Verhoef A history of the railways Inquiry - Hellen Promise Mhlanga in Tembisa, 1950s-1980s: - Emile Coetzee International finance and People, infrastructure and Between duty and desire: energy development: The modernities The Helderberg SA295 crash Bridal in International Bank for - Nobungcwele Mbem of 1987: On an origin of Anglican Reconstruction and theories - Laura Richardson Development (IBRD) in - Hannelie du Plessis Southern Rhodesia, 1945-1960 - Tapiwa Madimu

11:00 - 11:30 REFRESHMENTS

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11:30 – 13:00 GENDERED HISTORIES & HERITAGE WATER HISTORY ARCHIVES & MUSEUMS LANDSCAPE

Chair: Thina Nzo Chair: Dipane Joseph Chair: Bas Rensen Chair: Rachidi Richard Molapo Hlalele Gendered (in)securities and A perfect storm. The Preserving history: Archives the memorialization of Reflections on Rivonia. ramifications of Cape - Tshitso Challa struggle: Dynamics of Liliesleaf recovered Town’s drought crisis memory, space and gender in - Garth Benneyworth - Wessel Visser The pitfalls of PAIA: The war post-liberation (South) Africa for Southern Africa, military - Stephanie Cawood Archaeological activism The Laingsburg flood archival research, and the against the loss of the past: disaster in black and difficulties encountered Discourses of the rise of the The case of Canteen Kopje white, 1981-2011 accessing classified huntress in the context of the - David Morris - Ashrick Pietersen documentation fledging wildlife ranching - Will Gordon & sector in South Africa Preservation: Its Life-giving waters: How Evert Kleynhans - Tariro Kamuti importance and the thermal spring waters implications in the study of of Caledon played a role Documenting Afrikaner A history of life: mummified human remains in the creation and Fascism: A historical overview 'Corrective ' and the from Historic Cave, survival of the town of the South African struggle to Limpopo, South Africa - Dané Swanepoel Archive belong - Shahzaadee Karodia - Evert Kleynhans - Nadine Lake Assessing past drought ‘The hand that rocks the experiences to debate Everybody’s War: The role of The penis monologues: cradle': The role of heritage YouTube as a source in the Anglo-Boer War Museum Constructions of manhood ambassadors in the Cradle historical research in engaging the community and masculinity in colonial of Humankind World - Annadine Smit - Mauoane Martha Thulo urban Zimbabwe Heritage Site - Kudakwashe Chitofiri - Lourenҫo Pinto & Lindsay Hunter

13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH

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14:00 – 15:30 PANEL DISCUSSION VENUE 1

Chair: Sello Motloheloa

Panel: Ntshelleng Maphisa Boitumelo Moreeng Johan Wasserman

Schooled in History and History at Schools: The pros and cons of History as a compulsory subject

15:30 – 16:00 REFRESHMENTS (HASA EXECUTIVE MEETING)

16:00 – 17:15 MILITARY HISTORY CULTURAL HERITAGE IDENTITY EDUCATION SITES & SACRED SPACES

Chair: Cornelis Muller Chair: Garth Benneyworth Chair: Hannelie du Chair: Bekithemba Dube Plessis Security forces and political Contestation within the Taking heritage memory to power in post-colonial context of sacred spaces: A Afrikaner identities, schools and the role of public Southern Africa case of Intaba Yezono boeties and borders libraries in South Africa - Hanky Sereo (Grahamstown, Eastern - Jaco Bothma - Joseph Ngoaketsi & Cape) Koketso Mokwatlo The historical development of - Nomonde Sibawu Koos Kombuis: From policy on military veterans in iconoclast to icon Multiculturalism, orality and Southern Africa in The influence of cultural - Wouter de Wet folklore in one of the South comparative perspective and religious perceptions African schools in the Free - Gregory Houston & on planning for cemeteries. State John Stanfield - Anastacia Sara Motsei

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A case study of Mangaung From Dikmelk to Cracker Box: Metropolitan Municipality The tattoo as identity Sobhuza's attempts to Early South African armoured - Moeketsi Paulus marker in the 21st reinvigorate tradition and its car operations in Northern Thakanyane century South Africa contribution to educational SWA/Namibia, 1967-1974 - Elbie Lombard & Luna policy development, 1930- - Jean-Pierre Scherman Incorporating oral Bergh 1935 testimonies in teaching - Her Royal Highness of about heritage: A history Swaziland: Eunice Matsebula, educator’s experience Nhlanhla Dlamini & – Mohau Soldaat Shokahle Dlamin

17:15 – 18:15 HASA / HGSA Annual General Meeting

Chair: Karen Harris

19:00 – 21:00 CONFERENCE DINNER

Keynote: Karen Harris Title: History through the looking glass

MC: Jan-Ad Stemmet

Cash bar available

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FRIDAY – 22 JUNE

Time Event Venue

08:00 – 08:15 REGISTRATION FOYER

Time Venue 1 Venue 2 Venue 3 Venue 4

08:15 – 09:45 POLICIES, PEACE & SOCIAL & LEISURE AUTHORITIES & TEACHING EXPERIENCES & PROGRESSION IN HISTORY LEADERSHIP METHODOLOGIES SOUTHERN AFRICA

Chair: Georgi Verbeeck Chair: Elize van Eeden Chair: Peter Limb Chair: Tsitso Molatuli

Winds of Change in "Worthy of the greatness of Federalism with South Assessing historical con- Swaziland: Responses to the British empire": Cape African characteristics? sciousness and knowledge of racialism and racial San child transfers and the Traditional authorities undergraduate history stu- in an era of assimilationist impulse of and customary law in a dents change in British colonial evangelical-humanitaria- democratic, - Marietjie Oelofse policy towards Africa, 1960- nism in the , c. constitutional state 1962 1806-1830 - Bhaso Ndzendze Historical exchange: TRC - Nhlanhla Dlamini - Jared McDonald teachings in the Grade 12 Grand visions, modest history classroom Contradictions in the British "The life and adventures of results: Early efforts at - Sello Motloheloa colonial government's policy Mr. Eli Wiggill" Black Economic Em- regarding medical missions in - Fred Woods powerment in South “The feeling I get when things Swaziland, 1920-1953 Africa fall” - Shokahle Dlamini - Bongani Ngqulunga - Robyn Nesbitt 11

Landscape, land, memory and "Mijn huis is plat": Life and An historical account of 'New Nationalism' in Zim- death during the South Africa’s bumpy babwe's political discourse Braamfontein explosion of road to democracy: - Jefferson Ndimande 1896 Political leaders’ - Garth Ahnie struggles and com- Critical analysis of the religio- promises, 1990-1994 political transformations: Seven years of tribulation – - Reg Krohn Case of the Zimbabwean 2010 to 2017: The steady Restore Legacy Operation decline of sport in South The politics of the 2017 Africa dwindling government - Mandiedza Parichi - Cobus Rademeyer financial subvention to the National University of Lesotho - Munyaradzi Mushonga

09:45 – 11:00 CANNIBALISM & POACHING TRADITIONAL STUDENT ACTIVISM REVISITING HISTORY LEADERSHIP

Chair: Mark Coghlan Chair: Vongai Nyawo Chair: Emile Coetzee Chair: Clement Masakure

Grisly heritage and usable Colonial influence on Poor in thoughts, Constitutionalism and leader- pasts? Examining narratives traditional leadership dangerous in actions: A ship renewal in the African and sites of cannibalism in claims and disputes of the concomitant quest to National Congress. Lessons 19thc - 20thc Lesotho eastern Free State destroy South Africa’s for other African states - Jesmael Mataga Batlokwa tertiary education system - Tasara Muguti - Buti Kompi - Christopher Ngwenya & The no good, the very bad, and Rachidi Richard Molapo Tracing a Politico-Historical the downright ugly: Profiling The collapse of the Narrative of the Transvaal poachers in historical and Barolong-boo-Seleka chief- #FeesMustFall campaign Indian Congress current contexts dom: Role played by and the struggle against - Aaliyah Kathrada - Naomi Haupt 12

and land dispossession neoliberal education in (1833-1884) the new South Africa - Boitumelo Moreeng - Munyaradzi Mushonga

A trans-border criminal Telling the history of A comparative analysis Analysing African women's enterprise: The case of Mdlalose clan of the apartheid and Post- past in the context of poaching and illegal biltong - Nomsa Mdlalose Apartheid South African inequality and the liberation ‘export’ in the Tuli Block of student activism struggle: A literature review Botswana, 1930-1960s - David Tobias - Kabir Abdulkareem & – Maitseo Bolaane Ayanda Ndlovu

11:00 – 11:30 CONFERENCE WRAP-UP

Venue 1

Luvuyo Dondolo Johan Wasserman

11:30 - 12:00 REFRESHMENTS

Thank you for your attendance and valuable contributions to our HASA 2018 Conference!!

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