Yale-Wesleyan SOUlliERN AFRICAN RESEARCH PROGRAM Newsletter 11: June 1986 ' I CONTENTS ! page l I Director' s Report 1 Directors of the Program 3 Visiting Fellows 6 Associate Fellows 10 Former Visiting Fellows 12 Research Seminar 22 Lunches 24 Workshops 26 The Library 27 *** - -- - - ~- SOUTHERN AFRICAN RESEARCH PROGRAM Director: Leonard M. Thompson, History, Yale University Associate Directors: Jeffrey Butler, History, Wesleyan University Leonard W. Doob, Psychology, Yale University William J . Foltz, Political Science, Yale University Stanley B. Greenberg, Yale Center for International and Area Studies, Yale University Diana Wylie, History, Yale University Librarian: J.M.D. Cressey Administrative Assistant: Pamela Baldwin DIRECTOR'S BEFORT We have had a fine year, with superlative Fellows in residence. Njabulo Ndebele (Literature, National University of Lesotho) and Wilmot James (Political Science, Cape Western University, now University of Cape Town) were here throughout the year. Stanley Trap1do (History, Oxford University) came in the fall semester; Surendra Bhana (History, University of Durban-Westville) and Cecil Manona (Anthropology, Rhodes University) joined us fn the spring. We also benefitted from the participation of Michael Ranneberger (State Department) and Kala Bhan a (Psychology, Durban-Westv 111 e) as Associate Fellows. The following made short visits to the Program during the year: Sheena Duncan (President, the Black Sash); Robin Hallett (British historian); Alan Mabin (Geography, University of the Witwatersrand); Louis Msukwa (Director, Center for Social Research, University of Malawi); Allan Nelson (Governor's Task Force in Connecticut on investment in South Africa); Pillay Pundy (South African Labor Development Research Unit, University of Cape Town); Gerald Shaw (Chief Assistant Editor, The Cape Times); and Charles Simkins (Economics, University of Cape Town). The seminars, organized by Jeffrey Butler and Stanley Greenberg in the fall semester and by Leonard Thompson i n the spring, had very full programs and an average attendance of more than twenty-five. Nearly fifty people attended the fall workshop at Yale and forty participated in the spring workshop at Wesleyan. We also had numerous informal talks at lunch-time on Wednesdays 1n the Swiss Room, Berkeley College. r- --- -=- - -- - In this Newsletter we include information about our former Fellows and their publications since they were here. We believe that this information is important for the record, showing as it does the considerable input they have made to southern African scholarship. During the two years ending July 1986 we have been assisted by grants from the Ford Foundation and the Open Society. As we go to press, we are expecting to receive substantial support for the next three years from the Ford Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation and also, perhaps, from another major foundation. This will enable us to increase the number of Fellows in residence at a time from three to five. The following scholars have accepted our invitation to be here throughout the academic year 1986-1987: Halton Cheadle (Law, University of the Witwatersrand); Victor Machinga1dze (History, University of Zimbabwe); Jacob Mohlanvne (History, Vista University); and Mbulelo Mzamane (English, Ahmadu Bello University). Merle Lipton (African and Asian Studies, University of Sussex) will be with us in the fall; and Johann Groenewald (Sociology, Stellenbosch University) will join us in the spring. The past year has been more hectic than usual as events in Southern Africa have unfolded. My colleagues and I have been called on to lecture to numerous organizations inside and outside Yale and Wesleyan Universities. We have been consulted by people in the private and the public sectors. We have been asked not only about the past but also about the future. My retirement from the mainline Yale faculty will necessitate changes in the SARP directorate from July l this year. As in the past, all important decisions will be taken by the directorate as a whole. It is a great source of strength to the Program that all of us who founded it nine years ago, including Pamela Baldwin, are still intimately and vigorously involved in it. Diana Wylie, who joined the directorate last fall, will be Acting Director and will handle all the internal administration of the Program, while I shall have the status of Senior Research Scholar at Yale as well as Associate Director and shall be responsible for external matters, especially for coordinating the work concerning the recruitment of Fellows and fundraising. Leonard M. Thompson -2- DIRECTORS Except in one unavoidable instance, no attempt whatsoever has been made to edit the jottings as they were submitted. Jeffrey Butler Papers: Conference on W.M. Macmillan in London, October 1985 (to be published in a volume edited by Shula Marks) "Housing in a Karoo Dorp" in The South African Historical Journal, December 1985. "Liberalism at the Local Level in South Africa" at a Wesleyan University seminar, April 1986 and also at a conference on consciousness, Harvard University, May 1986. Attending conference on Liberal ism at the University of Cape Town, May-June 1986, organized by David Welsh and Richard Elphick. Leonard Poob Activities: Conflict resolution: discussions in South Africa, auspices Human Sciences Research Council; promotion in Cyprus (August; March/April) Editing of journals (editor, Journal of Social Psychology; co-editor, Journal of Psychology; associate editor, Psychology Monographs); of books (contributions in Ethnic Studies, Greenwood Press) Publications: Published: Moral Bankruptcy and War. In H.M . Said (ed. ), "Voice of Morality." Karachi : Hamdard, 1985. Cypriot Patriotism and National ism. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1986, 30, 249-271. In press: Nevertheless, Slightly Beyond Skepticism: Morality and the Social Sciences. Yale Unversity Press. In preparation: Inevitability: Determinism, Fatalism, and Destiny. -3- w1111am Foltz Publications: "Foreward" to Helmut Schmidt, A Grand Strategy for the West (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985). "South Africa: The Hard Questions" in America, 153, 3 (August 3-10, 1985) pp. 45-48. "Unfted States Military and Strategic Interests in Africa" in Elliott P. Skinner, ed . , Beyond Constructive Engagement; United States Forejgn Pol icy toward Africa. (New York: Paragon House, 1986). "United States Pol icy toward South Africa: Is One Possible?" in Gerald J. Bender, James S. Coleman, and Richard L. Sklar, eds., African Crisis Areas and U.S. Foreign Pol ky (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1985) pp. 32-48. Research in progress: Study of African attitudes toward U.S. foreign policy, continued research on U.S. policy in southern Africa, and fieldwork research on the state in Chad, as part of a larger study of the political strategies of weak organizations. Outside lectures: the Secretary of State's Advisory Commission on Policy toward South Africa, Department of State, 29 January 1986; University of Chad, 6 January 1986; Harvard University, 22 February 1986. Consultant to: Department of State, Institute for Defense Analysis, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and Heinz Endowment. Stanley Greenberg Publications: Le~itimatin~ the Ille~itimate: State. Markets and Resistance in South Africa. University of California Press. In press. "Ideological Struggle within the South African State," in Shula Marks and Stanley Trapido, eds., South Africa in the Conw.aratil{e Studi'. of Class, Race and l~atjonal ism. London : Longman, 1986. "Resistance and Hegemony in South Africa", in Wilmot James, ed., The State of Apartheid. In press. Visiting Scholar at Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Study Center, Italy; working with Hermann Giliomee on The Modern Lazarus: the Death and Life of Apartheid, August 1985. -4- Leonard Thompson The Pol itjcaJ Mythology of Apartheid was published by the Yale University Press in the fall of 1985; among many reviews in leading journals was one by Desmond Tutu in The New York Review of Books. On January 28 he and ~/illiam Foltz were the first two witnesses invited to speak to the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on South Africa. On March 18 he was the guest speaker of the Lesotho 9overnr.1ent during the celebrations of the bicentenary of the birth of Moshoeshoe. In November 1985 he participated in a conference on South Africa convened by the Ditchley Foundation; and he conducted an N.E.H. summer seminar for college teachers on the political mythology of race. Diana Wylie During my first year of teaching at Yale, I spent my scant free time revising my study of a Tswana chieftain. I presented one revised chapter--on legal innovations and social change in Botswana--to the annual conference of the American Society of Legal Historians. In addition I gave several talks on South Africa to civic groups in New Haven. -5- VISITING FELLOWS Surandra Bhaoa: I came to SARP with the intention of completing three projects. Two of the projects are nearly complete. The first of these is the letters of M.H. Nazar who was a joint-secretary of the Natal Indian Congress from 1899 to 1904 and the first editor of the Indian Opinion from its foundation i n 1903 to 1906 when he died. The manuscript is being prepared jointly with Dr. James D. Hunt of Shaw University in North Carolina and will be submitted to the University Press of Natal in Pietermaritzburg. The second project consists of papers on i ndentured labour in Natal, and the manuscript will be submitted to a publisher in Yorkshire, England. The third project involved the revision and expansion of a two-part work completed with a colleague in 1984. The work deals with the diaspora of Indians in Southern Africa in the period before 1910. It is in this project especially that my presence at SARP offered me a marvellous opportunity--alas, all to brief--for wide reading and reflection. In this regard, Yale University's library facilities were invaluable. But nothing was of greater help than the SARP seminars in providing an extraordinarily stimulating environment for the kind of reflection that is necessary for an academic.