The Historical Association of South Africa (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 Free State 1 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 Apartheid 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 Biko and the Inquests Act Emily Hobhouse in historical approach - Servaas Rossouw South Africa - Nicodemus Fru Awasom - Cornelis Muller 13:00-14:00 LUNCH 2 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 Zimbabwe 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 3 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 4 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 5 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 pregnancy in International Bank for - Nobungcwele Mbem of 1987: On an origin of Anglican Cape Town Reconstruction and theories - Laura Richardson Development (IBRD) in - Hannelie du Plessis Southern Rhodesia, 1945-1960 - Tapiwa Madimu 11:00 - 11:30 REFRESHMENTS 7 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