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Colonialism, Ethnicity and War in Angola South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2024-03-17 Justin Pearce
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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South African Women and the Politics of Peace in the 1950s South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Rachel Sandwell
This article uses a feminist intellectual history methodology to analyse debates around ‘peace’ within the Federation of South African Women in the 1950s. While many scholars have produced insightf...
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Three Wise Monkeys South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Colin Darch
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Tennis, Apartheid and Social Justice: The First Non-Racial International Tennis Tour, 1971 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Tarminder Kaur
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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Anzelm Dzwonkowski’s Short Description of the Dutch Cape Colony (1789, 1793) South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-12-13 Michał Leśniewski
This article presents excerpts from the short memoirs of Teodor Anzelm Dzwonkowski, a member of a Mazovian family belonging to the Polish petty nobility, who after his service in the Prussian army ...
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‘Gangsters by the Bioscope’: South African Indian Cinemas as Spaces of Becoming during Early Apartheid South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Damon Heatlie
From the 1940s to the 1960s, South African Indians encountered new cinema spaces opening in their ghettoes in Durban and Johannesburg. Cinemas afforded working-class people an experience of luxury,...
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The Boipatong Massacre of 1992: Traces, Silences, and Truth(s) South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Franziska Rueedi
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 4, 2022)
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‘We Must Analyse Where Our National Interest Lies and not Worry too Much about Other People’s Domestic Policies’: Richard M. Nixon and Apartheid South Africa in the Early 1970s South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Eddie Michel
This article explores the pragmatic stance that the United States adopted, during the Nixon era, regarding relations with Pretoria. The Nixon administration believed that Washington needed to prior...
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Convening Black Intimacy: Christianity, Gender, and Tradition in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Charmaine T. Modisane
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Eskom and the Electricity Act 42 of 1922 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-08-30 Faeeza Ballim
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 4, 2022)
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The Changing Face of Colonial Education in Africa: Education, Science and Development South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-08-22 Seán Morrow
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Bones and Bodies: How South African Scientists Studied Race South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Janeke Thumbran
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Teaching Texts South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-08-20 Laura Phillips, Suryakanthie Chetty, Lazlo Passemiers, Abraham Mlombo, Rebecca Swartz
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 4, 2022)
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Written Out: The Silencing of Regina Gelana Twala South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-08-16 Athambile Masola
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Spirit of Ulster in the Cape of Good Hope: The South African Anti-Irish Home Rule Movement, 1910–1914 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-08-13 Samuel Gary Beckton
As the third Irish Home Rule crisis intensified, Ulster Unionists began searching for allies across the British Empire, including in South Africa. This article highlights the important role and inf...
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Shifting Trends in Nursing Education in High Commission Territories: The Case of Ainsworth Dickson Nurse Training School in Swaziland, 1948–1967 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Shokahle R. Dlamini
In 1948, the High Commission territories (HCTs) of Bechuanaland, Basutoland, and Swaziland (present-day Botswana, Lesotho, and Eswatini, respectively) formed an inter-territorial nursing council re...
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Harry Oppenheimer: Diamonds, Gold and Dynasty South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-07-31 Christopher Saunders
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Imperialist Dream of João Albasini, a Portuguese Trader in South-East Africa, 1847–1870 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 Linell Chewins
In the early nineteenth century, João Albasini established himself as a slave and ivory trader at Delagoa Bay, current-day Maputo, Mozambique. In the 1850s, he moved west, crossing the Lubombo Moun...
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‘Think More Clearly than the State Allows’: Rick Turner’s Challenge to the Present South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-06-21 Gerhard Maré
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 3, 2022)
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Colonial Intrusion and the Dispute over Leadership of the Nzama People in Kranskop, KwaZulu-Natal, 1880s to 1928 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Siyabonga Nxumalo
The Nzama were an independent chiefdom, but because of the colonial divide-and-rule strategy, they ultimately were made subservient to the rival Ngubane chief, who then connived with the local whit...
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The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland 1953–1963: A Retrospective at its Unattained Platinum Jubilee South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Brooks Marmon
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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‘The Root of All Evil?’: Cash Boom, Trader Misfeasance, and Poverty in World War II Bechuanaland Protectorate South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-05-21 Phuthego Phuthego Molosiwa, Maitseo M. M. Bolaane
Told here is a story of the manifestations of cash money’s unseen and unpredictable power in the expropriations of Bechuanaland Protectorate Africans by store owners or traders during World War II....
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Counterinsurgency’s Undead Prose: A Reply to Janet Cherry’s Review of Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in South Africa South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-05-18 Daniel L. Douek
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 3, 2022)
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A Reluctant Rebel: John Msikinya and Secession at Aliwal North South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-05-17 Jeremy Crump
This article traces the course of the secession of John Msikinya from the Primitive Methodist Church in 1908. Msikinya was feted by the church as one of its first African ministers and toured the U...
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This Year in History: The 1922 Rand Revolt South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Duncan Money, Danelle van Zyl-Hermann
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 3, 2022)
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The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-04-17 Chris Saunders
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Perseverence Madhuku
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 4, 2022)
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Revisioning the Ethnographic Photograph South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Candice Steele
This paper attempts to destabilise the ethnographic photographic genre through an exploration of some of the photographs contained in the Pauline Ingle Photographic Evaluation and Realisation (PIPE...
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The Idea of Matabeleland in Digital Space South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-01-30 Peter Uledi
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 4, 2022)
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Beyond Fear South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2023-01-05 Christopher Williams
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 3, 2022)
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Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900–1965: Tracing Machona South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-12-23 Harvey C. Chidoba Banda
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 4, 2022)
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Prelude to Unilateralism: Foreclosed Independence Bids in Pre-Federation Southern Rhodesia, 1948 and 1950 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-12-13 Brooks Marmon
ABSTRACT This article recovers two resolutions, in 1948 and 1950, respectively, by the all-white parliament in Southern Rhodesia (colonial Zimbabwe) that expressed support for the colony’s independence within the British Commonwealth. The examination of these post-war pushes for sovereignty illuminate how Rhodesia’s political leadership was sensitive to wider changes in the imperial status quo, well
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Book Forum South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-12-12 Natasha Erlank, Natalie L. Kimball, Leslie Hadfield
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2022)
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What Can We Learn from Mrs. Ples? – The 75th Anniversary of a Fossil South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Christa Kuljian
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2022)
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The Bounds of Compassion? Medical Ethics and the Politics of Medical Mercy Killings in South Africa, 1930s to 1976 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-11-17 Julie Parle
ABSTRACT The 1975 trial of Dr Alby Hartman for the killing of his father, in September the previous year at the small hospital at Ceres just over 100 kms from Cape Town, galvanised South African debates about medical euthanasia. After the trial, the obligations and duties of doctors faced with extreme suffering, profound disability, or inevitable death were widely discussed. The first study of medical
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Experiment at KwaPoyinandi: African Engagement with the Local Health Commission of the Edendale and District Public Health Area, 1942–c.1957 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-10-26 Marc Epprecht
ABSTRACT KwaPoyinandi was the Zulu term for the Local Health Commission (LHC), a unique but now little-remembered form of local authority that governed the freehold community of Edendale and contiguous farms, townships, and informal settlements from 1942 to 1974. Its early mandate was to rehabilitate the once prosperous community within the social medicine paradigm (primary health care attentive to
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South Africa’s Century of Cannabis Politics, 1922–2022 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Thembisa Waetjen
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2022)
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Genetic Afterlives: Black Jewish Indigeneity in South Africa South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-09-22 Shirli Gilbert
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 3, 2022)
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US Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War In Africa: A Bridge Between Global Conflict and the New World Order, 1988–1994 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Chris Saunders
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 3, 2022)
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‘The Involvement of the State Had to Be a Secret’: The Impact of Vrye Weekblad and Weekly Mail Exposés on the Apartheid Government and its Conservative Apologists in the United States South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-09-15 Bryan Trabold
ABSTRACT In its final stages, the apartheid government in South Africa sought to promote an image that it was committed to reform and that it represented the only entity in the country capable of containing ‘black-on-black’ violence. At the same time, it created death squads and supported black counter-revolutionary forces to weaken the African National Congress. For the government’s strategy to work
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White Mineworkers on Zambia’s Copperbelt, 1926–1974: In a Class of their Own South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-08-23 Jabulani Shaba
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 4, 2022)
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Southern Rhodesia–South Africa Relations, 1923–1953: Political, Social and Economic Ties South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-08-08 Lotti Nkomo
Published in South African Historical Journal (Ahead of Print, 2022)
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The Lion of Azania: A Biography of Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng (1913–1990) South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Cynthia Kros
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 3, 2022)
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Critical Reflections on Physical Culture at the Edges of Empire South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-07-27 Anell Stacey Daries
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2022)
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The Production of Space at Pieter Roos Park: Public Space as a Lens into Johannesburg’s Changing Public Culture 1968–2019 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Temba John Dawson Middelmann
ABSTRACT Johannesburg and South Africa’s history and contingencies of colonisation, apartheid and a complex transition to democracy shaped different iterations of Pieter Roos Park. I argue that the dynamics and contingencies of the park in turn played a role in shaping those same histories. Using public space as a lens into history is revealing of how the formation of different publics and their resultant
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Christopher Bethell, Charles Warren and the Colonisation of the Southern Batswana South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-07-20 Alan Lester
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2022)
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Dockside Reading: Hydrocolonialism and the Custom House South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Phindezwa Mnyaka
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2022)
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Commerce As Politics: The Two Centuries of Struggle for Basotho Economic Independence South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 John Aerni-Flessner
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2022)
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Political and Intellectual Lineages of Southern African Anti-Fascism South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-06-13 Jonathan Hyslop, Kasper Braskén, Neil Roos
ABSTRACT The article is the introduction to a special issue of the South African Historical Journal on anti-fascism. It starts by explaining the contemporary relevance of the subject. It then places Southern Africa within the contemporary historiographical debates on anti-fascism. The article provides a broad overview of the history of the anti-fascist political ideas and practice within the region
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The Drama of the Peace Process in South Africa. I Look Back 30 Years South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Chris Saunders
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 4, 2022)
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Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 Duane Jethro
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 1, 2022)
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African Nurses and Everyday Work in Twentieth-Century Zimbabwe South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-05-17 Shokahle R. Dlamini
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 2, 2022)
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‘A Livestock Country Cannot Be Improvised’: Cattle Improvement, Economic Ambitions, and the Environment in Southern Mozambique, 1910s–1940s South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Bárbara Direito
ABSTRACT Due to the absence of the tsetse fly and the existence of large areas of pasture and fertile river valleys, bovine cattle have historically been central in the lives of African agro-pastoral societies in southern Mozambique. In the beginning of the twentieth century, Portuguese officials became interested in the expansion of the livestock economy to supply internal and external markets. But
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Forging an Alternative to Separate Development: Afrikaner Sociology, the Apartheid State, and the ‘Coloured’ Question (c.1932–1984) South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Janeke Thumbran
ABSTRACT This article makes an intervention into the historiography which has positioned Afrikaner sociology as an unambiguous instrument of the apartheid state. In doing so, the article examines how leading Afrikaner sociologists used Parsonian structural functionalism to engage with the coloured question in the 1970s – articulated as the conundrum of where to position coloureds politically in the
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A Transnational History of Stock Theft on the Lesotho–South Africa Border, Nineteenth Century to 1994 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-04-01 John Aerni-Flessner, Chitja Twala, Munyaradzi Mushonga, Grey Magaiza
ABSTRACT Stock theft has long been a problem along the Lesotho–South Africa border. From Moshoeshoe I’s cattle-raiding in the nineteenth century through to the start of the democratic era in Lesotho (1993) and South Africa (1994), the idea that stock theft is both prevalent and an international problem has been generally accepted by one and all. This article traces and problematises the practice of
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Reciprocity and the Moral Economy of Exchange in African ‘Tealess’ Tea Parties in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, c. 1945–1950s South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-03-16 Perseverence Madhuku, Joseph Mujere, Barbara Mahamba
ABSTRACT In recent decades, historians’ understanding of colonialism has been significantly enriched, going beyond the central concepts of resistance and negotiation. Several works have been produced on various aspects of African lives in colonial cities. Yet African organisational life and networks of solidarity in such ‘restrictive’ urban spaces have been largely overlooked. In this article, we examine
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Mozambique’s Samora Machel: A Life Cut Short South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Johanna M. Wetzel
Published in South African Historical Journal (Vol. 74, No. 1, 2022)
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‘Open Fascism Has Appeared on this Continent’: South Africa’s Independent Press and Anti-Fascism, 1937–1947 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Myra Ann Houser
ABSTRACT When Moses Kotane founded The African Defender in 1937, he did so with the intention to encourage African self-sufficiency through teaching and publishing in indigenous languages and through sharing information on how to survive in segregated South Africa. In doing so, he entered into public conversation with writers and editors of other independent publications such as The Anti-Fascist or
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Vredeskoppie and the Afrikaner Nationalist Myth of Benevolent Paternalism South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-02-28 Jacobus Adriaan du Pisani
ABSTRACT Ikalafeng, kgosi of the Bahurutshe ba ga Moiloa at Dinokana since 1877, hoped to get British support to rid his people of Boer domination and engaged in acts of defiance against the Boers. Early in 1882 a Boer commando, accompanied by General Piet Joubert, the commandant-general of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek, moved against the inhabitants of Dinokana, disarmed them, forced them to dismantle
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Reconstructing a Socio-Political Narrative of High School Athletics in the Oppressed Communities of the Greater Cape Peninsula, South Africa, 1973–1994 South African Historical Journal (IF 0.526) Pub Date : 2022-02-21 Roderick Willis
ABSTRACT This article reconstructs the history of the Western Province Senior Schools Sports Union with specific reference to high school athletics in the oppressed communities of the greater Cape Peninsula. The article looks specifically at the athletics competitions that took place at the Athlone Stadium and gives a tabular presentation of athletics competitions during the period under review. It