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Publications

Members of the History Workshop have been involved in the production of a wide range of labour, social and popular histories: both books and journal articles.

These have been characterised by a commitment to "history from below": the history of South Africa from the point of view of working and poor people.

Books
  • David Johnson, Noor Nieftagodien and Lucien van der Walt, Labour Struggles in Southern Africa, 1919-1949: New Perspectives on the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) (Johannesburg: HSRC Press, 2023)
  • Moloi, Tshepo, Place of Thorns Black Political Protest in Kroonstad since 1976, Wits University Press, 2015
  • Bonner, Philip, and Noor Nieftagodien. Ekurhuleni – The Making of an Urban Region. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2012.
  • Cavanagh, Edward. Settler Colonialism and Land Rights in South Africa: Possession and Dispossession on the Orange River. Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.
  • Cavanagh, Edward. The Griqua Past and the Limits of South African History, 1902-1994. 1st New edition edition. New York: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2011.
  • Forrest, Kally. Metal That Will Not Bend: The National Union of Metal Workers of South Africa, 1980-1995. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2011. 
  • Gibbs, Timothy. Mandela’s Kinsmen. Woodbridge, Suffolk : Auckland Park, South Africa: James Currey, 2014 
  • Lissoni, Arianna, Jon Soske, Natasha Erlank, Noor Nieftagodien, and Omar Badsha, eds. One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2013. 
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. Soweto Uprising. 1 edition. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2015. 
  • Nieftagodien, Noor, Sally Gaule, and Ruby Matjang. Orlando West, Soweto: An Illustrated History. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012.
  • Bonner, P and Nieftagodien, N, Alexandra - A History, Wits University Press, 2008.
Book chapters
  • Ali Hlongwane and Tara Weber, "Re-Historicising Credo Mutwa's Kwa Khaya Lendaba Cultural Village in Soweto" in Judin, H. Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: The persistence of the past in the architecture of apartheid (Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2021).
  • Bonner, Philip. “‘Fragmentation and Cohesion in the ANC: The First 70 Years’,.” In One Hundred Years of the ANC:  Debating Liberation Histories Today. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2012.
  • Bonner, Philip. “Labour, Migrancy and Urbanisation in South Africa and India, 1900–60’.” In South Africa & India: Shaping the Global South. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2011.
  • Bonner, Philip. “South African Society and Culture, 1910–1948.” In The Cambridge History of South Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  • Bonner, Philip, “A History of Football in South Africa” in Fiona Rankin-Smith (ed) Halakasha!, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg 2010.
  • Chiumbo, Sarah, and Mucha Musemwa. “‘Introduction: Perspectives on the Zimbabwean Crises.’” In Crisis! Crisis? Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of the Zimbabwe Crisis. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2012.
  • Gibbs, Timothy. “From Popular Resistance to Populist Politics in the Transkei.” In Popular Protest and Resistance in South Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2010.
  • Lekgoathi, Sekibakiba. “Political Transformation in Lebowa and KwaNdebele in the Early 1990s.” In The Road to Democracy in South Africa 1990-1996, Vol. 6. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2012.
  • Lekgoathi, Sekibakiba. “Political Violence in the PWV Region’.” In The Road to Democracy in South Africa 1990-1996, Vol. 6. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2012.
  • Lekgoathi, Sekibakiba. “Radio Freedom, Its Audiences and the Struggle against Apartheid in SA, 1963-1991,.” In The Road to Democracy in South Africa 1990-1996, Vol. 6. Pretoria: Unisa Press, n.d.
  • Lissoni, Arianna. “Apartheid’s ‘Little Israel’:Bophuthatswana.” In Apartheid Israel: The Politics of Analogy. Ramallah: PACBI, 2014.
  • Lissoni, Arianna. “‘The Implosion of the Pan-Africanist Congress: Basutoland, C. 1962-1965’,.” In Southern African Liberation Struggles. Cape Town: UCT Press, 2012.
  • Lissoni, Arianna and Suriano, Maria. "It was nice, but life was difficult…", The ANC between Home and Exile: Reflections on the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in Italy and Southern Africa, Collana: Il porto delle idee Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, “L’Orientale, 2015
  • Moloi, Tshepo. “‘Black Student Politics in South Africa’, 1990 - 1996.” In The Road to Democracy in South Africa, Volume 6 (1990 - 1996), Part 2, 1183–1235. Pretoria: Unisa Press, n.d.
  • Moloi, Tshepo. "The Botswana connection - the re-invigoration of confrontational politics in thembisa township 1979-1990?", The ANC between Home and Exile: Reflections on the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in Italy and Southern Africa, Collana: Il porto delle idee Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, “L’Orientale, 2015
  • Mupotsa, Danai. “‘From Family to Nation’: Researching Gender and Sexuality.” In Researching Violence in Africa: Ethical and Methodological Challenges. Leiden: BRILL, 2011.
  • Musemwa, Mucha. “Perpetuating Colonial Legacies: The Post-Colonial State, Water Crises and the Outbreak of Disease in Harare, Zimbabwe, 1980-2009.” In Crisis! Crisis? Exploring the Multiple Dimensions of the Zimbabwe Crisis,. Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2012.
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. “Clements Kadalie.” In Dictionary of African Biography. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. “Migrants: Vanguards of the Workers’ Struggles?” In A Long Way Home: Migrant Worker Worlds 1800-2014. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2014.
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. “Popular Movements, Contentious Spaces and the ANC, 1943-.” In One Hundred Years of the ANC:  Debating Liberation Histories Today. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2012.
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. “Xenophobia’s Local Genesis: Historical Constructions of ‘insiders’/‘outsiders’ and the Politics of Exclusion in Alexandra’.” In Exorcising The Demons Within: Xenophobia, Violence, and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2011.
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. "Public History in Alexandra: facing the challenges of tourism and sturggle heroization"; Museum as process; edited by Raymond Silverman, 2015
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. "Forgetting and Remembering: Whose struggle history counts?", The ANC between Home and Exile: Reflections on the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in Italy and Southern Africa, Collana: Il porto delle idee Dipartimento Asia, Africa e Mediterraneo, “L’Orientale, 2015
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. "Beyond Marikana", The New South African Review, Vol 5, Political Reconfiguration in the Wake of Marikana, Wits University Press, 2015
  • Simelane, H, N Dlamini, and J Sithole. “Swaziland’s Contribution to South Africa’s Struggle for Independence: Charting the Maze and Straddling the Contradictions.” In The Road to Democracy in South Africa: African Solidarity, Part 2. 5. Pretoria: Unisa Press, 2014.
  • Soske, Jon, Arianna Lissoni, and Natasha Erlank. “One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Struggle History after Apartheid.” In One Hundred Years of the ANC:  Debating Liberation Histories Today, 29–53. Johannesburg, South Africa: Wits University Press, 2012.
Books Reviews
  • Nieftagodien, Noor, W. Beinart & M. Dawson (eds), "Popular Politics and Resistance Movements in South Africa", in South African Historical Journal
  • Lissoni, Arianna, ‘Suttner’s Vision for a Revived State’. Review of: Recovering Democracy in South Africa. By Raymond Suttner.
  • Lissoni, Arianna. "The Lusaka Years: The ANC in Exile in Zambia, 1963 to 1994". Auckland Park: Jacana Media (pb £18.95 – 978 1 4314 0821 4). 2014, 357 pp. Africa, 85, 1 (2015), pp. 158-160
  • Rueedi, Franziska. "Dlamini, Askari: A story of collaboration and betrayal in the anti-apartheid struggle "(Johannesburg: Jacana Press, 2014), SAHJ, Volume 67, Issue 2, 2015
Journal Articles
  • Ally, Shireen. “Domestics,‘dirty Work’and the Affects of Domination.” South African Review of Sociology 42, no. 2 (2011): 1–7.
  • Ally, Shireen. “HEROIC PIONEERS, OCCLUDED ‘NATIVES’, AND THE VIRGIN WILD: REPRESENTATIONS OF COLONIAL ENCOUNTER IN THE LOWVELD, SOUTH AFRICA.” English Studies in Africa 53, no. 2 (2010): 48–70.
  • Ally, Shireen. “‘If You Are Hungry, and a Man Promises You Mealies, Will You Not Follow him?’South African Swazi Ethnic Nationalism, 1931–1986.” South African Historical Journal 63, no. 3 (2011): 414–30.
  • Ally, Shireen. “On Laws, Rights and Conventions: A PROVOCATION.” International Feminist Journal of Politics 13, no. 3 (2011): 457–61.
  • Ally, Shireen. “Peaceful Memories: Remembering and Forgetting Political Violence in Kangwane, South Africa.”Africa 81, no. 03 (2011): 351–72.
  • Ally, Shireen, and Arianna Lissoni. “‘Let’s Talk About Bantustans’.” South African Historical Journal 64, no. 1 (March 1, 2012): 1–4. doi:10.1080/02582473.2012.655947.
  • Barrett, George, Shirley Brooks, Jenny Josefsson, and Nqobile Zulu. “Starting the Conversation: Land Issues and Critical Conservation Studies in Post-Colonial Africa.” Journal of Contemporary African Studies 31, no. 3 (July 1, 2013): 336–44. doi:10.1080/02589001.2013.802440.
  • Bonner, Philip. “History and the Here and Now.” Social Dynamics 39, no. 2 (June 1, 2013): 159–66. doi:10.1080/02533952.2013.806416.
  • Brown, Julian, and Stuart Wilson. “A Presumed Equality: The Relationship Between State and Citizens in Post-Apartheid South Africa.” African Studies 72, no. 1 (April 1, 2013): 86–106. doi:10.1080/00020184.2012.740881.
  • Cavanagh, Edward. “A Company with Sovereignty and Subjects of Its Own? The Case of the Hudson’s Bay Company, 1670–1763.” Canadian Journal of Law and Society 26, no. 01 (2011): 25–50.
  • Cavanagh, Edward. “Review Essay: Discussing Settler Colonialism’s Spatial Cultures.” Settler Colonial Studies 1, no. 1 (2011): 154–67.
  • Dube, and Thembani. “Culture, Violence, and the Female Body： The Practice of Nholowemwizana Custom as a Form of Cultural Violence Amongst the Kalanga Women of Mpalawali Area in Zimbabwe.” 历史研究：英文版 3, no. 4 (2013): 290–98.
  • Gibbs, Tim. “Becoming a ‘big Man’ in Neo-Liberal South Africa: Migrant Masculinities in the Minibus-Taxi Industry.”African Affairs, 2014, adu044.
  • Gibbs, Timothy. “Chris Hani’s ‘Country Bumpkins’: Regional Networks in the African National Congress Underground, 1974–1994.” Journal of Southern African Studies 37, no. 4 (2011): 677–91.
  • Godsell, Sarah. “New ‘traditional’ Strategies and Land Claims in South Africa: A Case Study in Hammanskraal.,” 2013. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/9879.
  • Godsell, Sarah. “Rooiberg: The Little Town That Lived.” South African Historical Journal 63, no. 1 (March 1, 2011): 61–77. doi:10.1080/02582473.2011.549374.
  • Hay, Michelle. “‘The Last Thing That Tells Our Story’: The Roodepoort West Cemetery, 1958–2008.” Journal of Southern African Studies 37, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 297–311. doi:10.1080/03057070.2011.579438.
  • Kana Kondo, "A Place of Remembrance in South Africa’s Post-Memory Boom: Depicting the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum from Everyday Life in Soweto", Journal of African Cultural Heritage Studies, 3(1), (2023): 203-221.
  • Kasonde T. Mukonde, "If you belong to my generation and you never read James Hadley Chase, then you are not educated’: Everyday Reading of High School Students in Soweto, 1968–1976", Journal of Southern African Studies, 49(2), (2023): 205-224.
  • Kentridge, Isabella. “‘And so They Moved One by One’: Forced Removals in a Free State Town (1956–1977).”Journal of Southern African Studies 39, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 135–50. doi:10.1080/03057070.2012.763209.
  • Kros, Cynthia. "Rhodes Must Fall: Archives and Counter-Archives", Critical Arts, vol 29, Sup 1 2015 (pp.150-165). DOi: 10.1080/02560046.2015. 11 02270. Published online November 2015
  • Kunene, Phindile. “The Crisis Committee, Post Apartheid Protest and Political Mobilisation in Phomolong Township, Free State.,” 2013. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/9877.
  • Lissoni, Arianna. “Africa’s ‘Little Israel’: Bophuthatswana’s Not-So-Secret Ties With Israel.” South African Review of Sociology 42, no. 3 (October 1, 2011): 79–93. doi:10.1080/21528586.2011.621240.
  • Lissoni, Arianna. “Chieftaincy and Resistance Politics in Lehurutshe during the Apartheid Era.,” 2013. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/9875.
  • Lissoni, Arianna. “The PAC in Basutoland, C. 1962–1965.” South African Historical Journal 62, no. 1 (March 1, 2010): 54–77. doi:10.1080/02582471003778326.
  • Ludlow, Helen. “George Bremner, Graaff-Reinet and ‘A State of Feeling’, 1848 - 1859.,” 2012. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/6602.
  • Ludlow, Helen. “Ghana, Cocoa, Colonialism and Globalisation: Introducing Historiography.” Yesterday and Today, no. 8 (December 2012): 01–21.
  • Ludlow, Helen. “The Government Teacher as Mediator of a ‘Superior’ Education in Colesberg, 1849-1858.” Historia57, no. 1 (May 2012): 141–64.
  • Ludlow, Helen. “The Government Teacher Who Resolved to Do What He Could Himself. Wynberg, Cape Colony, 1841-1863,” 2013. http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/sare_v19_n2_a4.
  • Malabela, Musawenkosi, and Shireen Ally. “‘The People Shall Speak’?: The Ward System and Constrained Participatory Democracy: A Case Study of Chochocho, Mpumalanga.” Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa 76, no. 1 (2011): 1–21. doi:10.1353/trn.2011.0023.
  • Middelman, Temba. "The Hartebeestpoort Irrigation Scheme: A Project of Modernisation, Segregation and White Poverty Alleviation", 1912–1926, SAHJ Vol 67 no 2
  • Moloi, Tshepo. “Bodibeng High School: Black Consciousness Philosophy and Students Demonstration, 1940s–1976.”South African Historical Journal 63, no. 1 (2011): 102–26.
  • Moloi, Tshepo. “The Emergence and Radicalisation of Black Political Formations in Kroonstad, 1915 to 1957.,” 2013. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/9880.
  • Munshi, Naadria. “Lived Experiences and Local Spaces: Bangladeshi Migrants in Post-Apartheid South Africa.,” 2013. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/9878.
  • Mupotsa, Danai. "The promise of happiness: desire, attachment and freedom in post/apartheid South Africa", Critical Arts 29(2)
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. “High Apartheid and the Erosion of ‘official’ Local Politics in Daveyton in the 1960s.,” 2013. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/9874.
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. “Reconstituting Activism at the Borders of Contemporary South Africa.” ACME: An International E-Journal for Critical Geographies 11, no. 2 (2012): 222–28.
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. “Youth in History, Youth Making History: Challenging Dominant Historical Narratives for Alternative Futures.” Yesterday and Today, no. 6 (January 2011): 01–10.
  • Nieftagodien, Noor. "The economic freedom fighters and the politics of memory and forgetting". South Atlantic  Quarterly, 114 (2), April: pp. 446 - 456
  • Phillips, Laura H. “‘I Am Alone. I Am a Woman. What Are My Children Going to Eat?’ Domestic Workers and Family Networks.” South African Review of Sociology 42, no. 2 (June 1, 2011): 29–44. doi:10.1080/21528586.2011.582346.
  • Phillip, Laura H."Principals, chiefs and school committees:  the localisation of rural school administration in Lebowa, 1972-1990". Journal of Southern African Studies, 41 (2), pp. 299 - 314
  • Rueedi, Franziska. "Siyayinyova!': Patterns of violence in the African townships of the Vaal Triangle, South Africa, 1980-86". Africa, 85 (3), pp. 395 - 416
  • Rueedi, Franziska. "Narratives on Trial Ideologoy, Violence and the Struggels over Political Legitimacy in the Case of the Delman Treason Trial, 1985-1989", SAHJ, Volume 67, Issue 3, 201, pp 335-355
  • Rueedi, Franziska. "The Politics of difference and the forging of a political community: discourses and practices of the charterist civic movement in the Vaal triangle, South A
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  • Sefalafala, Thabang. “Mineworkers Opt for Private Legal Scheme.” SALB 35, no. 4 (November 2011).
  • Skosana, Dineo. “The Interface between Tradition and Modern in Postapartheid South Africa: An Outline of the Kekana Family Succession Dispute and Their Encounter with the Platinum Reef Resource Mine.,” 2013. http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/9876.
  • Stadler, Jonathan, Charles Dugmore, Emilie Venables, Catherine MacPhail, and Sinead Delany-Moretlwe. “Cognitive Mapping: Using Local Knowledge for Planning Health Research.” BMC Medical Research Methodology 13, no. 1 (July 26, 2013): 96. doi:10.1186/1471-2288-13-96.
  • Ulrich, Nicole. “International Radicalism, Local Solidarities: The 1797 British Naval Mutinies in Southern African Waters.” International Review of Social History 58, no. S21 (2013). doi:10.1017/S0020859013000266.

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