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Public History and Culture in South Africa

Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space

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Authors:
  1. Ali Khangela Hlongwane

    1. University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

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  2. Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

    1. University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

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  • Examines the memorialisation of South Africa’s liberation struggle in the context of a complex political landscape
  • Brings together the authors’ experiences as former activists against apartheid and their expertise in public history, historiography, and heritage studies
  • Appeals to scholars and students of South African history, memory studies, public history, heritage studies, political history, and cultural history

Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction

    • Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
    Pages 1-42

  3. Workers’ History in the Post-Apartheid Memory/Heritage Complex: Public Art and the Workers’ Museum in Johannesburg

    • Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
    Pages 43-75

  4. Remembering Sharpeville Day and Fashioning Contested National Narratives: The Sharpeville Memorial Precinct and the Langa Memorial

    • Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
    Pages 77-119

  5. The Historical and Cultural Significance of the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum as a Liberation Heritage Site

    • Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
    Pages 121-154

  6. Weaving Stories, Memories, Public History, Visual Art and Place: The 16 June 1976 Interpretation Centre, Central Western Jabavu, Soweto

    • Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
    Pages 155-196

  7. Autobiographic Memories of Society and the June 1976 Uprising

    • Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
    Pages 197-216

  8. Traces, Spaces and Archives, Intersecting with Memories, Liberation Histories and Storytelling: The Apartheid Museum and Nelson Mandela House Museum

    • Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
    Pages 217-249

  9. Conclusion: A Snippet on Voices Still Crying to Be Heard

    • Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
    Pages 251-269

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 271-282
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About this book

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to questions of power, liberation and public history in the making and remaking of the South African nation. Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu analyse an array of these liberation heritage sites, including the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, the Apartheid Museum and the Mandela House Museum, foregrounding the work of migrant workers, architects, visual artists and activists in the practice of memorialisation. As they argue, memorialisation has been integral to the process of state and nation formation from the pre-colonial era through the present day.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

    Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

About the authors

Ali Khangela Hlongwane is an honorary professor at the University of South Africa and a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand History Workshop. He has published chapters in the multi-volume The Road to Democracy in South Africa.


Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Professor of History at the University of South Africa and the author of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 (1998) and African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona: The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (Palgrave, 2017). 


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Public History and Culture in South Africa

  • Book Subtitle: Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space

  • Authors: Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu

  • Series Title: African Histories and Modernities

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14749-5

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14748-8Published: 29 April 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14749-5Published: 11 April 2019

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5773

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 282

  • Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: African History, Memory Studies, Cultural History, African Culture, Cultural Heritage

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