...Andre Odendaal 1990 Developments in Popular History in the Western Cape in the 1980s Andre Odendaal The Western Cape is today one of the most active South African centers of the writing and production of history. It probably also has the longest...

...Margaret Stone; Dale Washkansky The article focuses on the 2010 art exhibition Swallow My Pride ( SMP ), a visceral response to the commercialization of gay culture in Cape Town and a critique of notions of queerness and its visibility in the public sphere. SMP brought local lesbian, gay, bisexual...

...Carla Tsampiras In 1832, Lea, a twenty-six-year-old slave from the Graaff-Reinet district of Britain's Cape Colony, complained to the assistant protector of slaves that her female owner, Saartjie van der Merwe, had beaten her. Lea claimed that the beating had resulted in her having a miscarriage...

...Figure 1. Aerial view of Robben Island, with Cape Town six miles in the distance. The prison buildings are on the left near the jetty. South African Tourism, Wikimedia Commons. ...

... to be found in the frontier experience of Dutch set- tlers (the Boers) who had trekked out of the Cape Colony in the eighteenth and Radical History Review Issue 82 (winter 2002): 111–30 Copyright 2002 by MARHO: The Radical Historians’ Organization, Inc. 111 112 Radical History Review...

... in the south Atlantic—a single-page newsletter appeared in the student desks and mail- boxes of several secondary schools in the port city of Cape Town. Printed inex- pensively, the simple title Bulletin underscored at the top, it announced in bold capital letters...

.... She is not sure which of these attributes led to her present ap- pointment at the Department of Economic History at the University of Cape Town. Joshua Brown is art director of the American Social History Project at Hunter College and a consulting editor for RHR. Paul Buhle was founder...

... in its RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW 46/7 1990 PAGES 189-211 190 / RADICAL HISTORY REVIEW home territory, the Western Cape region. An outstanding feature of its organizational presence in the shape of the Unity Movement has been a characteristic intellectual and scholarly tone...

... picking up mealie crop in the wake of the threshing machine. Labuschagne’s farm, Vaalrand. of relative surplus value becomes possible,” and continuous tech­ nological innovation occurs.16 But when did labor-power become a commodity? Only for the Cape does a partial answer...

... would have been inconceivable without the insights of oral history. Two such communities have been the subject of research by Iain Edwards and Bill Nasson.25 Edward’s research on Cat0 Manor in Durban and that of Nasson on Cape Town’s District Six depict socially differen- tiated communities...

.... Courtesy the Sunday Times. 3) Newspaper cartoon depicting the unveiling of a new statue of an African combatant alongside a Boer soldier and beneath the gaze of the nineteenth-century Transvaal president, Paul Kruger. Courtesy Cape Times (12 October 1999). ANGLO-BOER WAR IN POST...

... in an account of why the voortrekkers left the Cape: ”For many years some of the White farmers had been unhappy about conditions on the frontier. The amaXhosa often attacked the farmers and the British Government did not know what to do. The farmers knew that because of the Mfecane, there were no people...

... The University of the Western Cape (UWC)in South Africa has a multi- lingual student population of approximatelyeight thousand. As a histor- ically black institution, it has suffered from financial and, consequently, personnel and infrastructural under-resourcing.South African universi- ties under...

... on local struggles allowed textile workers in Bellville or Epping in the Cape to identify their fellow comrades nationally, such as youth defending their communities against Inkatha in the townships of Natal (now the province of KwaZulu Natal) or civic activists in Alexandra township in Johannesburg...

... eighteenth century the two chronologies correspond quite closely. The voyages of Colum- bus and Diaz, the settlements in Virginia and the Cape, land loss and cultural disintegration by Khoikhoi and coastal Indians, the importation of chattel slaves, and the simultaneous breaching...

... by the Labour History Group in Cape Town? These publications were aimed at a specifically working-class audience, and class struggles was their central focus. Worker service groups soon emerged to provide educational material about local and international subjects to unions and wor- kers...

... at the Uni- versity of Illinois at Urbana-­Champaign. She earned a PhD in African economic history from the University of Zimbabwe and taught at the University of the Western Cape in Cape Town, South Africa, from 1997 to 2008. With publications in Zimbabwean economic history and higher education...

... Africa, in 1981. Since graduating from the Michaelis School of Fine Art at the University of Cape Town in 2003, she has partici- pated in numerous group exhibitions and commercial photography projects. While study- ing for her postgraduate certificate in education in 2010, she initiated...