Book Reviews : The Afrikaner's Interpretation of South African History. By F. A. VAN JAARSVELD (Cape Town, Simondium Publishers, 1964). 199 pp. R2.80

Race ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 202-205
Author(s):  
Edwin S. Munger
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
African History

The Waterfront in Cape Town and South African History

2004 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-199
Author(s):  
Vivian Bickford-Smith
Keyword(s):  
South African ◽  
Business School ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
African History ◽  
Surrounding Area ◽  
History Of ◽  
University Of Cape Town ◽  
The University

I spent some time contemplating what you might find particularly interesting about the history of the Waterfront, until I learnt that many of you are staying at hotels on Portswood Road, and that the conference itself is at the Breakwater campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT.) This persuaded me to use the history of the crenellated building that dominates Portswood Ridge, and forms the heart of the UCT Business School campus, to talk about a number of important themes in the history of the country you have chosen for your latest conference. Just over one hundred years ago, that building came into existence as The Industrial Breakwater Prison. It was an addition to the original convict station that lay further down Portswood Road towards the sea. There are perhaps four particularly important ways in which this building, and its surrounding area, were connected to significant moments or processes in South Africa's past: the development of Cape Town's harbor, colonial conquest and resistance, the development of a diamond industry and, yes, the origins of apartheid. How so?

scholarly journals The march continues: A critique of The Long March to Freedom statue collection exhibited in Century City

Image & Text ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marnell Kirsten
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
South African ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
African History ◽  
The South ◽  
Subjective Memory ◽  
The Past ◽  
Economic Exclusion ◽  
A Site

At a moment in South African history that calls for decolonial perspectives on ideological and material remnants of the country's colonial and apartheid pasts, the exhibition of The Long March to Freedom life-size statue collection at Century City, Cape Town, constitutes a seemingly contestable juxtaposition. This exhibition, that opened at Century City on 15 November 2019, is seemingly intended as a commemoration of South Africa's struggle for freedom and a re-evaluation of former state-sanctioned versions of the country's history. The visuality of the space that this collection currently occupies can however be described as one with a contestable relationship with the past, in which spatiality itself signifies a call to forget the past, or rather to construct a mythological version thereof. While The Long March to Freedom exhibition seemingly encompasses calls to inclusion in the South African public sphere, Century City, as a space saturated with simulated signs, functions as a site of exclusion and privilege. This article aims to highlight tensions between "subjective" memory and "objective History" in post-apartheid South Africa, negotiating tensions of a historicality-sociality-spatiality trialectic within a site of socio-political and economic exclusion

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