December 2021

In 2021 the APC operated mostly in remote mode. At the beginning of the year we assessed what had worked well online in 2020 and what had not, and adjusted our 2021 programme accordingly. We held a variety of successful research even

The FHYA has completed a new presentation called ‘Spotlight on the Mfecane Debate’ that commemorates the 30-year anniversary of ‘The ‘Mfecane

The APC’s second Research Development Workshop of 2022 took place from 27-29 October on Zoom. 25 papers by 27 authors were read, given written commentary by assigned commentators, and discussed collectively over 11 sessions...

On 30 September 2020 Dr. David Bresnahan, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah, presented “Slavery in Translation: Tracing Concepts of Marginality and Belonging between Lake Malawi...

The value in archiving the records and associated material of the Upington Trial lies in the preservation of key aspects of a particular historical period, both locally and nationally...

Generally, when you go off on a research trip to look at archives and interview interlocutors, you do not expect scenery. When first arriving at Morija in Lesotho you are struck first by the landscape...

The FHYA is part of a multi-institutional research consortium that was successful in 2021 in gaining a third t

On the 18th of September 2021, Thokozani Mhlambi curated a concert at the Baxter Theatre gardens. This was as part of his Homecoming Tour, following his residency in Paris in 202

Long standing APC associate Philip Miller and co-composer Tshegofatso Moeng have teamed up to create the digital album "Reuben T Caluza -The B-side" exploring new interpretations and arrangements...

APC alum, Dr Tebogo George Mahashe, was awarded the prestigious 2021 UCT College of Fellows' Young Researcher Award for his growing research track record spanning written publications, exhibitions

My chapter ‘Facing (Down) the Coloniser? The Mandela Statue at Cape Town’s City Hall’ was published in September 2021 in a book with the wonderfully evocative title Falling Monuments Reluctant Ruins: The persistence of the past i

The essay ‘Modalities of Meaning: Light and Shadow in Archaeological Images’ by Nessa Leibhammer, research fellow of the APC, has been published in The Oxford Handbook of Light in Archaeology, edited by Costas Papadopoulos and Hol

Heike Becker’s English review of the new book in German, Kolonialgeschichte Hören, by APC research associate, Dr. Anette Hoffman, was published in Anthropology Southern Africa under the heading ‘Listening to the Soun

Discussion of South Africa’s past before colonial times has often become the subject of fierce argument, both in public media and in the academic world. Lively exchanges on what many people call ‘oral traditions’ took place during a