Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and the historians
Given her status in 20th century South African history, historians have surprisingly said little about Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, before or since her April 2018 passing.
Articles by
Jill E. Kelly
Jill E. Kelly is an Associate Professor at Southern Methodist University. She is also the author of 'To Swim with Crocodiles: Land, Violence, and Belonging in South Africa, 1800-1996.'
The rise, fall, and retirement of Mangosuthu Buthelezi
South African public life is rife with revisionism, often opportunistic. Take the case of Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
The selective memory of ‘Plot for Peace,’ documentary film about South Africa’s transition
At the opening of the documentary Plot for Peace, Jean-Yves Ollivier puts his story in the
An Archive for South African historian Jeff Guy (1940-2014)
“We know… but we don’t know.” These were words that we heard often from Jeff Guy
The Spear of the People
In September this year, Inkosi Mhlabunzima Maphumulo would have turned 65 years old. But on February
#WhiteHistoryMonth: Counter-Revolutionary Agents in Apartheid South Africa
The covert nature of the apartheid regime’s “total strategy” to combat revolution rendered much of South
The film “Zulu”–starring Forest Whitaker and Orlando Bloom–gets lukewarm reviews. Is the novel any good?
Caryl Férey’s 2008 crime novel Zulu won the French Grand Prix prize for best crime novel.
Dirk Coetzee is Dead: The legacies of Apartheid’s death squads and the TRC
Dirk Coetzee was one of an infamous group of police and law officials responsible for some
The New York Times reports on political violence in South Africa
The New York Times correspondent Lydia Polgreen’s report, earlier this week, on the murder of an African National