336pp., illus., map, paperback, HSRC, Cape Town, 2024

ISBN: 9780796926753

A collection of edited transcripts of life-story interviews conducted with 25 current and past residents of Wentworth, Durban.

"Superbly told through excellent, often wry oral interviews, here are authentic Wentworth voices in the making of a 'coloured' working and lower middle-class community with an insistent belief in a philosophy of progress and self-improvement. This is fashioned, as much as possible, through their own agency, often as outsiders in the daring interstices between the legal and the illicit." Dr Ian Edwards, co-author (with Marc Epprecht) of Working Class Homosexuality in South Africa, Voices from the archive

Gregory Houston is a former chief research specialist at the Human Sciences Research Council and is currently a research fellow of the History Department of the University of the Free State.

Heidi van Rooyen is the Group Executive of the Impact Centre of the Human Sciences Research Council and Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand.

Bronwynne Anderson is a former lecturer in the School of Education at the University of KwaZuluNatal.

Darian Smith is a PhD research intern at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)

Theresa Saber Jr., Maree Harold, and Marilyn Couch are research assistants at HSRC.

A SOCIAL HISTORY FROM BELOW, life stories from Wentworth, South Africa

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