PUBLIC HISTORY, HERITAGE AND CULTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA: the struggle continues

354pp., illus., paperback (Johannesburg), 2021

Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu on the collection of human remains by museums in South Africa, the history of December 16th as a public holiday, whether or not the Kruger statue should fall, public history and deaths in detention under apartheid, the Polly Art Centre on Johannesburg, the Sammy Marks Museum in Pretoria, the Funda Art Centre in Soweto, and more.

Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu is Professor of History at the University of South Africa and the author of The Soweto Uprisings: Counter-memories of June 1976 (1998), African Perspectives of King Dingane kaSenzangakhona: The Second Monarch of the Zulu Kingdom (2017) and The History and Geopolitics of Soviet Phobia and Anti-communism in South Africa (2021).

Ali Khangela Hlongwane is an honorary professor at the University of South Africa and a researcher at the University of Witwatersrand History Workshop.