PUBLIC HISTORY AND CULTURE IN SOUTH AFRICA : memorialisation and liberation heritage sites.... in johannesburg and the township space

The post-apartheid era in South Africa has, in the space of nearly two decades, experienced a massive memory boom, manifest in a plethora of new memorials and museums and in the renaming of streets, buildings, cities and more across the country. This memorialisation is intricately linked to questions of power, liberation and public history in the making and remaking of the South African nation. Ali Khangela Hlongwane and Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu analyse an array of these liberation heritage sites, including the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, the June 16, 1976 Interpretation Centre, the Apartheid Museum and the Mandela House Museum, foregrounding the work of migrant workers, architects, visual artists and activists in the practice of memorialisation. As they argue, memorialisation has been integral to the process of state and nation formation from the pre-colonial era through the present day. Front Matter ....Pages i-xix Introduction (Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu)....Pages 1-42 Workers’ History in the Post-Apartheid Memory/Heritage Complex: Public Art and the Workers’ Museum in Johannesburg (Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu)....Pages 43-75 Remembering Sharpeville Day and Fashioning Contested National Narratives: The Sharpeville Memorial Precinct and the Langa Memorial (Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu)....Pages 77-119 The Historical and Cultural Significance of the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum as a Liberation Heritage Site (Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu)....Pages 121-154 Weaving Stories, Memories, Public History, Visual Art and Place: The 16 June 1976 Interpretation Centre, Central Western Jabavu, Soweto (Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu)....Pages 155-196 Autobiographic Memories of Society and the June 1976 Uprising (Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu)....Pages 197-216 Traces, Spaces and Archives, Intersecting with Memories, Liberation Histories and Storytelling: The Apartheid Museum and Nelson Mandela House Museum (Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu)....Pages 217-249 Conclusion: A Snippet on Voices Still Crying to Be Heard (Ali Khangela Hlongwane, Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu)....Pages 251-269 Back Matter ....Pages 271-282