Issue 1, 1999 Historia - Volume 44,
Internasionale Konferensie : die Anglo-Boereoorlog (1899-1902) : &apos;n herwaardering : advertensie
Historia 44 (1999)
Die Departement Geskiedenis, Universiteit van die Oranje-Vrystaat, Bloemfontein, Suid-Afrika, organiseer &apos;n internasionale konferensie in 1999 om die uitbreek van die Anglo-Boereoorlog honderd jaar gelede te herdenk.
Die krisis van geskiedenis as dissipline? : redaksioneel
Historia 44, pp 1 –2 (1999)
In &apos;n 1795-publikasie, die laaste voor sy ontydige dood, het die Franse filosoof A-N. Condorcet opgemerk : (P)hilosophy and the sciences are necessarily neglected in all countries where there is an honourable occupation leading to wealth and position that is open to anyone who has a natural inclination for study.
The crisis of history as discipline? : editorial
Historia 44, pp 3 –4 (1999)
In a 1795 publication, the last before his untimely death, the French philosopher A-N. Condorcet noted : (P)hilosophy and the sciences are necessarily neglected in all countries where there is an honourable occupation leading to wealth and position that is open to anyone who has a natural inclination for study.
Om die verlede te verbeel : &apos;akademiese&apos; geskiedskrywing en die historiese bewussyn
Historia 44, pp 5 –27 (1999)
Die Desember 1997-uitgawe van History and Theory fokus op die vervaardiging van die historiese bewussyn, bedoelende &apos;n persoonlike bewus wees van die verlede as sodanig en &apos;n behoefte om ervarings te verstaan met verwysing na tyd, verandering en herinnering. Die kwessie onder bespreking in History and Theory is die uitgangspunt dat akademiese historici nie die verlede as hulle eksklusiewe domein kan opeis nie, want midde-in die samelewing waarin hulle staan, is elke gemeenskap voortdurend besig met die voorstelling, ordelling, interpretasie - step en herskep - van &apos;&apos;n verlede&apos; op só &apos;n manier dat betekenis daaraan gegee kan word.
&apos;Retro&apos; of hermeneutiek? Die historiese metode in &apos;n nuwe wetenskapsbedeling
Historia 44, pp 28 –48 (1999)
By geleentheid van &apos;n besoek aan die Verenigde State van Amerika in Oktober 1998 om &apos;n konferensie oor mondelinge geskiedenis by te woon, was een van die skrywer se gunsteling besoekpunte &apos;n koffiekroeg met die naam, SPoT COFFEE in Buffalo, New York. Die koffie was goed en ook die musiek. Tydens een besoek het &apos;n advertensiepamflet die aandag getrek. Dit her oor die vrystelling van die 1959-langspeelplaat, Beatsville op CD, van die digter en komponis Rod McKuen, gehandel. In &apos;n uiteensetting op die pamflet van McKuen se musiek, is die begrip &apos;retro&apos; gebesig. Terug in Suid-Afrika is verder daarop ingegaan en bevind dat &apos;retro&apos; op &apos;n magdom maniere gebesig word. Dit sluit in onder meer die hoofstroom van kontemporere kultuur in die vorm van die populere musiek, maar terselfdertyd ook die meer akademiese denkruimtes van die siviele ingenieurswese, fisika, kognitiewe wetenskap en die ruimtewetenskap. Wat die mensgesentreerde wetenskappe betref, word daar ook in die regte van die begrip retro in &apos;n regstegniese konteks gebruik gemaak.
Die stryd om die Caledonriviervallei - &apos;n historiografiese verkenning
Corene De Wet and
Historia 44, pp 49 –64 (1999)
Aan die verlede kan nie verander word nie, dit is : &apos;n feit wat deur niks gewysig kan word nie : dit is ons kennis van die verlede wat &apos;n onophoudelik voortgaande en veranderende proses is. Geskiedskrywers asook skrywers van herinneringswerke se verskillende persoonlikhede, sosiale omgewings en tydsgees het tot gevolg dat daar uiteenlopende weergawes en interpretasies van die geskiedenis gegee word. Dit spruit ook uit paradigmatiese en metodologiese verskille, wat ook aanleiding gee tot klem- en fokusverskille.
&apos;She&apos;s&apos; who make history : reviewing the historical treatment of black women by four South African scholars.
Historia 44, pp 65 –83 (1999)
(A)s Jane Marcus has observed, "She who writes history makes history" - and (to this may be added), she whose activities are visible as history has a kind of power that she whose contributions are placed at the margins of history does not. Changing &apos;history&apos;, ... depends on having that first kind of power; it comes from speaking somewhere other than from the margins, although speaking from the margins has its uses too.
The &apos;Young Afrikaners&apos; : Jan Smuts and Piet Grobler during the months of storm and stress (January-October 1899)
Historia 44, pp 84 –100 (1999)
In 1893 the First Volksraad of the Transvaal Republic (ZAR) decided that wherever possible, "zonen des lands" (sons of the soil) should receive preferential treatment as far as appointments in the civil service were concerned. At that time most government positions were in the hands of Dutch officials and the Afrikaner population felt marginalised. A standpoint was taken to the effect that young Afrikaners were to be appointed, even if it meant that more capable Dutch officials were overlooked. Unfortunately, in the 1890s most of these &apos;zonen&apos; were ill-equipped to hold responsible positions.
To name a war : the war of 1899-1902
Historia 44, pp 101 –109 (1999)
This year, on 11 October, it will be a hundred years since the war between the two Boer republics in South Africa and Great Britain erupted. Quite a few names have been used in the past with reference to this conflict. Today, in planning for the commemoration and with a new attention focused on this war, a sense of controversy surrounds the issue of a &apos;correct name&apos;. Through the centuries names for wars usually had a spontaneous origin among the people who were involved in a particular conflict. The name often differed from the official name given to the war.
The black concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902 : shifting the paradigm from sole martyrdom to mutual suffering
Historia 44, pp 110 –147 (1999)
F.A. Van Jaarsveld opened a lecture to the Afrikaans Cultural Council of Pretoria, almost four decades ago, with these words : At the present time one is frequently confronted with assertion that the Afrikaner people has been assigned a place in the southern corner of Africa for a &apos;purpose&apos; and to fulfil &apos;a mission&apos;. Concomitant with this idea of the Afrikaner and his calling and mission is the idea that the Afrikaners are just like Old Israel, i.e. chosen people of God. Van Jaarsveld saw the sacred history of the Afrikaners as a series of suffering events experienced by the Afrikaner people, and out of which arose a belief in themselves as the Chosen People of God, called to a mission. It was because of their suffering that they knew that they were chosen people.
Victims of a white man&apos;s war : blacks in concentration camps during the South African War (1899-1902)
B.E. Mongalo and
Historia 44, pp 148 –182 (1999)
Traditionally the South African War was depicted in the historiography as almost exclusively a white man&apos;s war. Prior to 1980 books contained very little information on black participation in the war and blacks were perceived as being mere spectators during the war. In the last twenty years historians have increasingly given attention to the participation by blacks in the South African War. These historians have proved that blacks were active participants who played a significant role in the war. It is a well-known fact that a concentration camp system was introduced in 1900 as part of the British military strategy to end Boer resistance during the guerrilla phase of the South African War. Boer women and children were removed from the land and brought into concentration camps. By the end of the war there were more than 40 camps for whites with a population of over 116 000.
&apos;Almost bled to death&apos; : the effects of the Anglo Boer War on societal transformation in the Orange River Colony
Historia 44, pp 183 –209 (1999)
Paul Kennedy suggests that it was in times of war that the early European state took on its obviously modern features. &apos;It was war&apos; Kennedy writes, &apos;and the consequences of war&apos;, that provided a much more urgent and continuous pressure toward &apos;nation building than ... philosophical considerations and slowly evolving social tendencies&apos;. Charles Tilly puts it even more succinctly : "War made the state and the state made war".
SA se Top 20 gebeure van die 20e eeu SA&apos;s Top 20 of the 20th century
Derek Charles Catsam,
Johan De Villiers and
Historia 44, pp 210 –216 (1999)
In March participants in two electronic discussion groups on South African history were asked to give their listings of South Africa&apos;s Top 20 events in the twentieth century.
Die volgende bydraes van deelnemers aan die gespreksgroepe H-SAFRICA@H-NET.MSU.EDU en sophias@iafrica.com gee &apos;n interessante indruk van die wyse waarop historici tans besig is om by nabetragting &apos;n betekenisvolle eeu te oorpeins.
Die 90&apos;s deur die kameralens van Jan Hamman
Historia 44, pp 217 –236 (1999)
"Jy kan met &apos;n kamera &apos;n storie seker veel betel vertel as in woorde. In die tyd waarin ons lewe, is mense meer visueel ingestel. Hulle kyk TV en na prente rondom hulle. Ek dink &apos;n prentjie steek langer in die menslike geheue vas as &apos;n woordelikse beskrywing," verduidelik Jan Hamman (52) hooffotograaf van die Johannesburgse dagblad, Beeld. Hy behoort te weet. Vir ruim 30 jaar is hierdie bekroonde fotograaf reeds besig om deur die lens van &apos;n kamera visueel verslag te lewer oor gebeure wat daagliks duisende Suid-Afrikaners daartoe in staat stel om deur middel van die koerant ingeligte menings te vorm.
Merksteen : &apos;n dubbelbiografie, Karel Schoeman Nederland en die Afrikaner : gesprek oor apartheid. Die paginaruil tussen Trouw en Die Burger, H.O. Terblanche : boekresensie
Historia 44, pp 237 –242 (1999)
Van die helfte van die sewentiende eeu tot die begin van die negentiende eeu was &apos;n groot gedeelte van Suid-Afrika onder Nederlandse beheer. Gedurende hierdie periode van ongeveer 150 jaar is die Nederlandse taal en kultuur in Suid-Afrika gevestig. Dit het meegebring dat daar tussen Nederland en Suid-Afrika, en in besonder tussen Nederlanders en Afrikaners, in die twee eeue wat verloop het ná beëindiging van Nederlandse koloniale gesag, &apos;n spesiale verhouding bly bestaan het. Met geen ander Europese land, behalwe Groot-Brittanje, het Suid-Afrika sulke noue historiese en kulturele bande nie.
Verliesfontein, Karel Schoeman : boekresensie
Historia 44, pp 242 –244 (1999)
Karel Schoeman het sy drie romans Stemme afgesluit met die een waaraan hy eerste begin skryf het, naamlik Verliesfontein. Die ander romans is Hierdie Lewe en Die uur van die Engel. Verliesfontein is reeds in 1990 begin, maar dit is laat in Desember 1997 eers voltooi en in 1998 deur Human en Rousseau gepubliseer. Die roman handel oor die mense van die dorpie Fouriesfontein in die Kaapkolonie tydens die inval deur Boerekommando&apos;s uit die Vrystaat, tydens die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog.
Al laggende en pratende : Kaapse vroue in die 17de en 18de eeu, Celestine Pretorius : boekresensie
Historia 44, pp 244 –246 (1999)
Dr. Celestine Pretorius stel haar ten doel om die lewe van gewone vroue "wie se lewe ingrypend deur historiese gebeure beïnvloed is" se verhale van "daaglikse lief en leed, van swaarkry en ellende, moed en deursettingsvermoë, liefde en haat" byeen te bring. In hierdie doelwit slaag Al laggende en pratende op uitmuntende wyse.
A history of Richards Bay 1497-1970&apos;s in Zululand Annals Vol. iii, Tony Cubbin Mtunzini : A history, from earliest times to 1995 (Volume 1), Albert van Jaarsveld : book review
Historia 44, pp 246 –248 (1999)
Local history remains a dynamic meeting place between the man on the street and the discipline of history. The popularity of this field and its potential for academic enterprise has been exploited by numerous researchers at South African universities as well as the Human Sciences Research Council. The spin-offs are now beginning to gain momentum.
Botswana Politics and Society, W.A. Edge, M.H. Lerokwe (reds.) : book review
Historia 44, pp 248 –250 (1999)
Goeie resente multidissiplinêre studies oor individuele Afrikastate is relatief skaars. Die Amerikaners het wel in die 60er en 70er jare sgn. "Country Studies" gedoen oor die koloniale gebiede in Afrika waarby hulle ekonomiese en / of militêre belang gehad het. Vir hulle tyd was die werke uiters nuttig, maar sedert die jare van onafhanklikheid het daar ingrypende veranderinge in Afrika plaasgevind.
Aankondiging : resensies
Die volgende tydskrif is ontvang : Hervormde Teologiese Studies 54 (3 & 4) September / November 1998