Apartheid and world-making after empire : histories, legacies and continuities of apartheid in South Africa

The Innovation Foundation for Democracy is delighted to support the research initiative “Apartheid and World-Making After Empire”.

Venue : Innovation Foundation for Democracy Offices, 5th Floor Es’kiah Mphahlele Building, Wits University

09:00-09:30 | Opening, and Welcome

Samukelo Ndlovu, University of Witwatersrand

Prof. Paul Maluleka, University of South Africa

09:30-10:30 | Panel 1 | Apartheid and World-making

Ayabulela Mhlahlo, University of Connecticut | The Mytho-Metaphysical Roots of the Global Apartheid Paradigm: The Cosmology of Power

Samukelo Ndlovu, University of Witwatersrand | Apartheid and Worldmaking after Empire

Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse, Southwestern University | The Interlocking Nature of Apartheid Praxis

Michlene Mongae, Independent Researcher | Exploring the Life of Chief Representatives in the Anti-Apartheid Movement

10:30-11:30 | Panel 2 | Conquest, Law, and Freedom beyond Apartheid

Dr Ntando Sindane, University of the Western Cape | Rethinking Apartheid Histories, Present and Futures – Decolonial Musings on the Constitutional Question

Masilo Lepuru, University of South Africa | The Doctrine of Discovery and White settler constitutionalism in “South Africa”: Notes on different schools of thought on the constitution of 1996

Sipho Mahoa, Eduvos Institute of Higher Education | Unfulfilled promises: Reflections on class, governance, and the long road to freedom in post-apartheid South Africa

11:30-11:45 | Tea Break

11:45-12:45 | Panel 3 | Techniques of Rule and Governance

Maxwell Maseko, University of the Witwatersrand | Can digital transformation address the poor legacy of apartheid on citizen participation in South Africa?

Jah Xolani Radebe, Independent Researcher | Castigate the poor: idiosyncrasy, domination and social suffering in contemporary South Africa: An Afrocentric perspective

Bongani Nicholas Ngomane, University of the Witwatersrand | Mr President: The Visual Narrative of Township Democracy

Kolodi Senong, Independent Researcher | Apartheid and Seriti in Sofaya 12:45-13:30 | Lunch

13:30-14:30 | Panel 4 | The Ontological Problem of Apartheid, neo-apartheid and the future

Dr Mbuso weNkosi, University of the Witwatersrand | TBC

Mpho Tladi, University of the Witwatersrand | Revealing the Colonial Unconscious: Exploring its Manifestations and Implications in post-Apartheid South Africa’s Corruption Landscape

Mojalefa Makgero, University of Limpopo | Unwelcomed Bodies: The State of Black Absent-Presentism in Post-Apartheid Universities

Khothalang Moseli, University of the Free State | Quality of life in Mjondolo: Reconsidering Informal settlements through the lens of the Right to Development in South Africa

14:30-15:30 | Panel 5 | Race Gender and Class

Dr Wendell Moore, University of South Africa | “Love across the colour line”: The simple act that challenged the heart of Apartheid logic

Nonkululeko Khumalo, University of the Witwatersrand | Revealing the Depths of Injustice: How Apartheid Shaped Sexism in South Africa

Tamia Botes, University of the Witwatersrand | Eldorado Park as Demonic Grounds: A Social History from 1960s-present

15:30-15-45 | Tea Break

15:45-16:45 | Panel 6 | The post-apartheid novel

Witness Roya, Mangosuthu Technikon | Continuities and discontinuities of apartheid in South Africa as reflected in Native Nostalgia (2009), Born a Crime (2016) and A Song for Sarah: Lessons from my Mother (2017)

Vanessa Seifert, University of the Witwatersrand | “Emotions in Operation: Compassion as a Political Tool and Technology of Belonging.”

Laetitia Cassells, University of the Witwatersrand | How they decided what you read: an analysis of what wasn’t considered censorship in South Africa

16:45-17:30 | Panel 7 | Epistemic Tools, Missionary, Other

Lesetja Johannes Molala, University of Johannesburg | Missionary Education and Apartheid in Education

Siyabulela Tonono, Centre for Black Thought and African Studies at the Seth Mokitimi Methodist Seminary | Reparations Kairos: Towards a church-based advocacy on apartheid reparations