Übung Neueste Geschichte: South Africa in the 20th Century: Struggles, Transformations, and Triumphs (Tumi Ledwaba & Charl Blignaut)

Dozent:innen: apl. Prof. Dr. Jörg Rogge
Kurzname: Ü.Neueste.Ges.
Kurs-Nr.: 07.068.205
Kurstyp: Übung

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches

Keine besonderen Zugangsvoraussetzungen.
B.A. Geschichte: Diese Übung ist Bestandteil des Moduls 5 (Neueste Geschichte). Die Übung ist unbenotet; vorausgesetzt wird eine aktive Teilnahme an der Übung.
B.A. KF, M.A., M.Ed. Geschichte: Diese Übung ist Teil des Aufbaumoduls Neuzeit. Die Übung ist unbenotet; vorausgesetzt wird eine aktive Teilnahme an der Übung.

Empfohlene Literatur

Als Einführung: Christoph Marx, Südafrika: Geschichte und Gegenwart, Stuttgart 2012.

Inhalt

This course explores how identities and senses of belonging have developed, shifted, and been contested in South African urban and rural environments from the mineral discoveries of the late 19th century through the apartheid period and beyond. It examines processes of migration, urbanisation, class formation, and forced removals, highlighting how communities negotiated their positions through culture, resistance, and place-making. The course also investigates how violence, legislation, and state interventions shaped, disrupted, and recreated identities across space and time, encouraging students to critically analyse how power, place, and social structures impacted individual and collective identities in South Africa.

List of study units

Study Unit 1: Migrating identities and positionalities: An elementary history of migrant labour in South Africa
Looks at the rise of migrant labour linked to mineral discoveries and its social and political impacts.

Study Unit 2: Urban identities and belonging in urban areas
Focuses on how African urban residents negotiated new identities and forms of belonging, especially under segregation and apartheid.

Study Unit 3: The development of freehold locations: entrenched identities and reshaping of place
Examines freehold townships like Sophiatown as spaces of cosmopolitan identity, resistance, and contradictions of apartheid policy.

Study Unit 4: Forced removals in apartheid South Africa: entrenched identities and resistance in model locations
Analyses forced removals, the planning of model locations, and their effects on community identity and resistance.

Study Unit 5: Violence and resistance: towards a new identity
Investigates events like the Sharpeville Massacre to show how violence reshaped township identities and collective memory.

Termine

Datum (Wochentag) Zeit Ort
10.11.2025 (Montag) 09:00 - 16:00 Infobox
11.11.2025 (Dienstag) 09:00 - 16:00 Infobox
12.11.2025 (Mittwoch) 09:00 - 16:00 Infobox
13.11.2025 (Donnerstag) 09:00 - 16:00 Infobox
14.11.2025 (Freitag) 09:00 - 16:00 Infobox