Its roots lie in Roodepoort’s ‘old location’, which was gradually destroyed by the apartheid government through forced removals between 19. Dobsonville is an important yet understudied suburb of Soweto. This project is a community initiative by Dobsonville residents. From these narratives, a hidden, unrecorded part of South African history has been uncovered. Although these communities were destroyed by apartheid’s forced removals, their continued participation in non-racial sports as a means of resistance is being captured in these oral testimonies. One of the key aims of the project has been the collection of oral histories of athletes, administrators and supporters in areas such as Fietas, Sophiatown, Albertville and Doornfontein to document their involvement in non-racial sports. The project has been made possible by a grant from the Foundation for Human Rights. The History Workshop has been working with former athletes and sports organisations in Gauteng on the history of non-racial sports in a number of sports codes including tennis, football, cricket, volleyball, and rugby among others.
Three principal outcomes are envisioned: laying the foundation for substantive collaboration between African scholars, training of postgraduate students and the publication of an edited volume. Through a comparative approach, the project seeks to contribute to new understandings of the underground and more generally of African liberation struggles from the 1950s to the present. The aim of this project, funded through a catalytic grant by the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, is to interrogate the idea and practices of the underground (or clandestine forms of political struggle) in different parts of the African continent in the course of two workshops bringing together scholars and postgraduate students from South Africa, Swaziland, Mozambique, Namibia, Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt, and Kenya over a two year period. Past and current Public History projects The underground in liberation struggles in Africa
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