The perspectives of African informants and researchers profoundly shaped the writings of government ethnologist Dr. Nicholas Jacobus van Warmelo who not only collected information from local African informants but also relied on African researchers who wrote manuscripts in the vernacular that would constitute part of his archive. This study explores the process of ...

This article is about changing patterns of collective identities among Rand-based migrants from Zebediela between the 1930s and 1970s. Based on archival and oral sources, the article shows how, in the face of a hostile and alienating urban environment, these migrants promoted a sense of group identity from the bottom up by clustering around people from their home a...

In 1960, the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched Radio Bantu as a fully-fledged station for African listeners in their different languages. Intended to operate as the apartheid state's propaganda channel, vernacular radio came to find resonance among millions of African listeners. This study provides an historical analysis of Northern Sotho radio during...