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Chapter one: Founding and establishing an imperial university: the first twenty-five years

- Maylam, Paul

Authors: Maylam, Paul
Date: 2017
Subjects: Rhodes University -- History , Rhodes Unviersity , Universities and colleges -- South Africa -- Grahamstown
Language: English
Type: book , text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/59896 , vital:27689
Description: Critics of South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) that sat in the late 1990s have sometimes pointed to its failure to examine the role of larger collectivities in colluding with or acquiescing in the apartheid system. Universities, for instance, have been singled out for their failure both to make submissions to the TRC and to acknowledge openly their past shortcomings during the apartheid era. The historically white, English-medium universities – among them Rhodes University – liked to project themselves as liberal institutions. This book puts this self-representation to the test by looking critically at the operation and functioning of Rhodes University during the segregation and apartheid eras. This study is one of very few that recounts and analyses the whole history of a South African university in a single volume. It covers the founding of Rhodes University College (as it was then called) in 1904, traces its development over the decades, through the attainment of independent status in 1951, ending with a full consideration of the transformation challenges that the university has faced in the post-apartheid era. This is a critical study that points to some of the university’s past failures. But there is also a celebratory dimension, as the book highlights some of the achievements and successes of those who have worked and studied at Rhodes University over the past 112 or so years. , Please note that only the first chapter of the book is available online. For further information, or should you wish to purchase a copy of this item, please contact Bulelani Mothlabane (b.mothlabaneATru.ac.za).
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Date Issued: 2017

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History after apartheid

- Maylam, Paul

Authors: Maylam, Paul
Date: 1993-03-24
Language: English
Type: text
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/10962/54290 , vital:26451 , ISBN 0-86810-256-3
Description: [From introduction] The purpose of my lecture tonight is to consider some possible future trends and issues in the discipline of South African history in the post-apartheid era. Before doing that I need to say something about two influences or traditions that have left a troublesome legacy and require critical examination. I am referring to the two ‘E’s’: empiricism and eurocentrism. Now it is true that both of these have wilted under serious assaults from scholars in the past 25 years. But both remain present in many sorts of texts; both remain embedded in what we might call ‘the everyday commonsense view of the world’ - so that they continue to constitute a problem.
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Date Issued: 1993-03-24

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