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is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria. He is the author of Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (Penguin, 2016), History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present (Penguin, 2021), and is the editor of The ANC and the Liberation Struggle: Essential Writings (Routledge, 2017), and, most recently, History beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiograpy (Manchester University Press, 2023).
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is an Associate Professor of History in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria. He is the author of Umkhonto we Sizwe: The ANC's Armed Struggle (Penguin, 2016), History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present (Penguin, 2021), and is the editor of The ANC and the Liberation Struggle: Essential Writings (Routledge, 2017), and, most recently, History beyond Apartheid: New Approaches in South African Historiograpy (Manchester University Press, 2023).
THULA SIMPSON
NOVEMBER 17 2023
THULA SIMPSON•NOVEMBER 17 2023
South African historian and author of History of South Africa: From 1902 to the Present, Thula Simpson, believes the most common misconception about South African history is related to apartheid: ‘Many believe that apartheid is the central thread of South African history, the overwhelming fact, the unifying category to which all roads and streams must lead, and which can explain all. In fact, apartheid is a specific period in a much longer history of segregation, and it cannot be understood except in the context of that wider story.’