Dr Anne Heffernan's Outputs (5)

Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state. (2024)
Journal Article
Heffernan, A. (online). Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state. British Journal for the History of Science, 1-5. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007087424001031

It has been thirty years since the end of political apartheid in South Africa in 1994. Those decades have been marked by single-party dominance under the African National Congress (ANC), and the expansion of democratic rights and public goods like ed... Read More about Essay review: technopolitics, development and the residues of the South African state..

Student/teachers from Turfloop: the propagation of Black Consciousness in South African schools, 1972–76 (2019)
Journal Article
Heffernan, A. (2019). Student/teachers from Turfloop: the propagation of Black Consciousness in South African schools, 1972–76. Africa, 89(S1), S189-S209. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0001972018000979

The movement of school teachers to primary and secondary schools around South Africa and its Bantustans in the early and mid-1970s was an intentional part of the project of propagating Black Consciousness to school learners during this period. The mo... Read More about Student/teachers from Turfloop: the propagation of Black Consciousness in South African schools, 1972–76.

The University of the North and Building the Bantustans, 1959–1977 (2017)
Journal Article
Heffernan, A. (2017). The University of the North and Building the Bantustans, 1959–1977. South African Historical Journal, 69(2), 195-214. https://doi.org/10.1080/02582473.2017.1293716

This article explores the role of The University of the North (Turfloop) and its impact on the Bantustans it was intended to serve during the early years of their formation. Turfloop was founded in 1959 and, like other ‘bush colleges’ that served eth... Read More about The University of the North and Building the Bantustans, 1959–1977.

Blurred lines and ideological divisions in South African youth politics (2016)
Journal Article
Heffernan, A. (2016). Blurred lines and ideological divisions in South African youth politics. African Affairs, 115(461), 664-687. https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adw052

Ideological affiliations like Africanism, charterism, and Black Consciousness shaped the political boundaries of student and youth political groups in South Africa during the tumultuous 1980s, and continue to inform contemporary youth politics. These... Read More about Blurred lines and ideological divisions in South African youth politics.

Black Consciousness's Lost Leader: Abraham Tiro, the University of the North, and the Seeds of South Africa's Student Movement in the 1970s (2015)
Journal Article
Heffernan, A. (2015). Black Consciousness's Lost Leader: Abraham Tiro, the University of the North, and the Seeds of South Africa's Student Movement in the 1970s. Journal of Southern African Studies, 41(1), 173-186. https://doi.org/10.1080/03057070.2015.991575

The 1970s have come to represent a decade of student protest within South Africa, but in writing history of this period, scholarly attention has focused primarily on pivotal events in the latter part of the decade, such as the Soweto student uprising... Read More about Black Consciousness's Lost Leader: Abraham Tiro, the University of the North, and the Seeds of South Africa's Student Movement in the 1970s.