Gary Kynoch
Biographic Data
| ID | 80877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Kynoch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Kynoch |
| SIGNATURE | KYNOCH G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Dalhousie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9562-4438 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Raids, Resistance, and Retribution
On 24 January 1960 nine police were killed in the African settlement of Cato Manor when residents turned on officers conducting a liquor patrol. On 5 September 1961, nine men convicted of the killings were hanged in Pretoria's Central Prison. These deaths produced contrasting narratives, one by the apartheid state and then decades later, another by the current African National Congress government. Apartheid police and judicial authorities vilifie…
We get sucked into everybody's mess
Based on interviews with 43 serving members at four Public Order Police units, this article highlights the perspectives of officers involved in arguably the most contentious and visible aspect of South African policing. As the primary arm of the police responsible for crowd management, Public Order members are at the coalface of a country inundated with protests. Respondents describe an environment in which they are forced to contend with politic…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand. In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while bothdeserve…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand. In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while both deserv…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand.
Murder at Small Koppie
"Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of South Africa’s Marikana Massacre." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(2), pp. 250–251
Apartheid's Afterlives
White minority rule in South Africa was maintained through different forms of violence. Controlling and exploiting the black population required an extensive and interlinked bureaucratic, judicial and coercive apparatus that directly subjected black South Africans to state violence and marginalisation. Inevitably, this system provoked resistance. At the same time, the maintenance of white security and privilege fostered violence within many black…
Reassessing transition violence
Drawing on interviews with people involved in the communal violence that traumatized Thokoza and Katlehong townships in the early 1990s, this article challenges the received wisdom regarding transition violence in South Africa. Most significantly, it transcends the dominant narrative that African National Congress (ANC) supporters in the townships were under relentless attack by state security units known as the ‘third force’, along with the co-o…
Fear and alienation
This article focuses on interpretations and representations of violent crime in fiction, non-fiction and media to explore racialised discourses of fear and vulnerability in contemporary South Africa. It is less concerned with statistics and "facts" related to crime than with the role of race in impressions of and attitudes towards criminal violence. And, whereas gender, class and nationality all mediate the ways in which crime is experienced and …
Of Compounds and Cellblocks
The brutalising nature of the gold mining industry that employed the majority of black male workers, in concert with the incarceration of African men on a massive scale, established the foundation for a violent society in Johannesburg's early decades. African mineworkers were exposed to and participated in supervisory abuse, faction fights and gang activity. The enforcement of racial legislation that cycled hundreds of thousands of men through th…
Introduction
Repressive settler rule, armed liberation struggles and the absence of equitable justice systems have ensured that discourses and practices of ‘punishment’ profoundly shaped the colonial experience
Urban Violence in Colonial Africa
In an attempt to move beyond the parochial character of the otherwise rich historiography of urban South Africa, this article compares the level of violent crime, gang conflict and vigilantism in the segregated townships and mining compounds surrounding South African cities, particularly Johannesburg, in the period to 1960, with that of African neighbourhoods in colonial cities elsewhere on the continent. The evidence suggests that concepts of So…
Crime, conflict and politics in transition-era South Africa
Journal Article Crime, conflict and politics in transition-era South Africa Get access Gary Kynoch Gary Kynoch Dalhousie University, Canada: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 416, July 2005, Pages 493–514, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi009 Published: 01 July 2005
Your Petitioners are in Mortal Terror
Sixty-three thousand Chinese indentured labourers helped resuscitate South Africa's ailing gold mining industry in the aftermath of the South African War of 1899–1902. This short-lived experiment – the first men arrived in 1904 and by 1910 all surviving labourers had been repatriated to China – has attracted the attention of various historians who have focused on the labour shortage that led to the employment of Chinese workers and the political …
Controlling the Coolies
Importes en Afrique du Sud apres la guerre des Boers pour palier au manque de main d'oeuvre, les coolies chinois employes dans les mines d'or vivaient au quotidien l'exploitation et l'oppression. L'A. explore les conflits entre le management et les travailleurs et les tactiques et strategies utilisees par les deux groupes. La convergence de plusieurs circonstances a conduit a un regime de travail particulierement repressif pour les Chinois employ…
The Politics of Evil
Friend or Foe? A World View of Community-Police Relations in Gauteng Townships, 1947-77
(2003). Friend or Foe? A World View of Community-Police Relations in Gauteng Townships, 1947-77. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 37, Cities in Africa / Les villes en Afrique, pp. 298-327
A Man among Men’
This article explores gender and power relations in a South African criminal society through an examination of the legend surrounding a prominent leader. Tseule Tsilo achieved a degree of notoriety in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Tsilo's legend lives on in the lore of the Marashea, the criminal organisation to which he belonged. However, rather than being embraced by the entire Marashea, Tsilo is a hero only to men. The legend was created…
It Is Like the Time of Lifaqane ”
Politics and Violence in the ‘Russian Zone’
The urban townships of South Africa have been contested terrain since their inception. Different groups have struggled to control territory, various resources and political activities within the confines of the locations and, all too frequently, violence has been an integral part of these struggles. Groups as varied in composition and ideology as squatter movements, well-organized criminal outfits, student groups, vigilantes, traditional courts (…
Marashea on the Mines
Since their emergence in the late 1940s, the predominantly Basotho gangs known as Marashea or Russians have maintained close links with mineworkers, especially those working on gold mines. These links intensified and the gangs became more dependent on the mines after the 1963 legislation which denied Basotho the right to work in South Africa other than in the agricultural and mining sectors. This legislation, combined with the opening of the Free…
From the Ninevites to the hard livings gang
1999). From the Ninevites to the hard livings gang: township gangsters and urban violence in twentieth‐century South Africa. African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 55-85
Society in Zimbabwe's Liberation War
Terrible dilemmas
From the Ninevites to the hard livings gang
1999). From the Ninevites to the hard livings gang: township gangsters and urban violence in twentieth‐century South Africa. African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 55-85
Urban Violence in Colonial Africa
In an attempt to move beyond the parochial character of the otherwise rich historiography of urban South Africa, this article compares the level of violent crime, gang conflict and vigilantism in the segregated townships and mining compounds surrounding South African cities, particularly Johannesburg, in the period to 1960, with that of African neighbourhoods in colonial cities elsewhere on the continent. The evidence suggests that concepts of So…
Crime, conflict and politics in transition-era South Africa
Journal Article Crime, conflict and politics in transition-era South Africa Get access Gary Kynoch Gary Kynoch Dalhousie University, Canada: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 416, July 2005, Pages 493–514, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi009 Published: 01 July 2005
Apartheid's Afterlives
White minority rule in South Africa was maintained through different forms of violence. Controlling and exploiting the black population required an extensive and interlinked bureaucratic, judicial and coercive apparatus that directly subjected black South Africans to state violence and marginalisation. Inevitably, this system provoked resistance. At the same time, the maintenance of white security and privilege fostered violence within many black…
Your Petitioners are in Mortal Terror
Sixty-three thousand Chinese indentured labourers helped resuscitate South Africa's ailing gold mining industry in the aftermath of the South African War of 1899–1902. This short-lived experiment – the first men arrived in 1904 and by 1910 all surviving labourers had been repatriated to China – has attracted the attention of various historians who have focused on the labour shortage that led to the employment of Chinese workers and the political …
Friend or Foe? A World View of Community-Police Relations in Gauteng Townships, 1947-77
(2003). Friend or Foe? A World View of Community-Police Relations in Gauteng Townships, 1947-77. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 37, Cities in Africa / Les villes en Afrique, pp. 298-327
Reassessing transition violence
Drawing on interviews with people involved in the communal violence that traumatized Thokoza and Katlehong townships in the early 1990s, this article challenges the received wisdom regarding transition violence in South Africa. Most significantly, it transcends the dominant narrative that African National Congress (ANC) supporters in the townships were under relentless attack by state security units known as the ‘third force’, along with the co-o…
Controlling the Coolies
Importes en Afrique du Sud apres la guerre des Boers pour palier au manque de main d'oeuvre, les coolies chinois employes dans les mines d'or vivaient au quotidien l'exploitation et l'oppression. L'A. explore les conflits entre le management et les travailleurs et les tactiques et strategies utilisees par les deux groupes. La convergence de plusieurs circonstances a conduit a un regime de travail particulierement repressif pour les Chinois employ…
The 'Transformation' of the South African Military
SouthernAfrica has been at war since the 1960s. Following the capitulation of Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front and the acceptance of majority rule in Zimbabwe in 1980, the widely acknowledged root of most of the regional conflict has been South Africa. In defendingapartheid, the régime in Pretoria engaged in a systematic campaign of destabilisation designed to bring its neighbours to heel. Military invasions, raids, sabotage, support of dissident grou…
Fear and alienation
This article focuses on interpretations and representations of violent crime in fiction, non-fiction and media to explore racialised discourses of fear and vulnerability in contemporary South Africa. It is less concerned with statistics and "facts" related to crime than with the role of race in impressions of and attitudes towards criminal violence. And, whereas gender, class and nationality all mediate the ways in which crime is experienced and …
A Man among Men’
This article explores gender and power relations in a South African criminal society through an examination of the legend surrounding a prominent leader. Tseule Tsilo achieved a degree of notoriety in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Tsilo's legend lives on in the lore of the Marashea, the criminal organisation to which he belonged. However, rather than being embraced by the entire Marashea, Tsilo is a hero only to men. The legend was created…
Politics and Violence in the ‘Russian Zone’
The urban townships of South Africa have been contested terrain since their inception. Different groups have struggled to control territory, various resources and political activities within the confines of the locations and, all too frequently, violence has been an integral part of these struggles. Groups as varied in composition and ideology as squatter movements, well-organized criminal outfits, student groups, vigilantes, traditional courts (…
Marashea on the Mines
Since their emergence in the late 1940s, the predominantly Basotho gangs known as Marashea or Russians have maintained close links with mineworkers, especially those working on gold mines. These links intensified and the gangs became more dependent on the mines after the 1963 legislation which denied Basotho the right to work in South Africa other than in the agricultural and mining sectors. This legislation, combined with the opening of the Free…
Of Compounds and Cellblocks
The brutalising nature of the gold mining industry that employed the majority of black male workers, in concert with the incarceration of African men on a massive scale, established the foundation for a violent society in Johannesburg's early decades. African mineworkers were exposed to and participated in supervisory abuse, faction fights and gang activity. The enforcement of racial legislation that cycled hundreds of thousands of men through th…
Introduction
Repressive settler rule, armed liberation struggles and the absence of equitable justice systems have ensured that discourses and practices of ‘punishment’ profoundly shaped the colonial experience
It Is Like the Time of Lifaqane ”
The 'Transformation' of the South African Military
SouthernAfrica has been at war since the 1960s. Following the capitulation of Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front and the acceptance of majority rule in Zimbabwe in 1980, the widely acknowledged root of most of the regional conflict has been South Africa. In defendingapartheid, the régime in Pretoria engaged in a systematic campaign of destabilisation designed to bring its neighbours to heel. Military invasions, raids, sabotage, support of dissident grou…
Terrible dilemmas
Soldiers in Zimbabwe's Liberation War
ZIPRA, Dumiso Dabengwa recruitment in ZANLA, Josia Tungamirai ZAPU military strategy, Jeremy Brickhill the Zimbabwe's People's Army, David Moore guerrilla-civilian relations - contrasts with Namibia's war, Norma Kriger Rhodesian security and intelligence, H. Ellert Zimbabwean Liberation Army, Abiodun Alao life after war for four ex-combatants, Teresa Barnes healing and history - the Mafela trust, Jeremy Brickhill
Society in Zimbabwe's Liberation War
From the Ninevites to the hard livings gang
1999). From the Ninevites to the hard livings gang: township gangsters and urban violence in twentieth‐century South Africa. African Studies: Vol. 58, No. 1, pp. 55-85
It Is Like the Time of Lifaqane ”
Politics and Violence in the ‘Russian Zone’
The urban townships of South Africa have been contested terrain since their inception. Different groups have struggled to control territory, various resources and political activities within the confines of the locations and, all too frequently, violence has been an integral part of these struggles. Groups as varied in composition and ideology as squatter movements, well-organized criminal outfits, student groups, vigilantes, traditional courts (…
Marashea on the Mines
Since their emergence in the late 1940s, the predominantly Basotho gangs known as Marashea or Russians have maintained close links with mineworkers, especially those working on gold mines. These links intensified and the gangs became more dependent on the mines after the 1963 legislation which denied Basotho the right to work in South Africa other than in the agricultural and mining sectors. This legislation, combined with the opening of the Free…
A Man among Men’
This article explores gender and power relations in a South African criminal society through an examination of the legend surrounding a prominent leader. Tseule Tsilo achieved a degree of notoriety in South Africa in the 1960s and 1970s. Tsilo's legend lives on in the lore of the Marashea, the criminal organisation to which he belonged. However, rather than being embraced by the entire Marashea, Tsilo is a hero only to men. The legend was created…
Controlling the Coolies
Importes en Afrique du Sud apres la guerre des Boers pour palier au manque de main d'oeuvre, les coolies chinois employes dans les mines d'or vivaient au quotidien l'exploitation et l'oppression. L'A. explore les conflits entre le management et les travailleurs et les tactiques et strategies utilisees par les deux groupes. La convergence de plusieurs circonstances a conduit a un regime de travail particulierement repressif pour les Chinois employ…
The Politics of Evil
Friend or Foe? A World View of Community-Police Relations in Gauteng Townships, 1947-77
(2003). Friend or Foe? A World View of Community-Police Relations in Gauteng Townships, 1947-77. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 37, Cities in Africa / Les villes en Afrique, pp. 298-327
Crime, conflict and politics in transition-era South Africa
Journal Article Crime, conflict and politics in transition-era South Africa Get access Gary Kynoch Gary Kynoch Dalhousie University, Canada: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 104, Issue 416, July 2005, Pages 493–514, https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adi009 Published: 01 July 2005
Your Petitioners are in Mortal Terror
Sixty-three thousand Chinese indentured labourers helped resuscitate South Africa's ailing gold mining industry in the aftermath of the South African War of 1899–1902. This short-lived experiment – the first men arrived in 1904 and by 1910 all surviving labourers had been repatriated to China – has attracted the attention of various historians who have focused on the labour shortage that led to the employment of Chinese workers and the political …
Urban Violence in Colonial Africa
In an attempt to move beyond the parochial character of the otherwise rich historiography of urban South Africa, this article compares the level of violent crime, gang conflict and vigilantism in the segregated townships and mining compounds surrounding South African cities, particularly Johannesburg, in the period to 1960, with that of African neighbourhoods in colonial cities elsewhere on the continent. The evidence suggests that concepts of So…
Of Compounds and Cellblocks
The brutalising nature of the gold mining industry that employed the majority of black male workers, in concert with the incarceration of African men on a massive scale, established the foundation for a violent society in Johannesburg's early decades. African mineworkers were exposed to and participated in supervisory abuse, faction fights and gang activity. The enforcement of racial legislation that cycled hundreds of thousands of men through th…
Introduction
Repressive settler rule, armed liberation struggles and the absence of equitable justice systems have ensured that discourses and practices of ‘punishment’ profoundly shaped the colonial experience
Reassessing transition violence
Drawing on interviews with people involved in the communal violence that traumatized Thokoza and Katlehong townships in the early 1990s, this article challenges the received wisdom regarding transition violence in South Africa. Most significantly, it transcends the dominant narrative that African National Congress (ANC) supporters in the townships were under relentless attack by state security units known as the ‘third force’, along with the co-o…
Fear and alienation
This article focuses on interpretations and representations of violent crime in fiction, non-fiction and media to explore racialised discourses of fear and vulnerability in contemporary South Africa. It is less concerned with statistics and "facts" related to crime than with the role of race in impressions of and attitudes towards criminal violence. And, whereas gender, class and nationality all mediate the ways in which crime is experienced and …
Apartheid's Afterlives
White minority rule in South Africa was maintained through different forms of violence. Controlling and exploiting the black population required an extensive and interlinked bureaucratic, judicial and coercive apparatus that directly subjected black South Africans to state violence and marginalisation. Inevitably, this system provoked resistance. At the same time, the maintenance of white security and privilege fostered violence within many black…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand. In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while bothdeserve…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand. In 1993 South Africa state president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their work for the peaceful termination of the apartheid regime". Yet, while both deserv…
Township Violence and the End of Apartheid
A powerful re-reading of modern South African history following apartheid that examines the violent transformation during the transition era and how this was enacted in the African townships of the Witwatersrand.
Murder at Small Koppie
"Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of South Africa’s Marikana Massacre." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, 52(2), pp. 250–251
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