Pedzisai Maedza
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pedzisai Maedza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pedzisai |
| FAMILY NAME | Maedza |
| SIGNATURE | MAEDZA P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6980-3272 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
‘People Died There Like Flies that Had Been Poisoned’
Santa’s Story
This account uses performance and critical analysis to investigate the entangled histories and multidirectional memories that entwine African colonialism and the Holocaust in Santa’s Story by Aviva Pelham. The paper spotlights the intersections between the memory of the Holocaust and colonial Africa by focussing on the memory of women survivors and children of survivors on the African continent. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch’s notion of ‘postmemory’…
Sold
Themba Mbuli's SOLD! integrates differently abled dancers in a performance that remembers the 1904–08 Namibian genocide. SOLD! pays homage to four unnamed women and a young boy whose mortal remains were among the first skulls repatriated from Berlin to Windhoek in 2011, as it animates the excesses of colonial officials who obtained body parts for use in eugenics, phrenology, and other racial-hygiene sciences
Sarafina
On 16 June 1976 an estimated 20,000 black students took to the streets of Soweto, South Africa in protest against the mandatory use of Afrikaans in all segregated schools. Apartheid police responded to the protest march with unrestrained brutal violence, firing live rounds of ammunition at the unarmed school children. This police intervention left thousands injured and 176 people dead. Using Mbongeni Ngema’s Sarafina!: The Sounds of Liberation (1…
Third Time Lucky
In 2010 South African band Freshlyground produced a satirical music video critical of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s 30-year long tyrannical rule titled “Chicken to Change.” For eight years after the song’s release, the band was barred from Zimbabwe. Using Ngugi wa Thiongo’s “enactments of power” concept and Michel Foucault’s insights on censorship, this account investigates the cross–border and esthetic censorship dynamics that prevented t…
Gukurahundi - a moment of madness
Between 1982 and 1987 the Zimbabwean government deployed a North Korean trained military unit, the Fifth Brigade into the Midlands and South Western regions of the country in an operation code-named Gukurahundi (the first flash floods that cleanse the riverbeds of all debris and chaff before the spring rains). By the time the unit’s operations were halted, an estimated 20,000 mostly ethnic Ndebele and Kalanga speaking civilians were dead, with ma…
The Line
This article analyses Gina Shmukler’s verbatim play The Line (2012) and argues for another look at the testimonies captured from witnesses, survivors and perpetrators of the violence targeting foreign and perceived as foreign persons in South Africa that escalated in 2008 and in 2015. It is a narrative analysis of the play that uses Gregory H. Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide model and the United Nations Convention on Genocide to investigate the …
Mai VaDhikondo
This account departs from the focus and consensus on the centrality of song in pungwes for mass mobilisation during Zimbabwe’s war for independence. It traces the less commented upon dystopian continuities between the usage of pungwe during the liberation war and the gukurahundi (1982–1987). It suggests that music is a mnemonic device through which experience is narrated, facilitating the storage, transfer and remembering of memory. It uses the s…
Mai VaDhikondo
This account departs from the focus and consensus on the centrality of song in pungwes for mass mobilisation during Zimbabwe’s war for independence. It traces the less commented upon dystopian continuities between the usage of pungwe during the liberation war and the gukurahundi (1982–1987). It suggests that music is a mnemonic device through which experience is narrated, facilitating the storage, transfer and remembering of memory. It uses the s…
Gukurahundi - a moment of madness
Between 1982 and 1987 the Zimbabwean government deployed a North Korean trained military unit, the Fifth Brigade into the Midlands and South Western regions of the country in an operation code-named Gukurahundi (the first flash floods that cleanse the riverbeds of all debris and chaff before the spring rains). By the time the unit’s operations were halted, an estimated 20,000 mostly ethnic Ndebele and Kalanga speaking civilians were dead, with ma…
Mai VaDhikondo
This account departs from the focus and consensus on the centrality of song in pungwes for mass mobilisation during Zimbabwe’s war for independence. It traces the less commented upon dystopian continuities between the usage of pungwe during the liberation war and the gukurahundi (1982–1987). It suggests that music is a mnemonic device through which experience is narrated, facilitating the storage, transfer and remembering of memory. It uses the s…
The Line
This article analyses Gina Shmukler’s verbatim play The Line (2012) and argues for another look at the testimonies captured from witnesses, survivors and perpetrators of the violence targeting foreign and perceived as foreign persons in South Africa that escalated in 2008 and in 2015. It is a narrative analysis of the play that uses Gregory H. Stanton’s Ten Stages of Genocide model and the United Nations Convention on Genocide to investigate the …
Sold
Themba Mbuli's SOLD! integrates differently abled dancers in a performance that remembers the 1904–08 Namibian genocide. SOLD! pays homage to four unnamed women and a young boy whose mortal remains were among the first skulls repatriated from Berlin to Windhoek in 2011, as it animates the excesses of colonial officials who obtained body parts for use in eugenics, phrenology, and other racial-hygiene sciences
Sarafina
On 16 June 1976 an estimated 20,000 black students took to the streets of Soweto, South Africa in protest against the mandatory use of Afrikaans in all segregated schools. Apartheid police responded to the protest march with unrestrained brutal violence, firing live rounds of ammunition at the unarmed school children. This police intervention left thousands injured and 176 people dead. Using Mbongeni Ngema’s Sarafina!: The Sounds of Liberation (1…
Third Time Lucky
In 2010 South African band Freshlyground produced a satirical music video critical of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s 30-year long tyrannical rule titled “Chicken to Change.” For eight years after the song’s release, the band was barred from Zimbabwe. Using Ngugi wa Thiongo’s “enactments of power” concept and Michel Foucault’s insights on censorship, this account investigates the cross–border and esthetic censorship dynamics that prevented t…
Gukurahundi - a moment of madness
Between 1982 and 1987 the Zimbabwean government deployed a North Korean trained military unit, the Fifth Brigade into the Midlands and South Western regions of the country in an operation code-named Gukurahundi (the first flash floods that cleanse the riverbeds of all debris and chaff before the spring rains). By the time the unit’s operations were halted, an estimated 20,000 mostly ethnic Ndebele and Kalanga speaking civilians were dead, with ma…
Santa’s Story
This account uses performance and critical analysis to investigate the entangled histories and multidirectional memories that entwine African colonialism and the Holocaust in Santa’s Story by Aviva Pelham. The paper spotlights the intersections between the memory of the Holocaust and colonial Africa by focussing on the memory of women survivors and children of survivors on the African continent. Drawing on Marianne Hirsch’s notion of ‘postmemory’…
‘People Died There Like Flies that Had Been Poisoned’
History (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · African history and culture studies (4 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (4 works) · Art history (3 works) · Colonialism (3 works) · Criminology (3 works)