Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
Biographic Data
| ID | 159693 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sekibakiba Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Lekgoathi |
| SIGNATURE | LEKGOATHI S P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4371-0091 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Unpacking the Complexities of Southern Africa’s Past: My Research Journey and Future Trajectories
Zambia's Support for the African National Congress's Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967-1992
This article explores the contribution Zambia made to the liberation struggle in South Africa by hosting the ANC's Radio Freedom in Lusaka. It relies on a combination of archival evidence (audio and documentary sources) from both countries, and interviews conducted with the broadcasters and other media workers of both Radio Freedom and the Zambian national broadcaster. The article argues that Zambia offered immense support to Radio Freedom in the…
Ethnic Separatism or Cultural Preservation? Ndebele Radio under Apartheid, 1983–1994
This article is about the history of Radio Ndebele, the last of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) African language stations that was established in the dying days of apartheid in the early 1980s. The article explores the role of the state and radio broadcasting in the crystallisation of Ndebele ethnic consciousness and probes more deeply the agency of the Ndebele-speaking broadcasters in aiding or hindering ethnic separatism. Us…
From Homeboy Networks to Broader Ethnic Affiliations: Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s-1970s
This article is about changing patterns of collective identities among Rand-based migrants from Zebediela between the 1930s and 1970s. Based on archival and oral sources, the article shows how, in the face of a hostile and alienating urban environment, these migrants promoted a sense of group identity from the bottom up by clustering around people from their home areas and establishing organisations that looked after their interests. During the 1…
Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters
Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into th…
Ethnic Separatism or Cultural Preservation? Ndebele Radio under Apartheid, 1983–1994
This article is about the history of Radio Ndebele, the last of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) African language stations that was established in the dying days of apartheid in the early 1980s. The article explores the role of the state and radio broadcasting in the crystallisation of Ndebele ethnic consciousness and probes more deeply the agency of the Ndebele-speaking broadcasters in aiding or hindering ethnic separatism. Us…
The African National Congress's Radio Freedom and its audiences in apartheid South Africa, 19631991
This article discusses the social history of Radio Freedom, the African National Congress's (ANC) clandestine radio station between 1963 and 1991. The article focuses on the audiences of Radio Freedom, how they listened to the station, which messages they appropriated from it, and the impact of these messages on political mobilization in the country. The article advances arguments about how radio broadcasting became a strategic priority for the A…
The History Workshop, Teacher Development and Outcomes-Based Education over the Past Seven Years1
Besides its pioneering scholarship on the social histories of the marginalised and oppressed communities in South Africa, the History Workshop (HW) at the University of the Witwatersrand has also made an immense contribution to the teaching of history in secondary school through its teachers' workshops. Its input in the realm of teacher development has been quite remarkable in the context of the changing curriculum and educational policy more gen…
Colonial’ Experts, Local Interlocutors, Informants and the Making of an Archive on the ‘Transvaal Ndebele’, 1930–1989
The perspectives of African informants and researchers profoundly shaped the writings of government ethnologist Dr. Nicholas Jacobus van Warmelo who not only collected information from local African informants but also relied on African researchers who wrote manuscripts in the vernacular that would constitute part of his archive. This study explores the process of producing knowledge on the ‘Transvaal Ndebele’, and provides an analysis of Van War…
You are Listening to Radio Lebowa of the South African Broadcasting Corporation: Vernacular Radio, Bantustan Identity and Listenership, 1960-1994
In 1960, the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched Radio Bantu as a fully-fledged station for African listeners in their different languages. Intended to operate as the apartheid state's propaganda channel, vernacular radio came to find resonance among millions of African listeners. This study provides an historical analysis of Northern Sotho radio during the apartheid era, exploring the motives for its establishment and its control mec…
Teacher Militancy in the Rural Northern Transvaal Community of Zebediela, 1986–1994
The purpose of this article is to explore the reaction of teachers in the Northern Transvaal to the conflicting pressures posed by students and the state inthe period from 1986 to 1994. Using archival sources and oral interviews, it accounts for the rise of militancy among teachers in Zebediela, a rural community in the former 'homeland' of Lebowa, now part of Limpopo Province
Chiefs, Migrants and North Ndebele Ethnicity in the Context of Surrounding Homeland Politics, 1965-1978
An Accessible History of Rural Society
(1997). An Accessible History of Rural Society. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 214-217
Colonial’ Experts, Local Interlocutors, Informants and the Making of an Archive on the ‘Transvaal Ndebele’, 1930–1989
The perspectives of African informants and researchers profoundly shaped the writings of government ethnologist Dr. Nicholas Jacobus van Warmelo who not only collected information from local African informants but also relied on African researchers who wrote manuscripts in the vernacular that would constitute part of his archive. This study explores the process of producing knowledge on the ‘Transvaal Ndebele’, and provides an analysis of Van War…
Chiefs, Migrants and North Ndebele Ethnicity in the Context of Surrounding Homeland Politics, 1965-1978
You are Listening to Radio Lebowa of the South African Broadcasting Corporation: Vernacular Radio, Bantustan Identity and Listenership, 1960-1994
In 1960, the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched Radio Bantu as a fully-fledged station for African listeners in their different languages. Intended to operate as the apartheid state's propaganda channel, vernacular radio came to find resonance among millions of African listeners. This study provides an historical analysis of Northern Sotho radio during the apartheid era, exploring the motives for its establishment and its control mec…
From Homeboy Networks to Broader Ethnic Affiliations: Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s-1970s
This article is about changing patterns of collective identities among Rand-based migrants from Zebediela between the 1930s and 1970s. Based on archival and oral sources, the article shows how, in the face of a hostile and alienating urban environment, these migrants promoted a sense of group identity from the bottom up by clustering around people from their home areas and establishing organisations that looked after their interests. During the 1…
Teacher Militancy in the Rural Northern Transvaal Community of Zebediela, 1986–1994
The purpose of this article is to explore the reaction of teachers in the Northern Transvaal to the conflicting pressures posed by students and the state inthe period from 1986 to 1994. Using archival sources and oral interviews, it accounts for the rise of militancy among teachers in Zebediela, a rural community in the former 'homeland' of Lebowa, now part of Limpopo Province
Ethnic Separatism or Cultural Preservation? Ndebele Radio under Apartheid, 1983–1994
This article is about the history of Radio Ndebele, the last of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) African language stations that was established in the dying days of apartheid in the early 1980s. The article explores the role of the state and radio broadcasting in the crystallisation of Ndebele ethnic consciousness and probes more deeply the agency of the Ndebele-speaking broadcasters in aiding or hindering ethnic separatism. Us…
An Accessible History of Rural Society
(1997). An Accessible History of Rural Society. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 214-217
Chiefs, Migrants and North Ndebele Ethnicity in the Context of Surrounding Homeland Politics, 1965-1978
Teacher Militancy in the Rural Northern Transvaal Community of Zebediela, 1986–1994
The purpose of this article is to explore the reaction of teachers in the Northern Transvaal to the conflicting pressures posed by students and the state inthe period from 1986 to 1994. Using archival sources and oral interviews, it accounts for the rise of militancy among teachers in Zebediela, a rural community in the former 'homeland' of Lebowa, now part of Limpopo Province
Colonial’ Experts, Local Interlocutors, Informants and the Making of an Archive on the ‘Transvaal Ndebele’, 1930–1989
The perspectives of African informants and researchers profoundly shaped the writings of government ethnologist Dr. Nicholas Jacobus van Warmelo who not only collected information from local African informants but also relied on African researchers who wrote manuscripts in the vernacular that would constitute part of his archive. This study explores the process of producing knowledge on the ‘Transvaal Ndebele’, and provides an analysis of Van War…
You are Listening to Radio Lebowa of the South African Broadcasting Corporation: Vernacular Radio, Bantustan Identity and Listenership, 1960-1994
In 1960, the South African Broadcasting Corporation launched Radio Bantu as a fully-fledged station for African listeners in their different languages. Intended to operate as the apartheid state's propaganda channel, vernacular radio came to find resonance among millions of African listeners. This study provides an historical analysis of Northern Sotho radio during the apartheid era, exploring the motives for its establishment and its control mec…
The African National Congress's Radio Freedom and its audiences in apartheid South Africa, 19631991
This article discusses the social history of Radio Freedom, the African National Congress's (ANC) clandestine radio station between 1963 and 1991. The article focuses on the audiences of Radio Freedom, how they listened to the station, which messages they appropriated from it, and the impact of these messages on political mobilization in the country. The article advances arguments about how radio broadcasting became a strategic priority for the A…
The History Workshop, Teacher Development and Outcomes-Based Education over the Past Seven Years1
Besides its pioneering scholarship on the social histories of the marginalised and oppressed communities in South Africa, the History Workshop (HW) at the University of the Witwatersrand has also made an immense contribution to the teaching of history in secondary school through its teachers' workshops. Its input in the realm of teacher development has been quite remarkable in the context of the changing curriculum and educational policy more gen…
Ethnic Separatism or Cultural Preservation? Ndebele Radio under Apartheid, 1983–1994
This article is about the history of Radio Ndebele, the last of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) African language stations that was established in the dying days of apartheid in the early 1980s. The article explores the role of the state and radio broadcasting in the crystallisation of Ndebele ethnic consciousness and probes more deeply the agency of the Ndebele-speaking broadcasters in aiding or hindering ethnic separatism. Us…
Inside African Anthropology: Monica Wilson and her Interpreters
Inside African Anthropology offers an incisive biography of the life and work of South Africa's foremost social anthropologist, Monica Hunter Wilson. By exploring her main fieldwork and intellectual projects in southern Africa between the 1920s and 1960s, the book offers insights into her personal and intellectual life. Beginning with her origins in the remote Eastern Cape, the authors follow Wilson to the University of Cambridge and back into th…
From Homeboy Networks to Broader Ethnic Affiliations: Migrants from Zebediela and Shifting Identities on the Rand, 1930s-1970s
This article is about changing patterns of collective identities among Rand-based migrants from Zebediela between the 1930s and 1970s. Based on archival and oral sources, the article shows how, in the face of a hostile and alienating urban environment, these migrants promoted a sense of group identity from the bottom up by clustering around people from their home areas and establishing organisations that looked after their interests. During the 1…
Ethnic Separatism or Cultural Preservation? Ndebele Radio under Apartheid, 1983–1994
This article is about the history of Radio Ndebele, the last of the South African Broadcasting Corporation's (SABC) African language stations that was established in the dying days of apartheid in the early 1980s. The article explores the role of the state and radio broadcasting in the crystallisation of Ndebele ethnic consciousness and probes more deeply the agency of the Ndebele-speaking broadcasters in aiding or hindering ethnic separatism. Us…
Zambia's Support for the African National Congress's Radio Freedom in Lusaka, 1967-1992
This article explores the contribution Zambia made to the liberation struggle in South Africa by hosting the ANC's Radio Freedom in Lusaka. It relies on a combination of archival evidence (audio and documentary sources) from both countries, and interviews conducted with the broadcasters and other media workers of both Radio Freedom and the Zambian national broadcaster. The article argues that Zambia offered immense support to Radio Freedom in the…
Unpacking the Complexities of Southern Africa’s Past: My Research Journey and Future Trajectories
Political science (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · South African History and Culture (9 works) · Anthropology (8 works) · History (8 works) · African history and culture studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · African studies and sociopolitical issues (6 works) · History (6 works) · Law (6 works)