Christopher Saunders
Biographic Data
| ID | 171235 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Saunders |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Saunders |
| SIGNATURE | SAUNDERS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4565-4107 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 153 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 140 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 153 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Reflections 50 Years after the Initial South African Invasion of Angola
A decisive clash
No abstract available
Smuts and Mandela
Two Endings
South Africa, 1994 + 30
In this wide-ranging conversation, six scholars of South Africa detail threads of continuity and change in the historiographies, popular memories, archives, research agendas, methodologies, and within the South African academy and historical professional since the end of formal apartheid in 1994
The Guerrilla and the Journalist
Not Out
Visions of Unity
Spinning Religiously
A survey of Bahamians explored the influence of the participant’s self-reported levels of religiosity on gambling behaviour. The study also investigated Bahamians’ motivations to participate in online games of chance. Results showed that religiosity was a significant predictor of motivations to not only attend these online games of chance but also the level in which these games were attended. The results are analysed in light of the uses and grat…
Decolonisation and Regional Geopolitics
Despite its title, this monograph does not focus on regional geopolitics as such, but, as the subtitle indicates, on South African involvement in the Congo crisis of the early 1960s. That disastrou
In the Shadow of the Great White Queen
I first heard of the amaKholwa from Norman Etherington, their pioneering historian, when we were conducting research on our doctoral theses in the late 1960s. When I learned that at the most famous
Comparing the Namibian and South African Liberation Struggles
This essay is a preliminary attempt to compare the ways in which the liberation struggles in Namibia and South Africa have been memorialised, both in non-fiction writing about the two struggles and in monuments, memorials and museums. Such a comparison needs to be undertaken through contextualising the two struggles. Though they have some similar features, the ways they have been memorialised are strikingly different, with the armed struggle havi…
Southern African Liberation Movements and the Global Cold War “East”
Kenneth Kaunda, the United States and Southern Africa, by Andy DeRoche
Land-locked Zambia emerged as an independent country in 1964 relatively impoverished, yet it attracted considerable US attention, in large part due to the charismatic personality of Kenneth Kaunda but also because of its strategic position in southern Africa in relation to a number of conflicts in the region. This book by Andy De Roche takes us, after a brief introductory chapter on Kaunda’s early contacts with the USA (he made a number of visits…
SWAPO, Namibia’s Liberation Struggle and the Organisation of African Unity’s Liberation Committee
The role the Liberation Committee of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) played in Namibia’s liberation struggle has only been addressed in any depth in an unpublished and very little-known paper, which drew upon the Liberation Committee archive in Dar es Salaam to present an argument highly critical of the Committee. More recently, the role of the Committee has been considered briefly in work on the assistance given by the OAU to liberation …
Christian A. Williams, National Liberation in Postcolonial Southern Africa. A Historical Ethnography of SWAPO's Exile Camps
African attitudes to Britain and the Empire before and after the South African War
More serious scholars, writing on African involvement in the South African War or the making of Union, included useful passages on the attitudes of South African Africans to Britain and the Empire. Much more scholarly attention was directed to the attitudes of Africans in South Africa to America and African-Americans than to their attitudes to Britain and the Empire. This chapter concerns the attitudes of a relatively small western-educated Afric…
Decolonization in Southern Africa
While the term "decolonization" is now applied in many different situations, with different meanings, its original and prime usage relates to the process leading to the ending of colonial rule. Though there is a large literature on that process, we lack a detailed overview of the way it unfolded in Southern Africa. This article focuses on two countries in that region, Namibia and South Africa, and raises some of the questions that need to be addr…
Mediation mandates for Namibia’s independence (1977–1978, 1988)
Though much has been written about the mediation efforts that helped take Namibia to independence in 1990, none of this writing focuses on the mandates that informed the process. This article discusses the two main phases of international mediation in the conflict over Namibia (1977–1978 and 1988), under the United Nations’ overall mandate and the mandates of the various parties. The failure to include the liberation movement, the South West Afri…
Britain, the Commonwealth, and the Question of the Release of Nelson Mandela in the 1980s
This article reviews attempts by Britain and the Commonwealth to secure the release of Nelson Mandela from imprisonment in South Africa in the 1980s. It does so by drawing upon a recently published collection of documents compiled by Britain’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office, as well as on interviews conducted recently for the London-based Commonwealth Oral History Project. Despite her staunch opposition to the further sanctions that the rest of …
South African liberal thinking on questions of nationalism reconsidered
Liberals have often been criticised for not confronting key questions relating to South Africa’s present and future. While liberals did not address the so- called National Question directly, they did consider the issues that that question concerned, but recent writing on liberalism has often misrepresented their thinking. This article seeks to illustrate a variety of liberal views about the nature of the South African “nation”, to explore what li…
Jimmy Carter in Africa
This massive book by Nancy Mitchell, author of a chapter in the third volume of The Cambridge History of the Cold War on ‘The Cold War and Jimmy Carter’,1 is based on prodigious research and provid
The mediator. A biography of Martti Ahtisaari
"The mediator. A biography of Martti Ahtisaari." South African Journal of International Affairs, 23(1), pp. 131–133
South Africa and Namibia
South Africa occupied Namibia for 75 years. After that occupation ended in 1990, numerous ties between the two countries continued to exist and their economies are still intertwined more than 25 years later. In both countries the liberation movements that fought apartheid and then came to power are still in power. This might suggest that the relationship between the two countries would be a particularly close one. When the leaders of the two coun…
Inside South Africa's foreign policy. Diplomacy in Africa from Smuts to Mbeki
Although a number of South African-based scholars have explored the making of the country's foreign policy,1 it has been left to an American diplomat/academic to publish the fullest account of thos
Black People and the South African War 1899-1902
The South African War was a costly and bitterly contested struggle. It was fought in a region populated by five million people, four million of whom were black. This is the first history of the war to focus upon the wartime experiences of black people, and to examine the war in the context of a complex and rapidly changing colonial society increasingly shaped, but not yet transformed, by mining capital. The ways in which the war influenced the li…
Tile and the Thembu Church
This paper attempts to reassess the general significance of the Thembu church by setting it in its political context. It examines the early career of Nehemiah Tile and the origins of this earliest of independent churches in southern Africa. In the 1880s Tile was not only the leader of the church, but also the chief figure behind a movement of political protest which sought to free Thembuland from Cape magisterial control. After his death, the chu…
Masters and Servants on the Cape Eastern Frontier, 1760-1803
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The Americans Are Coming
by Robert Trent Vinson, Athens, OH, Ohio University Press, 2012, 236 pp., $32.95 (pbk), 978-0-8214-1986-1. This book is an important addition to scholarship on the relationship between black South
Studies in the History of Cape Town
Europe's Industries. Public and Private Strategies for Change
Journal Article Europe's Industries. Public and Private Strategies for Change Get access Europe's Industries. Public and Private Strategies for Change. Edited by GEOFFREY SHEPHERD, FRANCOIS DUCHENE and CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS. (London: Frances Pinter, 1983. Pp. ix + 276. £16.00.) D. Swann D. Swann Loughborough University of Technology Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 95, Issue 378,…
Liberated Africans in Cape Colony in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
From 1808 Africans aboard slave ships bound for the Americas were seized by the British navy off the West African coast and taken to Freetown, Sierra Leone, where they were adjudged prizes of His Majesty and their human cargoes released. John Peterson and others have provided vivid accounts of what happened to the Liberated Africans on the Freetown peninsula, and how a Creole society evolved there.1 But the fact that Africans were landed at the s…
South African Foreign Policy Review
CHRIS SAUNDERSUniversity of Cape Town© 2013 Chris SaundersNotes1. SAIIA decided to focus instead on upgrading its South African Journal of International Affairs, for which it signed a publishing contract with Routledge.2. There is some ambiguity about what the volume was intended to cover. In his Preface Aziz Pahad says it ‘largely deals with foreign policy since 1999’ (vii, and the date of 1999 is repeated on viii), while Chris Landsberg writes …
The South African Historical Society and its Antecedents
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SWAPO, Namibia’s Liberation Struggle and the Organisation of African Unity’s Liberation Committee
The role the Liberation Committee of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) played in Namibia’s liberation struggle has only been addressed in any depth in an unpublished and very little-known paper, which drew upon the Liberation Committee archive in Dar es Salaam to present an argument highly critical of the Committee. More recently, the role of the Committee has been considered briefly in work on the assistance given by the OAU to liberation …
Radical History—the Wits Workshop Version—Reviewed
(1991). Radical History—the Wits Workshop Version—Reviewed. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 24, No. 1, pp. 160-165
A Socketed Iron Axe from Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, with a note on the type
The socketed iron axe from Maid's Moreton is the largest example of a group of at least 21 such axes found in the British Isles. They can be divided into two classes by the presence, or absence, of a loop on the side of the socket. The looped form is the commonest and of British origin; the unlooped axes can be compared to Continental examples. The dating evidence for these axes is inadequate but does suggest that they were in use throughout the …
Pan-Africanism
The author of this contribution examines the role that Cape Town played in the advent of Pan-Africanism in South Africa from abroad through the activist efforts of individuals from the West Indies, United States of America (USA) and West Africa in the early twentieth century. He traces how Pan-Africanism in Cape Town went through a number of different phases, the most important politically being that of the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1959-6…
Namibian Solidarity
While the Anti-Apartheid Movement concerned itself with ending South Africa's rule of Namibia as part of the general struggle against apartheid, this article discusses British solidarity work focused specifically on Namibia and the campaign to secure its independence. The growth of such work is traced, in the context of British government policy on the Namibian issue, from the Friends of Namibia to the Namibia Support Committee (NSC) and Church A…
Memorializing Freedom Struggles
My reading of a set of essays under the title The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory (2006), edited by Renee Romano and Leigh Raiford, leads me to offer some reflections on the different ways in which the civil rights movement in the US south and the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa have been memorialized. Memory is of course a slippery concept, which Romano (Wesleyan) and Raiford (UC Berkeley) at one point choose to define as ‘‘the …
Historical Dictionary of South Africa
District Six and Urban History in South Africa
(1992). District Six and Urban History in South Africa. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 26, No. 1, pp. 198-208
Pixley Seme
(1991). Pixley Seme: Towards a Biography. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 25, No. 1, pp. 196-217
George McCall Theal and Lovedale
South Africa's most prolific and influential historian still awaits a biographer. Such brief biographical sketches of his life as do exist say little about his career before he began work in the Cape archives in the late 1870s. Given the views he espoused in his later writings, it is at first surprising to find that he spent over five years at the Lovedale Seminary outside Alice in the eastern cape working closely with missionaries and Africans. …
South Africa, 1994 + 30
In this wide-ranging conversation, six scholars of South Africa detail threads of continuity and change in the historiographies, popular memories, archives, research agendas, methodologies, and within the South African academy and historical professional since the end of formal apartheid in 1994
South Africa and Namibia
South Africa occupied Namibia for 75 years. After that occupation ended in 1990, numerous ties between the two countries continued to exist and their economies are still intertwined more than 25 years later. In both countries the liberation movements that fought apartheid and then came to power are still in power. This might suggest that the relationship between the two countries would be a particularly close one. When the leaders of the two coun…
Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa
(2010). Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa: New Perspectives. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 62, FEATURE: LIBERATION HISTORY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA, pp. 1-6
New light on the Pan-African Association
The Pan-African conference held in London in 1900 was a key moment in the early history of Pan-Africanism. Though the Pan-African Association (PAA) that emerged from it was short lived, the conference was the precursor of subsequent Pan-African conferences or congresses in 1919, 1921, 1923, 1927 and 1945, the last of which laid the groundwork for the advent of the African independence movements of the second half of the twentieth century. W. E. B…
New Light on the Pan-African Association
In the first part of this article we showed that evidence from the Colenso papers, held at the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House in Oxford, together with other sources, throws new light on the role of Frank Colenso, the second son of Bishop Colenso, in the African Association, the Pan-African Conference of 1900 and the Pan-African Association (PAA) that grew out of the conference. We now consider the part played…
The Importance of Seasonal Variations in Employment in the United Kingdom
Seasonal Variations in Employment
Recent Trends in the Lancashire Cotton Industry
Systems of Social Accounts
Journal Article Systems of Social Accounts Get access Systems of Social Accounts. By G. Stuvel. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965. Pp. xiv + 270. 40s.) Christopher Saunders Christopher Saunders Geneva. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 76, Issue 303, 1 September 1966, Pages 632–634, https://doi.org/10.2307/2229540 Published: 01 September 1966
Tile and the Thembu Church
This paper attempts to reassess the general significance of the Thembu church by setting it in its political context. It examines the early career of Nehemiah Tile and the origins of this earliest of independent churches in southern Africa. In the 1880s Tile was not only the leader of the church, but also the chief figure behind a movement of political protest which sought to free Thembuland from Cape magisterial control. After his death, the chu…
African Societies in Southern Africa
Journal Article African Societies in Southern Africa Get access African Societies in Southern Africa, edited by Leonard Thompson. Heinemann, 1969. 336pp. 50s. Paperback, 30s. C. C. SAUNDERS C. C. SAUNDERS University of Cape Town Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 69, Issue 275, April 1970, Pages 194–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096008 Published: 01 April 1970
A Socketed Iron Axe from Maids Moreton, Buckinghamshire, with a note on the type
The socketed iron axe from Maid's Moreton is the largest example of a group of at least 21 such axes found in the British Isles. They can be divided into two classes by the presence, or absence, of a loop on the side of the socket. The looped form is the commonest and of British origin; the unlooped axes can be compared to Continental examples. The dating evidence for these axes is inadequate but does suggest that they were in use throughout the …
Transkei and Ciskei History a Note on the Conference Held at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa, 5–7 February, 1973
Journal Article TRANSKEI AND CISKEI HISTORY A NOTE ON THE CONFERENCE HELD AT RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMSTOWN, SOUTH AFRICA, 5–7 FEBRUARY, 1973 Get access C. C. SAUNDERS C. C. SAUNDERS University of Cape Town Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 288, July 1973, Pages 317–318, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096389 Published: 01 July 1973
Books reviewed
Edward A. Alpers, Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa: changing patterns of international trade to the late nineteenth century (London: Heinemann Educational Books, 1975. pp. xviii+296. 7 Maps, 6 Tables. £7.00 and £2.80 p/b). Richard L. Sklar, Corporate Power in an African State: the political impact of multinational mining companies in Zambia (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1975. pp. x+245. $10.80) William Tordoff (ed.), Politics …
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African Nationalism and Religious Independency in Cape Colony
African Nationalism and Religious Independency in Cape Colony
In two recent issues of this journal Wallace G. Mills has discussed the religious component in early African nationalism in South Africa. In his first article he claimed that 'the roots of African political and nationalist movements in the twentieth century can be found in the revivalism which emerged in I866' in Cape Colony. In the second he asserts the the 'difficult decades' between 189o and I9IO 'saw the emergence of ...religious separatism a…
The EEC and Eastern Europe
1. Economic relations between the EEC and Eastern Europe: an introduction G. N. Yannopoulos and Avi Shlaim 2. The development of relations between the EEC and the CMEA Peter Marsh 3. The convergence of the CMEA on the EEC Peter Wiles and Alan Smith 4. Soviet views of Western economic integration John Pinder 5. East-West industrial cooperation agreements Philip Hanson 6. Western investment in Eastern Europe Richard Portes 7. Financial relations be…
The early Cape anatomised
The Shaping of South African Society 1652–1820, edited by Richard Elphick and Hermann Giliomee. Cape Town: Longman, 1979
The Missing Link in Theal's Career
George McCall Theal, most prolific of South African historians, deserves a modern biography. In the few, very inadequate, accounts of his life that are available there is no mention of his work as a labour agent in the western Cape. Bosman mentioned that he visited Stellenbosch and Tulbagh in 1878, but did not say what he was doing there. Babrow admits that she did not know what his first formal civil service post was. Immelman misleadingly sugge…
George McCall Theal and Lovedale
South Africa's most prolific and influential historian still awaits a biographer. Such brief biographical sketches of his life as do exist say little about his career before he began work in the Cape archives in the late 1870s. Given the views he espoused in his later writings, it is at first surprising to find that he spent over five years at the Lovedale Seminary outside Alice in the eastern cape working closely with missionaries and Africans. …
The Making of an Historian
(1981). The Making of an Historian: the Early Years of George McCall Theal. South African Historical Journal: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 3-11
Socialist Economic Integration
Journal Article Socialist Economic Integration Get access Socialist Economic Integration. By Josef M. van Brabant. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980. Pp. xiv + 362. £15.00.) Christopher Saunders Christopher Saunders Sussex European Research Centre, University of Sussex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 91, Issue 362, 1 June 1981, Pages 559–561, https://doi.org/10.2307/…
Xhosa history
The House of Phalo by J.B. Peires, Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1981, 281 pp
A.A.S. Le Fleur and the Griqua Trek of 1917
The ideology of segregation dominated much South African political thought in the early twentieth century.1 Although normally associated with white ideologues, segregation had its proponents among some elements of dominated groups, who saw it as a means of salvaging limited privilege and providing a measure of stability in an era of rapid social and economic dislocation.2 One such advocate was the Griqua visionary figure, A. A. S. le Fleur, who, …
East European Integration and East-West Trade
East-West-South. Economic Interactions between Three Worlds
Journal Article East-West-South. Economic Interactions between Three Worlds Get access EasJ.-West-South. Economic Interactions Between Three Worlds. Edited by CHRISTOPHER SAUNDERS. (London: Macmillan, 1981. Pp. X+ 382. £20.00.) L. Sirc L. Sirc University of Glasgow Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 92, Issue 367, 1 September 1982, Pages 732–734, https://doi.org/10.2307/2232574 Pu…
Black Leaders in Southern African History
The social history of the witwatersrand
Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand, 1886–1914: Volume I: New Babylon, Volume II: New Nineveh by Charles van Onselen. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982.x + 220 pp each volume, maps, illustrations, bibliography, indexes. Studies in the Social and Economic History of the Witwatersrand 1886–1914: Volume I: New Babylon, Volume II: New Nineveh, by Charles Van Onselen. Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1982.x + 220pp. each volume: ma…
Books/Livres
History (111 works) · Political science (96 works) · History (74 works) · South African History and Culture (73 works) · Sociology (64 works) · Law (62 works) · Geography (50 works) · Politics (45 works) · African history and culture studies (40 works) · Archaeology (38 works)