Namibia under South African Rule – Mobility and Containment, 1915–46

The peoples of Namibia have been on the move throughout history. The South Africans in 1915 took over from the Germans in trying to fit Namibia into a colonial landscape. This book is about the clashes and stresses which resulted from the first three decades of South African colonial rule.

Namibia under South African Rule is a major contribution to Namibian historiography, exploring, in particular, many new themes in twentieth-century Namibian history. Here is exciting new work from a host of scholars and writers on a heretofore under-researched subject.

Patricia Hayes is National Research Foundation SARChI (South African Research Chairs Initiative) Chair in Visual History and Theory at the Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape in South Africa. She has published extensively on colonial and documentary photography in southern Africa.

Jeremy Silvester is currently a Lecturer in Namibian History at the University of Namibia, and has previously taught at the University of Keele, the University of the West of England and Bristol University. He completed a Ph.D. thesis on the history of land dispossession and labor recruitment in southern Namibia under South African colonialism in 1994 at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.

Marion Wallace recently completed her doctoral thesis on health and society in Windhoek between 1915 and 1945 at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London. She has taught history at the University of Namibia and the University of Greenwich, London, and is currently working at the Public Record Office in London.

Wolfram Hartmann has received masters degrees from the University of Hamburg and the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He has been a lecturer in the History Department of the University of Namibia for several years, and is now pursuing Ph.D. research at Columbia University.