1. Herman Charles Bosman, ‘A Bekkersdal Marathon’ in Herman Charles Bosman at His Best culled by Lionel Abrahams (Cape Town and Pretoria: Human & Rousseau, 1965).
2. Verne Harris, ‘The archival sliver: a perspective on the construction of social memory in archives and the transition from apartheid to democracy’, paper presented at the Refiguring the Archive Seminar Series (University of the Witwatersrand, 1998), p. 1.
3. Terry Eagleton, ‘Nationalism: irony and commitment’ in Seamus Deane, ed., Nationalism, Colonialism and Literature (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990).
4. Isabel Hofmeyr, ‘“Wailing for purity”: oral studies in Southern Africa’, African Studies 54,2 (1995), p. 25.
5. According to Nielsen’s findings, ‘the story of the establishment of KwaNdebele suggests that the South African government was never, despite its rhetoric, primarily concerned to consolidate an ethnic “unit.” KwaNdebele’s establishment and its consolidation were not driven by an ethnographer’s vision or even by a divide-and-rule plan. Although elements of each were involved, the creation of an Ndebele homeland was an attempt by government to manage the effects of emerging economic and political dynamics in the region. Following its creation, ethnic criteria were similarly downplayed in planning for the fledgling bantustan’s growth and development. Through a series of government commissions and internal departmental proposals the “separate development” ideal of a “national unit” was increasingly ignored in favour of geographical, administrative and developmental concerns. The unstated, but clearly discernible, shift in government policy culminated in the government’s forced incorporation of Moutse into KwaNdebele.’ As Nielsen observes later, the ‘“relevant factors” cited by the government (for wanting to incorporate Moutse into KwaNdebele) were administrative and material in nature, including Moutse’s integrated road network, the Philadelphia hospital, and its many schools and clinics’. See Derrick Nielsen, ‘“Bringing together that which belongs together”: the establishment of KwaNdebele and the incorporation of Moutse’ (unpublished seminar paper presented at the Institute for Advanced Social Research, University of the Witwatersrand, 11 March 1996), pp. 3, 24.