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  • Archival Research in South Africa
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Dr Brown Bavusile Maaba holds a masters degree from the University of Fort Hare and a PhD from the University of Cape Town. He was the Speech Writer for the former Executive Mayor of Johannesburg, Cllr Parks Tau. Prior to that he was the Speech Writer for the Minister of Higher Education, Dr Blade Nzimande. Maaba has also worked
in different institutions and organizations including the University of Fort Hare, Wits University, Freedom Park Heritage & Museum and the Ifa Lethu Foundation. Maaba has written widely on liberation history, archives, heritage and visual art. He is the co-author of the book, Education in Exile: SOMAFCO, the ANC School in Tanzania, 1978-1992
and AISA: a Biography. He is presently a freelance historian.
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Some of My Work

Publication In Referred Journals And Books

  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, Corporal Punishment: Lessons from the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, forthcoming in an edited book.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, The State of the Records of the Federation Union of Black Artists at theJohannesburg Art Gallery: An Overview, History in Africa, 2023.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “The Records of the Human Sciences Research Council”, in History in Africa, 48,( 2021), 397-411.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “Lost and Found: an overview of the archival depositories of the HumaSciences Research Council”, Journal of SASA, 53, (2020), 1-10.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “The repatriation of the Black Consciousness Oriented Movements Archives to Fort Hare”, South African Historical Journal, 72, 3, ( 2020), 470-494.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “Free At last: the Elections of 1994”, M. Ndletyana, ed, South African Elections since 1994.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “The Repatriation of the ANC Archives to Fort Hare”, in K. Kondlo, C. Saunders and S. Zondi, eds., “Treading the Waters of History: Perspectives on the ANC”, Pretoria, 2015.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “The Politics of Visual Arts in the early 1990s”, in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, vol, 6( Pretoria, 2013).
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “The Black Consciousness Movement in the early 1990s”, The Road to Democracy in South Africa, vol 5(Pretoria, 2013).
  • Ndletyana and Brown Maaba, “The African National Congress’s unprecedented victory in KwaZulu-Natal: spoils of a resurgent ethno-nationalism”, Journal of African Elections, 9(2):123-141.
  • Brown Maaba and Mbulelo Mzamane, “The Black Consciousness Movement in Exile, 1980-1990, in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, vol. 4, (Pretoria, 2010) 1361-1398.
  • Mbulelo Mzamane and Brown Maaba, The Azanian’s People’s Organization, 1977-1990, in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, vol. 4, (Pretoria, 2010) 1299-1358.
  • Brown Maaba and Narissa Ramdhani, The Role of Visual Artists in the Struggle Against Apartheid (1980-1990), in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, vol 4, (Pretoria, 2010) 1523-1549.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “The Liberation Archives in South Africa”, in C. Saunders (ed) an Overview of Liberation Struggles in Southern Africa, (Cape Town, 2010) 66-71.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “Challenges to Repatriation and Preservation of Tangible Heritage in South African: Black Art and the experiences of the Ifa Lethu Foundation”, South African Historical Journal, vol. 60(3) (2008), 500-513.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “An Eastern Cape Village in Transition: The Politics of Msobomvu”, in C. Saunders(ed) From Apartheid to Democracy: Localities and Liberation, (Department of Historical Studies: University of Cape Town: 2007)12-48.
  • Mbulelo Mzamane, Bavusile Maaba, Nkosinathi Biko (2006)“The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa”, 1960-1970, in The Road to Democracy in South Africa, (Sadet), 2:99-159.
  • Sifiso Ndlovu and Brown Maaba: “The ANC and the 21 nurses”, in M. Motloatse (ed), Women and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa, (Johannesburg: 2006).
  • Brown Maaba and Sean Morrow, “Fear and Infiltration in Mazimbu, The Solomon Mahlangu
  • Freedom College, 1978-1992”, Clemson University, USA, 9 November 2002, Society and War,
  • vol. 23 (1) (2005), 107-124.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “Alternative Schooling for South Africans: Notes on the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College experience 1978-1992”, International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 37, 2, (2004), 289-308.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “The PAC: War Against the State: 1960 to 1963”, The Road to Democracy in South Africa, vol.1, 1960-1970, (Johannesburg, 2003) 257-297.
  • Sean Morrow, Brown Maaba, Loyiso Pulumani (2002), “Education in Exile: the African National Congress’s Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College and Dakawa Development Centre in Tanzania, 1978-1992”, in Peter Kallaway, ed., The History of Education under Apartheid: 1948- 1994, Cape Town, 2002.
  • Sean Morrow, Brown Maaba, Loyiso Pulumani, “Revolutionary Schooling? Studying the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, the ANC Liberation School in Tanzania, 1978-1992”.World Studies in Education, 3(1), (2002), 23-37.
  • Brown Bavusile Maaba, “The Archives of the Pan Africanist Congress and the Black Consciousness Orientated Movements”, History in Africa 28 (2001), 417-438.

Books

  • Co-author, with Sean Morrow and Loyiso Pulumani (2004), of Education in Exile: SOMAFCO, the African National Congress School in Tanzania, 1978 to 1992, HSRC Press: Cape Town.
  • Africa Institute of South Africa: A Biography, (2013) Africa Institute: Pretoria
  • Coalbrook Mining Disaster- 21 January 1960, forthcoming.

Publication For Newspaper Articles

  • “Language: the Cornerstone of the Society”, Daily Dispatch, October 2019.
  • “Beyond Reactive, Knee-Jerk Student Activism”, 12 February 2014.
  • “We are all Africans”, The Thinker: for Thought Leaders, August 2010.
  • “The ANC archives”, The Thinker: for Thought Leaders, September 2010
  • “Fort Hare Archives hold heritage: Many played a role in preserving materials”, Daily Dispatch, 24 September 2010
  • “Mathew Goniwe the true Son of the Soil”, Daily Dispatch, 16 June 2005. “Remembering the Cradock Four”, City Press, July 4, 2005.
  • “Freedom Park: site of communication, learning and spiritual healing for all”, Daily Dispatch, 26 September 2005
  • “The Freedom Park: Symbol of a Nation Reborn”, Pretoria News, 29 September 2005.
  • Brown Maaba and Xolela Mangcu, “The Spirit of Robert Sobukwe Lives”, Daily Dispatch, 27 February 2004.
  • “Education in exile studied at Fort Hare”, Daily Dispatch, 2 April 2004.
  • Brown Maaba and Xolela Mangcu, “Workers Unite: The Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU)”, Daily Dispatch, 3 May 2004.
  • “Celebrating Oliver Tambo through Steve Biko”, City Press, 5 September, 2004.
  • “Tambo: educationist”, This Day, 10 September 2004.
  • “The ANC’s Joe Gqabi in exile no more”, Daily Dispatch, 16 December 2004.
  • “Fort Hare and the South African Struggle”, City Press Newspaper, 14 July 2002.
  • “The Revolutionary School : SOMAFCO and Bantu Education” , City Press, 23 February 2003.