Namibia Under South African Rule

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.

Namibian history is notoriously under-researched. Much important work has been done in recent years in doctoral and other theses but very little of this has been published. The first three decades of South African rule have been especially neglected. The book is then much to be welcomed. In particular it explores many new themes in twentieth-century Namibian history. The introduction is the most important part of the volume; it comments most interestingly on a number of key themes…. The book as a whole carries Namibian history into new areas of sophistication. It is undoubtedly a major contribution to Namibian historiography.