Auteur: Alda Romão Saúte Saíde

Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi is an Associate Professor of History at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. He has been working in the same department as an academic since January 2000. He has published widely on various aspects of the history of South Africa and Southern Africa in the form of articles and book chapters. These include works on: Ndebele ethnicity, the SABC’s African language radio and its workings in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa, and the ANC’s Radio Freedom. His other research interests are as follows: the politics of knowledge production with specific focus on the relationship between white anthropologists and black research assistants in Southern Africa, teacher education and trade unionism under apartheid, curriculum issues and the teaching of history in South African public schools in the democratic era. He has also published widely on popular protests in rural and urban parts of South Africa during the 1980s and early 1990s.