{"id":1741,"date":"2023-05-26T10:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-26T10:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/?post_type=showcase&#038;p=1741"},"modified":"2023-06-27T18:13:14","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:13:14","slug":"season-4-episode-2-forging-property-from-struggle-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"showcase","link":"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-4-episode-2-forging-property-from-struggle-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Season 4, Episode 2: Forging Property from Struggle in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-text-color has-background has-medium-font-size\" style=\"background-color:#4d4d4e\">In 1911, a contested horse race sparked one of the largest movements by black South Africans to reclaim colonized land. How does the history of the Native Farmers Association offer a glimpse into alternate futures of property ownership in South Africa?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"577\" src=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/s4e2_16-9-2-1024x577.jpg\" alt=\"Close up of the upper half of a statue, a man named Pixley ka Seme. He is wearing a top hat and a jacket with a button-up shirt; he is holding a cane in his right hand. The statue is metal (like bronze) and has a dark brownish\/black color.\" class=\"wp-image-1745\" srcset=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/s4e2_16-9-2-1024x577.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/s4e2_16-9-2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/s4e2_16-9-2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/s4e2_16-9-2-1536x865.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/s4e2_16-9-2-1568x883.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/05\/s4e2_16-9-2.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Statue of Pixley ka Seme in Daggakraal, Mpumalanga (photo by Tara Weinberg, 2019).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Season 4, Episode 2: Forging Property from Struggle in South Africa\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/6ET5L3qcPiLBHIHX04YMq7?utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-a89b3969 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/reverb-effect\/id1486434428\">Apple Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9yZXZlcmJlZmZlY3QubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M\">Google Podcasts<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-width wp-block-button__width-25\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/4Otp5KrKnJYZVd1S8guPe6?si=UC24WtvISZaa_B_7JbXrIA\">Spotify<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1911 South Africa, two brothers\u2014Ntshebe and Lunyolo Ngwenya\u2014won a horse race. But their white competitors would not accept their win and responded with violence. The incident was about far more than racing horses. It was also about how to overcome the reality that the security of black people\u2019s property\u2014whether horses, homes, or crops\u2014was subject to the whims of white landowners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this episode, <strong>Tara Weinberg<\/strong> tells the story of how the Ngwenya brothers joined with lawyer, businessman, and politician, Pixley ka Seme, and black families from around the country in setting up the Native Farmers Association, one of the largest land buying and farming projects set up by black South Africans. Members envisioned a collective form of property ownership, a movement that the South African government considered insurgent. This history offers glimpses into alternate futures of property ownership in South Africa.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/digitalscholarship.umich.edu\/lsa-history\/showcase\/season-4-episode-2-transcript\/\" data-type=\"showcase\" data-id=\"1746\">View the full episode transcript<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"historian-biography\">Historian Biography<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Tara Weinberg<\/strong> is a PhD candidate in History at the University of Michigan. They are the author of \u201cA History of Communal Property Associations in South Africa,\u201d published in <em>Land, Law and Chiefs in Rural South Africa: Contested Histories and Current Struggles <\/em>(2021). Their PhD thesis, \u201cProperty of the People: Imaginaries of Property Ownership in South Africa, 1900-1994,\u201d examines how black land buyers debated and imagined kinds of property that offered alternatives to the state\u2019s narrow categorizations of property law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode Contributors<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.uwc.ac.za\/study\/all-areas-of-study\/departments\/department-of-history\/people\"><strong>Bongani Kona<\/strong><\/a> is a lecturer in the Department of History at the University of the Western Cape. He is editor of<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.za\/books?id=OBs-EAAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=our+ghosts+were+once+people&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;redir_esc=y#v=onepage&amp;q=our%20ghosts%20were%20once%20people&amp;f=false\"> <em>Our Ghosts Were Once People: Stories on Death and Dying<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>(Cape Town: Jonathan Ball, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Catherine Madlala<\/strong> is a resident of Driefontien, Mpumalanga province, and a longtime land activist. She was born in neighboring Daggakraal in 1945.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.historicalstudies.uct.ac.za\/hst\/people\/academic-staff\/athambile-masola\"><strong>Athambile Masola<\/strong><\/a> is a lecturer in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. She has written on Adelaide Tantsi Dube\u2019s poem &#8220;Africa: My Native Land&#8221; for<a href=\"https:\/\/africasacountry.com\/2020\/02\/excavating-forgotten-histories-in-south-africa\"> <em>Africa Is A Country<\/em><\/a>. Her work also appears in<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.za\/books\/about\/Women_Writing_Africa.html?id=MXJfTLB4XvcC&amp;redir_esc=y\"> <em>Women Writing Africa<\/em><\/a>, edited by Margaret J. Daymond, Dorothy Driver, and Sheila Meintjes (New York: Feminist Press at CUNY, 2003). Her Twitter handle is @athambile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Snehlanhla Ngidi<\/strong> is a social worker based in Pretoria, South Africa. She has conducted several research projects, and assisted Tara with translation and research in Mpumalanga province in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jias.joburg\/people\/\"><strong>Bongani Ngquluna<\/strong><\/a> is director of the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS) at the University of Johannesburg and the author of<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.co.za\/books?id=Ig1bDwAAQBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;dq=the+man+who+founded+the+anc&amp;hl=en&amp;sa=X&amp;ved=2ahUKEwif8ajhsJT6AhVBtKQKHfqZDNkQ6AF6BAgJEAI#v=onepage&amp;q=the%20man%20who%20founded%20the%20anc&amp;f=false\"> <em>The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme<\/em><\/a> (Cape Town: Penguin, 2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Thuthuka Ngwenya<\/strong> lives in Johannesburg, South Africa. He is a descendent of the Ngwenya brothers who fought the famous horse-racing court case, which sparked the creation of a land-buying syndicate in Daggakraal. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about artist<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikinaak.com\/\"> <strong>Andrea Carlson<\/strong><\/a> and the<a href=\"https:\/\/umma.umich.edu\/exhibitions\/2022\/andrea-carlson-future-cache\"> <em>Future Cache<\/em><\/a> exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">South African Freedom Music<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/playlist\/1DAWk1d6Uv5QMPHJgGwWDW?si=0776f031ce3645b9\">Listen to a Spotify playlist<\/a> of South African freedom music curated by Tara Weinberg.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>For a deeper dive:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Various artists, \u201cSikhalela Izwe Lakithi\u201d (\u201cWe Protest For Our Land\u201d), <a href=\"https:\/\/archive-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu\/details\/lp_this-land-is-mine-south-african-freedom-so_various\"><em>This Land Is Mine: South African Freedom Songs<\/em><\/a> (Folkways Records, 1966);<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EDuL1MmfSXQXD0f1H3lQ8gQnbbnj55PF\/view?usp=sharing\"> liner notes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Various artists, \u201cIthemba Endinalo Inkululeko\u201d (\u201cThe Trust I Have Is In Freedom\u201d), <a href=\"https:\/\/archive-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu\/details\/lp_this-land-is-mine-south-african-freedom-so_various\"><em>This Land Is Mine: South African Freedom Songs<\/em><\/a> (Folkways Records, 1966);<a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EDuL1MmfSXQXD0f1H3lQ8gQnbbnj55PF\/view?usp=sharing\"> liner notes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Various artists, \u201cMayibuye iAfrika\u201d (\u201cCome Back Africa\u201d), <a href=\"https:\/\/archive-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu\/details\/lp_this-land-is-mine-south-african-freedom-so_various\"><em>This Land Is Mine: South African Freedom Songs<\/em><\/a><em> <\/em>(Folkways Records, 1966); <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1EDuL1MmfSXQXD0f1H3lQ8gQnbbnj55PF\/view?usp=sharing\">liner notes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miriam Makeba, \u201cUmoya,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/archive-org.proxy.lib.umich.edu\/details\/lp_africa-68_africa-68\"> <em>Africa \u201868<\/em><\/a> (Universal City Records, 1968); <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1Rti7dvO-w1uQCol3zRyozg8w4-4blRBI\/view?usp=sharing\">liner notes<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miriam Makeba, <a href=\"https:\/\/secondhandsongs.com\/performance\/31902\/versions\">\u201cA Piece of Ground<\/a><em>,\u201d Pata Pata<\/em> (!K7 Music, 2017; first released 1967)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lalela Cape Town Choir, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Senzeni_Na%3F\">\u201cSenzeni Na<\/a>,\u201d <em>South African Freedom Songs<\/em> (Lalela Music, 2014)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"production-credits\">Production Credits<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Episode Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Tara Weinberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Host and Season Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Hannah Roussel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive Producer:<\/strong>&nbsp;Gregory Parker<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editorial Board:&nbsp;<\/strong>Elizabeth Collins, Paige Newhouse, David Tamayo, Kira Thurman, Hannah Tweet, Jeffrey Veidlinger, Sophie Wunderlich<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Special thank you to <em>Reverb Effect<\/em> Season 3 Producer Allie Goodman for her work on this episode. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> &#8220;Resolve,&#8221; by Jole Cummins (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=miMEvkFm7ro\">No Copyright Music, YouTube<\/a>); &#8220;Empire Seasons,&#8221; by Dan Henig (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nEtpU-7BDLM\">No Copyright Music, YouTube<\/a>);&nbsp;&#8220;Elegy,&#8221;&nbsp;by Asher Fulero (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=k7j01iEuODI\">No Copyright Music, YouTube<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Image:&nbsp;<\/strong>Statue of Pixley ka Seme in Daggakraal, Mpumalanga (photo by Tara Weinberg, 2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Share your thoughts about&nbsp;<em>Reverb Effect<\/em>&nbsp;by messaging&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:reverb.effect@umich.edu\">reverb.effect@umich.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a9 2023 Regents of the University of Michigan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1911, a contested horse race sparked one of the largest movements by black South Africans to reclaim colonized land. 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