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Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020
Thesis (DPhil (History))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/76929 Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020 Kriel, Lize lufuno07@gmail.com Simpson, Thula Mulaudzi, Lufuno J.P. History UCTD Thesis (DPhil (History))--University of Pretoria, 2020. This thesis offers a critical narrative of the history of the conflicts around the vhuhosivhuhulu (“kingship”) of the Venda polity over the last three centuries, with a stronger emphasis on events as from the second half of the twentieth century, and specifically the way history had been employed in the political arena. The point of departure was to critique and revise the views of scholars who had previously focused solely on the Venda history in their attempt to ascertain what the motives of the disputing parties were. My argument had been that academic research on a discourse as complex as the Venda history ought also to consider the role of external forces in the making of the vhuhosivhuhulu of the Venda polity. The first chapter introduces the most prominent scholars in the making of historical narratives about the Venda polity. The second chapter frames the study within a broader discourse on rulership disputes in postcolonial Africa. The next three chapters provide a long view of external interferences in Venda succession disputes as extracted from major historical narratives. The last section of the study investigates power struggles amongst the Venda ruling houses within the context of the shaping of the modern South African state, through apartheid and into the post-1994 democratic dispensation. It illustrates how the fate of traditional leadership was treated in the investigations and findings of three successive commissions, popularly referred to as the Mushasha, Ralushai and Nhlapo Commissions, respectively. A chapter is then dedicated to perspectives on the issue of vhuhosivhuhulu as expressed by vhothovhele and magota of the Venda polity in interviews. The outspoken frankness of the interlocutors revealed a lot about the significance of vhuhosivhuhulu in current South African politics, and the contending parties’ knowledge of, selection from, interpretation and employment of popular as well as scholarly historical narratives within this context. The study is concluded at a time when two contenders within the Mphephu Ramabulana family (one of them, for the first time in history, a woman) are unleashing the full potential of the South African legal system (Councils of Traditional Leaders, Supreme Court of Appeal, Constitutional Court) to assert their right to the vhuhosivhuhulu of the Venda polity. Historical and Heritage Studies DPhil (History) Unrestricted 2020-11-09T09:55:21Z 2020-11-09T09:55:21Z 2021-04 2020 Thesis Mulaudzi, LJ 2020, Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020, DPhil (History) Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76929> A2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76929 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | History UCTD Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020 |
| title | Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020 |
| title_full | Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020 |
| title_fullStr | Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020 |
| title_short | Historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu : the Venda polity and state formation in South Africa, c.1800s-2020 |
| title_sort | historicising the politics of vhuhosivhuhulu the venda polity and state formation in south africa c 1800s 2020 |
| topic | History UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/76929 |