In Whose Place?

Hilton Judin is an architect in the School of Architecture & Planning at Wits University. He has developed several exhibitions, including displays of apartheid state documents and public video testimonies with History Workshop in Johannesburg and District Six Museum in Cape Town. He curated blank____ Architecture, Apartheid and After for the Netherlands Architecture Institute. He was in practice with Nina Cohen on Nelson Mandela Museum in Mvezo and Qunu. He published Architecture, State Modernism and Cultural Nationalism in the Apartheid Capital (Routledge) and edited the volume Falling Monuments, Reluctant Ruins: Persistence of the Past in the Architecture of Apartheid. Arianna Lissoni is a historian and researcher in the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand and part of the Global Soldiers in the Cold War: Marking Southern African Liberation Armies project. She is co-editor of the volumes One Hundred Years of the ANC: Debating Liberation Histories Today (2012), The ANC between Home and Exile: Reflections on the Anti-Apartheid Struggle in Italy and Southern Africa (2015) and New Histories of South Africa’s Apartheid Era Bantustans (2017). She is also co-author of Khongolose: A Short History of the ANC in the North West Province from 1909 (2016). Ali Khangela Hlongwane is a Research Associate in the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand and a Writing Fellow at Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies (JIAS). Hlongwane’s published work includes the public histories of the 1976 uprisings. He is co-author of Public History and Culture in South Africa: Memorialisation and Liberation Heritage Sites in Johannesburg and the Township Space (2019). Hlongwane is also author of Lion of Azania: A Biography of Zephania Lekoame Mothopeng 1913–1990 and We Are Going Home Armed or Unarmed: A Biography of John Nyati Pokela (1921–1985) (2021).