ࡱ> CEBY  bjbjzKzK 44! b! b| |     DP %\\\\\777$$$$$$$$&)H$77777$\\$7"\\$7$r!!\0\~Y:!|$$0%!,+"+!!J+"t7777777$$(777%7777+777777777| B :  Philip Bonner (1945-2017) Philip Lewis Bonner, emeritus professor in history, died suddenly on Sunday 24 September 2017, aged 72. Born in England, raised in Kenya, educated at Nottingham and London universities, Philip was appointed lecturer in History by Professor Noel Garson in 1971. By 1991, twenty years later, he had been made a full professor as Professor of Urban and Labour History, and then promoted to Professor on the Special List in 1995. From 1999 to 2003 he served as Head of Department; from 1987 to 2012 he was also chairperson of the inter-disciplinary History Workshop. In 2007 he was awarded an NRF chair in Local Histories, Present Realities, finally retiring in 2012 after 41 years of service. A man of considerable energy and enthusiasm, and armed with a sharp, insightful, original mind, Philip made a huge impact on the Department, the Faculty of Arts (now the Faculty of Humanities), and the wider University over those years. He was a pioneer in many respects, In his PhD research on 19th century Swaziland for the School of Oriental and һԹ Studies, London, he pioneered in collecting and using Swazi oral traditions. His thesis was published in 1983 as Kings, Commoners and Concessionaires. His mandate on appointment to Wits was to pioneer the professional teaching of һԹ history in South Africa, and he succeeded not only in launching һԹ history at Wits but together with Peter Delius in later years maintained Wits as the leading centre in the country for һԹ history. Students found his lectures exciting, particularly in their attempts to relate the past to the present. Philip was a pioneer in the Department and Faculty in another directionas a product of SOAS he was a Marxist, at a juncture when the Faculty was a pretty conservative outfit. However, the university was in a major growth stage, and Philip was soon joined by new like-minded young colleagues, including David Webster in Social Anthropology,. What struck Philip about the Wits Faculty, by comparison with British universities, was the lack of dialogue between disciplines, and the promotion of interdisciplinary exchanges was certainly a major pioneering enterprise of his. His great achievement was to set up, in 1974, the һԹ Studies Seminar of the recently formed һԹ Studies Institute as a thriving inter-disciplinary venue,,. In 1977 Philip joined Belinda Bozzoli in Sociology in forming the interdisciplinary History Workshop, with its triennial conferences, which pioneered the new social history, or history from below, in South Africa and which proceeded to inspire Philips post-graduate supervisions. From early on Philip attracted postgraduates, and they are among his major legacies. Philip was never a purely university figure. He extended his activities well eyond the university, engaging in worker education and the movement to create a new generation of black trade unions. Evidently out of a concern at his trade union involvement the state made an attempt to deport Phillip, along with his trade unionist wife, Chris, in December 1986. On 9 December he was served with a deportation order, arrested and imprisoned in John Vorster Square. Formidable protest was mounted, at home and abroad, and Philip was released pending an interview with the Minister of Home Affairs, Stoffel Botha, in Cape Town in January as to why he should not be deported. After the interview the order was rescinded. Concurrent with Philips trade union activism was a shift to labour and social history as his primary research field, leading to the launch in 1983 of an ambitious research programme on the history of the working class on the Witwatersrand, beginning with the East Rand. During the 1980s and 1990s Philip published a string of articles in major international journals and edited books on the labour and social history of the Witwatersrand, establishing his reputation as the leading historian of the labour movement in South Africa, Increasingly he became involved in the activities of the History Workshop, and in 1987 became its chairperson, As chairperson he engaged in a major venture of popularisation by serving as historical consultant and executive producer to Channel 4 in Britain for a six part documentary television series on the history of Soweto. A book, Soweto: A History, written by Bonner and Lauren Segal, resulted from the venture in 1998. Two books on township histories followed, Kathorus: A History (2000) and Alexandra: A History (2008), both written with Noor Nieftagodien.. When Philip took over as Head of the Department of History jn 1998 jt was a critical juncture. After two decades of sustained growth, enrolments in History fell off dramatically. It was a national phenomenon as students in the New South Africa turned their backs on the South һԹ past. . To counter the fall in student numbers, and to underline its usefulness to the University, Bonners department took to offering service courses to other departments, including a hugely popular course on customary law in South Africa in the School of Law, The demise of apartheid posed a similar challenge to the identity and purpose of the History Workshop. It had previously always been an oppositional group in its historiography, aligning itself with the oppressed, disenfranchised masses. The 1999 conference, Commissioning the Past, attended by a number of NGOs, helped provide a new sense of direction> Smaller, more frequent conferences would turn a historical lens on pressing contemporary issues, such as land reform and the HIV/Aids scourge. In the wake of the Soweto project, priority was also given to local history projects, with a team of researchers from different disciplines working with Philip and Noor Nieftegodien. The Workshop also entered the field of public history With Philip playing a major role in putting together the Apartheid Museum, first conceptualised by him. The award to Philip in 2007 of a NRF chair in Local Histories and Present Realities provided five years of funding for the Workshops research activities. After his retirement Philip continued with his research and writing, and was working on a biography of Matthews Phosa at the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, Sally Gaule. By Professor Bruce K Murray ]t   ! b M N O ʽʰʣ|ooobUhZchg$CJ^JaJhZchoCJ^JaJhZchCJ^JaJhZch8JCJ^JaJhZch QCJ^JaJhZch*lCJ^JaJhZchBCJ^JaJhZchZcCJ^JaJhZch CJ^JaJhZch>yCJ^JaJhZchY}u5CJ^JaJhZchI5CJ^JaJhZcha"CJ^JaJ Zz| gdZcgd{gdl[Wgdgd;4gdTO V W  . 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