Term 1

Week 1: Introduction

Week 2: Chronology and Themes in Southern African History

Theme 1: Labour

Week 3: Working the Land

Week 4: Mining and Masculinity

Week 5: Maids and Madams

Week 6: Reading Week

Week 7: 'Invisible Hands': Children and Labour

Theme 2: Urbanisation and Urban Life

Week 8: Race, Class and Urban Life

Week 9: Gendering the City

Week 10: Urban Identities and Cultures 

Term 2

Week 1: Contemporary Urban Inequalities

Theme 3: Family, Kinship and Domestic Struggles

Week 2: Coming of Age

Week 3: Marriage

Week 4: Love and Sexuality

Week 5: Gender-Based Violence

Week 6: Reading Week

Theme 4: Political Movements and Protest

Week 7: White Nationalism

Week 8: African Nationalism and Decolonisation

Week 9: Wars of Liberation

Week 10: Fighting Apartheid