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      First published 2016

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      Contents

       Award from the Psychological Society of South Africa

       Acknowledgements

       Foreword

       Preface

       1Early Days in Mavambe

       2Baragwanath Hospital and Beyond

       3A Place Called Umtata

       4Curiosity Did Not Kill This Cat

       5In the Soup: Courtrooms and Witnessing

       6The Psychology of Crowds

       7Justice and the Comrades

       8Working for a Higher Purpose

       Notes

       Appendix

       Index

       Photographs

Acknowledgements

      S everal relatives, including my late mother and father, teachers at several schools and academics at various universities made notable contributions to my well-being, to my academic and professional development, and to my success throughout my working life. Some of them are acknowledged at appropriate points in the text which follows.

      My concern here is to acknowledge the support and encouragement of a number of colleagues at my home university and elsewhere. At the University of Pretoria, where I have spent the longest span of my working life – from September 1999 until now – Professor Robin Crewe and other senior colleagues supported my life-writing research programme, coupled, in recent years, with my appointment as a Senior Fellow of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship.

      At Rhodes University Professor Catriona Macleod, without knowing it, set in motion a series of events which led me to think back to the nerve-racking mid-1970s, when I wrote a fictionalised memoir in the US. The public lecture at Rhodes University, which she invited me to present in 2008, inspired me to undertake the arduous task of researching and writing this full-scale intellectual autobiography.

      Opportunities for discussions as well as for the writing of sections of this book were made possible by invitations from Professor F Geyer and his colleagues at Stellenbosch University during my numerous working visits as a Fellow at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), especially in 2012. During the course of my 2012 visit to STIAS, Professor David Attwell, a South African friend and colleague, currently at York University in the UK, and I held numerous discussions on life writing, complemented by a STIAS discussion of the central themes of this book. He is one among a list of colleagues who read through earlier manuscript versions.

      Helpful comments and encouragement were graciously offered by professors André du Toit of the University of Cape Town and Grahame Hayes, formerly of the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Special attention was paid to the ‘Justice and the Comrades’ chapter by three high court judges – Judge Bernard Ngoepe, Judge Phineas Mojapelo and Judge George Maluleke – and by one of our country’s pre-eminent academic lawyers, Professor Christof Heyns of the University of Pretoria. A version of the appendix was first published in Die Suid Afrikaan, published in December 1987, issue 12, page 31–34.

      I dedicate this book to my wife and members of our extended family as well as to my late parents, Hlekani and Dumazi Manganyi.

Foreword

      C habani Manganyi is a writer of great prominence and, within particular academic circles, highly considered and revered as an elder statesman of academic psychology in South Africa. In his quiet and unassuming way, he has produced an impressive body of work since his first publications in the early 1970s. His early work tended to focus on the experience of being black in apartheid South Africa, and his highly influential 1973 publication Being-Black-in-the-World caught the attention of a nascent anti-apartheid and critical psychology readership. However, it seems that his style of writing is too discursive, literary, and urbane for it easily to have found a place in the rather restrictive discourses of much academic psychology.

      During the early years of his work as a practising psychologist Manganyi knew what it meant to put psychology to work in the service of ordinary black South Africans who were oppressed and exploited by a racist and unyielding government. His quest in these early writings to liberate black subjectivity could well be taken up by the proponents of the de-colonisation project in contemporary South African affairs and institutions of higher learning.

      Manganyi’s thinking and research has always kept up with the times, and in the 1990s and early 2000s he published important work on political violence and the vicissitudes of the transition to democracy. Besides his contribution to the life of ideas he has also unselfishly given his expertise and wisdom to public institutions in South Africa. Since 1994 he has held highly prestigious appointments in educational

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