Department of History

Mr Garth Ahnie

College of Human Sciences
School of Arts
Department: History
Lecturer
Tel: 012 429 6832
E-mail: ahniegt@unisa.ac.za

Qualifications

  • MA History (Stellenbosch University, 2017) 
  • BA Honours History (Stellenbosch University, 2014) 
  • BA International Studies (Stellenbosch University, 2013) 

Fields of academic interests

  • Disaster History 
  • South African Political Biography 
  • South African Historiography  

Journal articles

  • "The small matter of £3: Dynamite, human folly and the Braamfontein explosion, 19 February 1896." Historia 64, no. 1 (2019): 23-41.
  • Review Article: "Retelling “the Same Old Stories in Books with Brand-New Covers”: Three More Biographical Studies on Jan Smuts." African Historical Review 50, no. 1-2 (2018): 151-158. 

Other

Current Studies: PhD History (University of the Free State), A Political Biography of Sonny Leon