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Howard Phillips, UCT under Apartheid: Part I, From Onset to Sit-in, 1948-1968 Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2019 407 pp ISBN 978-1-9282-3285-8 R359 (hardcover) Howard Phillips is one of South Africa's pre-eminent academic historians, best known for his meticulous pioneering research on the social history of medicine in South Africa. Latterly, since the arrival of Coronavirus, he has enjoyed a public profile as a widely consulted expert on the history of pandemics. In addition, however, Phillips is the premier historian of the University of Cape Town (UCT), a graduate of that university, and a member of its staff in the Department of History. Intimately involved with UCT over decades, in 1993 he was the author of The University of Cape Town, 1918-1948: The Formative Years (UCT Press] and we are grateful that one of its sequels has now been published. This most recent account of the two decades that follow is an important book, well written and insightful, and a powerful reminder to us that universities in South Africa, as elsewhere, are reflections of current society but also embryos of future society - our mirrors: past, present and future.

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  • Howard Phillips, University of Cape Town (UCT) under Apartheid: Part I, From Onset to Sit-in, 1948 1968 Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2019 407 pp ISBN 978-1-9282-3285-8 R359

  • Phillips is the premier historian of the University of Cape Town (UCT), a graduate of that university, and a member of its staff in the Department of History

  • Involved with UCT over decades, in 1993 he was the author of The University of Cape Town, 1918 1948: The Formative Years (UCT Press) and we are grateful that one of its sequels has been published

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Howard Phillips, UCT under Apartheid: Part I, From Onset to Sit-in, 1948 1968 Jacana Media, Johannesburg, 2019 407 pp ISBN 978-1-9282-3285-8 R359 (hardcover). -eminent academic historians, best known for his meticulous pioneering research on the social history of medicine in South Africa.

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