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About Dr. Garth Benneyworth
Head of Department, Heritage Studies,听Sol Plaatje 欧美福利100000.听
Dr Garth Benneyworth is Head of Department: Heritage Studies at Sol Plaatje 欧美福利100000.听
His PhD research was on the black concentration camps of the South African War. From 1999 to 2018, he located 13 of these historic camp terrains and pioneered the first ever-archaeological surveys on such camps in South Africa. He specialises in War Studies and the Heritage of Conflict with a focus on the Armed Struggle of the Liberation Movements and the South African War.听
Dr Benneyworth has extensive experience in the global Heritage Sector and developed and curated numerous exhibitions including the Nelson Mandela National Museum, Liliesleaf: A Place of Liberation, Chief Albert Luthuli Museum,听Magersfontein听Battlefield Museum and the Voortrekker Monument.听
A member of several professional and academic organisations, he serves as the current Chairperson of the Council for the War Museum of the Boer Republics; as Director on the Board of Directors of the Moral Regeneration Movement; and is a Member of the Institute of Directors of Southern Africa.听
He holds three trademarks and patents in the fields of business management, business administration, project management, business research, history, archaeology, natural, urban, heritage and tourism environments and places of cultural significance. Having worked globally in business and consulting since 1989, he joined SPU in 2014 to pursue an academic career.
Selected Publications
Benneyworth, Garth.听鈥�Land, labour, war and displacement: A history of four black concentration camps in the South African War (1899 1902)鈥�,听Historia听64(2), 2019, pp.听1-20. 10.17159/2309-8392/2019/v64n2a1.听Available at听听
Benneyworth, Garth.听鈥�Armed and Trained: Nelson Mandela’s 1962 Military Mission as Commander in Chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe and Provenance for his Buried Makarov Pistol鈥�,听听South African Historical Journal,听63, 2011, pp.听78-101. 10.1080/02582473.2011.549375.听
Benneyworth, Garth and听听尝辞耻谤别苍莽辞听C听Pinto. 鈥�Sol Plaatje 欧美福利100000 as a case study for decoloniality : object-based learning as applied to heritage studies鈥�,听South African Museums Association Bulletin,听41(1), 2019, pp. 1-9.听
Benneyworth, Garth.听鈥�Trojan horses: Liliesleaf, Rivonia (August 1962 -11 July 1963)鈥�,鈥疕颈蝉迟辞谤颈补,鈥�62(2),听2017,听pp.听68-86. ISSN 2309-8392听
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Benneyworth, Garth.听鈥�Bechuanaland鈥檚 Aerial Pipeline: Intelligence and Counter Intelligence Operations against the South African听Liberation Movements, 1960鈥�1965鈥�,听South African Historical Journal, 70(1),听2018,听pp.听108-123听
Benneyworth, Garth.听鈥�Scandinavia’s听Magersfontein听dead – Their final resting place?鈥澨�The South African Archaeological Bulletin. 72(206), 2017, pp.听142-147.