HSRC Integrated Annual Report 2018/2019

reconstruction collaborations with the national departments of Military Veterans and Social Development. In conjunction with the National Heritage Council and other stakeholders, training manuals were developed and capacity building workshops were conducted with military veterans in Mpumalanga, North West, Limpopo, Free State and the Northern Cape. With respect to the continuing programme of provision of support to military veterans to write and publish their autobiographies (Military Veterans Oral History Project), four books were launched with the Department of Military Veterans in October 2018: • A Man on a Mission by the late Eddie Funde (MK Military Veteran); • The Memoirs by Dan Mdhluli (APLA Military Veteran); • Politics is a dirty game by Themba Dlamini (MK Military Veteran); and • Unfinished Revolution: Memoirs of an MK Commissar by Teboho T Molotsi (MK Military Veteran). Despite successes over the past six years, a critical challenge is to enhance, systematise and assess the impact of the inter-generational dialogue aspect of the collaborations. Voices of Liberation Series HSRC Research Reports and Monographs Fatima Meer A Free Mind Shireen Hassim Skills for the future Glenda Kruss, Angelique Wildschut and Il-haam Petersen Archie Mafeje Bongani Nyoka The research-based scholarly books published by HSRC Press cover the social sciences and humanities in South Africa and Africa, are peer- reviewed through an independent Editorial Board to ensure the highest quality content, and have a reach and impact that is enhanced by open access publishing. According to the recently published ASSAf CREST Study 2015 – Comprehensive Analysis of Scholarly Publishing in SA: Funding, Quality and Ethics, the HSRC Press represents approximately 18.5% of the total South African scholarly book output, including that of international publishers. In the year under review the focus on intellectual history continued, given the context of contemporary efforts to decolonise the curriculum and engender a reading culture in the country. In addition to continuing to publish the Voices of Liberation Series , as an example of the HSRC Press’ contributions to these efforts it published Africa’s Cause Must Triumph: The collected writings of A.P Mda. In 2018/19, the focus of the Press was to expand its successful base in order to enhance the strategic framework within the core thematic focus of HSRC, namely to address inequality and poverty, through the publication of outstanding research in this area. HSRC PRESS HSRC INTEGRATED ANNUAL REPORT 2018/19 / 43