C U R I C U L U M V I T A E Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas Tempelhoff

C U R I C U L U M V I T A E
Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas Tempelhoff
Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas Tempelhoff was born on 14 July 1951 in Benoni in the
Gauteng Province of South Africa He received his primary and secondary education
in the city before doing his compulsory military training at the Military Language
Bureau of the SA Defence Force in 1971.
Between 1973 and 1974 he served on the editorial staff of the The Benoni City Times
and The Times of Hermanus before starting with studies at the University of Pretoria
in 1975. In 1977 he graduated with a BA degree in History, Political Science and
International Politics. The following year he completed an honours degree in history.
In 1981 he graduated at the same university with an MA in History under the
guidance of the later Prof. FA van Jaarsveld (1922-95. His theme of study was the rise
and development of Afrikaner nationalism 1877-1881.
In 1989 he completed his doctoral studies under Proff. Werner Schellack and M.C.
van Zyl at the University of South Africa. His subject dealt with white settlement and
the history of land tenure in the present-day Limpopo Province between 1886 and
1899. The study was published in the South African Archives Yearbook in 1997.
In 1979 he served as a junior part time lecturer in History at the University of Pretoria.
Between 1980 and 1982 he was a researcher in the Institute for Historical Studies at
the Human Sciences research Council. In 1983-1984 he was a journalist on the staff of
the Johannesburg Afrikaans daily newspaper, Beeld, before taking up a temporary
lectureship at the University of the North in 1984. Between 1986 and 1989 he was
senior lecturer in history at the University of Venda and then returned to the
University of the North where he became an associate professor of history. In
February 1996 he was appointed at North-West University (Potchefstroom University
for Christian Higher Education) as associate professor in the Faculty Vaal Triangle at
Vanderbijlpark. In 1998 he was appointed as director of the School of Basic Sciences
in the Faculty Vaal Triangle. This school is the umbrella for the subject groups of
history, political science, public management and administration, philosophy and
theology. He served in this capacity until December 2005.
Currently he is leader of the Research Group for the Cultural Dynamics of Water in
Southern Africa, at North-West University’s Vaal Triangle Campus.
He is the author of several books. His research interests include research
methodology, historiography, as well as the environmental and culturasl history of
water in South Africa.
He is married to Elise Tempelhoff (nee Van Rooyen) a senior environmental
journalist at the Gauteng daily Beeld. They have two sons, Johann and Gustaf.
PERSONAL DETAILS
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Full names : Johann Wilhelm Nicolaas Tempelhoff

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General name : Johann
ID-number : 5107145134084 Date of birth :1951/07/14
Gender : Male Marital status : Married
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POSTGRADUATE TEACHING
Guidance to M.- and D.-students (completed)
MAs
1999 P Guest, Die ontwikkelingsgeskiedenis van die Unie-Staalkorporasie van Suid-
Afrika van Suid-Afrika, 1911-1996, (MA, History, PUCHE)..
1999 M. Willemse, Die vestiging en uitbouing van munisipale bestuur en
voorstedelike ontwikkeling in Vereeniging tot 1992 (MA, History,
PUCHE).
2000 EP De Crom, Die impak van ekologiese versteurings op die welstand van
die individu : 'n narratiewe ondersoek (MA Family and marriage
counselling, PUCHO), (Cum laude) Study leader.
2004 VE Zangel "The seething masses": housing, water and sanitation in the
lives of Johannesburg's poor, 1886-1906 (MA, History, NWU), (Cum laude)
Study leader.
2007 CMM Reynolds, Die ontwikkeling en analise van ‘n elektroniese genealogiese
databasis oor burgerlike sterftes tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog (1899-1902) (MA,
History, NWU) (Cum laude) Study leader.
2008 Gouws C, Water en sanitasie in die landelike Hoëveldse woning: 1840-1910: ‘n
Kultuurhistoriese studie (MA, History, NWU). (Cum laude) Study leader.
2010. Brink, L. ’n Biografie van die taalstryder FV Engelen burg tot met die stigting van
die S.A. Akademiesin 1909 (MA History, NWU, 2010)
PhDs
1. 1998 M.H. Nemudzivhadi, The attempts by Makhado to revive the Venda
Kingdom, 1864-1895 (PhD, History, PUCHE). Promoter
2. 1999 D. Phil H.J.G. Kamffer, Om een scherpe oog in't zeil te houden : die
geheime diens in die Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (PhD, History, PUCHO)
Promoter.
3. 2002 SM Fourie, Die impak van militêre aktiwiteite op die Vaaldriehoekse
samelewing in die tydperk 1974-1994 (PhD, History, PUCHE) Promoter.
4. 2004 W.A. Cruywagen, Die Cruywagens van Suid-Afrika: ‘n Genealogiese en
Kultuurhistoriese ondersoek, 1690-1806 (PhD, History, NWU. (Co-promoter).

5. 2005 M Prins The primordial circle: the prehistoric rock engravings of
Redan, Vereeniging (PhD, History NWU) Promoter
6. 2005 APS van der Merwe, Die Van der Merwes en hulle rol in
onderwysleierskap in Suid-Afrika, 1661-2002, (PhD, History, 2005) Promoter.
2009 Gouws CM, Responding to water demand strategies: a case study in the Lower Orange
catchment management area (LOCMA), PhD, Public Management and Administration. (Co-leader).
7. 2005 EP De Crom, A narrative interpretation of contemporary nature
experiences in Southern African environments (PhD, History NWU) Co-promoter.
EXTERNAL EXAMINERSHIPS
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1996-2004
1997
1997
1998
1999
2000
2000
2000
2000
2001
2002-4
2001-4
2004
2005
2004-5
2006
2007-2009
2008
2008
Hons and Masters
D. Phil
MA
MA
MA
D. Litt et Phil
D. Ed
M. Ed.
MA
D. Phil
Hons.
Hons
M.Ed.
PhD
Hons.
PhD
Hons
PhD
PhD
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PUCHO
UP
Unisa
UVS
RAU
Unisa
Unisa
PUCHO
PUCHO
Venda
Universityt
RAU
Unisa
UFS
UFS
UniZul
UFS
UFS
University of
Tampere,
Finland
Oral examinations
Mini-dissertation
Modules in methodology
and philosophy
Modules in methodology
and philosophy and
historiography
TRC-process SA and
Political Ideologies.
SA History, History of
Political Ideologies
History of education in
SA after 1948.
History of Water supply
and sanitation in four
SDA cities 1840-1920.

PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH OUTPUT
ARTICLES IN PEER REVIEWED JOURNALS
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1. JWN Tempelhoff, “Eersteling: Bakermat van die Suid-Afrikaanse
goudmynbedryf” in Contree 9, Januarie 1981, pp. 5-11.
2. JWN Tempelhoff, “Komatipoort - Oostelike poort van Suid-Afrika” in
Contree 12, Julie 1982, pp. 5-18.
3. JWN Tempelhoff, “Soutmakery in Soutpansberg” in Die Suid-Afrikaanse
Tydskrif vir Kultuur- en Kunsgeskiedenis, 1(3), 1987, pp. 214-221.
4. JWN Tempelhoff, “Private ondernemerskap op die voorpos: Ontginning van
Soutpansberg se soutbron in die negentiende eeu” in Contree 23, Maart 1988,
pp. 12-18.
5. JWN Tempelhoff, “Blanke vestiging in die distrik Soutpansberg gedurende
die negentiende eeu, met besondere verwysing na die tydperk 1886-1899” in
Die Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir Kultuur- en Kunsgeskiedenis, 2(4), 1988, pp.
268-76.
6. JWN Tempelhoff, “Die ontginning van Noord-Transvaal se houtbronne in die
negentiende eeu en vroeë bewaringsmaatreëls” in Die Suid-Afrikaanse
Bosboutydskrif, 158, 1991, pp. 67-74.
7. JWN Tempelhoff, “Grondbesit in die distrik Soutpansberg, 1837-1899” in
Historia 37(1), Mei 1992, pp. 24-32.
8. JWN Tempelhoff, “Meester van die parallel - 'n Huldeblyk aan professor F.A.
van Jaarsveld in sy sewentigste lewensjaar” in Historia 37(2), November
1992, pp. 3-12.
9. JWN Tempelhoff, “A consideration of the phenomenon of change and its role
in the discipline of history”, Historia 38(2), November 1993, pp. 50-59.
10. JWN Tempelhoff, “‘n Skeppende grensnyweraar: James Smith (1858-1934)
meubelmaker van Noord-Transvaal” in Contree, 36, Desember 1994, pp. 9-14.
11. JWN Tempelhoff, “Idee narratief en diskoers: Die vroeë intellektuele vorming
van F.A. van Jaarsveld” in Historia 40(1), 1995, pp. 30-52.
12. JWN Tempelhoff, “Waarneming in die geskiedenismetodologie:
Teorieformulering en bronbepaling” in Historia 40(2), November 1995, pp. 1-
19.
13. JWN Tempelhoff, “Die versiering van die openbare sfeer: ‘n
Mikrogeskiedenis van die meubels van die Ou Raadsaal, Pretoria, 1889-1895”
in SA Tydskrif vir Kultuurgeskiedenis 9(2), 1995, pp. 180-97.
14. JWN Tempelhoff, “Beeld en teorie. Sosiale ruimte en die filosofies-teoretiese
diskoerse van F.A. van Jaarsveld” in Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 36(1),
Maart 1996, pp. 25-48.

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15. PJ Badenhorst and JWN Tempelhoff, “Expropriation without compensation –
lessons from history” in Journal of South African Law, 398, 1996, pp. 398-
408.
16. JWN Tempelhoff, “Verlede-indrukke van naderby: Siegfried Kracauer en die
mikrogeskiedenis in ‘n postmodernistiese wêreld” in New Contree, 41,
September 1997, pp. 219-240.
17. JWN Tempelhoff, “Omvormings van ‘n Afrikaanse kernsimbool: ‘n Hedegeskiedenis
van Kerkplein 1989-1997” in Joernaal vir Eietydse Geskiedenis,
23(2), Desember 1998, pp. 120-47.
18. JWN Tempelhoff, “‘Retro’ of hermeneutiek? Die historiese metode in ‘n nuwe
wetenskapsbedeling” in Historia, 44(1), Mei 1999, pp. 28-48.
19. JWN Tempelhoff and M.H. Nemudzivhadi, “Riding the storm: Makhado,
Venda and the nineteenth century South African Republic (1864-95) in New
Contree, 45, September 1999, pp. 101-16.
20. JWN Tempelhoff, “On Laburn’s ‘mystery’ query – A prehistory of the Vaal
River as water source of the Witwatersrand (1887-99)” in Historia, 45(1), May
2000, pp. 88-117.
21. JWN Tempelhoff, “Time and the river: Observations on the Vaal River as
source of water to the Witwatersrand 1903-24” in Historia 46(1), May 2001,
pp. 247-70.
22. JWN Tempelhoff, “’Hello yesterday! What’s so bad about tomorrow
anyway?’ Collapsing some uncertainties via anticipatorial hermeneutics” in SA
Journal for Contemporary History, 26(2), December 2001, pp. 58-73.
23. Fourie SM en JWN Tempelhoff, “Die era van Suid-Afrika se militêre
hoogbloei (1974-1994) met die Vaaldriehoekse samelewing as
konsentrasieveld” in Historia, 46(2), May 2001, pp. 247-70.
24. JWN Tempelhoff, “Skotomisering en die nuwe kultuurgeskiedenis: ’n
eschatologiese hoogtepunt?” in Suid-Afrikaanse Tydskrif vir
Kultuurgeskiedenis, 16(1), Junie, 2002, pp. 1-15.
25. JWN Tempelhoff, “Onderweg na ‘n verhuidiglikte verlede: die veranderende
aard van geskiedenis as dissipline” in Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 42(4)
November 2002, pp. 282-294.
26. JWN Tempelhoff, “Historiografie en stilistiek: die verkenning van enkele
kontemporêre tendense (1)” Journal for Contemporary History, 28(1) Junie
2003, pp. 110-122.
27. JWN Tempelhoff, “Historiografie en stilistiek: die verkenning van enkele
kontemporêre tendense (2)” Journal for Contemporary History, 28(3)
December 2003, pp. 92-113.
28. JWN Tempelhoff, “’Where were we again?’ Corporate history and the South
African historian” Historia, 48(2), November 2003, pp. 6-18.

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29. JWN Tempelhoff, “Die strategiese oorweging van realisme, die mimese-effek
en habitus by die besinning oor herinneringe en herdenkings” in Journal for
Contemporary History, 29(3) December 2004, pp. 274-290.
30. JWN Tempelhoff, “Rand Water and the transition to a multiracial Democratic
South Africa” in Kleio, 36, 2004, pp. 79-106.
31. JWN Tempelhoff, “The commodification of water in the arid and semi-arid
parts of South Africa: a preliminary historical exploration” in Historia, 50(1),
May 2005, pp. 123-146.
32. JWN Tempelhoff, “Environmental history and sustainable cultural dynamics”
in Contree, 50, November 2005, pp. 113-133.
33. JWN Tempelhoff, “‘n Historiografiese verkenning van watergeskiedenis”
Koers, 70(3) 2005, pp. 473-514.
34. JWN Tempelhoff, D Prinsloo and WA Cruywagen, “Die waarde van
genealogiese en familiegeskiedenis vir kultuurgeskiedenis in die Suid-
Afrikaanse konteks” in Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 46(2), Junie 2006,
pp. 184-197.
35. JWN Tempelhoff, “Water and the human culture of appropriation: the Vaal
River up to 1956” in TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in
Southern Africa, 2(2), December 2006, pp. 431-452.
36. JWN Tempelhoff, “Omheinings van die hart: ‘Geskiedenis’ as kulturele
kapitaal van briefskrywers aan die Afrikaanse media in 2005” in Joernaal vir
Eietydse geskiedenis, 32(1), Junie 2007, pp. 192-222.
37. JWN Tempelhoff, V Munnik and M Viljoen, “The Vaal River, South Africa’s
hardest working water way: an historical contemplation” in TD The Journal
for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 3(1) July 2007, pp. 107-
133.
38. JE and JWN Tempelhoff, A story of two dams: government, industry and civil
society in north-eastern South Africa 1994-2007 in New Contree,53, May
2007, pp. 31-55.
39. J Haarhoff and JWN Tempelhoff, “Water supply to the Witwatersrand
(Gauteng) 1924-2003” in Journal for Contemporary History, 32(2), December
2007, pp. 95-114.
40. JWN Tempelhoff, “Recent trends in South African water historiography” in
TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research, 4(1) July 2008, pp. 273-296.
41. JWN Tempelhoff, “Civil society and sanitation hydropolitics: a case study of
South Africa’s Vaal River Barrage” in Physics and Chemistry of the Earth,
Parts A/B/C, 34(3), 2008, pp. 164-175.
42. JWN Tempelhoff, “Historical perspectives on pre-colonial irrigation in
Southern Africa” in African Historical Review, 40(1), July 2008, pp. 121-160.

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43. JWN Tempelhoff and G van Riet, “Slow-onset disaster and sustainable
livelihoods: the Vaal River in the vicinity of Parys” in TD The Journal for
Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 5(1), July 2009, pp. 29-49.
44. JWN Tempelhoff, “Through Livingstone’s eyes: perspectives on water in
nineteenth century southern Africa” in New Contree, 57, May 2009, pp. 23-52.
45. JWN Tempelhoff, “Bloot ʼn vrees vir verval? ʼn Mentaliteitsgeskiedenis van
die kragonderbrekings in Suid-Afrika Januarie-April 2008” in TD Die
Joernaal vir Transdissiplinêre Navorsing in Suider-Afrika, 5(2) Desember
2009, pp. 262- 292.
46. JWN Tempelhoff, “Leaving behind a ‘twisted soul’: the 2008-9 cholera
outbreak in South Africa.” Journal for Contemporary History, 34(3)
December 2009, pp. 174-191.
47. TS Katko, PS Juuti and J Tempelhoff, “Water and the city” in Environment
and History, 16(2), May 2010, pp. 229-251.
48. M. Ginster, C Gouws, CM Gouws, H Maki, R Mathipa, M Nyandoro and
JWN Tempelhoff, “Views on unlawful water abstraction along the
Liebenbersgvlei River, South Africa” in TD The Journal for
Transdiscipliunary Research in Southern Africa, 6(1), July 2010, pp. 1-24.
49. C Gouws, IM Moeketsi, S Motloung, JWN Tempelhoff G van Greuning and L
van Zyl, SIBU and the crisis of water service delivery in Sannieshof, North
West Province” in TD The Journal for Transdiscipkinary Research in
Southern Africa, 6(1) July 2011, pp. 25-56.
ARTICLES ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION IN ACCREDITED PEER
REVIEW JOURNALS
ARTICLES SUBMITTED TO ACCREDITED PEER REVIEW (STILL
WAITING FOR RESPONSE)
JWN Tempelhoff, A contemporary historical perspective on some evolving trends in
South Africa’s water governance (1994-2010). Submitted to Water Alternatives.

PAPERS IN PUBLISHED PEER REVIEWED CONFERENCE
PROCEEDINGS
JWN Tempelhoff, “Blanke vestiging in die Noordwes-Transvaalse Bosveldstreek” in
CC Eloff en DW Schutte (Eds.), Ontvolking van die RSA se grensgebiede: referate
gelewer ten tyde van 'n RGN-konferensie Februarie 1982 (Pretoria, 1982).
NON-SUBSIDISED ARTICLES
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1. JWN Tempelhoff and S. Miller “Die romantiek van ‘n grensterrein” in Fauna
& Flora, 47, 1990, pp. 32-39. (Also published in English “The romance of a
frontier region” in Fauna & Flora, 47, 1990, pp. 32-39.
2. JWN Tempelhoff, “Noord-Transvaalse meubelmakers 1: Mnr. Andries
Myburgh” in Tydskrif vir Volkskunde en Volkstaal 46(2-3), October 1990, pp.
22-26.
3. JWN Tempelhoff, “Meubelmakers van Noord-Transvaal: Wynand Scott, 'n
ondernemer van die jonger geslag” in Tydskrif vir Volkskunde en Volkstaal,
47(1), April 1991, pp. 34-43.
4. JWN Tempelhoff, “Die Leffermeubels: 'n Brokkie geskiedenis van Noord-
Transvaal in mingerhout bewaar” in Tydskrif vir Volkskunde en Volkstaal,
47(2), October 1991, pp. 27-31.
5. JWN Tempelhoff, “Die meubelstuk as historiese dokument” in Tydskrif vir
Volkskunde en Volkstaal, 50(2), 1994, pp. 5-14.
6. JWN Tempelhoff, “Accessing the past in the context of present liberties: The
user and the archives in a new South Africa” in Archives News, 38(2), 1995,
pp. 32-50.
7. JWN Tempelhoff, “Duitsers maak unieke meubels uit boekenhout” in Tydskrif
vir Volkskunde en Volkstaal, 48(1-2) April 1992, pp. 27-35.
8. JWN Tempelhoff, “Writing histories and creating myths: Perspectives on
trends in the discipline of history and its representations in some South
African historical journals, 1985-1995 in Scientiae Militaria, 27, 1997, pp.
121-47.
9. Numerous articles between 1990 and 2006 in the following newspapers:
Beeld, Die Burger, Noord-Transvaler and Vaal Weekly.
10. JWN Tempelhoff, “Steeds vrese dat De Hoop die Krugerwidtuin in gevaar
kan stel” in Word & Action, 46(397), Spring 2006, pp. 27-29.
11. JWN Tempelhoff, “Service delivery conflict in South Africa’s water sector:
Phiri, Soweto’s pre-paid meter protest” in Quarterly Bulletin of Third World
Studies, 49(1), 2009, pp. 30-53.
12. JWN Tempelhoff, D van Niekerk, ES van Eeden, CM Gouws, KBotha, R
Wuriga, “The December 2004 – January 2005 floods in the Garden Route

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region of the Southern Cape, South Africa” in JÁMBÀ, Journal of Disaster
Risk Studies, 2(2), November 2009, pp. 93-112.
BOOKS AND POPULAR PUBLICATIONS
1. JWN Tempelhoff, The challenge of regional en local history in South Africa
(University of Zululand Publication series B79, Kwadlangeswa, 1990).
2. JWN Tempelhoff, Tshilidzini School 1971-1991: Place of mercy (Pietersburg
1991) This work is also available in Afrikaans Tshilidziniskool 1971-1991:
Plek van Genade.
3. JWN Tempelhoff, Voorpos-Prokureurs (Published by Circle 10 Transvaal
Law Society, Pietersburg, 1992).
4. JWN Tempelhoff (ed.), The exploration of fact and fiction: An
interdisciplinary discourse (PUCHE, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark,
1997).
5. JWN Tempelhoff, Die okkupasiestelsel in die distrik Soutpansberg 1886-1899
(Archives Yearbook for South African History, 60, Government Printer,
Pretoria, 1997).
6. JWN Tempelhoff (ed.), Images of War in Vereeniging: T.N. Leslie’s Letters
to Jane 1899-1901 (Vaal Teknorama, Vanderbijlpark, 1998) in conjunction
with R. van Niekerk, C. Heine, R. Pelser and J. Oosthuizen.
7. JWN Tempelhoff, Townspeople of the Soutpansberg: A centenary history of
Louis Trichardt 1899-1999. (Transitional Local Council , Louis Trichardt,
1999).
8. JWN Tempelhoff, Dorpsmense van die Soutpansberg: ’n Eeufeesgeskiedenis
van Louis Trichardt 1899-1999 (Plaaslike Oorgangsraad Louis Trichardt,
1999.)
9. JWN Tempelhoff, Verhuidiglikte verlede – aspekte van die hermeneutiese
verstaansmetode in die metodologie van geskiedenis. Kleio Publishers,
Vanderbijlpark, 2002).
10. JWN Tempelhoff, Editor of: Die Jonkers van Klipspruit en hul herinneringe
aan die Anglo-Boereoorlog, deur Ella Fouché en Hannelie du Plessis (Private
publikasie, Vanderbijlpark, 2002).
11. JWN Tempelhoff, The substance of ubiquity: Rand Water 1903-2003 (Kleio
Publishers, Vanderbijlpark, 2003).
12. JWN Tempelhoff (Ed.), Historical consciousness and the future of our past
(Kleio, Vanderbijlpark vir die FAK, 2003).
13. JWN Tempelhoff (Ed.) African water histories: transdisciplinary discourses,
(North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, 2005).

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14. JWN Tempelhoff, Omgewingslagoffers of armblankes? Water en
welvaartskepping in die era van Hertzog (1924-1939), (Suid-Afrikaanse
Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns, Pretoria, 2006).
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
1. JWN Tempelhoff, “En toe kom die witman” in L.J.S. Changuion (Ed.),
Haenertsburg 100, 1887-1987 (Pietersburg, 1987).
2. JWN Tempelhoff, “Die mynbou in Transvaal tot 1899.” in J. Bergh,
Geskiedenisatlas van Suid-Afrika: Die vier noordelike provinsies (J.L Van
Schaik, Pretoria, 1998).
3. JWN Tempelhoff, “Menseregte, boetedoening en die kultuurhistoriese toeeieningsproses”
in P.H. Kapp (ed.), Die Suid-Afrikaanse verlede en die
skuldvraagstuk: verslag van ’n simposium oor die Afrikaanse geskiedskrywing
en die toewysing van skuld (History Committee of the SA Akademie vir
Wetenskap en Kuns, Arcadia 2004).
4. EJ and JWN Tempelhoff, “The community, industry and the quest for a clean
Vaal River 1997-2004 in Sylvia Hood-Washington, Paul Rosier and Heather
Goodall (eds.), Echoes from the Poisoned Well: global memories of
environmental injustice, (Lexington Publishers, United States of America,
2006), pp. 389-407.
5. JWN Tempelhoff, From water restrictions to water demand management:
Rand Water and water shortages on the South African landscape (1983-2003)
in PS Juuti, TS Katko and HS Vuorinen (Eds.), Environmental history of
water – global views on community water supply and sanitation, (IWA
Publishing, London, 2007), pp. 531-562.
RESEARCH AND PROJECT REPORTS
1. JWN Tempelhoff, Ter definiëring van die streekhistoriese struktuur.
Ongepubliseerde navorsingsverslag HSRC, Pretoria, 1982.
2. JWN Tempelhoff, Report on claims to land by the Ba Gamampa of the
Bahlapitsi in the Thabamoopo district of Lebowa. May 1993.
3. JWN Tempelhoff, 'n Interim verslag oor die geskiedenis van
meubelvervaardiging in Wes-Transvaal. Nasionale Kultuurhistoriese
Museum, Pretoria, 27 Augustus 1993.
4. JWN Tempelhoff, Transcriptions of oral interviews dealing with the history
of furniture, manufactured from indigenous timber in the South African
interior collected during fieldwork excursions between 1990 and 1993. Edited
1994. (A copy of these documents was givens to the Government Archives
Repository, Pretoria)
5. JWN Tempelhoff, Paths through the past: A discursive analysis on the history
of the Mokopane region in the Northern Transvaal from the earliest times to
1995. Pietersburg, May 1995.

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6. JWN Tempelhoff, Human industry and the land: An historical perspective of
the phenomenon in the vicinity of Kapama Nature Reserve. Report for the
company Genfood Ltd. in preparation of a Land Claims Court Case
(Vanderbijlpark, May 1996).
7. JWN Tempelhoff, Farming along the Lower Blyde River: An investigation
relative to the farm Richmond 597KT. Project for African Realty Trust Edms.
Bpk. Vanderbijlpark, Januarie 1997.
8. JWN Tempelhoff, Historical report on the farm Marsfontein 91 KS, the
Ledwaba of the Eland chieftaincy and the Strydpoort Region in the Northern
Province. Report for Bamberger Inc. Johannesburg, on behalf of clients in the
Land Cdlaims Court of South Africa. (Vanderbijlpark, October 2000).
9. JWN Tempelhoff, The substance of ubiquity: Rand Water 1903-2003. January
2003.(Report for Rand Water on the centenary of the water utility).
10. JWN Tempelhoff, Contextualising environmental history as field of research
in Germany. Report on contemporary environmental history in Germany.
(January-February 2004.)
11. CM Gouws, K Reyneke, JWN Tempelhoff, ES van Eeden, D van Niekerk, and
R Wuriga, The December 2004-January 2005 floods in the Garden Route
region of the Southern Cape, North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, May
2005). (Team leader and report editor)
12. Martin Ginster, Ina Gouws, Johann Tempelhoff, Marika van der Walt and
Rabson Wuriga, Water in the Kgetlengrivier Local Municipality: The case of
Koster (North-West University, Vanderbijlpark, May 2006). (Role: Report
editor and team member).
13. CM Gouws, C Gouws, R Mathipa, K Motumi, JWN Tempelhoff, and M
Viljoen, Perspectives on Emfuleni’s aquatic commons: a qualitative study on
the Vaal River Barrage, Report 3/2007, (North-West University, Vaal Triangle
Campus, Released 2007.09.19). (Role: Team leader and report editor).
14. Werksmans Land claims research Global Forests/York Timber projects:
a. JWN Tempelhoff, The Ingogo land claim in the Highveld region
(February 2007)
b. JWN Tempelhoff, Report on Claim KRP1322: Ludlambedlwini
Community, of the claimant TE Nkosi, 28 farms in area of Lothair, Gert
Sibande District. (March 2007).
c. JWN Tempelhoff, A report on the Matsane land claims at Rhenosterhoek in
Mpumalanga (December 2007-Jan 2008).
15. JWN Tempelhoff, A report on the Matsane land claims at Rhenosterhoek in
Mpumalanga for Werksmans Attorneys Sandton, Gauteng, January 2008.
16. JWN Tempelhoff, PS Juuti and JWN Tempelhoff, Water and the city. Report
on the historiography of water and the city dealt with at the IWHA conference
in Tampere, June-July 2007.

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17. JWN Tempelhoff, A van Zyl , G van Riet, C Gouws, H Jordaan, S Motloung,
A Ludick, G van Greuning, J Hardy, A Venter, J Hardy, A Schlemmer, An
investigation into the environmental health of the Vaal River in the vicinity of
Parys (Report 01/2008, Research Niche Area for the Cultural Dynamics of
Water, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, 2008).
18. M Ginster, C Gouws, CM Gouws, H Mäki, R Mathipa, S Motloung, M
Nyandoro, JWN Tempelhoff, The problem of irrigation from Lesotho
Highlands water in the Liebenbergsvlei River catchment, Eastern Free State
Province (Report 01/2009, Research Niche Area for the Cultural Dynamics of
Water, North-West University, Vaal Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, July
2009) (Final Report August 2009).
19. C Gouws, MI Moeketsi, S Motloung, JWN Tempelhoff, G van Greuning, ‘I
hate it when people don’t like me’: SIBU and the crisis of water service
delivery in Sannieshof, North West Province (Report 02/2009, Research Niche
Area for the Cultural Dynamics of Water, North-West University, Vaal
Triangle Campus, Vanderbijlpark, July 2009).
CONFERENCE PAPERS (NATIONAL)
1. JWN Tempelhoff, Blanke vestiging in die Noordwes-Transvaalse
Bosveldstreek: Vanaf die vroeë negentiende eeu tot omstreeks 1980.
Conferense of the HSRC on the depopupulation of South Africa’s border
regions, February 1982.
2. JWN Tempelhoff, Blanke vestiging in die distrik Soutpansberg met besondere
verwysing na die tydperk 1886-1899. Regional Conference SA Cultural
History Society, October 1987.
3. JWN Tempelhoff, Die eksploitering van inheemse houtbronne in Noord-
Transvaal gedurende die negentiende eeu. Biennial conference of the SA
Cultural History Society. Stellenbosch, Augustus 1989.
4. JWN Tempelhoff, Mondelinge tradisie en geskiedenis - praktyk en teorie in
die konteks van Venda. Paper at conference of the South African Museum
Association's History Conference 90, Februarie 1990.
5. JWN Tempelhoff, Pioneering land tenure on the Northern Transvaal frontier
during the nineteenth century. Paper at the sixth biennial conference of the
Economic History Society of Southern Africa.
6. JWN Tempelhoff, 'n Interim verslag oor die geskiedenis van
meubelvervaardiging in Wes-Transvaal. Paper at National Cultural History
and Open Air Museum, Pretoria, 27 August 1993.
7. JWN Tempelhoff, Accessing the past in the context of present liberties: The
user and the archives in a new South Africa/Toegang tot die verlede in die
konteks van huidige vryhede: Die gebruiker en die argiewe in ‘n nuwe Suid-
Afrika. Paper on 18 August 1994 at a conferenceof the Transvaal Branch of
the South African Society of Archivists, Technikon SA, Roodepoort.

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8. JWN Tempelhoff, Historical consciousness, contemporary society and the
discipline of history. Paper 6 September 1995 at the Spring Lectures
University of the North.
9. JWN Tempelhoff, From sub tutela to entrepreneurship: The liberation of
Annetje Boom in 17th century South Africa. Paper on 28 September 1995 Law
Faculty University of the North.
10. JWN Tempelhoff, The historian and history teaching: The way ahead. Paper
presented on 1 February 1996 at a workshop of the Department of History,
University of Zululand with the theme “Teaching history at university with
reduced resources”.
11. JWN Tempelhoff, Writing histories and creating myths: A Perspective on
trends in the discipline of history and its representations in some South
African historical journals 1985-1996. Paper to undergraduatre and
postgraduate students in military, Saldanha 3 April 1996.
12. JWN Tempelhoff, Feit en fiksie in die ontsluiting van die ‘waarheid’: ‘n
Verkenning vanuit die histories-hermeneutiese invalshoek. Paper at “Die
verkenning van feit en fiksie - ‘n Simposium”, Vaal Triangle Campus PUCHE
28 May 1997.
13. JWN Tempelhoff, ‘Retro’ of hermeneutiek? Die historiese metode in ‘n nuwe
wetenskapsbedeling. Paper presented on 28 January 1999 at the annual
summit of the History Commission of the South African Academy of Arts and
Science, University of Pretoria.
14. JWN Tempelhoff, “Time and the river: Observations on the Vaal River as
source of water to the Witwatersrand 1903-24”. Paper delivered at the North
East Workshop on Southern Africa at Burlington, Vermont, 27-29 October
2000.
15. JWN Tempelhoff, “We are utterly sorry. We are deeply ashamed and gripped
with remorse” – Menseregte, boetedoening en die kultuurhistoriese toeeieningsproses.
Paper presented at the eighth summit of the History
Commission of the South African Academy of Arts and Science, University of
Pretoria, 25 January 2001.
16. JWN Tempelhoff, Historiografie en stilistiek: die verkenning van enkele
kontemporêre tendense. Paper presented on invitation, to postgraduate
students in the department of history at the University of Stellenbosch,
Stellenbosch, 9 May 2002.
17. JWN Tempelhoff, Skotomisering en die nuwe kultuurgeskiedenis: ’n
eschatologiese hoogtepunt?” Paper at a conference of the South Africa
Cultural History Society, Mossel Bay, August, 2002.
18. JWN Tempelhoff, “The substance of ubiquity: Rand Water 1903-2003”.
National seminar of the South African Right of Way Association, Rietvlei, 27
March 2003.

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19. JWN Tempelhoff, Whatever happened to good old water restrictions?” Rand
Water and water demand management (1983-2003). Paper biennial conference
of the SA Historical Society, Bloemfontein, 1 July 2003.
20. JWN Tempelhoff, ‘Where were we again?’ Corporate history and the South
African historian. Paper presented, on invitation, to staff members in the
department of history at the University of South Africa, Pretoria, 11 June
2003.
21. JWN Tempelhoff, “The commodification of water in the arid and semi-arid
parts of Southern Africa: a consideration of microhistorical evidence” Paper
presented at the biennial conference of the Historical Association of South
Africa, Stellenbosch, 4-6 April 2004.
22. JWN Tempelhoff, “Paul Kruger en die toekoms: romantiek en verligting in
die verstaan van die Suid-Afrikaanse verlede.” Paper presented at a conference
of the FAK on ‘Kruger yesterday and today’, 14 July 2005, Old Raadsaal
Building, Pretoria.
23. JWN Tempelhoff, “Omgewingslagoffers of armblankes? Water en
welvaartskepping in die era van Hertzog (1924-1939),” 35 th JBM Hertzog
memorial lecture of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns,
Pretoria, 21 September 2006.
24. JWN Tempelhoff, Bloot ʼn vrees vir verval? ʼn Mentaliteitsgeskiedenis van
kragonderbrekings in Suid-Afrika Januarie-April 2008. Voordrag gelewer by
die jaarlikse kongres van die Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir
Kultuurgeskiedenis, “Die toekoms van ons verlede”, Pretoria, 16 Mei 2008.
25. JWN Tempelhoff and G van Riet, Risk reduction strategies and slow-onset
environmental disaster: Parys and the Vaal River, Symposium on water crisis,
presented by the Research Niche Area for the Cultural Dynamics of Water,
November 2008, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University.
26. JWN Tempelhoff, The historical researcher’s dilemma: History, the archive
and a new transdisciplinary history, Paper presented at a symposium: “How
long to keep what” Document Warehouse, Gold Reef City Casino,
Johannesburg, 5 February 2009.
27. JWN Tempelhoff, Leaving behind a ‘twisted soul’: the 2008-9 cholera
outbreak in South Africa. Paper presented at the 22 nd biennial conference of
the South African Historical Society, “Breaking boundaries, blurring borders:
The changing shape and scope of southern African historical studies,”
University of South Africa, Pretoria, 22-24 June 2009.
28. JWN Tempelhoff, From poverty alleviation to meeting growth demand: the first
50 years of managing South Africa’s water supply. Milestones:
Commemorating Southern African History, North-West University,
Potchefstroom, Historical Association of South Africa, 22-25 July 2010.
Session: Milestones in the management of environmental resources
(Presenter).
29.

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
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1. JWN Tempelhoff, Resignifying Frontier Memories: The Interpretation of
Louis Trichardt's Popular Oral Narratives (1898-1998) annual conference Oral
History Association of the USA and Canada. Theme: Crossing the boundary
Crossing the line: Oral history on the border, Buffalo, New York, 16 October
1998.
2. JWN Tempelhoff, Time and the river: Observations on the Vaal River as
source of water to the Witwatersrand 1902-24. Paper at Newsa workshop on
Southern Africa. Bishop Booth Conference Centre, Burlington, Vermont 28
October 2000.
3. JWN Tempelhoff, Locating indigenous identity in the VOC-era at the Cape:
historical consciousness and the contingency of crisis. Paper presented at an
international VOC-conference, 5 April 2002, University of Stellenbosch.
Presented by the VOC-Foundation (Umbutho), and the Department of History,
University of Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch, 3-5 April 2002.
4. JWN Tempelhoff, ‘Rand Water and the transition to a multiracial democratic
South Africa 1989-1994.’ Paper presented at the third conference of the
International Water History Association, Alexandria, Egypt, 11-14 December
2003.
5. JWN Tempelhoff, “Africa and the need for the rediscovery of Europe in the
era of globalisation” Voordrag by ’n “Ancient to Modern Europe” Conference
of the Athens Institute for Education and research, Athens, 29-31 December
2003.
6. JWN Tempelhoff, “Environmental history and sustainable cultural dynamics”.
Paper presented at “Historical studies, disciplines and discourses,” an
international conference on the History and Theory of Historical Studies,
presented by Pasts Inc., at the Central European University (CEU), Budapest,
21-24 October 2004.
7. JWN Tempelhoff, The hidden power of water in the Southern African
irrigation furrow Paper presented at the European Association for the Study of
Literature, Culture and the Environment EASLCE conference on Water:
literary, cultural and environmental Perspectives, April 28 – May 1, 2006,
Alps-Adriatic University of Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt, Austria.
8. JWN Tempelhoff, The nature of water and the human culture of territorial
appropriation: the Vaal River up to 1956 International Conference on
Humankind and nature at the intersection of culture, Bergendal, Kruger
National Park 4-6 September 2006.
9. JWN Tempelhoff, V Munnik and M Viljoen, The Vaal River, South Africa’s
hardest working water way: an historical contemplation. Paper presented at a
symposium, “’Streams ran uncontrolled’ history, water and engineering”
presented at the Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), presented by

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TUDelft and the International Water History Association (IWHA) on 9
November 2006.
10. JWN Tempelhoff, EJ Tempelhoff, A story of two dams: government, industry
and civil society in north-eastern South Africa 1994-2007 (Paper presented at
the 5th International Water History Association (IWHA) conference, "Pasts
and Futures of Water", Tampere, Finland, 13-17 June 2007).
11. JWN Tempelhoff, Through Livingstone’s eyes: perspectives on water in
nineteenth century southern Africa. Paper presented at the 5th International
Water History Association (IWHA) conference, "Pasts and Futures of Water",
Tampere, Finland, 13-17 June 2007.
12. JWN Tempelhoff, Civil society and sanitation hydropolitics: a comparison of
trends in South Africa’s Vaal River Barrage and the Red River in China. Paper
presented at Ethnic culture and ecological civilisation in the Red River Basin
hosted by the Yunnan Academy for Social Sciences, at Chuxiong, Yunnan
Province China, 15-19 January 2008.
13. JWN Tempelhoff, in conjunction with E Arnold (Macalaster College), K
Berry (University of Nevada, Reno) and D Pietz (Washington State
University), Roundtable discussion on writing water history. At “Paradise lost,
found and construct: conceptualising and transforming landscapes through
history”, annual conference of the American Society for Environmental
History, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America, 25 February to 1
March 2009.
14. JWN Tempelhoff, Round table discussant as editor of Water History on
“Academic journals and environmental history” at the World Conference on
Environmental History, Copenhagen, Denmark, 4-8 August 2009.
15. JWN Tempelhoff, A contemporary historical perspective on some evolving
trends in South Africa’s water governance (1994-2010). Water History
conference, hosted by the International Water History Association and the
Technical University Delft, in Delft, 16-19 June 2010.
16. M Ginster, C Gouws, CM Gouws, H Mäki, R Mathipa, S Motloung, M
Nyandoro, and JWN Tempelhoff. Irrigation of Lesotho Highlands Water
transferred along the Axle and Liebenbergsvlei rivers in South Africa.Water
History Conference. Water History conference, hosted by the International
Water History Association and the Technical University Delft, in Delft, 16-19
June 2010. (Paper presented by M Ginster, assisted by JWN Tempelhoff).
17. Dealing with South Africa’s municipal service delivery problems. Swiss
Academies of Arts and Science, td-conference 2010, Geneva, 15-17
September 2010. (Presenter). Sub-programme water-related management
issues and transdisciplinarity.
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Special tasks at conferences

1997 Chairman of session. Conference of the SA Cultural History Society.
1998 Summary report of biennial conference Historical Association conference June
1998.
2000 Summary of conference biennial conference of the Historical Association of
South Africa. August 2000.
2003 Chairman of session. Conference of the SA Historical Society, Bloemfontein,
July 2003.
2004 Summary. Biennial conference of the Historical Association of South Africa,
April 2004.
2004. Managed an international conference: “Flows from the past: the history of water
in Africa” in conjunction with the International Water History Association. The
conference was presented under the auspices of the International Water History
Association (IWHA) and the Faculty Vaal Triangle of NWU.Organiser Ms Petra
Lawson.
2006. Organiser of international conference: Humankind at the intersection of nature
and culture, presented at Bergendal, Kru7ger National Park, September 2006. This
conference marked the establishment of the African section of an international project
on the New Humanism under the auspices of Prof. Jörn Rüsen, President of the
Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, North-Rhine Westphalia, Essen Germany.
Chairman of a session dealing with legal aspects of water issues at the 5th
International Water History Association (IWHA) conference, "Pasts and Futures of
Water", Tampere, Finland, 13-17 June 2007.
Theme reporter on water and the urban phenomenon at a plenary session at the 5th
International Water History Association (IWHA) conference, "Pasts and Futures of
Water", Tampere, Finland, 13-17 June 2007.
Chairperson of one of four group sessions at the conference Ethnic culture and
ecological civilisation in the Red River Basin, hosted by the Yunnan Academy for
Social Sciences, at Chuxiong, Yunnan Province China, 15-19 January 2008.
Community service within the context of the university
Support to teachers in the Vaal Triangle August-November 1999
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Introduction of a certificate course for beginners in genealogy in conjunction with the
genealogical Society of SA. (October 1999).
Support program for assistance to Thaba Vuyo School for the Disabled in Sebokeng
(Since September 1999).
Actively involved since 1999 in the founding and management of the Vaal Triangle
Branch of the Genealogical Society of South Africa.
Member Ngwathe catchment water forum (Since February 2009). (Research-related
activity)
Sebokeng sub-catchment water forum (Since March 2009). (Research-related
activity, in conjunction with Mvula Trust).

Membership of societies, councils and boards
IN THE UNIVERSITY
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Member of the management team Faculty Vaal Triangle, PUCHE. Fakulteit
Vaaldriehoek (1998-2005).
Member executive committee, Faculty Vaal Triangle (1998-2005)
Publications Control Committee PUCHE 1998- until its demise in 2002.
Member Teaching Committee, Faculty Vaal Triangle Vaaldriehoek (1998-2005).
Chairman Bookshop and Library Advisory Committee, Faculty Vaal Triangle (1998-
Current)
Representative of Senate on the Institutional Forum (IF) of NWU, 2002 – 2005.
Research leader, CuDyWat, Research Niche for the Cultural Dynamics of Water,
School of Basic Sciences, North-West University. Since 2006.
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETIES
Council member International Water History Association (IWHA) 2005- up to the
present.
Deputy-president International Water History Association (IWHA) September 2008 –
September 2009.
President International Water History Association (IWHA). September 2009 – 2011.
MEMBER OF EDITORIAL BOARDS
New Contree. 1999 – to the present. Capacity: Member
Historia 1998 – to the present. Capacity: Editor. Currently ordinary member of
management.
TD The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, Founding editor,
2005 - present.
Water History, Journal of the International Water History Association. (Member of
chief editorial committee of 3). (Published by Springer in the Netherlands). One of
three founding editors.
OVERSEAS COURSES
University of Bergen, September 1999. Course presented by the Socrates Consortium
of universities in Europe for new methods in historical research and tuition.
Visiting fellow at the Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut, North-Rhine Westphalia,
Essen Germany, January-February 2004, for research on environmental history as
discipline in the German speaking parts of Europe.
13-14 September 2010. Visiting lecturer in Postgraduate module UNESCO-IHE
World Water management and civilisation module for postgraduate students.
21 September 2010. Lecture to water management students Tampere Fach
Hochschule on aspects of South Africa’s water management.