Monde Qambi

Honours Fellow, UK-RSA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in culture and technics

Monde Qambi is an Honours student in the Historical Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape and a fellow in the UK-RSA Bilateral Digital Humanities Chair in culture and technics.

His honours research paper explores how states justify the usage of violence through commissions of inquiry, with his case study being the 1922 Rand Rebellion and 1922 Martial Law Judicial Commission of Inquiry Report. He sets out to look at how the state transforms the discourse on repression as an act of lawful governance to root out dissidents. Monde’s paper is going to focus on the production of state narratives and how this is used to justify the existence of the state. He argues that this justification is manifested in how the state expresses power. Monde is also interested in Political and Forensic history and he aims to bring these interests to his work.