- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Affiliation
- Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2025 2nd Semester
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From Meadowlands to Libya: Love, Family and the Betrayal of Freedom - STIAS Public lecture by Siphokazi Magadla
Register here before 12 August 2025 (in-person and online) Abstract: Women’s armed struggle memoirs show that the love of self, that is tied to the broader project of national liberation, is punctuated by a sense of courage, joy, adventure, longstanding solidarity, friendship and family.
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From Meadowlands to Libya: Love, family, and the betrayal of freedom - STIAS Public lecture by Siphokazi Magadla
By surfacing women’s political awakening, education and militarisation, love is defined as the ethic that ignites women into political struggle to liberate themselves, their communities and the nation.