- Nationality
- 🇿🇦 South Africa
- Affiliation
- Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University, South Africa
- Field of study
- Social Sciences
- Residencies at STIAS
- 2025 2nd Semester
Projects
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“S'obashaya Ngamatye”: Women and Sixty Years of the Armed Struggle in South Africa
This project brings together chapters written by 17 women former guerrillas from uMkhonto we Sizwe, the African National Congress military wing and the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) and the Azanian National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO). -
The bioarchaeology of South Africa
Perched, inconveniently, at opposite ends of the globe, Scotland and South Africa are nonetheless ‘sisters-in-law’ in the sense that their systems of private law are uncannily close.
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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.