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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).

Siphokazi Magadla Siphokazi Magadla

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Israel’s Forgotten Invasion: An International History of the 1982 Lebanon War

Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon was a formative moment in Middle Eastern and international history, reshaping Israeli and Lebanese politics, society, and culture; the fate of Palestinian self-determination; diaspora Jewish attachments to Zionism; and Western policy across the Arab world.

Seth Anziska Seth Anziska

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The story of Jabu Vilakazi – the Robin Hood of Soweto

The tension between personal experience, memory and historical fact is dynamic.

Marion Edmunds Marion Edmunds

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A history of Soweto’s Morris Isaacson High School

This project involves writing a history of one of Soweto’s most historically important secondary schools, Morris Isaacson High School.

Clive Glaser Clive Glaser

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The Free Peoples Festivals: exploring cross-border relationships and interactions in the fostering of alternative music communities in South Africa

This project forms part of a five year research project that is investigating the role that alternative music communities in South Africa played to imagine and create a social order different from the system of apartheid.

Lizabé Lambrechts Lizabé Lambrechts