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The legacy of South Africa’s revolutionary women
ANGUS REID speaks to historian Siphokazi Magadla about the women who fought apartheid and their impact on South African society
ROLE MODEL FOR BLACK WOMEN: Ruth Mompati in the Soviet Union in 1962
[Ngaba and Mompati families/Ruth Mompati Memorial Foundation/Courtesy of Siphokazi Magadla]
ANDY HEDGECOCK relishes a graphic portrayal of the corrosive impact of commodification, but can’t sympathise with the characters
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RON JACOBS welcomes a timely history of the Anti Imperialist league of America, and the role that culture played in their politics
STEVE ANDREW appreciates a passionate account of the Scottish Club during the ‘lost decade’
By telling the story of a lawless frontier town from the point of view of the Lakota, Chinese labourers, prostitutes and displaced prospectors, makes for a potted history of capital, suggests ALEX HALL
Siphokazi Magadla (Pic: Courtesy of Siphokazi Magadla)
SIPHOKAZI MAGADLA is crystal clear about the relevance of her historical work to contemporary South Africa and the wider world:
“The erasure of women’s contributions to the history of the anti-apartheid struggle is connected to the dismissal of women’s roles in the new democratic state. If women didn’t matter in how we got to be liberated, then why would their roles matter now?”
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