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Guerillas and Combative Mothers
By Siphokazi Magadla
University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, £135
THREE decades on, there is still so much to explore about the histories of anti-apartheid struggles in South Africa. The passage of time has potential benefits here, as this study of women in the armed struggle demonstrates, enabling sensitive issues to be addressed more openly as a result.
There are also gender biases to be redressed, given that veterans’ memoirs have been disproportionately written by men.
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