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Research data: LIBERATION STRUGGLES
2022 All was not in vain: the autobiography of Lebona Mosia
Lebona Mosia was born on 18 January, 1952 in Alexandra Township. He was active in the June 1976 student protests, and left the country in Au...
2022 Prison notebook V2957/88
Gertrude Fester captures an important time and place in the history of South Africa. Apartheid South Africa was a violent, torturous, exploi...
2022 From activism to disillusionment: the story of an MK Comrade Khaya Skweyiya
Khaya Skweyiya grew up in a devout Methodist family, attending school in New Brighton township, Port Elizabeth and in rural KwaDubu, Fort Be...
2022 From rural herd boy to MK soldier and then ambassador: the autobiography of Mabuse Mampane
Mabuse Mampane, also known as Reddy Mazimba, left his rural home in Sekhukuniland at the tender age of eight in 1951 to begin work as a herd...