1st Edition
Guerrillas and Combative Mothers Women and the Armed Struggle in South Africa
By Siphokazi Magadla
Copyright 2024
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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Guerrillas and Combative Mothers is a narrative of women participating in the armed struggle against apartheid from 1961 to 1994 and their lives in a democratic South Africa. Focusing on their agency, commitment, beliefs and actions, it describes how women got politicised and the decisions and circumstances that led them to join the armed struggle in South Africa and exile. ... Read more
Foreword by Thenjiwe Mtintso
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: ‘Our Lips No Longer Sealed’
1 Mzana: Transnational Guerrillas
2 Combative Mothers, Bantu Authority and Ungovernability
3 SANDF Integration, Demobilisation and Gender Transformation
4 From Ukuzabalaza to Ukutabalaza: Life after Apartheid
Conclusion: ‘Where Their Seed Can Fall and Grow’
Select Bibliography
Index
Biography
Siphokazi Magadla is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Political and International Studies at Rhodes University.
