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Acknowledgements
The author thanks Samuel Amakoa and Dhiraj Nite for sharing their photos, interviews and observations and also thanks the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, which funds her salary.
Notes
My main sources are direct and occasionally participant observation of the strikes in 2007 and 2010, including repeat interviews with strikers, photos and footage of particular days in the strikes, my notes about television news during the strike, and informal conversations. I also use news reports and documents published by the unions, the ANC and the South African Communist Party (SACP). The tone of this analysis reflects the fact that my interest in the strike went beyond dispassionate observation. However this lack of distance was crucial in developing the analysis present here and therefore I prefer not to conceal this fact.
Andrew Levy quoted in ‘SA girds for new strike wave’, The Times, 25 July 2009.
Author's photos, notes, recordings and footage.
