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Social Dynamics
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Symposium: Liberation struggles in southern Africa: new perspectives

Site of struggle: the Freedom Park fracas and the divisive legacy of South Africa’s Border War/Liberation Struggle

Pages 330-344 | Published online: 03 Aug 2009

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