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FEATURE: LIBERATION HISTORY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Whose Voices? Politics and Methodology in the Study of Political Organisation and Protest in the Final Phase of the ‘Struggle’ in South Africa

Pages 7-28 | Published online: 25 May 2010

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