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Tracing the Footprints of Ghosts in Johannesburg’s Sophiatown

November 7, 2016

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Tal Zalmanovich

This July, I arrived in Johannesburg for the first time. A historian of Modern Britain, I had recently begun researching British activists who participated in the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa, and their influence on the discourse of race relations in Britain...

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Interviewing Ahmed Kathrada: Inspirational!

November 7, 2016

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Roni Mikel Arieli

In the opening paragraph of Shirli Gilbert's (2012) article about representations of Anne Frank in South Africa, she describes how Ahmed Kathrada—an anti-apartheid activist imprisoned for eighteen years on Robben Island—secretly recorded inspiring quotations from The D...

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