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    • Rationalizing gukurahundi: cold war and South African foreign relations with Zimbabwe, 1981-1983 

      Scarnecchia, Timothy (Kent State University) (Published by University of the Western Cape, 2011)
      This article examines the role of diplomatic relations during the first stages of the 1983 Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe. Based on a preliminary reading of South African Department of Foreign Affairs files for 1983, the article ...
    • Reading and representing African refugees in New York 

      Field, Sean (Published by University of the Western Cape, 2011)
      Tracy Kidder and Jonny Steinberg have constructed evocative biographies of African refugees’ dislocation, journeys and struggles to settle in the USA. These books are reviewed through the lens of how South African readers ...
    • Road to Ghana: Nkrumah, Southern Africa and the eclipse of a decolonizing Africa 

      Ahlman, Jeffrey S. (Published by History Department, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
      This article interrogates the position of Accra as an ‘extra-metropolitan’ centre for southern African anti-colonial nationalists and anti-apartheid activists during the so-called ‘first wave’ of Africa’s decolonization. ...
    • The South Africa-Angola talks, 1976-1984: a little-known cold war thread 

      Saunders, Christopher (University of Cape Town) (Published by History Dept, University of the Western Cape, 2011)
      That South Africa invaded Angola in 1975, in an abortive attempt to prevent a Marxist government coming to power there, and that the South African Defence Force then repeatedly attacked Angola from 1978, is relatively well ...