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SOMAFCO : a history from the inside : 1978 and beyond
Thesis (PhD (History))--University of Pretoria, 2025.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/107275 SOMAFCO : a history from the inside : 1978 and beyond Harris, Karen Leigh edwin.smith@up.ac.za Smith, Edwin Terry UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Exile history Struggle history South African history History Anti-apartheid history South African history Education for liberation. Social history SOMAFCO Thesis (PhD (History))--University of Pretoria, 2025. This study considers and constructs a history of SOMAFCO from the inside, from the point of view of those who were at the institution. These are the graduates of SOMAFCO who were there when the school was started in 1978 through its fifteen-year lifespan until it was closed in 1992 due to the seismic shifts in South African politics as initiated by President FW de Klerk in February 1990. The study considers the roots and reasons for the exiles leaving their homeland and the routes they followed to get to SOMAFCO in Morogoro, Tanzania. The study also interrogates the exiles’ experience in exile at SOMAFCO and their journey from SOMAFCO back home following the changed political landscape in South Africa. The study argues that the roots and reasons for exiles to leave their homeland had a fundamental impact and determination on how the exiled understood and experienced exile and their ultimate return back home, which “resolved” their exilic condition. The study also seeks to understand how the ideals SOMAFCO intended for its alumni of developing a new South African for a liberated, non-sexist, non-racist, and non-discriminatory society post-apartheid were realised, if at all, through considering how SOMAFCO alumni attended to the post-apartheid developments in South Africa that seem to suggest that the ANC that led the struggle against apartheid has turned its back on the founding aspirations of the Freedom Charter, which continues to be post-apartheid South Africa’s founding statement. This is done alongside a comparison of the notion of education for liberation shared with other liberation movements in the region and in light of the continuous xenophobia exhibited particularly towards African immigrants and refugees in contemporary South Africa. Historical and Heritage Studies PhD (History) Unrestricted Faculty of Humanities 2025-12-19T08:19:09Z 2025-12-19T08:19:09Z 2026-05 2025 Thesis A2026 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/107275 Disclaimer letter en © 2024 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Exile history Struggle history South African history History Anti-apartheid history South African history Education for liberation. Social history SOMAFCO SOMAFCO : a history from the inside : 1978 and beyond |
| title | SOMAFCO : a history from the inside : 1978 and beyond |
| title_full | SOMAFCO : a history from the inside : 1978 and beyond |
| title_fullStr | SOMAFCO : a history from the inside : 1978 and beyond |
| title_full_unstemmed | SOMAFCO : a history from the inside : 1978 and beyond |
| title_short | SOMAFCO : a history from the inside : 1978 and beyond |
| title_sort | somafco a history from the inside 1978 and beyond |
| topic | UCTD Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Exile history Struggle history South African history History Anti-apartheid history South African history Education for liberation. Social history SOMAFCO |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/107275 |