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Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997
Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2025.
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| author | Ntombela, Nomzamo Portia |
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| spelling | oai:scholar.sun.ac.za:10019.1/132538 Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997 Ntombela, Nomzamo Portia Dubbeld, Bernard Pearce, Justin Stellenbosch University. Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Dept. of Sociology. National liberation movements Feminism Feminist theory Nationalism and feminism Exiled women authors Women anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century UCTD Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2025. Ntombela, N. P. 2025. Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997. Unpublished doctoral dissertation. Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University [online]. Available: https://scholar.sun.ac.za/items/6a84c069-eac0-4e8a-873f-26a948d4a774 ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Exile camps across the African continent represented the possibilities of intellectual and cultural exchange among activists, scholars, and surrounding communities for women combatants who were in military wings. Considering these exchanges, this research questions how women activists and soldiers were positioned vis-a-vis how they were positioning themselves in liberation discourse. It was through the political organising of the African National Congress (and its army uMkhonto weSizwe) women's section and the Pan Africanist Congress Women’s Unit (and its African People’s Liberation Army), throughout various geographical bases, that there was a social, cultural and intellectual reimagining of what liberation would manifest as, for not only Southern Africa, but more specifically for women. Through focusing on key themes, namely: Marxist/African Feminism(s), exile as a ‘female fear factory’, political education in military training and poetry writing in exile, this dissertation concerns itself with crafting an intellectual history of these two women’s organisations conceptual understandings of liberation. It does this through a critical feminist reading of their intellectual contributions to their movements, conferences/seminars and life history interviews with former women combatants from both these women’s wings who were active from 1969 till 1997 within the women’s movement. Considering their multiple solidarities and transnational sisterhoods, this thesis also concerns itself with tracing the disjuncture between official ANC and PAC policy positions and oral lived experiences, from women, concerning the position of women in the movements. These experiences show these women as political organisers and intellectuals. Furthermore, it posits that despite challenges faced the women combatants of the ANC and PAC in exile were imagining a radical liberation for Southern Africa- with some struggles still salient in democratic South Africa. AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Geen opsomming beskikbaar nie. Doctoral 2025-06-10T14:06:51Z 2025-06-10T14:06:51Z 2025-03 Thesis https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132538 en_ZA Stellenbosch University 249 pages : illustrations application/pdf Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University |
| spellingShingle | National liberation movements Feminism Feminist theory Nationalism and feminism Exiled women authors Women anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century UCTD Ntombela, Nomzamo Portia Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997 |
| title | Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997 |
| title_full | Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997 |
| title_fullStr | Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997 |
| title_short | Owabani loMkhonto? (Whose Spear is this?): An interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the Women’s Section in exile, 1969-1997 |
| title_sort | owabani lomkhonto whose spear is this an interdisciplinary study of the conceptions of liberation within the women s section in exile 1969 1997 |
| topic | National liberation movements Feminism Feminist theory Nationalism and feminism Exiled women authors Women anti-apartheid activists -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century UCTD |
| url | https://scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/132538 |
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