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Religious Innovation and Competition amidst Urban Social Change: Pretoria Case Study, Research Reports, Social Justice and Reconciliation, Stephan de Beer

‘Between life and death’: On land, silence and Liberation in the captal city

Stephan de Beer March 29, 2023

This article reflects on the unfinished task of liberation – as expressed in issues of land – and drawing from the work of Franz Fanon and the Durban-based social movement Abahlali base Mjondolo. It locates its reflections in four specific sites of struggle in the City of Tshwane, and against the backdrop of the mission..

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