"She was certainly not a Rosa Luxemborg" : a biography of Cissie Gool in images and words

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2002

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University of Cape Town

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This thesis, in both its written and filmed components explores the life of Cape politician and political activist Cissie Gool (1897-1963) against the backdrop oflocal, national and international politics as it impacted on her in both a direct and indirect way. Culled from oral and documentary sources, the historical Cissie is a representation based on memories, perceptions, biases and subjective agendas of not only the oral sources, but also the historian.
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Accompanied by a DVD entitled: Cissie Gool.|Bibliography: leaves 58-63.

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