Alan Wieder is an oral historian who has been working since 1999 with South Africans who fought the apartheid regime. Besides numerous academic articles, hais books include Voices from Cape Town Classrooms, Teacher and Comrade, and most recently Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid. Although he lives in the United States, he has been on the faculties of both University of Western Cape and Stellenbosch University.
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Alan Wieder
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South African History Online. (2013, May 30). Alan Wieder. South African History Online. https://sahistory.org.za/ref/B-0095793
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