Shireen Ally teaches in the Department of Sociology, and contributes research to the NRF Chair in Local Histories and Present Realities, at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. Arianna Lissoni is a Researcher in the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. She is one of the editors of the South African Historical Journal. Her research interests are South African liberation struggle history and politics