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Silence, Subjectivity, and Sexual Violence: Reflecting on Oral History Interviews with Women in Thokoza


By Kefuoe Maotoane

Kefuoe Maotoane is a Research Associate on the South Africa’s Hidden War project. Since January 2021 she has been conducting oral history interviews with women in Thokoza, Gauteng, about their perspectives on and experiences of sexual violence across their life histories. In this post, she reflects on the tension between the will to talk about and the will to forget historical experiences of violence, both for her interviewees and for herself.