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- 1 2 3 4 5 6 "David Lurie", South African History Online.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "David Lurie", South African History Online.
- ↑ "Life In The Liberated Zone", Cornerhouse.
- ↑ "Bitter Harvest", Amber Online.
- ↑ "Life in the Liberated Zone", Amber Online.
- ↑ "Struggling to Share the Promised Land" Archived 12 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine , Amber Online.
- ↑ "Upcoming exhibition", Absolute Arts.
- ↑ "The Right to Refuge" Archived 14 January 2017 at the Wayback Machine , South African Holocaust & Genocide Foundation.
- 1 2 "Cape Town Fringe, Manenberg Ave Is Where It's Happening", Pictures of the Year International archive.
