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    Opting for silence: A history of the history of the Golden Arrow Bus Services drivers’ strike of 1992
    (University of the Western Cape, 2014) Houston, Charlene; Witz, Leslie
    The primary purpose of this research is to examine the production of history and oral history related to Golden Arrow Bus Services in Cape Town, with specific reference to the silences regarding the bus drivers’ strike in the early 1990s. The scope of the study is the production of a company history (of Golden Arrow Bus Services) to date and an analysis of how the strike of 1992 has been recorded. To understand what has happened to the histories of the bus drivers’ strike, this study includes questions about how people relate their stories, what is silenced, what is included and what is excluded, by whom and why. In the course of the study, a history of the strike will emerge. However the emphasis is on the politics of historical production and what the exclusion of the strike means